Division 6 Semifinal Preview: Ocean Lakes vs. Hylton
The Eastern Region faces off against the Northwest Region today as C.D. Hylton travels to the Virginia Beach Sportsplex to face our hometown Ocean Lakes Dolphins.
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Coach’s Corner: Darnell
In the City of Portsmouth in the 1980’s and 1990’s, if the topic of coaching high school football were to surface, two names were bound to pop up, the late great Joe Langston of I.C Norcom High School and Darnell Moore of Woodrow Wilson High School on Willett Drive. In Portsmouth, being a hard working city, residents didn’t have all that much, but we had our football.
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Charity Bowl Returns Friday Night
The 45th Annual Toyota Charity Bowl kicks off on Friday night as an event that’s bigger than ever. The game got its start as a sandlot game between friends on Thanksgiving Day. Gradually, the game grew until it became a formal event, pitting former high school stars against each other for a good cause.
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Coach’s Corner: The Importance of Reflection
Like many other playoff teams, our season came to an abrupt end with our second round playoff loss. As I looked across the empty field before boarding the bus home, my mind was stuck on two things. One, if we had won the game, how much farther could we have gone? And, two, I can’t believe it’s over and these seniors will be moving on. Losing a playoff game is the toughest type of loss, because it all ends right there.
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Regional Final Photos Online
While we’re all looking forward to Saturday’s State Semifinal games, take a moment to look back on last Friday night’s games in photos, courtesy of recruit757.com. We have photo galleries of Ocean Lakes’ win over Oscar Smith, Lake Taylor’s win over Phoebus, and a few photos from Franklin’s big win over Alta Vista.
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Coach’s Corner: Excellence, Part One
Western Branch Head Coach Greg Gibson focuses on themes while coaching, and one of his themes is on excellence. There’s so much content in his presentation on excellence, that we’re breaking it up into five parts. There’s a lot to cover, and here’s the first taste…
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VT Visit Sparks More College Attention For Santiago
Grafton wide receiver Jesse Santiago is closing in on a college decision. College interest in the wideout is expanding and that’s making the final weeks of the recruiting process ever more difficult for him. According to Grafton Head Coach Jared Van Acker, college coaches are making the high school a busy place these days.
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ECU To Move To Big East In 2014
The new football rivalry between Old Dominion and East Carolina may be over before it starts. The Big East announced today the addition of Tulane for all sports and East Carolina for football only beginning in 2014. It’s a long awaited jump for the Pirates and a disappointment for the Monarchs as ECU had been the program most supportive of ODU’s move up to C-USA.
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757 Trio Vaults Into State Semis
…and then there were three…. The 757 has three undefeated teams that enter this weekend as favorites for a title run. Ocean Lakes, Lake Taylor and Franklin have all navigated the year without a blemish on their records. All three have plans to finish that way.
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All-Region I Team
This weekend marked the end of the season for our Region I representatives. The Bay Rivers District was very competitive again this year, with Smithfield rising to the occasion and outlasting all of the others in the District. The Packers lost to Courtland on Saturday, but still have several players representing the program on the All-Region I team.
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