I will take a moment and add a few notes 📝 here as we found a few new readers yesterday.
Each morning 🌄 starts with a Morning Brew post 📫. Both UVA and App State send me one each morning and it sets the tone for the day.
The school schedule is always included and its our way to show support for our hard working Athletic Director, Mr Kevin DeHaven.
The next thing it will contain is special events that are coming up and the platform is available to use by anyone who is giving of their time to help our youth. Here are two examples :
Coach Edwards and Coach McGuireDakota Walls has a race 🏁 this Saturday night 🌙
The next two items are near and dear to us. Travis Osborne provides a Bible Verse 🙏 each morning and Monday – Friday, Coach Mayo provides a Motovational Nugget. The site is strengthen by folks that contribute to it and both Men do so on a regular basis.
Travis Osborne with his Bible verse
Psalm 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Coach Mayo will send in his Motovational Nugget before the morning is over and it will appear below.
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.
Watching 👀 our Mariners in Game 3 while waiting for Coach Montgomery to send the official results, I started preparing my thoughts for the story. A quick connect of the Dots led me to this post 📫…
A.S.P.N on The Hill 