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1 week ago | 
winchesterstar.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
WINCHESTER — The Charlottesville boys' tennis team showed why it's the defending Class 4 state champions on Friday, but Handley made sure the Black Knights didn't leave the Slaughter Tennis Pavilion without making them put in some extra work. The Judges' season came to an end with a 5-0 loss to Charlottesville in the Region 4D semifinals.
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1 week ago | 
winchesterstar.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
It took a while, but both Clarke County track & field teams can now call themselves Region 2B champions. On Friday — two days after the girls' team clinched the title when 16 of the 17 events were held at East Rockingham High School — it was announced that the boys had also won a championship after holding a slim lead over Stuarts Draft at the end of Wednesday night. Clarke County scored 124 points to the Cougars' 122 to give both Eagle teams their first region titles since 2009.
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1 week ago | 
winchesterstar.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
WINCHESTER — Sherando girls' soccer coach Patrick Gladden said sophomores Anna Foster and Mia Bordogna engaged in plenty of good-natured trash talking in Tuesday's gymnasium practice because of how well their team was doing in four vs. four games. On Wednesday, they just let their play do the talking. And when it mattered most, their actions had the entire team screaming over and over.
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1 week ago | 
nvdaily.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
Sherando girls soccer coach Patrick Gladden said sophomores Anna Foster and Mia Bordogna engaged in plenty of good-natured trash talking in Tuesday's gymnasium practice because of how well their team was doing in four vs. four games. On Wednesday, they just let their play do the talking. And when it mattered most, their actions had the entire team screaming over and over.
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1 week ago | 
winchesterstar.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
WINCHESTER — As Kate Konyar charged down the final straightaway of the girls' 3,200 under a steady rain, her face broke into a huge grin and she began waving her arms excitedly with about 30 meters to go. The reason? The James Wood High School junior was looking at the time clock, and she knew a dream was about to come true.
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1 week ago | 
winchesterstar.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
WINCHESTER — Three-time state shot put champion Jaishaun Offutt is looking to close his career on top, and his junior Handley teammate Rylan Stribling would love nothing more to win three state titles in one day on the first weekend of June at Liberty University. On a rainy day at Millbrook High School, Offutt and Stribling combined for four of the five titles won by local athletes at the Region 4D Track & Field Championships on Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
winchesterstar.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
In choosing Ethan Waters as its next coordinator of student actiivities, James Wood High School is introducing a new face to Frederick County Public Schools. The hiring of the 29-year-old Waters — who attended high school and college in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle and has worked as a social studies teacher for Loudoun County Public schools the last five years — was approved during last week's FCPS School Board meeting. He will begin work at James Wood on July 1.
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2 weeks ago | 
winchesterstar.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
BERRYVILLE — Home, sweet home. On Friday — for the second time this season — the Clarke County boys' soccer team avenged a road loss to a Bull Run District foe with a home win at Wilbur M. Feltner Stadium. Friday's 3-0 win over Madison County was significantly more important than the Eagles' 4-1 win over Page County in their first revenge win, though.
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2 weeks ago | 
nvdaily.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
STEPHENS CITY — A fifth straight loss was staring the Millbrook softball team in the face on Tuesday. The Pioneers didn't blink, though. And their never-ending belief in themselves helped them stage a winning rally with their backs against the wall. Millbrook's five-run seventh inning gave it a 7-5 win and a doubleheader split with Sherando at Sherando Park.
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2 weeks ago | 
winchesterstar.com | Robert Niedzwiecki
STEPHENS CITY — A fifth straight loss was staring the Millbrook softball team in the face on Tuesday. The Pioneers didn't blink, though. And their never-ending belief in themselves helped them stage a winning rally with their backs against the wall. Millbrook's five-run seventh inning gave it a 7-5 win and a doubleheader split with Sherando at Sherando Park.
