Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Have a BLESSED Day 🙌😇🙏
Welcome 🙏 to Wednesday, September 23rd. How’s about we put on the coffee ☕️ !
Category: Carroll County High School
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to change hats 👒, going from a storyteller with a pen 🖊 to one with a microphone 🎤. Next up, Lady Cavalier Volleyball 🏐 x 3 ! Little ones played hard & both JV and Varsity swept !!!
Let get inside and get started !
First serve around 4:30…
Each of the 10 nights 🌙 on The Hill with Cindy Edwards gets underway, and the initial conversation directs my level of energy. That is just a fact, so today has already been a long day, so I couldn’t leave it to chance.
I walked in a straight line in the direction of our SRO, Chris Mabry. Mission Accomplished !!!!
Let’s do this !!!!!
Pre – Match trivia….
5:02 – end of 1st set, CCMS holds on 25-23.
5:32 – Dalton Intermediate 25 – 20. On to the third set….
5:50 – Dalton prevails, 15 -9
20:00 on the clock ⏰️…..
6 :18 – end JV introductions !!!!
6:36 – Lady Cavaliers take opener, 25-9!
7:03 – Lady Cavaliers sweep, 25 -22 !!
20:00 on the clock ⏰️
It’s 10 pm now, and we are safely back amongst the cows 🐄 in Laurel Fork so we can play catch up for a bit.
Varsity swept Radford, but each of the three sets was a dog 🐕 fight.
Radford….23 24 22 (69)
CCHS………25 26 25 (76)
Just seven points separated the two well coached teams ! When you hear that a match was a sweep, you tend to think about it being one-sided. But tonight, it was anything but….
After Glenvar, Radford is my second favorite match to host. Strong 💪 fan support, solid coaches, and likable players.
A number of people absolutely had a great night 🌙 on The Hill !
Nikki Heflin not only coached her team to a convincing win, but her and her bestie, Kelly Holderfield, were able to soak in the atmosphere that their players created during the Varsity match !
Holderfield had another reason to smile because her Kiddo served us from 3-3 to 12-3 during the opening set. It was one of the longest runs of the year, matching the effort of Morgan Osborne last week.
Photo 📸 Credit : Samantha Reed
The absolute best part was that Colton approached me this time around !
Three very likable young fellas that are part of a well-oiled football machine under the guidance of Mr Seth Greer and friends ! The head over to Patrick County on Friday night, looking to go to 5-0.
Ryan McCafferty was on The Hill tonight, which means that The Carroll News will have a full-blown gamer on the match fairly soon.
Austin Keith is a wonderful human being , don’t let anyone tell you differently.
We have 3 more home matches left now, but you can head over to the Dawg Pound in Martinsville on Thursday night if you want to see them sooner.
It was a great night 🌙 to be a Lady Cavalier !!!
Alumni Day story #3 out of #25 is about my much younger older brother and his beautiful bride 👰♀!
Quick note 📝 before I start this one, Ron Cochran was to be #3, but his story has some items that go with it back at home.
I am creating this one while sitting in my car 🚗 waiting for my wife to emerge from yet another of her medical appointments. Nowadays, it feels like one of us is getting treated for something on a daily basis, but there is no room for sadness on a place designed to be the happiest site on earth.
While any calendar will show that Rick Nester is older than me, that’s not true when you look at it from the wear and tear / miles put on my body over the years.
See, Rick Nester is extended family to me, and everyone should know the rules about family – it’s okay for me to pick on them, but I’m not going to handle it well if someone else does.
Case in point 👉, if you looked up the phrase – Married Up ,
You would see a photo 📸 of Rick Nester!
Still don’t know what he did or say back in the day to land the Big Prize but…..
You that are going to follow the story until all 25 have been written might pick up on the fact that a large number of these people fall into one of two categories – disliked or considered irrelevant. I can’t help that because some things are non-negotiable…
I will spare people the 1,000 word sermon on why I believe in Rick and DONNA Nester by trimming it down to this.
No part of what took place on Sunday afternoon happens without Rick offering me his venue and his backing….
Simple as that ……
Seriously, Bro, what did you say to her ?
It’s volleyball 🏐 night 🌙 on The Hill and here’s what you need to know : We ain’t afraid of no Bobcats….
For the middle school team, it’s Family Night on the baseline introduction ceremony, and for the two older teams, it’s Besties Night 🌙.
To define Besties, that is for the players to invite people that are part of their lives to join them on the court. See, for the first few matches, I have been dictating who stands with them ( Moms, Dads, grandparents, and siblings), but tonight they get to choose !
It can be someone from one of the first four categories or just their Best Friend(s). The energy in our introduction process all three times sets the tone in regard to the positive energy in the building !
I will not utter a single word to disrespect our guests tonight because that is not what this is about, not even a little. The reason why is those little girls / young ladies all belong to someone as well. Their parents work for a living, just like ours do and they drove down, bought a ticket 🎟 to watch their pride and joy play volleyball 🏐.
Please notice the excitement that I add every time one of our players scores a point but also notice that nothing is said when we get a point because of an error made by a Bobcat.
Again, my absolute favorite part of working with Cundy Edwards is she holds a prayer circle 🔵 and invites the other team to join in because it is the Christian ✝️ thing to do. It’s my job to both Amp up or kiddos and protect theirs.
I will add one more thought process on the subject. The young lady who just hit the ball into the net is well aware that she made a mistake and let her team down. Do we really need to taunt her by shouting or chanting, ” There’s a net there”?????
Using a different approach, here I will select Mr Painter ( Heidi’s Dad ) as my example. I’m not sure that over the past four years, we have exchanged 100 words, but we have made eye contact, and I believe that he is appreciative of my efforts to add joy to his little girls game day experience. It’s a mutual respect thing that goes unspoken, and I value that a great deal.
The next step to that is this: What would any parent in the gym tonight come home from work and find their little girl crying 😢. Coach Edwards tells me that Mr Painter is a farmer out near me, which means he understands what it is to put in a hard day of work.
When you find out that the emotional well-being of the pride and joy of your life is crying because she got an answer wrong in class and the teacher led a chant of, ” You’re the Dumb Kid, You’re the Dumb Kid. And then the others joined in…..
Yes, it is exactly that. Bullying is bullying and it’s NEVER cute or okay. It’s just not.
Here in a few hours, I will get dressed 👗 and head over to The Hill to host three volleyball matches and I will do EVERYTHING within my power 💪 to make the night as enjoyable as possible for everyone who walks through the gym door 🚪. At the end of the night, I hope I have said, ” How ’bout them Lady Cavaliers ” three times. But if not, I will still feel good for trying hard to put an umbrella of protection over as many current and future Lady Cavaliers + Bobcats as possible !
I’m already excited about the number of fans that might be there at 4:30 !!!
It’s 7:00 somewhere, so let’s percolate our Morning 🌄 Brew together with a little help from the really Cool 😎 people !
Psalm 22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Middle School should start at 4:30 !
Have a Blessed Day 🙌😇🙏
