The Valdosta State volleyball team will pack their bags in a couple weeks to head to the beach but the trip will be far from a vacation. Pensacola, Fla,. again is the destination for this year’s Gulf South Conference tournament where the Blazers will try to make history by winning a conference title for the first time ever. The hosting ...

Valdosta may be cooling down for winter, but the Blazer football team looks to continue their hot streak. After a 37-6 win in Rome, Ga last Thursday versus Shorter, the Blazers (7-2, 4-1 GSC) set their sights on the Javelinas of Texas A&M- Kingsville. Javelinas are also known as peccaries or “skunk-pigs” and are related to hippopotamuses. The Blazers are ...

  It’s win or go home as the Lady Blazers kick of the Gulf South Conference tournament today vs. West Georgia.� � At 13-3-2 the team had a great second season and has looked dominant at times.  With possibly three games in four days and the No.2 team in the nation West Florida most likely making the championship game, they are ...

With the GSC tournament exactly one week away the Blazers Soccer team needs a key victory against West Alabama on Friday at home to stay at second place in the GSC. In conference play the Blazers are 5-1-1 while the West Alabama Tigers are 4-2-1. A loss on Friday would put the Lady Blazers behind the Tigers in the GSC ...

NBA fans worldwide have been waiting with anticipation for the start of the 2012-2013 NBA season. Well wait no more. The season starts Oct. 30 at Miami with the defending champion Heat taking on their rivals the Boston Celtics in a rematch of the conference finals. This meeting is sure to be good by adding more bad blood to the ...

Let’s give the Blazers a round of applause. The “six-game schedule” that the Blazers geared themselves to following the loss to West Alabama refocused their attention for the second half of the season. VSU has won four straight games since and been picked fourth in the Division II Super Region 2 rankings. After dropping two games in the first four, ...

After the performance last Saturday, the Blazers are looking to continue their high-scoring against Gulf South Conference newcomer Shorter College tonight in Rome, Ga. The Blazers (6-2, 3-1 GSC) are coming off an impressive 59-41 victory against rival Delta State (3-4, 1-2 GSC) on Homecoming weekend in a game that can be classified as a “good old fashioned shootout.” Quarterback ...

LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger helped hand the South Carolina Gamecocks its first loss of the year this past weekend 23-21.   The Oconee County graduate is used to taking rough hits as did in last Saturday’s victory but no hit compares to the one he had right here in Valdosta. Watkinsville, Ga. native Mettenberger chose to enroll at University of ...

The boys and girls Cross Country teams will look to make a statement Saturday at the Gulf South Championship race in Birmingham, Ala.     Last season the men finished tied for fourth and the women finished sixth.  The boys are led by Jesse Prince, Junior from Bonaire, Georgia who has finished first on the team for the Blazers in all four ...

Senior outfielder Morgan Johnson will be the first to tell you, there’s nothing easy about being a student-athlete. The Macon, Ga. native knows how to excel where numerous student-athletes struggle by balancing a demanding season schedule while maintaining a decent grade point average. Johnson led the national champion Lady Blazers last season in on base percentage, starting every game. Despite ...