A Marymount University women’s basketball standout of the 1990s has been selected to coach the Yorktown High School girls basketball team.
Jessica Turgon will take over from Devaughn Drayton, who recently stepped down after 13 seasons at Yorktown.
With a region soccer championship on the line, the stakes were the highest ever in the most recent meeting between the Washington-Liberty Generals and Yorktown Patriots.
Playing on their home field, the Patriots built a 2-0 halftime lead, then hung on to win the 6D North Region tournament final, 2-1, on June 5.
By finishing with a 1-1 record in this season’s region softball tournament, the Yorktown Patriots accomplished something old — and something new.
The “new” was winning an opening-round region game for the first time since 2018 and reaching the semifinals for the first time in program history. Host Yorktown nipped the South Lakes Seahawks, 7-6, in that opening region contest.
With two individual champions for each team leading the way, the Washington-Liberty Generals placed third in the girls and boys region outdoor track-and-field championships.
In addition, both Wakefield and Yorktown high schools brought home individual championship from the event.
It was a double-whammy for two Yorktown Patriots lacrosse teams in the championship games of the 6D North Region tournaments.
Both lost at different venues in Thursday-night (May 29) action.
The Yorktown Patriots extended their girls softball season with victories over the Herndon Hornets and Langley Saxons in the Liberty District tournament.
Third-seed Yorktown (12-11) topped sixth-seeded Herndon, 10-5, in the first round, then upset and blanked second-seed and Langley Saxons, 5-0, in the semifinals to extend the high-school team’s winning streak to five.
As usual, Gabi Netwell was plenty busy during a track-and-field meet, most recently helping the Washington-Liberty Generals finish first in the girls Liberty District outdoor high-school championships.
The junior placed high in seven events as the Generals won with 118 points, just six more than the co-runner-ups Wakefield Warriors and Langley Saxons. The meet was held on two days over two weeks at Wakefield.
May 15 will not soon be forgotten for high-school baseball in Arlington — but for the wrong reasons.
All four squads suffered season-ending losses that Thursday in first-round tournament action. In a matter of a five-hour stretch, the county’s high-school baseball season was all over.
Highlights were few for Arlington crew teams at famous, but this year weather-shortened, Stotesbury Cup Regatta.
Storms, heavy rain and dangerous water conditions on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia caused the semifinal and championship races to be canceled. Only the first-round heats were held.
With three senior athletes combining to win seven events and as many as 11 others scoring team points, the Washington-Liberty Generals were big winners in the boys Liberty District track-and-field championships.
The Generals were first with 171 points, far more than the runner-up and host Wakefield Warriors with 114 in the high-school competition spread over two different weeks.
On the same cool and rainy night at different sites, the Yorktown Patriots defended their girls and boys Liberty District lacrosse tournament championships with victories over the Langley Saxons.
The undefeated and top seed Yorktown girls (16-0) built a 7-1 lead and won 16-8 on their home field over the second-seeded Saxons. The No. 2-seed boys (10-7) played at top-seed Langley and rallied from an early 4-0 deficit to win 11-10 in sudden-death overtime.
The spring high-school sports season for Arlington’s private-school Bishop O’Connell Knights is complete, while the county’s three public-school teams are competing in region-playoff action over the next week.
The Wakefield Warriors, Washington-Liberty Generals and Yorktown Patriots all have teams or athletes entered in individual and team region competition, with one team playing in a district-tournament championship game Friday, May 23.
