with doubleheader at Faith Christian
The Craig County basketball teams will back on the floor this weekend for both boys’ and girls’ games at the teams head into the 2025 portion of their schedules.
This Friday, January 3rd, the Craig boys will host Highland County in Pioneer District action in New Castle. The jayvees will play at 5:30 pm with the varsity to follow.
This Saturday the Rockets will host a quadrupleheader against visiting Giles. It opens with a girls’ jayvee game at noon, followed by a boys’ jayvee game at 1:30 pm. At 3 pm the varsity girls will play, and a big day of hoops will wrap up with a varsity boys game at approximately 4:30 pm.
Both teams were scheduled to wrap up the 2024 portion of their seasons with a girls-boys doubleheader at Faith Christian School on Monday of this week but results were too late for publication due to early holiday deadlines. The same can be said of last weekend’s two games in the Brookville Tournament for boys. Craig was scheduled to play host Brookville on Friday and then play in the consolation or championship game Saturday.
The Rockets went to Brookville with an 0-7 record after losing their last game before Christmas to James River on Thursday, December 19. The Knights took a 46-40 win in New Castle.
The Craig County girls played in the Knights Christmas Classic in Buchanan last week, hosted by James River High School. The Rockets dropped three games in the tournament to fall to 0-8, losing 45-30 to Northside, 57-31 to Amherst County and 57-27 to Auburn in the seventh place game. Staunton River won the tournament, defeating host James River in the final, 59-33. Craig County’s Daileigh Donithan was named to the All-Tournament team.
