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.
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.
Good luck taking the conference golf championship away from the Potomac School Panthers anytime soon.
With two talented freshmen on this season’s team, the high-school squad dominated and won the Oct. 9 one-day, 18-hole Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament title by 42 strokes with 229 team total. Sidwell Friends was second at 341.
The first win of the season was a record-setter for the Flint Hill Huskies.
By defeating the visiting Catholic Crusaders (0-7) from Virginia Beach by a 63-7 score Oct. 12 in non-conference high-school football action, the Huskies (1-5) set a team-high scoring total. The previous mark was 62 points, accomplished four different times over the past 14 years.
It took a few weeks of tinkering for the lineup to be firmed up for the Flint Hill Huskies.
Now firmly in place, the arrangement has helped the perennial power girls high-school volleyball team improve, own a 17-2 overall record, and as has been the case for so many seasons, be ranked No. 1 in the Division 1 Virginia private-schools state poll.
This weekend, a victory for the currently winless Flint Hill Huskies is quite possible.
Host Flint Hill (0-5) on Oct. 12 faces the 0-6 Catholic Crusaders of Virginia Beach in a battle of private-school football squads. While Flint Hill has been competitive in most of its losses, Catholic has been blown out three times.
