Close baseball games? It’s been the norm for the Washington-Liberty Generals high-school team over the past two seasons.
And in recent action, the trend has continued.
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Perfect in a couple of significant ways — that’s how the Marymount University Saints finished their second championship women’s flag football season.
The top-seeded Saints capped their undefeated 15-0 spring campaign by winning the Atlantic East Conference tournament with a 2-0 record.
With an 11-game winning streak, the Bishop O’Connell Knights baseball team finished the regular season very strong.
Now the postseason begins for the 20-4 high-school team as the No. 2 seed in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference tournament, followed by the Division I private-school state tourney.
Two seniors for the Washington-Liberty Generals won boys races and a freshman for the Yorktown Patriots was first in a girls event at the Cassel’s XBC Track Experience meet at Chantilly High School.
For W-L, Carson Owens sprinted to victory in 10.78 seconds in the 100-meter dash and Emmett Engelhardt won the 1,600 in a speedy 4:13.47.
A light morning rain reduced the number of entries in the third Wakefield High School Car Show, but some 25 classics were still on site in the school’s parking lot for the Saturday (April 26) event.
A number of the entries were graduates of Wakefield, with a number of current students on hand observing the various cars and trucks.
For Maddy DeCou, the chance to coach for the college basketball team where she played was too good an opportunity to pass up.
So the head coach of the Washington-Liberty Generals girls high-school hoop team the past two seasons made the tough decision. She stepped down, accepting a job as an assistant coach in the same sport for Arlington’s nearby Division III Marymount University women’s team.
Having difficulty winning close games against quality opponents is no longer an issue this season for the Washington-Liberty Generals boys lacrosse team.
Recent road victories over the Herndon Hornets and Lake Braddock Bruins by 11-9 and 9-6 scores, respectively, put that matter to rest, as the high-school team has its best record in years at 10-2.
With most of the finals in each race canceled because of afternoon thunderstorms, the Wakefield Warriors’ crew program still had a strong showing at the annual Al Urquia Regatta.
The high-school event was Saturday (April 26) on the Occoquan River, and was the first regatta of the season for Wakefield.
A first-round lead didn’t hold up the second day as the defending golf champion Marymount University Saints finished second in the Centennial Conference Championships.
The two-day, 36-hole women’s event was held at Waynesboro Country Club in Pennsylvania. Although finishing second, Marymount did not earn a berth to participate in the NCAA Division III tournament.
The schedules and division assignments are set for Arlington’s two teams in the upcoming 2025 summertime’s Colonial Swimming League.
The Arlington Knights of Columbus Holy Mackerels will compete again in the highest Red Division of the 24-team, four-division league.
The Bishop O’Connell Knights boys and girls track and field teams enjoyed some significant highlights at the famous Penn Relays.
Now in its 129th year, the relays are America’s oldest and largest track-and-field competition, held since 1895 at the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field in west Philadelphia.
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The lacrosse playoffs haven’t begun, but the Yorktown Patriots were in postseason form with a couple of recent big victories over a four-day span against two perennial powers and former girls state champions.
The first win was a 16-15 overtime triumph over the visiting Western Albemarle Warriors of Crozet. The Warriors won the past two Virginia High School League Class 4 state championships and had a three-season 43-match winning streak snapped with the loss.