(October 20, 2015) — The results are in and the week eight winner of the LoCoSports Football Pick’Ems sponsored by Cheers Sports is Pops from Leesburg! Pops went 8-0 in week eight, beat all of the local experts and will take home a gift certificate for a free meal at ResQ Grille! Woodgrove Baseball from Round Hill and TomTy from Leesburg are tied for the lead in the season-long Pick’Ems competition with records of 63-14. Coach Gasser from Sterling placed second in week eight, turning in a 7-1 record and missing the final score of the Game of the Week between Stone Bridge and Broad Run High Schools by only 11 points. Coach Gasser will take home a gift…
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Winchester (October 18, 2015) — The country’s top boy and girl high school cross country runners might be running past your home at this very moment. Loudoun Valley High School senior Drew Hunter and Heritage High School sophomore Weini Kelati have solidified themselves as two of the best – if not, the two best – high school runners in the country. Hunter (14:21) and Kelati (16:29) both shattered – and I mean SHATTERED – course records at the Third Battle Invitational at the Third Battle of Winchester Battlefield on October 17 in Winchester. Led by Hunter, the Viking boys won the event…
By Joe Skinner LoCoSports Social Media Editor [twitter-follow screen_name=’JoeSkinner33′] Ashburn (October 17, 2015) — You know when the line to get into a football game takes about 40 minutes to get through, the Battle of the ‘Burn is about to go down. One of the biggest and most historic rivalries in the county wrote another chapter in its history book on October 16, as the Stone Bridge High School Bulldogs (4-3) upset the previously-undefeated Broad Run High School Spartans (6-1), 27-13. As highly touted as the Battle of the ‘Burn is, the first quarter and most of the first half…
By Chloe Adam LoCoSports Staff Writer [twitter-follow screen_name=’ChloeMAdam31′] Leesburg (October 13, 2015) — This past weekend, the softball community remembered and paid tribute to former Broad Run High School student Madison Small. Madison was a four-year varsity player and senior captain of the Spartan softball team when she unexpectedly passed away after contracting Neisseria Sepsis — a blood infection related to meningococcal meningitis. Through the course of her young life, Madison played for many local softball organizations, but it was with the Ashburn Girls Softball League where Madison began her early love for softball. After Madison’s untimely passing in April 2015,…
(October 13, 2015) — The results are in and the week seven winner of the LoCoSports Football Pick’Ems sponsored by Cheers Sports is Swen AB from Sterling! Swen AB went 10-0 in week seven, beat all of the local experts and will take home a gift certificate for a free meal at ResQ Grille! Woodgrove Baseball from Round Hill is still in the lead in the season-long Pick’Ems competition with a record of 57-12. Zinger1019 from Sterling, AMS from Leesburg and JDN18 from Reston tied for second in week seven, turning in 10-0 records and missing the final score of the Game of the Week between Tuscarora and Potomac Falls High Schools by…
Manassas (October 10, 2015) — Heritage High School sophomore Weini Kelati (17:11) outran the 35-team, 221-athlete field to a National Elite victory at the Glory Days Grill Invitational on October 10. Kelati — along with teammate Georgie Mackenzie (19:00) — helped the Lady Pride to a ninth place team finish. Loudoun Valley sophomore Natalie Morris (19:20) and Potomac Falls junior Deirdre Gilmore (19:29) turned in the only other top-20 times by LCPS student-athletes. On the boys side, Loudoun Valley sophomore Colton Bogucki (16:24) turned in the only top-20 time by an LCPS student-athlete. National Elite* and Loudoun results below… Girls 5000 Meter Run ——————————————————————————— Name Team Time 1 Weini…
