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High School

  • Maroon Tide back above .500

    The Galax Maroon Tide remained unbeaten in the Mountain Empire District Friday with an impressive 50-13 victory over Graham in its annual homecoming game played in Galax.

    The G-Men opened the game by attempting a trick play against the Maroon Tide, an onsides kick on the opening kickoff.

    It didn’t work and Jeremy  Jennings covered the ball at the Tide 47.

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  • Galax battles, Carroll prevails

    Galax had just been swept 3-0 at Carroll County back in mid-September when Maroon Tide coach Yerrick Stoneman said his young club didn’t need to be good then, it needed to be good in late October, and that he would get a good idea of his team’s progress when the two schools met again.

    That yardstick match came Monday. If playing four flip-a-coin sets is of any indication, the Tide is progressing nicely.

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  • WEEK 8 PRIMER

    Grayson County and Galax will both celebrate homecoming while Carroll County begins the second half of a four-game road swing tonight as the high school football season presses onward with its eighth week of action.

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  • Maroon Tide punches state golf ticket

    JONESVILLE –– Galax didn’t have a golfer score in the 70s, but as a group the Maroon Tide scored a state tournament bid.

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  • First half leads Cave Spring over Cavaliers

    ROANOKE ––Carroll County enjoyed its best offensive showing since the season’s opening week, but Cave Spring capitalized on four Cavalier turnovers and a slew of big plays to take a 41-14 win in a River Ridge District game Friday at Dwight Bogle Stadium.

    A 48-yard Ty Albritton punt return to Carroll’s 24 set up Alex Emery’s scoring run on the next play to give the Knights (5-2) the lead for good.

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  • Carroll comes up short against Knights

    HILLSVILLE –– There are your garden variety 3-0 sweeps in volleyball, ones in which one team thoroughly dismantles another and gets out of the gym in an hour or so having allowed 30 or 40 points in an entire match.

    This was not one of those occasions.

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  • Grayson off the schneid after 38-27 win over Graham

    INDEPENDENCE – “We needed that!”

    That was the first comment made by Grayson County coach Brett McPherson last Friday night after the Blue Devils had beaten the Graham G-Men 38-27 in a Mountain Empire District game at Bill Strong Field.

    It was also the first victory of the season for Grayson County after losing its first five games.

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  • Vaughan third in region, moves on to state

    JONESVILLE –– Appomattox took home the team championship and Joseph Clark of Giles claimed the individual title while Grayson County’s Jacob Vaughan kept his season alive Thursday at the Region 2A West golf tournament at Cedar Hills Country Club in Lee County.

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  • Bruins pull away from Carroll

    HILLSVILLE –– When Blacksburg seized the momentum, there was no giving it back.

    The Bruins used significant runs in all three sets Thursday night to sweep Carroll County 25-17, 25-22, 25-16 in a River Ridge District match.

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  • Defense falters for Devils, Cavs

     BEN HUR –– Grayson County enjoyed far and away its most successful night rushing the football this season, but the Blue Devils were unable to keep Lee High out of the end zone and dropped a 43-28 nonconference decision Friday at Five Star Stadium.

    Will Peters spotted Grayson County (0-5) an early 6-0 lead with a 14-yard touchdown run but the Generals (5-0) came back with four unanswered touchdowns by the early stages of the second half.

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