The Giles Spartans left little doubt Friday night that they will have something to say about what team wins the Division 2 region championship.
The Spartans controlled the ball and the game to whip the George Wythe Maroons 28-7 in a non-district football game played at Pendleton Field.

The Fort Chiswell Pioneer football team continued non-district play Friday night as it traveled to Floyd County.

Even though the final outcome wasn’t decided until the final seconds were ticking away, Bland County’s Bears can boast that the critical mistakes that plagued the team in its loss to Holston the week before, were nowhere to be seen last week against Eastern Montgomery. 

Tazewell suffers fifth straight loss

A dubious record was set at Elk Creek Dragway for the 2007 IHRA-Summit Super Series program this past Saturday nights. It was the coldest race of the season!

Northwood was the top team in a cross country meet held Wednesday afternoon at Rural Retreat Lake.
The Northwood girls’ team defeated Bland 27-49. The Northwood boys’ team also had the low score of 29 compared to Fort Chiswell with 69 and Bland County with 83. In addition to Rural Retreat, Fort Chiswell and Bland County, also competing in the meet were runners from Chilhowie.

The Scott Memorial Middle School Cross Country Club has participated in three cross country meets recently.
The first was a 1.5 mile run in the Shoney’s Run fer da Hills at South Holston Dam in Bristol, Tenn. on Sept. 1. The times and places for the race for boys (with 142 running) were:  Owen Morgan 9:35 (22nd), Coleman Dove 10:24 (47th), Michael Hancock 10:25 (49th), Alex Campbell 10:47 (68th), Austin Thomas 10:52 (65th), Rhodes Kline 11:21 (81st), Christopher Black 12:20 (107th), Trevor Williams 12:55 (115th) and Chuck Peterson 14:43 (136th).

The Lady Buffs were edged at home August 30 before losing two close matches in a Labor Day weekend tournament at Bassett.

The Lady Buffs ended a string of close losses.

The Buffs and Maroons came into the game undefeated.