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High School

  • Grayson back on top in MED

     NARROWS –– Three Grayson County pitchers limited Narrows to a pair of hits Monday and the Blue Devils wrapped up the Mountain Empire District regular season championship with a 10-0 win shortened to six innings.

    Jared Salts improved to 8-0 on the mound, giving up two singles in four innings. The senior right-hander struck out four and walked two. Dustin Leonard and Tyler Rutherford each pitched one hitless inning.

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  • Cavaliers hold on for 3-3 tie with Marion

    HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County took an early two-goal lead over Marion but had to settle for a draw after a 3-3 deadlock in a Southwest District girls’ match Monday at Tommy Thompson Field.

    Each team scored in the first two minutes of the second half as Carroll County (2-6-1 district) took a 3-2 lead into the waning minutes, but an iffy call in the Cavalier box resulted in a tying penalty kick for the Scarlet Hurricane.

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  • Grayson boys’ and girls’ tennis teams perfect

     NARROWS –– Grayson County will ride an abbreviated win to what it hopes is an extended run in the postseason.

    The Blue Devil boys’ tennis team capped a perfect regular season with a 7-0 win over Narrows on Thursday and will enter postseason play with a 14-0 overall record.

    Playing eight-game pro sets, the Blue Devils swept the singles matches, including a 9-8 (7-3) win by No. 6 Tyler Farris over Allen Oney.

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  • Maroon Tide girls claim 10th win

     MAX MEADOWS –– Galax improved to 10-2-1 on the year with a 5-0 shutout win over Fort Chiswell in a MED girls’ soccer match Tuesday.

    Mirieda Martinez scored twice from outside the box to lead Galax.  Chantasy Cottrell converted a Sonia Solis assist for a goal, Alexandra Moreno set up Jessica Salinas for a goal and Kelsey Williams scored unassisted for the Maroon Tide.

    Abbi Ponce had the shutout in goal for Galax.

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  • Grayson one win away after topping Fort 10-0

     INDEPENDENCE ––  Dylan Isom highlighted a five-run fourth inning with a two-run single as the Blue Devils clinched at least a tie for the MED title Wednesday with a 10-0, five-inning win over Fort Chiswell.

    Grayson County needs to win against either Galax today or Narrows next week to seal the season championship.

    Tyler Rutherford and Dustin Leonard each went 3-for-3 at the plate with Rutherford scoring three runs and Leonard driving in two.

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  • Kimble, Cavs silence Devils

    HILLSVILLE –– Having paused for what may have been the shortest senior day observance in the history of such procedures, Carroll County made it a short afternoon with an 8-0 nondistrict softball win over Grayson County.

    After the introduction of lone 12th-grader Lindsey Davidson followed by an impromptu fly-over by a gaggle of wayward geese, junior-heavy Carroll County upped its record to 13-3 Monday on the strength of a five-run fifth inning and a tidy two-hitter by pitcher Lillie Kimble.

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  • Walk-off HR lifts Fort over Galax 17-16

     MAX MEADOWS –– Having combined for 24 runs on 19 hits in just three innings, things seemingly got back to normal when Galax and Fort Chiswell totaled just one run over the next three frames.

    Turns out that the two teams were just saving up for the big finish.

    Alex Larrowe’s grand slam gave the Maroon Tide a 16-13 lead in the top of the seventh but the Pioneers hit for the cycle in the bottom half, including Josh Underwood’s two-run walk-off homer as Fort Chiswell took a wild 17-16 win over Galax in an MED slugfest Friday afternoon.

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  • Softball title hopes vanish in 10th

     HILLSVILLE –– Taylor Creasy’s two-out, two-run home run in the top of the 10th inning lifted Tazewell to a 7-5 Southwest District win Thursday and extinguished Carroll County’s district title hopes.

    Carroll County (12-3 overall, 7-2 district) trailed 5-1 in the middle of the fourth before beginning to chip away, starting with an RBI triple by Jordan Nunn in the fourth.

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  • Carroll County bounces back

    HILLSVILLE –– After a day like Thursday, a day like Friday couldn’t have come soon enough.

    Twenty-four hours after a discouraging 10-run loss at Richlands, Carroll County bounced back offensively in a big way, pounding out seven extra-base hits, including three home runs, in a 15-2 win over Marion at Bill Worrell Field.

    The game was halted after five on the 10-run rule.

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  • Cavaliers pull out 11-10 win to salvage split with Floyd County

    FLOYD –– Carroll County and Floyd County split a double header Thursday as two vastly different games resulted in two equally tight finishes.
    The two teams combined for two hits in the opener as Floyd took a 2-0 win. Kat Mills broke a scoreless tie with a leadoff home run in the bottom of the fourth for the Buffaloes. Amber Ingram was then hit by a pitch and eventually scored on Courtney Huff’s sacrifice fly.
    Ingram handed the Cavaliers just their second defeat of the season by tossing a one-hitter with six strikeouts.

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