They tell me that a single Photograph can be worth 1,000 words, this one screams about the size of Floyd County Middle School Boys 👦 Basketball as week 3 of the season concluded Thursday night on The Hill…

Captains Meeting – Photo 📷 Credit : Beth Bouldin.

  Floyd County came to town Thursday night and both the Boys and Girls teams raced out to lightning 🌩 fast starts and never looked back. The Cavalier teams will now look to catch their breath after playing 11 times in the opening 3 weeks.

Kris Richardson and his Girls opened the double header against the visiting 🐃🐃🐃 squad and Coach takes us inside the night 🌙.

” Tough loss again tonight. We could have given up after they jumped up 12-0. We hung tough the rest of the 1st half and never gave up. Second half jitters got to us late in the 3rd quarter. After multiple turnovers, they started to pull away. I’m proud of their resilience. I keep starting different lineups to see if we can get a spark.

   We will keep fighting and hopefully learn from our mistakes. It also hurts that Zari Cushman has missed all 3 games this week with concussion symptoms. Praying for a speedy recovery for her.”

The final score was 39-16 (20-5 at the half) and the bonus quarter went to Carroll County by a score of 9-4.

Tuesday evening is the next time that CCMS will return to action 🎬 as the Cavaliers head over to Patrick County to face the Cougars.

Boys 👦 Game : Darian Brown coaches 15 hard nosed future Cavaliers and they play with a great deal of energy for all 24 minutes across a game. Gritty, determined,passionate, defensive minded are all ways one could describe the 6-5 Cavaliers. What the team lacks in size, they simply out hustle their opponent, but they struggled Thursday night versus the mass of the Buffaloes.

54-19 was the final score as Floyd County netted 27 points in each of the halves. The fifth quarter played to a 9-9 ,draw to end the evening.

I’m still hoping 🙏 to add some more information on the Boys game and get the thoughts of Coach Brown later today.

Coach Brown checks in with his thoughts on the night 🌙,

”  Those guys were big! I’m a tall guy and never did I think I would be looking up to players while coaching middle school. Their starting 5 was bigger than our varsity but our guys didn’t back down. We battled the whole game and that’s what I’m most proud of. I think they ran away with it when the Harman kid drained 3 threes in the third. It’s moments like those that we have to get better at preventing.

We are going to bounce back next week and try to go 3-0 through another tough week of games.”

Thank You Coaches !