Hayfield Secondary School has lost its final appeal to overturn a two-year postseason ban in football.
The final decision was made by a three-person Virginia High School League subcommittee, which heard from both Hayfield and the league Thursday via Zoom before rendering its decision.
Championship seasons ended for the Potomac School Panthers girls and boys high-school soccer teams with recent semifinal losses in private-school state-tournament action.
The No. 3-seeded and defending champion girls (12-5) lost to the host and No. 2 seed Bishop O’Connell Knights, 2-0, in the four-team Northern Virginia Independent Schools State Invitational.
Just one more game stands between the Madison High School varsity football team and an undefeated regular season.
The 9-0 Warhawks visit the Centreville Wildcats on Friday (Nov. 8) in their final game prior to the region playoffs.
The top seed Langley Saxons and Chantilly Chargers held serve by winning recent district-tournament volleyball championships.
Langley (23-1) won its third straight girls Liberty District crown and Chantilly (19-2-1) was first in the Concorde District high-school competition.
Seven years after its founding, a small, four-team girls soccer tournament remains the same size but has significantly grown in stature.
The event is the Northern Virginia Independent Schools State Invitational, held for teams that play in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and the Independent School League.
An appeals committee for the Virginia High School League is reviewing and will soon make its decision regarding whether Hayfield High School is eligible for the postseason in 2024 and 2025.
The committee met Monday to hear from the Virginia High School League and Hayfield officials.
The Potomac School Panthers have brought home both regular-season and conference-tournament titles in boys soccer.
And now, players and coaches have their eyes on a possible state crown.
This season the Division I private-school state football playoffs will not include the Flint Hill Huskies or Potomac School Panthers.
The overall records of the high-school teams were not good enough to earn one of the four berths. Potomac School finished 5-4 and Flint Hill 1-8.
With one more victory, the Madison Warhawks will match the football program’s only other undefeated 10-0 regular season — one that occurred 46 years ago.
Madison improved to 9-0 Nov. 2 with a 28-6 road win over its neighborhood rival Oakton Cougars in Concorde District high-school action. The first-place Warhawks improved to 4-0 in the district. Oakton fell to 4-5, 1-3.
With the postseason under way, the Potomac School Panthers are in a familiar place, having captured one soccer-tournament crown and looking to defend their title in another.
On Friday (Nov. 1), the second-seeded girls high-school team won the Independent School League’s AA Division tourney for the third straight time with a 2-1 overtime victory over top seed Georgetown Day in the championship match at Episcopal High School in Alexandria.
