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Granite City Gladiators force Game 3
ASHEBORO — The 1A West Regional Championship is headed back to the Granite City. Two days after suffering just its second loss of the season, Mount Airy got its revenge against Uwharrie Charter with a 1-0 road victory on May 23. Uwharrie, the defending 1A State Champion, suffered its first shut out loss against a 1A team since 2018. The loss also broke a 19-game win streak for the Eagles. ...
Lady Cavs season comes to a close
One year Later, my how things have changed for Carroll County Softball. CCHS falls 6-3 but the future is shuck full of potential. Last year, shortly after the final out was recorded in a heart breaking 1-0 home loss to eventual state champion Northside, Carroll County head coach Rick Nester and I spent some time discussing the season that just ended as well as the season on the horizon. Player...
MAHS seniors set to tackle life
References to WWE wrestling and delivering a punch to the gut figured prominently during Mount Airy High School’s graduation program — with speakers not advocating violence through those remarks, but using them to make important points about life. Experiences involving siblings were the basis for such comments by Senior Class President Ian Gallimore and Valedictorian Kinlee Reece during their respective addresses for Saturday morning’s commencement exercises at Wallace Shelton Stadium. ...
Hawks wins Triple Jump State Championship
GREENSBORO — Mount Airy’s Blake Hawks won the ultimate prize in his fourth and final trip to Marcus T. Johnson Track and Field. The senior UNC-Asheville-commit qualified for the 1A State Championship Meet all four years of outdoor track, as well as all three seasons of indoor track; his freshman indoor season was cancelled due to COVID. Hawks entered this year’s meet with six state medals in jumping events. He...
Mount Airy falls to Uwharrie Charter in Game 1 of West Regional Finals
Mount Airy dropped just its second game of the season in a 4-0 loss to Uwharrie Charter. Hundreds of fans surrounded the field to see the No. 1-ranked Granite Bears host the No. 2 Eagles in Game 1 of the 1A West Regional Championship Series. Uwharrie is the defending 1A State Champion, while Mount Airy is riding its best season since 1939. The visitors took advantage of early walks to...
Carroll's season ends in region quarters
Nolan Medley struck out nine and allowed just two hits and one run over six innings Friday as Lord Botetourt ended Carroll County’s baseball season 7-1 in a Region 3D Quarterfinal in Hillsville. Medley kept the home-standing Cavaliers off balance most of the night with a mix of a heater in the mid-80s and a couple of effective offspeed pitches. The Lord Botetourt senior retired the first 14 batters he faced before giving up an infield single to Cody Reece with two outs in the...
Cavs sending three to state track meet
Davis Reitzel qualified for the upcoming Class 3 Track and Field Championships on Thursday with his performance in the 300 meter hurdles at the Region 3D Championships in Abingdon. A Carroll County senior, Reitzel placed third in the region in 300 meter hurdles with a time of 42 seconds. He joins Carroll’s Corrie Delp and Brayden Smoot, who automatically qualified for state earlier in the year in the long jump and 100 meter dash, respectively. Alyssa Ervin was also an automatic qualifier in the state...
Leath shuts down Radford in Carroll win
The script for Emma Leath to exit Cavalier Park could not have played out any better if Aaron Sorkin penned it himself. Leath was honored before the game, alongside fellow senior tennis player Jabin Talley, and then she led Carroll County (17-3, 10-2) to the outright Three Rivers District Championship by defeating Radford 9-1 Tuesday night. Leath recorded 11 strikeouts, pushing her career total up to 713 while scattering seven hits as she finished the game for the 20th straight time for the Cavaliers. ...
Mount Airy falls to Bradford Prep in playoffs
Mount Airy dropped a second-round playoff match to Bradford Prep on May 16. The Bradford Bears scored first, but the Mount Airy Granite Bears countered with a goal less than 60 seconds later. Mount Airy’s goal would be its last of the season as Bradford added three more scores to secure the 4-1 win. Paola Ramirez scored Mount Airy’s only goal, and she was assisted by Kate Deaton, which was...
Mount Airy tennis falls 5-4 in regional semifinals
MORGANTON — Mount Airy fell a few points shy of a repeat appearance in the 1A West Regional Championship. The No. 10-seeded Granite Bears dropped an intense 5-4 dual team match to the N.C. School of Science and Math (Morganton) Dragons on May 14. The Bears won two-of-three doubles matches, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the No. 3 Dragons’ 4-2 advantage from singles. The dual team semifinal, which was...
Stokes athletes walk away with BOP awards
One of the highest honors for area student athletes is to be named the best in the five-county region. The Mount Airy News Media Group recently held the annual celebration to announce those athletes earning the best of the best in their respective sports as well as overall best athletes, coaches, and athletic directors. The Best of Preps 2024 Banquet was held May 21 at First Baptist Church of Mount Airy with over 150 in attendance. Refreshments were served by Chick Fil-A of Mount Airy,...
Lady Cavs push top-seeded Warriors to brink
One night after playing Bassett in Hillsville in the #8–#9 game, Carroll County traveled across Lovers Leap to play #1 seed Magna Vista on Thursday. Add in that the Lady Cavaliers were playing back-to-back matches and doing so minus three starters versus the best team in our region, properly setting the stage. CCHS was down to their final seconds when Magna Vista was called for a Red Card inside the...
Mount Airy downs Cherryville, advances to 1A West Regional Championship
Mount Airy defeated Cherryville 4-2 on May 17 to advance to the 1A West Regional Championship Series. “It’s just a surreal feeling, especially considering that a few hours ago we didn’t even know if we were going to get to play tonight with all the rain,” said Mount Airy coach Josh Wilson. “I couldn’t be prouder of these guys. For four years they've had to fight through adversity, but it’s like the newspaper article a month ago said – they are a band of brothers....
North Surry competes in 2A Golf Championship
MONROE — North Surry competed in the 2A Golf State Championship on May 13-14. Coach Jonathan Sutphin said he wasn’t sure of the last time North Surry competed as a full team at states. The Greyhounds qualified for states by finishing runner-up in the 2A Midwest Regional Championship, which was a first in school history. North Surry finished eighth as a team at the state championship with a 36-hole score...
Ward guides Cavs past Radford
Owen Ward pitched four solid innings and got plenty of help at the plate May 22 as Carroll County’s baseball team ended the regular season with a 7-1 Three Rivers District victory at Radford. With the win, Carroll County improved to 15-4 overall and earned the right to host a Region 3D Quarterfinal on Friday, May 24 against Lord Botetourt at 6 p.m. Ward allowed just three hits in four scoreless innings of work to earn the win. He struck out three and walked two. ...
Badgett finishes State Runner-up at golf championship
MONROE — East Surry’s golf team brought hardware home from the state championship match for the fifth-straight season. While the two-time defending 2A State Team Champions fell just short of a three-peat, instead finishing fourth, sophomore Pennson Badgett won an individual trophy for the second consecutive season. Badgett finished with a 36-hole score of 140 at Stonebridge Golf Glub; His four-under-par only trailed Seaforth’s Ty Willoughby’s 135 (-9). Willoughby’s 135...
East Surry hires Caleb Pardue as next head football coach
Last week, East Surry High School announced Caleb Pardue as its next head football coach. Pardue is taking over the Cardinals' program from Trent Lowman, who left to become the head coach at West Stokes High School, a rival right across the county border. Pardue was most recently the defensive...
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