by 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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by Brandon Mitchell, recruit757 #6 Bethel (6-4) at #3 Indian River (8-2) Friday 7:00 p.m. The Bruins get a much wanted chance at redemption against the Indian River Braves who took out the Bruins 14-8 in week one of the regular season. The Braves used that first win against the Bruins to catapult themselves to…
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by Nathan Epstein, WAVY-TV 10 (a special contribution to recruit757) CHESAPEAKE (WAVY) – With a top-notch offense or defense usually comes that one player opposing coaches game plan for. That player for the Indian River defense wears no. 2 on his jersey. Listed as 6-foot-2, 260 pounds, Jaquan Yulee is one of the top linebackers…
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by Tamara Brown, recruit757 The Monarchs who were the Group 5A PenSouth Conference Champions for the 2013-2014 season seek to regain control of the Group 5A PenSouth Conference after losing to Hampton in the first game of the post season. Menchville will be playing without DeQuon Lake, 6″7 PF/C, who led the Peninsula in scoring…
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by Jamaar Hawkins, recruit757 #8 Kellam (5-5) at #1 Oscar Smith (9-0) Friday 7:00 p.m. Entering the 2015 high school football season, not many expected Oscar Smith to be back on top of the Southeastern District, let alone the Group 6A South standings. But that’s exactly where we stand heading into the first round of…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 #7 Western Branch (6-4) vs. Ocean Lakes (10-0) 7 p.m. Friday at Kellam High School You could look at Western Branch’s record and figure that they’ve fallen off a bit. After all, two years ago, the Bruins came into the second round with a 10-1 record to play Ocean Lakes. …
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