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Local Teams Start with a Splash Hamlet, McLean Among Winners
A half dozen local teams in the Sun Gazette’s coverage areas won their meets SWIMMING opening in Northern Virginia Swimming League action on June 25, including the Chesterbrook Tiger Sharks and McLean Marlins in Division I. Below are highlights from NVSL meets that were sent to the Sun Gazette by various teams. n The McLean Marlins defeated the Wakefield Chapel Wahoos, 244-176, in Division 1. Double winners for McLean were Carrie Helfrich, Grant Watts, Anna Laszlo, Natalia Rongione, Victoria Valko, Skylar Tennant, Christopher Murphy and Joanne Fu. Single winners were Ayah Bedri, Caroline Watts, Derek Liu, Jack Watts, Maya Sharma, Charles Brooks, Atticus Gore, Olivia Gore, Dora Wu and Timothy Wu. n McLean’s Hamlet Green Feet downed Donaldson Run, 271.5-148.5, in Division 2. Double winners for Hamlet were Chase Bradshaw, Johnny Bradshaw, Ryan Bradshaw, Jenna Cai, Matthew Kang, Morgan Kass, Katie Mack, Alexander Montano, Matthew Newsom,
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Top: Hamlet’s David DiMeglio swims the boys age 15-18 breaststroke against Donaldson Run. Above: Hamlet’s Morgan Kass loses goggles in the girls 8-under free relay. PHOTOS BY DEB KOLT
Marshall Enjoys Best Season in Team History The Marshall Statesmen repeated as Capitol Conference champion this past spring season in boys lacrosse and finished with a 14-2 LACROSSE overall record, the best in the history of the high school program. In the conference tournament championship game, Marshall rallied with four late goals to nip the Edison Eagles, 12-11. Marshall’s season ended in the 5A North Region Tournament semifinals with a 12-10 loss to Briar Woods. When Kevin Curtin took over the Marshall team as head coach four years ago, the Statesmen had won only 11 games in the prior six seasons. Marshall was winless in Curtin’s first season, but 16
June 30, 2016
Those Quiet Parking Lots Will Soon Be Busy Again Such an empty feeling. It’s the case every year at this time when school ends for the summer break and the outdoor athletic venues at area high schools become eerily quiet during the afternoon.
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has improved each season since, going 36-23 in those four years. This spring, midfielders Chase Barrand and Mikey Briody were each named first-team all-region and allconference, while attack Andrew McDonald was second-team all-region and first-team all-conference. Goalie Justin Leibow and midfielder Josh Hurlburt were second-team all-conference. Marshall won its first six games of the season to start strong. Marshall’s top returners next season will be junior attack Ben Winicour, chosen first-team all-region and all-conference and the conference Player of the Year. Sophomore attack Erik Sahlgren was second-team all-conference and ju-
nior attack Liam Colwell and midfielders Noah Adler and John Hurley earned honorable mentions. Marshall also will be strong on the backline. Junior defenders Paul Plawin and Nick Gariepy were both secondteam all-region and first-team all-conference, while sophomore middie Shota Shiromizu was second-team all-conference and defender Nick Sherr received honorable mention. Seven players on this year’s team scored more than 20 points this season. The Virginia High School League’s 5A all-state team was announced last week. For Marshall, Briody, Barrand and Winicour were chosen to the second team.
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For proof, drive through most high school parking lots about 4 p.m. any weekday right now. The place will be so empty and still of activity and barren of anything that moves. There will be so few cars they can be counted on two hands, maybe three. Yellow school buses have been relocated to those big storage lots. The fields will be empty, because there are no more high school practices or games. The tracks and tennis courts are still, as well. Maybe a local resident will be walking or running the track, but often not. Just days earlier, any such high school venue at 4 p.m. was a bustling mix of humans and vehicles because of the active spring-time sports schedule. Fields were busy with practices for all outdoor spring sports. Various games were either underway or about to begin. Parking lots were a pay-attention, look-both-ways locale, with comings and goings from so many. All is quiet now. Through July, there are, and will continue to be, some evening activity on the high school baseball and softball fields, with teams from various leagues using the diamonds. Same with football-stadium fields. They remain active nearly year-round now with some type of adult-league contests or youth camps. The stillness around the high schools won’t last long. For many public schools in Virginia, classes don’t begin until Tuesday, Sept. 6. Practices for the fall sports, though, commence days earlier, right at the beginning of August. That’s when those high school parking lots will be bustling once again at 4 p.m. It won’t be long.
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