Less than 48 hours removed from not having enough healthy bodies to play at Magna Vista, Carroll County shows plenty of spunk in 52-40 setback versus Mt Airy Saturday night. All part of our Cavalier Christmas Basketball 🏀 Classic !!

The Hill – Carroll County High School 🏫 hosted Day 1 of a 2 Day Christmas 🎄 tournament on Saturday with four games being played.

Here’s a link to the story on the Junior Varsity team and its 31-3 victory over the Granite Bears 🐻.

Carroll County JV Girls 👧 Basketball 🏀 roll over Mount Airy in their Christmas 🎄 tournament opener, 31 -3.

Pulaski County High School swept its two games against Grayson County with the Varsity game turning into an overtime thriller. The teams were tied 71 – 71 before the Cougars pulled away for an 82 – 74 victory. The JV Cougs defeated the Blue Devils 21 -14 in the opener.

The four teams will switch partners on Monday with Carroll County playing Grayson County and Mount Airy facing Pulaski County.

Mt Airy 52, Carroll County 40

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Mt Airy   15   13  7  17 – 52

CCHS        7    11  9  13 – 40

Carroll County (40) – Aaliyah Hampton 11, Raylee Goins 8, Madison Coleman 7, Callie Harris 6, Bree Campbell 3, Laynie-Jo Leonard 3, Kenzie Young 2, CC Mitchell.

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The Lady 👩 Cavaliers have eight available players and 50% of them were recovering from a flu bug. Aaliyah Hampton led a balanced attack with a team high 11 points but the team simply could not dig all of the way out of the early hole.

Veteran Coach Howard Mayo was able to point out the areas where his team will look to improve.

” We lost a tough game tonight 52-40,” said Mayo. ” We had moments were we played well but we also didnt always take advantage our our scoring opportunities. We were 5-19 from free line. We only hit 1 three pointer and for our team to play up to it potential we got to make open 3’s. We will get a chance to get better Monday.”

The Lady Cavaliers used a 6 – 0 run in the third quarter to trim the deficit down to single digits at 35 – 27 with just over two minutes to play. The score remained the same for a long stretch after Harris netted all six of her points during the stretch. Coleman pushed the run to 8-0 with a layup to cut ✂️ the lead to six but that was as close as CCHS would get.

Hopefully everyone 🙏 will be closer to full strength on Monday as Carroll County will face a high octane offense on Monday night 🌙.

The 3 – Day event actually started on Friday with games being played in both Gyms.

Teams that are playing over the three days :

Narrows
Carroll County
Radford
Pulaski County
North Wilkes (NC)
Mt Airy (NC)
Grayson County

** Graham dropped out and so we only play two games instead of three

Three Photos 📷 from Velvet Leonard !!