With a 5-4 victory over top-seed and previously undefeated St. Catherine’s of Richmond in the championship match, the second-seeded Potomac School Panthers won their first state tennis tournament championship in program history.
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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.
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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- Final 2019 high school football rushing, passing, receiving, scoring leaders
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- A winning fall at Potomac School
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- 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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