FRONT ROYAL -- Four months after being announced as the head coach of Shenandoah University’s brand-new wrestling program, Tim McGuire has his first official signee.

FRONT ROYAL --Skyline’s boys basketball team has been in a rut lately and hasn’t been playing its best. However that changed Tuesday night.

FRONT ROYAL — Warren County girls basketball coach Randy Bush has been telling his team all season that they’re getting closer to playing their best and on Tuesday they did.

Strasburg has high hopes when its boys and girls swim teams compete in the Class 2 State Swimming Championships Thursday in Richmond.

You won’t catch as many fish as you do on spring and summer outings, but no time of year offers a better chance for trophy bass than late winter. You could well latch onto the fish of a lifetime now, with February and March being two of the top months of the year for citation-sized (8 pound)…

John Borst (Sherando ’17) continues to have a solid season for Virginia Tech’s wrestling program.

BEALETON -- Keagan Judd sees them every day, the boards hanging in Sherando’s wrestling room that list all of the program’s district, region and state champions.

STRASBURG -- Strasburg left no doubts as to which team was the strongest in the Region 2B Wrestling Championships on Saturday.

WOODSTOCK -- Central's girls basketball team ran into a buzzsaw on Friday night.

ASHBURN - The Region 3B wrestling championship came down to the final match of the tournament between defending champion Brentsville and Skyline.

STEPHENS CITY — Last weekend’s Class 4 Northwestern District wrestling tournament provided Sherando head coach Brian Kibler with a breath of relief and validated all the work the Warriors had done in the practice room in the weeks leading up to that point.

STRASBURG – At the start of the wrestling season, Strasburg first-year head coach and former grappler Daniel Reynolds said his goal was to get the Rams back to championship caliber. Strasburg cruised to the Bull Run District title last weekend and could cross another item off its checklist t…

STEPHENS CITY — Sherando got off to a strong start and didn’t look back on Thursday night.

WINCHESTER — Sherando’s boys basketball team, which had tested Millbrook twice in a pair of two-possession losses during the regular season, held a lead at halftime of Thursday’s Class 4 Northwestern District tournament quarterfinal game against the top-seeded Pioneers. A decisive Millbrook …

Stonewall Jackson and Strasburg’s girls basketball teams are already in regionals, but each team would like nothing better than to add a trophy and gain some momentum when they play in the Bull Run District tournament.

FRONT ROYAL — Skyline’s wrestling team has been aiming high all season long, and junior Tyler Davis said the Hawks’ have been “all business” in the practice room since Day 1. With the postseason officially here, it sounds like the Hawks are zeroed in as they hunt the program’s first regional…

For Stonewall Jackson’s boys basketball team, the Bull Run District tournament trophy is all they have to play for. For Strasburg’s boys basketball team, it’s a chance to continue playing at the high level they’ve been at for the last few weeks.

STRASBURG -- Things couldn't have gone better for Strasburg's boys basketball team on its senior night.

STEPHENS CITY -- Sherando’s boys and girls basketball teams play in the Class 4 Northwestern District tournament quarterfinals today and both squads have reason to be optimistic.

FRONT ROYAL -- Warren County’s boys basketball team led by as many as 16 points in the third period of Tuesday’s Class 3 Northwestern District contest against Manassas Park, but the Wildcats let slip the chance to snag their third straight win.

WINCHESTER -- Shenandoah University’s baseball program set the bar high for this year’s squad by winning back-to-back Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament titles in 2018 and 2019. But lofty expectations are the norm for the Hornets under longtime head coach Kevin Anderson, and senior …

STRASBURG – Strasburg’s swim team made history last week – twice.

As hunting seasons wind to a close, it’s a good time to think about new gear that might be useful for next year’s outings here in the Shenandoah Valley or adventures out of state or even out of the country. Here’s a rundown on some of the latest new hunting equipment companies have unveiled …

The Region 2B and Region 3B boys and girls basketball tournaments will be starting over the next two weeks and both regions use a power-point system to determine seedings, but they do it in different ways. The systems are used for all team sports, except football.

STRASBURG — Nyla Sperry has been around basketball most of her life.

WINCHESTER -- Keagan Judd's stellar season continued on Saturday.

FRONT ROYAL -- Central boys basketball coach Jeff Whittle wanted to see one main thing from his team on Friday -- a strong defensive game. Whittle got his wish.

STRASBURG -- Seniors stepped up for Strasburg’s girls basketball team in their final home regular season game of the year, propelling them to a 54-52 win over Stonewall Jackson in overtime.

QUICKSBURG -- Strasburg wrestling coach Daniel Reynolds said two days before the Bull Run District tournament that he felt the Rams had as good a shot as any to leave Stonewall Jackson High School with the championship trophy. Sending 10 wrestlers into the finals on Saturday afternoon made S…

WOODSTOCK -- Skyline’s and Central’s girls basketball teams each were in the bottom half of the Region 3B power-point standings last week, but the two programs are trending in opposite directions as the regular season nears its end.

STEPHENS CITY — Sherando wrestling coach Brian Kibler has mentioned it on many occasions, how tough the Class 4 Northwestern District is and how it holds status as one of the toughest districts in the entire state at the Class 4 level.

The Bull Run District wrestling tournament isn’t an elimination tournament, meaning all eligible wrestlers automatically advance to next weekend’s Region 2B Championships. There are still a few things at stake, though.

QUICKSBURG — Mya Councill, Annika Dellinger and Bree Franklin may be freshmen but they are no strangers to Stonewall Jackson’s girls basketball program.

FRONT ROYAL -- You could look at Brennan Komelasky’s 2019-20 season with Warren County’s wrestling team and think that it’s the junior’s time to really show what he can do in the postseason.