Darian Brown and his Middle School 🏫 Basketball team took a season ending curtain call last night at Blacksburg, allowing us to Celebrate the season as a whole !

Coach Brown and Coach Reitzel ➕ 15 eager Cavaliers !

The final score last night was 34 – 10 in favor of the host Bruins, leaving the team with an 8-11-3 mark over the whirlwind season. The highlight of the effort was a Consolation bracket victory up in Wytheville and Grant Reed draining seven 3-pointers at Rural Retreat.

Samantha Reed sent me the book once again so we will show the 10 points scored by Carroll County :

Sam Johnson 5, Gibson Barr 2, Trenton Poe 2 and Caleb Hill 1.

Last night the four eighth graders were in the starting lineup and the entire roster saw action 🎬. Beth Bouldin went out of her way to try and capture each member of the team in a Photo 📷.

Two things remain before we call 📞 this one finished. I will now send it to both Darian Brown for his thoughts and the same for Beth Bouldin – thoughts and other pics that she wishes to add.

Anthony Barnes was fired up when he was describing his new young Coach to me before the season started and after two months, I will say that he’s All That !

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From the pen 🖊 of Beth Bouldin

What an awesome season it was! To have a fresh new middle school AD, 2 brand new groups, 4 incredibly knowledgeable leaders in the coaching positions, and a plethora of personalities and talent levels, these CCMS Cavaliers have really shown us a sunshine spotlight on the future of the basketball programs ahead.

Thank you again for the opportunity to share photos and score highlights of both teams. I’m ever so grateful for a community and school faculty and staff that supports the young Cavs on both the athletic and academic levels.

So much respect to every single person that had a hand in making this season special. The breath of fresh air has been much needed and our children will someday be able to look back on these days and know they come from somewhere spectacular.

It’s always a great day to be a Cavalier! Let’s go Cavs!! 💙🤍

Last night 🌙 in Blacksburg we said our Goodbyes to a Non-Stop ✋ couple of months ( – the weather) for Kris Richardson and his Carroll County Middle School 🏫 Girls 👧 Basketball 🏀 team

The record might look something like 6-13-3 for the MS Lady 👩 Cavaliers but those numbers simply don’t reflect the progress that was made over the past couple of months.

The final game ended with an 18 -14 setback in the one makeup game that was slated after the team suffered four straight Snowed out games. On the road in Blacksburg was how the curtain closed on Year #1 of what we could call 📞 ” The Next Generation “

First, let’s share the thoughts of the Head Coach :

Kris is already creating ways to improve as I type this out. It’s the life that driven people live, our burden to carry!

One more THANK YOU to Beth Bouldin 🙏 for providing the Photos 📷 that helped us document Kris and the Girls 👧

One more THANK YOU to Mr Bowman for his assistance with the team uniforms !

Thank You to Kayla Nester for being a wonderful Athletic Director ❤ for the program and for Martin McKenzie for stepping up at the Home 🏡 games !

Update on the Paul Nester Family 👪 Tree 🌳 of Coaches : it turns out that there is even one more branch on it !

FYI Paul has another grandson coaching, Brogan Phillips 8th grade girls basketball at Ft. Chiswell..

Thank You goes to Donna Nester’s husband for bringing me this information 💁‍♀️!

Brogan Phillips – 8th grade / Middle School Girls at The Fort…

Ryan Phillips – Boys 👦 Junior Varsity Basketball at Carroll County High School

Rick Nester ( Donna’s Husband) Softball Coach at Carroll County High School

Adam Nester – Head Coach of Junior Varsity Baseball ⚾️ at Carroll County High School

Kayla Goins Nester – Athletic Director at Carroll County Middle School & Assistant Coach of Volleyball 🏐 and Girls Basketball 🏀

Kris Richardson, like Kayla, married into the Family 👪..Girls 👧 Middle School 🏫 Basketball Coach…

We are thankful 🙏 for the efforts of Paul Nester in so many ways !

Boys 👦 Gamer in the Books 📚 so let’s switch over to our Morning 🌄 Brew as we can look forward to Carroll County versus Galax and Alyssa Ervin ➕ Furman University down in Charleston, South Carolina

Travis Osborne with his Bible Verse 🙏 of the Day :

Howard Mayo with his Motovational Nugget will appear here shortly.

2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

Still looking for more on the final day of the Middle School 🏫 Basketball season that took place last night. Once I have everything from the Coaches we will format the two final stories.

Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌!

Cavalier fans and team experience a gauntlet of emotions as Carroll County falls 79 – 73 at Christiansburg on Thursday night 🌙.

Christiansburg – Late in the third quarter of Thursday nights game at Christiansburg, Head Coach Anthony Barnes looked up at the scoreboard to see his team trailed 57 – 38 and then fast Forward to the 79 – 73 final score to understand just how much Basketball was played over the final ten minutes of action 🎬.

Colton Gravley scored nine of his 23 points in the final stanza and Isaiah Easter netted seven of his team high 24 points in the same window, as the duo led a furious comeback down the stretch.

Barnes has been coaching too long to be counting moral victories but if he wanted to, this one would fall into that category. Down 19 points and playing on the road turning into having a good look at a 3-pointer to pull within one at 77-73 is the definition of finishing strong 💪.

Now with the Cavaliers sitting at 2-2 on the season, Barnes took a hard look at the six point setback to the Blue Demons.

” We let this one slip away, this will sting a few days. 62% of all high school games are decided by free- throws, we were 6-18 33%, turnovers 10 and missing when finishing layups. We had a great practice yesterday shooting the ball very well, great energy, had a good game plan, pulling him out of his trap , but flat just left most of it at free throw line.”

Blake Reed added seven of his 16 points during the 29 point fourth quarter explosion and freshman Will Motley netted a pair of 3 – pointers as part of his eight point night. 29 points across eight minutes would translate to 145 points in a college Basketball game. Credit the defensive side of the court for creating instant offense for the Cavaliers.

” Defensively we still getting beat off dribble drive , and offensively we are settling too quick. Our game is attacking down hill and we did into the 4th quarter, but as you well know that 8 min good looking good out of 24 min not playing well is not enough.”

Barnes received solid minutes from fifth starter, Trace Reavis (2 points) as well as Landon Kinder, Kyle Bunn and Eli Lark off the bench. This gives much needed quality floor time for a team that will continue to grow as the year plays out.

It was a comeback that fell short at the end but if it hadn’t, folks would have been talking about it by the water cooler for decades to come. When the season started the question was who could step up and provide offense in support of Easter ? We might have found the answer to that one tonight and seeing it play out against the Maroon Tide later today should be fun.

” I was pleased with effort and energy,and fight but we gotta clean up on both ends of the floor to get train back on track, ” added Barnes. ” We are no where near our potential yet with this group. We will continue working, pushing and improving and hopefully get our shot back. No rest for the guys or my staff , turn around to face next door rival in Galax tomorrow! Times are moved to 4:30 tip for jv and 6:00 for Varsity.”

Christiansburg captured the Junior Varsity game 83 – 45 and as Coach Barnes eluded to, Head Coach Ryan Phillips and his team will open the show Friday night at 4:30 at Galax

Carroll County 13. 14. 17. 29 – 73

Christiansburg 18 15. 25 21 – 79