Sports

by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi -  The Virginia High School League (VHSL) failed to make any recommendations for fall athletic schedules following a special session of the executive committee last month. The committee met to discuss the fiscal year 2021 budget and fall...

Seniors from the local VHSL Region 1A high school baseball teams took the field one last time on Tuesday, June 30, 2010 for an action-packed doubleheader. In game 1, seniors from Essex High School teamed up with seniors from Rappahannock...

by Stephen Blue -  This past weekend was one of improvement for the Deltaville Deltas. Consecutively, they lost, tied and won their three game series, capping the weekend with a ninth inning comeback victory on Sunday afternoon against the Richmond...

A new summer baseball league, including seven teams of up-and-coming area high school players, will begin play Monday, July 6. Games will be played at Deltaville Ballpark and Dream Fields in Kilmarnock. The schedule includes 43 games and extends through...

Host Mechanicsville Thursday, defending champ Woody Sat. by Stephen Blue -  The Deltaville Deltas offense picked up right where it left off 10 months ago, scoring early and often in a 14-1 victory on Saturday night at Deltaville Ballpark. In a late...

by Larry Chowning -  The Nov. 15, 1990 “Do You Remember?” column in the Gloucester-Mathews Gazette Journal featured a photo of the Mathews ALLSTARS semi-pro baseball team with Syd Thrift, first baseman and manager on the front row. Thrift, a...

by Larry Chowning -  Christchurch School has produced some famous writers in the likes of William Styron, Vincent Canby and Lewis Puller Jr. Styron and Puller were winners of the Pulitzer Prize and Canby became “chief film critic” for the...

by Tom Chillemi -  Middlesex Little League plans to conduct its season this fall, announced league official Mac McMurtrie, who released the following information this week. “In accordance with the latest state and Little League guidelines, we have made the decision...

(Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a special multi-part Southside Sentinel series on the Middlesex County Sports Complex, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this summer.) by Larry Chowning -  The Middlesex County Sports Complex at Locust Hill is celebrating...

by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi -  Hope for an abbreviated season of high school baseball, softball, soccer and tennis was dashed this month when the Virginia High School League’s (VHSL) executive committee canceled all spring sports and activities for the remainder of...