Category: Carroll County High School

Welcome 🙏 to the Cougars Den, pretty sure for the last time… Running 🏃‍♂️ Blog for the Night 🌙

Varsity Volleyball 🏐 should start here in just under two hours. Three Rivers District Tournament Semi-final between our #4 Lady 👩 Cavaliers and #1 Alleghany.

My history with the Highlands goes back to my time in the Valley Baseball ⚾️ League. Been coming here, off and on four the past 20 years. Truly don’t see 👀 another trip here in my future so let’s enjoy our Swan Song 🎵.

The team will have a few new faces tonight –

First, we sneak in our normal salute to the Team Bus 🚌 Driver.

Added for tonight – all from Junior Varsity :

#9 – Brealeigh Love

#21 – Leigha Harrad

#22 – Katie Beasley

They are taking the place of the following players :

#2 – Alyssa Lawson (Unavailable)

#3 – Corrie Delp (sick)

#20 – Ali Wright (sick)

Also, Faith Nicholson is dealing with a rolled ankle.

We will sign back in with updates shortly…..

Dedicated Parents update – Petty’s, Burnett’s, Ellie’s Mom plus Grandma and the Webb’s so far ! Impressive…

The Goins and The Harris parents push the total to six at 5:30…

Faith’s Parents make 7

Maddie Hyatt’s Dad 👨, makes 8 !

#Dedicated!

Time for the Introductions !

The Painter Family 👪 makes 9 !

6:00 – First Serve

Quick TO for CC, down 4-0…

Katie Beasley”s Mom 👩makes 10 !

Cavs go from down 6-0, to within 8-6!

30 Point Mark – down 18-12..

Coach Edwards calls 📞 2nd TO, down 20-12.

👩’s in the House now, Arizona’s and Leigha’s…unofficial count at 12.

Alleghany closes out the opening set 25–15 at 6:21 pm

______________________

Set #2 – TO CC, down 7-2…

Opening Day roster had 12 players. Three are not available and five spots tonight are filled with players that started the season on the Junior Varsity team.

10 points – AHS up 8-2

20 points – Down 14-6

Second TO, down 16-7

30 Points – Down, 18-12

End of 2nd Set, 25-13… 6:44…

_________________________

Set #3 –

10 points – Down 7-3

20 points – Down 12-8

30 points – Down 19 -11

40 Points – Down 24-16, we fought off 3 Match Points before falling 25-19…. 7:09 pm…Story Later On.

Day #7 of the Final 14 is winding down as the Richardsons head back to Laurel Fork after a Fun Day at Duke University !

A different kind of Out of Town Scoreboard on Sunday. First up, App State Field Hockey 🏑 played its fourth non-conference Top 25 opponent this season and hung tough in Norfolk. The team would eventually fall 2-1 with all three goals taking place in the opening frame. My last trip to Boone will come next Friday night 🌙 when we wrap up the home portion of our schedule 📅.

Ashlyn Newman and her Union University Soccer ⚽️ team wrapped up their weekend with a victory !

The fourth and final Duke University sporting event of the weekend took place between 7 & 9 pm.

Earlier in the Day, Duke Volleyball 🏐 was less fortunate as Florida State University swept the Home 🏡 team 3-0.

In between there was enough time to hang out with Too Cool 😎 Kid !

Halfway Home 🏡, tomorrow it will be RDU and Alleghany High School 🏫 as Lin flies out and the Lady 👩 Cavaliers open their post season run 🏃‍♂️ against the Cougars…..

Next up on the Show your Neighbor some Love 💘 Day, its the one about how Cindy Edwards and I grew up and went to different Schools 🏫 together ❤

Volleyball 🏐 comes in All shapes and sizes, played at so many different levels across the Globe 🌎. My wife played the game during her time in College and I played some way back in the day.

I have been blessed to spend the last 20+ years or so around two Coaches that have spent their Adult lives around the game, trying to teach the game they love to our youth.

Page County High’s Alan Knight and Carroll County High’s Cindy Edwards.

Not Alan and Cindy…..not yet anyway!

Naturally, these two know each other because the HS Volleyball Coaching legend tree 🌳 is a small one. While there’s a great deal of mutual respect for each other and its fun for me when we are all together, they’re styles are vastly different. But make no mistake about the fact that they both set the bar High when it comes to what they expect from their players.

Naturally, both of them know Rose 🌹, another Legand in the Business.

Coach Knight is a few years older than me and it turns out Coach Edwards and I are the same age, hence the attempt at humor with the different Schools together.

Anyone can punch 👊 in some words about Caring ❤ for someone. Please know that tomorrow morning 🌄 I will drop Linda off at Raleigh – Durham Airport as she will be flying out for Business and then to check on her Mother 👩 in Missouri.

Once Lin is all set, I will then punch Alleghany High School 🏫 into my GPS.

Why ? Nobody that’s going to make the drive 🚗 to the Highlands tomorrow wants to go up there on a Monday night 🌙 but its the Three Rivers District Championship semi-final and we earned a seat 💺 at the table.

#DukeFans

Christina Petty will have a Bag 🎒 of Lolly Pops and the McDonald’s Drive 🚗 Thru will be open afterwards.

When you don’t want to make the drive from Laurel Fork, why make it from RDU ? It’s unconditional Support for a long time Coach and that ➕ two tootsie pops 💙 will do it !

Coach Edwards, we 💘 U