Managers Pippah Hancock, June Baldwin, Rhylin Combs, Riley Bond
Between the Middle School and the High School, Carroll County will have six basketball 🏀 teams and we will happily share ANY / ALL information sent in as our way of showing support for all that would like the help !
We are excited about the Basketball 🏀 Whisperer making his season debut !
To start this final story with anything other than how elegant the three members of the JV team 💙 spoke about their Coaches during a pre-match ceremony would be an injustice. Kudos to the team for creating 👏 a tug at your heart ❤ moment that I believe that both Ladies will cherish…
Two pics from Mama SmootTravis Osborne with a few pics…
In regards to the actual match, our Lady 👩 Cavaliers pushed the visiting Knights into extra points before falling 26-24.
Morgan Osborne ⚓ anchored the service line from 13-16 until 18-16 and Aubrey Hanshaw tied the set at 20-20 with an Ace – pictured above.
Scarlett Dalton landed an Ace to get Carroll County to set point at 24-23 but James River strung together three straight points to take the set, 26-24.
Carroll County trailed 12-6 when Paige Ogle and Hanshaw teamed up on a 4-0 run 🏃♂️. The Lady Cavaliers capped their comeback when Osborne landed an Ace and Aaliyah Hampton finished up a point to make it 14-14.
James River closed out the match with an 11-2 run, making the final score 25-16.
Now the season is over and the eight Sophomores will work on their games in hoping 🙏 to play on the Varsity team next year. The trio of Freshman and 8th graders have plenty of Volleyball 🏐 left in their futures !
Thank You Nikki Heflin and Thank You Shelia Harris for coaching up this group of youngsters ! Job Well Done !!!
Time to sneak in one more Photo 📷 of our Middle School 🏫 squad !
Tomorrow night 🌙 we welcome 🙏 James River High School 🏫.to The Hill for a Junior Varsity and Varsity doubleheader. It will be the final time the Gymnasium will be used this fall so it will be the final time of holding the 🎤🎙🎤 and trying to make the atmosphere everything it can be.
The theme for the night 🌙 is Pink Out as October is Breast Cancer 🎀 Awareness Month. It will also be the final time that Callie Harris, Brooke Webb and Corrie Delp play in the gym. Laiken Burnett will also be in the building for her farewell but her cast will limit her to a supportive role.
Each of the three seasons in the School year are as different as possible and then some. Fall is the one that mixes indoors and outside before everyone heads in for the Winter and then outside for the Spring.
Volleyball 🏐 will hopefully 🙏 play one more match next week in the Regional tournament and our three Cross Country runners 🏃♂️ will still race next week over in Axton at Smith River. Still a bit more writing ✍ to do but the announcing ends at match point.
The past few years with Cindy Edwards and her program has included a number of Student Athletes who have left their mark on the franchise that is Carroll County Volleyball.
Alyssa Ervin earned Three Rivers District Player of the Year and a quartet of Lady 👩 Cavaliers have went on to play at the next level. Two of the four Seniors this season have rewritten the CCHS record books 📚!!
Burnett leaves The Hill as the All-Time leader in Assists and her classmate, Callie Harris became just the second member of the 1,000 Digs club.
This season included a trio of matches with Brittany Kinney and her Middle School team nine nights with the older players.
Nikki Heflin and Sheila Harris teamed up to fill the void created by the retirement of Jason Petty. Kayla Nester stepped into the role of Assistant Coach for Varsity as Maleah Neely stepped away to catch her breath. Kim Weddle rounds out the Varsity staff and Coach Kelly Holderfield assisted at the Middle School.
Add up all of the names of the Coaches and Players in the three levels of the program and you are looking at 60 young Ladies that performed until the watchful eyes 👀 of the ‘Ole Ball Coach “. Each night they did their best to represent Carroll County and know that if they didn’t, Coach Edwards was quick to tell them so.
Going back to the Seniors, they’re final stage is still months away and they have plenty left to accomplish. But when the final point is scored Thursday night🌙 it will mark the end of an era where the home Gym is concerned.
Getting to meet our three Varsity Moms yesterday afternoon was a treat and Shannon Dalton mentioned later that the same trio spend time together during MACC season as well.
Each of the 11 Carroll County High School and Middle School runners 🏃♂️ play a role in assisting Coach Montgomery in hosting the event.
In each of the three races 🏁 the crowd would cheer loudly for the final runner as he or she crossed the Finish line!
Hillsville – Cross Country Head Coach Shawn Montgomery is the one in charge of all four Cavalier teams and they were all on display Wednesday afternoon at Hillsville Elementary School.
Grayson County Blue Devils, Patrick County Cougars, Rural Retreat Indians and the Giles Spartans were all in with their teams while the Auburn Eagles participated in just the Middle School races.
The meet went for just over 90 minutes start to finish and included three races. Opening up the day was the 18 Middle School Girls. Montgomery normally has four runners in this event put both Polly Beamer and Haleigh Smith were unavailable. Reece Bunker (13:04.0) of Giles won the event while Carroll County runners Alexis Ponce (17:43.6) finished 13th and Aleksa Harriman( 26:47.8) placed 18th.
The second race was the Middle School Boys and was the largest field of the day as 40 runners represented the six teams.
The Middle School Boys entered the event as the only squad eligible for the team competition. This group of nine runners are enjoying a strong season, highlighted by winning the meet held at Grayson County. Six of the nine were available in the race and a pair of Cavaliers placed inside the Top Ten.
Mason Ponce (12:31.5) led the way with a third place finish and seventh place went to Issac Chambers ( 13:13.2). The Cavaliers claimed spots 21-23 with Sylas Nissel (14:14.7), Wyatt Burian (14:31.7) and Colton Marshall (15:03.2) following each other across the finish line.
Tymas Nissel ( 18:07.8) rounded out the Cavalier runners 🏃♂️
Team Scores :
Auburn 18
Carroll County 58
Grayson County 77
Patrick County 79
Middle School 🏫 Cavaliers
The third and final race was the Varsity one with 27 runners split between both the Boys and Girls. While the youngsters cover 2.0 miles, the Varsity runners cover a full 5K (3.2 miles).
15 Boys and 12 Girls were the final number of runners. Amelia Forsyth placed ninth with a time of 27:31.1 and the winner was Cameron Rakes of Patrick County.
Trenton Newman continued his recent stretch of PR’s, claiming 8th overall with a time of 23: 33.9. Will Dalton landed in 12th place after posting a run of 25:14.0
Carroll County will return to the road for the remainder of their regular season before heading to the Regional meet.
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Dropping below the story for the Newspaper 📰, here are my pics of the six Middle School Boys crossing the finish line. Followed by our other five runners.
Now, the two Middle School Girls 👧 as they finish up.
Trenton bringing it 🏡🏠🏡AmeliaIn fairness to Will, his is one second late because of someone blocking the angle.
