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Today's Sports

  • Title defense begins for Galax

    There will always be those who argue that football teams with losing records do not belong in the postseason.

    As long as more than 60 percent of the teams in the state reach the playoffs, the law of averages dictates that they can’t all be 5-5 or better. But more importantly, Honaker got here by way of a Week 10 win as much as somebody else’s loss, so the Tigers deserve to keep playing just as much as anybody else.

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  • Galax powers into playoffs

    Mathematically, Grayson County was still alive for a Region 2A West playoff spot entering Friday’s regular season finale at Galax. All the Blue Devils needed was a win over the Maroon Tide, a Carroll County victory over 5A Patrick Henry-Roanoke, a monumental upset by Bland County over Fort Chiswell plus a half-dozen or more other games to fall perfectly into place.

    All that math can be hard, but was rendered moot by the fact that 42 is greater than 14.

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  • REMEMBER WHEN: Oct. 23-29

     

     

    2011

    *A miracle play kept Grayson County’s record perfect on the year in a 41-40 win over Fort Chiswell. Having led 39-21 in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils trailed 40-39 when a Pioneer punt was blocked at the Fort 33 and shot backwards. A scramble for the ball finally ended in the Pioneer end zone and resulted in a safety. The finish set up a showdown between a pair of 9-0 teams the following week when Galax visited Grayson.

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  • Quick night for Maroon Tide

    One of the best ways to keep an offense that averages 36 points per game under control is to simply keep it off of the field, and in that respect, Bland County did about as well as could be hoped. But what Galax did with the mere 8 minutes and 37 seconds that it had possession was beyond efficient.

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  • Devil upset bid falls short

    MAX MEADOWS – October surprises normally pertain to election year politics. Grayson County nearly pulled one on the football field.

    Fort Chiswell vetoed a Blue Devil two-point conversion attempt with 1:07 remaining and survived Grayson’s upset bid, escaping with a 14-13 Mountain Empire District win Friday at a blustery C.F. McKinney Field.

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  • Fort trips up Maroon Tide

    MAX MEADOWS –– Having carried an 11-game losing streak into this season, Fort Chiswell is now good enough of a football team that it doesn’t need a lot of help to win ballgames. The Pioneers got some assistance anyway early on and did just fine on their own the rest of the way Saturday in stunning Galax 31-20, ending the Maroon Tide’s 15-game winning streak.

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  • Late FG lifts Tide past Giles

    Galax Maroon Tide coach Mark Dixon said he knew the game Friday night against Giles was going to be a war.

    The game lived up to its billing and the final outcome came with just 11 seconds to play when freshman kicker Edward Medina booted a 25-yard field goal to give the Tide a 17-15 victory over the Spartans in a nondistrict game played in Galax.

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  • REMEMBER WHEN

     

    2011

    * Grayson County hung 58 first-half points on a team that would go on to win a state championship, blasting Clintwood 61-6. The game was scoreless with less than four minutes to go in the first quarter when the Blue Devils detonated for eight touchdowns by halftime.

    * Galax ended a 12-game losing streak to Radford, taking a 30-0 halftime lead in a 43-0 win over the Bobcats. Three Galax backs rushed for between 45 and 85 yards each as the Tide outgained Radford 306-120.

     

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  • Grayson advances to golf...

    TAZEWELL –– Grayson County finished second in the Conference 39 golf tournament last Wednesday, earning a trip to next Tuesday’s regional tournament.

    Seven teams participated in the tournament held at Tazewell Country Club.

    First place, with a team score of 315, went to Virginia High of Bristol, with the Blue Devils putting a 352 on the board. Both will advance to the Region 2A West tournament, scheduled for Oct. 3 at Draper Valley Golf Course.

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  • Floyd rallies past Devils

    FLOYD –– Having allowed a total of 97 points in its previous two outings, Grayson County was but a few minutes away from taking a 7-0 lead into the half Friday night against the team with the best won-lost record to date on its schedule. But Floyd County managed a touchdown just before the half and added scores late in each the third and fourth quarters to pull away for a 21-7 nondistrict win over the Blue Devils.

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