Allen Worrell checks ✔ in with a Golden Nugget about Cavalier 🏈🏈🏈🏈!!
Day: November 8, 2025
Brett Petty traveled down to North Carolina Saturday and completed his second HALF Marathon and all of us who are part of Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 are over the Moon 🌙 Proud of him !
Vickey Ritchie checks ✔ in with some Amazing 👏 news as Brett Petty maneuvered his way to the finish line in the Mt Airy Half Marathon !!!
Also in the group photo 📷 is Ari Barr, Vicky Town and his mentor, Justin Ward.
Coach Ritchie ( not pictured ) gets all of the Photo Credits…
Beth Bouldin takes us live in Wytheville, Virginia as the Middle School Girls and Boys Basketball 🏀 teams are set to compete SIX times today ! We will be adding to this as long as possible !!
From Beth :
Good morning from George Wythe High School, it’s tournament day! The Lady Cavaliers are warming up and tip-off at 8am, the boys have arrived and should play at 9am.
Have an awesome day Cavaliers, let’s go ballin!
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Half time, 4-17, Lady Maroons coming in strong with the lead.
Final for Lady Cavs Game 1: 8-36 Lady Maroons
And the boys are off! Let’s go Cavs! 💙🩶🤍
Halftime 18-14, Maroons lead by 4 after a hard battle back by the Cavaliers to close the score gap.
Final for Boys Game 1: 28-23, MaroonsWe’ll be back in action after noon!
Boys tip off Game 2 in 5 minutes to battle with the fellas from Rural Retreat. Let’s go!
Boys Game 2 has begun! Lady Cavs hanging out courtside in support.
Final for Boys Game 2: 34-28 Cavaliers
All Cavalier boys saw court time in game 2
Way to get the hustle boys, stay strong!
Lady Cavs game 2 in progress over in the main gym, tied up at 3-3 in the first half with the Lady Indians.
Halftime for the Ladies, 5-6 Lady Indians lead by 1.
Girls fall a second time but play a much more competitive game!
Each team has one more game to play.
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Game 3 begins in 3 minutes, wrapping up the long day with a face-off with the Fort Chiswell Pioneers.
The ladies are playing their final game in the auxiliary gym next door. Hope to have an update on that later.
Go Cavs, Go! 💙🩶🤍
22-18 at the half for the boys, Cavaliers pushing hard to hold that lead!
Over in the auxiliary gym, the Lady Cavs are in the second half of their 3rd game of the day, rolling past Auburn and adding another basket to make it 29-4. Hold tight Ladies!!
Cavalier boys playing serious defense, holding the lead 37-28, 4:19 left in the contest.
Boys win Game 3 43-34 with Sam Johnson posting the final point to seal it up.
Girls win Game 3 37-11
Way to close it out Cavaliers!
THANKS to Beth Bouldin !!!!!
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Breaking News from the rare sit down interview with Kris Richardson : The life of a Middle School Athletic Director hijacked our conversation..
Thursday afternoon, before the Basketball 🏀 doubleheader against Galax Middle School 🏫, I had the rare opportunity to break bread 🍞 with Kris Richardson. The highlight of the 75 minutes came when we were discussing the efforts of Mrs Kayla Nester.
First things first, Kayla has a really nice Mother-in-law, terrific parents in Scotty and Patti Goins and loving & supportive Husband. Three neat little ones that are the love of her life ! Neat little Sister too.
My unofficial job here is to seek out the people who are going above and beyond for others. Identify them, applaud them and assist them in way that I have the means to do.
I am a HUGE fan of Kayla Nester as she is a younger version of Brandi Cochran Mitchell. Basketball in College, raced back to The Hill to set up shop, raise a family 👪 and help others. Priceless !
My concern for Kayla is that she might be going at a pace too fast to maintain. That’s when Kris shared his take on what it is like to have her as an Athletic Director.
” Attention to detail, constant communication and understanding what her role is as AD. Couldn’t ask for a better situation as a Head Coach.”
Teacher, Mother of 3, Wife, Big Sister, Daughter, Assistant Coach for Varsity Volleyball 🏐 and Basketball 🏀, Middle School 🏫 Athletic Director are just some of the tasks that this young Lady 👩 is currently working on !
#RoleModel
Keep up the Amazing work Ma’am and know that wee see you and appreciate your love for Carroll County !
Notes 📝
Yes – that was an intentional dig at our friend, Rick Nester by omitting his name.
NO – I did NOT call Brandi Old, just older than Kayla!
Let’s call 📞 this one the story about an old guy trying hard to help out a less old guy who’s trying hard to fill in for a departed third Guy 👦…
David Broyles was set to retire and spend the rest of his life with his lovely Bride 👰. We even celebrated his retirement back on September 13th at Cavalier Park.
The common threads between David and myself is our love for our Wives and the folks at Duke University Medical Center 🚑 who take care of said Wives.
Allen Worrell left the Carroll News a while back and because the Newspaper 📰 business, where I have spent the past 50 years, is on its last leg 🦵there wasn’t a line of people knocking down the door to takeover.
David agreed to postpone his happily ever after for a minute or two, and I couldn’t just leave him there to drown. See, Allen Worrell had a skill set that allowed him to create a newspaper each week. I’m not sure if people understand just how much of a Skill Set it takes to do his job and that’s not something that David had nor desired to have, yet here we are.
For years, it was Allen doing the job and David was his Plucky Sidekick, keeping his spirits lifted while writing ✍ some stories along the way.
Now, David is stuck trying hard to play the role of Allen, so now I’m trying to be his Plucky Volunteer/ Unpaid 🙋♀️ Sidekick.
Caring ❤ as much as I do about people and their situations is a double edged sword. David is tired and I’m tired so we are going to borrow from Eli Manning to solve our troubles.
Now sadly, if you don’t know the reference this won’t be hilarious to you.
We are going to go ” Chad Powers ” and bring back Allen Worrell disguised as Chad Powers. It’s a great plan and we have already placed the order for all of the make-up needed to pull it off !
Breaking News : Chad Powers hired on as the new Editor for The Carroll News ! Starting soon at a Main Street office 🏢 near you !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 