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VHSL Spring Jubilee 2013 (with updates)
High school sports teams from around Virginia converge on the New River Valley this week to battle for state championships in all the Virginia High School League's spring sports. The Roanoke Times is there: Sunday Blacksburg defeats E.C.
Blacksburg girls place sixth in national relay race
Blacksburg was sixth in the girls 4-mile relay at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals track championships Sunday in Greensboro. The team of Bonnie Angermeier, Jenn Fleming, Claire Ewing-Nelson and Emily Beatty finished in 20:55.51. The winning team, from Michigan, ran 20:30.32. Also on Sunday, Bruin Kenneth Hagen was 14th in the 800 with a time of 1:53.27, about five seconds behind winner John Crossley of Atlantic Beach, N.C. Hidden Valley's
Hidden Valley's Bethel 10th at New Balance Nationals track meet
Hidden Valley’s Carolyn Bethel finished 10th in the 5,000 at the New Balance Nationals track meet Friday night in Greensboro. Bethel, a Northern Arizona signee who recently won the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 at the VHSL Group AA championships, finished in 17:06:56. Wesley Frazier of Raleigh won the race, which featured 37 of the nation’s top prep distance runners, in 15:55.94, just 10 seconds shy of the national high school
Brian Lee to coach Eastern Montgomery football
Brian Lee claims to love a challenge. Say this for the new Eastern Montgomery High School football coach –he knows where to find one. Lee is leaving one of the smallest football playing schools in the state for another in a move to 298-student EastMont from Thomas Walker in Lee County in the far southwest corner of the state, where he’d been coach and athletic director the past nine years. Lee,
Blacksburg Sports Club announces inaugural hall of fame class
Blacksburg High School has announced its inaugural class for induction to its sports hall of fame. The inductees will be recognized by the Blacksburg Sports Club during a luncheon Oct. 16, and they will be introduced at halftime of Blacksburg's Oct. 18 home football game against Salem. The inductees are: Rick Aydlett, class of 1968, a two-time all-state basketball player who led Blacksburg to the 1968 Group 1B state title
Pat Burns back to coach George Wythe hoops
Pat Burns' first tour of duty as the boys basketball coach at George Wythe High School began in 1975. Thirty-eight years later, Burns is back. Burns, who led Wythe to three consecutive VHSL Group AA final four appearances from 1984 to 1986 and later was the head coach at Pulaski County for 11 seasons, has been hired as the Maroons head coach. Wythe also has hired Doug Campbell, formerly the
High school notebook: Bruins hire new athletic director
The College World Series begins Saturday. Blacksburg High School's new athletic director knows all about being there. Eric Morgan was the starting pitcher for Miami in the opening game of the 1994 CWS against Arizona State. Now the 40-year-old Florida native takes over as Blacksburg's AD after the full-time position was restored in Montgomery County. Chris Stewart handled the AD duties during the 2012-13 school year ; he will return
Chilhowie utility player Forrest Haga honored
Forrest Haga of Chilhowie has been named the Virginia High School Coaches Association Group A baseball player of the year. Haga, named to the first team at a utility position, was honored in a vote by a panel of coaches. Also making the first team were Chilhowie shortstop Tyler Pierce, Grayson County third baseman Dylan Isom and Giles designated hitter Lucas Stevers. Second-team picks included Radford first baseman Drew Cox
Blacksburg boys soccer extends championship tradition
RADFORD – Don’t think about the letters. Both teams stressed that coming in. The letters across the chest have strange powers sometimes. They can make the team wearing them believe things will be easy – a dangerous assumption. They can make the other team think its task is impossible – a defeatist attitude. The letters? B-L-A-C-K-S-B-U-R-G. And only one team succeeded at putting them out of their mind. Ultimately, those
High schools: Kendrick’s homer lifts Honaker to state title
SALEM - Emily Kendrick hit a two-out go-ahead three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth and tossed a complete game three-hitter to power Honaker to a 3-1 win over Madison County for the Group A Division 1 state softball championship on Sunday morning at the Moyer Softball Complex. It was the Tigers' second state title, but the first since 1988. The Mountaineers took a 1-0 lead with an
State high school scores for June 9
BASEBALL GROUP AAA Saturday At Westfield H.S. Semifinals Great Bridge 8, Lake Braddock 3 Hanover 9, Oakton 8 Sunday At Westfield H.S. Championship Hanover 2, Great Bridge 1 GROUP AA Saturday At Calfee Park, Pulaski Semifinals Sherando 4, Amherst County 2 Tunstall 3, Woodgrove 2 Sunday At Radford University Championship Sherando 2, Tunstall 1 GROUP A DIVISION 2 Saturday At Radford University Semifinals Wilson Memorial 6, Grayson County 1 Glenvar
Young Glenvar baseball team eyes return to title game in 2014
RADFORD - The fifth-place hitter for Wilson Memorial High School's 2013 baseball team was a hulking senior named Evan Driver. Glenvar's starting lineup barely had a few kids with a license. Youth was not served Sunday as a Glenvar team that had 13 underclassmen on a 16-man roster came one step short of graduating to the top of the Group A Division 2 baseball ranks. A second state championship in
Opportunity runs out for Glenvar in Group A Division 2 baseball championship
RADFORD – Just about the whole second half of the high school baseball season, Glenvar almost at will produced the key hit, the big pitch, the clutch throw necessary to exploit opportunity as it presented itself. Those gates closed with a thud Sunday morning. The Highlanders played Wilson Memorial tough right down to the last pitch but it was the Hornets who made the winning plays en route to a 6-4
Cave Spring softball beats defending champ Woodgrove 9-3 to win first state title
RADFORD -- The Cave Spring High School softball team won a state title for the first time, beating defending champ Woodgrove 9-3 in the Group AA final today at Radford University. The Knights (24-4) were in a state final for the first time. Woodgrove was in the state final for the third straight year. Taylor Asimakopoulos pitched a four-hitter for the Knights to get the win. She walked seven. She
Floyd County softball beats Goochland 4-1 to win first state title
RADFORD -- The Floyd County High School softball team won a state title for the first time, beating Goochland 4-1 in the Group A Division 2 final today at Radford University. Christene Phillips pitched a seven-hit complete game for Floyd. With the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh, Phillips retired Ericka Spencer on a grounder to end the game and set off a team celebration. Floyd (23-3), in
State high school championship scores, schedule for June 8
BASEBALL GROUP AAA Saturday At Westfield H.S. Semifinals Great Bridge 8, Lake Braddock 3 Hanover 9, Oakton 8 Today At Westfield H.S. Championship Great Bridge vs. Hanover, 1 p.m. GROUP AA Saturday At Calfee Park, Pulaski Semifinals Sherando 4, Amherst County 2 Tunstall 3, Woodgrove 2 Today At Radford University Championship Sherando vs. Tunstall, 1 p.m. GROUP A DIVISION 2 Saturday At Radford University Semifinals Wilson Memorial 6, Grayson County
High schools: Riverheads earns spot in A-1 baseball final
Ethan Whitehead allowed just two hits over five innings of relief, and Riverheads shut out Clintwood 5-0 on Saturday at Salem Kiwanis Field to advance to the VHSL Group A Division 1 final. Chance Staton and Logan Wolfe had two RBIs apiece for Clintwood, which will play William Campbell at Kiwanis for the state title at 10 today. AA BASEBALL Sherando 4, Amherst County 3 PULASKI - Jacob Carney hit
Bulldogs deny James River a trip to softball finals
RADFORD - A foul ball sailed straight over the backstop, passed through a narrow open window, and caused heads to duck and bodies to scatter in the press box Saturday at Veterans Field. James River came close, but the Knights just could not get a big hit. Goochland sophomore pitcher Jackie Tremain stranded three runners on third base and the Bulldogs made two first-inning runs standing up as they ended
Woodgrove ousts Salem in girls soccer semifinals
>RADFORD - Sarah Hardison had a long way to run if she wanted to get to the ball served from the midfield. A defender had a jump on her, and even if she somehow won the race, Hardison still would have to beat the goalie. None of it mattered. "I saw it go over, and I was like, 'I just have to try,'" Hardison said. "Then I just ran as
Blacksburg girls fail to finish in girls soccer semifinal
RADFORD — A mistake here, a missed chance there. The Blacksburg girls soccer team played a solid game, but a single defensive lapse and the inability to capitalize on a few quality offensive chances doomed the Bruins to a 1-0 loss to Briar Woods in the Group AA semifinal. The Falcons (19-4-1) controlled the ball throughout the second half, thwarting Blacksburg’s attempts to sustain offensive pressure. “We just didn’t finish,”
Grayson County knocked out in state Group A Division 2 baseball semifinals
>RADFORD - Grayson County displayed most all the elements of successful baseball Saturday - solid pitching, reliable defense and general heads-up play. The clutch hit remained elusive, though. Wilson Memorial took advantage of its chances when they presented themselves and went on to knock the Blue Devils out of the Group A Division 2 semifinals with a 6-1 victory at Radford University. The Hornets (18-5) got a fine performance and
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6. Police investigate Monday armed robbery at SW Roanoke convenience store
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THE ROANOKE TIMES
