Spring 2012: Woodgrove Takes Softball, Girls Soccer State Titles; T&F Stars Shine; Tuscarora Boys Soccer, Broad Run Girls Soccer, Softball Fall Just Short of State Titles
Baseball
Freedom had won theregular season Cedar Run title finishing one game ahead of Osbourn and Patriot.
In the first round ofthe Northern Region tournament, Stone Bridge trailed Oakton, 3-0, in the bottomof the sixth before rallying for four runs with Mocabee stranding the basesloaded in the final inning to secure the victory. The Bulldogs then ran intoeventual AAA state champion Lake Braddock in the regional quarterfinals.
Potomac Falls (21-4)ruled the AA Dulles District in the regular season behind Dulles DistrictPlayer of the Year Jackson Rogers as the Panthers went 18-2 and claimed theregular-season title. Loudoun Valley (17-8), however, turned the tables onPotomac Falls in the district tournament, knocking off the Panthers 4-2 in thetitle game to end Potomac Falls’ winning streak at 18 straight games.
Max Hughes picked upthe win for Valley in the title game and Danny Pugh led the hitters, going2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored.
Woodgrove (18-6)finished runner-up in the Dulles District regular-season with outfielder JoshSweet and first baseman Scott VanSteelant both named first team Region II as wwerePotomac Falls’ Rogers and Loudoun County DH Cabot Phillips.
Both Potomac Fallsand Loudoun Valley advanced to the Region II semifinals but fell short ofqualifying for States as the Panthers lost to Powhatan, 10-7, in a crazy 13-inninggame in Sterling and Valley lost to Monticello.
Heritage (11-13),like Loudoun Valley, returning to AA after playing up at AAA the previous twoyears, upset Liberty, 6-2, in the first round of the playoffs behind the playof Zack Hopeck, who had the win and the game-tying RBI and Dan Robinson’s 3-RBInight, but then the Pride ran into Potomac Falls in the regional quarterfinals.
Softball
In 2012, Woodgrove(27-2) returned to the state finals and this time it was all Wolverines asAllie Reid threw a 2-hitter at Radford and hit a home run for good measure tolead the Wolverines to the VHSL state title with a 9-0 win over Broadway in theone-sided title game.
Woodgrove’s statetitle was the ninth brought back to Loudoun since 2000 with Wolverine coach JoeSpicer collecting state titles in 2003 and 2005 at Loudoun Valley before heleft to start the Woodgrove program two years ago.
The Wolverines hadonly five seniors on the roster but they provided veteran leadership in keyspots with Reid and catcher Christy Haney a rock-solid battery; Amanda Rathjenat third and Courtney Bogan in the outfield were also anchors. Junior AshleyCole was the top hitter for Woodgrove and she clobbered a home run in the statesemifinal win over Abingdon.
Briar Woods (22-5)probably would have been in Radford challenging Woodgrove for the state titlebut the Falcons ran into Poquoson pitcher Maggie Tyler who not only held theFalcons to one hit in a 1-0 state quarterfinal win but broke up Macy Jones’no-hitter with a hit in the seventh inning that started the winning rally.
For Jones, Region IIPitcher of the Year and Dulles District Player of the Year, it was the end to abrilliant 4-year career that saw her lead the Falcons to the 2011 state title.She will play outfield next year for Penn State. Briar Woods went 86-18 duringJones’s reign.
It figured thatAshburn would send a AAA team to the Final 4 at Westfield High School but itwas a bit of a surprise when it was Broad Run (18-6), not Stone Bridge (24-3)advancing.
Both teams had wondistrict titles with Stone Bridge claiming the Liberty District and Broad Runthe Cedar Run District and both teams had won regional titles with Stone Bridgewinning the Northern Region and Broad Run the Northwest Region but the Bulldogshad gotten the lion’s share of the publicity on the season while the Spartansflew under the radar.
While Stone Bridgewas stopped by Patrick Henry-Ashland, 4-0, in a state quarterfinal in Ashburn,Broad Run, just down the road, was beating Hickory, 2-1, to advance to thestate semifinals with a clutch two-out hit by freshman Madison Smalls and aspectacular defensive play by third base Amanda Pugh in the seventh inning topreserve the win.
Both the Ashburnschools had exciting wins to take their respective regional titles with BroadRun beating Osbourn Park, 7-3, in 10 innings and Stone Bridge rallying forthree runs in the seventh inning to beat Oakton, 5-4. The Spartans season finallycame to an end in a 10-2 loss to Cosby in the state semifinals.
Stone Bridge was ledby the hard-hitting Sydney Broderick and Northern Region as well as LibertyDistrict Player of the Year, shortstop Niki Prince on the season, both juniors.Broad Run was led by outfielders Frankie Bellar and McKall Miller, both firstteam all region.
Woodgrove capturedthe Region II title by edging Briar Woods, 3-2, and the Wolverines edged BriarWoods, 1-0, to win the Dulles District title. The Falcons advanced to thedistrict finals after Jones lifted the team to a 1-0 win over LoudounCounty (17-8) in the semifinals with ashutout win and the walkoff game-winning RBI singles.
Stone Bridge won theLiberty District tournament with a 2-1 win over Madison. Broad Run, afterwinning the Cedar Run regular season, could not add the district tournamenttitle as the finals were wiped out by several days of rain.
Soccer
It was a 3-year epic journey, born in heartbreakat Loudoun Valley High School in 2010 when nine of this year's 11 starters wereunderclassmen on the Vikings team that fell in penalty kicks to Cosby in theAAA state semifinals, forged in bitterness when the first-year Wolverinesout-played Blacksburg in 2011 only to lose 1-0, and finally it ended in Radfordthis spring as Woodgrove brought home the new school's first ever state titlewith a 3-0 win over Dulles District foe Loudoun County.
It was the secondtime in three years that the AA state finals was an all-Loudoun affair asLoudoun County fell to Broad Run in 2009 during the Spartans 4-year run at thetop.
With a roster thatfeatures a dozen girls committed to play college soccer -- including sixjuniors and six seniors -- expectations were indeed high for Woodgrove thisseason and the Wolverines made good with a 24-0-1 season that included 23straight wins after an opening week 0-0 tie with Briar Woods.
For Loudoun County(18-5-2) it was a season in which the Raiders did everything they could do …except for beat Woodgrove as County fell five times to the Purcellville teamincluding losses in the Dulles District, Region II and then state title games.
Loudoun wasn’t juststrong at AA but also had powerful AAA teams as Stone Bridge (16-3-2) won theNorthern Region after a perfect 7-0-0 Liberty District regular season andFreedom (13-4-2) had the best season in school history, capturing the Cedar RunDistrict regular-season title on the final night of the season.
Broad Run (14-4-5),moving up to AAA from AA, suffered as many losses and ties during the regularseason than they did during their four straight AA state title from 2008 to2011 but the Spartans came together at the right time, upended Freedom in theCedar Run District title game, knocked off the metro area’s top team, ForestPark, in the Northwestern Region tournament, as well as surviving in penalty kickson the road in another win, and then shocked highly-ranked Kellam, ranked No.10 in the nation by one poll, in the state quarterfinals.
The incredible rundidn’t stop for the Spartans until the state finals when their magic finallyran out, just barely, as Cosby beat Broad Run in penalty kicks after 100minutes of scoreless soccer. Broad Run had advanced to the finals with a 1-0win over Deep Run on Darbie Kelley’s early penalty kick in the semifinals.
It was Deep Run thathad knocked off Stone Bridge in the state quarterfinals, stopping the run ofthe Bulldogs high-scoring junior forwards Ashley Herndon and Murielle Tiernanwith Tiernan being named the Washington Post’s All Met Player of the Year.
Broad Run senior ErinBrady and freshman Caroline Kerns, who had several huge clutch goals in theplayoffs, were named first team all Northwest Region as was Freedom’s MalloryUllrich.
The Woodgrove girlsroad to the state title was almost derailed in the state quarterfinals when theWolverines found themselves in overtime against Grafton but Ashley Bonnerscored two goals in the 10-minute extra time for the 3-1 win. Woodgrove thenshut out Blacksburg 3-0 in the semifinals while Loudoun County scored with threeminutes left to knock off Jefferson Forest, 1-0, in the other semi.
Loudoun County seniorforward Shauna Kain was named the Dulles District Player of the Year as well asthe Region II Player of the Year. Woodgrove’s Lucy Etro and Sarah Hardison werealso first team all region as was Loudoun County’s Alana Mackey and KelseySlack.
On the boys side notas many teams made deep runs in the playoffs but that didn’t stop Loudoun frommaking headlines in Radford as second-year Tuscarora (21-3-2), led by DullesDistrict Player of the Year Angel Ceron-Garcia, shocked Blacksburg, 4-1, in thestate semifinals and lost a close AA state title game to Jamestown, 4-3, in avery entertaining final.
Jamestown came downlate to beat Jefferson Forest and had to fight off a Tuscarora comeback in thestate title game. The Huskies were down 2-0 and 3-1 in the AA final but ralliedwith Ceron-Garcia scoring twice in a quick second-half span only to haveJamestown get the game winner with less than 10 minutes to play.
Freedom (13-5-2), ledby lanky striker Phillip McQuitty, had the best season in school history withboth the Cedar Run regular-season and district tournament titles before theyfell in the regional semifinals.
Briar Woods (18-4-2)finished the Dulles District regular season tied with Tuscarora and then theFalcons beat the Huskies in penalty kicks in a special playoff for thedistrict’s top seed. Tuscarora, however, beat Briar Woods in Ashburn in both theDulles District and Region II tournament title games. The Falcons ran intoJamestown into the state quarterfinals and saw their season, best in schoolhistory, end.
Woodgrove (8-7-2) didnot advance to the Region II tournament after Loudoun County (7-10-4) knockedoff the Wolverines in the district quarterfinals but the Wolverines had quite aturnaround from 2011 when they were 1-15 overall, finishing third in 2012 inthe district race.
Loudoun County andPark View (11-9-1) showed the district’s depth with wins on the road in thefirst round of the Region II tournament before falling in the quarterfinals.
Lacrosse
Woodgrove girls(15-4) taking the sectional title was not a surprise but it was a surprise forthe Woodgrove boys (15-6) as the Wolverines were the No. 3 seed coming out ofthe Dulles District, behind Briar Woods (16-2) and Dominion (13-8).
Woodgrove, now on aroll, then knocked off Dominion, 9-8, in Sterling to claim the sectional title.Dominion had advanced with a semifinal win over Kettle Run that was delayed byweather for three nights.
The Woodgrove girlsrolled through sectionals, beating Loudoun Valley (12-7), 21-11, and then LoudounCounty (15-6), 15-9, for the championship.
Both the Dominionboys, led by Brett Bushman, Nick Kierschke and Troy Farmer, and the LoudounCounty girls, led by Haley Knudsen, advanced to the state tournament where theyfell on the road to AAA Northern Region champions with Dominion losing toLangley 18-5 and Loudoun County to Oakton, 20-2.
The Broad Run boys(8-9) and Stone Bridge boys (8-7) were knocked out of the first round ofregionals in AAA play.
Stone Bridge attackDylan Maltz and goalie Jesse Southward were both named Northern Region firstteam.
The Dulles Districtboys lacrosse season was a very watchable close scramble all season with thedistrict tournament telling the tale: in the semifinals, Briar Woods beatLoudoun Valley, 11-10, in overtime and Dominion edged Woodgrove, 9-8, before atitle game won by Briar Woods over Dominion, 9-8, in overtime.
Tennis
Freedom boys, led bytop player Wesley Wong, claimed the Cedar Run District and Northwestern Regiontitles and advanced to the AAA Final 4 in Virginia Beach before falling.
Loudoun County boysclaimed the Dulles District season with an unbeaten run and advanced to theRegion II semifinals before falling. The Raiders beat Kettle Run in thequarterfinals, 5-1, but lost to Handley. Briar Woods, Dulles Districtrunner-up, beat Fauquier on the road, 5-1 in the quarterfinals but the Falconswere knocked out by eventual Region II champion Western Albemarle.
The Broad Run girlswon the Cedar Run District tournament titles before falling in Northwest Regionplay, claiming the school’s best season ever.
Woodgrove, anothergreat second-year program from Purcellville, rolled through the Dulles Districtseason unbeaten before falling in Region II play. Woodgrove beat Skyline in thequarterfinals, 5-1, but lost 5-3 to eventual regional champion WesternAlbemarle.
Wolverine seniorSunnie Lampl won both the Dulles District and Region II titles in singles and advanced to the state tournamentwhere she lost in the AA state semifinals. Lampl did not drop a set whiledefending her Region II title. She also repeated as Dulles District singleschampion.
Lampl and her doublespartner Lucia Jacangelo captured the Dulles District title with a perfectseason but fell in the Region II semifinals. Also falling in the regionalsemifinals were the Dominion duo of Dominique Huynh and Kate Gorbach.
The Broad Run girlsdoubles team of Mel Waterman and Clara Sartor finished runner-up in theNorthwest Region tournament to advance to the VHSL AAA state quarterfinalswhere the Spartan duo lost to the eventual state runner-ups, a team from Cosby.
Dominion’s Alex Chouwas unbeaten in the regular season, won the Dulles District tournament andadvanced to the AA Region II finals with straight set wins in the regionalquarterfinals and semifinals before falling Cam Scott of Western Albemarle, whoclaimed the state title in Radford.
Chou and doublespartner Jake Stapleton won the Dulles District title but fell in the Region IIsemifinals to Scott and his partner.
In the end it was theFreedom boys advancing deeper than any of the other teams in the playoffs witha win over Cox in the quarterfinals and then a loss to eventual AAA statechampion Deep Run, 5-2, in the AAA state semifinals. The state quarterfinal winwas par for the course for the Eagles on the season as Freedom blitzed Cox withWong, Alex Cragg, Brian Park, Varun Kulkarni and David Choi all winning instraight sets. Tin Nguyen-Phan was still on the court when the win wasclinched.
Track and Field
The Raiders finished with 48 points while Glassscored 50 with the state meet coming down to the final race as Loudoun Countytook third in the 4x400 meter realy with the quartet of junior Steven Graham,sophomore Nolan Graves, junior Patrick Joseph and senior Teddy Murphy turningin a 3:23.24 for a third place finish and six points.
That would have been enough for County to claimthe crown but Glass shaved almost 90 seconds off their seed time to sneak intosixth place and score a crucial three points that turned out to be thedifference. (It should also be noted that Glass picked up five points in thepole vault, an event that Loudoun athletes are not allowed to compete in).Woodgrove girls took fifth place.
Joseph had a double-title meet claiming the 800meters with a 1:54.41 and then the 1600 meters with a 4:15.71. Graham won the400 meters state title with a 49.01.
Heritage seniorMarcus Finney capped his great prep career in style with wins in the 110 meterhurdles (state record 14.10) and 300 meter hurdles (38.53) as well as a fourthin the 100 meters (10.98). Raider Murphy was third in the 100 hurdles (14.57)and the 300 meter hurdles as well at 39.08
Woodgrove's AtemNtantag scored a sixth in the triple jump at 43-10.00. Briar Woods seniorSchaefer Beardsley was third in the discus with a 149-09 heave.
Briar Woods senior Shaquera Leach finished herbrilliant career with a third in the 200 meters (25.31), third in the 400meters (56.99) and a sixth in the 100 meters (12.32). Raider Murphy
Woodgrove senior Anna Harpster took fourth inthe 400 meters (58.67) and fifth in the 200 meters (25.88).
Dulles District girls took three of the eighttop spots in the 800 meters with Woodgrove's Audrey Houghton second(2:15.19), Dominion's Bridget Rice third (2:18.94) and Heritage's Lisa Pallottaeighth (2:20.93). Rice also took sixth in the 1600 meters (5:14.09).
Houghton ran anchor on the Woodgrove winning4x800 meter relay team with Lydia Cromwell, Florence Thompson and AlexJuzbasich claiming the gold with a 9:33.80. Tuscarora claimed All-State with aneighth place finish by Jannen Hermann, Courtney Walker, Natalie Rosas and AnnWasko at 9:50.77.
Houghton, Thompson and Harpster teamed withsophomore Gaynor Houghton to take second in the 4x400 relay with a 4:02.94.Fauteux anchored the Potomac Falls team with Jessica Lee, Dominique White andTori Daczkowski to a fourth place finish at 4:05.93.
Tuscarora girls were strong in the field eventswith Madison Wells and Lori Kostka tying for fifth in the high jump at 5-00.Teammate Amirah Al-Bayyinah was third in the triple jump (36-10.50).
Potomac Falls senior Eileen Fauteux medaled inboth hurdles with a third in the 300 meters (45.72) and seventh in 100 meters(15.66). Tuscarora junior Takiea Edmonds was fifth in the 300 meter hurdleswith a 46.89.
At the AAA statemeet, Broad Run High School senior Jonathan Russell finished a brilliant prepcareer with a first place. Russell, who will run in college at South Carolina,ran a 37.95 to win the 300 meter hurdles by almost a full second. He was also9th in the 200 meters.
Also on the boys side, Stone Bridgesophomore D'Ante Yarborough finished fifth in the 110 meter hurdles with a14.56 finals.
The Freedom High School girls track and field4x100 relay team of Amanda Salami, Toni Fletcher, Asia Brown and CortneyO'Connell turned in a 48.66 to place 7th overall.
At the Region IImeet, the only thing slowing down the Loudoun County High School boys track andfield team from running to history were frequent weather delays at TuscaroraHigh school. When the all clear was given, it was all Raiders breaking the tapeas Loudoun County took six of the eight events on the track and finishedrunner-up in the other two as they won their first ever regional title goingaway.
Loudoun County, with juniors Graham winning the100 (11.00), 200 (22.29) and 400 (48.28) and Joseph winning the 800 (1:54.98)and 1600 (4:15.82), scored 84 points to finish nearly 30 points clear ofrunner-up Fauquier (56).
The 48.28 for Graham in the 400 was the loneRegion II mark to fall at the meet Adding to the Raiders point lode were seniorMurphy who won the 300 meter hurdles with a school-record 38.44, beatingrunner-up Heritage's Marcus Finney (39.28). Finney turned the tables in the 110hurdles winning with a 14.46 to Murphy's runner-up 14.58.
In the only non-hurdle track event no won by theRaiders, the 3200 meters, County finished 2-3 with seniors Josh Showalter andBruce McIntosh combining for 14 team points.
On the girls side, Woodgrove finished fourthwith 38 points.
The Wolverine girlsquartet of senior Houghton, senior Cromwell, junior Juzbasich and seniorThompson won the 4x800 relay with a finals time of 9:32.73 that clipped morethan 10 seconds off their season best time. Houghton and Thompson then teamedwith sophomore Gaynor Houghton and senior Anna Harpster to take the 4x400relay, this time shaving more than four seconds off their best time with a4:04.94.
Houghton was one of two Loudoun's individualgirls winners with a winning 2:15.04 in the 800 meters. Tuscarora's NatalieRosas won the 3200 meters with a 11:28.08.
At the district level, Loudoun County boys andTuscarora girls took team titles in the Dulles.
Loudoun County'sGraham swept all three sprints (100, 200 and 400 meters) and won the long jumpfor four individual titles. In one of the most exciting races of the evening,Graham nipped Heritage's Finney in the 100 meters, 10.94 to 10.96.
Finney had set the district meet record inprelims with a 10.91. Finney continued his record-setting ways with a 14.42 inthe 100 meter hurdles. Graham's time of 49.15 in the 400 meters was also adistrict record.
Briar Woods' Shaquera Leach swept all threesprints on the girls side including district meet records in the 100 meters(12.24) and 200 meters (25.07).
Potomac Falls' Fauteux ruled the hurdles for thegirls with titles in the 100 and 300 meters and a leg on the Panthers winning4x100 relay team. The 300 meters time of 45.83 was a meet record and assuredFauteux of family bragging rights as it eclipsed her older sister Nicole'sPotomac Falls school mark.
More meet records fell as Woodgrove's Houghtonturned in a 2:17.73 in the 800 meters and Tuscarora's Lori Kostka jumped 5-04in the high jump. Kostka was also on the Huskies winning 4x400 meter relayteam.
Joseph (winning 800 and 1600 meters) andShowalter (3200 meters) made it a clean sweep for the Raiders from 100 to 3200meters on the track. Murphy finished runner-up in both hurdles for the Raidersor else it would have been an amazing clean sweep for County in all individualevents on the track. Joseph and Murphy were also half of the Raiders winning4x400 meter relay team.
Amirah Al-Bayyinah helped Tuscarora win thegirls title with gold in the long and triple jumps.
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