Cole Bowers leads Carroll County Middle School 🏫 cross-country to a 10th place team finish down in North Carolina

Seventh grader Cole Bowers paced the way for CCMS Boys 👦 yesterday afternoon in Dodson, North Carolina, with a time ⏲️ of 15:10.38.

Close behind Bowers was Sylas Nissel

Colson Moser – 20:07.70

Congratulations 🎊 on a solid start to the season competing in a super sized event.

Trying to introduce a new way to encourage the dedicated young people who choose to run cross-country !

Yesterday afternoon, our four cross-country teams loaded up a bus 🚌, driven by Jon Delp, and headed down to Dodson, North Carolina, to participate in a large meet hosted by West Stokes High School. The River Run Highlight Invitational.

The screenshots above show the results of our 19 runners, and now we begin the process of trying to upgrade the coverage by adding a headshot of the Cavalier runners to their results.

This event was slightly different from others because it offered a 2-mile run in addition to the 5K event.

For a school to qualify as a team, they need to have a minimum of four competing in their category. With the split between the 2 mile and 3 mile events, Carroll County Middle School Boys 👦 were the only group to meet the specs of a team, and that group placed 10th in the large field.

Christian Smith – 20:47.73 in the 2-mile

Our ninth Varsity runner, Will Dalton, did not compete yesterday but will be back next time out.

That concludes the high school runners, and here in a bit, we will break down the middle school efforts.

We will continue to work on the photo cropping and the process as we go forward. Also, I didn’t realize that I needed to get one of Sasha again.

Each of these student athletes is committed to a sport that doesn’t receive a great deal of fanfare, and the focus all season will be to frame up their efforts.

Welcome 🙏 to Friday, August 21st, and our Morning 🌄 Brew !

Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :

Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day will appear here shortly.

Next up, we will be trying hard to create something new for cross-country runners 🏃‍♀️ under the guidance of Shawn Montgomery.

Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌😇🙏

Mr Bill Gallimore checks in with his thoughts about last night at Tommy Thompson Field !

Great minds think alike is how I would file this one. During the volleyball 🏐 match last night, I shared a thought about just how hard our Kevin DeHaven was working 💪 yesterday. This morning, I woke ⏰️ up to this observation from the man that we write ✍️ for.

It’s one thing to move an event forward one day inside of a gym. It is a completely different experience in regard to a football stadium 🏟.

Yes, Mr. DeHaven had himself a day yesterday, and a few times, he even managed to sneak in a few minutes of watching 👀 his daughter, Clara, play a little volleyball !

The gym is open, and we will have JV volleyball within the hour, followed by varsity as Staunton River travels to The Hill on a Thursday night 🌙

We are closing in on our second and final scrimmage of the season, with the difference being that we will have a live microphone 🎤 throughout the evening.