Carroll County High School Volleyball 🏐 in one word : Homesick

Carroll County Lady Cavaliers Volleyball made it latest stop ✋ on its month long Commonwealth Tour Tuesday night at Glenvar High School. The scoreboard will tell you two things with the first being that the Highlanders swept the Cavaliers 3-0 (25-9, 25-20, 25-17) and secondly, the team is only halfway through its month away from The Hill.

Carroll County (12-7, 3-5) has four more matches left in the regular season but the next two are on the road. Thursday night is a bye for the team and then its off to both Floyd County on Tuesday and Radford on Thursday evening.

  The road trip now sits at 2-2 as the Lady Cavaliers swept the US-58 matches at Martinsville and Patrick County but the pair on I-81 ( James River and Glenvar).

Since they last player at home, the team has lost their floor leader Laiken Burnett to a hand ✋ injury and other players have lost time for various reasons. But Head Coach Cindy Edwards keeps moving forward with the next person up mindset.

Against the Highlanders, Carroll County looked a bit out of sorts in the opening set and the score reflected it as Glenvar rolled to a 25-9 victory.

Callie Harris and Faith Nicholson continue to split time at the Libero position. While no single person can easily replace the injured Burnett, a few of the underclassmen have certainly stepped up. Nicholson, Maddie Hyatt and in Salem, Alyssa Lawson had moments where she shined.

Brooke Webb held down the fort early in the second set before being joined by Ali Wright and Corrie Delp on Kills patrol. The Cavaliers kept Glenvar within sight before eventually falling, 25-20.

Flashback to last Thursday night in Stuart, when CCHS fell behind Patrick County 2-0 before storming back for a thrilling 3-2 victory. But while the Lady Cavaliers finished strong 💪, the Highlanders were able to close out the evening, 25-17.

Varsity now has one week off before heading over to Floyd next Tuesday night.

In the Junior Varsity match, Glenvar swept Nikki Heflin and her Lady Cavaliers, 2-0 (29-27, 25-12) but the Visitors pushed their host to the limit in the opening set.

” Our team played their best first set of the season, showing incredible effort and skill in a fiercely contested match,” said Heflin. ” It was a tough loss that took the wind out of their sails, and they were unable to recover their momentum in the second set”.