The day started out normal enough, picked up momentum in the afternoon and closed out as the second biggest day we’ve experienced.

Not really sure what triggered some new people finding their way in but Welcome to what I like to call “The Happy Place “. The goal was to design a place online that only contains positives and has a direct tie 👔 to someone or something in Carroll County, Virginia. A place where folks of all ages could check ✔ in with they have a few minutes and find out about all the wonderful 👏 things happening around them.

There are some days where its easy to stop and wonder if people realize that the site is there but that wasn’t the case yesterday. So if you are just finding out about the site, Welcome 🙏. Each read is designed to be consumed in two minutes or less because we appreciate just how busy everyone is and we aren’t looking to give people homework.

For those of you that have along for years, God Bless You 🙏❤

Wrapping up with a nod to the impressive young Lady 👩 that continues to live life in the only way she knows how – Full Speed Ahead !

Ed Robtison held his Girls youth Basketball 🏀 clinic and our Alyssa Ervin assisted along with Ed’s daughter Zoe.

Southwest Virginia CC ( Macie Adkins) and UVA-WISE ( Lauren Alley) both wrapped up their regular seasons.

Dakota Walls ran practice laps at Franklin County Speedway ahead of tomorrow afternoon.

Our Marion Harris refereed Soccer ⚽️ games until his legs 🦵 hurt down in Winston-Salem and will do it again tomorrow morning 🌄

Our academic team competed today at Virginia High and we are still hoping to hear about it from Shannon Dalton 🙏.

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Congratulations to:Mystery Team: 3rd Place Open Division(After a tie-breaker for 2nd)Alan Webb and CJ Richardson

Awesome Sauce: 8th Place High School Connor Beasley, Payton Shupe, Thomas Payne, and Garrison Wheatley Goofy Goobers: 13th Place High School

Bradley Dalton, Jacob Talbert, James Mendez-Guzman, Zoe Martin, and William Dalton

Top Individuals:Bradley Dalton: 2nd Place High School, 7th OverallPayton Shupe 18th Place High School, 31st Overall

Dalton & Shupe won prizes for being in the top ten for the morning rounds before the playoffs.

William Dalton: 38th High School, 48th OverallConnor Beasley: 39th High School, 49th OverallJacob Talbert: 40th High School, 50th Overal

l106 total players today; 25 teams (16 High School, 9 Open).

Question readers were Scott Sherrill, Paxton Berrier, and yours truly.

A fun part of this event is the open division that allows anyone to play – coaches, teachers, former players, parents. It’s open to all.

Alan Webb and former MACC standout CJ Richardson partnered with a father/daughter combo to tie for second place in that division, which included at least one national championship player (on a competing team…).

By the end of the day, these guys and gals heard 180 toss up questions and possibly as many as 540 team directed bonus questions. That’s a lot of trivia!

It’s time for us to hang up our propeller hats until next fall. It’s been a great year!

Thanks to coaches Paxton Berrier, Scott Sherrill, Alex McMillian, and Rachelle Rasco (and me…).

Thanks to Alan Webb and Wayne McKnight for jumping on the bus and getting us to our games this season!

Team Awesome Sauce

Team Goofy Goobers

Team Awesome Sauce once more..

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JV Baseball ⚾️ wins again by another Football type score.

Varsity Baseball ⚾️ followed up with a victory of their own. Still hoping to hear a out it from Coach DeHaven 🙏

Ask, and you shall receive !!!

We washed cars 🚗 in Galax to raise money 💰 for the Band and we danced down at Carowinds..

Up in Ohio our Golden Bears 🐻 closed out conference play with a double header sweep over Ohio Christian University ✝️ and will host post season games next weekend !

In between keeping up with everything I was able to pen 🖊 a story about Hix Miller and his family 👪, watch some Duke & UVA softball and finally the Duke Blue & White football game.

We had singers performing up in Richmond under the guidance of Patricia Lineberry.

Just another Saturday in the Land of Cavaliers and that list didn’t take into consideration the day that Brandi had mapped out for herself, which included trying to get down to Wise.

If anyone out there has photos 📷 to add or additions, please let me know.

Swim meet tonight in Greensboro! Representing the Twin Counties tonight were Briar Sessions (Galax), and Bradley and Will Dalton (Carroll).

Friday Night Races with STAR Aquatics opened the long course season. Most of the swim year is short course – 25 yard pools with plenty of turns. But in the summer, USA Swim teams shift to long course – 50 meters (like you see if you watch Olympic swimming on TV). And 50 meters is definitely a long way down the pool.

Sessions swam 100 free, 100 fly, and 200 IM. Bradley Dalton swam 50 free, 100 breast, and 200 IM. Will Dalton checked in with 100 back, 50 free, and 50 fly.

All three probably had their best races tonight in freestyle.

And don’t forget that if this looks fun, you’re just a trip to the CWC away from having a fun summer at the pool! Summer registration is open!

Thank You to our Swim 🏊‍♂️ Ambassador, Mrs. Shannon Dalton !

Late last night 🌙 while I was writing ✍ the story on the Carroll County Softball game I received a message from Dakota Walls.

For those of you that are not familiar with the name, Walls is Student here in Carroll County that happens to be a race car driver. As we are always looking for ways to assist our youth here at home I became intrigued by someone who was so young already racing cars 🏎.

Linda and I made the trip over to the Franklin County Speedway for his first race 🏁 of the season and do our best to keep up with his efforts on the various Race Tracks.

While we are one of the number of folks that sponsor his car, we still haven’t met in person. Last night he informed me that I was only half right in describing him as a High School 🏫 student.

Dakota Walls is a student, just not in High School. The young man is attending the Middle School 🏫. For me, this only makes the story even better! Having the level of commitment to chase a dream, while still attending Middle School is astonishing in my World 🌎.

Dakota will return to the Oval this Sunday at Franklin County Speedway.

ZOOM, ZOOM !!