STRASBURG – Justin Day was able to keep his composure on the mound Thursday.

WINCHESTER -- Colt Scott waited four years for the phone call, the one that would inform him that he was granted a chance to compete on “American Ninja Warrior.”

FRONT ROYAL – Savannah Haffer had been in a slump for Warren County’s softball team but on Wednesday night she came out of it at just the right time.

STEPHENS CITY – Tucker Myers has steadily made his way up Sherando’s boys tennis lineup.

FRONT ROYAL – Wednesday’s loss to James Wood was one of the few exceptions, but Warren County’s baseball team has had few qualms about 2019 as it hits the halfway point of the season.

NASCAR may have the weekend off for Easter, but you can get your racing fix at local tracks.

STEPHENS CITY – It was a typical Sherando-Handley boys soccer game on Tuesday night.

WOODSTOCK — Massanutten Military Academy postgraduate basketball players Dereon Seabron, Brandon Suggs and Jarvis Vaughan each gave their verbal pledges to college suitors back in January. Those three have made official their college hoops destinations.

FRONT ROYAL — Bailey Grant has been dreaming of running for a Division 1 school since he started high school. On Wednesday, his dream officially came true.

WOODSTOCK – Central’s boys soccer team gets a bit of an extended spring break while not scheduled to return to action until April 23 against Clarke County. The Falcons made sure they took some momentum into their layoff.

FRONT ROYAL – Warren County’s defense held strong for over 25 minutes of Monday night’s contest with James Wood.

STRASBURG — Kyierra Ashby was in seventh grade and a member of the Signal Knob Middle School track and field team the last time she’d competed in the hurdles.

Spring turkey hunting is tough.

QUICKSBURG — What started out as family bonding turned into a love of the game for Leigha Kagey.

STEPHENS CITY — Jessica Poole knew right away Alderson Broaddus University was the place for her.

STEPHENS CITY — Sherando girls soccer coach Rob Kilmer has been waiting all season to see his team play up to its potential, and on Thursday night they delivered.

STEPHENS CITY – It hasn’t really mattered how it’s needed to be done.

WOODSTOCK – Even though the match ended with the same result, Central’s girls soccer team was pleased with the improvements they saw on Wednesday night.

The NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series race at Bristol, Tennessee last weekend was the best Cup race of the year.

FRONT ROYAL - For most of the game Warren County hung with undefeated Brentsville, but a few errors in the last two innings proved costly.

FRONT ROYAL — Warren County softball coach Ted McDaniel has been around the sport long enough to know that a good pitcher can do wonders for a team.

FRONT ROYAL — When she was an eighth-grader Aimee Rich looked up to Warren County girls tennis standout and 2016 graduate Jayme Goode. Now three years later, Rich is playing in Goode’s spot and trying to be a role model for younger players as well.

STRASBURG — Momentum played a big part in Strasburg’s baseball win over Stonewall Jackson on Monday.

STEPHENS CITY — Skyline boys soccer coach Steve Carey said the Hawks talked in pregame about owning the first 20 minutes of Monday’s match against Sherando. It took all of 70 seconds for the Warriors to take control in what would end in a 6-1 Warrior victory.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Now that, Virginia, is the way to close out a season.

Last week’s column looked into some of the rewards and attractions of hunting for antlers that deer have dropped in late winter. But besides the fun and internal satisfaction it provides, hunting antlers has practical benefits as well. It can also make you a better hunter. It does this by sh…

WINCHESTER -- When Tristan Baker heard his name mentioned to teammate Luke Nussman, the Shenandoah University senior second baseman moved to step out of the press box at Bridgeforth Field so that Nussman could speak freely about his fellow Hornet.

FRONT ROYAL -- Kayle Taylor didn’t play in the starting lineup much at all on Skyline’s girls tennis squad her first two years, but she did play exhibition matches for the Hawks and that playing time proved valuable.

FRONT ROYAL — Jackson Arnold could’ve been a little timid when he returned to the mound during the American Legion baseball season last summer and no one would’ve blamed him.

WINCHESTER – The outfield fence lining Bridgeforth Field highlights the success Shenandoah University’s baseball team has enjoyed in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, with banners commemorating the four straight ODAC regular-season titles the Hornets won between 2014 and 2017 and their t…

STRASBURG — Warren County started off a little slow on Thursday night but once the bats came to life, everyone got in on the action