After six weeks on the road, the Westmoreland High football team found itself playing in the friendly confines of the Eagle’s Nest in Montross Friday night. Putting up impressive offensive numbers, the Eagles built a 21-0 lead and held off a late Colonial Beach surge for a 35-24 victory over their arch-rivals. The result in the Northern Neck District contest […]
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Lee Takes To Airwaves To Visit Tappahannock
Editor’s Note: The following story is reprinted with permission from Cardinal News. It was written proir to last week’s Virginia High School League Class 1 and Class 2 state tournaments held at Hobbs Hole Golf Course in Tappahannock. Three members of the Lee County golf team boarded a Beechcraft King Air 350 twin-engine jet in Jonesville around 10 a.m. on […]
Auburn, Graham Win State Golf Crowns
Hobbs Hole Golf Course in Tappahannock finished a successful three-day run as the host of the Virginia High School League Class 1 and 2 state tournament. A total of 120 players and their coaches arrived here the weekend of October 11- 12 to participate in the tournaments which were held in windy and overcast conditions on October 13 and 14. […]
Robinson’s Safety Sparks UVA’s Victory Over Washington State
Virginia’s Kam Robinson and Hunter Osborne stuffed Kirby Vorhees in the end zone for a game-winning safety, sending the No. 18 Cavaliers to a wild 22-20 victory over Washington State on Saturday night. “I just came through the line,” Robinson said. “I really didn’t know. All I know was, get the ball down as fast as I could. Even if […]
Trojans Win Big On Homecoming, 68-14
A two-week layoff and a one hour delay before kickoff didn’t bother the Essex High football team one bit Friday night. The Trojans sent a homecoming crowd of about 1,100 home happy as they trounced Westmoreland 68-14 in the Northern Neck District opener for both teams. The 54-point differential was the most lopsided Essex victory in the series that dates […]
Raiders Survive Northumberland Upset Bid, 21-20
An injury-riddled Rappahannock football team managed to hold off an upset bid by Northumberland Thursday night as the Raiders blocked a potential game winning field goal attempt on the next-to-last-play to pull out a 21-20 Northern Neck District victory over the Indians. The contest was the NND opener for both teams. Rappahannock, the defending NND champs, improved to 5-1 overall, […]
Essex To Face Rappahannock Saturday
The place to be late Saturday afternoon is 6914 Richmond Road in Warsaw. That’s the address for Rappahannock High School which will host a huge Northern Neck District football encounter as Essex visits the Raiders. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. Saturday’s winner will get the upper-hand in claiming home field advantage throughout the Region 1A playoffs. Essex (5-0) is […]
National High School Activities Month Celebrated
The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) has launched the 45th annual celebration of National High School Activities Month (formerly Activities Week), and the need for leaders in communities throughout the nation to understand the importance and value of high school sports and other activities has never been stronger. In fact, the NFHS has embarked on a special […]
A Jewish Pioneer Who Made Baseball Worse
Mark Blomberg, baseball’s first designated hitter, grew up in Atlanta where hearing anti-Semitic slurs was a way of his young live. Blomberg’s childhood dream of playing for the New York Yankees and in front of the Bronx’s large Jewish population came true when the Yankees made Blomberg its’ first free agent choice in 1967. Said Blomberg, “To be able to […]
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