http://gamedaymagazine.com/ A TCC Sports Publication en Copyright 2012 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:00:35 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss As the final minutes of her team's battle with Cox in the Eastern Regional title game at Old Dominion University on Saturday passed by far too slowly, Gayla Normile tried to make turning away Cox's offense her only priority. Normile and her Kellam teammates had never experienced a Region title (the school last won one in 2006, and Cox had monopolized the top spot ever since), and the Lady Knights clung to a 2-1 lead that they hoped would make enough of a difference. Kellam's last regional baseball title a decade in the past, St. Clair Jones sat in the ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/06/knights_emerge_from_darkness.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/06/knights_emerge_from_darkness.php Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:00:35 -0500 Remember that old adage about seven being a lucky number? On Saturday (the seventh day of the week!), First Colonial proved it accurate. In the form of Brian Davidson, that was. The Beach District player of the year, who wears number seven, knocked in his seventh goal of the postseason (and seventeenth of the year), as the Patriots knocked off Grassfield 2-0 for the Eastern Region title at Old Dominion University, the first Regional male soccer title in school history. "It's indescribable," said Davidson, a future University of Virginia enrollee and one of five Patriots on the farewell tour. "You ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/06/a_new_first_for_first_1.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/06/a_new_first_for_first_1.php Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:51:15 -0500 In the time it took women like Melissa Carlton and Cassie Crisano to get ready for their next go-round inside local Mixed Martial Arts cages (fighters can train as long as a year or more for their first fight alone), about a quarter-million women in America were diagnosed with breast cancer. Tens of thousands died. Both of them had seen firsthand that the disease is tougher than anyone they could ever be going glove-to-glove with on the mats. A few of Carlton's aunts have beaten breast cancer; one of Crisano's didn't win the fight. On Saturday night at Norfolk's Ted ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/04/beating_down_breast_cancer.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/04/beating_down_breast_cancer.php Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:12:26 -0500 At the state gymnastics meet over the weekend at Salem High School, one new star shined across the Old Dominion. Another, hidden for far too long, finally got to show its own luminosity. After over 30 years of coaching, all but two of which have been spent at Cox, Melody Hartranft had seen one competitor after another stand above her squad on the team stand. Six times, the Lady Falcons had been right next to them in second place, but Hartranft, herself a Cox alumnus, had never made it to the top. Jamie Stone, on the other hand, was knew ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/02/a_rookie_a_returner_two_state.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/02/a_rookie_a_returner_two_state.php Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:51:51 -0500 As the swim season kicked off, Cox coach Joe Gentry watched his team underperform. The Falcons weren't cutting time off their times. They weren't hefting enough heavy things in the weight room. Perhaps they'd started to take things for granted: that they'd win the Eastern Region (as they have every year since the program came into existence), but fall short at state (as they have every year since the program came into existence). If the Cox male swim team wanted to finally grab that elusive state title, this wasn't the way to do it. One day at practice, Gentry graphitized ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/02/winning_the_region_its_for_the.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/02/winning_the_region_its_for_the.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:05:38 -0500 The top of the Eastern Region has long been a popular hangout for Virginia Beach wrestling teams. Cox has won it and the past, and gone on to a state title. Kellam has been Hampton Roads' top school. But until this season, Ocean Lakes hadn't won so much as its own Beach District. Last weekend, that all started to change, as the Dolphins roared through the local ranks to make one round of school history. Armed with more matsters than any other school in the region, Lakes leaped to a 167.5-140 lead over second-place Kellam on the first day of ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/02/lakes_drowns_region_wrestling.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/02/lakes_drowns_region_wrestling.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:05:38 -0500 Inside the holed walls of a mixed martial arts cage, some dangerous things can happen. Blood might flow. Bones are broken. Concussions are received. People can get hurt - badly. But there are still rules. Even the toughest fighters can't get dirty in the cage. Participants who bite, go too low, or do other underhanded stuff can see a victory snatched from their disqualified hands in a matter of seconds. And even after pounding an opponent into submission, the victory typically helps his foe to his feet, raises his arm, and wishes him luck for the future. There might be ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/01/a_fight_night_to_remember.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2012/01/a_fight_night_to_remember.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:03:59 -0500 They could have sent it out in an e-mail on Friday night. The Kellam girls' and Cox boys' volleyball teams could have written up their battle plans for the Eastern Region championships and sent it out to their opponents ahead of time. "See here," the message could have read, "we'll have a girl/guy in the middle to set up the shots, and there's going to be a member of the non-vertically-challenged community up front to leap skyward and jam some kills through the Tallwood High floor. Oh, and just in case you try to mount some offense, we'll have a ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/11/no_surprises_at_regional_champ.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/11/no_surprises_at_regional_champ.php Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:59:14 -0500 It wasn't supposed to be like this. Reggie Barnett Jr.'s amateur boxing career should have been finished. After spending much of the year training for the mixed martial arts (MMA), he might have been ready to hang up the gloves for a while, to step inside a cage instead of the rings he'd inhabited for so long, to throw not just punches, but the occasional kicks and knees. And when Barnett took his first steps into MMA competition, possibly early next year, he should have been able to look over at the corner and see Bilial Abdullah Muhammad there to ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/10/the_true_lord_of_the_rings.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/10/the_true_lord_of_the_rings.php Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:06:47 -0500 A few are sprawled out on a mat on the ground, strolling through dreamland. One guy sits on a flight of stairs nearby, eyes shut, music blasting through the headphones in his ears. A couple of other fellows hang out at a table, discussing the latest happenings on the hit-hop scene. Sounds like a lazy day at the local college frat house, doesn't it? Not quite - these guys are a few minutes away from bashing someone's head into yogurt. Or trying to. That's how it works for people - people, not men, a point that will be explored in ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/10/making_it_worth_the_pain.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/10/making_it_worth_the_pain.php Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:08:31 -0500 When did the Virginia Destroyers' trek for the United Football League title begin? That depends on who is answering the question. For Chris Greisen, the journey's been running for three years. After stints for Washington, Arizona, and Dallas in the NFL, Greisen started taking snaps for the UFL's Florida Tuskers in 2009, taking them to two title games. Both times, Greisen's guys fell to Las Vegas. When the Tuskers moved halfway up the nation and changed their mascot to naval warships in 2011, Greisen came with them. He was a decade older than some of the other guys on the ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/10/title_marks_finality_beginning.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/10/title_marks_finality_beginning.php Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:03:22 -0500 Last week, First Colonial tennis coach Diane Deaton kept a promise she'd made early in the 2011 spring sports season. As the last sports semester of the school year, kicked off, Deaton's male squad had challenged her - if they won the state title this season, she'd be taking a trip to the hairdresser and leaving something behind. That's right: a Patriot win in the Old Dominion would have resulted in Deaton's going bare up top - the 'do that Sinead O'Connor made famous back in the 1980s. Well, that's not quite how it worked out. First Colonial's boys didn't, ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/06/lady_patriotism_roars_through.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/06/lady_patriotism_roars_through.php Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:35:58 -0500 It's tough to turn down a place in history - but Warhill's female soccer squad wasn't satisfied with just one. Two years ago, the Lady Lions got the first win in their new school's history. This season, they obtained not just the first Bay Rivers district crown, but the first undefeated regular season in school history. In the district tourney, however, a chink appeared in the Lady Lions' armor of invincibility, as Jamestown, who'd tied them during the regular season, slipped away for a 2-0 victory. So when the teams squared off for the Region I title on Friday at ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/06/one_for_the_first_time_one_for.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/06/one_for_the_first_time_one_for.php Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:57:43 -0500 There's just one downside to a huge victory in sports - all that extra excitement might cause a team to use up too much enthusiasm to come back the next day. Watching his squad slip away with an extra-innings victory over Powhatan on Wednesday in the Region I semifinals, York coach Rusty Ingram hoped his Falcons hadn't given too much away too soon. After all, they still had a title game two days later - and with it, a shot at the school's first regional championship since Ingram's players were in elementary school. "It was a very emotional game on ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/06/falcons_hawk_regional_title.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/06/falcons_hawk_regional_title.php Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:52:05 -0500 If a high school athlete is playing for herself, she's usually not playing for enough. Fortunately, that wasn't the case Friday at the Eastern Region tennis championships at Huntington Park in Newport News. Hours after finishing first and second in individual singles competition, Shannon Hudson and Victoria Olivarez teamed up to go for the local doubles title - but even that wasn't enough for the First Colonial squads. As nice as being the new champions would be, the Lady Patriots had been fighting for someone else all season, someone who won't be coming back when Hudson and Olivarez continue their ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/05/colonials_girls_win_one_for_th.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/05/colonials_girls_win_one_for_th.php Sat, 28 May 2011 00:27:20 -0500 Marques Atkinson just wanted it all to be over. His Atlee squad had managed to stay above the pack for nearly all of the two-day AAA state track championship Friday and Saturday at the Boo Williams Sportsplex in Hampton, and now the Raiders were within a few points of the first-ever Virginia title in any sport for a male Atlee squad. Atkinson had already helped his team to a win in the 4X800 relay and taken home the 500 individual title. But nothing would be finished until the Raiders got through with the last race of the day - and ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/02/atlee_finally_at_the_top.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/02/atlee_finally_at_the_top.php Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:31:06 -0500 At the AAA state swimming championship finals Saturday at the Princess Anne Recreation Center, something very strange happened. As the swimmers toweled off, caught their breath, and congratulated each other for a few jobs well done, the final results were read over the public address system. But unlike individual races, when only the top eight finishers' name were called, this announcement covered the final point titles of every single squad at the meet. As in, the winning teams had to wait for over 40 other teams to be read off before they'd find out who came out on top. As ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/02/two_new_state_swim_champs.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/02/two_new_state_swim_champs.php Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:17:10 -0500 At the Eastern Region wrestling finals Monday at Oscar Smith High, Cox just had too many for the rest of Hampton Roads. As in, too many wrestlers on the last day of competition (10). Too many champions (six). And too many points (231.5, over 100 more than second-place Kempsville). It was more than enough - the Falcons took the local crown, and go for their second-straight state title this weekend at Fairfax's Robinson High. "They were ready to steamroll and feed off of each other," Cox coach Matt Small said. "It's hard to keep them in the wrestling room, because ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/02/falcons_fly_away_with_region.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/02/falcons_fly_away_with_region.php Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:27:44 -0500 Maybe it was just some teamwork coming together at just the right time. Maybe all that hard work and perseverance was finally paying off at the perfect spot. Or just possibly, the Cox swim teams were sending a stern message to the rest of Hampton Roads on Saturday at Old Dominion University for the Eastern Region championships: this is our meet; you're just here to swim in it. Either way, both Falcons swim squads opened the meet with record-setting showings and rolled all the way to his-and-her titles, both slipping past second-place Western Branch in the end. The boys won ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/02/cox_tops_in_region.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2011/02/cox_tops_in_region.php Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:27:35 -0500 As it turned out, Oscar Smith was human after all. After marching through their last 49 Eastern Region opponents, fate suddenly swung against the Tigers (11-2) Saturday evening at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex, falling just short in a 42-40 brawl against Bayside (13-0) for the Division Six regional title, denying Smith a shot at its second state title in three years. "We came in thinking we could win, because they hadn't played a team like us," said Bayside's Deion Stitt, who threw for four touchdowns and ran for another in the win. "We were together, thinking, 'Yeah, we get to ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/bayside_finally_topples_smith.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/bayside_finally_topples_smith.php Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:39:08 -0500 Even gearing up for arguably the biggest - and potentially last - game of his high school career, Luke Hill couldn't help but think about another. As his squad prepared to host James Monroe in the Region I championship Saturday, the Poquoson senior, and quite a few other Islanders, was still thinking about what happened last year, when the Islanders outplayed Bruton in the regional title game, only to lose on a last-second blown punt. "That was a big thing in our mind, the way we went out last year," Hill said. "We didn't want that to happen again. We ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/hills_climb_past_monroe_for_re.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/hills_climb_past_monroe_for_re.php Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:34:02 -0500 Things were tense for the Kellam girls volleyball team at the AAA state finals on Nov. 20 at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Lady Knights had pulled away from Stone Bridge 25-22 in the first game, only to see the Bridge girls tie things up 25-18 in the second. A tight game three had come out on Kellam's side, 26-24, and the Virginia Beach squad tried to keep up the momentum. But hey, of Kellam's 31-3 season up to that point, not a single one of those wins had taken five games. And why fix what isn't broken? Firing up the ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/kellam_takes_state_even_more.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/kellam_takes_state_even_more.php Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:04:37 -0500 One way or another, it's all going to end today. It's the Virginia Beach Sportsplex, as the finals of the state's top AAA field hockey squads prepare to do battle. Win or lose, it's going to be the last time that eight Lakeland seniors step onto the field - but their first-ever shot to take something out with them. The Lady Cavaliers have spent over a decade at the top of the Southeastern District, but state competition has always been a whole new ballgame in more ways than one. Last season, Lakeland got to state competition for the first time ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/lady_cavs_finally_reach_the_to.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/lady_cavs_finally_reach_the_to.php Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:49:06 -0500 With one game down in the Eastern Region tournament final Saturday at Tallwood High School, Ocean Lakes was ready to kick back and coast. Jack Swanberg had banged over a pair of aces on the way to an early 8-0 lead, and the Dolphins had stifled every Cox attack in a 25-9 romp. After wins over the Falcons in the regular season and Beach District tournament, the Dolphins appeared well on their way to making the third time a charm. But perhaps they got a bit too relaxed. Cox jumped out to their first advantage of the night in the ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/lakes_breaks_the_region.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/lakes_breaks_the_region.php Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:44:09 -0500 At the Eastern Regional tournament on Saturday, familiarity and strangeness went to war for the Kellam girls volleyball team. The Lady Knights were in proverbial territory against Princess Anne; they'd already battled the Lady Cavaliers four times during the season, going 3-1, including a win in the Beach District finals. But what they were playing for... that would be new. As in, the first-ever regional title by a female volleyball squad in the school's 40-plus-year history. Three games later, the Kellam women had put their spot in school history; with Anne hampered by the early loss of Co-Region Player of ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/kellam_rules_the_knight.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/11/kellam_rules_the_knight.php Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:37:16 -0500 By: Jeremy Moreland BETHESDA, MD - The Whitman Vikings didn't let the hangover of last week's loss to Quince Orchard last very long. On homecoming night, Whitman scored early and often against cross-town rival and previously undefeated B-CC and won handily, 44-7. Senior Henry Kuhn led the way with three touchdown tosses in what was likely his best performance of the 2010 season. Kuhn put on quite a display, completing a variety of short and long passes and showed that he can be accurate from inside or outside of the pocket. The play of the game came on the first ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/09/whitman_wins_in_homecoming_gam.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/09/whitman_wins_in_homecoming_gam.php Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:13:05 -0500 No matter how strong a player's conditioning is, no matter how powerful the teamwork on a squad may be... five volleyball matches in less than 12 hours is tough on anyone. But hey, if it helps Flint Hill to a third straight Division I state title this year, chances are that the Lady Huskies will call it all worth it. "These girls are competitors," said Hill coach Carrol Anderson after her girls took the 32-team Endless Summer tournament title Saturday at the Virginia Beach Field House. They have heart, and they want to win. They can rest later!" The Lady ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/09/endless_wins_for_hill_lakes.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/09/endless_wins_for_hill_lakes.php Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:53:44 -0500 MANASSAS, VA - It's that time once again, the new football season is set to begin and the Eagles begin a season of raised expectations thanks in large part to the transfer of Osbourn Park's Dominique Terrell. The Eagles were already expected to do very well this season before Terrell transferred in, but now the expectations are even higher, with the team thinking about a state title. Along with Terrell, skill position players Timmy Keith and Rodney "Lucky" Whitehead all look to add to an offense that has been known for its explosiveness since 2005. ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/08/game_preview_osbourn_vs_forest.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/08/game_preview_osbourn_vs_forest.php Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:53:05 -0500 NORTHERN REGION, VA - After visiting numerous training camps, the Gameday Crew has their 1st Football Power Poll put together...Check out who grabbed the #1 Preseason Ranking! You know the guy who says, "Don't worry, everything goes in cycles"? Well, that guy is right. You see, there's always someone saying, "Why is Team A so bad? Why is the Concorde bad? Why is the whole Northern Region bad?" Then, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS there would be someone with this reply: "Oh, don't worry, everything goes in cycles." ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/08/gameday_power_poll_1st_edition.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/08/gameday_power_poll_1st_edition.php Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:00:40 -0500 STEPHENS CITY, VA - There's no greater "must see" game in the opening week of 2010 than this one! The Park View-Sherando game is turning into quite a rivalry game, dating back to the 38-0 drubbing the Patriots took in the Region II-Division 4 tournament final, in 2007 at Arrowhead Stadium. I know that these two teams don't have much of a history, but since that fateful night, the Park View faithful still harbor ill-will towards their Winchester-area foes, and are still looking for a manner of revenge. Last season, the Warriors traveled to Sterling, on a rain-soaked night, and ... ]]> http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/08/game_preview_park_view_vs_sher.php http://gamedaymagazine.com/2010/08/game_preview_park_view_vs_sher.php Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:24:47 -0500