Female competitors will take the spotlight for the remainder of the 2024 Virginia High School League golf season.
Beginning Monday (Oct. 21), players throughout Northern Virginia and across the commonwealth will participate in state-tournament qualifying events. The following Monday (Oct. 28), those who earned berths will play in the Girls State Open for all enrollment classifications combined at Heritage Oaks Golf Course in Harrisonburg.
Their time without a state championship was short-lived for the Langley Saxons.
Motivated by last season’s disappointing third-place finish in the Virginia High School League (VHSL) Class 6 state golf tournament, Langley returned to the throne by winning this year’s crown with a 303 team score. The defending champion Robinson Rams finished second this year with a 308 total.
An instructional assistant at Langley High School in McLean was arrested last week after a student allegedly saw him masturbating in a classroom.
During school hours on Friday (Oct. 11), David Scalea, a 40-year-old resident of Great Falls, “began inappropriately touching himself underneath his desk” in a classroom, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
The players and teams are ready and the tee times set for the Class 6 state golf tournament.
The one-day, 18-hole Virginia High School League event will be played on the Lansdowne Resort course in Loudoun County on Oct. 15, beginning at 9 a.m. when the first of 15 foursomes tee off.
The Langley Saxons were outgained by a hundred total yards, but not outscored, in their Oct. 10 Liberty District road victory over the host Wakefield Warriors.
Langley (6-1, 2-1) rallied from a 17-7 second-quarter deficit to win the high-school football game, 42-30, bouncing back from their lone loss of the season a week earlier.
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
That’s kind of what Al Berg did this season when he became an assistant coach for the Cosby Titans high-school golf team in Midlothian.
There will be no weather issues or muddy courses the next couple of days as many area high-school cross country teams return to action.
Some meets were postponed in recent days because of wet weather and grounds.
Pay attention to the Marshall Statesmen.
The high-school football team’s biggest win so far this season was the night of Oct. 4 as the Statesmen improved to 5-1 overall and are tied for first place at 2-0 in the Liberty District. That victory was 28-21 over the previously undefeated and host Langley Saxons (5-1, 1-1).
Few argued that Sophie Cao was the outright individual star of this week’s 6D North Region golf tournament.
The Langley Saxons’ sophomore not only shot a second-round, 4-under-par 68 to rally and win the individual championship with a two-day, 36-hole score of 72-68-140.
For the first time in program history, the Langley Saxons are off to a 5-0 start in high-school football action.
With another strong performance, Langley earned its fifth straight win this fall by defeating the host Lightridge Bolts of Aldie, 38-13, on Sept. 27 in Loudoun County.
