The Yorktown High School ice-hockey club team won its first road match of the season by holding off Tuscarora/Loudoun County by a 7-6 score.
With the victory, Yorktown improved to 3-1 and remained tied atop the Smythe Division of the Northern Virginia Scholastic Hockey League.
After a tough stretch of eight games in 14 days, including playing five of the stronger teams in the area, the Yorktown Patriots girls squad has a 2-6 overall record opening the 2024-25 basketball season
Yorktown has lost to top high-school teams like the Madison Warhawks, 49-39, South County Stallions, 46-34, Oakton Cougars, 64-46, Chantilly Chargers, 48-42, and defending 6D North Region champion Centreville Wildcats, 70-42. The Patriots’ wins were over the Westfield Bulldogs, 52-36, and Osbourn Eagles, 47-12.
With the winter break kicking in, the sports schedule for varsity high-school teams in Arlington will be limited until Dec. 26, but there are some games and events this weekend.
The Yorktown girls and boys teams and the Bishop O’Connell boys have basketball games Friday (Dec.20) and there are other sports that day, plus a few on Saturday. There is then a lull until things pick up post-Christmas.
With multiple wrestlers finishing undefeated, the Yorktown Patriots won the team title at the Wakefield High School Capital Duals competition Dec. 15.
Yorktown finished with a 5-0 record with victories over West Springfield, Potomac Falls, West Albemarle, Riverside and Westfield. The 3-2 victory over Westfield secured the title in the eight-team event.
A trio of individual champions and other top placers led the Washington-Liberty Generals to a runner-up finish at the Bobcat Blizzard Invitational track-and-field meet.
The boys team scored 91.5 points in the meet at Battlefield High School on Dec. 14. Independence High School of Ashburn won with 109.
The Washington-Liberty Generals girls track-and-field team again proved itself strong in cold weather at the Bobcat Blizzard Invitational track-and-field meet.
For the second time in three years, the W-L girls team won the championship. The squad finished second in 2023.
History was made in Arlington on Saturday (Dec. 14) when a varsity high-school girls dual wrestling match between two teams was held for the first time in the county.
As part of the multi-team Capital Duals Meet hosted at Wakefield High School, the host Warriors and Washington-Liberty Generals wrestled to a 12-12 tie in a scaled-down girls match.
Members of the state-champion Meridian High School varsity golf team were honored Dec. 10 by the Falls Church School Board.
“That’s an impressive achievement — we’re really proud,” School Board Chairman Tate Gould said in reaction to the team’s Virginia High School League Class 3 state crown, achieved during competition on the Heritage Oaks Golf Course in Harrisonburg.
The basketball brackets are set for this year’s annual eight-team George Long Holiday Tournament at Wakefield High School.
This will be the 22nd year for the boys competition, hosted by the Wakefield Warriors with four games each day Dec. 26-28.
Five high-school basketball games were played Saturday (Dec. 14) in Arlington at the second annual Braylon Meade Basketball Classic.
The contests, two girls games and three boys, all were held at Washington-Liberty High School, beginning at 12:30 p.m. The event was expanded to include more games this season.
Over the past five seasons, there were two aspects worth noting about home girls varsity field-hockey matches at Yorktown High School.
First and foremost, there were the Patriots’ contests on the field. But simultaneously, there was a free, live YouTube-streamed broadcast of the matches.
Under first-year head coach Kosa So, the Bishop O’Connell Knights are off to a 3-3 start in girls basketball this season.
The Catholic high-school team has played both private and public-school squads among its games. The Knights’ most recent victory was over public school Dunbar from D.C., 68-18.
