Area Sports News
The MHS football team will get its first taste of battle in a pre-season scrimmage on Friday at home against Colonial Beach, starting at 6 p.m.
For the first time in 13 years, the Deltaville Deltas are league champions.
Gloucester will open the 2017 season with Woodside High School at 7 p.m. Aug. 25.
The Mathews High School volleyball season gets underway on Saturday morning.
The team team had its first match on Tuesday, Aug. 8, at the Piankatank River Golf Course, Hartfield.
The Dukes won the Aug. 9 opener at the Gloucester Country Club.
Joshua Shackelford won the 3,000 meter race at the 2017 AAU Junior Olympics at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.
The team had a short trip to the Virginia American Legion Junior League Tournament.
Almost 70 boats competed in the two days of racing.
It had to fight to get there.
The highlight Tuesday came when eighth grader Tanner Baker medaled with a seventh-place finish in a field of 77 in the boys’ (14-year old) 1,500 meter race.
