QUICKSBURG -- When Central upset Group A top-ranked Strasburg on Saturday, the Falcons fed off their ability to double-team Rams center Jenna Smoot and hold the senior to eight points.
QUICKSBURG -- If the key to winning is defense, then Central's boys basketball team appears to have what it takes to run deep into the postseason after an impressive performance against host Stonewall Jackson on Wednesday night.
STRASBURG -- Bobby Rager and Daniel Reynolds are always trying to make each other better. Every day at practice, the 119- and 125-pound Strasburg wrestlers are pushing each other, hoping to help each other improve with their skill sets.
Stonewall Jackson will stay; Central and Sherando will go -- at least for now. According to a press release issued by the Virginia High School League on Tuesday, the Redistricting and Reclassification Committee heard modification requests from the three schools regarding the VHSL's alignment plan for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school years.
QUICKSBURG - Strasburg's girls basketball team made it eight in a row on Tuesday, defeating Stonewall Jackson 58-37 in a game that was over before the end of the opening period.
QUICKSBURG - It took only a matter of seconds for Clarke County to establish its dominance over Stonewall Jackson on Monday in its boys basketball contest with the Generals. The Eagles used a fierce full-court press to force four General turnovers in the first two minutes of play to pull ahead by six. They road that success to a 64-22 victory over Stonewall Jackson.
The Falcons scored the first 11 points, had a 38-point lead by the break, and demolished Stonewall Jackson 70-23 Wednesday night in the Shenandoah District opener for both teams.
WOODSTOCK -- Motivational halftime speeches that turn defeat into victory are the things of legend in almost all sports, and on Wednesday in her team's Shenandoah District opener, Central girls basketball coach Stephanie Mathews must have given a good one.