The Fort – The Good News for Head Coach Darian Brown was that after four straight games lost to the weather, our Cavaliers were able to play a game on Wednesday at The Fort.

The Bad News was the team was a little rusty from the two week layoff, falling 32-23 against the Pioneers in the next to the last game of the season.

The defensive effort in the first half kept Carroll County in the contest as the teams headed to the lockeroom tied at 10 -10 but Fort was able to pull away over the final 12 minutes of play.

Five Cavaliers landed in the scoring column, led by Gibson Barr with 9 points and Jaxon Stanovcak with 6. Sam Johnson dropped four points while both Remi Millaway and Caleb Hill added a basket 🧺

Back to the good news side of things, one of the four lost games will be made up tonight as the Cavaliers will have one more opportunity to gain some valuable playing time at Blacksburg.

Coach Brown took the time to share his thoughts on his team and the night 🌙…

” Tonight was tough being we haven’t played a game since the 4th of this month. I told my guys there’s an old saying “it’s hard to beat a good team 3 times” and that showed tonight. Fort is a great team and they are well coached. I think the weather has really hurt our momentum that we were building and that also showed tonight. At the end of the day we can’t make excuses and I told my guys that. All we can do is learn from it and move on.

    Tomorrow we finish our season with Blacksburg and I’m hoping that we knocked all the dust off tonight. Tomorrow will be our version of senior day for our 8th graders. I talked to our guys tonight postgame about it and we are starting our 4 8th graders tomorrow night. I’m proud of how far they’ve come and the leadership they’ve shown this year. Our younger guys have learned a lot from them not only about basketball but how to be respectful young men.

   No matter the outcome tomorrow night I have had the best year with this group of kids. I also want to shoutout my assistant coach Garrett Reitzel for all of his help and the countless hours he’s put in to these kids development. Go Cavs!”

Thank You Coach, for both taking the time at the end of a very long day to pen 🖊 your thoughts and for giving of yourself to this group of young Cavaliers!

All six of our Basketball 🏀 teams will be in action 🎬 tonight as we have reached the final night 🌙 of the Middle School 🏫 season.

We still have one story still in the works from last night as the MS Boys fell at Fort Chiswell.

Hebrews 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Saved by the Bell 🔔: The Cavalier College Years schedule 📅 :

Next games :

Smoot Brothers – Saturday 12/20

Katie Lam – December 29th

Elijah Cox – January 2nd

Alyssa Ervin –  Friday December 19th

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Kira Lawson and Duke University host a 10 win team tonight at Cameron Indoor

Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌

There’s a reason why Kris Richardson is both a Friend and a Neighbor of mine. The two of us don’t have time for self-doubt in our lives so when we set out to make sure we provided coverage for his season, we knew we would never see Kris flinch.

Even on the night that the team saw its record drop to 1-11, Kris knew it was just a matter of time before his team would turn the corner.

Once the train 🚆 reached full steam ahead, it took an act from Mother Nature (pictured above ) to slow down the Richardson Express. A series of games fell from the schedule during the recent winter storms and unlike the High School teams, there’s simply no time built in to make up games.

Richardson was feeling fortunate enough that one of the postponed games was added back as the season has been extended one day and the team will travel up to Blacksburg Thursday night.

The latest victory lifted the squad to 6-12-4 with one to play.

‘ We earned a 29-27 win over Ft. Chiswell tonight,” said Richardson. ” After almost a 2 week layoff we barely squeaked by tonight. We had good effort for about a half. Fortunately, we got a lead and were able to hold on. They took the lead late but we showed resilience and fought back. Good enough for the win tonight but we have to play better tomorrow.”

Zari Cushman once again led the offense with 16 of the 29 points. Natalie Dalton added seven points. Briley McGhee( 4 points) and Kierra Robinson ( 2 points) both added clutch baskets 🧺 in the contest.

Tomorrow evening would be incorrect, now that its past Midnight back home 🏡 so we’ll say later today, the Battling Lady Cavaliers will wrap up their season on the road.

I need to give Beth Bouldin an extra Thank You 🙏 for all of her assistance with providing coverage for the Girls team as her Son plays on the Boys team under Darian Brown. It’s a special person who would willingly take on extra responsibility in an already to busy World 🌎.