It’s Regional Meet Day for Head Coach Shawn Montgomery and his Cross Country Race 🏁 teams. The group will head out here in a bit, heading across Lovers Leap to Smith River Soccer ⚽️ Complex.

We look forward to hearing from Coach later today with the results.

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Day #1 of the newly expanded MAC FH tournament is set to begin with a pair of games up in Ohio. #3 versus #6 and #4 versus #5.

The Top Two seeds await the winners 🏆. James Madison University, Appalachian State University and Miami of Ohio each finished the regular season at 7-1. Miami dropped to third in the tiebreaker and will open play in Oxford by hosting #6 Ohio University.

Appalachian State will need two victories here to advance to the NCAA Tournament. It is also worth noting that the team who wins the event gets to host the tournament the following year.

Closing note 📝 from the Volleyball 🏐 season.

It was fun listening to Marion Harris describe his initial visit to Chapel Hill. It took place over the weekend as Dad 👨 and Daughter (Callie) returned from Apex where the Travel Soccer ⚽️ team that Callie plays on was competing.

Without a doubt, spending time on a College Campus is an Awesome Day. I guess that I’m still trying to make up for the fact that I missed out way back when.

Chapel Hill is a special place and they have a similar building code to Hilton Head Island 🗿🏝. So glad that Marion Harris was able to create a new memory and that he had one of his Kiddos to share it with !

Get out there and have yourself a Blessed Day !

Head Coach Cindy Edwards and her Volleyball 🏐 team are finishing up their latest bonding efforts here in Dublin.

6:00 pm is 1st serve and we will pick this back up then…

Welcome 🙏 to the 🏡 of the Blue Demons 😈.

There’s that Bus 🚌 again ! 75 minutes until 1st serve !

The Gentleman 🕴️👏on your Left is an Excellent Driver ! The one on the right is the new Athletic Director for the Blue Demons…

5:20 PM – We are getting closer to the Clock ⏰ starting the countdown!

Final night 🌙 for Our Lolly Pop Mama ????

Carroll County 4-0, 5-1!!!

1st TO CC, down 10-7…

Trailing 18-11, 20-11 (2nd TO)

6:28 – 1st Set Final, 25-14, Blue Demons

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Set #2 :

10 Points, CHS 6, CCHS 4

20 Points, CHS 12, CCHS 8

30 Points, CHS 18-12

Carroll County TO, down 19-12

Set #2, Blue Deamons 25-13 (6:50)

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Set #3 – 10 points, CHS 6, CCHS 4

20 Points – CHS 12, CCHS 8

1st CC TO – Down 15-8

30 Points – CHS 21-9

40 Points – CHS 24 – 16

Gamer to follow later…. will get it to Allen Worrell at The Carroll News…

http://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2024/11/driven-search-is-on-for-people-of-all.html

         The search is on for people with a passion and desire to accomplish something despite the facts or logic stating that it should be happening.

   We are all trying hard to be the best version of ourselves. The World 🌎 is full of challenges and we want to take the people that are showing us the way and put them in the forefront.

  Do you have an ability that you can share with others, something that another person can use to help them get through a similar situation ?

   We have some great examples of these types of people all around us. The challenge is finding the ones that are comfortable stepping up and leading others.

  Everyone has an opportunity to create an environment that breeds Hope !

The past four years has flown by in certain ways yet feels like a lifetime in others.

First things First, each of the programs that we have been following / supporting this Fall has some unfinished business and we will happily stay with them until the are all done playing their schedules.

Carroll County High School 🏫 Varsity Volleyball 🏐 is set to play Tuesday night in the Region Quarterfinals at Christiansburg with first serve being planned for 6pm.

Carroll County Cross Country still has their Regional meet left and we will remain alongside Head Coach Shawn Montgomery until the final runner 🏃‍♂️ has completed their final race 🏁.

Appalachian State University Field Hockey 🏑 has moved into their Post Season play and the team will now play in the MAC tournament on November 6th, 7th and 8th. The event will take place in Ohio.

Duke University 🏈🏈🏈 sits at 6-3 with three more regular season games and a Bowl 🥣 game yet to play. At NCSU, vs Va Tech, at Wake Forrest and then to a Bowl destination during December.

The common denominator with each of these is that I have completed ALL of my Announcing assignments. Now its just about showing support from the sidelines.

The sole place left I might be holding a 🎤🎙🎤 is at Basketball 🏀 with Coach Vickey Ritchie.

There are hundreds of tweaks to the process that will be talked about here before too long. But the first piece of Business is to wrap up the seasons in hand ✋.

The Goal is no longer to try and throw a blanket of coverage over the entire County or even for the entire High School / Middle School. It’s unrealistic to accomplish such a thing in a place that is running 🏃‍♂️ at Top Speed in a non-stop manner.

The Goal is to try and work with people that want to be worked with. Still looking to help give a Voice to folks that might not get it otherwise.

Looking forward to continuing down our Chosen Path of the Road Less traveled. Looking forward to supporting those that could use the support.

It’s Monday morning 🌄 ahead of what promises to be a monumental Tuesday. For those of you that Pray 🙏, Please say one about Wednesday morning.

Christiansburg High School 🏫 at 6pm on Tuesday !

We went 1-1 on Saturday only allowing one goal!!! Sunday morning game at 8AM was a must win!!!! Teams battled for 55 mins still 0-0, the surge gets on the board and it will hold for a 1-0 win.

The other side of the bracket did not play until 11 so we waited around to see if we would play in the finals or in the consolation game!!! The team we beat yesterday beat the team we lost to and that put our team into the finals!!!

In the finals we ran into a team that was on fire, they had a player that is going D1 in the fall of 2025!! We fell in the finals but came away with 2nd place!!!

We appreciate Marion Harris sharing an update on a Youth Soccer ⚽️ Travel program.