Kenny Peeples Jr. and Brandon Umberger, both of Rural Retreat, have spent the last several weeks splitting wins, and along with Phil Gann of Mayodan, N.C., are the only repeat winners this season at Wythe Raceway.

For July 18 edition

Agnew finished second by less than a second.

Elizabethton stayed in solid control of the West Division of the Appalachian League on Monday, July 9 with an 18-0 thumping of Greeneville. The win put the Twins, with just two losses on the season, 7 1/2 games ahead of Kingsport in the division. In other Appy League baseball games Monday, Bluefield out-slugged Johnson City 11-9, Burlington bullied Kingsport 18-3 and Bristol bumped off Princeton 5-3.

Friday the 13th may not have been unlucky for Richlands in their opening round of the state 11-12 year-old All Star softball tournament at Pound, but Saturday sure was a different story.
Richlands (District 11), which blasted out 11 hits against Olive Branch on Friday, was held to a miniscule three hits on Saturday by Atlee pitcher Auguste Rohle as the Lady Blues fell to the consolation bracket with a 5-1 loss in the double elimination tournament.

Sunday would prove to be a very busy (and productive) day for Richlands in the 11-12 year-old state All-Star softball tournament at Pound.

Jordyn Cole pitched a masterful three-hitter against Olive Branch as the Richlands 11-12-year-old All-Star softball team successfully opened play in its quest for a championship in the state tournament at Pound last Friday.

Richlands found itself in another must-win situation as the Lady Blues took the field for the second time Sunday in the 11-12 year-old state All-Star softball tournament at Pound. They responded beautifully with a convincing 8-2 victory over King William County (District 15) to advance to Monday where they faced McLean in a 10:00 a.m. contest with still another test at 2:00 p.m. if they won Monday morning.

The 9-10 year-old Bulldogs were just one strike away from becoming the second Tazewell baseball team to make it to the state Little League tournament this summer.
Lebanon’s Mic Leonard had a full count against him with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning at Bob Huff Field on Monday, July 9 and his team was trailing Tazewell 5-4 with two Pioneer outs already in the books. Leonard had struck out in his previous three appearances at the plate in the game. This time, instead of striking out, Leonard took ball four and walked to first base. Tazewell, just one pitch away from winning the game moments earlier, was now in trouble from a team that just wouldn’t go away!

The Bland County Bears Dixie Youth participated in the 2007 Dixie Youth Baseball League District Minors tournament held beginning July 7 in Independence.
The Bland County team was eliminated from competition after losses to Galax and Carroll County, but the coach praised his team’s effort.