Isaiah Easter and Blake Reed lead the way as Anthony Barnes received his goal of 32 SOLID minutes in the Cavaliers 79 – 61 road victory over Patrick County Thursday night 🌙.

Isaiah Easter at the free throw line against the Cougars ( Photo Credit 📷 Samantha Lark – Smith

Stuart – Isaiah Easter dropped 28 points and an under the weather Blake Reed added 20 points to move Carroll County to 2-0 in the Three Rivers District as the Cavaliers (6-4,2-0) defeated Patrick County Thursday night.

Carroll County hit the ground running, jumping out to leads of 22-10 after one quarter and 47 – 30 at the break. Slow 🐌 starts have hindered the Cavaliers this season but that wasn’t the case against the Cougars and it pleased their Head Coach, Anthony Barnes.

” Finally effort and energy for 32 minutes, I tell them all the time, will that win you every game,” said Barnes. “Absolutely not will it keep you in games yes !” Very thankful we got to go we have had flu and stomach bug running thru our team for a week, which has been rough. Hayden Jackson didn’t even travel with us with still having a fever. Guys stepped up and played there tails off the bench. Got great minutes from (Kyle) Bunn, (Eli) Lark and ( Landon) Kinder and Trace Reavis is playing some really good ball right now on both ends if floor. I’m hard on him but he responds.:”

Easter was again a force, finishing with 28 pts, 9 Reb, 9 assits. The Senior flirted with another Triple Double! ,Freshman Will Motley finished with 15 points after connecting from deep three times, giving the Cavaliers a trio of double figure scorers.

” A really Great TEAM win on the road in our District. It’s always a tough place to play, again we sneak away with W. Very little rest , back at it at home tomorrow verses Pulaski Cougars which no
doubt will push us,” added Barnes.” I challenged the guys to take care of business tomorrow which has big Region senerios for us. Cavs buying in to the task at hand . GO CAVS !”

Carroll County will be playing for the third time this week as they return to The Hill for a Friday night make up contest with Pulaski County High School.

Junior Varsity Head Coach Ryan Phillips and his team will look to bounce back from their 64 – 28 setback against Patrick County. The younger Cavaliers were also playing short handed against the Cougars.

Carroll County (79) – Easter 28, Reed 20, Motley 15, Bunn 6, Reavis 4, Gravley 4, Kinder 2, Lark, Phillips, Leagans.

Obstacles, we aren’t afraid of No Obstacles ! But we had three in the past hour but its times for coverage of 7 games, 6 Hoops + 1 NCAA 🏈🏈🏈

Duke University Women’s Basketball 🏀 leading Cal Bears 🐻42-40 @ Halftime

Opening Jump of Alyssa Ervin and Furman University at East Tennessee State University

So much more to follow…..

Ervin has 5 of the 9-0 run 🏃‍♂️, Paladins off to a great start !!! Duke on the small screen.

End of 1st, Furman 22 – 10 !!!!

Ervin has 10 early in the second, Furman maintaining lead.

In Berkeley, Duke has a rough 3rd quarter, trail by 10 now. Bears 🐻 outscored Duke 24-12 and lead 64-54.

It’s bothersome that they keep calling our Kiddo, Erving instead of Ervin…..

Furman University rolling at the break, up 41 – 28. Ervin with 12…

Duke just went on an 11-2 run and lead 73 -70 with 1:19 left

6:08 Mountain ⛰ Time and Duke caps off a thrilling 78 – 74!!!!!!

Miami 3-0 @6:15 (3)

Back to Furman University

Obstacle #1 – Samantha Lark – Smith is in the Gym where cell service goes to die. Hence, the delay in reporting Cavalier scores.

Ole Miss with a 73 yard TD, lead 7-3

End of 3rd – Furman leads 56 – 48

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JV boys basketball lost 64-28 to Patrick.

Varsity boys won 79-61! We had several guys sick.

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Thank You Mr DeHaven

Alyssa Ervin, no G, hits the Game winner !!!!!! 72 -70 !!!!!

Both Vickie Easter and Samantha Lark – Smith are out of cellphone jail and on their way 🏡 = Cavalier Photos 📷 coming soon !

Lin with the opening jump ball of Utah Tech and California Baptist as I was watching 👀 the end of the Furman University thriller !!!

Vickie Easter with 3 Pics from Varsity !

Miami 17 – 13 Halftime…

Southern Utah 39 – 29 Half

Here in St. George we have a good one, California Baptist leads 32 -31 with 1:39 left in the half.

Trailblazers 37, California Baptist 34 (H)

4 Laps around the inside of Burns Arena gets you 1,500 steps 🚶‍♂️ during halftime !

Bottom picture 📷 is proof that Bill Gallimore was in the 🏠🏚🏡! Godspeed on your journey back to The Hill !

Cal Baptist 57 – 54 after 3rd

It’s final now up in Cedar City

Tie 👔d up at 64 – 64 late here.

Anthony Barnes has made it home 🏡 safely 🙏

Tough moment here as one of our Trailblazers has suffered a serious injury with 1:47 left. Always tough to see at any level. Thoughts and Prayers for her and her family 👪🙏❤

8:46 MT

Made it back just as Ole Miss scored with 3:13 left, taking a 27 – 24 lead. Will get to watch the ending !

Touchdown for the Atlantic Coast Conference with 0:18 seconds left !!!!

9:28 Mountain ⛰ Time and Miami wins 31-27. The ACC went 8-4 in bowl 🥣 games and now will play for the Natty !!!

And they are heading back to play in their 🏡🏟!!!!

Obstacle #2 was a freak snow ❄ storm on the way across the Mountain Pass up to Cedar City. Its a short drive 🚗 up but with serious elevator involved. After the car in front of us slid into the guard rail the decision to hang a U – Turn 8 miles from the Arena.

Obstacle #3 – Patrick County is a Hudl broadcast versus the normal Network.

Next up is to take the 411 from Anthony Barnes and create a Gamer.

Alyssa Ervin will get a feature story on her Night 🌙 and kudos to the Lady 👩 Blue Devils for storming back along way from home. Looking forward to seeing them play at Stanford University on Sunday!

Bill Gallimore is safely 🙏 back on The Hill at 11:42 EST

Final piece of business was to clear 20,000 steps 🚶‍♂️ for the fifth straight Day!

10 : 42 MT, finished our Boys 👦 Varsity gamer and snuck in the Junior Varsity final score.

At 12 : 20 am MT…

The Song 🎵 by Cher, ” If I could turn back time ” wasn’t about Basketball but it fits my thought process after watching our Alyssa Ervin with the ball in her hands with the game on the line Thursday night in Johnson City, Tennessee!!!

Now that’s a wrap !

Exactly how does one prepare for a Six Hoops game night 🌙? By doing a 5K across 95 minutes on a treadmill ! 1,029 calories burned !! 30 minutes until 1st Tipoff…

Let’s watch some Basketball 🏀 X 6

Carroll County JV Boys

Carroll County Varsity Boys

Alyssa Ervin and Furman University

Kira Lawson and her Lady Blue Devils

SUU Lady Thunderbirds

Utah Tech Lady Trailblazers…

Cavaliers heading over to Stuart is the Top Story in the Thursday edition of the Morning 🌄 Brew ! Four Women’s College Basketball games 🏀 will make the evening FUN ! Poem at the end….

Alyssa Ervin and Furman University open Southern Conference play tonight at East Tennessee State University.

Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day :

Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :

1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Tonight sets up as a Hoopsfest with six different games to keep up with. Two in person and four on-line. It will mean passing on the Old Miss – Miami Semi-final game but thankfully ESPN can fill me in on that afterwards.

Kira Lawson and Duke University Women’s Basketball 🏀 playing on the West Coast is exciting and we will get to be there on Sunday when they face Stanford University inside Maples 🍁 Pavillion !

Both local Women’s Basketball teams are playing at Home tonight so its Thunderbirds and Trailblazers time…

The game for Ervin and Furman is a key 🔑 one as the Paladins look to make a statement about their role in the conference race 🏁.

Ryan Phillips and Anthony Barnes will be coaching up our Cavaliers in Stuart…

Ode to Boys 👦 Basketball 🏀 :

The Highlanders came to town

And the game was a Thrill

But Barnes had the troops ready

Allowing the Cavs to defend The Hill

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But that win is yesterdays news

It’s time for the team to head to Cougar Town

Patrick County will be a gracious host