Posted on 27 August 2007 by donna0427.
By: Dan Sousa
Leesburg (Aug. 27, 2007) – The Heritage High School volleyball team improved to 2-0 on the season Monday with a three-game non-district sweep over Handley, 25-11, 25-15, 25-22.
Senior Gaby Galvan had a team-high 17 kills and senior setter Rebecca Presor registered 35 assists in the win. Junior Ashley Scott had an all-around sparkling match with eight kills, 10 digs and 18 service points.
The Pride are back in action Tuesday, hosting brand new school Skyline at 7 p.m.
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Posted on 25 August 2007 by donna0427.
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By: Dan Sousa
Leesburg (Aug. 25, 2007) – The Heritage High School golf team may have struggled a bit to start the season but the Pride is rolling now with Christian Darden winning Monday’s Cheers Invitational and the team followed up with a stunner on Friday, edging Potomac Falls by a stroke, 162-163, in a AA Dulles District dual match at River Creek.
The loss basically ended an PF hope for catching Briar Woods for the regular-season district title.
Darden led the way for Heritage with a 37, followed by Tiereny Stanghor at 40 and Chris Cowne at 41. Wyatt Endres and Brett Johnson both shot 39 for PF.
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Posted on 23 August 2007 by donna0427.
By: Dan Sousa
Leesburg (Aug. 23, 2007) – If only the rest of the Heritage High School volleyball season was this easy.
The AA Pride opened their 2007 campaign with a barely-work-up-a-sweat straight set victory over smaller A Manassas Park Thursday evening, 25-5, 25-6, 25-9.
For Heritage, which lost five key seniors off of a 2006 team that made it all the way to the state playoffs, it will not be this easy the rest of the season.
“Overall I was very pleased with how they played,” said Pride coach Carmel Keilty who kicked off her 19th season as a volleyball head coach, including the sixth season since Heritage opened its doors in 2002.
Last year the Pride went 21-7 with four of those loses against Leesburg rival Loudoun County which tied Heritage in the regular season with an identical 13-1 district mark but then the Raiders won a special playoff, the Dulles District tournament and the Region II title all against the Pride. LC finished as the AA state runner-up while Heritage fell in the state quarterfinals.
Heritage graduated Rachel Young, Alana Rudkovsky, Lauren Bulka, Lena Bushrod and four-year starter at setter Katherine Buttery. On Thursday senior Rebecca Presor, a defensive specialist last year, made her varsity debut at setter.
“Rebecca Presor is doing a great job,” said Keilty.
Presor is one of four returning players on the nine-player varsity roster. Also back are seniors Gaby Galvan and Melissa McCandless and junior Ashley Scott. The four returnees started Thursday along with two freshman, Emma LeMaitre and Lian Bernett, both of whom were very impressive in their high school debuts.
Manassas Park, which suited up enough players to field three starting units, never could get warmed up in a very chilly Heritage gym.
Just about every third serve was a service winner or ace for the Pride with Presor, Bernett and LeMaitre posting Heritage to an 11-5 before McCandless reeled off 13 straight serves to ended the first game in Heritage’s favor, 25-5. Galvan and Scott were big at the net during McCandless’s run of service.
In the second game, it was Bernett, using a jump serve to keep MP off balance, scoring 13 straight points. Bernett notched six service winners during this streak and when the ball was put into play, fellow freshman LeMaitre was ready to put down any errant balls at the net.
To make matters worse for the visiting Cougars, trailing 17-6, they had a rotation snafu after some subbing and it cost them a point and the serve. After a five-minute delay, Scott took over the serve and popped seven straight to end the game, 25-6.
Scott was at it again in the third game, serving seven straight to put Heritage up 14-6. During this run, Presor, who was a setter while on junior varsity, started to mix it up and she dumped a couple of sets over the net and into the middle of MP’s block defense.
Presor started the night serving and she ended it as well as she served seven straight to finish the sweep, 25-9.
Unofficial Stats
Heritage Service Points
Bernett 17
McCandless 14
Scott 14
Presor 10
LeMaitre 4
Galvan 1
McLaughlin 1
Heritage Service Winners
Bernett 8
Scott 4
Presor 3
LeMaitre 3
McCandless 2
Heritage Aces
LeMaitre 1
McCandless 1
Heritage Kills
LeMaitre 6
Galvan 6
Scott 5
Bernett 4
McCandless 3
Presor 2
Brown 1
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Posted on 20 August 2007 by donna0427.
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By: Dan Sousa
Leesburg (Aug. 20, 2007) – The Heritage High School football staff announced that the first annual “Iron Lion” award has been won by senior Bryan McCarthy.
The Heritage football staff wanted to establish a program that would honor the hard work that the football players put in during the off-season. The new program is called the ‘Iron Lion” and it is an annual award that will be presented in August each year.
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Posted on 17 August 2007 by donna0427.
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Leesburg (Aug. 17, 2007) – The Loudoun County High School golf team posted the score of the season by an area team with a 303 Friday morning at Westpark in a AA dual meet win over Heritage.
Raider senior Derek Bulman shot 75 while teammates senior Arter Hughes, junior Michael Walker and sophomore Dan Jackson all shot 76. The 303 was 19 strokes better than LC’s best score to date and nine strokes clear of any other Loudoun team this year.
Heritage finished at 324 with senior Christian Darden (78) and junior Stefan Kronenberg (79) leading the way.
Both teams will play in Monday’s district mini-tournament at Algonkian.
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Posted on 11 August 2007 by donna0427.
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Lansdowne (Aug. 11, 2007) – Broad Run defeated Heritage 332-349 on Friday at the Norman Course at Lansdowne. It was each team’s first AA Dulles District dual match of the season. Heritage senior Christian Darden was the low medalist of the match with a 75 while Kevin Yerks led the way for the Spartans with a 76.
Rounding out the Spartan’s 332 was senior Bryan Buckner (82), junior Tyler Campos (86), and sophomore Andrew Londos (88). The Pride counted scores from senior Billy Janis (87), Stefan Kronenberg (93), and junior Emmitt Roth (94).
“I was happy with the win. I thought we beat ourselves with course management problems, but it’s a long season and there are a few things we need to get done” said Broad Run coach John Costello. “We’ll work hard at practice and hopefully get ready for the rest of the District at Raspberry Falls. Briar Woods has a great team this year but we’re all in the same boat.”
Heritage coach John Dugger had six players graduated from last season including four of his top five players.
“Our goal was to come out and break 350 so I am pleased” said Dugger. “I knew after loosing all those kids that this year was going to be a rebuilding year. We have a lot of young players who are learning how important course management is.”
Dugger was also very proud of Darden’s performance,
“That 75 was impressive, especially since he has never even seen this course before. He is a really strong player.”
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Posted on 09 August 2007 by donna0427.
Winchester (Aug. 9, 2007) – The prep golf season got off to a hot start Wednesday, quite literally, as eight of the 10 Loudoun teams braved the record-breaking heat to play in the sixth annual Curly Licklider Invitational at Shenandoah Valley Golf Course.
In a preview of what looks to be a season-long battle for first place in the AA Dulles District, defending tournament champion Briar Woods and defending regular-season champion Potomac Falls both shot 316 to finish five strokes back of champion AAA Albemarle. Western Albemarle also shot 316 but Briar Woods walked away with the second-place plaque on a tie-breaker.
The Falcons and Panthers will have less than 24 hours to debate the merits of which team is actually better as they face off today at 2:30 at Lowes Island in an early key Dulles District dual match.
Forecasts are calling for 92 degrees with a heat index of 100 at tee time today. That may feel like a breath of fresh air after the athletes suffered through temperatures Wednesday that soared to 99 degrees — three degrees higher than the all-time mark for Winchester set in 1977 — with a heat index of 107. To help the golfers beat the heat, the players were allowed to use carts for the Invitational
“I think some of the players languished around the 14th, 15th hole,” said Briar Woods coach Bob Vitti. “I was soaked and that was just from driving around in the cart.”
The local prep golf season is divided into three phases, two district “mini-tournaments” which will be held Aug. 15 at Raspberry Falls in Leesburg and Aug. 20 at Algonkian in Sterling, and then the dual meet season. Equal weight is given to all three elements to determine the regular-season champion. Last year, Briar Woods, Broad Run, Heritage, Loudoun County and Potomac Falls all finished with 5-2 dual meet marks but the Panthers claimed the regular-season title with a better overall finish in the two district mini-tournaments.
“The only thing that concerns me about Thursday is that we are playing on their home course, but the kids are all looking forward to playing Lowes Island,” said Vitti.
Individually Wednesday, three players carded two-over-par rounds of 73 with Skyline’s Zach Henry winning the tiebreaker for first. It really was a first for Skyline and Henry as the freshman was competing for the high school was is just opening this year. Wes Eklund of Albemarle was second and the aptly-named Patrick Leisure third. Loudoun County senior Tommy Medaglia shot 74 for fourth and Albemarle’s Joe Mileur was fifth at 75.
A six-pack of players shot 76 including junior T.J. Bailey of Briar Woods, sophomore Tyler Blake of Freedom and freshman Scott Davidson of Loudoun Valley.
Broad Run shot 320 to finish fifth in the 22-team field. Millbrook was sixth at 321 and Loudoun Valley shot 323 to take seventh. Centreville was also at 323 followed by Loudoun County at 325 and Sherando at 327 to round out the top 10.
Other local teams in the tournament included Freedom (343), Heritage (353) and Dominion (358).
Briar Woods and Potomac Falls approached their 216’s on Wednesday in different ways. The Falcons, returning all their starters from 2006, had three low rounds from their “****** B’s” in Bailey (76), Mike Birmingham (77) and Carl Brendes (78). The rest of the team shot in the mid-80s.
Potomac Falls returns two players expected to challenge for the district title, seniors Wyatt Endres and Chris Abt, who shot 78 and 80 respectively. The Panthers had to be very encouraged by a pair of 79’s turned in by junior Michael Tondi and senior Ryan Yakscoe. Tondi’s and Yakscoe’s combined score of 158 was a staggering 34 strokes better than what they registered at the district meet in 2006. The Panthers also got a 83 Wednesday from freshman Brett Johnson.
Broad Run also showed great balanced Wednesday and should challenge Briar Woods and Potomac Falls for the title in 2007. Senior Bryan Buckner turned in a 79, while Junior Kevin Yerks, one of the top players in the district, and senior Jeremy Davis each shot 80. Junior Tyler Campos, who came on strong at the end of 2006, carded 81.
Medaglia gives Loudoun County another shot at crowning an individual champion to follow in the footsteps of graduated Kevin McLister. Medaglia’s 74 was complimented by junior Michael Walker’s 80 and sophomore Dan Jackson’s 81. The challenge for the Raiders will be to get a consistent fourth score to help them compete with PF, BR and BW for the district title.
Loudoun Valley, always a contender with coach Gary McKay leading the Vikings for the 19th season, look strong as usual as they move into the AAA Cedar Run District and Northwest Region this year. Newcomer Davidson’s 76 was backed by senior captain Matt Wallace shooting 79 and sophomore Brian Hickey’s 82.
Freedom is still a young team but the Eagles continue to improve. A pair of sophomores, Blake (76) and Alex Choi (80) led the team Wednesday.
Heritage lost a lot of senior leadership and looks to be in a rebuilding phase. Senior Chris Cowne and junior Stefan Kronenberg each shot 85 and junior Tierney Stanghor shot 86.
Dominion, making its debut for new coach Anne Gasser, got an 84 from sophomore Kevin Cook and 88 from junior Michael Biller.
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