The Long Drive πŸš— back to The Hill is taking place for many of us right now and its terrific to see πŸ‘€ how many are checking back in, even after a mixed bag of results !

Dakota and his race 🏁 team from Sophia, Jon Delp from Emory and Henry, Vickey Ritchie from Lexington and Kristy Jones from Virginia Beach ⛱️ βž•οΈ Lin and I from Sophia and mentally by way of Portsmouth, Ohio.

I’m not sure that any of us had the exact day that we had hoped for, yet each of us still had a story to tell.

We live in a society where many people are willing to judge the value of an experience by whether or not you won the prize. Nobody in this group won πŸ† a prize today but still had a story they wanted to tell.

While Adrienne Harris McGuire might not have had to drive back from out of town tonight but she still shared a story about her kiddos losing a match 1-0 on Friday night in a heartbreaking manor.

Everyone is interested in talking when they were on the winning side of the scoreboard, but not as much when it doesn’t.

Today, the college baseball ⚾️ team that I’m partly responsible for played a game that we lost 16-2 after the home team broke a 2-2 tie with 14 unanswered runs. Wow, would that have been an easy one to just glaze over.

Rough bottom of the fifth inning derailed our Golden Bears 🐻 but we will lace them up again tomorrow !

Still proud of the hard working Student Athletes who wear our colors, even when it’s not our day.

Nobody else lost 16-2, but others faced challenges, and they still are proud of the folks they believe in. Their stories will follow…

Carroll County Middle School 🏫 Track and Field more than held their own in a monster sized event !!!

Individual results still to come !

Congratulations on the strong showing !!!


Individual Results

Girls High Jump 

Polly Beamer   1st     4-0
Audrey Carico   3rd     3-6
Haleigh Smith   4th      3-6
Bailee Goad   Attempted

Girls Discus

Ava Choate   7th  30-0

Girls Shot     

Ava Choate   7th  18-9

Girls Long Jump

Audrey Carioc  11th  9-6

Girls 1600

Polly Beamer   8th  7:13.71
Alexis Ponce   11th 7:50.33
Morgan Weatherman  12th  9:07.86

Girls 600

Aliza Graf  9th   2:50.04
Morgan Weatherman  10th  2:53.67

Girls 100 Hurdles

Kierra Robinson   4th  22.48
Amanda Larrowe  7th  23.52
Natalia Lopez     8th  23.52
Alexis Felts       10th   24.53

Girls  100

Audrey Carico   12th  17.31
Haleigh Smith   17th   17.59
Aleigha Hendrick  19th  17.85

Girls 4 x 200 Relay  3rd  2:12.71

Kambry Hodge, Hayden Bond, Natalia Lopez, Kierra Robinson

Girls 4 x 100 Relay  3rd  1:07.22

Hailey Smith, Amanda Larrowe, Kambry Hodge, Alexis Felts

Girls 400

Kierra Robinson    12th  1:18.57
Kambry Hodge    18th   1:26.51
Hadli Strickland  22nd    1:35.66

Girls 800

Annie Marshall 7th  3:18.64
Bailee Goad   8th   3:19.05
Alexis Ponce  13th 3:33.00
Aliza Graf     Attempted

Girls 200  

Haleigh Smith   14th  35.99
Alexis Felts     20th   37.80
Hayden Bond   21st   38.52
Aleigha Hendrick  23rd  38.39

Girls 4 x 400 Relay   2nd  5:31.50

Polly Beamer, Bailee Goad, Annie Marshall, Alexis Ponce

Boys Discuss

Toren Henley   5th  71-6
Joseph Tucker 6th  68-0
Colton Marshall 12th  39-11

High Jump

Toren Henley   5th  3-8
Ezarah Booker  6th  3-8

Shot Put

Ezarah Booker   5th  26-10
Toren Henley     6th   25-10
Colton Marshall  11th  18-9

Long Jump

Roscoe Dalton  2nd  13-2.5
Colton Marshall 5th  10-7.5

1600

Mason Ponce  17th  6:15.95
Sylas Nissel   18th   6:16.14
Isaac Chambers  20th  6:19.21

600

Sylas Nissel   6th  2:04.35
Will Sandstrom 16th  2:17.56

100 Hurdles

Ezarah Booker  5th   21.30
Keandre Small  6th  28.58

100 Meter

Eli Hardy   8th  14.27
William Swecker  10th  15.53
Westyn Jones  12th  15.75

4 x 200 Relay  2nd  2:12.26

Tymas Nissel, Keandre Small, Joseph Tucker, Eli Hardy

4 x 100 Relay     1st  57.22

Roscoe Dalton, Toren Henley, Ezarah Booker, Eli Hardy

400 Meter

Will Sandstrom  17th  1.22.29

800 Meter

Isaac Chambers  12th  2:42.93
Mason Ponce     14th  2:47.42
Roscoe Dalton   17th  2:51.06
Sylas Nissel    22nd 2:55.01

200

William Swecker  7th  31.94
Westyn Jones   8th   33.60
Keandre Small  13th  36.03
Tymas Nissel  14th  36.57

4 x 400 Relay   6th  4:51.18

Mason Ponce, Isaac Chambers, Colton Marshall, Roscoe Dalton



Shawn Montgomery
Social Studies Teacher
Carroll County High School

Adrienne Harris McGuire checks βœ”οΈ in with her thoughts about week #1 for the Varsity Girls Soccer ⚽️ program !

Week 1 of Games Recap First game of the year ended in a win for the girls! The first half you could tell there was a lot of first game jitters.

    The girls had many opportunities on goal, but they were unable to put one in the back of the net. In the second half, it only took the girls a little over a minute to put the ball into the back of the net! It all started with a quick restart. We had a quick throw-in to Callie Harris that allowed her to be able to drive down the sideline and put a cross into the box. Alisia Torres Lopez made a front post run and finished Callie’s cross with a one-touch volley into the top of the net. Around 9 minutes later, we drew a foul at the top of the 18-yard box. Alisia Torres Lopez tapped the ball to Callie Harris at the top of the box, and Callie Harris scored it far post to make it 2-0. About 2 minutes later, Savannah Swecker and Callie Harris had a nice 1-2 combination to each other that beat the Galax defense and led to them fouling us in the box. Callie Harris put away the Pk to make it 3-0. The girls did a great job stepping up after halftime. On our defensive side, Jackie Arellano-Torres has really stepped up for us at the center back position! She has transitioned well for us there this year. Last year, she mainly played in the midfield for us, but due to graduating 3 defenders last year, we had to move her back into the defense.

    She has stepped right in and has become a leader for us on the back line! Alexis Sheffey also added another shutout to her career! Yesterday was a hard fought game in terrible weather conditions. We lost to Pulaski 0-1. We were unable to get our offense going. Pulaski’s goal was an unfortunate bounce for us in our box that went in. We will be ready for the rematch at the beginning of May.

Thank you, Coach !

The Lady Cavaliers return to the Pitch Wednesday night at Patrick County High School 🏫.

Boogity, Boogity, Boogity – Let’s go racing 🏁! Saturday evening with our Dakota Walls Racing at Caraway Speedway…

Proud to be a small part of the support team at Dakota Walls Racing !

Here, until we rev up the engines and as Waltrip would say, Let’s Go Racing !!!!

More 2 Follow !!!

5 : 45 – 25 Lap legends race 🏁 has concluded… #24 – Joel Smith takes the checkered flag.

Up next – Bandilaros division – 15 Laps

Three cars πŸš— in the race – winner – is Charlie Evans.

Fun moment as the track announcer stopped by and did a quick interview with Lin and I. This allowed us to add a chance to plug our Boy πŸ‘¦ to the crowd !

New Car πŸš— division is on deck. Big field for this one ! 20 cars πŸš—… starting at 6:11, 15 laps. Wreck on opening lap. 2nd caution ⚠️ on Lap 7….6:34 – #26 takes the checkered flag…

602 Modified is next ( 35 Laps) – Green flag for the four cars πŸš— at 6:46 pm

Caution ⚠️ on 1st Lap, sad πŸ˜” face. 2nd caution ⚠️ on 7th lap (6:50) 7:01 end

Winner πŸ†πŸ₯‡David Green

Late Models are set to run 99 laps, which looks like 12 cars πŸš— in the field.

Green flag at 7 : 11 pm, then restart at 7:13

For those of you wondering where Caraway Speedway is located.

Caution ⚠️ on Lap 11 (7:17), again on Lap 12 (7:22). Stayed green πŸ’š until Lap 68. The Sun has set, and the temperature 🌑is dropping rapidly. The checkered flag at 7:56 goes to #70

35 Laps for the Chargers !!!!!

8:03 pm, and it’s almost showtime !!!

13 cars πŸš—….getting ready to roll, and it appears that we will start in 7th

Two things already, Dakota had to hit Pit Road to remove the hood, putting him in 13th, but then we had a first lap caution ⚠️ so he has made some ground back up.

Off the track on Lap #13 /35

Will wait to hear from Dakota about what went wrong with the car πŸš—.

8:30 – Checkered Flag

Time to head back to the Cows πŸ„