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
Three pics from the 5th quarterCaptains Meeting
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…
3rd quarter stats:
4:48 played
3 points
2 more rebounds
Team leads 53-52 with 10 to play…
Smoots earn a W!!!!!!
Headed to Overtime at Furman University, tied at 75 !
Will continue to search for the SWCC Box 📦 Score.. Not available yet…
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.
Photo 📷 Credit : Beth Bouldin
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.”
Darian Brown and Kris Richardson kicked off another busy stretch of Hoops Tuesday night 🌙 by hopping on the Bus 🚌 and driving over to Dublin for contests with Pulaski County Middle School.
Wednesday night they will play at Galax and then return to The Hill Thursday night to host Floyd County.
Both teams fell behind early as the Cougars jumped out to a HOT start and its worth noting that the Cavaliers won the second half of both contests!
The difference in the game was the Cougars #1 Miss Hartley. She scored 11 points in the opening hall and finished up with a game high 15. Defensively, she blocked a number of shots and altered many more.
Briley McGhee scored all six of the Lady Cavaliers first half points and finished up with a team high eight. Natalie Dalton, Reagan Combs and Kierra Robinson each scored in the second half.
One of the bright spots for Richardson was that his defense held the Cougars to just seven points after the break.
Offensively, Carroll County dropped eight points in the extra time with Maggie Branch accountin for five.
Note – I now understand the scoring process in the bonus time as each time a team is whistled for a foul the opponent is awarded one point. It was a treat to hear such an impressive young man 👨 announcing the game last night and he explained that to us.
Last time against Galax, the Lady Cavaliers had four good looks in the final minute to tie or take the lead before falling by three points.
While the Girls were dealing with one dominant player, the Boys were up against a two headed monster 👹. Liam Flores (13 points ) and Brayden Grubb (15 points ) at times looked like they could be playing Varsity sooner than later.
The duo matched the 28 points scored by the Cavaliers with Grubb hitting three 3-pointers in the early stages.
Gibson Barr was battling every step of the way and led Carroll County with 14 points. Six other Cavs dented the scorebook with Grant Reed and Ben Mitchell each adding three points for Coach Brown.
As was the case in the Girls contest, CCMS won the second half 19-13 behind the combination of Barr scrapping on the offensive end and the team defense picking up the intensity.
Galax – Carroll County Boys 👦 was a remarkable game last week on The Hill and there’s hope that it can be the same type of battle tonight.
In the bonus period the Cougars won 11-7 with Daniel Bouldin ( 4 points ) and Dane Austin ( 3 points ) scoring for the Cavaliers.
I will circle 🔵 back to add any thoughts that the Coaches have after they see the Post 📫.
Today is set to be day 3 for tryouts as the Varsity coaches work on creating their rosters for the Winter. We should be seeing the results by the end of the week.
Back to Durham for game #3 of 8Travis Osborne with his Bible Verse 🙏 of the Day will appear right here shortly.
Proverbs 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Howard Mayo with his Motovational Nugget of the Day will appear here in a bit.
Still have game stories to create for the Middle School games last night over at Pulaski County. They will include a number of pics from Beth Bouldin.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 