First Team

Jonah Fitzgerald – H. Valley, Joe Lichtenstein- H. Valley, CC Grubb- Pulaski Co., Devin Beckner- Cave Spring, Crawford Enyart- Cave, Tee Bryan – PH, Austin Brown – C-burg, Grant Johnston- B-burg, Isaiah Donaldson- Salem.

Second Team

Logan Robertson – Pul. Co., Kade Akers- Pul. Co., Isaac Hayden- C-burg, John Stockstill- PH, Leroy Thomas- PH, Alex Blanchard – Salem, Drew Babcock – B-burg, Noah Lichtenstein- H. Valley

Player of Year – Jonah Fitzgerald- Hidden Valley

Coach Of Year– Kevin Burcham- Hidden Valley

Honorable Mention– Braeden Blevins – Pul. Co., D’Angelo Ruff, and Cam Nagle – C-burg, Josh Bryan- Salem, Matt Nagle, and Ryan Burchett- Cave Spring, Dawson Hicks – PH, Cole Epperley, and Josh VanGilder -B-burg, Cole Cundiff, Andrew Duncan and Caleb Page – H. Valley.

BOYS

Hidden Valley 53 Pulaski Co. 46 – River Ridge Dist.- Semi-final

Patrick Henry 61 Cave Spring 53 – River Ridge Dist. -Semi-final

Chilhowie 76 Northwood 73 – Hogoheegee Reg. Season Championship Playoff

Narrows 75 Craig Co. 48- Reg. Season

Parry McCluer 53 Bath Co. 25 – Reg. Season

Sunrise Christian (KS) 76 Oak Hill Academy 65 – Reg. Season – ( Oak Hill 36-1)

Dublin…Seems like sometimes less is more. Such was the case Friday night in the Cougar Den. Playing without three of their top seven players, the Pulaski Co. Cougars battled and never gave up as they came from a 11 point deficit to pull out a come-from-behind 63-60 win over Christiansburg.

Down 60-58 with just over 30 seconds remaining in the contest, CC Grubb hit a driving shot to tie the game and on the inbounds pass, Trent Blankenship tapped the ball away. Grubb put up a five-foot jumper and was fouled. With 25 seconds to go, he proceeded to knock in the free throw and just like that he had scored five points in around eight seconds to put the Cougars (12-11) up as they advance to the River Ridge District semifinals. It was case of survive and advance for the Cougars.

Pulaski Co. got 28 points from senior Logan Robertson and 24 from senior CC Grubb. James Jackson, Kade Akers and Dre Grubb were all absent with the flu.

Christiansburg got 22 points from Austin Brown, 14 from D’Angelo Ruff and Cam Nagle chipped in with 12 points in a losing effort.

The first half saw the Blue Demons (6-16) up 16-15 after the opening quarter as Brown scored 10 of their 16 points. The Cougars would get a bucket from Robertson just before intermission to put them up 31-30 heading into the dressing room.

The third quarter saw the Blue demons take command of the game as they outscored the Cougars 22-12. Brown would hit five buckets and Trevor Howell hit two three-pointers in the period. Ten of Cougars’ 12 points in the third were from Grubb. They were down 50-39 late and the Demons took a 52-43 advantage into the start of the fourth quarter.

The Cougars Robertson would then get red hot at the right time as he personally hit eight straight points. He would then hit a jumper to tie the game at 58 with 1:45 remaining. He had scored 11 of their 13 points to help tie the game.

The Cougars finished up outscoring the Blue Demons 20-8 in the fourth period as they had come from behind to pick up the win. Cougar Head coach Andrew Hart said, “I don’t how we got all those points. It was like a blur.” He then remarked, “Logan and CC had to score tonight for us with three of our players out. They really stepped up. I used only six players the entire game and all five starters scored. We showed some want-to tonight with this comeback win.” He then added, “We played sloppy most of the game. We had 22 turnovers but most of those came before the last five minutes of the game.“

When asked about the three players out sick he said, “I don’t know if any of them will be able to play in the semifinal game or not. We brought up Luke Russell to help us from the junior varsity team in practice and for the game.”

The Cougars play number one seed Hidden Valley in one of the district semifinal games.

Pulaski Co. also learned that next Friday, Feb. 16, they’ll travel to Forest, Va. to play Jefferson Forest in the opening round of the Region 4D playoffs.

 

 

C-burg 16 14 22 8 -60

Pul. Co. 15 16 12 20-63

 

C-burg scoring- Brown 22, Ruff 14, Nagle 12, Howell 9, Hayden 3

 

Pul. Co. – Robertson 28, Grubb 24, Blevins 5, Blankenship 2, Poe 4

 

3 PT. Goals – PC – 8- (Robertson 4, Grubb 3, Blevins), C-burg – 8-( Ruff 4, Howell 3, Brown)

 

 

Total FGs – Pul. Co. – 24, C-burg – 25

BOYS

Pulaski Co. 63 Christiansburg 60 – River Ridge Dist. -1st Rd.

Patrick Henry 40 Blacksburg 38 – River Ridge Dist. -1st Rd.

Cave Spring 55 Salem 38 – River Ridge Dist.- 1st Rd.

Glenvar 51 Carroll Co. 50 – Three River Dist.- 1st Rd.

Alleghany 57 Giles 42- Three Rivers Dist.- 1st Rd.

James River 62 Floyd Co. 37 – Three Rivers Dist. -1st Rd.

Narrows 75 Bath Co. 43 – Reg. season

Parry McCluer 73 Craig Co. 18 – Reg. season

Lebanon 45 Tazewell 44 – Reg. season

Richlands 60 Marion 41- Reg. season

Holston 60 PH-Glade Spring 50 – Reg. season

GIRLS

Cave Spring 60 Pulaski Co. 41 – River Ridge Dist. – 1st Rd.

Glenvar 41 Radford 30 – Three River Dist.-1st. Rd.

 

Regional play starts Fri. Feb. 16- @ higher seeds

8- LCA- @ 1- GW- Danville

7- Amherst Co. – @ 2- E C Glass

6- Charlottesville- @ 3- Bassett

5- Pulaski Co. – @ 4 – Jefferson Forest