Saturday afternoon was a Five Star 🌟 Day for Carroll County Baseball. First, the Junior Varsity team defeated James River 8-4 to clinch the Three Rivers District crown 👑. Next up was a touching Senior Day Celebration for the six Cavaliers that are winding up their time at Bill Worrell Field.
The next segment was recognition for Britt Berrier as the four year Varsity player recently became the third Cavalier to collect 100 career base hits.
The next stop ✋ on the day long Cavalier Baseball ⚾️ Love fest was the Varsity team defeating the Knights by a final score of 12-1. After the game, Mrs Burcham and Steve Combs combined their efforts to create a reunion of former Cavaliers that had been coached by the long time partnership of Casey and Combs.
All of this happened one day after three of the six Seniors gathered in the School Auditorium to announce their College signings
Life is sailing along at a Premium level for the entire Baseball program. After a 30 hour whirlwind of accomplishments, Burcham still found time to actually critique the actual ball game.
” I thought we looked like a team who hadn’t been on the field for a week in the first couple of innings,” said Burcham. “We did a phenomenal job making adjustments later in the game from an offensive standpoint.”
Carroll County fell short at Pulaski County High School back in the second game of the season and it had to have left a bad taste in their mouth because they haven’t dropped a game since.
Senior Cody Reece started on the mound for Carroll County and sparkled in his four innings of work. The right hander fanned 9 Knights over his four innings while allowing just one earned run. Peyton Spencer came in behind Reece to close out the shortened game due to the mercy rule.
James River actually led 1-0 heading into the bottom of the third inning. Burcham mentioned the slow 🐌 start but once the train left the station it turned into the Cavalier Express. Three straight frames were CCHS hung a Crooked number up on the Knights turned 1-0 into 12-1 in an absolute blink of an eye.
Reece and fellow Senior, Gage Nicholson deposited balls over the fence. It was quite a day for the Nicholson Family after little Brother(Bryce) did the same in the Junior Varsity victory. Big Brother finished up 3 of 4 with three runs scored and three runs driven in.
All season long the Cavaliers have combined timely hitting with tough as nails 💅 pitching and their line up is both deep and talented. Any future opponents are not be able to game plan around any one player in hopes of slowing down the attack.
Back to the Americana aspect of the old Chevrolet commercial. Baseball, Hot Dogs 🌭 and Apple Pie 🥧. Mama Burcham was even serving Apple Pie today in the family 👪 run Concession Stand.
Life is Grand right now on the Northside of the Boulevard !
” Our seniors paced us tonight,” added Burcham. “Proud of all the guys.”
Carroll County will travel to Radford on Tuesday night to close out the regular season and then advance to the Regional Tournament the following week as either a #1 or #2 seed.
The Junior Varsity will host Radford on Tuesday evening to wrap up their initial season under Adam Nester.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 