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Today's Sports

  • Tide outmuscles Cavs

     HILLSVILLE –– It looked like a game. It walked like a game and talked like a game and even felt like a game. In the end, though, the Galax-Carroll County benefit game Friday at Tommy Thompson Field was still a scrimmage, and glorified or not, scrimmages are for learning.

    For that, both teams’ head coaches are probably grateful.

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  • There’s no ‘I’ in ‘Relay’

    Relays are some of the more exciting events that running has to offer. There’s the all-out blur of the 4x100 sprint relay, the disciplined pace of the longer 4x800 and the grab bag format of the medley relay. And then there’s the lesser-heard-of 10-for-200.

    Miles, that is.

    A handful of area runners are gearing up for what will be the Galax Running Club’s second 200-mile relay of the year, this one the Raleigh-to-Atlantic Beach, N.C. Tuna Run 200.

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  • Galax gets back to work

    MOUNT AIRY, N.C. –– Every year, every high school football team enters its first scrimmage with plenty of questions, and most walk off the field with a lot of them still lingering.

    One question unanswered after Galax’s scrimmage Wednesday at Mount Airy was, where does Isaiah Harrison want to go for his free dinner?

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  • CCHS wins appeal in latest VHSL...
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  • MMA event will benefit Grayson...

    INDEPENDENCE — Titans of the Cage fight matches will be held July 16 at Grayson County High School.

    Doors open at 4 p.m. and fights start at 5. TOC Promotions will showcase its biggest card ever, featuring more than 20 fights. Some proceeds will go to GCHS athletic department.

    The main event features undefeated welterweight champ Austin Cooper of Team SWMA in Wytheville against Jeremy Caviness of Team Backyard Brawlers of Hillsville.

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  • Chambers wins Roanoke C.C. match...

     

    By LARRY CHAMBERS

    Staff

     

    ROANOKE –– Brad Chambers of Galax birdied the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to beat Matt Harmon and win the featured Amateur Division crown of the 71st Roanoke Valley Match Play Championship held at Roanoke Country Club June 17-19.

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  • Tompkins takes a look back

    HILLSVILLE –– Anyone who knows Joe Tompkins knows that the man just doesn’t get in a hurry. After all, it’s taken him more than 50 years to walk away from a ballfield.

    A player through youth leagues, middle school, high school and at Pfeiffer College, then a coach in the Carroll County system since 1980, Tompkins has spent just about every spring of his life on a baseball diamond. His 19-year run as the Cavaliers’ head baseball coach came to an end this spring.

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  • No three-peat for Tide

    RADFORD –– It had happened so often this year, it should have come as no surprise that after a long scoreless stretch, a Galax goal once again ramped the energy level into high gear and initiated a scoring flurry that would decide the game.

    The shocking part was that this time, the Maroon Tide goal juiced the other guys.

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  • Blue Devils on short end

    TAZEWELL –– Momentum was a fickle friend Friday in the Region 2A West baseball championship game. Whichever team seemed to be cozying up with Big Mo one moment was almost guaranteed to be shunned by it within an inning or two.

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  • Tide wins the main one

    RINER –– Looking at Galax’s softball confrontations with Auburn this year as a single plate appearance, the Maroon Tide was down to its final strike. Galax kicked the ball around the park in a 5-1 loss at home. Strike one but no harm done. The Tide put up a fight a few weeks later but took a 1-0 loss at Auburn. Strike two but still alive. One more miss – a postseason loss – would ring up Galax for good. 

    Wednesday though, the Maroon Tide won the at bat.

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