The Wytheville Community Center hosted its first Rock the Wall climbing competition on Aug. 11.
Here are the top three climbers in each age category.

Fort Chiswell Golf Press Report
Match at Galax on Thursday August 15th. 

The match was played at Blue Ridge Country Club in Galax at a par of 35 over 3133 yards. 

The Wytheville-Wythe-Bland Chamber of Commerce Chamber golf tournament will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Wytheville Golf Club.

The Wytheville-Wythe-Bland Chamber of Commerce Chamber golf tournament will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Wytheville Golf Club.

The eighth annual Virginia’s New River Trail Challenge, a unique athletic competition, will be held in New River Trail State Park Saturday, Sept. 15. Entries are available by mail and online at http://www.dcr.virginia.gov. Entries must be postmarked by Aug. 31.
Competitors bike 40 miles, canoe 12 miles and run 13.1 miles along Southwestern Virginia’s 57-mile-long New River Trail State Park. The race is presented by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.

This Saturday night at the high banked, half mile dirt super speedway of Wythe Raceway it will be Ladies Night with the first 3,000 Ladies admitted free in the Grandstands!
This will be the first Ladies Night at Wythe Raceway and the stands are expected to be full as the ladies get treated to an entire program of racing action headlined with the Exit 54 Exxon Late Model Division.

Upcoming sports actions in Mountain Empire District

The lead was no place to be on Saturday night during the Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series race on the high banked, half mile dirt super speedway of Wythe Raceway.

The number is 24 and counting. That’s the number of medals Trenton Crockett has compiled from the Coventry Commonwealth Games.
Crockett added two more to his collection after competition in this year’s Games. His two events this year were the shot put and the discus throw.

Kenny Peeples Jr. of Rural Retreat did everything that he was supposed to do, but unfortunately a weather forecast for the July 28th scheduled FASTRAK series race forced track officials to postpone the FASTRAK race at Wythe Raceway, thus postponing Peeples chance at a $1,000 Exit 54 Exxon Road to the Nationals bonus until Saturday night, Aug. 4, and that cost him not only the $1,000 bonus, but also a $2,000 payday in the FASTRAK series event.