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High School

  • Strategic arm limitations

    With the coming of the new baseball season, there are some new regulations — and some will likely have an impact on most teams at some point this spring.

    Pitching arms, always highly valued and occasionally endangered in high school baseball, will be safer as a result of a recently announced Virginia High School League rules change.

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  • Devils pull away from Chilhowie, Cavs drop Floyd Co.

    CHILHOWIE –– Grayson County scored six runs in the fifth inning to break open a close ballgame and defeated defending Division 2 state runner-up Chilhowie 10-6 in a nondistrict game Friday.

    The Blue Devils (1-0) took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first but saw the Warriors (1-1) draw even in the third. After scoring a single run in the fourth, Grayson put together its six-run rally in the fifth, highlighted by Dylan Isom’s two-run double.

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  • Cav girls, Tide boys win big

    Galax may wish to consider putting this one in the playbook, because of the 22 players on the field, 21 of them appeared to have been caught off-guard.

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  • Blue Ridge Tour ready for 15th season

    Registration is now underway for the 15th season of the Blue Ridge Junior Golf Tour.  

    The schedule includes four golf academies, which focus on instruction in all phases of the game, one “Golf by the Rules” clinic in which the player receives on course guidance to play the game according the rules of golf, and seven tournaments, including a season-ending two-day tournament. 

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  • Galax battles back, falls short at Marion

    MARION –– Galax scored six runs in the final two innings but came up one run short, falling 12-11 to Marion in a nondistrict game Wednesday afternoon.

    Galax trailed 10-5 after the fifth before scoring three runs on a Chandler Quesenberry double and two Scarlet Hurricane errors.

    Marion answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning but Galax rallied once again on RBI singles from Quesenberry and Alex Zipprich before running out of gas.

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  • Gravley leads all-SWD voting

    HILLSVILLE –– There’s no good reason anyone should question Ryan Gravley’s being chosen as the 2012-13 Southwest District player of the year. But should a dissenting opinion arise, the Carroll County senior can always reply that he had a better year than the kid who won it last year.

    Gravley, who also happens to be that kid who won it last year, was voted the district’s top player for the second year in a row, leading a list of six Twin County players and three coaches named to their respective boys’ or girls’ first teams.

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  • Cav duo lead Region IV voting

    Carroll County’s Ryan Gravley and Brad Hawks headlined the 2012-13 all-Region IV boys’ basketball team with Gravley being named the player of the year and Hawks earning the Division 4 coach of the year award.

    Gravley led Carroll County in scoring, assists and free throw shooting as the Cavaliers won their second straight Southwest District championship and their first Region IV championship since 1979-80.

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  • Bassett edges Carroll 33-30 in Region IV girls’ semifinals

    RIDGEWAY –– Carroll County held Bassett to nearly 20 points less than its season scoring average but the Cavaliers were unable to break the ice themselves and dropped a 33-30 decision to the Bengals in the Region IV Division 4 semifinals Thursday at Magna Vista High School.

    Bassett (18-3) played Salem for the region title. Both teams advance to the Division 4 state tournament.

    The Bengals hit just one field goal in the second half and only scored 13 points from the floor for the game, but survived by hitting 20 of their 30 foul shots.

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  • Rebels eliminate Grayson girls

    BLUEFIELD –– Patrick Henry-Glade Spring jumped out to a 17-3 lead in and ended Grayson County’s season with a 54-39 defeat in the Region C Division 2 semifinals Thursday at Graham Middle School.

    The Rebels (18-8) earned their third straight trip to the state tournament, denying Grayson County its first.

    Patrick Henry faced Floyd County for the region title Saturday night.

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  • Northwood boards up Galax

    As the higher-seeded team, Northwood took the floor Thursday in its home whites and its score was displayed on the home side of the scoreboard. The Panthers made themselves at home under the boards, too, helping themselves to seconds on the offensive glass.

    Northwood was able to get away with shooting 18 percent from the floor largely by its work on the backboards, and held off Galax 43-38 in the Region C Division 1 girls’ semifinals on the Maroon Tide’s court.

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