Eastside's baseball team won a Cumberland District tourney semifinal, 17-16.
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The goal remains the same for the defending Class 2 state champion Lebanon Pioneers.
Thomas Walker is the ninth program in far Southwest Virginia that will have a different head coach at the start of the 2022 season than they did in 2021 as the Pioneers join Honaker, Castlewood, Rye Cove, Wise County Central, Ridgeview, Marion, Lebanon and Northwood in that regard.
Ninety wins and three straight state championships, all accomplished over the last four seasons by the Honaker girls basketball team.
Chase Hilliard had three hits, including a home run, drove in three runs and scored three times, but King was eliminated from the Conference Carolinas tournament with an 11-7 loss to UNC Pembroke on Friday afternoon.
The Holston Cavaliers pounded out 16 hits en route to an 18-17 non-district baseball win over the Eastside Spartans on Wednesday at Backer Par…
Honaker High School graduate Jordan Stout was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the National Football League Draft on Saturday.
Honaker High School’s baseball team clinched another Black Diamond District regular-season title on Friday with Jayson Mullins, Jax Horn and T…
“I’d say both guys get drafted sometime in the middle of day three – the fourth through sixth rounds,” said NFL Draft expert James Fragoza of Pro Football Network.
Lacey Brown delivered a walk-off, two-run single in the bottom of the seventh inning as Rural Retreat stunned Lebanon for an 8-7 Hogoheegee District softball victory on Thursday.
“Some punter-needy teams that Stout would immediately start for and help: Rams, Chargers, Bears, Falcons, Eagles,” a NFL Draft expert said
Freshman Mackenzie Hood went 6-for-6 with six RBIs and was the winning pitcher in relief as Rye Cove outlasted J.I. Burton for a 20-14 softbal…
Micah Hyskell of Tennessee High scored two goals; Tazewell reaches the finals of the Coppinger Invitational; Honaker's McClanahan goes 5-for-5; Abingdon loses a regular-season baseball game for the first time since 2019
Hamilton Addair went 3-for-4, drew a walk, scored two runs and tallied a RBI, while also being the winning pitcher as Patrick Henry High Schoo…
Twin Springs is still searching for its first hit of the 2022 baseball season, but the Titans do own a victory.
“He deserves this opportunity and it makes our entire community and basketball family proud of what he is a part of,” said T.J. McAmis, Gipe’s hoops coach at J.J. Kelly.
Freshman Alayna McNulty went for 19 points, eight rebounds, one block and one steal in a 63-29 beatdown of Buffalo Gap on Saturday to complete the three-peat.
This marks the fourth state finals appearance for Honaker’s program. The Tigers beat Riverheads, 81-56, in the 2021 title game on their home court, lost to Chilhowie, 60-34, in the 2014 1A title game and were declared co-champs with Surry County in 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the championship contest.
"I am truly blessed to get to experience this more than once in my life," McClanahan said. "I have thought about this since I was a little girl and it’s one of the best feelings in the world."
The defending Class 1 state champions advanced to the state semifinals for the fourth season in a row by forcing 24 Auburn turnovers to defeat the Eagles 61-38 on Friday night at A.P. Baldwin Gymnasium.
There are eight teams from far Southwest Virginia still playing basketball and they are all coached by individuals who were big-time ballers b…
Honaker and Grundy had met three times previously this season.
The Tigers (23-3) advanced to Saturday’s regional finals to face Grundy (17-8) and secured a spot in the state tournament for the fourth consecutive year.
“We just beat a really good team, as good a team as you’ll find in the region,” Eastside boys coach Patrick Damron said. “Hopefully, that gives us some confidence going into Thursday.”