Photo 📷 Credit : Ethan Edwards

Looking back at the Girls 👧 Soccer ⚽️ Senior Night, I wanted to share a handful of stories about four people, three that were in the stands for the Ceremony and the match.

#1 – Mama Petty…. the process of preparing the lengthy script for the Soccer team was running behind schedule because 60 minutes earlier I was trying hard to assist Martin McKenzie with his Senior Day event.

Scrambling hard to play catch up, my Cellphone 📱 lit up and it was a call from Mrs P. She was reaching out to me on behalf of Mr David Boatman, the Father of Alexis Boatman. Dad had a fun fact about his Kiddo ( Senior Assisasian Champ 🏆 2025). This made me smile during a stressful time because it was one Senior parent who was watching out for another Senior parent.

Thank You Ma’am !

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This one should make Marion Harris smile 😃! Mr Bill Gallimore was in The House as well.

Our resident Cavalier Super Fan attended his very first Carroll County High School 🏫 Soccer match!

Bill was kind enough to ✔ in with his thoughts on his maiden voyage…

” We finally made it to a soccer game and we enjoyed it good to see everyone do the work that made it happen. Surprised me how fast the game moves along. Wish they could have scored but looked like a well played game. You guys did a great job from the press box also.”

Thanks for coming out Bill ! More free Soccer ⚽️ next week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights 🌙

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We will call 📞 this one about an older Brother, a Wise Man and a young Man with unlimited potential. You noticed the photo above being credited to Senior Ethan Edwards, here’s that back story.

Allen Worrell had brought me a copy of this week’s Carroll News and when I finished reading the Senior Day script I glanced down at the front page to notice the story about Ethan Edwards getting excepted into Harvard University!

This lead me to create a quick post 📫

I knew that Ethan Edwards was going places!!!! Didn’t know that it would be Harvard !!!

I sent the link to Ethan, Dr Oliver McBride and my older brother, Wayne Carter in Sellersburg, Indiana.

All three took the time to send me a response with Ethan sending me a pic of the Press Box that I was announcing from to let me know he was in the stands.

Next one came from Wayne:

Going to Harvard & the young man has chops! Thank you 🙏 for sharing the good news 🗞️

For that one to make sense, I need to share quite possibly my most cherished moment since arriving in Laurel Fork almost five years ago.

During our Town Hall meeting on education back at our Annual Banquet, about 15 minutes in, Dr McBride leaned over to me and whispered, ” This young Man has Chops.”

Turning to Shannon Dalton in hopes of her convincing Ethan to not only participate in my panel but to lead it, created a moment that I will never forget.

The third response came from Dr McBride :

” Proud of Ethan and excited for his opportunity!!! He is an example of the potential that lies within the students in Carroll County!!! Our responsibility along with parents is to provide them opportunity. For our students whose families may not provide the encouragement needed, our responsibility is to help them discover what lies within and help them discover what is possible.”

Ethan Edwards is the poster child for why there’s an A at the front of our ASPN. Such an impressive young man that is on his way to making Carroll County High School a player in the Ivy League 👏.

The Podcast !

https://theridgepodcast.com/podcast/88-oneofus-care-banquet-education-panel-mrs-dalton-dr-burnette-dr-mcbride-mr-carter/

It’s been nine days since Rookie Head Coach Adam Nester has been able to play a baseball game. His team sits at 15-1 with two games remaining on the calendar.

There will be no post season tournament this year, no #1 versus #2 showdown so the regular season Champs are the only Champs the District will have in 2024-2025.

Saturday afternoon and Tuesday evening are the final two contests remaining and the Cavaliers are sitting with a magic number of one. The Knights and the Bobcats are both set to visit Bill Worrell Field and CCHS owns a victory over both of the teams already. It’s worth noting that the battle with the Knights up in Buchanan was a nail 💅 bighter.

The unprecedented success under the guidance of previous Coach, Steve Combs left Nester with BIG shoes 👞 to fill. Combs closed out his reign with five straight crowns 👑 but the latest edition has not missed a beat. Mother Nature has proven to be the biggest challenge this Spring as the team has lost more games by not getting to play than they have on the actual Diamond.

Today at 4:00 pm is the slated time for the First Pitch !

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to Coach Nester, his staff and the players on their latest team victory lap ! Congratulations to Head Varsity Coach, Casey Burcham for the Spring as a whole.

There was considerable doubt that Cavalier Park could hold anymore rain 🌧 yesterday afternoon as we were trying to host Magna Vista. We have our answer this morning and its time to declare that Mother Nature is one tough out.

Athletic Director Kevin DeHaven will work with the good folks up in Buchanan in hopes of getting this one back on the schedule early next week.

  The Baseball ⚾️ doubleheader at Bill Worrell Field is still on as of this minute and if that changes we will let you know.

Adam Nester has his lineup card ready for the game with James River High School 🏫.

Just over 90 minutes from start time.

Over the past few years its been nothing short of a Blast to team up with Head Coach Rick Nester in our efforts to give Cavalier Park a Church ⛪ Picnic type of environment.

A few years back, our Press Box team ( Kevin Burress, Tammy Tobler and new cast member, Macie Adkins added a nightly tribute to Veterans and Active Duty soldiers. We end the half inning with the show of respect by playing as much of Lee Greenwood’s Anthem.

Everyone has their own count of branches of the Services with the actual number being seven.

Army, Air Force, Air National Guard, Coast Guard, Marines, Navy and Space Force.

Our First Pitch will match the Seven with Seven. In a perfect world 🌎 we could have all seven branches. We came pretty close as we have four of them covered.

My own history with the Military runs very deep. My Father was career Navy, one of my Brothers was and I enlisted myself but the fact they couldn’t find a way to correct my injury, ended my stay. The third generation connection comes in the form of one of my three Sons being active duty in the Air Force.

Kevin Burress will be representing our Marine Corps. Our love for All-Things Military made this one an absolute No-Brainer. Naturally, we still needed the Blessings of Coach Nester to orchestrate the event.

Head Football Coach Seth Greer will represent our Navy with Justin Haga taking care of the Air Force.

Mark Thompson, Rick Carlson, Vickey Ritchie each spent time serving our Country in the Army. Current Carroll County High School Wrestling Coach West Long is the seventh Veteran to receive an invitation to participate.

The two most famous words in Carroll County this week are ” Weather Permitting” and this afternoon is no different. We plan on holding the First Pitch just before our 4:00 pm start time.