The photo 📷 above is for the final player profile that we will run 🏃‍♂️ tomorrow ! Ruth Hylton opened her home 🏡 up to Leny Richter and we will tell that story tomorrow !!!

5:30 – Junior Varsity will play their final match of the season and the final one of the decade long Coaching career of Head Coach Jason Petty.

Their season will end tonight, win or lose and we would like to Thank Coach Petty and Coach Nikki Heflin for their efforts this season ! The season was going to be a challenging one anyway but when you add the loss of two young ladies due to Varsity call-ups, it increased the challenge. Kudos to the team for continuing to try to learn on the fly.

Approximately 30 minutes later the Varsity Lady 👩 Cavaliers (12-8, 7-4) will have their rematch with the Bobcats. Earlier this season, CCHS led 2-0 at home before Radford stormed back for the 3-2 victory.

There’s a great deal on the line tonight in regards to the District Tourney Championship that begins on Monday night.

To clarify this, we bring in the expertise of our Athletic Director Kevin DeHaven to explain…

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Tiebreaker Procedure 

If there is a tie between schools in the district record, the tie will be broken as follows:
1.  Head to head record of the teams that are tied.
2.  Common opponents outside of district play with equal number of games played versus that       opponent.

3. Tiebreaker numbers in draw

Standings in the District before tonight :

Alleghany 10-1 (hosting Floyd)

James River 8-3 (@ Glenvar)

Radford 8 – 3 (hosting CCHS)

Carroll County 7-4 (@ Radford)

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We know that Alleghany will play host to the #4 seed on Monday night. The Cougars lost their opening match to us and then won 10 straight.

After that it gets very interesting , if Carroll County loses to Radford we will finish fourth and pack our Bags 🎒 for Alleghany on Monday.

If we win tonight we would pull into a tie 👔 for 3rd place with Radford. We would then go to the tiebreaker system outlined by Mr. DeHaven.

There is no guarantee that James River will beat Radford but the Knights are playing lights out right now. JRHS swept both Carroll County and Radford in the past 10 days.

If both Radford and James River win tonight they will 👔 for 2nd and have their own tiebreaker to see which school 🏫 would host the other.

Just for fun, if Glenvar upsets James River and we upset Radford, we would have a three way 👔 for second place. While that would be fun, we would lose that tiebreaker because we would finish 1-3 versus the other two while James River would be 3-1 and Radford 2-2.

So, to wrap up, we cannot host on Monday night or Wednesday night if we reach the finals.

If we lose tonight we head to the Highlands. If we win tonight, chances are we are heading to James River High School.

With all that said, neither Coach Edwards nor I was sure that we would have this to worry about this season. Finishing in the Top Four with less than 10 combined years of Varsity experience = Amazing 👏…

After tonight’s puzzle we can take a look at the Regional tournament and that situation which begins next Saturday with the play-in games.

More to follow once we are inside !

The Bobcats Gymnasium is a throw back to a time long ago. It looks like something from the Movie – Hoosiers !

4:35 – ‘Da Bus, Boss, ‘Da Bus ! The Lady Cavaliers are in the building !

Clock down to 21:00….

Should have First Serve right at 5:37…

Let’s play….Volleyball

After 10 – Radford 6-4

After 20 – Radford 12-8

First TO – CC, Radford 14-8

First TO Radford – R 18,10

After 30 – Radford 20-10

Carroll County – 2nd TO, 24-13 Bobcats

5:59 pm – Bobcats close out 1st set 25-13.

Set #2 – First 10, CCHS 6-4 !

Radford TO at 6-6

After 20 points – Lady Cavaliers 11-9!!

TO – Tie at 16

Radford scores 6 straight, TO CC at 16-22

6:31 pm – Season ends at 25-20. Lady 👩 Cavaliers held off set and match point three times before it ended. Great effort in the setback 👏.

Fast Forward to 6:55, time for Varsity introductions…..

15 quality minutes with Mrs Goins in between Matches and Thank You to Marion Harris for providing me the means to charge my worn out Cellphone 📱 !

7:01 – First Serve….

10 points – Radford 6-4

.20 points – 👔 at 10…

30 Points – Lady 👩 Cavs 16-14, Bobcat TO….

40 points – Radford 21-19, TO CC

TO – CC, trailing 23-20

7:25 – Set #1, Bobcats 25-21

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Set #2 – First 10, Radford 6-4

Time Out CC, down 11-5

SCORE from JV Football, trailing 24-8 in the 3rd quarter…….

30 Points – Down 19-11

40 Points – Down 23 -17, TO CC…

END SET, Radford 25-19 @ 7:59

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Set #3 – First 10, Bobcats 7-3

Carroll County TO, down 11-4

******* Football update, down 30-16, late 4th

First 20 – down 13-7

TO CC – trailing 21-8

1st 30 – Down 22-8, 23-8 until Cavs connect for 5 straight to force a Radford TO

Final point to Radford, 25 -16…

End of Match at 8:24, Story later.

Corrie Marie Delp

Galax is her hometown (technically she’s a Gladeville girl from Carroll Co.

Height 5’7″.

Parents : Jon & Vanetta Delp

Class – Junior

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From Corrie :

I am so glad I chose to play volleyball my freshman year of high school, I’ve grown to love and be very passionate about it. I have great coaches who have brought me a long way from where i began freshman year.

I love spending time with my teammates, getting to grow better with them, and growing a great friendship.

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From Mom 👩 and Dad 👨 :
We are very proud of Corrie taking on this “new” sport of volleyball (for her) a couple of years ago.

She wanted to try it and we supported her even though she left some success at cross country prior to volleyball.

She caught on quickly and really likes it and has dedicated herself to it with travel volleyball in the off season when she could. She also has stuck with it this year even after an early season broken ankle.

Her desire to rehab and PT the ankle to get back is to her credit. We hope she will continue to love it and work hard to better herself at it. We love her drive. When she sets her mind to something, she does it.

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From Head Coach Cindy Edwards :

Corrie Delp is so athletic. At the very beginning of the season she broke her ankle at practice.

She was a player we were counting on a lot, but things happened for a reason it allowed other young kids to get valuable playing time. Corrie just got released yesterday, so hopefully, we can get her a little bit of playing time here at the end of our season. Corrie also runs track and plays basketball, she is another 3 sport athlete.

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Going to step in here and temporarily fill the Giant shoes 👞 of Assistant Coach Maleah Neely. First I would like to say a GIANT Thank you to Coach Neely for the amount of time and dedication 👏 she has shown in writing ✍ something personal about each one of the Lady 👩 Cavaliers.

Now, in regards to Miss Corrie Delp and her efforts this season. With many of the triple threat Athletes at the High School level, its hard to peg which sport is their true passion. That’s simply not the case with Miss Delp, she is a Track and Field star, having qualified for the State meet in both her Freshman and Sophomore seasons.

Suffering a bizarre accident in pre-season practice that led to a broken ankle, it would have been ever so easy to just go home and rest up for Track 👣season. The fact that Delp stayed with the team in her walking boot and pushed herself as hard as she could shows a few things – first, it shows the level of commitment that Delp has to herself and second, it shows her Love 💘 and respect she has for her Coaches and her Volleyball 🏐 teammates.

Delp eventually made it to the next step which was to dress out for a Match and then finally played a few minutes in the home finally !

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Miss Corrie Delp of Gladeville !