SHENANDOAH JUNCTION — With Rachel Ransom scoring two goals and Maria Russo snapping a second half tie with her goal, the Jefferson girls soccer team opened its season at home on Saturday with a 3-2 win over University High. Ransom opened the scoring with her first goal that came about midway through the first half. [...]
Continue reading …WINCHESTER, Va. — Despite a two-round score of 148, Washington’s Ryan Mumaw was third in the medalist standings at the Bryan Gunter Invite played at two different golf courses in Frederick County . Washington finished third as a team to Invite champion Loudoun Valley and runner-up Centreville. Jefferson was ninth in the team field. Loudoun [...]
Continue reading …Jefferson and University spent each side’s first match of the boys soccer season vainly trying to get a second goal that would given the Cougars or Hawks a win to get the campaign started. Instead, neither team could find that elusive second goal and the opener ended in a 1-1 tie. Both Jefferson and University [...]
Continue reading …Ryan Pansch was unbeaten during his senior year at Washington High with a 7-0 pitching record and had an 0.36 earned run average. Fraser Brown was in his first season with Jefferson High and the second baseman batted .455 and was the team leader in hits, doubles, triples, and home runs. Both county high school [...]
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Jefferson High senior outfielder/pitcher Shannon Lyons was selected by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association to the Class AAA first-team All-State softball team. Lyons batted .406 and had 16 doubles for the Lady Cougars in 2012. Jefferson pitcher Alexandra Witt drew special honorable mention from the writer’s group. Gaining honorable mention were Washington High’s Devin [...]
Continue reading …SHENANDOAH JUNCTION— With seven hits and four runs in the first two innings of Saturday’s win-or-gone Sectional baseball game against unbeaten-in-the-tournament Washington, homestanding Jefferson grabbed the early lead . . . and turned the bright, baseball-weather afternoon into an 11-5 win. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest of [...]
Continue reading …WESTON— In winning the team championship by almost 100 points at the Class AAA, Region II Meet, Jefferson swept all four of the relays that were held. Of the 171 points the Cougars literally amassed, forty of those points came from winning the 4×100, 4×200, 4×400, and 4×800 relays in the meet held last Thursday [...]
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SHENANDOAH JUNCTION— Years ago, headline writers began calling track and field athletes or their teams “thinclads” because they wore shorts and lightweight tops. On Saturday at the Potomac Valley Conference Meet, the Washington girls team was just plain “thin” in numbers . . . but numbers mattered little as the Patriots won their division of [...]
Continue reading …SHENANDOAH JUNCTION— Jefferson showed this year’s wares to the rest of the state when it ran away from the field of over 30 teams at the Gazette Relays in Charleston. Even after the Cougars claimed state championships in both 2010 and 2011, some down-state doubters still remained in their little enclaves. On Saturday, the Cougars [...]
Continue reading …Jefferson began defense of its Sectional softball title when it eliminated Hampshire, 5-0, in a second-round game played on the Lady Cougars’ home field. The top-seeded Lady Cougars had a first-round bye and saw Washington defeat Hampshire, 8-2, on April 30 at Washington. The Trojans were on the brink of elimination when they came to [...]
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