Day: March 5, 2025
Processing last night 🌙, just doing so while covering the ACC Women’s Basketball 🏀 tournament in Greensboro [Allen’s Gamer Link Inside]
The next two weeks will center on Greensboro and Charlotte but please know that there is soooooo much to say about the just completed Winter season!
Next up will be Allen Worrell’s gamer that should be out shortly and then we are going to take a deep dive into somethings.
In the meantime, its Game One of 14 here in Greensboro as #12 vs #13 has Boston College playing Syracuse…
Syracuse has game, lead 45-28 after two quarters.
Priceless moment ❤ for me was taking my 70 year old Brother to his first ACC Women’s Tournament Game !!!
Boston College has cut ✂️ it to 46-40 halfway through the 3rd
End of 3rd, we have ourselves a ball game ! Cuse 60, Eagles 56
Allen’s Gamer
Game 1 is coming down to the final shot and Boston College wins 76-73….What a game!!
End of 1st quarter, UVA leads 14-12. #10 Hoos need to win at least one this week to keep the Train 🚆 moving forward.
UVA 26-22 @ The Half…
48-36 Hoos after 3rd!
Hoos Win 64-50 (5:25)
Game #3 of 3
Clemson 27, Stanford University 16
End of 3rd, Clemson 48, Stanford 30
Clemson advances, 63-46
Nice Day in Greensboro!!
The Last Dance 💃has ended but we are All better for having been a part of it ! Cavalier Boys Basketball 🏀 falls at Spotswood Tuesday night
Everyone knew that the ride on the Cavalier Express would eventually have to end and it did Tuesday night in Penn Laird, Virginia at the hands ✋of the Spotswood Trail Blazers, 71-52.
Allen Worrell will have your actual Game Story available here shortly so I will begin with some thoughts on what the journey meant to the team, the Coaching staff and to me personally.
But first, here’s Head Coach Anthony Barnes, sharing his thoughts :
We knew coming up here to their house would be tough, they are well coached and they play really hard D, and their two guards are solid deadly shooters. 34-27 at half could have been 15 or worse,but we stood strong we worked really hard on defense too would limit them , when they did miss we never could secure the rebound or get the 50/50 ball. They are very physical and sometimes the team leading gets by playing that way as the aggressor. Foul count 21-11, Isaiah held to hardest 8 pts he ever scored to date and same with Ethan with only 9. Still my guys never quit playing period. So very proud of this group, Region runner up, 23-3, back back District Champs, back back Christmas Champs! All time Leading scorer with Bryce Smoot. Over all record for three years is 61-15! What more can Coaches ask for in a high school group. This game don’t define their season at all ! The last dance
ends, but the History books tel
ls there ride forever. TEAM CAVS !
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Yes, the Express ended with back to back defeats but one has to take aI5th look at what it took to knock down our Cavaliers.
Northside High School 🏫 has two Division 1 players leading them in their quest to a third consecutive State Championship.
Spotswood has two equally impressive Division 1 players and a smothering fan base. Playing in Pulaski County High School was a neutral site where nothing about Tuesday night was equal.
My takeaway from the end of the season can be explained in how much Heart ❤ was on display in the fourth quarter last night 🌙. Our five Cavaliers were giving inches and pounds to their counterparts at every position ➕ running on fumes but the defended themselves one last time.
Facing their biggest deficit of the season, late in the third quarter and with a decent chance the entire starting five fouling out of the game, Carroll County made their final push.
We cut the lead to 12, at 61-49 after Bryce Smoot drilled a NBA 3-pointer and after another stop ✋, fellow Senior Ethan Richardson got a great look at another 3-pointer and the shot went halfway down before falling away. The shot would have cut ✂️ it back to single digits.
Instead of down nine and being on the cusp of scaring the Trail Blazers, Junior Isaiah Easter picked up his fifth foul. Spotswood closed out the game with a 10-3 run to make it look like a one sided affair. Trust me, for 29 of the 32 minutes, Spotswood was in a dog 🐕 fight with a dog that has a great deal of fight in it!!
Carroll County 14 13. 12. 13 – 52
Spotswood HS 14 20 21 16 – 71
Please enjoy Allen’s Game Story and know that there will be plenty more Hoops coverage coming afterwards!
This group made me PROUD to know them !!
Relaxing after the Banquet turned into 51 straight hours of Madness that ends at 1:15 am in Laurel Fork ! Wow, there’s 20 stories to tell but I think Sleep 💤😴 is needed…
Staunton High School 🏫 Tennis 🎾
Match summary. In our opening varsity competition, the Staunton High School boys tennis emerged with a scrimmage win over the first ever match for Rocktown High School in Harrisonburg. With 3 players sidelined with illness Staunton was able to scramble around the absences and prevail. Sophomore Reese Logue was the man of the match, overcoming a 5-0 deficit to win his match 8-6 at No. 6 singles. A record number of 16 players make up this season’s roster.
Thank You Pappy Meade !
Carroll County Reunion took place just after Midnight at Exit 132 as Joi Ogle and her Son Wyatt, Allen Worrell, Christy Shupe and her Father 👨, my Brother and I all ended up at the same Gas ⛽ Station.
Allen will have you a Full Blown Gamer later today and I will sign off for now by saying that I hope everyone 🙏 made it back to The Hill safely and Christy states the late chant of let’s Go Northside was her creation. So very proud of our team !!
New Running 🏃♂️🏃♀️ Blog now that its Wednesday
MACC Photos 📷
Social Studies was tied 40-40 at the break. Lost in this round of the local grudge match with Grayson County 65-55.
Anthony Barnes has checked in with his thoughts on the end of the Season…
” We knew coming up here to their house would be tough, they are well coached and they play really hard D, and their two guards are solid deadly shooters. 34-27 at half could have been 15 or worse,but we stood strong we worked really hard on defense too would limit them , when they did miss we never could secure the rebound or get the 50/50 ball. They are very physical and sometimes the team leading gets by playing that way as the aggressor. Foul count 21-11, Isaiah held to hardest 8 pts he ever scored to date and same with Ethan with only 9. Still my guys never quit playing period. So very proud of this group, Region runner up, 23-3, back back District Champs, back back Christmas Champs! All time Leading scorer with Bryce Smoot. Over all record for three years is 61-15! What more can Coaches ask for in a high school group. This game don’t define their season at all ! The last dance
ends, but the History books tells there ride forever. TEAM CAVS !”
We will continue to build on our coverage….
Science finals. Carroll v Blacksburg
Science lost by 3. 55-58.
Social Studies is playing Radford 63-46 Carroll win !!!!!
A.S.P.N on The Hill 