Morning 🌄 BrewHoward Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day :Amen 🙏!Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :
Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Travis also tells us that our Travel Volleyball 🏐 will be heading out of town again this weekend…
Our Rampage Ladies are set to travel to Rocky Mount NC for some Volleyball action this weekend!!🏐🏐
Day 75/90 will be an exciting one for us as for the third time we will be heading out to the Airport to pick up a visitor !
Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌!
Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball ⚾️ is back in action 🎬 tonight down in Marion, North Carolina !
Tonight is a special Night around the Globe 🌎 as Tim Tebow and his foundation Celebrate A Night to Shine ! We know that Vickey Ritchie will be busy today and having worked the event myself in the past, I know what it means to the participants 💘.
JV Boys 👦 off to a red hot start, leading the Cougars. 13-5!
More to follow !
Cavs 18 – 13 after 1st
Why do we care about this game ? Ryan Phillips is an up and coming young Coach and belongs to a fine family 👪 Tree 🌳 of Paul Nester. This is the first time that Ryan Phillips has held the position of Head Coach at the High School level.
Win or Lose, we are Big Fans of EVERY Coach at the Middle School and High School level.
JV Cheerleaders
Halftime score at 3:56 MT time is Patrick County 36, Carroll County 29.
End of 3rd, Cougars 52-44 as the 3rd was a story of two runs 🏃♂️. Cavaliers start with 12-2 as Sam made his third and fourth 3-pointers but then the Cougars closed with a 14 – 3 run of its own.
Final from the Boys JV Game.
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Game #2 of 7 – Alyssa Ervin and the Furman University Paladins! ESPN +.
Why do we care about this game ? Miss Ervin will always be part of our story and seeing her having fun on the Basketball court again is a blast !
1st Media TO – Furman 7, WCU 3 (4:50)
End of 1st – WCU 10-9
The announcer just called Christy’s Girl 👧 ” Scrappy “
Scrappy has 7 points as we near the half. Halftime score is Paladins 30, Catamounts 19.
Scrappy had her own highlight reel in the 3rd quarter. Moved her point total from 7 to 20 !!! ‘ Dins lead 52-33!!
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Game 3 of 7 that we care about is being played in a Gymnasium where cell phones 📵 go to die. Hailey Cushman and her Cavaliers are 9 – 5 on the season. Tonight they played at Patrick County High School in Stuart. The Cougar Den has minimal to no cellphone coverage so I will be dependent upon hearing from someone later.
Cushman is in year 2 of working with Howard Mayo and Coach does a tremendous job with her troops. This is important because if the Lady Cavaliers are going to regain some of their past glory all roads run through Cushman.
Our Athletic Director, Kevin DeHaven informed us that the Lady Cavaliers won a thrilling 39-35 contest in OT !!!
Gifts 🎁 from Velvet Leonard 💓Game 4 of 7 – Carroll County Boys VarsityBill Gallimore pic !
Head Coach Anthony Barnes and his Cavaliers are hosting Patrick County tonight. The Cavaliers are in the middle of five games in six days…
Patrick County opened with a 10-0 run 🏃♂️ so the Cavs have some ground to make up.
My, oh, My ! Down 10-0, the Cavaliers lead 21 -16 after the opening 8:00 !!!
End of 3rd, Cavs lead 53 -45…
Circled the Wagons !!!
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Game #5 of 7 that we care ❤ about is
WAC Men’s Basketball in Cedar City, UT
Our tag line is Everything Duke, UVA and wherever we stay. This explains why we have the level of devotion to ALL Things Carroll County, because for six years now it where we call home.
For the past 3 months, for Medical 🚑 reasons, we have called Southern Utah home. So naturally we support the efforts of both Utah Tech ( St George ) and SUU. Normally we would be watching this one in person but tonight its about a match up here in STG ! #GoT-Birds…Tip was 6:30 Mountain ⛰ Time.
Down 59 – 49 with 11:00 to play ▶️
Final…
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Game #6 of 7 tipped at 9pm / 7pm here in St George.
Utah Tech hosting Utah Valley University
Slight underdogs, the Trailblazers are leading 13 – 5 with 14 minutes to play in the opening half !
Up 17 – 9 at the under 12:00 Media TO!
Under 4:00 – Trailblazers leading the Wolverines, 35 – 21!
Headed to the break, leading 42 – 25!!
Under 16:00 – Trailblazers lead 52-36
The Ladies of these two schools just finished a close one up at UVU. Wolverines win that one with a fourth quarter rally.
Under 12:00 comes at 10:32, 60 – 51 for UT as the Wolverines are showing their claws.
TO – 8:18, UT leads 65-57 but as Lin just noted, they are having to work pretty hard for every basket 🧺 as of late.
Under 4:00 doesn’t take pace until 1:53 remains, the lead is 79 – 70. UVU had cut ✂️ it to six before UT drilled a much needed 3-pointer!
TO at 1:09 – Blazers leading 79 – 73 in a highly entertaining game.
0:34.1 – 79/75 after UT missed the front end twice in a row. Steal and basket 🧺 makes it 79-77.
We missed the front end for a third time but grabbed the board.
Game 7 of 7 involves Howard Mayo and his Varsity Lady 👩 Cavalier team
Big fans of the Legendary Coach and appreciate 🙏 every thing he is trying hard to accomplish with our flagship program.
I will be at the mercy of whoever wants to help create a story here as the team plays at Patrick County on Senior Night.
Text Message from Mr DeHaven :
Varsity girls up 26-19 with 5:53 left in third quarter.!!!!!
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Kayla Nester takes us inside the Numbers!Velvet Leonard Photo 📷♥
What happens next ? Anthony Barnes will send me his thoughts about his team and the effort that he received.
I will then write ✍ him a game story because he believes his players work hard and their efforts for him belong in a story. Hence, the reason why we care ❤ about Anthony Barnes….
This is year six for us in Laurel Fork and what we do should not be a surprise to anyone out there. We believe that everyone is equal and we challenge ourselves to uphold that thought process each and every day.
The second story that will get written by me will be about Scrappy ! Why, because it is fun and doesn’t require any thoughts from Coach Pierre Curtis. Side note 📝, I would love to here his thoughts one day.
The Boys Junior Varsity game was much closer than the final score reflected. Keep our Boys heading in the right direction, Mr Phillips !
The Hill – Carroll County spotted visiting 10 points in the first two minutes and 25 seconds, leading Head Coach Anthony Barnes to call an early timeout. Not sure exactly what Barnes suggested to his players but Isaiah Easter and friends caught the Cougars by 16 on the way to a much needed 74-61 Three Rivers District on Thursday night.
Saddled with playing five games in six days as each team is racing against the clock ⏰ to get the regular season completed, the team played without sixth man, Hayden Jackson. Jackson suffered a concussion during the contest on Tuesday versus Radford High.
Colton Gravley and Blake Reed had their former Junior Varsity teammates back as the duo teamed up to score 28 points. Gravley dropped 16 points while playing with the energy of the Tasmanian Devil from start to finish !
Reed ( 12 points ) matched his offensive effort while collecting Blocked 🚫 Shots like gathering Candy on Halloween 🎃.
To say that Isaiah Easter has enjoyed a storybook Senior year would be an understatement. But against the Cougars he showed us he is capable of being a Basketball Star 🌟. Easter scored in double digits in the first and final quarters on his way to a career high 38 points.
In football, its the quarterback to lead the 10 teammates on both sides of the ball to a common goal. His efforts this season at Quarterback led the gridiron 🏈 Cavaliers to a season for the ages. But in basketball, sometimes you have to just tell yourself, ” I’ve Got This ” and if a leader can do this then others will follow.
12 points in the first quarter in the sparked a 21 – 6 run to erase the early deficit. Easter took a pass from Eli Lark after the Junior stole it, scoring just before the buzzer. For good measure, Easter quickly turned around, stole the inbounds pass and scored again.
Lark, along with Landon Kinder and Landon Phillips each played key 🔑 minutes off the bench to fill the void left by the loss of Jackson. Bullpen by committing would be a solid comparison for the gritty effort !
Trace Reavis added four points before fouling out and Will Motley added three points during the fourth quarter push that allowed the Cavaliers to secure its eighth victory of the season.
Kyle Bunn rounded out the scoring column with one point and a multitude of solid defensive minutes.
There will be a small window for the Cavaliers to celebrate as they still have two more games this week and they are against the only two teams that truly bettered them the first time around. Martinsville on Friday night and Floyd County High on Saturday afternoon.
Barnes took the time to share his thoughts on the victory :
” Man slow start against a hard playing Patrick Co ,making no excuses (every team in same boat )but this is tough on the guys this week,even practiced a little harder than usual yesterday before a game because of the only practice this week and the guys responded and needed this win. Totally different team without our 6th Man in Hayden Jackson not giving the boost off the bench due to concussion suffered in a very physical Radford game, Hayden is tough and hopefully gets better to join us soon. Again another very physical game that was tightened up and we didn’t help it with our hands on them and contact we were playing with. Finally got things going in transition.
Kudos to bench guys in Bunn,Lark ,Phillips and Kinder, guys stepped up came in done their roll and helped secure at times a crazy ,wild physical game. Sometimes it’s not pretty, but you survive and get it done, but we will take a W in this tough District anytime. No rest for us or Coaches, one of the best 2A schools in state in Martinsville comes too us tomorrow. On too the next one, Go Cavs !”
Morning 🌄 BrewAlyssa Ervin and Furman University hit the road.
Locally here, both Utah Tech and Southern Utah University will host games tonight so we know how the day will end.
Mens game at 7 MTHoward Mayo and his Motovational Nugget will appear here shortly.Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌
Senior Night for Patrick County High tonight versus our Lady Cavaliers
Radford – Carroll County High School was able to run 🏃♂️ with the homestanding Radford Bobcats (13-4) for the first 15 minutes before falling 55 – 41 on Tuesday night. Playing on back to back nights after a 17 day break is going to favor of the more athletic team and that was the group in the home locker room.
Isaiah Easter is closing in on the final stretch of his four year career and once again he led the way with 18 points. The difference between the match-up with Radford and some of the other games on the schedule is he was the lone Cavalier in double figures.
” Tough too go back to back against really good defensive teams, for years Radford always puts alot of pressure on the ball, forces you to be uncomfortable and forces you into mistakes,” said Head Coach Anthony Barnes.
“(unforced ) we turned the ball over 18 times, alot of them trying to secure rebounds which turned in to easy put backs for them . I felt like at times we were really heading on right track defensive stops, forced them into turnovers with a run midway in the third, close to cutting it to 5 , Then on a layup drive made by Easter was not counted and called in the floor , then several shots doesn’t fall or way, we miss easy put back couple layups and drives.”
The team did make one final late push at the start of the fourth quarter, pulling within eight at 49 – 41 with 3:30 left on the clock. But Radford slammed the door 🚪 closed with a 6-0 run to close out the night. Colton Gravley scored four of his six points during the final push before his night ended early due to an injury.
” We as a Team still struggle to score consistently which you seen that with them too also.(too many days out of the gym) Isaiah 18pts ,5 Reb, 2 assists and Game leading scorer earning every point he gets , alot of them in contact or free-throws after contact and Trace has really stepped up 8pts ,6 rebounds 3 assitts.”
” Hopefully back in the gym today we can get a ton of shots in and back on track,” added Barnes.
Due to the large number of postponed games, Carroll County will now play on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A day of rest on Sunday and then the final two contests on Tuesday and Wednesday to finish up the regular season. The latest rankings had Carroll County in the Top 8 in the Region but just inside the margin.
Carroll County 11 13 10 7 – 41
Easter 18, Reavis 8, Gravley 6, Motley 5, Reed 4.
Last year, after the six Seniors led the team to the State Tournament, the group moved on to College. Long time lead Assistant Coach and close friend, Kris Richardson crossed over to the Girls side of the Cavalier Hoops Tree 🌳 and Barnes was just named Coach of the Year in the greater Roanoke Valley.
Wow, it would have been the perfect time to pull a John Elway by riding off into the Sunset 🌇. Not our Coach Barnes, not the way he believes in our Youth. The choice to return for another season was the definition of unselfish.
Why write ✍ that now ? The team has now lost seven of eight games, going from 6-4 to the current 7 – 11. Five games in seven days and three of the opponents defeated us by double figures.
Chris Berman of ESPN has a great saying that nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills. There has never been a better time to be proud of who we are and everyone involved with the program needs to dig just a little deeper so we can Finish what we started and do it in a Cavalier Way !
Do it for the quartet of Seniors, do it for the Cheerleaders, do it for the name on the jersey or do it for the Coaches. Every player, Every parent, Every Coach, Every Fan, Every Alumni and yes, Everyone writing ✍ about the team – dig just a little bit deeper because after we ran over some folks for the past few years, ain’t nobody going to feel sorry for us.
Borrowing the money 💰 scene from the movie 🎥 about Marshall University, in my loudest voice, WE ARE….CARROLL COUNTY…
A.S.P.N on The Hill 