The next eight days promise to hold a great deal of Life!

At the beginning of a week the idea 💡 is to see what’s happening 👀 and then building around those events to complete a game plan. This week it might have to happen the other way around

Today just got better as the Golden Bears 🐻 plated four runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie up today’s game at 4-4. This series started out as Friday-Saturday then moved to Saturday – Sunday double headers to let’s pray 🙏 we can get one in on Sunday and play two on Monday.

Monday is the crossover day for High School 🏫 Athletics. While many teams have been holding off season workouts, its time for the actual team tryouts to take place.

⚾️🧢(2), Softball(2) , Soccer ⚽️ (3), Track & Field (2) and Tennis 🎾 (2) are all ready to get started.

As you can see Carroll County High School does not compete in LaCrosse but we have all of the rest covered.

We want to offer encouragement to each student athlete trying out for each sport.

Monday will have me up in Beckley, West Virginia, announcing our (WVU-T) baseball ⚾️ double header.

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Tuesday – It’s our hope to create the time for a photo-op with Velvet Leonard and Carlie Beamer ahead of the Varsity Basketball 🏀 games on The Hill. 5:30 & 7:00 are the tip times for the second day involving a pair of ball games. Both Varsity teams will be playing at home 🏡 and they will both be favored to the Regional Semi-final round but this is the post season, where nothing is guaranteed.

Alyssa Ervin is 25 points shy of 2,000.

Tuesday – Photo 📷 and Hoops ➕ keeping an eye 👁 on the MACC meet.

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Wednesday will be Day 3 of tryouts and many of the Coaches will be in decision making mode. Boys Soccer, Baseball and Softball each have a Junior Varsity team so for them it begins the separation window.

Wednesday – Back to Beckley for another Golden Bears 🐻 double header.

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Thursday – The Carroll County High School Varsity Girls Basketball team is slated to play their Region Semi-final at 4pm up in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech. This game is dependent upon CCHS capturing its game on Tuesday night 🌙. A victory on Thursday night would advance the team to the State Tournament once again.

Noon – Another 📷 op, this time up at Cavalier Park with Rick Nester & Allen Worrell plus some special guests.

Night – After the game at VT it will be one final trip down to Tennessee for closure with the recent passing of one of my two older sisters.

MACC has a second match at 6pm

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Friday : is set to start in Tennessee but end up in Blacksburg with the Boys playing a 7pm game in the Regional Semi-final. As is the case with the Girls 👧, a win and they are into the State Tournament !

This one would be a HUGE get for the Boys 👦!

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Saturday – Fingers crossed we are back in Blacksburg with both the Boys and the Girls but we will have to wait and see how the week plays out for Coach Barnes and Coach Motley.

There’s also a Father / Daughter Dance 💃 through the FCA that evening.

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Sunday – Just for fun let’s toss out a Daily Double for Sunday –

Macie Adkins softball outside of Raleigh followed by 9 CCHS Dancers performing at Halftime of a Women’s Basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium 🏟

Right now we need a run to tie up a game that should have started on Friday.

. It will be fun to look back and compare notes 📝 on what all actually takes place!

Go Cavaliers !!!

WALK 🚶‍♂️OFF !

It’s Award Season 👏 for Winter Sports and we are adding more to the list when and where its appropriate. This one is a No-Brainer !

Photos 📷 curtosey of Velvet Leonard

Kayla Young would be an unanimous selection for Three Rivers District JV Girls 👧 Player of the Year !

The award doesn’t exist so we will have to call it something like, OneofUs.Care Player of the Year for the Region of Southwest Virginia at the Junior Varsity Girls level.

Glad we do not have to pay by the letter.

The team finished 18-4 and captured both the regular season crown 👑 and the tournament crown 👑 this year. Our 8th grader was part of a team that shook of the effects of facing Pulaski County twice early on and once the team starting rolling there was no stopping them.

The District does award a Tournament Champion plaque at the JV level. If they went deeper we would have received a Coach of the Year & Player of the Year, just as we did for both Varsity teams!

Congratulations 👏👏👏 one more time, to the Coach, the Team & the School 🏫 👏

Live from Richmond, curtosey of Mrs.Dalton. We will be there from beginning to end !

200 Medley is first up shortly after 9 am

We will be updating throughout the day, until our Cavaliers are finished competing .

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Ethan Edwards has completed 200 free. Waiting on results

Ethan Edwards is second alternate for finals

He’ll have to wait and see if anyone scratches.

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Medley Relay at 17th. We are first alternate. If someone scratches, they will get to swim tonight.

***** Update

Check that. We are in. There was a DQ. Going to finals!

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Bradley dropped 1.27 for a new personal best in 200 IM. Finished 19th in a crazy fast group of IM swimmers.

Waiting on 50 Free results for Wyatt

Fan clubs in the house !

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Wyatt is second alternate for 50 Free, also in a crazy fast event.

Ethan Edwards first alternative in 100 Fly. All top 16 were sub minute.

The best of the best is clearly on display today !

11am updates –

Ethan Richardson came in 23rd in 100 Free

Bradley is second alternate for 500 Free

Wyatt up in backstroke next

Then 400 Free Medley

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Wyatt was 20th in back.

400 free on deck

400 Free Relay is in the finals in 15th place!

Kids are breaking for lunch. Headed back for finals with warm-ups starting at 4 pm.

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Evening Session :

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Carroll’s seniors up in lights

First race at 5:05

Warm-ups underway

Looking dialed in !

200 Relay finishes 16th in the State!

Wyatt on backstroke, Bradley on breaststroke, Ethan E on fly, Ethan R on free.

More photos 📷

6pm – Short Break during a long day.

With the start time being 9am and the end time yet to be determined the loop borders on being a 3 Day, 2 Night circuit out of necessity.

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Boys finished 14th in 400 Free Relay.

Our quartet just completed the final race of the night 🌙., just shy of 12 hours after they jumped into the Pool for warm-ups.

” They held 12th for most of the race, but got passed near the end by some crazy fast anchor leg swimmers.”

Shannon Dalton has guided us through 12 hours of coverage and for that we are incredibly grateful 🙏

Huge thanks to Ron at Omega for rushing through these awesome shirts for the guys.

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to the Swimmers 🏊‍♂️ but just as important, let’s show appreciation for everyone that was in the building showing support for Our Cavaliers !

Godspeed on your journey back down the Highway 🛣🙏