Back in the day, Michael Willis played high school basketball for Patrick Henry, Roanoke Catholic and William Fleming. Now the youth basketball coach is earning accolades for turning underdog youth programs into championship ones.
Both teams are headed to the Virginia High School League playoffs.
The committee gave a thumbs up to Fleming and Franklin County appeals.
When Averett football coach Patrick Henry released his guys into the offseason, he gave them a bit of a homework assignment.
Liberty, George Wythe and Grayson County would also be in new classifications under the recommendations.
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William Fleming — the original Colonel himself — is buried in a plot just off the 18th green at Roanoke’s Ole Monterey Golf Course.
The pole vault is the most difficult and potentially dangerous event in high school track and field.
MONETA — Carmelo Taylor won two events to power Patrick Henry to the boys team title, while Christiansburg had three individual winners in tak…
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Evan Langhammer is goal-oriented.
After carrying a seven-point lead into the fourth quarter of their Region 5D quarterfinal Wednesday evening, the Patrick Henry girls basketbal…
Trinity Breedlove has one of the sweetest shooting strokes in Timesland high school girls basketball.
Fleming swats PH Colonels outlast Patriots in overtime thriller to advance ROBERT ANDERSON robert.anderson@roanoke.com 540-981-3123 William Fl…
Zack Leonard coached for Patrick Henry’s Alan Fiddler and Christiansburg’s Alex Wilkens.
FREDERICKSBURG -- William Fleming's Jacob Henderson and Patrick Henry's Traquan Robertson claimed individual championships Saturday in the Reg…
RINER — Auburn’s boys and girls basketball programs made history Wednesday night as both claimed regular-season district titles in the same se…