Multiple postseason tournaments will occur this week involving girls and boys private high-school teams in two different conferences.
In girls Independent School League action, the Flint Hill Huskies, Madeira Snails and Potomac School Panthers will participate in soccer, tennis and volleyball tournaments. In the boys Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference, Flint Hill and Potomac School teams will participate in the soccer tourney.
For the third straight year, and with a different top individual finisher each time, the Potomac School Panthers continued atop the throne as conference cross-country champs.
The boys high-school team had scored a meet-best 24 points to win the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference varsity title Oct. 26 on the 5,000-meter Agricultural Farm Park course in Derwood, Md.
Multiple long scoring plays were a large contributor to the Potomac School Panthers’ biggest victory so far of the football season.
Under temporary lighting for a Friday night (Oct. 25) high-school game, the host Panthers topped the St. James Saints (5-4) of Frederick, Md., 33-16, to improve to 5-3.
After a slow start and initially falling behind, the Madison Warhawks finished strong to remain undefeated at 8-0 in high-school football action.
The visiting Warhawks downed the South Lakes Seahawks, 35-7, Friday night (Oct. 25) in a Concorde District game to remain atop the league standings with a 3-0 record. South Lakes, which led 7-0 at one point, fell to 2-6, 0-3.
First they dominated the conference team tournament, then the Potomac School Panthers did the same in the individual golf competition a week later.
At the 18-hole Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference individual tourney Wednesday (Oct. 23), Panthers’ freshman Colton Rodgers was the champion of the private high-school golf event with a 7-under-par 64 on the Blue Mash Golf Course in Montgomery County.
For the second straight season, the Oakton Cougars field-hockey team ran the table with a perfect 12-0 record in the Concorde District and winning regular-season and tournament championships.
On its home field, top-seed Oakton (17-2) nipped the No. 2 seed Madison Warhawks, 1-0, in the Thursday (Oct. 24) title match of the girls high-school field-hockey tournament. Rachel Sweeney scored the game’s only goal early in the second quarter.
There are no permanent lights on the football fields at either Flint Hill School in Oakton and the Potomac School in McLean.
Yet, because temporary lights have been installed on each gridiron at the private schools, the football teams will host separate Friday-night games on Oct. 25.
Three decades later, and appropriately at a homecoming game, a standout football season recorded by the Potomac School Panthers was celebrated.
During halftime of Potomac School’s home Oct. 19 high-school contest against the Maret Frogs, eight members (players and coaches) for the groundbreaking 1993 campaign gathered at midfield and listened to game announcer Glenn Adamac read the many first accomplishments amassed by that McLean private-school squad.
With a 30-0 road victory over the McLean Highlanders on Oct. 18, the Herndon Hornets recorded their third shutout of the high-school football season.
The Hornets improved to 5-3 overall and 2-2 in the Liberty District with the win over McLean (3-5, 0-3). The victory also snapped a two-game losing streak.
By shooting rounds in the 70s, eight golfers from Fairfax County high school teams earned berths at a qualifying competition to play in the upcoming Girls State Open.
Resulting from their strong play, three players from Robinson and one each from Fairfax, Langley, West Potomac, Woodson and Lake Braddock will participate in the 18-hole Virginia High School League tournament Oct. 28 at Heritage Oaks Golf Course in Harrisonburg.
