WINTHROP — The game couldn’t have started much better for the Winthrop High School girls basketball team. And a hot start Wednesday night ended up being all the Ramblers needed to extend what’s been a hot start to the season as well. Winthrop used a hot first quarter to get out to an early lead, then […]

RICHMOND — Spruce Mountain held the Richmond High School girls basketball team to zero field goals over a nine-plus minute stretch of the first and second quarters. At the half, the score still read … Bobcats 16, Phoenix 13. But the visitors had a third-quarter answer, using a full-court press defense to change the tide en […]

JAY — Spruce Mountain coach Scott Bessey saw no sense in leaving in his starters or keeping up the pressure on Richmond after the Phoenix constructed a sturdy 41-9 halftime lead in a high school Mountain Valley Conference boys basketball game on Friday. Bessey called up his reserves and called off his press in the second […]

WALES — A cold evening outside carried over to the shooting touches inside the gym at Oak Hill High School on Thursday. Both the Raiders and visiting Richmond struggled to make shots in an MVC girls’ basketball tussle, which Oak Hill won, 31-28. “I think both teams played reasonably good defense,” Oak Hill coach Mike Labonte […]

RICHMOND — The Richmond Bobcats survived a late push from Oak Hill to come away with its first win of the season in boys high school basketball, 53-43, on Wednesday. Richmond, in its second season playing a Mountain Valley Conference schedule, knocked off a Class B MVC opponent also looking to get in the win column […]