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 Mar 08, 2010 By Sara Page, Midlothian Exchange It’s easy to end a basketball game. One team wins; one team loses. Both teams move on to whatever is next. What’s not so easy is ending a run of four years of playing the same game with the same group when each team member has come to know all the others’ habits and playing styles. In one moment, players are sad and stunned, knowing they’ll move on, but not quite ready to face doing it. That’s where the Cosby girls’ basketball team found themselves after last Friday’s 65-57 loss to Lake Taylor in the VHSL Group AAA girls’ basketball quarterfinal. “I expect to have a Cosby High School cheering section at my wedding,”… Continue »  Mar 04, 2010 By Sara Page, Midlothian Exchange Ooos and aahhs were audible in the James River High School gymnasium last Thursday as a group of students carried a large, purple contraption onto the basketball court. It stood on a pyramid shaped base and extended about 10 feet in the air. The arm terminated at a round end. The contraption is called the ‘Flame Thrower’ in honor of James River’s Medford League basketball team ‘Rapid Fire.’ It was designed by students in the school’s First organization and Robotics Club and was inspired by a catapult. With the arm extended straight out and flat, athletes load a basketball into the round end. The athlete then holds the attached rope and tugs.… Continue » Lautzenheiser shines at state meet Mar 04, 2010 By Brian J. French One of the unique features of a large track meet is that one person can beat a whole team if that person does well in a lot of events. Midlothian’s Kathleen Lautzenheiser was not the only Trojan to score in this weekend’s Group AAA state meet at the Boo Williams Sportsplex, and she wasn’t the athlete to score the most points (that honor went to Shakeela Saunders, who had all 41 of Great Bridge’s points to place second as a one-woman team). But Lautzenheiser was a big reason why Midlothian finished third with 35 points, behind champion Western Branch (78) and Great Bridge. Lautzenheiser opened the weekend by winning the 3,200-meter relay Friday with… Continue »  Mar 02, 2010 By Weldon Bradshaw There they were, cruising along nicely in the championship game of the Central Region girls basketball tournament last night before a robust crowd at the Siegel Center. With slightly more than five minutes left, the Cosby Titans, No. 1 all season in The Times-Dispatch Top 10, held a 14-point lead over Thomas Dale and were smelling victory. Little could they imagine that the No. 2 Knights would mount an inspired comeback and send the game into overtime. Little could they imagine that they’d soon be fighting for their athletic lives on every possession. Little could they imagine that after almost 36 minutes of leave-it-all-on-the-court intensity by both teams,… Continue »  Feb 26, 2010 By Sara Page, Midlothian Exchange It took a little time for the Cosby girls’ basketball team to readjust to the size of the Siegel Center floor during Thursday night’s semifinal game, but once they did, there was no doubt they were back where they belonged. The Lady Titans poured in 12 points in three minutes to start the second quarter and never trailed again as they earned a bid to the Central Region final and the VHSL Group AAA quarterfinal games with a 76-44 decision over Highland Springs. “I feel like we had a slow start. We weren’t playing the best defense in the first quarter and we were just kind of sluggish,” Cosby guard Andrea Bertrand said. “We haven’t played… Continue »  Feb 22, 2010 Compiled by Sara Page The Midlothian and Manchester girl’ teams finished in the top 10 of the Central Region Indoor Track Championships on Saturday to lead Dominion District teams. The Lancers were led by Nikki Nunn, who took first in the long jump event with a leap of 18-07.75 and third in the triple jump with a distance of 35-06. Candice Hairston also picked up a third-place finish for Manchester with a jump of 17-01.25 in the long jump event. Midlothian picked up the bulk of their points in running events. Freshman Marie Johnston led the way with a second-place finish in both the 1,600-meter run (5:12.26) and the 1,000-meter run (3:06.76). Kathleen Lautzenheiser took first in the 3,200-meter… Continue » Central Region makes wrestling history Feb 22, 2010 By Jim McConnell Central Region Wrestlers made history over the weekend at the Group AAA state wrestling tournament. The Central Region contingent entered the state tournament with lofty expectations and more than lived up to them. With five individual champions, the region easily eclipsed its previous best effort (three) in 1991. Its nine finalists were second to the Eastern Region’s 13, but four more than its all-time high, when it had one champion and four runners-up in 1996. Its 29 place winners also set a high-water mark – seven more than last year – and second only to the Eastern. Its 23 top-six finishers demolished the previous standard of 16, which had… Continue »  Feb 22, 2010 By Tim Pearrell Bradley Riester has been battling strep throat this week. Medicine certainly helped, but the best cure may have been the chance to play for a championship. The 6-1 senior guard scored a career-high 29 points to lead second-seeded Monacan to a 74-49 victory over top-seeded Cosby in the title game of the boys Dominion District basketball tournament before a packed house at Cosby last Friday. Monacan (19-3) will play host to Armstrong in the first round of the Central Region tournament Monday. Cosby (18-5) will play host to Varina. The Chiefs, ranked eighth in the Times-Dispatch Top 10, lost 63-58 at seventh-ranked Cosby during the regular season. The other meeting was wiped… Continue »  Feb 22, 2010 By Sara Page, Midlothian Exchange The Cosby girls’ basketball team found itself in unfamiliar territory during last Friday’s Dominion District Tournament final. The team trailed third-ranked Huguenot by as much as six in the first half and led by only one at halftime. But the Titans did what they do best in the third quarter. The team relaxed, hit a myriad of shots and pulled out a 60-40 win. “We just weren’t playing like we usually do,” Cosby senior guard Andrea Bertrand said. “We came out and we weren’t ready. We weren’t playing good defense, we were rushing on offense and that’s what we were trying to focus on.” The Titans put together… Continue »  Feb 19, 2010 By Sara Page, Midlothian Exchange The second-ranked Monacan boys’ basketball team went on a 9-0 run early in the second quarter enroute to a 66-58 Dominion District Tournament semifinal win over third-ranked Huguenot Thursday night. The Chiefs combined strong outside shooting from Brad Reister with the powerful inside presence of Sean Armstrong and Derrick Cates for the win. Cates got the Chiefs’ first scoring run going with a jumper on the Chiefs offensive end and a block on the defensive end to pull the team out to a 14-12 lead. Riester nailed a 3-pointer from the top left side of the key and added two more when he pulled down a defensive rebound and went coast-to-coast on a fast break.… Continue » |
