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Head Coach Greg Talley was playing a match for the first time in his two years without his #1 seed and Son, Jabin Talley. The younger Talley is fighting a sizable blister on his hand ✋and hopefully will be able to return to action 🎬 next week.

When a tennis 🎾 team is forced to play without its number one seed it forces each player ranked below to move up one spot. It also breaks up the normal doubles teams.

Here is the recap from Mr. T

Tough loss today at Radford 2-7 . Jabin missed his first match in over 3 years today with the nagging
Injury to his hand and Everybody had to play out of
Order in singles and with different partners in doubles .

Ethan played a 2 hour marathon at no. 1 . Came back from 3-6 to win 9-7 .
Paul lost at no. 2 1-8
Phoenix held on at no. 3 for a 9-7 win
Garrison lost at no. 4 1-8
Louis came close at no. 5 before falling 6-8
Ian playing his first match lost 0-8

Ethan and Paul lost at no. 1 doubles 3-8
Phoenix and Louis lost at no. 2 2-8
Garrison and Ian lost at no. 3 2-8

Proud of the guys for hanging in there and playing
Up from their usual seed . Back to full strength
Hopefully next Wednesday at Pulaski .

This morning 🌄 pushed the current run 🏃‍♂️ of consecutive days of posting at least one positive story to 250 Days.

8+ months non-stop of trying to make people smile 😃. The previous streak was 140 days.

In the past 48 hours we have witnessed some remarkable efforts from some of our Student Athletes and the Video from last night 🌙 of Carlie Beamer extending our game at Radford was a instant classic moment.

Beamer not only kept the inning alive and the game as well, it allowed Radford to bat two more times which Emma Leath finished up a career best 18 Strikeout performance.

Back on The Hill, Ashlyn Newman found the back of the net for the 66th time, one night after finding it for a career best six times.

Newman (66) is chasing Adrienne Harris (71) for the All-Time scoring mark while Leath (620) is chasing Sydney Nester (694) for the All-Time Strike Out record at the same time. Class chasing Class in both situations

They don’t give out assists in Strike Outs but if they did, Carlie Beamer would have picked up a few last night after extending the game against the Lady Bobcats. Needing three outs to close out the game with the tying run 🏃‍♂️ on second base, Leath ended the game by recording #16,#17 & #18.

So if our Emma Leath records #695 before the end of the season, we can all remember the night 🌙 that Carlie Beamer gave her six more outs!

Jv played hard and tied 1-1. They had chances to win but just couldn’t quite get over the hump. Goal was scored by Judah Collins assisted by Sam McGrady

Varsity came out hot and score in the first five minutes in but last nights game vs Galax had us tired and we just couldn’t hang on at the end and lost 3-1. Overall we are very proud of the effort of all the boys and we are excited to rest this weekend to get ready for Monday senior night vs Alleghany.

   Remember that all spectators arriving during the Junior Varsity game will enter Tommy Thompson Field at no cost on Monday night.

I am super proud of the ladies. We held perennial power Radford to a 1-1 tie at the end of regulation. Unfortunately, near the end of the 2nd half we lost our starting left fullback, Bre Shumate, who dislocated her shoulder as the result of an illegal tackle. At that point, our girls were not worried about the game as much as their teammate. Radford snuck one in for the 2-1 win. We played with great character tonight!

Head Coach Rick Nester entered Thursday night with his team at 9-0 and having held their last two opponents scoreless but this time around the team needed every strike available in scratching out a 2-1 Three Rivers District victory over Radford.

The Lady Bobcats plated one early run against Senior Emma Leath and while Carroll County was getting good swings in almost every inning they could not plate the game tying run.

” Emma’s pitching and our defense kept us in the game tonight,” said Nester. ” The number of times that they would get a runner in scoring position with no outs only to have her then strike out the side kept us within sight of them.”

Leath (10-0) would end the eight inning contest with 18 strikeouts and only six other putouts for the entire game. The career high in K’s takes her career mark to 620.

As dominant as Leath was in the circle, the team headed to the top of the seventh inning trailing 1-0. After the first two Lady Cavaliers were retired, Nester sent Carlie Beamer up to the plate as a pinch hitter and she quickly had two strikes. CCHS was actually as close to their first defeat as possible when Beamer singled to left field to keep the team afloat.

Laiken Burnett went back into the game to run for Beamer. Madison Coleman reached on an infield single and the game tying run scored when Radford committed an error on the ground ball hit by Holly Miller that would have ended the contest.

Leath once again took care of business in the bottom of the seventh inning to send the affair into extra innings. The rule in the extra innings is that the player that recorded the final out in the previous inning starts out at second base. Addie Greene was standing in scoring position and Nester went to a small ball attack immediately.

Leath successfully bunted her over to third base and Katherine Lindamood brought her into score on a squeeze bunt. Having their first lead of the night at 2-1 the team still needed three outs and the Lady Bobcats would also start with a runner in scoring position and the heart of their order coming to the plate.

Leath would once again record three consecutive strikeouts to close out the night.

” I am really proud of how hard we battled tonight,” added Nester. “We haven’t played from behind very often this season and they kept at it right to the very end.”

Or in this case, as close as you can come to the very end.

Carroll County will have minimal time to savor their come from behind conquest as they return to action Friday night on The Hill. Galax comes to town for a 6:00pm first pitch in a Varsity only evening.

CCHS defeated Radford 20-5 in the Junior Varsity contest held to open the evening.