The Wrestling tournament continues in Salem later today but yesterday afternoon the curtain came down on the Winter portion of the 2025 – 2026 Carroll County Sports year.
Alex Cruz and Head Coach West Long returned to The Hill after the third match of the day ended for our dedicated Wrestler.
Our hard working Athletic Director, Kevin DeHaven will celebrate the 48 hours of ” down time ” if you will by overseeing an AAU Basketball event on Campus today.
Speaking of Campus, Game Day Central will take place on the historic grounds of Marshall University. While it is still listed as doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday, we will attempt to cram the four game series into an All You Can Play buffet today.
Built in 2024
Our Saved by the Bell 🔔: The Cavalier College Years will be maxed out today as all five of our former players are set to see action 🎬 in three different settings.
In Salem, both Elijah Cox and Katie Lam are set to play as Cox will be part of the visiting team in the opener.
The Smoot Brothers will be playing down in North Carolina and even further down the road, Alyssa Ervin and Furman University will play in South Carolina.
Out in St George, Lin will have an opportunity to cheer on the Lady Trailblazers as a warm up act to her Duke versus Michigan tilt.
This handsome fella is getting his beauty sleep 💤 but his Bible Verse of the Day will appear here shortly !
Psalm 103:2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Tomorrow afternoon at Hillsville Elementary School 🏫 is the Main Event of the weekend. Come out and support our Special Olympics Basketball program as they get ready to take the floor at both Virginia Tech and VMI in the month of March !!!
Vickey Ritchie is a NEAT, NEAT Lady 👩. Maybe as neat as they get. It’s now Friday night and I have finally made it all the way to Marshall University, which will be our ( West Virginia Tech University Baseball) weekend home.
I was actually able to spend a few minutes at this one place I kinda like…
And checked in at the Office 🏢 at this place.Tomorrow morning 🌄 I will be holding a 🎤🎙🎤 for a long time as we try to squeeze in an ultra rare tripleheader of College Baseball.There was even a stopover at Timmons Arena to watch our All-Time scoring leader, Alyssa Ervin. I didn’t trouble her because it was her work day but it was neat to visit with her Mom before hand and Dad briefly after.
Why add things to do on what was already going to be a long trip to and from Utah ? Easy one to answer there because last time I flew back across the country, we had to fly right back to beat the storm.
I wasn’t sure if my Brain could handle it if we had a second empty trip. Adding two other Big Ticket 🎟 items would protect my psyche ( Vickey will later tell me if I misspelled that word.)
I had to pick an Airport to fly into and the choices were RDU and use our tickets to watch the Duke University Women play North Carolina State or Ashville and make the 45 minute drive 🚗 to Travelers Rest. Easy Choice there…
We were supposed to host Lawrence Tech (Georgia ) on Saturday and Sunday afternoon in Beckley at our home stadium but that was moved to Marshall University ( 2 hour drive 🚗 each way) and condensed to an All You Can Play ▶️ One Day event because…….. they are calling for Snow ❄ and a bunch of it, starting Saturday night at Midnight.
I have been nervous about looking at the Hillsville forecast because there’s nothing I can do about it now.
5:00 am Flight ✈️ back out of TRI Airport in Blountsville, Tennessee could be interesting when its all said and done.
This brings me back to why someone would fly 5,000 round-trip twice just to hold a 🎤 for a few hours ?????
The first time that I was told by a Doctor ( Dr Dale in Luray) that I was on the brink of a stroke and about to Kill myself, Doc told me to stop ✋ pushing the envelope for people. He said, I want you to close your eyes 👀 and ask yourself how many of these people you are doing things for are attending your funeral ??
Doc got my attention and I moved to an Island 🏝 and lost 140 pounds 💷. Silly me, I thought I could do better the second time around. Driven is the word I choose but others would say loony tunes…
I have simply never met another human being that I believe is chasing the EXACT same thing I am – Inclusion, 24 /7, across the board ♥.
If Doctor Dale was here, I would tell him that Vickey Ritchie would attend my funeral, hopefully 🙏 not anytime soon !
Seeing Alyssa play Ball was terrific, starting our 18th season of Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball is way Cool 😎. But the reason for this trip is to stand beside Coach Vickey on Sunday afternoon !!!
Alex lost his first match by pin and won his second match 11-0…
Keep on, keeping on, Mr Cruz !
From Coach Long :
Lost first one, won second one, wrestle again roughly 4:30pm
Cruz capped off a good senior season. Going 1-2 at the State Tournament ! Unfortunately that brings the 25/26 CCHS season to an end. Back at it on Monday to get the club team ready for the National Tournament in VA Beach at the end of March.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 