Heritage High School | Archive | September, 2008

Leesburg (Sept. 22, 2008) – The Heritage High School volleyball team is teaming up with Papa John’s, La Villa Roma, and Loudoun Physicians for Women to raise money for ****** Cancer Research. 

During the month of October, each time one of the Pride varsity players earns a **** (spike that scores a point), each of these great sponsors will donate $1.00 to the Susan G. Komen Fund to support ****** Cancer Research. At each home game, students will place a pink “K” on the wall after each ****. 

The is the second year that the volleyball program has had this fundraiser, last year we raised over $900 and we hope to raise over $1,000 this year.

Please feel free to contact Heritage assistant volleyball coach Casey van Harssel (Casey.vanHarssel@loudoun.k12.va.us) if you have any questions about the fundraiser.

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**See below for video interviews from Stone Bridge cheer**

By Dan Sousa
LoudounPrepSports.com Senior Content Editor

Ashburn (Sept. 19, 2008) – Three-time Virginia High School League state competitive cheer champion Stone Bridge High School will host Saturday the first annual DigitalSports Spirit Bowl.

The 11-team event features six teams from Loudoun (Broad Run, Freedom, Heritage, Loudoun County, Park View and host SB), two AAA Norther Region squads (McLean, Woodson), AAA two Northwest Region squads (Fauquier, Liberty) and AA Spotswood.

Host Stone Bridge, under first-year coach Nick Marchio — a former Bulldog cheerleader and three-year captain of the Virginia Tech squad — has captured state titles in 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07. The Bulldogs were fourth in the AAA state tournament last year and have been a top five finisher in the state for seven consecutive seasons.

Saturday’s even is $5 per person with doors opening at noon and the first team competing at 1 p.m. The teams will compete in two divisions (Navy Blue and Silver). Awards will be presented around 3 p.m.

Marchio said that the talent runs so deep in the Ashburn area for competitive cheer that girls that don’t make the Stone Bridge program would be able to make varsity programs elsewhere.

“We had to cut 10 really good cheerleaders from the program this year,” said Marchio.

While Marchio says he has some “very, very big shoes to fill” … those shoes won’t be far away as former Stone Bridge cheer coach Joe Dolansky, Marchio’s mentor and the coach who led SB to the three state titles, is a volunteer assistant for the Bulldogs this season.

Marchio says that the skills and routines have improved dramatically since his days at Stone Bridge.

The Bulldogs won a state title in football in 2007 and SB cheer co-captains Sierra Ellis and Megan Knodell says there is a friendly rivalry at the school between the cheerleaders and football players. The football players claim they make the cheerleaders better as the cheer squad does a push-up for every point on the scoreboard after each Bulldog touchdown. With Stone Bridge averaging 51 points a game … that is a lot of push-ups.

For most of the schools, Saturday’s competition is a chance to work on elements of routines that will be unveiled come disrict and regional competition time.

“Heritage is very excited about the season. We’ve been working hard on our routine since early August,” said Heritage coach Whitney Loy. “Although we’ve had a few injuries and we’re not quite as prepared as we’d like to be for the Stone Bridge cheer competition this Saturday, we expect to be in great shape for the (Dulles) District competition this year in October.”

Another squad competing Saturday is Loudoun County coach Robin Ellison says that the Raiders are “exceeding (her) expectations so far.”

“We have several veteran members of the squad who are exhibiting great leadership skills and who have set the challenge to the team to win Districts this year!,” said Ellison. “The girls are focused and determined and the competition routine looks great. The LCHS squad is committed to the time and hard work that it takes to be a championship squad.”

The Raiders were third in the Dulles District in 2007 with Broad Run, also at Saturday’s competition, the district champion and AA state runner-up.


Stone Bridge Competition Cheer Over the Years
2000-2001:  Third place Northwest Districts and fifth place Region II (coed)
2001-2002:  NCA Top Team at camp, Dulles District Champions, Third place Region II, and Third place VHSL State competition (coed)
2002-2003:  NCA Top Team at camp, Dulles District Champions, Region II Champions, and Runner-up at VHSL State competition (coed)
2003-2004:  NCA Top Team at camp, Dulles District Champions, Region II runner-up, and Fourth place at VHSL State competition (all girl)
2004-2005:  2nd Annual Handley Cheer Challenge Winners, Dulles District Champions, Region II Champions, and VHSL AA State Champions (all girl)
2005-2006:  3rd Annual Handley Cheer Challenge Winners, Liberty District Semis Top Score, Liberty District Champions, Northern Region Semis second place, Northern Region Champions, VHSL AAA State Champions (all girl). *First ever, back-to-back state title in two divisions
2006-2007:  4th Annual Handley Cheer Challenge Winners, First Annual Park View Spiritfest Invitational Winners, Liberty District Semis Top Score, Liberty District Champions, Northern Region Semis second place, Northern Region Finals Runner-up, VHSL AAA State Champions (all girl). *Third state title in a row.
2007-2008:  5th Annual Handley Cheer Challenge:  Fourth Place, 2nd Annual Park View Spiritfest Invitational Winners, First Place Liberty District Semis, Second Place Liberty District Finals, Fourth Place Northern Region Semis, Third Place Northern Region Finals, Third Place State Finals.

2008 DigitalSports Spirit Bowl

ROUTINE AND MUSIC: The routine must be a minimum of two minutes and thirty seconds (150 seconds) and not exceed three minutes (180 seconds).  The music portion of the routine must not exceed 90 seconds.  Coaches or team participants must cue and play their own music. (Navy Blue participants omitted)

COMPETITION OFFICIALS: A panel of three judges to adjudicate the competition routine, two safety judges to identify deductions of safety and execution regulations, two timers (one for music and one for overall routine length), an announcer, a sound technician, a licensed trainer, and a meet director.

SCORE SHEETS: Coaches will receive copies of their squad’s score sheets at the end of the competition.

JUDGING CRITERIA:  The following categories will be judged up to the maximum points shown by each category.  A perfect score is 100 points. The judges’ scores will be TOTALED and any safety judges deductions would then be taken.  Judges will be seated at a table at the edge of the mat..

FUNDAMENTALS
Motion – 15 Projection – 5
Jumps – 15 Choreography – 5
Tumbling – 15 Transitions – 5
Stunts – 15 Degree of Difficulty – 5
Dance – 15 Overall Impression – 5

SAFETY/EXECUTION DEDUCTIONS:  The following deduction will be taken per infraction

Over/Under Performance Time Limit – 10 (Unless is Division 1) Fall to Ground – 5
Exceeding Music Time Limit – 10 Fall Caught by Bases – 3
Exceeding Boundary Limits – 1 Tumbling Falls to hands, knees, or buttocks – 5
Dangerous Use of Props – 1 Unsportsmanlike Conduct – 10
Illegal Props or Stunts – 20 Appearance Infractions jewelry, hair, nails, hair device – 1
Illegal Execution of Stunt – 10 Improper Spotting Technique – 3

AWARDS:  Awards will be given to 1st place teams in each division and an overall “spirit” award will be given (selected by participating teams).



 

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 LoudounPrepSports.com Volleyball Top 5 Poll
Sept. 18, 2008

1. Loudoun County (9-0)
The Skinny: Raiders have won 37 straight and 55 of 56. LC was tested with a five set match last Saturday at the Surebet Tournament at Stone Bridge. MB Shaylin O’Connell comes through big when the Raiders need her most.

2. Loudoun Valley (6-1)
The Skinny: Vikes survived thrilling Cedar Run District 5-setter on Tuesday at Osbourn Park. Can you dig this? Vike had three players combine for 73 digs in the match: Kristen Martin 36, Taylor Maddox 20 and Morgan Clark 17.

3. Heritage (12-1-1)
The Skinny: Pride almost took a detour on their way to a match-up next week with rival LC … but survived 5-set match with Briar Woods. Hitter Lian Bernett is quietly having a top-notch season.

4. Broad Run (4-4-1)
The Skinny: Should the Spartans be ranked ahead of Potomac Falls? That question will be answered tonight in Ashburn. Kristen Burt fired eight aces in straight set win over Park View Tuesday.

5. Potomac Falls (8-2)
The Skinny: Should the Panthers be ranked ahead of Broad Run? That is the question that will be answered tonight in Ashbur. Hey, we are repeating ourselves. We hear the only thing hotter than Potomac Falls at the Little Giants Tournament last weekend was the Panther volleyball team … OK, we stole that from a local Waynesboro newspaper!

On the bubble: Stone Bridge, Briar Woods, Dominion

*records do include tournament play, some of which are two set affairs.

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Thursday Sept. 18 Preview (all matches start apx. 20 minutes after finish of 6 p.m. JV match)

AA Dulles District (district records)

Park View (0-5) @ Briar Woods (2-3)
The Skinny: Falcons gained confidence from taking Heritage to five but LC was too much on Tuesday. Pats looking for first district win. BW looking to reach .500 in Dulles.

Potomac Falls (3-2) @ Broad Run (3-2)
The Skinny: Winner of this marquee match-up gets third place in the district race and the loser will sit in that dreaded (as in facing the district champion in the semifinals come tournament time) fourth place spot. Still a lot of volleyball to be played but it is never too early to make a statement.

Dominion (2-3) @ Heritage (5-0)
The Skinny: Pride can’t not afford to look forward to a match-up next Tuesday with undefeated neighbor Loudoun County because the Titans have the talent to pull off an upset.

Loudoun County (5-0) @ Freedom (0-5)
The Skinny: New Eagle coach Dave Tsuda will look little victories tonight when his squad goes up against unbeaten Raiders.

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Volleyball Terminology: You will see the term “****” in our reports … no, we haven’t been playing too much “Call of Duty” … a “****” is an attack that results in an immediate point. In the old days, you and I, called these “spikes”!

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Volleyball Round-up
Tuesday Sept. 16 Action

Loudoun Valley 3, Osbourn Park 2
The Skinny: Another Tuesday. Another thrilling 5-set win in the Cedar Run for AAA Valley. Vikes improved to 6-1 overall with the 27-29, 25-22, 20-25, 26-24 and 15-11 win. Reports LV coach Laird Johnson: “In what proved to be an emotionally charged and thrilling match, and a match which saw strong offensive and defensive play from both squads,  the Vikings were able to put together a solid team performance and improve their Cedar Run district record to 4-1.”

Leading the Viking offense were Ally Blaine (13 assists) and Nicole Bennett (12 assists) who directed a varied attack which netted Morgan Clark 16 kills, Lindsay Phipps 13 kills and Taylor Maddox 5 kills. Maddox also had a strong service performance earning 17 service points.

Defensively along the net, the Vikes totaled 15 blocking combos with LPhipps leading the way with 5. A solid backline performance was turned in by Kristen Martin who had 36 digs, Maddox who had 20 digs and Clark who had 17 digs.

Broad Run 3, Park View 0
The Skinny: Spartans sweep Pats 25-6, 25-15, 25-19 with Emily Sears leading BR with seven kills. Kristen Burt had six kills, five digs, 14 assists and eight aces, and Mallory Brickerd added five kills, four digs, three solo blocks and an ace. PV was led by Tabby Pham with five kills and Emily Groves with four kills. Aby Burkel had 14 assists for PV.

Loudoun County 3, Briar Woods 0
The Skinny: Raiders keep on rolling, making it 37 straight and improved to 9-0 on the season with a 25-12, 25-15, 25-16 sweep over BW in Ashburn. Shaylin O’Connell led the way with 11 kills and 4 blocks with other key contributors for LC: Juliane Hanna (7 kills, 5 digs, 2 blocks), Emily Vandegrift (4 kills), Robin Marsala (15 assists, 14 points, 5 aces), Hannah Arnold (6 digs, 7 points, 4 aces), Kerry Sarver (7 assists, 5 points), Katie Martin (5 assists), Kathleen Horvath (5 digs), Paige Sigmon (4 points), Katie Gloe (3 kills, 3 digs, 3 points), Sammy Dormio (3 kills, 3 digs), and Rachel Arigo and Rochelle Latka playing well at the net.

Kim Bell and Krysta Gardner each had nine kills for the Falcons. BW setter Caitlin Ronan had 18 assists. BW coach Rich Bennett reports that the Raiders “dominated at the start of each set.”

The Raiders Freshman team won 2-0, while the Junior Varsity team won 2-1 after winning the Musselman HS JV tournament on Saturday.  The Freshman team improved to 8-0 on the season and the JV improved to 11-0. 

Sideout: You can also come out and support the Raiders volleyball program at Roy Rogers (near Safeway) this Friday evening in Leesburg from 5:00 – 8:00 for a meet and greet with the team.  Just tell the cashier that you support the program and they will donate 25% of your bill to our team.  On Saturday the Raiders will once again be at Roy Rogers washing cars from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.  

Heritage 3, Freedom 0
The Skinny: The Pride cruised to a 25-12, 25-9, 25-10 win with Lian Bernett getting 10 kills. Stephanie Yokoyama and Ashley Scott combined for 15 service points and Yokoyama had 23 assists. Skye Young had two blocks and Megan Beckwith finished with 14 digs. 

Freedom coach Rich Tsuda reports that the Eagles were “working around an unfamiliar line-up to accommodate one player’s illness and anothers minor injuries.”

Potomac Falls 3, Dominion 1
The Skinny: Panthers dispatch Sterling neighbor in four after Titans took the opening set, 23-25, 25-21, 25-12, 25-20.

PF stats:
Tori Janowski had 11 kills, 16 assists, 12 digs, 5 aces and 9 service points
Sara Hibson had 10 kills, 2 digs, 2 assists and 2 blocks
Cat Jones had 9 kills, 3 aces, 12 service points, 3 digs and 11 blocks
Kerry Dwyer passed wonderfully, had 3 aces, 8 service points, 15 digs and 1 ****
Kayla Motheral had 2 kills and 6 blocks
Nicole Fauteux had 2 kills, 1 ace, 6 service points, 12 digs, 2 blocks and 13 assists
Alexa Campbell had 3 kills, 7 service points, 14 digs and 7 blocks
Annie Reck had 1 ****, 1 block
Emma Ukleja had 1 ****
Kate Colfelt had 2 aces, 4 service points, 8 digs
Megan Bahr had 1 assist and 1 block
Katie Shiraishi had 2 digs

Dominion stats
Lauren Wong had 9 kills, 10 digs
Alaina Sisson and Alana Mazurowski each had 8 assists
Sam Kelleher had 8 digs
Maddie Bullock and Stephanie Lummis each had 3 kills.

Mon. Sept. 15
Manassas Park 3, Freedom 2
The Skinny: The Eagles dropped a 5-setter to the Cougars after losing he first set 27-29. The final score: 27-29, 16-25, 13-25, 25-23, 15-11. Freedom did win both the freshman (25-17, 25-16) and JV (25-6, 25-13) matches.

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LV Grad Greg Dawson “Creek” Earns Second “You Pick’Em” Win

(Sept. 18) – OK, we tried to in vain to work Dawson’s Creek into the headline since Greg Dawson won our “You Pick’Em” contest last week … the LPS Monkey suggested: Greg Dawson “Up a Creek without a Paddle” but then that made no sense. As Dawson did quite swimmingly last week!

(Question: Dan, speaking of making no sense, what gives with all the funky colors on this page? Answer: We thought we would get as creative as possible and see if our new DigitalSports bosses noticed!)

Back to what counts! Dawson, a Loudoun Valley grad for the record, picked Potomac Falls 29-17 over Jefferson WV and the final was 31-14. Walter McCowat (Super Dominion Dad! and known at LPS World Headquarters as LPS Fan No. 1) just missed with a 31-21 pick. We should note that Jason “The Oracle” Treon didn’t win last week but he did email seven days ago that AIG would be bailed out by the government! Treon’s new license plates by the way read: Oracle1 (we kid … especially since Treon could easily beat us up and step on our little video camera)

Week 4 You Pick’EM 

AAA Rivarly Game

Stone Bridge at Loudoun Valley

Simply email your final score perdictions to email::dsousa@digitalsports.com and then sit back and wait for your moment in the sun. No Proof of Purchase needed to Play. Free Tank of Gas with Each 50 Perdictions. Void in Alabama.

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You Pick’Em Has Gone to the ‘Dawgs: Stone Bridge Coaches Sam Plank and Jason “The Oracle” Treon Both are Winners in Week Two
By Dan “Back to School Night” Sousa

(Sept. 11, 2008) – Hey, it was either update You Pick’em or attend Back to School Night (zzzzzzzzzzzzz …) sorry about that but after a decade or so those events all start to sound the same. I fell asleep at my son’s Back to School Night last year and had this strange dream that I was back in high school and dating somebody named Sally Foster.

And speaking of sounding the same … how about Jason “The Oracle” Treon who returns to You Pick’Em to claim his ninth all-time victory. Since Chris Tully achieved his sixth win last week, we expect Treon wanted to get down to business to assure his claim on the all-time leaderboard. Treon had Handley beating LC, 28-21 which was close enough to the 49-21 final. (People, people, you took a beating on this one … thank goodness we are not wagering on these predictions!).

Now Treon is a Stone Bridge assistant football coach and a JV baseball coach for the Bulldogs and his “boss” Sam Plank called the Stone Bridge game to gain his first victory ever in You Pick’Em … Plank had 42-7 ‘Dawgs and it was 49-7.

Treon has also made these predictions: Gas will reach $15 a gallon by Christmas, bow ties will make a comeback and we will have a mild winter (OK … we actually made those up).

(What was it with all the scoring last Friday! It was like the Arena League took over the Prep Football scene. We aren’t positive but we heard that Potomac Falls actually scored a final touchdown while the bus was pulling out of the parking lot in Hedgesville.)

(Somebody explain all of these asides?!?)

Week 3 Game of the Week for You Pick’Em: Jefferson WV @ Potomac Falls.

Send us your winner and final score to email::dsousa@digitalsports.com.

If you win, you get to claim bragging rights … and, yes, to answer your question, more than just local coaches are allowed to play but we warn you, they play to win. Also, if you win this week, the LPS Monkey will buy you a cup of coffee!

Tell your friends … more fun than Back to School Night … Play You Pick’EM

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Six-Shooter Tully Almost Exact with Win! Hawes Breaks Through and Now is Tied with His Son in You Pick’Em

By Dan Sousa
You Pick’Em Professional

(Sept. 4, 2008) – Panther Power! Potmac Falls swept our first week of You Pick’em … now that has to be a throwdown challenge to the other nine Loudoun schools! First, here are our Week Two You Pick’Em Games:

Robinson at Stone Bridge
Skinny: Are the ‘Dawgs Ram-Tough this Season?

Handley at Loudoun County
Skinny: Are the Raiders for real … maybe Handley will be the “Judge”.

Email the winner and final score of one or both games to dsousa@digitalsports.com. It is that simple. Easier than picking a Vice Presidential candidate! 

Week One Recap
Jeff Hawes finally notched his first You Pick’Em victory, calling Stone Bridge 34-24 over West Springfield, which was good enough to beat out his Assistant AD Chris Tully who had 49-21 and long-time You Pick’Em player Bob Buckman, who had 35-21. Hawes darn near won the Briar Woods game but Tully was almost exactly on the money, calling 27-14 Briar Woods over Millbrook when the final was 27-13. It won’t make Tully feel any better that the Pioneer missed extra point actually doinked (is that a word?) off the right upright! This make Tully a six-time winner in You Pick’Em, tying him with John Koren for second All-time and putting him within two wins of Stone Bridge assistant football coach Jason “crystal ball” Treon.

As for Hawes, we don’t want him to get too big of a head with his win … after all, he has now simply tied his young son Hayden for bragging rights in You Pick’Em as Hayden won last season.

Now email your pick here: dsousa@digitalsports.com.
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(Aug. 28, 2008) – Well … we tried to **** this contest but we figured the outrage would be too great!

So, back by popular demand (yes, Sam Plank, we are talking about you!) is our You Pick’Em Football Contest.

Time out Dan: I won You Pick’Em last year and the jazzy LPS Prize Van never visited me!
Answer: Ha! You simply weren’t home and the LPS Monkey did toss your prize on your front lawn while cruising by at 45 miles per hour and we can’t be sure but we think your neighbor’s toy poodle took off with the gear.

(Honest, we just never got around to handing out the prizes and our coolest t-shirts were gone after the 2006 campaign and the new stuff was frankly … a bit lame! So, you will have to live with the sole prize of becoming famous in our little sports community … Gthat and if you like, the LPS Monkey will trim your hedges if you ask nicely).

OK, enough with that … here is how you play You Pick’em. Pick the winner of one of the following two games and give us the final score. If you get the winner and come closest to the final scores … well, you are the winner! We are working on forms for this new site so you will have to email all picks to dsousa@digitalsports.com.

Week One You Pick’Em
Game 1: West Springfield at Stone Bridge
Game 2: Millbrook at Briar Woods

Please send picks to Dan at dsousa@digitalsports.com.


Good luck!

Click here for the You Pick’Em Hall of Fame and a recap of the 2006 and 2007 winners

All-Time Leaderboard

9 – Jason Treon

6 – John Koren, Chris Tully

5 – Tim, Lieb

3 – Chuck McDaniel, Ryan Rogers

2 – Kathy Athey, Greg Dawson, Jamie Eberly, Ryan Price

1 – Jane Baker, Steven Balik, Leon Barber, Andrew Berdhal, Zirkle Blakey, Joe Conroy, Hayden Hawes, Jeff Hawes, Marco Mastrangelo, Patrick McNanley,Walter McCowat, Sam Plank, Trevor Scales, Ryder Sousa

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By Paul Frommelt
DigitalSports.com
Content Manager — Prince William County
pfrommelt@digitalsports.com

*Look below for video highlights of the Men’s and Women’s “B” and “C” relay races at the 8th Annual Brentsville Relays.

Click here for a photo gallery of the Men’s “B” and “C” relay race.
Click here for a photo gallery of the Women’s “B” and “C” relay race.

Click here for results from the Men’s and Women’s “A” relay race.

Despite the wet weather that soaked the course during the final races of the night, Brentsville District High School celebrated another successful Under the Lights Brentsville Relays cross country meet. The 8th annual event featured 63 cross country teams from Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland.

The six-hour event featured 12 different races, from high school varsity to elementary school races.

As expected, the Midlothian girls dominated throughout the day, winning the Women’s “B” race to start the day and winning the women’s “A” race by almost two minutes at the end of the night. The Mountain View boys took the top spot in the men’s “B” meet, while the Atlee boys won the men’s “A” meet.

The Northern Region brought 20 teams to the event, with the Lake Braddock (49:47) girls celebrating a second-place finish during the women’s “A” meet. The Herndon girls were right behind the Bruins with a third-place finish. The West Potomac (51:10) girls finished ninth, while Langley (52:15), Robinson (52:53), T.C. Williams (53:09), Westfield (53:44) and South County (53:46) made it in the top 20.

On the boys side for the Northern Region, Robinson (42:04) finished strong in third place, while South County (42:20), W.T. Woodson (42:33), and Lake Braddock (42:39) all finished in the top ten.

Loudoun County’s Potomac Falls had the best finish of all Northern Virginia teams on the boys side, finishing second with a time of 42:04, 36 seconds behind first-place Atlee. The Panther boys took the overall meet boy’s title with top-five finishes in all three races. 

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Velocity Sports Performance of Ashburn
Athlete of the Month
Heritage High School
Golf
August 2008

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**Check below for video from this game ** 

**Click here for a photo gallery from this game**

Leesburg (Sept. 13, 2008) – Senior Ross Madison rushed for 213 yards on 31 carries to lead Heritage High School to a 30-7 victory over Brentsville Friday night.

The Tigers from Nokesville struck first with a second-quarter touchdown but the Pride came right back with Danny Offei returning the kick-off 76 yards for a score. It was the second straight week that the Pride had a kickoff return for a touchdown.

The score was tied at 7-7 at he half, but Heritage pulled away with scoring runs of 11 yards by Brian Rody and a 1-yard run by Madison. After Madison’s score, in a strange play, Brentsville ran itself into a safety when a returner fielded the kickoff at the 2 and went back into the end zone and tried to down the ball, resulting in a safety for Heritage.

A second score by Rody late finished the scoring. Heritage is now 3-0 going into bye week and the Pride are headed for a AA Dulles District opening showdown in Sterling in two weeks with Potomac Falls (3-0).



Friday, September 12, 2008 (07:30 PM)
Non-league game at heritage

Heritage Pride 30, Brentsville Tigers 7

Heritage Pride Drive Charts

Brentsville Tigers Drive Charts

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Game 1 @ Brentsville  9/8   W 19-0
 
Nokesville(Sept. 12, 2008) – The Heritage JV team started the year off on a good note on Monday, as they traveled to Nokesville to take on Brentsville District High School.  They took the lead in the first quarter on a 32 yard run by Aaron Summers.  The defense for the Pride followed the ‘bend but don’t break’ motto, and put up the first shut out of the year.  The defensive effort was done by a committee of players including Brian Oberholzer, Tyler Schulze, Chuck Carlin, Austin Nelson, Austin Harmon, Shane Carrera, Jordan Grooms, and Joey Partin.  The offense took advantage of the great defensive effort and put another score up before halftime as Ethan Depoy set up his own touchdown with a 50 yard run, followed by a 1 yard quarterback sneak.  The Pride would stagger a bit in the second half, but would score late on another 20 yard run by Aaron summers to give the Pride the 19-0 victory.  The Pride will travel to Loudoun County High School on September 23.  The Pride are looking to continue their winning ways this year after an 8-1 mark last year.  After the 19-0 victory, they are on their way starting off 1-0.
 

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**Video available below**
**Click here for a photo gallery from the LC-BR match**

By Dan Sousa
LoudounPrepSports.com Senior Content Editor

Ashburn (Sept. 12, 2008) – Can a team rolling along to its 33rd straight victory really be in a rebuilding mode?

When it comes to the Loudoun County High School volleyball team, call it “touch-up mode” as the Raiders are working with a whole lot of talent but are also still fitting together the pieces for what appears to be another AA state playoff run after winning the title in 2007 and finishing runner-up in 2006.

Make no mistake, the Raiders are led by senior Shaylin O’Connell, who had 16 kills in Thursday’s 3-1 (25-18, 25-17, 17-25, 25-20) victory over Broad Run and LC got strong performances from such seniors as Katie Gloe (9 kills, 11 digs), Rochelle Latka (5 kills, 3 digs), Katie Martin (7 assists, 7 points) and Kerry Sarver (7 assists, 3 digs). But the Raiders are also at times a  young team with sophomore Rachel Arigo (5 kills, 5 blocks, 7 aces, 14 points) displaying an increasingly tough-to-return service game, sophomore Kathleen Horvath (12 digs) settling into the Libero role, junior Emily Vandegrift (4 kills, 5 digs) taking advantage of her time at the net, junior Juliane Hanna (9 kills, 8 digs, 9 points), a season away from the district’s Player of the Year contender, and junior transfer Robin Marsala (26 assists, 7 digs, 5 points), unleashing a jump set that teammates are still learning to hit to.

Basically, if you don’t get to the Raiders in 2008, watch out for 2009.

With only one senior starting, Broad Run expects to be right there with LC next year as well, but the Spartans are trying to get back into that regional bid spot in the district, having dropped three contests to Dulles teams within a week, including two matches to Heritage.

BR is also quickly improving with freshman Mallory Brickered registering 12 kills and four blocks against the Raiders and junior Elisa Scudder finishing with nine kills, five digs, two blocks and an ace. Missing from last year’s Spartan team that made it to regionals is a service game that nets easy points as BR was able to put down just two aces Thursday.

The Spartans lone senior starter, Kristen Burt, finished with 17 assists, two blocks, five digs, 14 points and one ace. Defensively for BR, Carolyn Pearce (21 digs) and Lizzie Dean (18 digs) combined for 39 digs and also added seven kills.

It was Arigo’s serving that put some distance between LC and BR in the second game as she took a 11-9 advantage and turned it into a 16-9 lead before giving up the ball. O’Connell was more than happy to patrol the net and put back any stray passes that didn’t find Burt.

Broad Run prevented the sweep by jumping out to a quick 7-2 lead in the third set and the Spartans never trailed as made it 2-1. Brickerd and Scudder were both on during this set.

The fourth set was back-and-forth early but then the Spartans had a run of unforced errors and the Raiders are just too good of a team to help out.

Tied at 15-15, Latka put the Raiders ahead but Scudder brought back BR to a 17-17 tie with a ****. O’Connell put LC ahead and again Scudder brought her team back to make it 18-18. When Scudder tooled the block on the next point, BR was up 19-18 but it would be the Spartans last lead of the evening.

Hanna tied it with a kills on the outside and then the Spartans had four errors in a row (a wide attack, a long attack, a two-hit violation and a net violation). Even when LC gave back a point with an error of its own at 23-20, BR followed with a service error and LC won the next rally to close the match.


Thurs. Sept. 11 Volleyball Scoreboard
Loudoun County 3, Broad Run 1
Raiders move to 4-0 in district with 25-18, 25-17, 17-25, 25-20 win. Broad Run is 2-2.

Heritage 3, Briar Woods 2
Falcons almost pull off shocker but Pride advances to 4-0 in distrirct with 25-20, 25-18, 23-25, 21-25, 15-8 win. BW is 2-2.

The thing about a potential Sept. 23 match-up with LC is that the Pride must make its through its schedule leading up to that.  BW gave Heritage a run for its money Thursday in a match that Falcon coach Rich Bennett said was the “most exciting volleyball they had experienced since the inception of the school — in its fourth year.”

Pride’s freshman setter Stephanie Yokoyama tallied 46 assists and has over 300 assists already on the season. She also had 16 service points in the five set win. One of Yokoyama’s favorite targets was Lian Bernett, who had 19 kills and six service points. Also for Heritage: Emma LeMaitre had 25 digs and 14 kills, Megan Beckwith had 26 digs and Calleigh Fangmeyer had 13 service points and 14 digs.

Reported Bennett: “There was a lot of net play and we had the upper hand in blocking them with 12 total blocks. They surely had more total spikes. Some great volleyball – we are capable of hanging with the top teams.

BW was down 2-0 when they fought back for a 25-23 win in set three. Despite being down 9-4 the fourth set, BW fought back. First with a time out and call for a set to Kim Bell, which worked. The Falcons then scored three more straight points to come within 9-7. BW, led by Bell with five kills, a block and three aces in the set, outscored Heritage the rest of the way to complete the 22-12 run and send things into a fifth set.

Krysta Gardner had three kills for BW in the fifth set but Bennett said his team coudn’t get the ball to Bell, who had one **** in the fifth. It was tied at 2-2 before Heritage slowly pulled away, capped by a 4 service-point run at the end of the game by Yokoyama.

For the match for BW: 11 kills and 3 blocks each for Krysta Gardner and Kim Bell; Gardner also led the team with 5 digs and Bell had 7 service aces; 5 kills and 4 blocks for MH Bailey Jensen; and Caitlin Ronan – 28 assists, 2 kills , 1 service ace

Potomac Falls 3, Freedom 0
Panthers make it two straight in district to move to 2-2 with 25-17, 25-20, 25-14 win. Freedom is 0-4.

The Panthers moved to .500 in district with the sweep. For PF:

Tori Janowski had 7 kills, 12 aces with 17 service points, 6 digs, 18 assists and 1 block
Cat Jones had 8 kills, 5 digs, 1 ace and 9 service points, and 3 blocks
Nicole Fauteux had 3 kills, 7 assists, 2 digs, 3 aces and 5 service points
Sara Hibson had 2 kills, 4 digs and 2 blocks
Annie Reck had 2 kills, and 1 assit
Alexa Campbell had 2 kills, 7 digs, 1 ace and 4 service points
Kate Colfelt had 1 ****, 1 ace and 6 service points
Emma Ukleja had 2 blocks and 1 ****
Kerry Dwyer had 1 ****, 4 digs 1 ace and 3 service points
Katie Shiraishi had 6 digs, 1 ace and 1 service point

Reports Freedom coach Dave Tsuda: “There was no doubt the Eagle team fighting spirit was highly energized from the first point of the first game through the last whistle of the last game. The Eagles defense rose on several occasions to meet the strong Panther team attack.  In each game, the contributions of tough digs and sprawling saves were well dispersed across the Eagle defensive specialists. The Eagles offense developed its own rhythm in game 2 as evidenced by the close score.  The Eagles executed a mix of hard spikes and smartly placed soft shots to keep the Panther defense guessing.” 

Dominion 3, Park View 1
Titans move to 2-2 in districict with 25-16, 14-25, 25-11, 25-14 win. PV is 0-4.

Dominion moved to .500 with Lauren Wong leading the way with 11 kills, two aces and six digs.

Also for the Titans: Erin Davenport had five kills and three blocks; Cassie Glosner had four kills and six aces; Stephanie Lummis had four kills; Kristina Brown had three kills; and Alaina Sisson had 18 assists.

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LoudounPrepSports.com Volleyball Top 5 Poll
Sept. 11, 2008

1. Loudoun County (4-0)
The Skinny: Raiders have won 31 straight and have enough talent to make a run at a second straight AA state title. Currently ranked No. 2 in DC Metro area by a large newspaer (we kid, it’s the WashPost, like you didn’t know!). If Raiders wanted, they could go to a 3-setter line-up with the addition of Robin Marsala to the talented duo of Katie Martin and Kerry Sarver. LPS Monkey says: “Raiders are certainly “setting” pretty.”

2. Loudoun Valley (4-1)
The Skinny: Vikes only loss on the season was a Cedar Run defeat at Fauquier. Is it just us or does Morgan Clark look like she plays at about 6-foot-5 at the net. Most of Valley’s Cedar Run District season will be spent on the bus in traffic trying to get from Gainesville to Manassas!

3. Heritage (3-0)
The Skinny: Pride have defeated Broad Run twice already and their only defeat came to AAA Herndon. Pride certainly went under our radar in the preseason preview but anybody overlooking Heritage now will take a direct hit. Freshman setter Stephanie Yokoyama is certainly on her way to setting all sorts of school assists records.

4. Broad Run (2-1)
The Skinny: Spartans extended Heritage to five sets Tuesday. Key match tonight against Raiders. BR playing a well-crafted game under new coach Ellen Roberts. Keep an eye out for Mallory Brickerd … nine blocks on Tuesday. Talk about your “Brickerd Walls”.

5. Stone Bridge (1-3)
The Skinny: The Bulldogs seem to win just about every first set. SB has taken at least a game in loses to strong AAA teams Valley, Robinson and Herndon. We expect them to be in the Liberty District title hunt once again come Oct. All-Region setter Lily Vera returning to 100 percent will certainly help the ‘Dawgs.

On the bubble: Potomac Falls (3-2)

*records do not include tournament play, some of which are two set affairs.

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Thursday Sept. 11 Preview (all matches start apx. 20 minutes after finish of 6 p.m. JV match)

AA Dulles District
Briar Woods @ Heritage
The Skinny: After slow start, Falcons are playing much better and now they face a red-hot Pride team.

Freedom @ Potomac Falls
The Skinny: Panthers are money playing in the Panther Pit.

Loudoun County @ Broad Run
The Skinny: Last year’s big rivalry returns though many of the biggest names (Petkovich! M. Hanna!, L. Sears!, Bauernfeind!) have moved onto college volleyball. BR will try and prevent County from running its winning streak to “32-Skidoo”

Park View @ Dominion
The Skinny: Titans took a game from LC on Tuesday and we take that as a sign that Cam Meyer has his team playing togetgher.

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Volleyball Terminology: LPS is using the term “sets” to refer to the best of 5 series teams play to determine a winner. Olympic volleyball uses “sets” instead of “games” to refer the series and NCAA in 2008 has also moved officially from “game” to “set”. To make matters more confusing, NCAA will now refer to “matches” as “games”. Got that! In high schol and college volleyball. The first four sets are played to 25 points (win by two) and the fifth set, if needed, is played to 15 (again, win by two). All scoring is rally scoring (not sideout scoring like when LPS Editor Dan Sousa had more hair and less stomach) which means a team can score both while serving and receiving.

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Volleyball Round-up
Tuesday Sept. 8 Action
Loudoun Valley 3, Battlefield 2
The Skinny: Click here for complete story plus photos and videos!

Heritage 3, Broad Run 2
The Skinny: Click here for complete story plus photos!

Stone Bridge 3, Centreville 0
The Skinny: Bulldogs earn first win on the season in sweep. Lily Vera returns in a big way with 29 assists, eight digs and four points. Newcome Lindsay Gill has 22 digs, 11 service points including three aces. Christine Beckham registers 12 kills, 13 digs, 18 service points including six aces. Also for SB: Alexis Chism (3 killls, 1 block), Vanessa Paige (3 kills, 5 digs), Sarah Norton (9 kills, 4 blocks, 3 points), Amanda Miller (12 digs, 5 kills, 4 points) and Sara Stancik (4 points, 1 ****).

Loudoun County 3, Dominion 1
The Skinny: It is now news any time the Raiders even drop one set! Shaylin O’Connell led the Raiders with 12 kills. Other key Raiders included: Katie Gloe (9 kills, 9 points, 12 digs, 2 blocks), Juliane Hanna (8 kills, 14 points, 10 digs, 2 blocks), Rachel Arigo (7 kills, 8 points, 5 aces, 4 digs, 2 blocks), Robin Marsala (10 assists, 5 points, 2 aces, 3 kills), Kerry Sarver and Katie Martin (13 and 10 assists), Hannah Arnold (12 digs) and Kathleen Horvath (10 digs). For Dominion, Stephanie Lummis had 11 kills and seven digs and Alaina Sisson had 19 assists and two digs. Also for the Titans: Lauren Wong (6 kills, 2 aces, 7 digs, 1 block), Erin Davenport (3 kills, 1 block), Cassie Glosner (3 kills, 2 aces, 4 digs), Maddie Bullock (2 kills, 1 block), Kristina Brown (1 kills, 1 ace, 5 digs) and Sam Kelleher had 8 digs.

Briar Woods 3, Freedom 0
The Skinny: The Falcons cruised in their rivalry game with Kim Bell (7 kills) and Krysta Gardner combining for 13 kills. Emily Townsend had three kills and two blocks. Falcon MH Bailey Jensen continued her hot serving with four aces and 10 straight service points in the first set.

Potomac Falls 3, Park View 0
The Skinny: Panthers roll with Tori Janowski leading the way with eight aces on 11 service points, 14 assists, eight kills, two blocks, one solo, and seven defensive plays. Also for PF: Cat Jones (8 kills, 1 solo block, 1 assisted block, 2 points), Kayla Motheral (7 kills, 4 blocks, 1 solo, 2 assisted), Sara Hibson (11 digs, 4 kills, 4 blocks), Kerry Dwyer (16 digs, 1 ace, 3 points), Kate Colfelt (1 kills, 2 aces, 5 points, 5 digs), Annie Reck (1 ****), Emma Ukleja (1 kills, 2 block), Nicole Fauteux (1 ****, 1 ace, 9 points, 13 assists, 1 block, 2 digs) and Katie Shiraishi (6 pointsm 6 digs). For the Patriots: Denni Johnson had five kills, Brittany Griffin had three blocks and Kristin Oravetz had seven digs.

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