Victory #101 is in the Books 📚! Kayla Nester and her Girls 👧 Basketball team is smoking Hot 🔥 right now and both the Coach and Kevin Burress are going to take you inside the Victory

If I had to point to one thing that people haven’t grasped is that I never looked to attend every game possible. I have been searching for others that wanted to participate in “covering ” events for us. Tonight I will walk you through the stage door 🚪 of making a story happen.

When I’m doing a running 🏃‍♂️ blog on a given night one of the things I am doing is making notes 📝 to myself.

 Kevin Burress was doing the same thing tonight and the next thing you will see is the running 🏃‍♂️ updates he was sending me.

JV Lady Cavs trail after the first quarter 7 to 2. Natalie Burress with the only basket of the quarter for the Cavs.

Lady Cavs up at the half 18 to 9

Signal isn’t good so I apologize!

(I feel your pain, Brother)

35 to 11 Lady Cavs after the 3rd quarter

  Final from Patrick county 40 to 29 Cavs come out on top.

Now you have seen Kevin’s notes 📝 to both himself and to me and a few pictures 📷. The team celebrates another win before heading back to The Hill.

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Next step in the process is that Coach Nester reaches out and shares both the score book and her thoughts on the game.

We won! 40-28.

“We started off a little slow, but once we saw the ball go in the basket the tempo changed within seconds. These girls are continuing to show their progress and hard work. We are sharing the basketball and it shows in the score book. They are on a mission to be #1 in our district and only 2 games away from that chance! So proud of them and proud to be called their coach! “

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Next up, Kevin gets a chance to string his thoughts on the game together and pens 🖊 his version of a Gamer!

Carroll County Girls start slow 🐌 but they Shake, Shake , Shake it off.

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By : Natalie’s Proud Papa

Stuart – Carroll County made the most of their trip to Stuart Thursday night as the defeated Patrick County, 40-29.

The girls got off to a really slow start tonight. Shots just wasn’t falling and they seemed out of sorts.
The 2nd quarter was the turning point for the Lady Cavs, they really started looking like the team we know they are. Outscoring Patrick County 16 to 2 and leading at halftime 18 to 9.
The 3rd quarter was much of the same as the 2nd. Great team defense and getting more shots to fall the Cavs outscored Patrick County 17 to 2 for a score of 35 to 11 going into the final quarter. With most of the Lady Cavs starting 5 on the bench, Patrick County proved they wasn’t going to give up and showed great toughness as they tried to mount a comeback. Once Patrick County got within single digits and about 3 minutes left in the quarter, Coach Nester returned to her original lineup to seal the game. Patrick County outscored the Lady Cavs 18 to 5 in the final frame but coming up just short. The final was 40 to 29 Lady Cavs come out on top.

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Now you have seen behind the curtain and as the night 🌙 goes on I will mesh that all together and create a full blown story byline going to Kevin Burress. When Velvet Leonard reads this I hope it helps to explain the point about adding one of her Top Shelf photos 📷 to it.

 A great example for that was my story on the Varsity Girls game the other night was a solid story and then Craig Worrell gave me one of his 👁 popping photos and it took my story to another level.

 It’s midnight now and I’m running behind but I wanted to get this one up and out now. In the middle of the night I will continue with it.

 Meanwhile, how ’bout Kevin Burress !

Apologies to Ranger Smith but we did feed the (Golden) Bears 🐻 and we did it right here on The Hill !

Lawrence Nesselrodt and I are now in our third decade of hanging out and Ness is in his fifth decade of baseball ⚾️ when you combine his playing days and his coaching career. His relationship with the game of Baseball is a Love story. Our West Virginia Tech Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball team is playing its season opener Friday morning down in North Carolina and other year I would be heading down with them. But the 15 points that need to be scored and then celebrated on The Hill tomorrow night changed my plans.

The next best thing would be to meet up with the team and treat them to dinner being their vans would be driving 🚗 right through Carroll County. Once I finished up with the Podcast I had been invited to record (story coming) I headed over to the parking lot of the Pizza 🍕 Inn to catch up with the team.

Two games on Friday and two more on Saturday and then back to School up in Beckley for class on Monday morning.

 It was a fun way to end another busy, busy day. Getting to visit with Lawrence “Big Picture ” Nesselrodt and this years Golden Bears 🐻

Spring is in the Air, albeit the Air is a bit nippy

Two of our Spring Coaches took to the outdoors once again today as we edge closer to the Spring start date.

Both Softball and Boys 👦 Soccer ⚽️ were hard at it as the Sun begins to set.

The JV Basketball 🏀 teams are over in Stuart and should be starting shortly. Next stop is the Podcast studio 🎙

Busy, busy night ahead of us but it should be fun…more later

Table #5 @ the Banquet belongs to our Greg Talley or as we call him – Mr.T

The amount of things that Greg Talley and I have in common continues to grow everytime we compare notes 📝. Our Love for attaching nicknames to people, places and things has to sit near the top of the list.

 Anyone that reads my writing ✍ knows that I call Hillsville, The Hill and David at The Carroll News is Allen Worrell’s Plucky Sidekick. Greg does the same thing with the Student Athletes he coaches on our Carroll County High Tennis 🎾 team. A nickname is designed to be an term of endearment, at least in my World 🌎 and Greg’s as well. Greg writes ✍ in a colorful manner when he sends me his stuff during Tennis 🎾 season and his assistance with the Boys 👦 Basketball team has been incredible.

 The photo 📷 above is one Greg recreates everytime he can because of just how proud he is of this group of Basketball 🏀 players that have been playing together since the 3rd grade. The third place that our paths cross is with the Special Olympics Basketball when Mrs. Ritchie needs assistance. I need a dozen or so people like Greg, a Parent proud of his Son ➕ a Coach that’s proud of his program with a sense of humor. The amount of ways that Greg is a part of what we are trying to do here continues to build and we Love 💘 him for it ! Another thing that the two of us have in common is we don’t hide from our age, we lean into growing old.

Mr.T is a kind hearted soul that Loves his Children and their friends. Just like to old Saturday Night Live skit with Christopher Walken – “We need more Cowbells.” Greg Talley is our Cowbell and you will find him at the head of Table #5 on March 23rd !