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Today's Sports

  • Maroon Tide smacks Wythe

    WYTHEVILLE –– Friday the 13th is normally considered an unlucky day in Western superstition.

    But not for the Galax Maroon Tide football team.

    The Maroon Tide ignored the superstition and, behind runningback Dougie Peoples and a stingy defense, Galax rolled over George Wythe 50-13 in a Mountain Empire District game played at Pendleton Field last Friday night.

    The Tide (5-2, 3-0) put on an offensive show, rushing for 481 yards on 49 carries.

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  • Devils homeward bound

    RINER –– Grayson County’s main ballcarriers are all listed as 5-foot-8, they average about 150 pounds, and their coach believes that their effectiveness is aided by the fact that, behind a decent-sized offensive line, those backs can be concealed at times from the defense.

    The Blue Devil rushers may be getting lost back there, but more and more lately they’ve been turning up in the end zone.

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  • Floyd topples Cavaliers

    HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County could use a week off, and it could use a creampuff on the schedule. The Cavaliers will have to make do with just the former.

    Few things can cure an ill like winning can, but Floyd County refused to be any part of a get-well gesture for ailing Carroll County, rolling up a 302-69 advantage in total offense en route to a 28-0 Three Rivers District win Friday at Tommy Thompson Field.

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  • Devil upset bid falls short

    MARION –– In playing its first game ever against Marion, Grayson County also squared off for the first time against a school starting with the letter ‘M.’ Two fourth-quarter return touchdowns turned the game – and that M – upside-down.

    The Scarlet Hurricane picked up its fifth W of the season by returning a kickoff and an interception for touchdowns, overtaking the Blue Devils 18-10 in a nondistrict game at Hurricane Stadium.

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  • Third-quarter profits

    INDEPENDENCE –– Every week, nearly every football team everywhere claims the fourth quarter as “ours.” Friday night at Bill Strong Field, Glenvar laid indisputable claim to the oft-overlooked third.

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  • Tide outmuscles Cavaliers

    On a night in which Galax High School was pledged a $500,000 donation for a new weight and fitness facility, the Maroon Tide put on a million-dollar performance on the football field.

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  • Cavaliers win 3-0 to go 3-0

    STUART –– Carroll County volleyball coach Cindy Edwards wasn’t expecting a 3-0 start to her team’s season, but she wasn’t not expecting it, either.

    “I thought we were capable,” Edwards said after the Cavaliers swept Patrick County 25-19, 25-15, 25-17 in a nondistrict match Monday.

    The brutal rigors of having played in one of the strongest volleyball districts in the state, coupled with a lot of plain old elbow grease, have boosted Carroll County out of the starting blocks.

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  • Dinged, but dominant

    STUART – Carroll County was looking for its first shutout since 2011. Nobody in silver and blue was too heartbroken when that fell by the wayside with 11 seconds to play.

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  • Field of Reality

    Galax’s newly-renovated and resurfaced football stadium is on time, on budget and ready to go for tomorrow’s scrimmage with Mount Airy. While the school obviously doesn’t plan any cow-patty bingo fundrasiers, a good chunk of the cost could have been offset simply by putting a toll booth on Long Street.

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  • Indiana basketball lore has a...

    KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind. –– The old gymnasium where the movie Hoosiers was filmed isn’t haunted or possessed, but it’s more than just a rumor that there is a Devil hanging around in the locker room.

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