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Today's Sports

  • Emily’s Wagon rolls on

    HILLSVILLE -- Living our daily lives and going about dealing with our daily challenges, it’s not terribly difficult to let slip from our minds one of the most powerful and most meaningful characteristics of the mountain community. In communities like this, if you don’t know someone, you know someone who does. And in communities like this, when one stumbles, a thousand hands are extended.

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  • Brothers in arms nip Grayson

    INDEPENDENCE -- Going through an entire pitching staff in a seven-inning game is usually a sure sign of disaster. Wednesday, using a lot of arms gave Carroll County a leg up on Grayson County. The Cavaliers threw seven different pitchers for one inning each and held on to nip the Blue Devils 4-3 in a nondistrict game at GNB Park.

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  • Carroll rolls in SWD quarters

    HILLSVILLE -- Carroll County used a pair of four-run rallies to power past Graham 11-1 in five innings in the Southwest District tournament quarterfinals Monday at Bill Worrell Field. The Cavaliers advanced to Tuesday’s semifinals and hosted Tazewell, a 9-3 winner over Marion.

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  • Cardwell, Williams team up for...

    MAX MEADOWS -- The Galax boys’ doubles team of Pres Cardwell and Ryan Williams may have started the day as the No. 2 seed in the district, but they walked off the court a No. 1. Cardwell and Williams took advantage of an upset in the first semifinal to face the No.

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  • Late surge propels Cavs

    HILLSVILLE -- Having already posted a 23-0 win against Graham earlier this year, Carroll County got the result it was probably expecting when the two teams met in the Southwest District softball quarterfinals Monday.

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  • Cavaliers finish on high note

    HILLSVILLE -- The Carroll County soccer teams put exclamation points on their seasons and their Southwest District schedules Thursday night with a pair of easy wins over Grundy in a SWD double-header at Tommy Thompson Field. The Cavalier girls found themselves in a battle early against the Golden Wave, deadlocked 1-1 after nearly 30 minutes before exploding for a 9-1 win shortened by 11 minutes by the slaughter rule. 

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  • Cavs outduel Maroon Tide

    An adjustment in the cut of uniform, a change of names here and there and the removal of the ‘nondistrict’ label, and it may as well have been 30 years ago. After years of blowouts followed by 18 years of not playing one another at all, Carroll County and Galax put on a battle worthy of the ones common between the two in the 70s and 80s, with the Cavaliers escaping the Tide 2-1 in a non-league meeting Wednesday night in Felts Park.

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  • However briefly, Cavs the...

    BLUEFIELD -- It doesn’t look like it will last for very long, but Carroll County is atop the Southwest District baseball standings in mid-May. The Cavaliers exploded for  11 runs in the second and third innings Thursday to swamp Graham 15-1 in five innings, taking over the top spot by percentage points over Abingdon.

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  • Late surge can’t lift...

    HILLSVILLE -- A late flurry of activity very nearly brought Carroll County to within striking distance, but a disallowed goal helped keep Tazewell out of reach as the Bulldogs took a 4-1 win over Carroll County in a Southwest District girls’ soccer match Thursday at Tommy Thompson Field. The Cavaliers (3-9 overall, 2-8 district) trailed 3-0 before Summer Rigney sparked Carroll County in the 61st minute, taking a long direct kick from Lauren Roper, ge

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  • Devils finish MED on hot streak

    INDEPENDENCE -- Grayson County assured itself of at least a second-place finish in the Mountain Empire District and kept alive its barely-flickering hopes of an 18th straight regular season title Friday with an 8-4 win over Galax at GNB Park. The Blue Devils finish the district portion of their schedule at 6-2 (12-5 overall), one game behind league-leading Fort Chiswell.

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