Month: January 2017

Pioneers lose football coach

The Fort Chiswell Pioneer football program will be losing their offensive coordinator – Seth Padgett- to California. Coach Padgett has accepted a head coaching job at Santa Rosa Academy in Menifee, California. The academy just started football in 2005. Coach Padgett said,” It’s a golden opportunity for me. The principal there is a colleague of mine. We played football at Union College together and we have always kept in touch and he invited me to fly out and check things out.” Coach then added,” I am truly going to miss the players, coaches and friends here. I feel like it’s an opportunity that I couldn’t turn down and to run my own football program.”

Head coach Todd Tiller of the Fort Chiswell Pioneers remarked, ” I’m happy for Seth and I’m sad also. When he came to me about this I told him to go check it out and see what he thought. I hate losing him and we will have to find some one to replace his position on the staff here.”

Coach Padgett informed the team this morning ( Friday) of the decision to leave.

 

 

Two Cougars to sign next week

Pulaski Co. Cougar football players Hunter Thomas and Bryant Grubb have made their college decisions. Thomas a running back will sign with East Tennessee St , while Grubb, a quarterback, will sign with Concord University. Congrats to both players.

Pioneer to sign

Have just been informed that Fort Chiswell football player Colby Rider will sign to play football at VMI. Fort Chiswell High School , Coach Todd Tiller and Colby will have a signing that is scheduled for next Wednesday February 1st at the high school library. More on this after that signing. Rider was a middle linebacker on defense as well the defensive signal caller. He played at tight end on offense as well as direct snap running back. Congrats Colby on your signing.

Cougars get win over Terriers

Dublin…Don’t know if people have heard of an old saying that goes,” The most consistent thing is they are inconsistent “? That sums up the Cougar boys basketball team this season.

Playing their best game in at least three or four games the Cougars got 12 points apiece from Austin Reinhardt and C C Grubb to pull out a big win over the Wm. Byrd Terriers 48-45.

The Cougars trailed 21-19 at intermission and 35-30 going into the fourth quarter. The biggest play of the contest was perhaps when Terriers big man Devon Kasey picked up his fourth foul with around four minutes to go. He then proceeded to pick up a technical after that and got his fifth and fouled out, with Byrd leading 37-36. Kasey had been held scoreless the entire first half but scored 12 of the Terriers 14 third quarter points. He finished with 14 points as was the Terriers leading scorer.

William Byrd got 11 points from guard Stephen Olsen and sharpshooter Alex Fitch was held to just six points.

Bryan Roberson and Bryant Grubb both came off the Cougar bench to score nine points each in the victory as the Cougars ended a two game losing streak. They are now 10-6 on the campaign with two road games upcoming, where they have really struggled lately.

“We made enough plays to win tonight, “ said Cougar coach Andrew Hart. “If we could get more consistent we can be fairly good. This was a huge win for us and we made some big plays the last minute.” Coach Hart then said,” The technical on Kasey (Devon) for them turned out being a big turn in the game. He had hurt us inside the third quarter.”

The Cougar junior varsity won a nail biter 54-52 over the Terriers. Wm. Byrd was lead by Thomas Adams with 15 points. The Cougars got a huge game from James Jackson as he tossed in 23 points. Dre Grubb had eight points, as did Julian Black. The junior varsity are now 10-6 on the season.

Pulaski Co. will travel to Roanoke Friday night as they take on Hidden Valley. Junior varsity game begins at 5:30 with the varsity tipping at 7 pm.

 

 

Pul Co. 11 8 11 18-48

Byrd 6 15 14 10-45

 

Pul Co. (10-6) – C Grubb 12, Reinhardt 12, B. Grubb 9, Roberson 9, Blevins 3, Gray 3

 

Wm.Byrd (12-6) – Kasey 14, Olsen 11, Wheeler 5, Fitch 6, Johnson 2, Williams 2, Smith 5

 

3 Pt. Goals – PC- 5-(C. Grubb 2, Roberson, Blevins, Gray)

– WB- 5- (Smith, Olsen 3, Fitch)

 

Fouls – PC- 16, WB – 17

 

Fouled Out – Byrd- Kasey

 

Technicals- Byrd – Kasey

Scores for Wed. Jan. 25

BOYS

Pulaski Co. 48 Wm.Byrd 45

Grayson Co, 65 Fort Chiswell 46

Radford 70 Floyd Co. 33

Bland Co. 47 Rural Retreat 41

Glenvar 74 James River 57

Auburn 75 Giles 65

Abingdon 60 Marion 48

Wm. Fleming 50 Patrick Henry 41

Hidden Valley 62 Franklin Co. 56

GIRLS

Wm. Byrd 52 Pulaski Co. 38

Patrick Co. 40 Blacksburg 31

Lord Botetourt 63 Salem 13

Lady Pioneers defeat Warriors

Gracie Robinson bringing the ball down the court against the warrior.

(Photography courtesy Tina Quesenberry)

Max Meadows…The Fort Chiswell Pioneers hit seven three’s in the first half and went on to defeat the Chilhowie Lady Warriors 66-50. Fort Chiswell was led by Gracie Robinson with 18 points. Alexandra Rakes pumped in 13 and Taylor Jones had 12. Savannah Dunford chipped in with nine points on three long jumpers as she saw her first action of the season, coming back from a knee injury.

The Lady Warriors got a game high 25 points from Rachel Hurley and 15 from Leah Kestner.

Taylor Jones goes up to block the Warrior. Also pictured is Bailey Watson and Carlie Musick.

The Pioneers up 21-15 after the opening quarter outscored the Warriors 21-11 to take a 42-26 commanding lead into intermission. Four Lady Pioneers struck from behind the three-point line for the halftime margin.

“ I’m Happy with the way we play offense tonight,” said Lady Pioneer head coach Kristen Williams. “ I’m not to happy with the way we played defense, especially the second half. I know we hit lot of three’s but we didn’t take them at the right time. “ She then added,” It was real nice to have Savannah (Dunford) back out on the court tonight. I thought she played nervous but after she hit that first three she seemed to settle down some.”

All nine of the Pioneers got into the scoring column as they improved to 13-2 on the season. The Pioneers press seemed to wear the Warriors down as they also pushed the ball up court time and time again.

The Lady Pioneers junior varsity also win as they beat the Warriors 32-26. Kathy Musick has 12 points in the win. Teammates Jordan King had six and Haley Smith chipped in with five. Caitlin Pierce led the Warriors with 13 points.

 

Fort Chiswell 21 21 18 6-66

Chilhowie 15 11 11 13-50

 

 

FC (13-2) – Robinson 18, Rakes 13, Jones 12, Dunford 9, Musick 3, Harmon 4, Carroll 2, Booher 3, Watson 2

 

Chilhowie – Hurley 25, Kestner 15, Murphy 5, Martin 2, Greer 2, Gilbert 1

Fort Chiswell Pioneers upset Chilhowie Warriors

(Photography courtesy Tina Quesenberry)

Max Meadows…Playing perhaps their best half of basketball of the season in the first half, the Pioneers held on down the stretch to upset the Chilhowie Warriors 78-71.

Noah Widelo

The Pioneers placed six players into double figures to improve their record to 9-5. They were led in scoring by Noah Widelo with 14 points coming off the bench. He got lots of help as Andrew Stoots had 12, Kolton Sutphin 11 and Isaiah Ramsey 11. Tanner Bailey and Matthew Musick both had 10 point apiece.

Chilhowie (13-3) got a game high 27 points from forward Cameron Kestner and Alex Delp finished with 18. He scored 12 of those in the third quarter as the Warriors battled back from 18 down to close to within three 74-71 with 48 seconds to go in the game. Trevor Tucker pumped in 12 in the loss for the Warriors.

The Pioneers came out smoking as they knocked four three’s in the opening quarter for a 24-14 advantage. They would take a 42-28 lead into the locker room at intermission as they had 16 field goals in the first half.

The Warriors would slowly but surely cut into the Pioneers lead as Delp would score 12 straight points in the third quarter and then Kestner would produce 13 points in the final period.

Andrew Stoots

Fort Chiswell hit six huge free throws in the last thirty seconds to put the game in the win column. ‘We played real well the first half,” said Pioneers head man Derrick Jackson. “We were unselfish tonight. I’m very proud of the guys and their effort. This is a big win for us.”

The game saw 70 foul shots with 48 fouls called. The Pioneers shot 32 and Chilhowie 38 free throws.

The Pioneer junior varsity dropped a 42-29 decision to the young Warriors. The Warriors were led in scoring by Jason Amaro’s 11 points. Fort Chiswell got nine points from Isaac McHone and seven from Leighton Dunford.

Fort Chiswell travels to Grayson Co. Tonight, with the junior varsity tipping at 5:30 and varsity following.

 

FC 24 18 17 19-78

Chil. 14 14 18 25-71

 

FC- (9-5) – Ramsey 11, Bailey 10, Stoots 12, Sutphin 11, Widelo 14, Musick 10, Jakubiak 4, Rider 4, McCallister 2

 

Chilhowie- (13-3)- Robertson 6, Cale 2, Kestner 27, Tucker 12, Delp 18, McKinney 2, Catron 3, Jones 1

 

3 Pt. Goals – FC – 6-(Musick 2, Sutphin 2, Ramsey, Bailey), Chilhowie – 5-(Kestner 2, Tucker, Delp, Catron)

 

 

Fouled Out- Fort Chiswell – Ramsey, Rider, Widelo, Chilhowie- none

 

Technicals – none

 

FT’S – Fort Chiswell – 22 of 32, Chilhowie – 26 of 38

Results for Tues. Jan. 24

BOYS

Fort Chiswell 78 Chilhowie 71

George Wythe 83 Galax 34

Bland Co. 56 Rural Retreat 45

Richlands 71 Lebanon 56

Honaker 78 Holston 23

Cave Spring 73 Blacksburg 65

Christiansburg 60 Salem 57

Patrick Henry 45 Hidden Valley 35

GIRLS

Carroll Co. 71 Pulaski Co. 34

Fort Chiswell 66 Chilhowie 50

Marion 46 Grayson Co. 36

George Wythe 44 Galax 38

Glenvar 40 James River 36

Giles 66 Auburn 42

Cave Spring 47 Blacksburg 41

James Monroe (WV) 62 Narrows 49

 

Scores for Mon. Jan. 23

BOYS

Blacksburg 73 Salem 66

Carroll Co. 53 Grayson Co. 40

Auburn 67 Narrows 58

Graham 73 Bland Co. 35

Magna Vista 58 Christainsburg 49

Glenvar 71 James River 63

Marion 54 Rural Retreat 28

John Battle 54 Va. High 36

Covington 85 Eastern Montgomery 58

GIRLS

Marion 60 Rural Retreat 48

Va. High 68 John Battle 54

Christianburg 62 Patrick Henry 35