Coach Howard Mayo talks with his team during a first half timeout.
Stuart – The word Light is one that has many different meanings and played a large part in Carroll County’s 50-27 setback at Patrick County Wednesday night.
The one thing that the Lady 👩 Cavaliers were not light on was the effort that the nine players gave their veteran Coach against a much more physical and experienced team.
Callie Harris (7 points) and Raylee Goins (5 points) led the offense on a night were eight different players scored at least one basket. Goins and Laynie-Jo Leonard (3 points) both connected on one of two shots from the foul line in the first quarter but the Lady Cavaliers never returned to the charity stripe after the opening eight minutes.
CCHS opened the game up with a 4-0 spurt and kept the Cougars off the scoreboard for the first three plus minutes. Kenzie McMillian and Harris scored the points and the team defense did the rest. PCHS led after the first quarter but only by a score of 10-6.
Harris connected on a 3-pointer to open the second quarter to pull Carroll County within 10-9, checking off one of the keys 🔑 to the game, staying away from a slow start. A number of games this season seemed out of reach by the first break but that certainly wasn’t the case tonight.
Getting back to the word light, the Cavaliers are light in regards to number of players, light on Varsity experience and the roster is light in regards to weight. Patrick County flexed their muscles a bit during the next stretch and it led to a deciding 17-2 run. Madison Coleman (2 points ) found Harris on a perfectly timed back door pass to briefly break the scoring drought but the damage was done.
Patrick County crashed the offensive glass during the game changing stretch which led to a number of put back baskets. That, along with pressing the passing lanes put the game out of reach at the break, 27-11.
The third quarter was quite possibly the best part of the evening for Carroll County as four different Lady Cavaliers scored a basket 🧺, including the first Varsity points for Aaliyah Hampton.
Hampton was called up due to the cancelation of the Junior Varsity game due to illness and connected on a baseline jumper to tie the quarter at 8-8. The lead remained at 16 points heading to the fourth quarter.
The solid play continued into the final quarter as Goins scored two quick buckets and CC Mitchell (4 points) added another to give CCHS a 14-13 lead in the second half. The second and deciding run was 10-0, pushing the score out to the final margin of 50-27. By the end of the contest the Lady Cavaliers were a little light on ⛽⛽⛽ as a number of players are Battling back from illness.
Kenzie Young, giving up a noticeable amount of size all night, recorded six clean blocks in addition to scoring two points. Coleman added a number of rebounds in addition to her basket.
Carroll County will rest up for a day before heading further down US-58 on Friday night for a rematch with Martinsville High School. The hope is that the Junior Varsity team might return to action 🎬 by then.
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