The scores were nearly identical but the manner of victories were different for the Oakton Cougars in their first two games of the 2019-20 girls high-school basketball season.
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The Yorktown Patriots lost to the host Westfield Bulldogs, 35-7, on Nov. 30 in the championship game of the 6D North Region high-school football tournament.
For 41 years, Don Tillson was a constant at Bishop O’Connell High School as a physical education teacher, a track and field coach and perhaps best known as the head athletic trainer.
At halftime of a home football game against the rival Langley Saxons, McLean High School recently announced and recognized the 2019 inductees into the school’s Sports Hall of Fame.
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- Dec. 2 high school boys basketball roundup: Gar-Field beats Stonewall Jackson in overtime
- VHSL high school football state semifinal pairings/schedule
- PHOTOS: Yorktown football playoff scenes
- Rating the football seasons
- Patriot’s Zack Blue finds refuge on the basketball court following the loss of his sister Ashley
- VHSL high school football region final scoreboard
- Yorktown's season ends in region final
- Long scoring drives key Patriots' success
- Patriots face defending champs in region final
- Local briefs: Patriot's Victoria Haugen, Hylton football coach Tony Lilly receive honors
- Madison ties Langley in ice hockey
- Flint Hill athletes sign college letters
- PHOTOS: Madison vs. Yorktown football
- River Bend golf pro promoted
- Final 2019 high school football rushing, passing, receiving, scoring leaders
- Arlington sports briefs
- Panthers win state tennis title
- A winning fall at Potomac School
- Woodbridge's Antoine Sampah one of five finalists for Butkus Award
- Three Madeira athletes sign
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Before Prince William County public schools fully integrated in 1966, African Americans competed in football in Prince William County as far back as 1915 for the Manassas Industrial School.
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