We had six results from last night 🌙 and buried inside the numbers were two items with distinct Family 👪 Ties 👔.

We have the Nester Family and the Harris Family playing today, or should I say last night 🌙…

Veteran Coach Rick Nester coached his Lady 👩 Cavaliers Softball team to a 24 run explosion. It was the highest run total in over a decade. Yet it turns out that it wasn’t the highest score of the evening for the Cavaliers, or even his Family as son Adam Nester led the Junior Varsity team to a 25 run victory back on The Hill. Just saying, the Nester’s had a pretty good night !

  The flip side of 49 runs 🏃‍♂️ is the fact that the Carroll County Girls 👧 Soccer ⚽️ program won 🏆 its opening Varsity match, 1-0. Head Coach Adrienne Harris was able to earn her inaugural victory as her little Sister, Callie, put the biscuit in the basket 🧺 for Carroll County against Pulaski County.

Three victories, 50 total scores and two Families shining in the moment. Priceless.

Casey Burcham also won his initial game last night 🌙 as his Cavaliers broke a 1-1 tie 👔 to defeat Bassett 6-1.

Thursday night 🌙 is a rest day but Friday we will have 8 of our 12 Spring teams competing.

Kudos to the Nester and the Harris family 👪 and all that contributed !

Bassett – Veteran Coach Rick Nester wasn’t sure what to expect from his young team as he started his 41st season and things didn’t start out picture perfect Wednesday night at Bassett. Fortunately his team shook, shook , shook it off and coasted to a 24-9 victory over the host Bengals.

” In the top of the first inning both Addie Greene and Holly Miller hit line shots but both went right at a fielder,” Nester said. ” Then in the bottom of the first inning we went out there and committed three errors. We were fortunate that we held them to just two runs and that is what I told them after the inning. 2-0 was not going to beat us.”

  The defense settled down quickly, adding just one error after the opening inning and the bats were on fire 🔥.

Emma Harman earned her initial Varsity victory in relief of starter Greene. To say that the Junior helped her own cause would qualify as an understatement. At the plate, Harman finished five of five with six RBI’s to lead the 23 hit attack.

Miller lit things up after her loud out in the first inning. The Junior leadoff hitter went four of five, scored five runs and joined Harman in the six RBI club.

Greene and fellow Sophomore Natalie Burress ( 5 runs scored) each collected four base hits and Brooke Webb made the most of her two hits by driving in five runs. Webb delivered a three run double that helped put the Cavaliers on their way to a victory.

Madison Coleman rounded out the pick six of players that collected multiple hits by stroking three base knocks.

Bassett battled back to tie the game at 9-9 in the bottom of the 5th inning but when both teams went to their second pitcher, it was all Cavaliers. Carroll County plated 15 unanswered runs in the final two innings to produce the 24-9 final score.

” Everyone reached base at least one time and eight players scored a run,” added Nester. ” I just asked them to keep playing their game and they certainly did that tonight.”

Waving in 24 runners from the third base coaching box might have Nester icing down his rotator cuff ahead of practice tomorrow. But that is a great problem to have.

Bassett Junior Varsity made the trip to The Hill and earned a 16-6 victory over Carroll County.

Both teams will enjoy one day off before heading up to Dublin on Friday afternoon as Pulaski County is next up on the schedule 📅.

Junior Varsity Girls Soccer ⚽️ fell 5-0 at Pulaski County High

Varsity Soccer ⚽️ wins 1-0 @ Pulaski County.

Junior Varsity Baseball ⚾️ defeated Bassett High 25-0 on The Hill

Varsity Baseball ⚾️ wins 6-1 at Bassett High.

Junior Varsity Softball falls to Bassett 16-6 at Cavalier Park

Varsity Softball scores 15 unanswered to declaw the Bengals, 24-9.

Adrienne Harris will submit recaps in the morning 🌄 about her two games and Casey Burcham submitted his recap earlier.

Just finished up with Rick Nester and we will have a Softball game story shortly.

4-2 on the night 🌙…

Hey Jerry, Game recap from Bassett this afternoon. We won 6-1. Great team effort from the guys. Ben Phillips threw 4 innings striking out four. Colby Goad threw the final 3 innings for the save also striking out 4. Hitting Colby and Peyton Goad each had two hits apiece. Colby, Camden DeHaven, and Cody Reece all drove in runs tonight. As a team we collect 7 stolen bases. All around good team win tonight. Thanks, Casey

Our Athletic Director kept us in the know from first pitch to the final out and you can find those notes 📝 on our day long running 🏃‍♂️ Blog !

Congratulations to Coach Burcham, Coach Combs and their Cavaliers !!!

Casey Burcham is a few years older than Adrienne Harris but the two former Cavalier Student Athletes are linked together tonight as each will make their Head Coaching debuts.

Burcham will climb on the Bus 🚌 and head over to Bassett High School to lead his Varsity Baseball ⚾️ team against the Bengals. Burcham patiently awaited for his opportunity to lead the Hometown Nine for the first time.

Opportunity knocked when another former Cavalier star 🌟 on the Diamond 💎 vacated the position to take over as our schools Athletic Director position. Exit Kevin DeHaven, enter Casey Burcham. The new Ball Coach immediately started to build the program of his dreams and Burcham is off to a flying start!

Waiting your turn is how one can describe the efforts of Burcham. But in regards to Harris it was perfect timing, thanks in part to the efforts of one Ben Tickle. Long time fixture of Carroll County High School is the best way to describe Tickle bridged the one year gap that allowed Harris to step 🚶‍♂️ right in to the Top Spot for the Lady Cavaliers Soccer ⚽️ program.

Like Burcham, Harris didn’t wait long before making her first move by getting the dormat Junior Varsity program.

Tonight the Soccer ⚽️ Bus will head up to Dublin as our Cavaliers take the pitch against Pulaski County.

Debuting tonight is not the lone connection for the duo. Both starred as Wasps during their Collegiate careers and Burcham sits in the Emory and Henry Hall of Fame. Playing from 2003-2006, Burcham left his mark on the baseball program there as well.

Harris headed down to E & H after her playing days on the pitch at Tommy Thompson Field.

Tonight we celebrate two Cavaliers turned Wasps turned Cavalier Leaders! Win, Lose or Draw on the pitch and diamond 💎 tonight, we should celebrate the paths these two are on and enjoy the fact they are here to lead our Youth.

How ’bout these Cavaliers !