Category: Carroll County High School

Carroll County High School 🏫 🏊‍♂️ team participated in a HUGE meet on Saturday and we have Shannon Dalton to explain just how HUGE…

Today’s swim meet was one of the biggest ones we have all year. Thirty-six teams from Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee..

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For example, in Men’s 50 Free, there were 120 entries. The women had 176 slated to compete.

So, a 6th place finish for the men is an outstanding result on the day !

Individual Results :

Individual Results:Britt Berrier: 50 Free 54th, PRMatthew Bissonnette: 50 Free, 51st, PR; 100 Back, 30th, PRBradley Dalton: 200 IM, 4th; 500 Free, 5th

Ethan Edwards: 200 Free, 15th; 100 Fly, 15thLandon Lintecum: 98th, 50 Free, PRWyatt Ogle: 50 Free, 4th, PR; 100 Back, 10th

Ethan Richardson: 50 Free, 8th; 100 Free, 9thAndrew Taylor: 100 Free, 54th, PR; 100 Breaststroke, 36th, PRGarrison Wheatley: 100 Free, 63rd; 100 Breaststroke, 39th, PR

PR = Personal Record

A trio of early takeoffs plagued the women’s 200 Medley Relay and the men’s 200 Free Relay, disqualifying those teams.

Saige Carico: 50 Free, 163rd; 100 Back, 70th, PRAmelia Forsyth: 50 Free, 134th; 100 Free, 107thSavannah Swecker: 50 Free, 135th, PR; 100 Breaststroke, 49th, PR

Richardson, Edwards, Ogle, and Dalton took 4th in 200 Medley Relay and 3rd in 400 Free Relay.

The free relay took men back to within two seconds of last year’s state finals time and they dropped a second in medley.

Bissonnette dropped 13 seconds in backstroke and 3 seconds in 50 Free. Carico left almost 12 seconds behind on her backstroke race.

Lintecum dropped 6 seconds in free and Taylor had a double drop, shaving almost 2 seconds off free and 6 off breaststroke.

Garrison Wheatley dropped 5 seconds in breaststroke.

Plenty of great new times to go around, but these were the heavyweights of the time drops today.

And Swecker had an 8 second drop in breaststroke.

We are proud of our Swimmers 🏊‍♂️ and grateful 🙏 for Shannon Dalton ❤

Marion Harris shares the Night 🌙from a Magical performance 🎭!

Friday night 🌙 was the latest opportunity for Patricia Lineberry to present her ever so talented performers. Once again the group captivated their audience from start to finish !

The Harris table was full of special guests, including Marion’s parents.

The amount of effort and dedication that goes into a production of this size is incredible 👏.

Thank You Marion, for taking the time to share some photos 📷 which allow us to brag about a hard working group of Students and their dedicated Teacher !

We have goodies from Shannon Dalton (Swim 🏊‍♂️), Marion Harris (Performing Arts) and West Long (Wrestling). All following some D2 Women’s Basketball 🏀 in Bellingham, Washington…

We have made it back to the good ole USA 🇺🇸 ! Quick stop ✋ just across the Border to watch some Women’s College Hoops between host Western Washington University and Seattle Pacific University.

WWU scored 28 points in the opening 10 minutes to double up the Falcons 28-14.

SPU settled down to take the second frame 17-14 and trail by 11 points at the Half.

The Vikings Men just recently claimed the D2 National Championship, actually recently might be strong as it was 2012.

The School has 13 Nattys total with 10 of them coming in Women’s Rowing.

I will get started on the Big 3 mentioned above and produce anorther Player Profile for Anthony Barnes here in the next bit.

8:02 pm / 11:02 pm – Good to be Back….

End of the 3rd quarter with the Vikings up 68-49.

26 points in 10 minutes with at least 6 3-pointers made along the way.

WWU has five players already in double figures with Demi Dykstra leading the way with 20.

#1 – Olivia Wikstrom now has 21. Balanced attack !!!

77-56 TO, 5:35 (4)….

Clemson and SMU 31-31 in final minute. Mustangs 17-0 in 4th quarter.

Wrapping up here, final 90 seconds with WWU up 81-65.

Welcome 🙏 to Day #10 /42 as we are closing in on learning Duke’s Bowl 🥣 destination for 2024-2025 !

The moment that Duke scored its Walk-Off Touchdown to defeat Wake Forest I turned to Trenton Miller and said ” Pop Tarts “!

Duke University is about to go Bowling 🎳 for just the 11th time in my 61 years. The last second victory over the Deamon Deacons allowed the team to finish 9-3 on the year and all but clinched a Top Three Bowl 🥣 for just the second time.

Orlando (Pop Tarts), San Diego (Holiday) and Jacksonville (Gator) are the upper echelon spots and things looked very, very promising at 4pm last Saturday afternoon.

We just needed Miami, Clemson, Notre Dame and SMU to handle their business or at least three of the four.

if three of those four made the 12-team Playoff then Duke going big time would be a LOCK 🔐

On the walk 🚶‍♂️ back to the Car 🚗. Clemson gave up a Touchdown on 3rd and 20 to South Carolina in the final minute of play to lose to the Gamecocks. Felt bad for Dabo and his Tigers 🐅 (9-3) but we still had hope.

The Fighting Irish fall into our (ACC) Bowl 🥣 pool if they don’t make the Big Dance. Southern California played them tough but our former Quarterback, Riley Leonard capped off their 11-1 season. Put a check ✔ in that Box 📦.

SMU (11-1) took care of California without much of a struggle. ✔ 📦#2

Miami (10-2) jumped out to a 21-0 lead over Syracuse (9-3) in the Dome and all was right in the World 🌎.

Texas A & M took our Coach, Notre Dame our QB, North Carolina State our top Running Back and three solid players headed off to the National Football League. There was little hope of winning six games this season, let alone nine and we were closing in on a Big Game.

Syracuse was the only team that could catch Duke and Clemson at 9-3 so an Orange 🍊 victory would be a double setback. So naturally Syracuse scored six Touchdowns on The U and suddenly led 42-35.

Miami had a 1st and Goal from the 4 yard line with a chance to tie 👔 it at 42-42 but deceived to settle for a Game Losing Field Goal. The U had one job, borrowing from ESPN.

SMU (11-1), Miami (10-2) and Clemson, Duke and Syracuse (9-3). That is the Cream of the league this season. If two go to the 12 then the other 3 get the Goodies !

Miami also lost to right to play SMU in the ACC Championship Game later today. The winner of Clemson – SMU gets our one Guaranteed spot with Miami appearing to be the first team left out.

There’s talk of SMU getting the boot 👢if they lose to Clemson. 11-2 and regular season champs 🏆wouldn’t be enough for the Mustangs ???

Charlotte , New York City and El Paso are the 3 Bowls 🥣 just below the Big 3. We have played in all three recently and while they are nice enough places to visit……

San Diego (27th), Orlando (28th), NYC (28th), El Paso (31st), Jacksonville (2nd) and finally Charlotte (3rd). Those are the six options and later this weekend we will find out where we will be heading, Fingers Crossed !!!

Congratulations 👏 to Boise State for punching their ticket 🎟 last night. They are 12-1 and the only loss was to #1 Oregon.