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VIRGINIA AAA BOYS’ SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP
Battlefield’s run ends in finals Early goals spoil
COX
Bobcats’ unlikely trip to title match
by B.J. Koubaroulis
Battlefield’s improbable run through the Virginia AAA boys’ soccer tournament ended in the final with a 2-1 loss to defending state champion Cox at Westfield on Saturday. The Bobcats (17-4-2) shocked Richmond power Deep Run, 3-0, in Friday’s semifinals, and the victory sent the Haymarket pro- gram into its first state final. But Battlefield fell short against Cox of Virginia Beach, the top-ranked team in the nation according to ESPN Rise. “They just outplayed us and
RICHARD A. LIPSKI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Battlefield’s Adam Clements, right, scored a second-half goal but the Bobcats couldn’t muster a comeback. VIRGINIA GIRLS’ LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIP
they were just a different level of opponent,” Battlefield Coach Ott Pimsaen said of the Falcons, who came into the game having out- scored their opponents, 94-9.
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Doing his part: Battlefield junior goalie Jack Eaton had four saves.
Cox (25-0) dominated the first
half, owning possession and out- shooting the Bobcats, 18-3, with six shots on goal. Battlefield man- aged just one shot on goal. Falcons junior defender Chris Albiston blasted a 25-yard left- footer into the upper left corner for a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute. Cox forward Drew Hartell weaved his way through traffic and slipped a left-footed shot from eight yards out past two de- fenders and the goalkeeper for a 2-0 lead in the 24th minute. Battlefield senior forward Ad-
am Clements broke through a crowd of Cox defenders and chipped a 12-yarder over the goal- keeper to cut Cox’s lead to 2-1 in the 54th minute. That goal — Clements’s 13th of the season — breathed life into Battlefield, but
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the Falcons returned to their pos- session style to fend off any Bat- tlefield attempt at a comeback. “We came out to play, but it was kind of obvious — they had more talent than we did,” Clements said. “With what we had, to get this far is good. So, hopefully we can keep our heads up.” The Falcons sported a roster full of college recruits, including Hartell (Virginia Tech), midfield- ers Trey Saunders and Eric Bird (16 goals) — a pair of Virginia re- cruits — and defender Ryan Oakes, a two-time All-American bound for Old Dominion. After downing Deep Run — ESPN Rise’s No. 2 ranked team — in Friday’s semifinals, Battlefield was not intimidated. But the Bob- cats, who got two goals from jun- ior Troy Allaire and one from Clements in the semifinal victory over Deep Run, struggled offen- sively. Cox’s possession style took away many opportunities and made the Bobcats suffer after missed chances.
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JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST W.T. Woodson’s Laura Dunn, center, has her shot disrupted from behind by Western Albemarle’s Abbey Wheeler. The Warriors are the first non-Northern Virginia team to win a girls’ state lacrosse championship.
Cavaliers put on late rally, but fall short in title game 14
W.T. Woodson’s fast start erased by Warriors in late scoring spree
by Paul Tenorio It took just three minutes for
the atmosphere to change com- pletely for W.T. Woodson in the Virginia girls’ lacrosse state championship Saturday night at Westfield. For 31 minutes, the Cavaliers led Western Albemarle. Then,
suddenly, they didn’t. The War- riors went on a 165-second bar- rage and Woodson trailed by four. Yet as they had done early in the year, when senior Rachel Obre- gon said the team overcame rough patches and quickly “clicked,” W.T. Woodson did not collapse. Instead, the Cavaliers (16-5) fought back to tie it with just un- der nine minutes left and then nearly overcame a three-goal def- icit in the final three minutes be- fore falling, 14-13. “We fought back up after we had a time out,” said Obregon,
VIRGINIA AAA TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS Yorktown’s Flickinger rallies to win singles title, later adds doubles crown
Deep Run’s Koontz capture’s boys’ singles, doubles championships
by Gabrielle Bluestone Emily Flickinger became the
first Yorktown player to win a state tennis title when she cap- tured the AAA singles crown Sat- urday morning at Jefferson. Sat- urday afternoon, she and team- mate Esu Erdenebat won the
school’s second piece of tennis hardware, taking the doubles ti- tle.
Flickinger, a junior All-Met,
beat Warwick’s Maureen Slattery in singles, rallying from a set down for a 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 win. She changed tactics after the first set, relying more on her ground- strokes and staying on the base- line. The strategy paid off, as she seized control, running Slattery around the court. “I wasn’t moving well, I wasn’t
playing aggressively,” Flickinger said. “In the second set I hit more
“I said to both of them, ‘I hope
Boys’ A team result: George Mason defeated Radford, 5-1, to win the Virginia A boys’ tennis final. The Mustangs got singles wins from Kan Tagami (6-3, 6-1), Sam Water (6-4, 6-1), Jay Rodock (6-1, 6-1) and Eric Gemond (7-6 [7-1], 6-1), as well as a doubles win from Tagami and Rodock (6-1, 1-0, retired). Girls’ A individual result: In the doubles portion of the Virginia A girls’ tennis tournament in Radford, George Mason’s tandem of Kelsey Kane and Claire Sedmak dropped a 6-1, 6-4 decision to Grace Sarver and Kirby Mustard of Bland County.
shots and started playing.” Flickinger and Erdenebat
didn’t have as much trouble in the doubles, poaching and volleying their way to a 6-3, 6-0 victory over
Mills Godwin’s Nicole Parker and Kelly Stewart. But despite their triumph at states, neither player will have a chance to celebrate — USTA responsibilities await.
you’re going to go and party to- night.’ They both said in unison, ‘We have a tournament tomor- row,’” Yorktown Coach Natalie Roy said.
Deep Run junior Hunter
Koontz also took home two titles, beating Stonewall Jackson senior Jimmy Davis, 6-4, 7-5, in singles, then pairing with Evan Charles to beat Jefferson’s Edwin Zhang and Spencer Clark, 6-7 (7-4), 6-4, 6-2. Though Koontz was often forced to employ a slow, high sec- ond serve, the All-Met Davis had
trouble attacking the ball and al- lowed Koontz to dominate the play. The match was character- ized by deep, baseline rallies. “[Davis] favors his forehand, and I know that because we’ve played so many times before,” Koontz said. Jefferson Coach John Myers conceded it was Deep Run’s year on the boys’ side of the draw. “They won the team title, they won the individual singles match, and they won the doubles,” Myers said. “They just did it all this year.”
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WESTERN ALBEMARLE
W.T. WOODSON 13
A first:Western Albemarle became the first non-Northern Region team to win the Virginia girls’ lacrosse state title.
Sister, sister: After the game, W.T. Woodson Coach Meaghan O’Leary talked about how close her team was in part because it has three pairs of sisters: Rachel and Elena Obregon, Michelle and Devon Montgomery and Victoria and Melissa Vinall.
who scored four goals. “And we were like, ‘We’re not going to let this go. We worked too hard to let it go now.’ So we just worked our hardest to get back up and they just were stronger after that.” The Cavaliers had appeared in control for much of the first half, jumping to an early 2-0 lead and then holding a 5-4 advantage at intermission.
But it took just 12 seconds for
Western Albemarle (17-2) to tie the game at the start of the sec- ond half before the Warriors went on that quick, four-goal run to go up, 10-6. Four Warriors
scored in the stretch. The onslaught was finally stemmed when Woodson’s Shelly Montgomery scored, and after pulling to within 11-8 the Cava- liers went on their own run spurred by Obregon, who scored with 10 minutes 31 seconds re- maining to start a three-goal spurt that was capped when freshman Laura Dunn tied things with 8:52 to play. “Our thing is whenever we get down we just try to play like it’s zero-zero and start over,” senior Emily Whitman said. “So we try to play each draw like it’s zero-
zero and the game starts up again, so that was the key to get- ting back up when we were down.” Western Albemarle opened the lead up to three again with 3:42 remaining, but Woodson still would not go away. Behind Whit- man’s draw controls and goals from Obregon and her younger sister, sophomore Elena Obre- gon, the Warriors’ furious come- back drew them within one goal, but they could get no closer.
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