Wasn’t sure about the time difference, so here you go!
Psalm 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Yesterday we had solid coverage for Kalee Bunn but the Smoot Brothers were supposed to play as well. Hopefully we can get the 411…
Have a Blessed Day 🙌
The scoreboard was tilted in the favor of the visitors but that part was secondary to our Carroll County graduate 🎓.
From the Ferrum Head Coach :
” Kalee’s impact on Ferrum Volleyball extends far beyond any stat sheet. Kalee sets the standard for hard work and discipline. Kalee has excelled in the classroom, on the court and in the community. She embodies our motto, not self but others. We are grateful Kalee and wish her the best of luck as she pursues her degree in teaching.”
From there head volleyball coach
Ferrum – The Panthers will play one more home match after today but this afternoon is the Senior Day ceremony.
Being out of town will prevent us from attending the ceremony but not from celebrating the event with the Bunn Family!
1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
As we flip the calendar 📅 to November, it’s time to tweak the mission a bit but Thanks to Marion Harris we closed things out in style !
The goal for the past year was to create a ” Happy Place ” that would allow a person in Carroll County to wake ⏰ up and spend a few minutes reading about all the Awesome stuff that took place the day before in Carroll County.
No advertising, no bullying, no negativity – just positive stories about Cavalier comings and goings. Not just the Athletics but the pageantry as well as the Academics.
The past five days have been a blast because things actually worked out like they had been designed, with thousands of people checking in and enjoying the content. That was Marion being Marion and I wanted to publicly say THANKS for his efforts !!!
Perfect storm in that while I was busy trying hard to save the sanity of Mr David Broyles, Marion was making things work on the other end.
Back on September 13th at Cavalier Park we hosted an event and one of the things we did was celebrate the impending retirement of David Broyles. Greg Bolen, Kevin Burress and Russell Smoot teamed up to make it a priceless moment as we danced in costumes to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Sadly, as David was set to sail off into the Sunset 🌇 and enjoy the rest of his life with his Bride 👰, Allen Worrell stepped away from the Newspaper 📰. This left the folks in Mt. Airy no other choice but to convince David to stay on and be a Gap person until a replacement for Allen was in place.
While there are people on both sides of the fence on Allen Worrell, know that he was a skilled editor. Very good at his job and in an industry that I have been in the past 50 years, so I’m qualified to say is dwindling away to notta.
Now, our friend David is trying hard to keep the operation upright and while a wonderful person who can write ✍ and tell a story, he’s not an editor. I watched as the community paper filled space with a NFL recap instead of asking me for another story..
I’m not sure just how long David can take one for the team in the manner that he is but as long as he’s trying, I will try and do my best to assist him. This week I was able to create four stories and each one was a fun write ✍ about local people doing cool things so hopefully it will all work out for another edition !
The entire Thought Process that Lin and I have with OneofUs.Care is to give people Hope and make people smile when the World 🌎 is itching for a fight. There is still hope and this past week Marion was helping me while I was helping David and Shawn Montgomery received solid coverage for his Cross Country program. We celebrated Darian Brown earning his first victory and marveled at Kris Richardson as the Basketball Whisperer.
Kindness matters and there are so many levels of bullying that go undetected. It’s okay to give your neighbor the benefit of the doubt because we are all facing serious problems every day.
The Duke – Baylor game isn’t until Monday night so there’s no need to worry yet.
After that game in Paris, Marion and I will team up to create a International event by covering the Carroll County at Abingdon Regional Volleyball match. That will be Fun…
The next piece of business will be to create a page for the month long adventure with Duke University Women’s Basketball 🏀. This is the closing chapter for my Hoops Book 📖 as it will include the eight games that the Blue Devils will play this month.
Paris, Durham(2), Greenbriar Resort, Liberty University, Tampa Florida and finally two games in Las Vegas.
For the readers that are interested in this story they can just click on that page.
While this is taking place, I will be covering some Middle School Basketball and supporting whoever wants some positive attention.
Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌
Now that we are safely 🙏 at the Charlotte Airport awaiting our flight ✈️ to Paris, France 🇫🇷, I can finally write ✍ about the Carroll County Middle School Basketball game Thursday night on The Hill.
CCMS hosted the Blacksburg Bruins in their second home game to start the eight week season. The scorebook will tell us that our Lady Cavaliers fell short in the contest, 28-14 and while we will dig into the game,, we will also look at the Big Picture down the road.
Blacksburg Bruins 4 8 14 2 – 28
Carroll County Cavs 3 2 0 9 – 14
The two teams played an extra session and tied 5-5.
Kris Richardson falls into the category of DRIVEN and that’s our common bond. If you look at any given Coach and ask yourself, I wonder why he or she is coaching and you could have 1,000 different answers. My neighbor wants the Girls Basketball 🏀 team to return to the level of glory it experienced a few years back !
It’s such a belief in his skill set that was willing to take over the Middle School Girls Basketball program. If you want to be the Best, you gotta be willing to put in the work. The group that captured our Back 2 Back State Titles played Hoops together from the third grade on. That equals a decade of commitment and then some.
The Lady Cavaliers will play again on Monday up at Christiansburg, game three on the year but the first time it will involve a Bus 🚌 ride and playing in front of someone else’s Home fans. Just two more obstacles on the long and winding road to long term success.
It was a tremendous ” get ” to have Miss Lauren Alley on the coaching staff this season ! Yes, both Steve Martin and Richardson played the game and played it well but to a 12 year old Girl, that was back in the time of dinosaurs 🦕.
Alley played the game with a level of grit and determination that is mandatory in the game today. If I wanted to have a poster child for what is required to play today’s game of Girls Basketball, it would be the 2024 Graduate 🎓.
Looking at the box score, its easy to ask what happened in the second half ? The quarters went 0/14 and then 9/2 with the difference between the two six minute frames being the use of the off arm when on offense and being willing to play aggressive defense.
When a young Girl is growing up today she has choices. Volleyball, Basketball, Softball and Soccer with the biggest difference between the sports being the level of having someone in your grill for 94 feet. Each sport requires its own set of skills but Basketball is the one that has someone slapping at you the entire time.
Listening to the Dads sitting near me last night, I can tell you two things. They love their daughters and their understand the game because they grew up playing it. Big help in that category !
Steve Martin not only played the game well but then helped coach up his daughter years later. Martin is not bashful about communicating with the players and this is another good thing !
The team didn’t win Thursday night and they might win on Monday night but remember that this is a long-term agenda that is designed to end with Lady Cavaliers and scissors cutting down some nets.
No predictions here but I will add that I wouldn’t bet against my fellow Laurel Forkian…is that really a word ?
I have went out of my way to make Boys Coach Darian Brown feel welcome here on The Hill ! Sometimes its tough to adjust to new surroundings and its something that I have done my entire life so I want to be a personal Welcome Mat.
Two things that I can tell folks about Coach Brown – one, he has a serious Golf ⛳ Game so don’t let him take your Lunch money.
Two, Coach really liked my Duke University Coaches jacket last night and I think he would look smooth wearing one himself !!
Kira Lawson is Hero of mine and I’ve watched the current Duke University Women’s Basketball Coach grow up in my lifetime. First as a dominant player for Pat Summitt at Tennessee, then in the WNBA. Time spent as an analyst and then moved into her first Coaching position at Duke.
Lawson is also the current Coach of Team USA 🇺🇸 and right now she is in Paris. France 🇫🇷 for the Blue Devils opening game versus Baylor University. We couldn’t take advantage of the travel package offered through the School because we had Cross Country runners and Middle School Hoops to support before we could comfortably get out of town
In the month of November, Lawson will Coach eight times. Once in France, once at the Greenbriar Resort, twice at the home arena for the Las Vegas Aces, twice at Cameron Indoor Stadium, once at Liberty University and South Florida.
Let’s call 📞 it a November to Remember!
Thanks for reading about Kira, Kris and Darian !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 