Hayfield Secondary School has received a temporary injunction that will allow the powerhouse football team to play in the postseason.
The Virginia High School League confirmed that an appeal filed in Fairfax County Circuit [Court] by Hayfield parents regarding the reinstatement of the Hayfield football team to the league’s Class 6 Region C football playoffs has been granted. The VHSL had no additional comment.
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.
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.
It was at age 4, after racing in a small go-kart for the first time, that Miles Murray discovered the passion that would drive his young life.
Now 17 and a senior at Fairfax High School, Murray races larger U.S. Legend Cars and recently won his biggest and most significant local championship yet at Dominion Raceway near Fredericksburg.
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 a defensive back in football, the biggest dream, goal and thrill is always to return an interception or fumble for a touchdown, no matter at what level of play.
With a couple of heady and opportunistic maneuvers, Potomac School’s Jake Adamec fulfilled both in the span of about three minutes during the first half of the Panthers’ 48-22 defeat of St. John’s Catholic Prep on Sept. 6 in non-conference action.
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.
The Washington Capitals are throwing back to the 1970s with an upcoming visit to George Mason University’s Fairfax campus.
As part of its 50th anniversary season, D.C.’s NHL team will bring a free youth tournament known as the Capitals Street Hockey Extravaganza to EagleBank Arena (4500 Patriot Circle) on Saturday, Nov. 16, briefly reviving what was once the largest street hockey clinic in existence.
After an opening-game loss, the Potomac School Panthers (3-1) have found a winning formula and bounced back strong to win three straight football games.
The private-school team’s latest victory was 20-14 in McLean over the visiting St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes Saints of Alexandria on Sept. 28 in non-conference play.
They rallied and came close with a second-round surge, but the nine-year run as Liberty District golf champions came to an end this season for the Langley Saxons.
Langley also had won 14 of the last 15 of the district’s high-school crowns.
