The latest VHSL points rankings for high school football show some big shifts.
Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson worked for 44 years in Virginia as a sports writer, most recently as the high school sports editor at The Roanoke Times. before retiring in June 2022. He has won multiple Virginia Press Association awards for sports writing portfolio and has been honored nationally by The Associated Press Sports Editors. Anderson is a North Carolina native and a graduate of Martinsville High School in Virginia and Emory & Henry College. He is a 2025 inductee into the Virginia High School Hall of Fame.
E.C. Glass, Salem battle for top seed; three weeks left in VHSL points race
Friday’s big game will be Radford vs. Floyd County.
Martinsville and Radford challenge for top spot; Rye Cove posts big turn-around
The latest VHSL points rating scale have tight race between Salem, E.C. Glass and Louisa County for top seed in their region.
Who’s up and who’s down in the VHSL football points
The first points rankings have come out this week; they will eventually determine who makes the playoffs.
In Wytheville, ‘base ball’ by 1865 rules
Wytheville brings back ‘Vintage Base Ball,’ where players don’t wear gloves and the rules date to the Civil War.
Back from a coma, former Roanoke sportscaster returns to broadcast booth
Covid nearly killed Justin Ditmore — six times. Here’s how he survived.
Martinsville’s Lou Whitaker is ‘1 for the ages’
The Detroit Tigers retire the number of the famed second baseman who grew up in Martinsville.
From Bland County to the pros
Jake Watters, from the fourth-smallest county in Virginia, has now signed with the Oakland A’s. Here’s how he got there.

