by Chris Hopkins, recruit757 Ocean Lakes opened defense of their 6A State Title with a convincing win over Western Branch, 49 – 21, at Kellam High School Friday night. The Dolphins showed many different looks throughout the evening, rotating quarterbacks and spreading the ball to a number of running backs. Consequently, the Bruins defense was…
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by James Benn, recruit757 The Grassfield Grizzlies fought back and overcame key fourth quarter mistakes on Friday night to defeat the Woodside Wolverines in Double OT 34-27. Woodside got the scoring going early with a Tyhier Tyler 15-yard quarterback keeper to take the early 7-0 lead. After 2 exchanges of possession, Woodside shanked a punt…
Detailsby Tamara Brown, recruit757 Kecoughtan High School’s long time coach Ivan Thomas retired last season after 6 years at the school. The Warriors were 127-60 under Thomas, including a run to the Group AAA state semifinals in 2012. 6″3 SG, Taqwain Drummond, who was the team’s 3rd leading scorer suffered an ACL injury against Wakefield…
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by Brandon Mitchell, recruit757 3A East – #8 Tabb (5-5) vs. #1 Phoebus (9-1) 2 p.m. Saturday at Darling Stadium Darling Stadium will be the host of another one seed versus and eight seed when the Tabb Tigers match up against the Phoebus Phantoms on Saturday afternoon. The Phoebus Phantoms come into Saturday’s match up…
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by Jim McGrath, recruit757 3A East – #5 Colonial Heights (4-6) vs. #4 York (6-4), 2:00 PM Saturday, Bailey Field (Yorktown) Simply put, Colonial Heights is a team in trouble as they head to Yorktown for Saturday’s matchup against York. The Central District team is without its star running back Darien Canada. Canada, who joined…
Detailsby Elizabeth McGrath, recruit757 Hampton’s Team Prepares for Second Opponent to Championship The prediction for Maury in the Eastern District was finishing seventh of the eight teams. The Maury Commodores finished their regular season 4-6, a marked improvement from 1-9 the past season under Coach Chris Fraser. On the Southside, Maury surprised opponents throughout the…
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by Brandon Mitchell, recruit757 Bethel came out to Indian River ready to pull out all the stops in an effort to take out the Indian River Braves at home. To no avail, the Braves were able to live up to their higher seeding. The Braves dismantled the Bruins 47-7 Friday evening in what was Coach…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 Now that Friday night’s games are done, we have a good handle on the playoff schedule for next Friday night. There will be a few games played on Saturday, but here’s what we know as of now: 6A South #5 Grassfield (8-3) at #1 Oscar Smith (10-0) #3 Cox (8-3)…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 We had an exciting night of football Friday night, in the first round of the playoffs. There are still a few games to be played on Saturday. Here are tonight’s local finals: 6A South Oscar Smith 48, Kellam 13 Ocean Lakes 49, Western Branch 21 Cox 42, Bayside 35 Grassfield 34,…
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by Tamara Brown, recruit757 Princess Anne nationally-ranked senior guard, Gadiva Hubbard, woke up Friday feeling like a new woman. She is officially a Minnesota Golden Gopher. “Diva”, ranked #94 in the class of 2016 and #27 for her position by ESPN, signed her NLI yesterday at Princess Anne High School. “I felt a sense of…
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