CHARLOTTESVILLE -- The results of the Virginia High School League redistricting and reclassification hearing, held Monday morning, were surprising, if not unprecedented.
STEPHENS CITY -- Sherando's Chris Gray pitched a complete-game shutout on Monday to lead the Warriors to a 5-0 baseball victory over Washington (W.Va.).
STEPHENS CITY -- When there's someone on first base, Derek Reid is watching. He's crouched down behind the plate, lurking just 90 feet away, studying the runner's every move.
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- With 44 points, Sherando finished well short of Hedgesville's (W.Va.) meet-winning 105 points in a quad at Washington High School (W.Va.). Washington took second (59 points) and Berkeley Springs (W.Va.) finished last (41).
STEPHENS CITY -- The swing of emotion a player experiences from being down a goal with seven minutes left to play, to squeezing out a 3-2 win over a district rival, as Sherando did against Millbrook on Tuesday evening, is immeasurable.
WINCHESTER -- Sherando High School's softball team spent the first five innings Tuesday afternoon knocking on the door. The Warriors finally kicked it in by scoring six times over the last two innings to pull away for a 7-2 Northwestern District victory over host Millbrook.
WINCHESTER -- Maybe it was fitting that a wild pitch swung the outcome of Tuesday night's wild and woolly Northwestern District baseball matchup between Sherando and Millbrook.
"Talk to me." University of Virginia quarterback Ross Metheny looked both excited and exhausted. Only minutes following U.Va.'s annual spring game, which pitted the Orange team against the Blue team in a controlled scrimmaged, Scott Stadium hummed with enthusiasm over Metheny, the former Sherando star who'd just picked apart the Cavaliers' second-string defense.
STEPHENS CITY -- Friday night's boys soccer game between James Wood and Sherando was the type of game local soccer fans have come to expect. It was a physical, emotional game played by two teams determined to win.
WINCHESTER -- Sherando, six games into its season, is still a developing team, though its 5-1 win over James Wood on Friday might suggest something to the contrary.
WINCHESTER -- Hoodies, knit caps and blankets were prevalent among the spectators and the players wore sweat suits against the brisk wind-chill conditions.
STEPHENS CITY -- To the casual fan watching Zach Carney pitch Friday night, it would be hard to believe that the Sherando left-hander was still searching for his first win.
STEPHENS CITY -- People often wonder just how nervous athletes get before a match. In wrestling, it can sometimes be hard to tell. Wrestlers are always moving around, never standing still enough to notice whether they're shaking in their shoes.
STEPHENS CITY -- With the way Sherando junior Krista DeCeault danced from touchline to touchline -- the soccer ball, as if secured by a string, never skipping more than a yard past her cleat -- it seemed preordained that DeCeault was to put on a dazzling display of game-winning heroics.
STEPHENS CITY -- The beauty of a through-ball becomes evident when the pass lives up to its namesake -- when the ball wiggles its way through a defense to an open clearing on the pitch.
BERRYVILLE -- Pitcher Amanda Lutz didn't quite know what to expect from her sore shoulder. Neither did Sherando High School first-year softball coach Garry Sawyer.
BERRYVILLE -- Last season, it wasn't all there for Levi McDonald. Slotted in Sherando's rotation as the team's sixth or even seventh option at times, the pitcher saw almost no action on the mound.
STEPHENS CITY -- Last year, Sherando's boys tennis team wasn't sure what to expect when the Warriors advanced to the Region II final against eventual Group AA state champion Western Albemarle. Sherando lost the match, 5-0. This season, a year older and a year wiser, the team feels ready to take the next step.
STEPHENS CITY -- The Sherando Warriors girls soccer team, defending Northwestern District tournament champion, has graduated 40 goals and 41 assists. The graduation of keeper Rachael Shirley means the loss of 63 saves and 10 shutouts; the Warriors lose another six assists because of non-returning players.
STEPHENS CITY -- Sherando baseball coach Pepper Martin knows this season will be different than years past. After powering their way through last year off the bats of Nick Merchant and Curry Clevenger, the Warriors must now set their sights on another approach, one that will hopefully see some "fast results."
BEALETON -- Sitting on the sideline, Sherando senior James Bowens watched. He watched as his Warriors warmed up for their Region II, Division 4 showdown with Liberty; he watched as his Warriors played cold through the first eight minutes; he watched as his Warriors lost 53-37.
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