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Wave Athletes Honored During Annual Kiwanis Sports Banquet

by Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter

     Every award is special. Monday night at the annual Grundy Kiwanis Athletic Banquet, a couple of awards were extra special.
  Principal Leslie Horne recognized GHS senior Elizabeth Lindsay for winning the Gene “Pappy” Thompson award and presented her a plaque for being named the Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance-VHSL Region IV female athlete of the year.
  Lindsay, who won awards in several different sports, was the second recipient of the award, which is presented by the Bristol Herald-Courier to the top student-athlete among some 50 schools in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee.
  It was the second time a Grundy athlete has won the prestigious award and the first since Brent Osborne won it in 1996.  
  The second special presentation involved the Dewey Varney Football Most Valuable Player Award. It was presented this year by the legendary Smiley Ratliff, a former GHS player and coach. And the winner of the Dewey Varney MVP Award for the 2005 Golden Wave was Theo Justus, a standout the past three years at quarterback, who also played well defensively as a senior.
  It was announced that the award, which is named after the late Dewey “Admiral” Varney, is over 60 years old and is believed to be one of the oldest annual amateur athletic awards in the United States.  
  Among the other awards were those for the boys and girls basketball teams that reached the Region IV semifinals.
  In boys basketball, Justus was named MVP and presented with plaques for being named Southwest District Player of the Year and Region IV co-Player of the Year.
  Grundy Athletic Director Greg Rowe presented Theo with plaques honoring the senior as SWD and Region IV Player Of The Year, and he presented Golden Wave Coach Greg Rife a plaque in honor of his being named Southwest Virginia Coach of the Year by the Herald-Courier.
  The Outstanding Defensive Player award was given to both Aaron Church and Jimmy Ashby. Ashby was recognized for being first team All-SWD.   Senior Tigh Compton received the Coach’s Award and Stephan Baker was named Outstanding Offensive Player.

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by Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
        Grundy picked up its first win of the season, taking the second game of a doubleheader in non-district baseball action Friday at Ervinton.
  The Golden Wave defeated the Rebels, 4-2 in the nightcap after losing by an identical 4-2 count in the opener.
  Grundy dropped a pair of SWD contests last week, losing at home to Tazewell, 12-1, last Tuesday (May 9) and falling at Graham, 14-1, on Thursday.
  Kevin Vandyke, Jerami Bartley and Holden Raines were among the hitting stars for the Golden Wave last week.
  Bartley was 2-for-2 with an RBI and Raines hit a solo home run in the second inning of Friday’s victory. In the opener, Bartley and Andy Stiltner each went 1-for-2 and drove in a run.
  Jimmy Ashby scattered six hits and picked up the win for Grundy (1-15, 0-8 SWD).
  “It fells good to get a win,” Grundy Coach Scotty Bostic said. “We’ve come a long way. Only five kids had played much, the other nine either haven’t played since little league or not at all.
  “They finally got some games under their belt and some of them are coming through for us. We just need to get our feeder systems going this summer. The junior league has played some. Now we need to get our senior league going.”
  John Hagy was the tough-luck loser in game one at Ervinton. The sophomore hurler gave up just four hits and one earned run in game one. The Rebels scored three unearned runs in the first inning.
  Drew Stanley was 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles for Ervinton.
  Kevin Vandyke got the only Wave hits in Thursday’s setback against Tazewell. The junior was 2-for-2 with a triple and double.
  The Bulldogs took command early, scoring eight runs in the first inning. Eric McDaniel led Tazewell, going 2-for-4 with a double, a home run and four RBIs.

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