Category: Carroll County

Big Ticket 🎟 Eight Day stretch began with the Alumni Game and will hopefully 🙏 end on The Rock with North Carolina coming to town…

I’m not sure if I can remember a stretch of eight days where something significant is happening on each one of them. The funny thing about it is that it touches on so many different groups that quite possibly no single person would possibly have an interest in them all.

SUNDAY – Hosting the Alumni Softball Game at Cavalier Park. Great deal of fun was had by all, or atleast it felt that way to me.

MONDAY – Carroll County Volleyball 🏐 travels up to Pulaski County High School for a make up contest with the Cougars. We have completed six of the 13 Varsity Player Profiles but that leaves seven that need to get started. This means reporting on the match and trying to get with the families of Alyssa Lawson, Corrie Delp, Arizona Thompson, Leny Richter, Heidi Painter, Maddie Hyatt and Laiken Burnett.

TUESDAY – This time the Volleyball 🏐 is at Home 🏡 to add announcing the two matches to the list of chores ➕ we will be receiving two guests from out of town ahead of a truly special event for us down in North Carolina on Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY –

6am Departure from The Hill as we head down to North Carolina for an event that we are incredibly proud to be on board with. Marion Harris will be joining us for this one and we couldn’t be any more excited about the day long event. I would expand on this one but I am not sure how interested anyone would be.

Once we get back to Carroll County on Wednesday, we will be heading to Cavalier Park for the Annual Father-Daughter Softball game. Scheduled to begin at 6:30pm.

THURSDAY – We say goodbye to our guests and prepare to head up to James River High School 🏫 for more Volleyball 🏐. This one is part of the agenda in part because there’s a meeting that I will be attending in Northern Virginia on Friday.

FRIDAY – The said meeting will take up most of the Day. Nothing here of interest but pretty relevant just the same to many others.

SATURDAY – Vickey Ritchie is hosting her Super Bowl Event up at Hillsville Elementary School 🏫 and I will be there to assist her from start to finish. Her Halloween 🎃 5K and Little Goblin 👺Run 🏃‍♂️ is simply a Blast and for her its the most important Day of the year in regards to the Special Olympics.

Helping Vickey is a blessing 🙏 in so many ways and looking forward to Saturday morning 🌄.

The second half of the calendar 📅 for Saturday notes Dakota Walls – Hickory ?. This means that Dakota could possibly be racing 🏎 down there on Saturday night 🌙, assuming that they can race 🏁 down there.

SUNDAY – Hopefully this will be the Day that we get to return to Boone for a Field Hockey 🏑 game. Since the Hurricane 🌀, we have been forced to play our home matches at other Schools but Hopefully that will end on Sunday. The University of North Carolina Tar Heels 👠 and their #1 ranked program is coming to town and it will be my first time ever announcing an event that involves the #1 College team in the Nation….

Fortunately, Duke University Football 🏈🏈🏈 has a Bye this week so there’s one less thing on the Calendar this week……

One of the tricks is trying to guess what anyone will have an interest in hearing about which makes things very difficult because I care ❤ about it all or it wouldn’t be on the List…

Volleyball x3, Softball x 2, racing 🏎 in a Car 🚗 and around a Course, fund raising in the Tar Heel State and a date with the Tar Heels in Boone. ➕ the profiles and the Out of Town Scoreboard…..

Should be something…..

Saturday’s Out of Town Scoreboard :

Ferrum Volleyball (Kalee Bunn) 🏐 is off until 10/8.

Eastern Mennonite University ( Madison Stockner) was in Danville yesterday and fell to Averett 3-2..

Union University (Ashlyn Newman) was victorious 1-0 at 🏡 versus Montevallo.

Bluefield Soccer ⚽️ (KK Newman) fell on the road against a very tough Truett McConnell squad.

Ran into the Proud Mom 👩 on the right and Mrs. Gardner was sharing some news about her daughter Cordy.

Cordy is excelling in the Classroom and playing a little Volleyball 🏐 out in the Midwest. We hope to be adding more on her adventures in the future weeks !

Kris Richardson ✔ in with an update on his 4th Grade and 5th Grade Basketball 🏀 teams after a Busy Saturday 👏

Good morning! I wanted to keep you in the loop. Long day yesterday, but it was well worth the effort. Our 4th grade team went 2-1 and finished runner-up in their first tournament of the new season.


Our 5th grade team went 2-2 and also finished runner-up. Two teams are getting better every minute, every half, every game.

Coach was out there for 7 games in one day ! Can we say Ibeprophen ?

Thank You Sir for checking 🙏 in!

Welcome 🙏 to Saturday, where all Roads lead to Atlanta after as many stops ✋as I can squeeze in on the way to CLT

Stop ✋#2 is at Hillsville Elementary School 🏫 where another hard working Lady 👩 that I’ve never met is going through the last minute prep for her Big event today. Allyson Taylor, standing 🧍‍♂️ here next to Ethan Edwards.

Stop ✋ #1 was the office 🏢 to gather up some goodies we have for the Bingo event tonight.

I feel pretty good about the number of items that we were able to stuff inside of a bag 🎒 for Kayla Nester.

The two young Ladies at the wheel of this event today !

Allyson has been facing tough decisions about the event taking place today, after the devastating Storm turned so many people, places and things upside-down. Everyone who has been planning something are all facing tough decisions.

The final verdict was to move forward and let the Community as a whole and the Children in particular have some fun.

Pretty sure that the Adults that get to bring their Big Rigs out to show off will have some fun today as well.

Anna Nester, Amy Nester (Principal) and Mrs. Gardner.

Mrs. Nester is the kind Soul that opens to her building on Sundays for Special Olympics. We 💘 her for that.

Our Community on display !

Next Stop ✋ – Junior Varsity Volleyball 🏐….

Two neat Ladies accepting our donation to their Bingo efforts tonight !

12:25 – Gate City is in the Building !

Final Countdown has begun…

3:00 to Wopner !

First Serve – 1:05

👔 at 4, Trailing 10-6…

Gate City 16 -9, CC TO

CC 4 straight, within 19-15 , GC TO

GC 23-16 [TO CC], 23-20 [GC TO]

1:30 pm – Gate City 26, Carroll County 24…. Great opening set….

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Set #2 – Gate City 5-0, TO CC

14-4, 16-4, 17-4 [CC TO], 22-6, 25-7

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1:48 pm —- 1:51 – 30:00 put on clock ⏰

Four more of the 16 JV Players have been captured, just 2 more to go…

First Serve at 2:28 pm….

5-4 Carroll County (2:34) Ali Wright is on Fire 🔥 early… GC 9-8

👔 at 10… 2:38 pm

1 hour, 42 minutes out..

Won 1st set 25-16
Won 2nd set 25-21…From Marion Harris

Lost 3rd set 25-20

4:38 – LT #2, M

4:45 – Shuttle Bus

Marion hasn’t sent me an update in a few minutes, last one had Carroll County up 2-1, 23-19. Sure hoping its because we are celebrating and not because we are playing a 5th set.

Hey, Trenton Miller, I could have watched another 6 or 7 points……

Lady 👩 Cavaliers Volleyball 🏐 3, Gate City Blue Devils 1…

Nikki Heflin scores the 15th of 16 Pics needed for our JV Project !!!

Mrs. Patti Goins with the JV Pics !

Boarding Door 🚪 is closed…. Next stop ✋ is the ATL !!!

So, that happened….All of my planning down to the minute, Pilot just came on and said that we can’t move until the Vice President and her Flight takes off…….

Just when I thought I had a chance to breathe easy….

Flight ✈️ time 6:37 – 7:12, 48 minutes to Kickoff…

What a great atmosphere here under the Lights!

GT 10, Duke 0 (2:26 -2nd)