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High School

  • Grayson edges Carroll; Galax falls at Glenvar

    Staff reports

    INDEPENDENCE –– Shawn Campbell and Grayson County carried a one-hitter into the seventh inning but had to weather a late Carroll County rally before the Blue Devils escaped with a 3-2 nondistrict win Thursday at the Grayson County Rec. Park.

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  • Tide, Devils take easy tennis wins

    Galax surrendered a total of three games over nine individual matches Wednesday and blanked Radford 9-0 in a nondistrict boys’ tennis match at Felts Park.

    The Maroon Tide (1-0) racked up five 8-0 wins in singles on shutouts by Noah Hutchens, William Patton, Coleman Morgan, Landon Dixon and Luke Reeves. Alex Bartlett scored an 8-1 victory at No. 6 singles.

    Galax also took a pair of 8-1 wins and an 8-0 shutout in doubles.

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  • Tide lights up Highlanders

    By CRAIG WORRELL

    Sports Editor

    Galax bid farewell to a dozen seniors off of last year’s state championship boys’ soccer team, including nine starters. The names may have changed, but so far the tune’s still the same.

    The Maroon Tide unleashed a torrent of goals midway through the second half Wednesday night and improved to 3-0 on the young season with a 7-1 nondistrict win over Glenvar.

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  • Cavaliers slug past Blue Devils

    INDEPENDENCE -- In a game that boasted a combined 21 runs and 32 hits, the Carroll County Cavaliers came away with a 15-6 nondistrict victory over home-standing Grayson County last Thursday.

    The large crowd of fans attending the game was treated to an offensive show that produced 24 hits for the Cavaliers and three home runs while Grayson had eight hits and one homer.

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  • Union holds off Grayson rally to score upset win

    INDEPENDENCE –– Grayson County cut a big Union lead to four points with a little more than two minutes remaining but the Bears were able to hit their free throws down the stretch and eliminated the Blue Devils 54-45 in the Region 2D quarterfinals last Wednesday.

    Grayson concluded its season with a 21-4 record. Union improved to 17-9 and advanced to Friday’s region semifinals where the Bears bowed out with a 67-47 loss to Gate City.

    Graham upset Gate City on Saturday night, 75-59, for the Region 2D championship.

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  • Parry McCluer holds off Galax for 1C crown

    ELLISTON –– Galax came up short in its quest for a region championship, but there is still a lot of basketball to be played. The Maroon Tide need only to have looked across the court Friday night for proof of that.

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  • Cavs speed past Bruins

    HILLSVILLE –– Part of Carroll County girls’ basketball coach Marc Motley’s responsibilities as a teacher includes on-the-road training for driver’s education students. Without a doubt, he’s enjoying to a much greater degree the smooth ride that his basketball team is currently on.

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  • Maroon Tide girls hammer Rockets by 38

    Shea Foxx turned in a double-double to lead the Galax Maroon Tide to an impressive 69-31 victory over Craig County in round one of the Region 1C girls’ basketball playoffs played in Galax Monday night.

    Galax (21-3) never trailed in the game and will now advance to the semifinals to be played tonight (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. at Eastern Montgomery High School in Elliston.

    The Tide will take on Covington, a 49-38 winner over Bland County Monday night.

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  • Cavaliers suppress Floyd

    By CRAIG WORRELL

    Sports Editor

    HILLSVILLE –– If any team seemed capable of knocking off Carroll County somewhere along the line in Carroll’s inaugural season in the Three Rivers District, it figured to be Floyd County. Even after losses of 18 and 19 points to the Cavaliers in the regular season, the Buffaloes had a third chance in the tournament title game Thursday, and they made the most of it.

    For three quarters, anyway.

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  • Maroon Tide girls rule MED

    By CRAIG WORRELL

    Sports Editor

    The Galax girls’ basketball team will enter the Region 1C tournament riding a 14-game winning streak. That could be called momentum. Maroon Tide coach Howard Mayo looks at it a bit differently.

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