What we know in regards to Girls Soccer ⚽️ and the Regional tournament is seeds 7 thru 10 were tightly bunched and the Lady 👩 Cavaliers will open on the road next week.

How tough is the Regional tournament for Class 3 Girls Soccer ? After finishing up her first season as Head Coach at 10-5-2, Adrienne Harris and her squad won’t have the opportunity to play at Tommy Thompson Field again this season.

  If there is an upside to the seedings its is that Carroll County should have an opportunity to play in a match that the team could win and advance to the next round.

Lord Botetourt is one of the other teams in what could be called the Final Four, the group of teams that will compete in the 7 versus 10 and 8 versus 9 matches in hopes of advancing to the Elite Eight.

William Byrd is coming into to post season tournament fresh off holding Staunton River to a 0-0 tie.

How stacked is the top of the deck in the bracket ? Not only is Cave Spring 16-0-0 this season but the Knights only surrendered three goals on the season.

1,280 minutes of Soccer action 🎬 and only three goals allowed is bonkers. The Knights will host the winner 🏆 of the #8 versus #9 match.

Northside HS will be on the teams on the outside looking in after completing their tough schedule at 3-13-1.

Staunton River figures to hold down the #2 seed and will await the winner 🏆 of the #7 versus #10 match.

Bassett High School would appear to be set to host a play-in game after finishing up at 8-6-3.

For the non-Soccer ⚽️ fan, one would look at the records and notice that our Lady Cavaliers finished their season with a better record than their next opponent but will have to play on the road and wonder why ? The point system is based on strength of schedule and that works against Carroll County.

The Lady Cavaliers collected 10 wins on the season and won every game that they would have been favored to. Season sweeps over Martinsville, Patrick County, Galax, Pulaski County and Alleghany were impressive but the Roanoke schools have the benefit of playing each other.

The tie against George Wythe was another strong effort but came against a smaller school. The fact that the  four toughest matches on the schedule were against Class 2 powerhouses James River(10-5-1) and Glenvar (14-2) didn’t help the seeding process. Radford, also in Class 2, finished at 8-4-2.

Glenvar, James River and Radford will now go their own way in the Class 2 Regional tournament.

Carroll County, despite having to make a drive next Wednesday up I-81, is in a solid position to both gain some post season experience and possibly play a second game. That game might be versus Cave Spring but it would be worth it.

Soccer ⚽️ will take a back seat today for these seven young ladies as they graduate 🎓 High School 🏫 later today!

Later today, we will take a look at the Boys Soccer ⚽️ postseason path as they head over to Bassett on Wednesday.