Everything about Thursday night 🌙 on The Hill was perfect, minus a few minutes late in the third set as Carroll County celebrated Breast Cancer 🎀 Awareness Month with its Pink Effect 💗 Night 🌙

Marion Harris, Tammy Quesenberry, Christy Burnett, Denise Webb and Adrienne Harris McGuire joining in the between sets fundraising.

The scoreboard will show that visiting James River High School defeated Carroll County in Three Rivers District Volleyball 3-1 ( 17-25, 25-19, 29-27, 25-18). The regular season ending match leaves the Lady Cavaliers at 14-9 overall and 5-7 in the District.

Charlotte East was one of the two match officials and she proudly shared her 10 year token as a survivor of Breast Cancer.

Carroll County hit the ground running as they looked to improve on the outcome earlier this season when the team visited Buchanan. The teams were tied in the first set at 5,6 and 7 but Carroll County created space with an 8-2 run 🏃‍♂️.

Brooke Webb led the way in the decisive spurt as the Senior scored with Kills and serves. Fellow Seniors Callie Harris and Corrie Delp both added finishing swings and CCHS protected the 15-9 advantage the rest of the way.

Sophomore Raylee Goins had a personal 3-0 run with a kill, an Ace and a service winner. Ali Wright added two kills and Harris closed out the 25-17 victory.

James River returned the favor in the second set after a Delp block tied things up at 17-17. The Knights closed out the equalizer 8-2, sending the match to the third set all square.

Carroll County raced out to a quick 10-4 lead behind the serves of Maddie Hyatt and consecutive blocks from Delp. Back to back kills from Harris pushed the Cavs to a 21-18 advantage and Goins landed a kill to give CCHS set point at 24-20.

The following few minutes produced the best points of the match and it started with the Knights pulling even by scoring four straight points. Webb and Delp combined to give the Lady Cavaliers set point serves at 25, 26 and 27 but James River answered all seven opportunities CCHS had to close out the set and finally prevailed 29-27.

Carroll County trailed in the fourth set 17-13 when Webb and Goins cut the deficit to just two points. But once again the Knights rallied to close out the match with an 8-3 run to seal the 25-18 victory.

Head Coach Cindy Edwards and her team will now wait out the results of the final Regional rankings to see if Carroll County landed in the Top Eight. If they did, the team will have earned a road trip to one of the Top four seeds in the Regional tournament. The format changed this year by  eliminating the play-in games, leaving the #9 and #10 teams on the outside looking in.

Carroll County JV Volleyball closed out its season, falling 2-0 (24-26, 16-25) to James River. The team, led by first year Head Coach Nikki Heflin improved every step of the way this season and the influx of the current Sophomores should create some compelling Varsity practices next fall.

Part of the fund raising highlights included two 5:00 set breaks where the fans could launch a serve for $1.00 in hopes of having it land on a prize on the far side of the court. Denise Webb might need a bigger closet after her haul from the festivities.

Great cause, wonderful crowd energy for the final match that the four Seniors will play at 🏡.