Head Coach Steve Combs continues to lead his troops and the amount of faith they have in him is growing my the minute. Down to their final strike on the road at Glenvar, the team rallied to plate the tying and go ahead runs 🏃♂️ in the top of the seventh inning. Doing so gives the Cavaliers the Three Rivers District regular season Championship out right as well as getting to play host tomorrow night in the winner take all District tournament. Alleghany now has to make the trek to The Hill instead of the reverse.
Here’s Coach Combs thoughts on his latest victory…
” The Guys kept fighting and never gave until they brought home the win down to their last strike. The win clinched the regular season District title and we play at home for the tournament championship tomorrow 5:00. “
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Congratulations 👏👏👏 to the Coaching staff and the roster of determined young Student Athletes!
Tonight is the first of 11 times that one of our Spring Teams will play their final match / game.
Sometimes we know the final game ahead of time, like tonight with the JV Softball team but other times we don’t know it until after the fact. Our JV Soccer ⚽️ team was scheduled to play a game yesterday but it was wasted out along with everything else the past 48 hours.
Leaving the team wondering if they will get a Last Dance 💃. At 5:00 pm tonight our JV Softball team will take the field one last time. When the week started the team was slated to play three final times but the weather reduced that number to one.
The good news is we have an opportunity to show our appreciation 🙏 for the efforts of Head Coach Alexis Dalton and Assistant Coach Terry Warf. We also get to applaud each of the young Ladies that spent the past few months giving their Coaches and our School their best !
We invite you to come out and join us for this moment and if you have the time you should hang around and watch the Varsity attempt to clinch the Three Rivers District championship outright versus James River High School 🏫…
Going to compete in Regionals is nothing new for our Jabin Talley and his Sidekick Ethan Richardson has some experience with the post season as well but we just found out that the entire team will be making the trek !
While the actual final seeding is still up in the air, Head Coach Greg Talley checked in with the terrific news yesterday. The team is still trying hard to squeeze in all the matches possible, including a trek up to Alleghany today and a possible make up date tomorrow afternoon with Floyd County.
Tennis 🎾 for both the Boys and Girls at Carroll County is on the fringe between another thing to do in the Spring and a serious program that can be a springboard to bigger and better things.
Talley is about to become the first Cavalier to move on from The Hill to playing tennis at the next level. Now we can add the team advancing to the post season to the list of achievements in the past four years.
Talley and Richardson were going anyway but now the ENTIRE team gets to experience playing in the Regional tournament. Their first match might appear to just be a blip on the radar to some but trust me, its a BIG DEAL !
The sky here in Laurel Fork doesn’t look promising now at 11:15 am but if there’s an upside its the fact that nothing is currently falling from it.
We will attempt again today to host a moment that I think will stand the test of time. Carroll County Softball is set to host Radford at 5:00 pm (Junior Varsity) and at roughly 6:45 its our hope to have the four Student Athletes set to graduate 🎓 after achieving remarkable CCHS career records.
To graduate with a School Record 🏫 one must be capable of playing Varsity as a Freshman to have a fighting chance. Alyssa Ervin, Jabin Talley, Emma Leath and Ashlyn Newman each checked that box.
Then you have to excel at your trade pretty much from start to finish during your time on The Hill. Once again, check, check, check and check.
Ervin finished her career with 2,100+ points. The 5’11 point forward didn’t just sneak across the finish line, she took the record and possibly hid it for a generation or two. The next stop is Elon University as she continues her basketball 🏀 career.
The same Mother Nature that is trying to derail our efforts again today is keeping Newman from creating anormus space with her career number. The Battling Ben Tickles are set to lose out on three regular season games due to weather and when you have collected so many Hat 👒 Tricks that they don’t all fit in your closet anymore….
Newman will get at least two more opportunities to add to her record as the team plays at Patrick County on Monday and are set to open regional play a few days later. Newman managed to earn her Associates degree from Wytheville Community College in her spare time and will be heading to Liberty University shortly after graduating CCHS.
The next member of our Fab Four is Tennis 🎾 player Jabin Talley. Talley has been playing his sport as long as he has been able to grip a racket. His record number of wins continues to rise, at least on days they are fortunate enough to get a match in. The CCHS team most effected by the weather this Spring has been tennis.
Talley plays #1 singles and #1 doubles alongside junior Ethan Richardson. The duo has won at an alarming rate and have hopes of continuing for a few more weeks as they prepare for their post season.
Talley will be heading over to Southwest Virginia Community College in the fall as the first Cavalier to play tennis 🎾 at the next level.
Rounding out or group of hard working young people is Emma Leath. Leath is wrapping up her fourth and final season in the pitching circle 🔵 for Coach Nester and just recently passed Sydney Nester on the career Wins list. Our Greg Maddux of softball is trying to cross the finish line on the other career mark of Nester’s as she is now 3 from tying and four away from breaking the strike out mark.
Leath is set to head down to Surry Community College this fall but she also has some unfinished business here on The Hill.
My goal has been to gather the group together, along with their parents, for a group bow 🙇♂️ and the photo 📷 op of a lifetime ♥.
Some of these four (or five) records might fall someday but its safe to say it won’t happen all in the same school year.
While typing this story out I have been notified by Coach Nester that the Radford game has been pushed again.
We will now have to choose between Thursday (James River) and Friday (Radford) for attempt #3.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 