Sports

Chatham Youth League will hold registrations for fall baseball and softball leagues Friday, July 27, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

DANVILLE — Nine-year-old Andrew Williams has a career picked out.

Danville native Abby Steketee has been named the University of Nevada’s head swimming and diving coach.

DANVILLE — Danville American Major League All-Stars won the District 2 tournament in Lynchburg on July 10 by a score of 11-10.

DANVILLE — The First Tee of Danville will host a youth-adult captain’s choice golf tournament Friday, July 20 at Goodyear Golf Club.

DANVILLE — The Danville Braves will host Military Appreciation Night Friday, July 13.

DANVILLE — Ten-year-old Lynden Gilstrap placed second on the balance beam in the AAU Southeast Regional Gymnastics Championship recently.

Dan River Basin Association will paddle on Talbott Reservoir near the Blue Ridge Parkway for its July 7 First Saturday Outing.

Tori McKenzie, a rising senior at Chatham High School, finished third in the girls’ 100-meter dash at the New Balance National Track Meet.

Pittsylvania County Parks and Recreation Department will offer a football officials clinic Sunday, July 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Blairs Community Center gymnasium.

Hargrave Military Academy’s new Aquatics Director John Eife will be hosting four sessions of swimming lessons this summer.

DANVILLE — Elizabethton Twins shortstop Niko Goodrum hit a bases-clearing triple, starter Ricardo Arevalo threw five stellar innings of shutout ball, and very little went right for the Danville Braves as the Twins took game two of this three-game series, 10-0, Wednesday night at American Legion Post 325 Field.

My brother-in-law Ruric Sparks and I used to fish together. We have fished places including Rice Lake in Ontario, Canada.

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Hargrave Military Academy Post-Graduate Basketball Head Coach A.W. Hamilton has been named the academy’s “2012 O.B. Teague Coach of the Year.”

DANVILLE — Danville Braves will hold its annual Meet the Braves Night Monday, June 18, at 5:30 p.m. at American Legion Post 325 Field at Dan Daniel Memorial Park.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Averett University volleyball player Paige Aaron was selected as the female recipient of the USA South Conference's prestigious Don Scalf Award, which honors one male and one female as the student-athletes of the year.

Chatham High School graduate Brad Haymes had a good year on the mound for the Cavaliers’ baseball team. His efforts garnered him recognition as the Dogwood District Player of the Year.

Chatham High School’s notoriously fast Tori McKenzie won two state championships and was runner-up in another event at the state championship track meet at Radford University.

RINGGOLD — Dan River High School’s softball season ended earlier than expected as the #6 seeded Stuarts Draft Cougars knocked off the #3 Wildcats 2-1 on May 28 in Ringgold.

DRY FORK — The Piedmont District tournaments brought excitement this week for Tunstall High School’s spring sports teams. Both the baseball and girls’ soccer teams will continue competition on the regional level.

Chatham High School’s softball team concluded the season when the Lady Cavaliers were eliminated from the Dogwood District tournament.

Sea Tow Smith Mountain Lake, an on-water assistance provider, on Saturday opened four new life jacket loaner stands at Smith Mountain Lake.

DANVILLE — The Piedmont Virginia Senior Amateur Golf tour recently held its third tournament of the season at Tuscarora Country Club in Danville.

DRY FORK — Two Tunstall High School legends will be honored with their induction into the school’s Sports Hall of Fame on May 5.