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Lysher of Longwood slated for surgery
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DAVID DRIVER
For the Stafford County Sun
Junior midfielder hopes to return to Lancers’ field hockey next month
Longwood field hockey standout and Stafford High School graduate Lindsey Lysher (left), battles an opponent in a game. Lysher, a junior mid-fielder, will face surgery before returning to the Lancers. COURTESY PHOTO/LONGWOOD
year in an 8-1 win over Appalachian State and also had an assist against Liberty. Another Stafford player at Longwood is starter Meghan O’Connor, a senior midfielder from North Stafford High School. She started 48 of the 60 games she played prior to her senior season. “She is having a great year so far. I love playing with her. She has a great sense of the game,” Lysher said. Lysher was a four-year starter at
Stafford and a two-time all-district, allregion and all-state player. She had 15 goals and 22 assists as a senior and had 32 career goals. She helped her team win a Northwest region title and Stafford made two trips to the state semifinals. Lysher, a business administration major, is the daughter of John and Carol Lysher. Her mother played field hockey at Longwood and her father played two years of football at Randolph-Macon
in Ashland and ran track for one year at Virginia Tech. Her brother, Jacob, ran track at VMI in Lexington. Longwood hosts Ball State on Oct. 2 in a MAC game. Towson hosts James Madison on Oct. 2 in a CAA contest. The JMU roster includes redshirt junior Bailee Hubert and senior forward Erin Husar of Stafford High School. David Driver can be reached at info@staffordcountysun.com.
Bicycle rally to be held at Curtis Park
A one-day bicycle rally will be held Oct. 11 at Curtis Memorial Park in Stafford. The 16th-annual Cannonball Century, sponsored by the Fredericksburg Cyclists Club, will offer participants a choice of 30-, 67- or 102-mile routes. The rides start and end at Curtis Park. Registration is from 7:30 to 9 a.m., with a cost of $60/rider. Participants under 12 are free. The ride will include
rest stops and a free lunch. Proceeds will benefit the Spotsylvania Greenways Initiative, the Spotsylvania YMCA, Ride 2 Recovery and the Dahlgren Heritage Rail to Trail. For more information and to register, visit bikefred.com/cannonball. Email Morgan Jenkins at himorgan1210@ gmail.com for more information. — Staff report
Two bicyclists pedal along at the 15th-annual Cannonball Century, held last year. This year’s bicycle rally will be held Oct. 11 at Curtis Memorial Park in Stafford. FILE PHOTO
STAFFORD COUNTY SUN • www.insidenova.com/news/stafford/ • Friday, October 2, 2015
Lindsey Lysher started 13 of 18 games and played in every contest last season for the field hockey team at Division I Longwood in Farmville. This year the Stafford High School graduate, as a third-year player for the Lancers, was expected to use her ballhandling skills and field awareness to aid a Longwood squad that was 10-12 during her freshman year in 2013. But the junior midfielder is slated to have surgery Oct. 1 in Richmond and could miss several weeks. “I tore my meniscus. I hope to get back this time next month,” Lysher said in a telephone interview Sept. 24. Lysher was injured Sept. 11 in a nonconference 2-1 win in suburban Baltimore against Towson, a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. The Tigers roster includes junior Morgan Skavdahl and sophomore Morgan Lowry of Mountain View High School. “I cut wrong. I didn’t really feel it at first,” Lysher said. “The next day it was swollen and I knew something was wrong. It’s not too bad. I’m just happy it is not worse.” She had two goals last year for Longwood and started the first four games this season for the Lancers, who won two of their first six games and were 0-1 in conference play. “We only lost two seniors,” she said. “Last year we were a really young team. This year we are really meshing well together. We have a pretty solid defense and the same returning midfield.” Lysher played in 19 games with two starts in 2013 as a freshman. She had her first collegiate goal Sept. 14 of that
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