Generals Blank the Rebels for Second Straight Victory DAVE FACINOLI Staff Writer
The Washington-Lee Generals were a shutout winner Oct. 14 in Liberty Conference high school football action.
FOOTBALL ROUNDUP Washington-Lee (3-4, 2-2) routed the host and winless Fairfax Rebels, 45-0, for its second win in a row. The Generals took control early, leading 21-0 after one quarter, 27-0 at halftime and 35-0 after three. “Our defense looked its best this season,” W-L coach Josh Shapiro said. “They established the line of scrimmage, got to the ball and were making plays.” In the opening period, W-L quarter-
said. Parks had a 59-yard punt return for a TD waved off because of a penalty. Overall, he had three touchdowns called back because of penalties. On defense, the Generals got early tackles for losses from Tony Auguste (one sack) and Elvis Granados. n In Capitol Conference action Oct. 14, the host Wakefield Warriors (1-6, 12) lost to the Stuart Raiders, 28-14. Stuart returned the game’s opening kickoff 76 yards for a touchdown and to be on its way. Stuart led 28-0, before Wakefield scored two late fourth-quarter touchdowns with the help of recovering an onside kick. Wakefield quarterback Colton
Poythress was 11 of 22 passing for 92 yards and threw touchdown passes to Erik Howard of three and five yards. Nick Stiller kicked the extra points. Rodney Lee had 43 yards rushing. David Baron had four catches for 36 yards and Lamont McDowell, George Brooks and Howard each caught two passes. James Clark had an interception for Wakefield. Jose Montes, Sebastian Solorazano and Xavier Taylor had fumble recoveries. n In private-school action Oct. 15, the host Bishop O’Connell Knights (2-5) lost to Bishop Sullivan, 46-0. The loss was O’Connell’s third in a row. Sullivan finished second in the state at the Division II level last season.
FIELD HOCKEY: With their regular seasons complete, the Yorktown Patriots (7-8) and Washington-Lee Generals (511) enter play in the Liberty Conference Tournament this week. Yorktown routed Hayfield, 7-0, in one of its final games. Allison Loranger and Sydney McMahon scored two goals each, Laura Koskin had a goal and
three assists, and Katie Calvo and Rebecca Joskow had goals. Yorktown lost Madison in its final game. Washington-Lee (5-11) blanked Hayfield, 3-0, in its final regular-season match. n The Wakefield Warriors had a 9-6-1 record entering this week’s Capitol Conference Tournament. Wakefield lost to Edison, 1-0, and defeated Jefferson, 1-0, in overtime on a goal by Lucy Greenfield in its last two regular-season games. Shannon Kelly made five saves in the
win over Jefferson. In the tournament, Wakefield will be the No. 3 seed and was scheduled to play No. 6 seed Falls Church in the first round. The Bishop O’Connell Knights placed 18th in the girls varsity A division at the Milestat. com Invitational in Mechanicsville on Oct. 15. Isabell Baltimore was 33rd for O’Connell (19:00) and Maddie Fleenor 50th (19:07) for O’Connell.
yards for a TD in the fourth quarter. Fellow halfback Marc Geinzer had 14 carries for 68 yards. Wall passed three yards to Paul Dalzell for another Yorktown score. The quarterback ran for a five-yard TD and a two-
point conversion. Dalzell caught three passes for 24 yards. Adam Luncher had three of Yorktown’s five interceptions, including one he returned for a touchdown. Patterson had the other interception. Luncher
booted three extra points. McLean quarterback Carter Govan completed 7 of 19 passes for 68 yards. Gavin Legg and Omar Varela each caught three passes. Tight end Robert Konnick caught two passes.
back Ricardo Mestre threw scoring passes of 40 and 33 yards to Aaron Sydnor and Quinn Parks, and Todd Dickerson returned a blocked punt 10 yards for a touchdown. Chris Palacios kicked three extra points. Later, he added a 40-yard field goal. For the game, Mestre was 15 of 20 passing for 329 yards and two TD passes. Nick Miller had seven catches for 71 yards, Parks four for 166 and Sydnor two for 55. Jabari Johnson led Washington-Lee with 51 yards rushing and a TD and Larry Carpenter had 33 yards and a score. Mestre has thrown for 1,755 yards so far this season and 17 touchdowns. “He gets better every snap,” Shapiro
High School Roundup GOLF: Golfers from Wakefield, Wash-
ington-Lee and Yorktown high schools played in a qualifying round at Twin Lakes Golf Course in Clifton earlier this week, hoping to advance to the Virginia High School League’s Girls State Open. One player who will not be advancing to the state is Yorktown’s Bridget Hart, who played in the tournament last year and did well. Hart is recovering from mononucleosis. The school was unsuccessful in its attempt to petition the region and VHSL to allow her to play in
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the state. Two of Hart’s teammates trying to qualify were Lauren Mead and Lacey McCormack.
County Meet Continued from Page 24 day began. Jackson led most of the race, and Whitehouse pulled away in the final mile. “It was a tough, hard race,” Jackson said. “I had not run a race in a couple of weeks. Then I got lost on this course a couple of times. I was definitely out there to win.” Whitehouse said her plan was to stay with the top runners, then make her move late. “I knew there was a possibility I could win,” Whitehouse said. “I had a good start. Running with them made me work hard, they pushed me and I ran through the pain and was able to pull away.” The W-L boys had the top three finishers and five in the top nine. James Gusmer was second (18:04), Marco Viola third (18:09), Luke Anzaldi seventh and Brendan Dunn ninth (18:41). “This is a very strong group of runners, and they wanted to win this again,” W-L coach Bill Drake said. The Wakefield Warriors had their
The O’Connell girls gather after winning the 2016 county meet.
best finish in years in the boys race, taking second with 60 points. Bryce Austin was fourth (18:18), Louis Delcore eighth (18:41), Nahom Ayele 10th (18:47), Amanuel Haileselaisse 15th (19:11) and Kaleb Boswinkle 23rd (19:44). The O’Connell boys were third with 67, Yorktown fourth with 70. For O’Connell, Luke Brinkman placed fifth (18:20), Alex Dudley 12th (19:03) and Michael Hails 13th (19:11). For Yorktown, Michael Finn was
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sixth (18:25), Gavin Middelton 11th (18:54) and Reese Shuttleworth 14th (19:11). The champion O’Connell girls had five runners place in the top 14, led by runner-up Isabell Baltimore in (20:25). She also was second in last year’s race. O’Connell’s Maddie Fleenor was fourth (20:43), Maeve Marsh fifth (21:55), Allie Boboltz 11th (22:26) and Maggie Flood 14th (22:41). Ryley Howard would have been among the top
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runners, but dropped out at the twomile mark with a leg issue. “We have an incredible pack of girls who can run together,” O’Connell coach Cindy Walls said. “They ran real hard today. We got enough runners in front of Yorktown and Washington-Lee’s fifth runners. That’s what we wanted to do.” Yorktown and W-L tied with 43 points, but Yorktown earned second because its sixth runner finished higher than Washington-Lee’s. For Yorktown, Lillian Harp was seventh (22:01), Julia Sachs eighth (22:13), Cate Spirgel 10th (22:19), Kathleen Hindman 17th (23:44) and Savannah Landefeld 18th (23:54). For the W-L girls, Evan Smith-Perry was third (20:40), Anna Harpel sixth (21:58), Zoe Cachion ninth (22:17), Caitlin Cunningham 12th (22:31) and Lucy Robinson 13th (22:31). The Wakefield girls did not have enough runners for a team score. Wakefield’s Sara Fuentes was the team’s top runner in 35th. See a slideshow from the meet at www.insidenova.com/sports/arlington and full results at www.runwashington. com. October 20, 2016 25