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Today's Sports

  • Region repeat for Galax

    ELLISTON –– Basketball players at Parry McCluer High School are well-taught the fundamentals of the game by longtime coach Nelson Fox. The Fighting Blues will hit their free throws, they don’t often turn the ball over and they are normally adept at the lost art of the midrange jumper.

    But as many a football coach has lamented the fact that you can’t coach speed, not even Fox can coach size.

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  • Cavs finally cut down nets

    HILLSVILLE –– Lindsay Martin admits that she is afraid of heights. She gladly dealt with the phobia Friday, even if it meant climbing a ladder with a pair of scissors in her hand.

    The Cavalier sharpshooter and her teammates became the first Carroll County girls to cut down the nets after a region title game, ending a string of five championship game losses with a 49-46 win over top-seeded Salem in the Region IV Division 4 finals at Carroll.

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  • UPDATE – State tournament results

     

     

    BOYS

     

    Group A Division 1

    Quarterfinals

    Amelia County 61, West Point 47

    Galax 53, Castlewood 44

    Hurley 57, Parry McCluer 49

    Charles City 57, Luray 49

    Semifinals at VCU

    Thursday

    Amelia County 68, Hurley 64

    Galax 64, Charles City 54

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  • Hot-shooting Cavs advance

    HILLSVILLE –– Like any good team will do, Carroll County’s shooters were taking what the opposing defense was giving them.

    Magna Vista was in a giving mood.

    The Cavaliers shot nearly 50 percent from the floor, including a blistering 9-of-15 from 3-point range, and trounced the Warriors 71-29 in the Region IV Division 4 quarterfinals Tuesday.

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  • UPDATE – Tide splits titles,...

    ELLISTON –– Galax was 1 for 2 in Region C Division 1 championship games Saturday night, winning the boys’ title over Parry McCluer and dropping the girls’ final to Covington.

    The defending state champs, Galax pounded the ball inside in the second half and turned a 2-point halftime lead into a 14-point spread by the end of the third quarter, rolling to the 69-52 win over the Fighting Blues.

    Maroon Tide big guys Devonte McKinney and Lawrence Parsons combined for 40 points, 31 coming after halftime.

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  • Pack, Tide light up Grayson

    BLUEFIELD –– Count on it. Every couple of weeks, Austin Pack is bound to channel his inner Jimmer.

    Having averaged 8.5 points in the nine games since unloading for 29 against Tazewell, the Galax point guard popped in 25 points Friday night, knocking down five 3-pointers and pacing the Maroon Tide in a 68-50 win over Grayson County in the Mountain Empire District boys’ tournament championship game at Graham Middle School.

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  • Cavaliers, Martin roll on

    HILLSVILLE –– Lindsay Martin scored the 1,000th point of her varsity career Tuesday night. Somewhere up in the stands probably sat a little elementary school girl thinking, ‘That’s me some day.’

    Thus is the self-fulfilling prophecy of Carroll County girls’ basketball.

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  • Whartenby elevated to head...

     DENVER –– University of Denver strength and conditioning assistant coach Kathryn Whartenby has been promoted to head strength and conditioning coach, Vice Chancellor for Athletics and Recreation and Ritchie Center Operations Peg Bradley-Doppes announced Tuesday.

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  • Oak Hill No. 1 for a reason

    Galax scored 54 points and lost by 58. The Maroon Tide was dunked on, pick-pocketed and generally woodshedded.

    And the experience will be among the fondest of memories for a team that can also reminisce about having won a state championship.

    Oak Hill Academy came as advertised and left its mark on an overflow crowd at the GHS gym, powering its way to a 112-54 win over the defending Division 1 state champs in a nondistrict game Thursday night.

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  • Tide bounces back, 63-61

    INDEPENDENCE –– Playing an average of a game every two days for a month will take its toll on a team’s legs. Galax’s had just enough spring in them to keep a step ahead of the rest of the district.

    In danger of falling into a three-way tie for the Mountain Empire District lead, the Maroon Tide made a two-point lead stand up through two late Grayson County possessions and escaped with a 63-61 thriller Friday night.

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