HARRISONBURG — Altavista’s boys basketball team cruised past a fatigued Riverheads squad 41-29 on Saturday in the Region B, Division 1, championship game at Eastern Mennonite University after defending Group A, Division 1, state champion Buffalo Gap dominated Altavista in the Region B, Division 1, girls final at EMU, holding the Colonels scoreless in the first quarter.

Mike Poindexter drilled a 30-foot 3-pointer at the first-half buzzer to give Altavista’s boys basketball team a 27-26 lead and the momentum going into the second half, when the Colonels pulled past host Page County 57-46 in a Region B, Division 1 quarterfinal.

Mike Poindexter scored a game-high 15 points with nine rebounds and Jerrell Jordan and Kyle Andrews each added 14 points for Altavista’s boys basketball team, which beat Nelson County for the second time in four days.

The Colonels (12-9) held their guests to 36 points for the second time in a row in the first round of the Dogwood District tournament, winning 52-36 after beating the Governors (8-13) 65-36 in the regular-season finale on Friday.

A suspect in a stolen Dodge Charger led Altavista, Campbell County and state law enforcement on a game of hide-and-seek for several hours Wednesday evening, officials with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office said.

Altavista High School has been ranked among the best high schools in the country, according to rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report.

A shooting near Altavista left one hospitalized and two facing charges Saturday night.

Four Altavista residents are vying for three Town Council seats in November’s general election. Current Mayor Rudy Burgess faces no opposition in his bid for another term.

APPOMATTOX — In an otherwise defensive battle, Appomattox made the most of two long runs to slip past Altavista 13-7 in a Dogwood District battle on Friday. Appomattox quarterback Kenny Scott broke loose around the right end for a 61-yard run on the Raiders’ first possession, carrying the ball down to the Colonels’ 7 before scrambling in for the score off of a naked bootleg three plays later. Joe Reed set up a second Appomattox score with another 61-yard run, down to Altavista’s 6, before sweeping into the end zone from 9 yards for a 13-0 lead.

Building two houses in two days is a large feat to undertake.

FOREST — Like a cat stalking its prey, Altavista senior cross country runner Andrew Rigler crept up on Jefferson Forest’s Josh Morris and Hidden Valley’s Bryan Lewis before pouncing past them both in the last mile of Saturday’s Runnin’ with the Wolves Rocktoberfest varsity boys race, run on a new 3.1-mile course at Wolf Branch Farm.

ALTAVISTA — For all of the improvements made by the Altavista’s football program under head coach Mike Scharnus, the Colonels were shown that they have a little more work to do when it comes to slugging it out with one of the Dogwood’s heavyweights.

William Campbell continued its dominance of its Dogwood rival Friday night, beating Altavista 28-3.

Altavista junior Sarah Murphy, one of the area’s strongest and most promising girls cross country runners, is still struggling with a hip condition that forced her to sit out a few meets last fall, prior to the postseason.

A $12 million dollar expansion at a bottle-making plant in Altavista is set to bring at least 10 new jobs to Campbell County.

Altavista’s police chief will retire in January after serving in the department for more than 35 years.

ALTAVISTA — When Carl Wilson gets finished with dialysis, he’s home in 10 minutes.
But until 2008, Wilson traveled 41 miles every three days from his home near Altavista to the Uva Dialysis Center in Lynchburg. And after each four-hour treatment he was back on the road again.