Carroll County Middle School 🏫 Volleyball defeats the visiting Bobcats 2-1 on Father’s Day on The Hill !

Photo Credit : Linda Carter

Tuesday night 🌙 was our third consecutive Triple Header with the Middle School team and the youngest of our Lady Cavaliers went out in style by defeating the Bobcats 2-1 ( 25-15, 25-18, 9-15).

Head Coach Brittany Kinney was out of town for some educational classes in Northern Virginia so Kelly Holderfield slid into the Captains chair 💺 with both Nikki Heflin and Kayla Nester by her side.

CCMS led 7-5 when Laynee Burnett served up five consecutive points, including four straight Aces, to push the score out to 12-5. Briley McGhee scored two Kills and Lillian Spencer added an Ace to make it 18-9. The Lady Cavaliers finished out the set when Emma Keith scored the set closing Kill at 25-15.

The second set was knotted up 11-11 until CCMS scored five straight points with Peyton Burcham at the service line. McGhee made it 18-12 with an over the shoulder Kill. McGhee added two more late Kills, Burnett added one more service winner and Spencer scored the match point to close out the 25-18 victory.

The two teams played a third set to 15 afterwards, giving both teams much needed playing time for their rosters. The Bobcats team won the final set 15-9 but the Lady Cavaliers finished up with some highlights. Laken Lintecum served three straight points to cut the deficit to 11-9 before the visitors closed out the set with the final four points.

Fun three nights 🌙 with the three teams playing under the same roof. As Coach Kinney and Coach Holderfield finish up their season, PLEASE know that 🙏 in and all updates are Welcome here.

On a personal note 📝 , I did my best to create as positive of an atmosphere for the young ones the past three nights, because they are our future!

How close was the 5 hours of Volleyball 🏐 between Radford and Carroll County on Tuesday ??? Answer is that it could not have been any closer !

Photo 📷 : Marion Harris

Between the three matches, the Bobcats and Cavaliers played a total of 10 sets and naturally the teams finished tied 5-5.

How about the point totals ? Carroll County 194, Radford 193… crazy competitive from start to finish.

Carroll County captured both the Middle School and Junior Varsity matches 2-1 and Radford closed out the night by winning the Varsity match, 3-1.

Per the normal, we will break down the matches in the order they were played, starting with the Middle School 🏫.

Patti Goins with the side capture of the Junior Varsity Introduction line !

The Gymnasium is open for Business ! Middle School 🏫 Volleyball starts at 4:30..

Here for the evening…

Set #1 – Cavaliers 25, Bobcats 15 (4:51)

5:14 – Cavaliers 25 – 18 !!!

5:29 – Bobcats win 15-9

20 minutes on the Clock ⏰

Opening Set of Junior Varsity :

Radford 25, Carroll County 16 (6:14)

Set #2 – Carroll County 25-21 6:43

6:58 – Carroll County 15-10 !!!

Radford wins opener 25-22 !!!

Fun 3:00 1 on 1 with Isaiah Easter !!!

8:22 – Carroll County 25, Radford 14

Tied, 1-1

8:48 – Radford 25, Carroll County 16

Off to the fourth set…

9:22 – Radford 25, Carroll County 23

Great Night 🌙 of Volleyball 🏐

Mother’s Day as Carroll County Middle School hosted Scott Memorial Maroons. Little Cavaliers took their guests to three sets before falling just short.

Scott Memorial. 25. 22. 15

Carroll County 17. 25. 6

Brittany Kinney and Kelly Holderfield led their Middle School 🏫 Volleyball 🏐 team into action 🎬 Monday night and their team showed streaks of positive play.

In the opening set, the Lady Cavaliers trailed 16-5 early and 21-9 later but Briley McGhee headed to the service line and sparked a 5-0 run with three Aces and a fourth service winner. Laynee Burnett added both a Kill and an Ace before the Maroons closed out the opener, 25-17.

Mahala Holderfield and Burnett each landed an early Ace and then Emma Keith strung together three straight perfect serves to put the home team up 9-6. Tied at 14-14, Carroll County went on a 7-1 run to make it 21-15. The Lady Cavaliers closed out the second set 25-22 , forcing a winner take all third set.

Keith and McGhee opened the third set with consecutive Kills to make it 2-0. The Maroons answered with an 11-0 run to put the set out of reach. Zari Cushman and Burnett added points before Scott Memorial closed out the set, 15-6.

The Middle School 🏫 Volleyball team is set to host Radford Middle School Tuesday at 4:30.

Next step, I will send this to Coach Kinney and hopefully 🙏 we can add some of her thoughts !

From Coach Kinney :

Jerry-

I’m writing this post from Leesburg. After the game tonight, I headed straight out to a two day training in Ashburn, VA. I’m teaching a college class in the spring and needed this.

I thought our girls fought well tonight. That second game, was a true version of their best selves… happy & playing volleyball & winning.

I told our girls tonight I’m continuing to hold them to the “pass-set-hit” standard and most of the time we are executing that well to be a team of middle school girls!

You can see tonight serving is one of the most important (if not the most important) parts of volleyball. I thought we did a much better job at this than normal. I’m so proud of our girls for their performance!!

During the third set, we lost our composure a little bit and stopped having fun. Our score reflected that.

However, these girls are working hard. They are looking for feedback and they want to be successful.

I’m leaving them in the hands of the amazing Coach Kelly, Coach Nester, and Coach Heflin! I’ll be watching (and wishing) I could be on the sidelines with them tomorrow night for Radford.