Girls 👧 Tipoff – Varsity, curtosey of Bill Gallimore down in Abingdon.

The Harris family 👪 was keeping us up to speed on the JV game.

2-2(1), 11-3(2), 21-9 (3) in favor of the Falcons. Here is the Final score of the JV contest…

I will be adding information throughout the evening as it makes its way to me.

Shannon Dalton with a Photo 📷 of the High School 🏫 Band!

Now, the Middle School [ 8th Grade] 🏫 Band

The Varsity Girls 👧 Game is over in Abingdon. Both Marion Harris and Bill Gallimore were tag teaming the updates.

The Lady 👩 Cavaliers continue to try and grow as a team. Tonight they fell to the Falcons in their fourth game of the season.

Godspeed to All on the drive 🚗 back up and over.

Here in Mount Vernon, Washington we are in between games of a three day Men’s Basketball 🏀 event. Host Skagit Valley (9-0) looks to stay perfect against Wenatchee Valley.

The complete list of 35 Community Colleges here in the Pacific Northwest

SVC has a 6’7 baller from Jackson High School named Sylas Williams. Young man 👨 can flat out play and the Cardinals lead 31-7 @ 6:54 (1).

At the Half its Skagit Valley College 50, Wenatchee Valley 14. Southwest Oregon and South Puget are heading out of the Gym now. All four teams will be back here tomorrow afternoon.

Puget Sound won the opener 78-64. Williams has 16 at the break, including two 3-pointers.

14:58 (2) – 61/16. You have to wonder about the circumstances that led Williams to playing at the CC level? Young man 👨 is a D-1 talent for sure. 63/26 after a 10-2 run by the Knights !

Still hoping to run across 🙏 some Swim 🏊‍♂️ results…

We are now halfway through our Player Profiles which happens to be the ✂️off for Head Coach Anthony Barnes in regards to this years Senior Class.

#1 – Brayden Russell Smoot

#3 – Bryce Arnold Smoot

#20 – Ethan Cole Richardson

#22 – Jay Ryan Burnette

#32 – Landon Guy Puckett

#34 – Cody Aiden Reece

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to this group of fine Student Athletes and we look forward to seeing their final season play out.

We will now begin our Player Profiles on the six underclassmen.

Photo 📷 Credit : Bill Gallimore

Christiansburg – Carroll County Varsity Boys Basketball improved to 3-0 on the young season, including 2-0 on the road, by defeating Christiansburg 80-63 in non-district play.

The opening two minutes went as poorly as it could on both ends of the floor for the Cavaliers. Defensively they allowed CHS to score on three straight possessions with drives to the basket and offensively they had one turnover and two shots blocked.

Trailing 6-0 it would have been easy to panic on the court or for Head Coach Anthony Barnes to burn a timeout to settle things down.

Cody Reece (15 points) finally got CCHS on the scoreboard with a pair of free throws and Isaiah Easter (14 points) added two of his 10 made free throws to tie the score at 11-11. Reece put the Cavaliers ahead for the first time with his next basket and the team would never trail again.

Carroll County tightened up defensively and a 14-2 run 🏃‍♂️ spanning the opening two quarters pushed the lead out to 25-13. At that point it appeared the Cavaliers were on their way to a blowout victory.

The Blue Demons strung together a run of their own late in the first half. The lead was down to 35-30 when Senior Ethan Richardson (Game high 21 points) was fouled while attempting a last second 3-pointer.

Richardson calmly dropped all three foul shots to push the lead back out to 38-30 at the break.

” We finally snapped out of our sluggishness. Multiple guys really stepped up tonight, led by Ethan with 21. Bryce (Smoot) pitched in with 17,” said Assistant Coach Kris Richardson. ” Great overall team win. Trace(Reavis), Landon (Puckett), and Jay( Burnette) gave good minutes tonight, playing both tough and physical.”

While the opening two minutes of the second half were not quite as slow for CCHS, they did allow the home team to tighten the game. The lead was down to 41-39 before the Cavs kicked into overdrive once again.

The 17-4 run 🏃‍♂️ was picture perfect in that great defense created easy offense for Carroll County. Unselfish play offensively once again left the team with four scorers in double figures.

The lead capped at 69-49 with just over three minutes remaining. Barnes inserted some players that were seeing their first Varsity action and Christiansburg kept playing at full speed and quickly cut the lead to 73-60

A couple of tweaks to the lineup settled things down and the third straight victory to open the season included four points by Puckett and two points by Landon Phillips. Brayden Smoot rounded out the scoring with seven points in addition to distributing the basketball.

“Only missed 11 FT, but made 20. It’s still not great but better than 19 misses, ” Richardson added. “We had 15 turnovers, which isn’t terrible, but under 12 is our goal. All of our players played tonight”.

In the Junior Varsity game Carroll County dropped a hard fought game 57-56. The two teams went back and forth throughout with the home team prevailing at the end.

The team are scheduled to return to action on Saturday in Dublin as part of the annual four game basketball festival. Varsity edged Pulaski County in the opener while the JV fell short.