Today's Sports

There can be little argument about Jamie Cockerham being one of the Mountain Empire District’s top offensive threats. Any defender on the other end of one of Cockerham’s 318 kills can attest to that.

Cockerham, a senior outside hitter, was named the MED’s player of the year in balloting by the league’s coaches, and the Maroon Tide’s Rose Houk was named the district’s coach of the year, leading a list that includes 11 Twin County players on either the first team, second team or honorable mention squad.

MANASSAS –– Galax’s boys’ cross country team finished among the top five in the state for the third consecutive year, placing fifth in the Group A championships Saturday at the Great Meadows course.

Led by a fifth-place finish by Manuel Echeagaray, the Maroon Tide finished with 174 team points, just three points behind Northumberland for the fourth spot. It was Galax’s eighth top-five effort in the school’s 16 trips to the state meet.

DUBLIN –– Carroll County successfully navigated its way through the first 23 matches of the season without a loss. Plotting a course through Salem was another matter entirely.

Galax is going to War.

Finding its schedule one game short after the closure of former Mountain Empire District member Pocahontas last summer, Galax filled out its schedule with a one-time meeting against Big Creek, located in War, W.Va., where the Maroon Tide will close the curtain on the 2008 season against the 7-2 Owls.