On the Road with the Hottest team in Carroll County !

First Pitch 4:58, 77° is your Game Time tempature here in Radford, Virginia.

The Junior Varsity Baseball ⚾️ team is trying to make it across the Finish Line in the number one spot in the Three Rivers District.

Carroll County has come out the gates firing on all cylinders, leading 3-0 with two runners 🏃‍♂️ in scoring position

I will do my best to match names with numbers shortly !

Cavaliers now lead 5-0 and have batted around here in the top of the first.

Cavs lead 5-0, Bottom 1st!

Running 🏃‍♂️ Blog for the game.

Score remains 5-0, bottom 2nd

Another 3 up, 3 down for the Cavs defense. Off to the top of the 3rd, still 5-0.

Cavs plate another run 🏃‍♂️ to make it 6-0 and force a pitching change.

Bottom of the 3rd (5:51) is over after Blake Reed makes the ever so rare 4-unassisted ground out on a tweener.

Bryce Cochran, Dane Leonard and Grady Quesenberry each scored in the top of the 4th inning, making the score now 9-0 (6:04).

Colby Goad pitches another 1,2,3 inning, picking up his 4th and 5th Strikeouts.

6:47 – Final, 11-0 !!!

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Carroll County pitchers combined for a one hitter and faced just two over the minimum !

Lady 👩 Cavaliers softball former opponent is now leading the UVA Lady Cavaliers

Bassett High graduate 🎓 Jade Hylton is the starting short stop and lead-off hitter for the much improved UVA team. The 5’5 short stop made an immediate impact on the team last season as a Freshman and is now one of the team leaders.

Virginia is hoping to make some noise this week down in Durham as the #4 seed. If they find success I expect Hylton will have a roll in it!

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to a former foe of our Lady 👩 Cavaliers !

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Still holding out Hope for our May 14th Photo 📷 of a Generation @ Cavalier Park… this one was full of twists and turns !

Mount Rushmore is set in the hills of South Dakota but five days from now it is our Hope to create our Cavalier version of the famed landmark !

For the first time in my five generations of being around High School 🏫 sports we have four members of the same Senior Class that are set to graduate 🎓 in possession of a Big Time School record.

Alyssa Ervin is the All-Time Scoring leader in Basketball 🏀, Ashlyn Newman is the leading goal scorer in Soccer ⚽️, Jabin Talley is the career wins leader in Tennis 🎾 and Emma Leath is the same in wins on the Softball diamond 💎. Leath is now just 11 strikeouts removed from adding a second mark as the School leader in K’s.

The goal is to get the four of them, their parents along with Principal Thompson and Athletic Director Mathews together pre-game Tuesday and have the Fab Four toss out a Ceremonial First Pitch together and pose for a few Keepsake photos together.

We needed to catch a few breaks along the way to pull this off. The only thing we didn’t have to worry about was getting Leath to Cavalier Park for the event as she will be throwing out the actual first pitch moments later.

We needed the Boys 👦 Tennis 🎾 team to not be playing a match that day in order to get Jabin to the pitcher’s circle and somehow we were fortunate enough to have that.

The next thing we needed was for Track 👣 and Field to be off that day so we would have access to Alyssa Ervin and now that they are closing in on their post season we appear safe!

The final obstacle was for the Battling Ben Tickles ( Girls Soccer) to not have a make up game added to the 14th. Both Alleghany and Glenvar had their visits to Tommy Thompson Field postponed earlier this spring and might want to make the trek down. The thought process was that Alleghany would pass on the long bus 🚌 ride but that the Highlanders would jump at the opportunity to get their match in.

That is exactly how it played out so at 6pm next Tuesday night the Soccer ⚽️ game is set to start. Forty minutes later they will have their 10 minute halftime break which might just create the five minutes needed to still accomplish this….

Fingers crossed 🤞🙏 that all of the Stars 🌟 can line up and we have 14 folks out at the Circle 🔵 and we can celebrate the Senior Class of 2023-2024!!!

Even if one of them has to be Golf Carted back across the street for the second half of her Soccer ⚽️ game.

We ended up having to switch gears to the gymnasium, but it all worked out great as Greg Talley moved the ball up the field by getting the folks at the town office to celebrate our group as well !

Ashlyn Newman would eventually make her way over to Cavalier Park as did both Jabin Talley and Emma Leath. Of course, Emma didn’t have to move very far to toss out her first pitch.

None of this happens if not for Alyssa Ervin and her willingness to share your ultra bright spot light !

The photo Credit goes to Mrs Velvet Leonard…

There will be two companion pieces with this story, including one from Greg Talley on his boy, Jabin. The other one I will pen as a personal Thank You note to Alyssa Ervin as she helped me get some recognition for three other highly successful students !!

Coach Montgomery takes us inside the numbers of today’s Track & Field

Individual winners

Girls 100 hurdles.

Savannah Swecker. 19.40

Girls 1600

Amelia Forsyth. 7:15.87

Boys 4 x 100 Relay 51.16

(Mohammad Monsour, Brendan Farris, Samuel Collins, Casen Love)

Boys 300 meter hurdles

Davis Reitzel. 43.52

Girls 200

Corrie Delp. 29.94

Boys 4 x 400 Relay. 4:01.61

(Davis Reitzel, Samuel Collins, Noah Manning, Elias Sample)

Boys High Jump

Brendan Farris. 5’2”

Boys Long Jump

Davis Reitzel. 19-2

Boys Triple Jump

Nathanael Dalton. 38-10

Others participating

Boys 100

Brayden Smoot. 2nd 11.86

Noah Manning. 3rd. 12.10

Sean Staples. 5th. 12.40

Nathanael Dalton. 9th. 12.82

Mohamnad Monsour. 14th. 13.26

Girls 100

Corrie Delp. 4th. 14.22

Amelia Dalton. 6th. 15.39

Boys 1600

Micah Gwynn. 6:01.47

Boys 4x 100 relay

Attempted: Elias Sample, Sean Staples, Nathanael Dalton, Noah Manning

Girls 4x 100 relay. 2nd. 1:00.52

(Savannah Swecker, Amelia Dalton, Alivia Hanshaw, Corrie Delp)

Boys 400

Brayden Smoot. 55.53. 2nd

Boys 800

Samuel Collins 5th. 2:29.65

Girls 800

Alivia Hanshaw. 3rd. 3:11.06

Amelia Forsyth. 4th. 3:17.90

Boys 200

Sean Staples. 2nd. 25.49

Mohammad Monsour. 7th. 27.27

Casen Love. 9th. 28.28

Girls. 200

Amelia Dalton. 2nd. 33.52

Abby Osbourne. 3rd. 43.08

Boys Discus

Davis Reitzel. 3rd. 126-4

Ashton Coe. 6th. 104-1

Glenn Heiston. 10th. 91-3

Branson France. 12th. 82-10.5

Dalton Norman. 16th. 76-1

Girls Discus

Sarah Alderman 2nd. 89-1.5

Neila Stewart. 6th. 66-11.5

Boys High Jump

Attempted: Sean Staples, Nathanael Dalton

Girls High Jump

Savannah Swecker. Tied 2nd. 4-2

Amelia Forsyth. Tied 2nd. 4-2

Attempted: Amelia Dalton, Abby Osbourne

Boys Shot Put

Davis Reitzel. 4th. 37-0

Dalton Norman. 7th. 34-6.5

Branson France. 8th. 34-6

Ashton Coe. 10th. 30-2

Carter Rodriguez 11th. 29-6

Girls Shot Put

Sarah Alderman. 2nd. 28-1

Neila Stewart. 5th. 24-5

Boys Long Jump

Nathanael Dalton. 2nd. 17-10

Mohammad Monsour. 6th. 16-6

Brendan Farris. 7th. 16-5

Sean Staples. 9th. 12-0.5

Girls Long Jump

Corrie Delp. 2nd. 14-6.5

Savannah Swecker. 3rd. 13-3

Amelia Dalton. 7th. 12-0

Girls Triple Jump

Amelia Dalton. 2nd. 28-2.75

Shawn Montgomery

Social Studies Teacher

Carroll County High School

Tonight was such a Blessing to participate in our Celebration of Academics !

Right off the Top, Principal Chuck Thompson was an excellent emcee for the event. Very gracious and even snuck in a few jokes across the 60 minutes of Awards !

Ethan Edwards and Principal Thompson.

A number of Students heard their names called multiple times during the ceremony. Davis Reitzel, while away at our Track 👣 Meet, was one of those recognized for a number of achievements.

Laurel L Sutphin also headed to the Award table multiple times and here along with Luke Watson, posed for a photo 📷 with Family 👪 members.

Laiken Burnett went up three times and I lost count how many times I heard the name Garrison Wheatley !

The Dalton Family 👪

The entire list of our Youth that received accolades for their efforts 👏. If there is anyone else out there that would like to share their pride 😤 in their children, we welcome 🙏 it.

Being acknowledged for our efforts was icing on the proverbial Cake 🎂!!

Our Students are our Future and anytime we can offer them and their teachers an ounce of encouragement, let’s make sure we do !