Beth Bouldin takes us live in Wytheville, Virginia as the Middle School Girls and Boys Basketball 🏀 teams are set to compete SIX times today ! We will be adding to this as long as possible !!

From Beth :

Good morning from George Wythe High School, it’s tournament day! The Lady Cavaliers are warming up and tip-off at 8am, the boys have arrived and should play at 9am.

Have an awesome day Cavaliers, let’s go ballin!

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Half time, 4-17, Lady Maroons coming in strong with the lead.

Final for Lady Cavs Game 1: 8-36 Lady Maroons

And the boys are off! Let’s go Cavs! 💙🩶🤍

Halftime 18-14, Maroons lead by 4 after a hard battle back by the Cavaliers to close the score gap.

Final for Boys Game 1: 28-23, MaroonsWe’ll be back in action after noon!

Boys tip off Game 2 in 5 minutes to battle with the fellas from Rural Retreat. Let’s go!

Boys Game 2 has begun! Lady Cavs hanging out courtside in support.

Final for Boys Game 2: 34-28 Cavaliers
All Cavalier boys saw court time in game 2
Way to get the hustle boys, stay strong!

Meanwhile, here in Durham, opening jump !!

Lady Cavs game 2 in progress over in the main gym, tied up at 3-3 in the first half with the Lady Indians.

Halftime for the Ladies, 5-6 Lady Indians lead by 1.

Girls fall a second time but play a much more competitive game!

Each team has one more game to play.

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Game 3 begins in 3 minutes, wrapping up the long day with a face-off with the Fort Chiswell Pioneers.

The ladies are playing their final game in the auxiliary gym next door. Hope to have an update on that later.

Go Cavs, Go! 💙🩶🤍

22-18 at the half for the boys, Cavaliers pushing hard to hold that lead!

Over in the auxiliary gym, the Lady Cavs are in the second half of their 3rd game of the day, rolling past Auburn and adding another basket to make it 29-4. Hold tight Ladies!!

Cavalier boys playing serious defense, holding the lead 37-28, 4:19 left in the contest.

Boys win Game 3 43-34 with Sam Johnson posting the final point to seal it up.

Girls win Game 3 37-11

Way to close it out Cavaliers!

THANKS to Beth Bouldin !!!!!
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Breaking News from the rare sit down interview with Kris Richardson : The life of a Middle School Athletic Director hijacked our conversation..

Thursday afternoon, before the Basketball 🏀 doubleheader against Galax Middle School 🏫, I had the rare opportunity to break bread 🍞 with Kris Richardson. The highlight of the 75 minutes came when we were discussing the efforts of Mrs Kayla Nester.

First things first, Kayla has a really nice Mother-in-law, terrific parents in Scotty and Patti Goins and loving & supportive Husband. Three neat little ones that are the love of her life ! Neat little Sister too.

My unofficial job here is to seek out the people who are going above and beyond for others. Identify them, applaud them and assist them in way that I have the means to do.

I am a HUGE fan of Kayla Nester as she is a younger version of Brandi Cochran Mitchell. Basketball in College, raced back to The Hill to set up shop, raise a family 👪 and help others. Priceless !

My concern for Kayla is that she might be going at a pace too fast to maintain. That’s when Kris shared his take on what it is like to have her as an Athletic Director.

” Attention to detail, constant communication and understanding what her role is as AD. Couldn’t ask for a better situation as a Head Coach.”

Teacher, Mother of 3, Wife, Big Sister, Daughter, Assistant Coach for Varsity Volleyball 🏐 and Basketball 🏀, Middle School 🏫 Athletic Director are just some of the tasks that this young Lady 👩 is currently working on !

#RoleModel

Keep up the Amazing work Ma’am and know that wee see you and appreciate your love for Carroll County !

Notes 📝

Yes – that was an intentional dig at our friend, Rick Nester by omitting his name.

NO – I did NOT call Brandi Old, just older than Kayla!

Last Night vs Galax Middle School 🏫 Basketball 🏀 : The Building of a Story, one piece at a time!

Both the Boys 👦 and Girls 👧 teams are in the middle of playing six games inside of five days so its a challenge to gather everything one needs to create two game stories.

Information is needed from a number of sources and everyone is doing well to keep moving forward. Over the next few hours we will gather up information and pictures to create a story that will match the efforts put forth last night 🌙.

Let’s start with the Box Scores :

Boys Basketball 🏀 :

Carroll County 32, Galax 31

Galax… 11. 1. 4. 15 – 31

CCMS… 7. 7 12 6 – 32

Johnson 10, Millaway 7, Stanovick 6, Reed 5, Barr 3, Jackson 1

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Girls Basketball 🏀

Galax 21, Carroll County 18

Galax … 7 5. 6 3 – 21

CCMS … 4. 4. 6. 4 – 18

McGhee 7, Cushman 6, Dalton 5

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Next up – pictures from Beth Bouldin and the thoughts from both Carroll County coaches ➕ building a story around all of it. Stay Tuned..

Next thing to add to the mix is the thoughts of Kris Richardson :

” Things didn’t end the way we wanted it to last night. Our team continues to play extremely hard, but we just can’t get the basketball in the goal. Our hard work will pay off soon. We continue to improve daily, and that’s all you can ask for as a coach.”