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High School

  • Highlanders jump on Grayson

    PULASKI –– If there was a bright spot to Grayson County’s loss in the Region C Division 2 championship, it is the fact that it was an expendable game.

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  • Eight reach state track and field meets

    Galax advanced four athletes to the Group A state track and field championships, Grayson County will send three girls in four events and Carroll County had one girl reach the Group AA event after their respective region meets this past weekend.

    At Radford University Saturday, Darian Brown, Chandler Quesenberry, Megan Boyles and Jamie Mohr all placed in the top six of their respective events for the Maroon Tide while the Blue Devils saw Emma Wyatt, Mary Beth Cunningham and Olivia Wyatt score top-six finishes to earn a trip to the state meet this weekend, also at Radford.

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  • Devils, Cavs win region games, Galax ousted

    BUCHANAN –– It figures that the last two Division 2 Region C baseball teams playing would be Glenvar and Grayson County. 

    The region’s two dominant traditional powers will go at it one last time as regional members when they play for the title Friday. Glenvar blasted top-seeded Chilhowie 9-4 in the first game of Wednesday’s semifinal double-header and Grayson County chopped down Floyd County 10-2 in the nightcap at James River High School. 

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  • Grayson escapes Fort in first round

    INDEPENDENCE –– Winning its ninth straight game and for the 16th time in its last 17 outings, Grayson County did what pretty much everybody expected and played its way into the Region C Division 2 softball semifinals.

    But it wasn’t like the Blue Devils’ first-round opponent just rolled over for them.

    Fort Chiswell, which had taken five-inning losses of 12-1 and 10-0 in the regular season, and Pioneer pitcher Amber Chrisley held Grayson County to five hits as the Blue Devils scraped out a 4-0 win Tuesday at the Grayson Rec. Park.

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  • Highlanders end Grayson doubles, team tennis season

    RADFORD –– With Grayson County having won five of the first six games in the first set of the Region C boys’ tennis doubles championship Wednesday, one might have wondered just how fast the thing was going to be over with.

    As it turned out, Glenvar got it over with pretty quickly.

    The Highlander duo of Alex Dunkenberger and Colton Walls reeled off 11 straight games, then fended off a comeback attempt by Grayson’s Garrett Bailey and Mike Vaughan to win the title 7-5, 6-4 on the Dedmon Center courts.

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  • Blue Devils roll to tournament title

    Grayson County’s seniors graduated Friday night. They commenced to win a district tournament Saturday morning.

    Led by a 3-for-4, three-RBI day from (very) recent graduate Lucas Rudy, the Blue Devils held off Galax 6-1 and claimed the Mountain Empire District baseball tournament title after an 11 a.m. start at Felts Park. The championship matches the season crown won by Grayson, which improved to 16-5 with the win. Season runner-up Galax dropped to 12-10 with the loss.

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  • Maroon Tide wins another in the 7th

    Galax won for the fourth time this season against Narrows, for the second time in four days, and for the third time by two runs or less.

    This one was by far the most dramatic.

    With the season on the line and trailing 10-5 in the bottom of the seventh, the Maroon Tide scored six times to rally for the Region C Division 1 quarterfinal win Monday at Felts Park.

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  • Devils, Tide cruise into finals

    It took six days to do a three-day job, but Galax and Grayson County met Saturday for the MED tournament championship after making quick work of their semifinal opponents Friday in the Mountain Empire District baseball tournament at wind-whipped Felts Park.

    Grayson County pulled away from Fort Chiswell for a 10-0, six-inning win in the first semifinal, while in the second semifinal, Galax twice answered Narrows threats with big rallies of its own in an 11-5 win.

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  • Tide blanks G-girls to reach semis

    After a nondescript start, Galax finished strong in its Mountain Empire District quarterfinal win over Graham. Kinda like the Maroon Tide’s season in general.

    Having started the season by dropping 10 of its first 13 games, and having seen its first six batters retired in order on Monday, Galax won for the fifth time in its last seven outings by coming on strong in the third and fourth innings, blowing past Graham 10-0 in a five-inning game at Mountain View Park.

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  • MED baseball and softball tournaments suspended

     The semifinal rounds of the Mountain Empire District baseball and softball tournaments were both suspended Wednesday due to the thunderstorm that swept through the area. In softball, Galax led Fort Chiswell 6-3 with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning when play was halted two outs short of an official game. Play resumed Thursday at the point where it was stopped.

    In baseball, Grayson County led Fort Chiswell 3-0 in the bottom of the second when the game was suspended. It, too, was resumed Thursday at the point which the game was halted.

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