Sports

The Middlesex County Youth League Parks and Recreation Department basketball program opened this past weekend with games at Middlesex High School and Middlesex Elementary School (MES). Pictured above in MES action are Chandler Automotive’s Carter Wilson in blue (7)...

Chargers earn county bragging rights in closer contest than score suggests Middlesex High School’s (MHS) varsity basketball team (8-2, 5-0) defeated the Christchurch School (CCS) Seahorses (3-6, 0-0) Saturday, 52-42, in a closer contest than the score might indicate. For the...

The struggles of the Middlesex High varsity girls basketball team continued on Tuesday, Jan. 3, with a 30-18 loss to visiting Mathews. The game was called with about six minutes left when Middlesex could not field a team due...

With a strong fourth quarter, the Middlesex High JV Lady Charger basketball team overcame a 4-point halftime deficit and rallied for a 23-21 overtime win against visiting Mathews on Tuesday, Jan. 3. “It was a very intense game,” said MHS...

The Middlesex High School (MHS) wrestling team was 2-1 at a tri-meet at Northampton High School on Virginia’s Eastern Shore Tuesday, Jan. 3, by defeating Northumberland’s Indians, 63-12, King & Queen Central’s Royal Tigers, 72-6, and losing to Northampton,...

Chargers to take on Seahorses Jan. 7 in quest for county bragging rights by Larry Chowning - MHS will travel to Christchurch School (CCS) on Saturday, Jan. 7, to take on the Seahorses in CCS’s Yarbrough Gymnasium in a special...

First place winners in the annual Carlton Brownley Bush Park Mobile Home Community Rockfish Tournament include, from left, Linwood Green, Russ Hixson, Walter Green and Dennis Eddleton. The Dec. 3 tourney was in honor of Gene Andrews, who passed...

by Larry Chowning - The Middlesex High School (MHS) wrestling team finished 2-3 at the Lancaster Duals Invitational meet on Friday, Dec. 23, during the Red Devils annual Christmas tourney. The Chargers defeated Northumberland’s Indians, 66-12, and tied the Tabb High...

Christchurch School (CCS) Head Soccer Coach Matt Schaefer has been named Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA) Division II Coach of the Year, CCS announced recently. Coach Schaefer is in his 20th year coaching at Christchurch. He teaches math, does dorm...

by Larry Chowning - The Middlesex High School (MHS) Charger wrestling team defeated the Washington & Lee (W&L) Generals and fell to the Franklin High School Broncos in a tri-meet in Saluda’s John Clements Memorial Gym on Wednesday, Dec....