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O'Meara steps down from softball post
7/4/2008
Fresh off his team's second straight state title - and the birth of his first daughter - Highland coach Donald O'Meara has decided to step down as leader of the Hawks' softball program. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
You want a piece of me?
7/3/2008
How good a ballplayer is Pat da Rock? Answer: Da Rock got game.The featured speaker at the Falcon Basketball Camp played a few past and present FHS varsity players one-on-one after giving his message to the kids. Stepping up an trying to keep up with the And One Tour streetball player were Jerrelle Benimon, Aubrey McLean and Michael Green.“He got 'em all,” reported Fauquier High coach Wayne Brizzi about da Rock's ability | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Anders Oster, meet Ozzie Smith
7/3/2008
Once every game, No. 9 hitter Anders Oster likes to tap a ball down the third baseline and try to leg out a bunt single.Not even the allure of hitting consecutive home runs was cause to abandon that commitment Tuesday in the Fauquier Gators' 9-2 victory over Winchester.Oster, who had only 12 hits in 82 at bats (.142 average) entering the game, hit a solo home run in the second inning to give the Gators a 3-1 lead, but then opted to bunt for an infield single in his next at bat in the fourth inning. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Kids love Da Rock's game
7/3/2008
“Anything is possible,” said Pat da Rock to a gym full of 150 kids of all ages.That message, delivered last week at Falcon Basketball Camp at Fauquier High School, came from a wannabe college basketball player who never quit trying to make a living at hoops. Guest speaker Pat Robinson, otherwise known as Pat da Rock, 24, is a wiry 6-foot-2 who is not one of the most dominating figures in professional basketball. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
'Touch finishes' help FSC edge Orange, 633-629 in swim thriller
7/2/2008
The swimmers were all probably home crashed on their respective couches when a winner was declared in perhaps the closest meet in the Tri-County League history. By winning the 59th and final event of the day, Fauquier Swim Club edged Orange 633-629 last Saturday, but wasn't assured of its victory until later. Elsewhere, and less dramatically, the Chestnut Forks Swim Club beat Culpeper Country Club, 641.5-438.5, and the Fauquier Springs Swim Club lost to Culpeper Rec, 795-379. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Horse Sporting Calendar
7/1/2008
JULY 2 Touch Point Farm hunter fun show, Culpeper, www.touchpointfarm.com 2-6 Warrenton Pony Show, Warrenton Horse Show grounds, A-rated, 8 a.m. each day, free admission, www.warrentonponyshowinc.com, (540) 347-9442 | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Horses and People brief items
7/1/2008
Editor's note: Due to space limitations, the Horse and Field Sports section of this week's Fauquier Times-Democrat newspaper did not include Horses and People briefs, nor the Sporting Calendar. We here at the Horse Sports desk recognize that these two items are by far the most read parts of our unique sports section. Therefore, we are 'publishing' the briefs and calendar in their entirety here online. Please refer to the Times-Democrat for other horse news, but trust that we continue to work hard to keep the horse sports news cranking out for local -- and out-of-area -- readers who've come to rely on. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
This Week
Anders Oster, meet Ozzie Smith
7/3/2008
Once every game, No. 9 hitter Anders Oster likes to tap a ball down the third baseline and try to leg out a bunt single.Not even the allure of hitting consecutive home runs was cause to abandon that commitment Tuesday in the Fauquier Gators' 9-2 victory over Winchester.Oster, who had only 12 hits in 82 at bats (.142 average) entering the game, hit a solo home run in the second inning to give the Gators a 3-1 lead, but then opted to bunt for an infield single in his next at bat in the fourth inning. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Gators implode in 11th after brilliant rally
6/26/2008
With the Fourth of July just around the corner, the Fauquier Gators and Haymarket Senators had fireworks for the fans Wednesday in an extra-inning Valley Baseball League game. Like any fireworks show, the game started off slowly, but ended with a grand finale. It wasn't in the Gators' favor, though, as the Senators topped them 10-4 in the 11th inning. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Gators from small Division I college spark 5-3 victory
6/19/2008
Ryan Gauck, B.J. Martin and Eric Alessio aren't responsible for putting Marist College on the map.Before the trio joined the Fauquier Gators this summer, Rand McNally was already printing Marist's name in pink and mapquest.com was pinpointing its location with a star.Contributions from the Marist baseball contingent are giving Fauquier County residents a reason to seek out the Poughkeepsie, N.Y., college on a map, though. Their latest ambassadorial effort, particularly by Gauck and Martin, carried Fauquier to a 5-3 victory over the Woodstock River Bandits Wednesday and helped the Gators improve to 9-4. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Feel the heat: Gators pitchers have 2.73 ERA
6/17/2008
Chad Pierce's game-winning grand slam in a 7-4 home victory over Winchester is the most memorable moment of the Fauquier Gators' season thus far — “It was unbelievable; top three most exciting things I’ve experienced on that field," coach Paul Koch said — but it's a pitching staff ranked third in the Valley Baseball League that could make this season one to remember.Albeit mundane compared to Pierce's bottom of the ninth-inning heroics on June 6, Fauquier's pitching staff is largely responsible for the Gators' impressive start. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Marchi: Unlucky number, superb results
6/11/2008
Ashley Marchi took unlucky jersey No. 13 and made it lucky.Turning anything into something great seems to be a theme in her life, one reason the tall, athletic, energetic senior is the Fauquier Times-Democrat's choice as Wakefield School Girls Athlete of the Year. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
For Arkansas-bound Ritchie, a little nostalgia trip
6/11/2008
It's impossible to estimate the number of kids a high school coach motivates over a long career, but it's a lot, especially when you count your own offspring.For Tom Ritchie, an exciting coaching life is about to take a permanent road trip to the land of Sam Walton, Bill Clinton and the Ozark Mountains.Ritchie is leaving Liberty High School after 14 years as a coach and moving to Searcy, Ark., to become an assistant professor at Harding University. He will teach health and wellness in the Kinesiology Department. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Was Battlefield worried? Oh yeah.
5/22/2008
Franco Buzzalino feared for his Battlefield Bobcats if this game were to extend into overtime.After they had squandered scoring opportunities in the second half and relinquished a two-goal lead, the Bobcat standout thought it possible that Fauquier would pull out an upset win if given extra time.So, to avoid that fate, Buzzalino ended the game in regulation, scoring the decisive goal with 25.7 seconds remaining and giving Battlefield a 3-2 victory in the quarterfinals of the Cedar Run District boys soccer tournament quarterfinals. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Falcons to Eagles: Not this time
5/15/2008
Earlier this season, the Liberty High boys soccer team pulled off an rare victory over their county rival, downing Fauquier 2-0. It was the Eagles' only win this year. That loss — including the front page headline in the Fauquier Times-Democrat, “We just whooped Fauquier” —served as fuel for an FHS squad determined to get revenge on Senior Night Wednesday in Warrenton.Goals by Fauquier's Ryan Wagoner roughly five minutes into the second half, and then Ian Burns about 15 minutes later, went unanswered by the visiting Eagles, who lost 3-1. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Whitney on Whitney: 'I was the team mom'
6/17/2008
Erin Whitney, a champion in not just one but three sports, is The Fauquier Times-Democrat’s first-ever Highland School Girls Athlete of the Year. Whitney’s versatility, spunk, enthusiasm and talent contributed to her success as a Hawk volleyball, basketball and softball player. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Kleinfelter pitches Marshall past Auburn in middle school softball finale
5/29/2008
An 8-0 win or a 10-0 win?A Fauquier County championship or a co-championship?Both were up for debate, but those details didn’t matter much. Either way, the Marshall Middle School Wolves got to dump a Gatorade bucket of ice on their coach Thursday and celebrate a season-ending victory over the Auburn Middle School softball team. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Hawks repeat as state softball champs
5/20/2008
Twenty-one innings.Two hundred and fifty-six pitches.And, after several hours, another state title for the Highland softball team.The sixth-seeded Hawks (16-8) battled through an epic Saturday in Richmond — beating No. 1 Greenbrier (27-2 overall) 2-0 in 12 innings for the VIS Division II state championship, just shortly after a 4-3 nine-inning semifinal victory over No. 2 Brunswick Academy. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Lethal Bobcats eliminate Fauquier, 3-0, in playoffs
5/20/2008
Manufactured runs by Battlefield in the first two innings, coupled with a near-perfect performance from senior pitcher Megan Sutphin, ended Fauquier’s season and pitcher Nikki Roy’s career as the Bobcats won 3-0 at home in Haymarket in the first round of the Cedar Run District tournament. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Cooper: A hard hitter you wanna hang with
6/24/2008
A loss to your arch rival can be a difficult thing to accept, especially when it was as non-competitive as Liberty’s 15-2 shellacking at the hands of Fauquier this past spring in boys lacrosse.Liberty senior star Josh Cooper hated how that loss made him feel. He was dejected, angry and demoralized afterwards. Where was this team going now, he wondered? This was only our third game, are we really this bad?Cooper wanted a strong senior year to buoy his hopes of playing lacrosse in college. No way was this my fault, the defender concluded about the FHS loss. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Hawks' loss is sixth straight in state lacrosse final
5/20/2008
The Highland Hawks boys lacrosse team ended its season on a disappointing note last Saturday in Charlottesville. Despite a valiant effort, the Hawks lost the state championship to No. 2 seed Covenant School, 10-4. It was the sixth straight year the Hawks lost in the state championship game, five times to Covenant. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Fauquier boys lacrosse upset in semifinals by OP, 6-5
5/20/2008
Goalie Thorne Watkins and his defensemen prevented nearly everything that threatened to end Fauquier High's lacrosse season. All they lacked was a vaccination for inept offense.That lone shortcoming led to the Falcons' demise in the Cedar Run District tournament as No. 4 seed Osbourn Park upset No. 2 Fauquier, 6-5, in Thursday's semifinals played in Purcellville. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Hawks send Seahorses galloping home, 14-2
5/15/2008
Late in the third quarter of Tuesday's state boys lacrosse quarterfinal, the Christchurch School players looked worn out as they jogged or walked off the field. In contrast, Highland's players sprinted up and down with the same enthusiasm shown in the opening minutes.That, in short, told the story of this lopsided game, as the energetic Hawks brought an intensity the Seahorses could not match and moved a step closer to their ultimate goal with an emphatic 14-2 victory. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Fauquier's Loba and Helsel are a formidable distance duo at districts
5/20/2008
Fauquier High's Grace Loba was more chauffeur and cheerleader than distance runner at the Cedar Run District outdoor track and field championships, last Tuesday and Wednesday at Battlefield High in Haymarket.The FHS senior had already run state- and national-qualifying times in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meter runs during the regular season, so her district goals were modest. Loba wanted to set a pace for Emma Helsel in the 1,600 so the FHS freshman could qualify for nationals, she wanted to cheer on her Falcon teammates and she wanted to relax. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
LHS, FHS vaulters dominate their event at district meet
5/20/2008
There's no reason to venture outside Fauquier County to watch the best pole vaulting in the Cedar Run District. Liberty and Fauquier High vaulters seem to be setting the bar for the rest of the district, a notion reinforced Tuesday, the first day of the Cedar Run District track and field championships at Battlefield High School in Haymarket. Liberty won both the boys and girls pole vault, while seven other county athletes placed top-eight in the event. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Fauquier's Loba wins 1,600; Morse, Jordan duel in hurdles
4/29/2008
Grace Loba’s time was good, even by national standards. Her timing, on the other hand, may prove to be rather poor. In a Cassel’s XBC Track Experience meet swept Saturday by the Stone Bridge boys (77 points) and girls (76 points) at Chantilly High School, Loba won the 1,600-meter run by more than seven seconds with a time of 5 minutes, 7.65 seconds. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Twin golds for LHS track stars Chloe and Cameron Morse
4/16/2008
The Morse twins combined to score in five events last weekend in the Metro Run and Walk Invitational at Edison High School in Alexandria. Chloe and Cameron each earned one gold medal against a field that included most of the schools in Northern Virginia. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
FHS doubles duo ousted by eventual state tennis champs
6/11/2008
Even without viewing their illustrious resumes, it was apparent that Drew Courtney and Stephen Hardy had previously played in the Group AAA State Tennis Championships.The best clue was the sideline setup of the J.W. Robinson doubles partners last Thursday at Jefferson District Park in Falls Church. It was quite luxurious compared to their quarterfinal opponents, Fauquier High's Ryan Baisden and Pedro Fernandes, whom they beat 6-4, 6-2. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
FHS falls to Glass, but season continues this week
5/20/2008
All season long, two words have resonated when Jan Ashby has spoken of this spring's Fauquier Falcon tennis unit: Stay focused.Ashby and fellow coach Jordon Walker both have lauded the 2008 edition's skill, athletic ability and work ethic. They felt a berth in this spring's Group AAA state tennis tournament was within reach if the Falcons could concentrate on that goal.They did not need to worry, except it was the ability to regain focus last Thursday when the Falcons qualified for the second state playoff berth in the last three years. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Cook serves up three championships as Wakefield's new coach
5/13/2008
Two things have changed since last season for the Wakefield School boys tennis team: Its record, 14-1, and its coach, Ryan Cook.With all else remaining constant, including their entire roster, the Owls believe there's more correlation than coincidence between those changes. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
This time LHS girls dominate FHS in tennis, 9-0
5/6/2008
As celebrations go, this was pretty tame. It had the kind of hushed tone found amid church pews mid-sermon, altogether appropriate considering this celebration happened mid-match Wednesday in the Liberty Eagles' 9-0 sweep of Fauquier High. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Horse Sporting Calendar
7/1/2008
JULY 2 Touch Point Farm hunter fun show, Culpeper, www.touchpointfarm.com 2-6 Warrenton Pony Show, Warrenton Horse Show grounds, A-rated, 8 a.m. each day, free admission, www.warrentonponyshowinc.com, (540) 347-9442 | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Horses and People brief items
7/1/2008
Editor's note: Due to space limitations, the Horse and Field Sports section of this week's Fauquier Times-Democrat newspaper did not include Horses and People briefs, nor the Sporting Calendar. We here at the Horse Sports desk recognize that these two items are by far the most read parts of our unique sports section. Therefore, we are 'publishing' the briefs and calendar in their entirety here online. Please refer to the Times-Democrat for other horse news, but trust that we continue to work hard to keep the horse sports news cranking out for local -- and out-of-area -- readers who've come to rely on. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Horses and People briefs
6/10/2008
Combined test returns The Old Dominion Hounds Pony Club hosts the first in its summer combined test-dressage show series Sunday, June 15, at Windsor Lodge Farm in Flint Hill. For information, call (540) 636-2344. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Horse Sporting Calendar
6/10/2008
JUNE 11-15 Loudoun Benefit horse show, Morven Park, Leesburg, (540) 687-345512 EKG show, Hill Valley Farm, Spotsylvania, VHSA, BHSA, (540) 582-6272, | 0 comments - ›› more ...