By a comfortable margin of 17 points and a much closer two, respectively, the Langley Saxons and Chantilly Chargers won girls and boys region cross country-championships on Wednesday (Nov. 6).
Langley scored 61 points and had its top five runners finish among the top 21 in the 2.98-mile 6D North Region girls high-school race at Burke Lake Park. The Yorktown Patriots were second with 88 points.
It was deja vu all over again in the championship match of this season’s girls 6D North Region field hockey tournament, with one difference.
The Oakton Cougars won the title for the second straight year over the Yorktown Patriots, 1-0, but on the road instead of on their home turf. Oakton also won by a one-goal margin, 2-1, over the Patriots in 2023.
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.
