While the football 🏈🏈🏈 schedule remains the same as of now, the Homecoming festivities have been pushed back.
Homecoming parade is now Oct. 16! All things HoCo will be that week as well.
Thank You to the CCAA for their ability to continue 🙏 to adapt to the circumstances at hand !!!
CCAA President Samantha Reed points out that the actual decision was made by the administration at Carroll County High School 🏫. The CCAA is the group that adjusts on the fly !
Today its the folks from Davidson College that opened their doors 🚪 to us as we try to bounce back from the devastating flood waters in Boone.
Bellamine left Louisville, Kentucky on a chartered Bus 🚌 five days ago and when they leave later today they will have to take the long way back to the Bluegrass state.
First Touch took place at 12:07 pm and we remain scoreless at halftime.
After today I get to return to Laurel Fork while the team heads back to see what is salvageable back on Campus.
One thing for sure is that our facility sits at the Top of the Rock so we know that its safe but that’s about all we know for sure.
App State takes to the road for our next three matches, not returning home until Sunday October 13th when the University of North Carolina comes to town for a rare appearance.
Goal App State – #1 – Bridget Donovan from #21 Noah Ginjaume Matas at 1:35 of the 3rd !!!
Apologies for the delay but the folks back home are working on rescheduling events.
6:26 – 4th – Goal for Franziska Heyltjes of Mulheim, Germany 🇩🇪, her 1st career Goal, 2-0 !!!
3:53 – 4th, Frederique Grimbergen of the Netherlands 🇳🇱 puts the biscuit in the basket 🧺 3-0
1:37 – FINAL 3-0 !!!!
The seats 💺 at Cavalier Park is just half the beauty as the seating area will be surrounded with Brick, the same color as the Press Box.
Paul Nester is the man 👨 and we will try and see who all is helping him today ! First Stop ✋ when I get back to town will be Cavalier Park !
Carroll County High School 🏫 Junior Varsity and Varsity Volleyball 🏐 were the only thing on the Cavalier Sports Docket for Monday. That match is now on hold until the good folks over in Marion see if this School and town are going to be functional anytime soon.
A number of towns across the Southeast were devastated by flood waters from the Hurricane and Marion is on that list. As Sunday night flips to Monday morning 🌄 there’s still hope but not a great deal of it.
Carroll County High School 🏫 will be closed due to the high number of residents that are lacking shelter, electricity, water or all of the above. The School was open over the weekend to try and assist as many folks as possible with those very things.
By comparison to other places in the region, we might be considered fortunate but that does little to take the sting out of the upheaval of normality. I add myself to that list of folks that have been in the dark for an extended period of time but thankfully we now have power once again and hopefully water soon enough.
There are plenty of people and places to Pray 🙏 for. The threat of more rain 🌧 in the coming days doesn’t make things any easier.
Weather Permitting…..
USA Field Hockey has a smurf Blue astroturfed practice facility on the Campus of North Carolina – Charlotte. Its located 2 hours and 8 minutes away from something that most people will never have to live through.
Head Coach Emily Dinsmore and her Staff recruited this roster from around the World 🌎 on the promise that coming to Boone, North Carolina would be live changing. Nobody could have possibly foreseen the recent events that not only flooded downtown Boone but absolutely leveled neighboring towns.
Central Michigan University and Appalachian State University are getting ready to play a MAC conference game here at 1pm. That’s assuming that everyone can get here safely. Charlotte isn’t the issue, getting here is but I think that escaping the harsh reality of the situation for the next 90 minutes could be just what the Doctor ordered!
Here’s hoping 🙏 for a break from the current situation 🙏…
The path for Central Michigan University to get to Charlotte. Flight ✈️ to Charlottesville ahead of a match at James Madison University. Then it was back to Hooville where the team spent the night 🌙.
The University of Virginia opened their facilities so that the Chippewas could hold a Saturday practice while the dust settled in regards to the flooding in Boone.
Next up, CMU chartered a Bus 🚌 and traveled to High Point, North Carolina. Second Hotel 🏨 of the trip then finish the drive down to the campus of UNCC. After the match the team climbed back on the Bus 🚌 for the short ride over to CLT and then a flight ✈️ back to Michigan.
Next up, the officials. Bob Bowden and Craig Kalbfleisch live in Louisville, Kentucky. The left their home town after being green lighted by ASU, got within shouting distance of Boone before be turned back. They then circled back to try a second option but once again were turned back and this time returned to the Bluegrass state.
The next time they left it was on a Jet Airliner ( Steve Miller Band).
Mentioning Louisville, the opponent for our Friday match was Bellamine, the second most famous school in Louisville. Their team was already in Boone at a Hotel 🏨 on Thursday night as they were slated to play Friday in Boone and then Sunday at Davidson College.
Stuck in a Hotel 🏨 with no power and no food, Bellamine (pronounced Bell-ah-men) hung out and did the best the could. While we were busy playing Central Michigan University today they were 21 miles to the north at Davidson. The homesteading Wildcats held on for a 2-1 victory, the identical score as our victory over CMU.
The Bellamine website now lists Davidson campus as the host site for tomorrow’s make up match. That was a possibility because the field at UNCC wasn’t in a position to be watered, which is a major part of playing Field Hockey on astroturf.
Exit Davidson (the team, but not the School) and Central Michigan University from the equation. Now its time for Bellamine – App State tomorrow at Noon, location to be determined shortly.
Next up we need to explain why there’s a facility for Field Hockey 🏑 on a college campus that doesn’t field a team ?
It’s the Training center for the USA National 🇺🇸 team. The facility is designed for practice and drills but not necessarily for matches. There are no Bleachers or concessions and as we noticed, no Flag pole. But the folks there were Top Shelf in making the field available to us on very little notice. Incredibly Gracious folks for sure.
Bellamine has to be worn out and ready to go back to Kentucky. App State doesn’t have much of a Home to go to right now and that’s why getting to play a game had to help our mindset or as I said earlier, therapeutic.
When our Coach was visiting our players in their homes back before they committed to App State, I feel there wasn’t a page in the brochure mentioning Mud Slides or flooding included.
Coach Dinsmore and her staff were very present today for a group of College Student Athletes that have had their Worlds 🌎 turned upside down this week and I am pretty sure that they are better for it.
Tune in tomorrow for the next page in the journey !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 