Another Basketball 🏀 story ???? This one comes with some BLING, BLING!!!!!

From the desk of Kris Richardson :

Big day for Basketball.
5th grade girls champion in a Roanoke tournament. We finished 3-0 today in our first tournament of the new season. They played very hard. Check out the hardware they won!

Congratulations 👏👏👏 !!!!

They tell me that a single Photograph can be worth 1,000 words, this one screams about the size of Floyd County Middle School Boys 👦 Basketball as week 3 of the season concluded Thursday night on The Hill…

Captains Meeting – Photo 📷 Credit : Beth Bouldin.

Floyd County came to town Thursday night and both the Boys and Girls teams raced out to lightning 🌩 fast starts and never looked back. The Cavalier teams will now look to catch their breath after playing 11 times in the opening 3 weeks.

Kris Richardson and his Girls opened the double header against the visiting 🐃🐃🐃 squad and Coach takes us inside the night 🌙.

” Tough loss again tonight. We could have given up after they jumped up 12-0. We hung tough the rest of the 1st half and never gave up. Second half jitters got to us late in the 3rd quarter. After multiple turnovers, they started to pull away. I’m proud of their resilience. I keep starting different lineups to see if we can get a spark.

We will keep fighting and hopefully learn from our mistakes. It also hurts that Zari Cushman has missed all 3 games this week with concussion symptoms. Praying for a speedy recovery for her.”

The final score was 39-16 (20-5 at the half) and the bonus quarter went to Carroll County by a score of 9-4.

Tuesday evening is the next time that CCMS will return to action 🎬 as the Cavaliers head over to Patrick County to face the Cougars.

Boys 👦 Game : Darian Brown coaches 15 hard nosed future Cavaliers and they play with a great deal of energy for all 24 minutes across a game. Gritty, determined,passionate, defensive minded are all ways one could describe the 6-5 Cavaliers. What the team lacks in size, they simply out hustle their opponent, but they struggled Thursday night versus the mass of the Buffaloes.

54-19 was the final score as Floyd County netted 27 points in each of the halves. The fifth quarter played to a 9-9 ,draw to end the evening.

I’m still hoping 🙏 to add some more information on the Boys game and get the thoughts of Coach Brown later today.

Coach Brown checks in with his thoughts on the night 🌙,

” Those guys were big! I’m a tall guy and never did I think I would be looking up to players while coaching middle school. Their starting 5 was bigger than our varsity but our guys didn’t back down. We battled the whole game and that’s what I’m most proud of. I think they ran away with it when the Harman kid drained 3 threes in the third. It’s moments like those that we have to get better at preventing.

We are going to bounce back next week and try to go 3-0 through another tough week of games.”

Thank You Coaches !

We have arrived in Hollins so let’s see how much coverage we can provide for our Four Basketball 🏀 games ! Let’s start with Beth Bouldin on The Hill for 2 and then 2 College games.

Blue – Yellow Sky is fitting for Floyd County and Carroll County match-ups !

Basketball night once again at CCMS! Floyd County Buffaloes are in town for the evening. Ladies are warming up and start off in 12 minutes, boys will play next.

Play strong til the final buzzer Cavs! 💙🏀🩶🏀🤍

We also have College Ball as Alyssa Ervin and the Smoot Twins have games tonight.

Stick Around…..

Lady Buffaloes taking the first half, 5-20.

Game #1 of 4 has gone Final :

Final from the Lady’s game, 16-39 Lady Buffaloes with the win.

Southwest Virginia Community College is now underway in Greensboro !

Good News from The Hill :

5th quarter belongs to the Lady Cavaliers with a score 9-4

Feels a little like “Facing the Giants” at halftime, Floyd leading the ball game 8-27.

Final for the boys 19-54, Floyd

ESPN+ has Furman University as Beth Bouldin finishes up with the 5th quarter

Fifth quarter ends in a 9-9 tie 👔

End of 1st – Furman University down 2

Alyssa Ervin – 3 points, 2 assists, 1 block and 1 rebound in 1st quarter.

Halftime – Georgia State 31-30

Alyssa adds 1 offensive rebound and 1 Foul to her totals. 2:37 time on the floor after 6:03 in the 1st.

8:00 – no update available yet on SWCC – GTCC

What is a Paladin ?

Knightley Champion / Defender of a Noble Charge..

Good 2 Know…

4:48 played

3 points

2 more rebounds

Team leads 53-52 with 10 to play…

Headed to Overtime at Furman University, tied at 75 !

Will continue to search for the SWCC Box 📦 Score.. Not available yet…

Once again, Carroll County versus Galax Middle School Basketball produces plenty of Atmosphere as the teams split two games Wednesday night.

One week after holding off a furious rally from visiting Galax Middle School, Head Coach Darian Brown returned to his old stomping grounds looking for the season sweep. The first year coach earned his sixth victory of the season as his Cavaliers defeated the Maroon Tide 33-25 Wednesday night.

Playing 10 games in 18 days can wear down a group but Brown is loving what he sees from his Cavaliers.

” I just want to start by saying I’m so proud of my guys!,” said Brown. “Tonight’s atmosphere was great, I bet a lot of varsity teams don’t get crowds like that. Once again my guys showed up. I know they’re tired and banged up after 3 games on Saturday and playing on the road last night but they continue to show up. I made it clear after the game how important everyone on this team is. We have guys who aren’t playing a ton of minutes but show up at practice everyday ready to compete and make each other better. Some of those same guys show up every morning before school to get shots up! I can’t wait to see the final product when these guys are playing on the varsity team. I love the unselfishness and the way everyone supports each other on this team and I owe a lot of our success to that.”

Gibson Barr dropped a game high 15 points to lead the way but had plenty of help in the scoring column. Six more Cavaliers netted points and its worth noting that Sam Johnson was money 💰 from the free throw line in the fourth quarter, going six for six.

Clinging to a 14-11 lead heading into the break, Brown watched his defense go lights out in the third quarter. Not sure if there was a Duke Floor Slap involved but the Cavaliers held Galax scoreless in a 9-0 breakaway six minutes.

Carroll County … 5 9 9 10 – 33

Galax MS.. – 6 5 0 14- 25

Carroll County (33) – Barr 15, Johnson 6, Stanovcak 4, Millaway 3, Reed 2, Hill 2, Poe 1.

On the Girls side of things, Coach Kris Richardson received offensive production from five Lady Cavaliers with Kierra Robinson leading the way with 10 points. The growing pains continue for the young ball club but this time around they avoided the early knock out punch 👊.

Carroll County trailed just 6-4 after the opening quarter and the margin each time was close (2,5,3,1) each time. The 24 points scored was one of the highest totals of the season but the Big 3 of Galax combined for 29 of the 35 points.

Natalie Dalton finished with six points and Maddie Carico netted four while both Briley McGhee and Raegan Combs added a basket 🧺. The offense was there but this time slowing down the Maroon Tide was the issue.

Carroll County will return to The Hill to host Floyd County Thursday night as the Lady Cavaliers complete their three games in three nights schedule for the week.

Coach Richardson knows that his team will get there and remains optimistic about the future.

” I am trying to comprehend what we can do better, as I set licking my wounds” said Richardson.” We play hard, but we just can’t get over the hump. Making shots, cutting down on turnovers are the two things we need to work on the most.”

Carroll County 4 4 9 7 – 24

Galax MS 6 9 12 8 – 35

Carroll County (24) – Robinson 10, Dalton 6, Carico 4, Combs 2, McGhee 2.