Former Pride Hurdler Les Bradley 6th at ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Posted on 27 April 2007 by donna0427.

By: Dan Sousa

Miami (Apr. 27, 2007) – Former Heritage High School hurdler Les Bradley, running for the first time in a month, finished sixth in the 11o-meter hurdles at last weekend’s ACC outdoor track and field championships held at the University of Maryland.

Former Heritage hurdler Les Bradley, now running for the
University of Miami. He placed sixth as a freshman at the
2007 AAA outdoor track and field championships.

“Hurricane Warnings” first went into effect last August when Bradley announced that he would be running for the ‘Canes.

Unfortunately for Bradley, his stellar high school career ended in injury at the VHSL AA Region II meet at Louisa County where he was injured in a jumping event and had to have knee surgery.

Bradley started the indoor season this January, even though Heritage did not have an indoor team, this was an opportunity for Les to test his knee. Although He did not advance to the ACC finals he did very well and demonstrated that he was fully recoved from the knee surgery.

The outdoor season started in March and Bradley ran at the Hurricane Invitationals where he finished the 110 hurdles third in his heat and then third overall with a full automated time of 14.41. He then suffered a pulled hamstring competing in the 200 dash later in the day. That injury would keep Bradley out for a month.

The ACC Championship finals were held at the University of Maryland on April 19-21 and Bradley was under pressure to compete well close to home, especially after not running for a month.

Of course, coming back from an injury was nothing new for Bradley who had suffered numerous injuries in high school, only to come back and win Dulles District, Region II and AA state titles in the 110 hurdles.

On April 20 in the ACC prelims, Bradley advanced to the finals with a time of 14.45. The next day the finals were held and Bradley finished sixth with a 14.47, just behind freshman teammate Cory Nelms, who ran 14.42. The four runners ahead of the Miami freshman duo are all juniors and seniors so the Hurricanes expect big things from their hurdlers in the next three years.

Bradley will next compete at the Reebok Invitational on May 11 in Atlanta.

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Heritage Signs Five

Posted on 20 April 2007 by donna0427.

By: Dan Sousa

Leesburg (Apr. 20, 2007) – Heritage High School held a signing ceremony for five of its athletes headed to college next year. Honored were Nick McLaughlin (Virginia Tech/track and field), Ashley Blevins (Virginia Wesleyan/lacrosse), Jack Killian (St. Michael’s/soccer), Amanda Smith (Pfeiffer/lacrosse) and James Mallon (Duquesne/soccer).

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Heritage Grad Petrella Ties Mary Washington Single-Season Home Run Record

Posted on 19 April 2007 by donna0427.

By: Dan Sousa

Fredericksburg (Apr. 19, 2007) – Heritage High School grad Kaitlin Petrella has tied the Mary Washington single-season record for home runs with five and she helped the team advance Wednesday in the first round of the Capital Athletic Conference tournament. The freshman led the team in the regular season with a .552 slugging percentage and she went 1-for-2 with a run scored and an RBI in Wednesday’s 15-0 win over Gaullaudet. Mary Washington (24-17 overall) plays Salisbury Saturday.

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Shhhhhh. Heritage is Soccer’s Best-Kept Secret

Posted on 05 April 2007 by donna0427.

By: Dan Sousa

Leesburg (Apr. 5, 2007) – Shhhhhhh. Don’t tell anyone but the Heritage High School boys soccer team may be the area’s best kept secret in any sport.

Potomac Falls with its great run to the AA boys state title last year, one year after falling short in heartbreaking fashion in the state semifinals, is receiving most of the attention this spring but the Pride proved once again Tuesday night with a 2-2 tie with the Panthers that there isn’t a lot of seperation between the Pride and soccer rival Potomac Falls.

“The kids step up to play Potomac Falls. That is the team with the target on them,” said Heritage coach Steve Williams.

Heritage made it to the state semifinals last year before falling to the Panthers. In total the two teams met five times last year with the Panthers going 4-0-1, including victories in the Dulles District tournament finals, the Region II finals and the state semifinals.

While the Panthers had the revenge motive last year — trying to make-up for a last-second loss in the 2005 state semifinals to Blacksburg, which they did in 2006 by defeating Blacksburg in the state finals — it may be Heritage with the superior inspiration this season.

“We need to dig down and find the hunger again,” said Potomac Falls coach Dave Gryder.

The Panthers came into Spring Break week having given up one goal in the first five games only to allow a shocking four goals Monday in a 4-4 tie and then two more to Jack Killian in Tuesday’s tie. The back-to-back ties left Heritage on top of the district standings and at least one Pride player saying after the game: “That is like a loss for them boys.”

Gryder would just as well not even played this week with school out of session.

“I don’t think it’s a great idea,” Gryder said about the Spring Break games. “I think we were in Spring Break mode Monday night.”

The Panthers may have been looking past County on Monday to Tuesday’s showdown with Heritage. Players on both teams are teammates on the same year-round travel team so there is almost an intra-squad rivalry feel to the match-up.

“There really are no secrets to either team. It will always be a battle every time we play them,” said Gryder.

The Pride tied the Panthers in the final regular-season game in 2006 and lost by just a goal in the state semifinals.

“We think we can take them,” said Killian who scored off two set pieces Tuesday, on a Luis Brun corner kick in the 28th minute and a Micah Miller pass from a free kick in the 51st minute.

Williams says that Killian is hard to deny around the goal.

“He does well in the air near the goal,” said Williams.

For Potomac Falls, a red flag has to be that five of the six goals in this Spring Break swing were given up on set pieces.

“We know what we need to do. It is the one-on-one type match-ups,” said Gryder.

Potomac Falls got an early goal Tuesday from Korey Horton in the 10th minute goal as he scored from 18 yards off a Chris Frank throw-in. The Panthers also scored in the 35th minute as Matt Clem found the back of the net as he slid toward the goalpost to touch an Asa Fox pass.

Heritage was able to hold the dynamic scoring duo of Uche Onyeador and Ben Biber in check. Onyeador is considered the best AA soccer player in the state and Biber had a hat trick against Loudoun County to prevent the Panthers from being upset victims.

“Our kids love the challenge of facing the best scoring tandem in the state,” said Williams.

Heritage, playing with a strong wind in the first half, out-shot Potomac Falls 8-4 and had a 3-1 advantage in corner kicks but the Pride trailed 2-1.

The Panthers just missed making it 3-1 in the 42nd minutes when a header hit off the crossbar. Killian tied things less than 10 minutes later.

PF, playing with wind this time, held the shot advantage of 9-2, while corners were even 1-1.

Neither team could score in the two five-minute overtime periods and the match ended in a 2-2 draw.

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Cardiac Kids: Pride Win in the Seventh Again

Posted on 04 April 2007 by donna0427.

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By: Dan Sousa

Leesburg (Apr. 4, 2007) – For the second time in a week the Heritage High School baseball team came away with a dramatic seventh-inning come-from-behind victory, this time defeating Potomac Falls 4-3 Tuesday on Joey Donofrio’s two-run hit.

Heritage (3-1 in district, 5-2 overall) sails into Spring Break down just one game in the loss column to AA Dulles District leader Broad Run. Potomac Falls (2-3, 4-4) will look to regroup after the layoff as the Panthers suffered back-to-back district losses this week.

Andrew Crane earned the victory in relief for the Pride Tuesday night. Pride reliever Andrew Crane picked up his first win of the season by working a hitless 3.2 innings with six strikeouts and one walk. Crane relieved starter John Rogerson in the fourth, inheriting a bases-loaded situation, and he induced a ground ball that looked like a double play, but turned into an out at second and a throwing error that added two runs to the Panthers score to make it 3-0 PF. The Panthers had scored one in the first on doubles by Greg Woodlief and Aaron Sweger.

Crane started the game-winning rally by drawing a walk to lead off the inning. The Pride followed with back-to-back base hit bunts by Brenton Peters and Grant Groves (1-for-3, sacrifice fly) to load the bases. Donofrio (2-for-4) then drove a hard single to left by a drawn-in infield to score pinch runner Korey Flinton and Peters to end the game. Donofrio earlier this year had a bases-loaded triple in the seventh inning against Freedom to tie the game and then scored the game-winning run on a bases-loaded walk.

Heritage’s Jon Gagnon made a trip to Loudoun Hospital after being hit in the face by a Jacob Kline pitch in the sixth inning. Gagnon was released with some swelling, but no broken bones. Kline held the Pride in check for 5.1 innings before giving way to Cory Flickinger who struck out two of the three Heritage batters he faced to end the sixth inning.

Rogerson went 3.1 innings for Heritage, allowing three earned runs, striking out five while walking six.

Sweger just missed a home run in the first inning when his RBI double hit the wall and chased home Woodlief. The Panther bats were silent after that with only Woodlief collecting a hit the rest of the way. The Panthers two runs in the fourth came courtesy of two walks, a fielder’s choice and an error.

The Pride finally broke through in the fifth inning on a double by Joe Laura, a single by Jacob Martinez and a sac fly by Grant Groves to close the gap to 3-2.

Rogerson and Crane finished with a combined 11 strikeouts.

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Greg Woodlief

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Rob Malan

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Aaron Sweger

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Michael Spring

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Jacob Kline

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Nick Paganelli

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James Waggoner

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Grant Groves

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Joey Donofrio

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Austin Weaver

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Joe Laura

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Colin Price

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