Dec. 18-20 (“Jingle Bell Rock” Editon)

Thur Dec. 20
Boys Basketball
GM 70, Briar Woods 67 (OT)
The Skinny: After erasing a half time deficit and playing superbly in the second half, BW led 54 -51 with 3.5 seconds in regulation. Joel Chandler for GM hit a 3-pointer in the left corner to tie it at the buzzer. The Falcons were in shock. GM pulled ahead by nine early in the OT and BW climbed back to make it a 3-point margin. Freshman point guard Andre Evans handled everything with poise and was a key to keeping BW in the game. BW heads to Dominion tonight in a match-up of two new AA Dulles District coaches, Falcons Mike Benson and Dominion’s Steve Douglas.

AAA Cedar Run District

Loudoun Valley 43, Battlefield 42
The Skinny: Vikes move into a five-way tie for first place in the Cedar Run District with a big win on the road in Haymarket. Josh Mallory hit at 3-pointer in the closing minute to secure the victory. Valley led by 14 points in the first half and then by as many as 11 points in the fourth quarter before the Bobcats came back and took the lead. Cody Mangano finished with 10 for LV. The Bobcats had nine players score but nobody hit double digits. Valley is off until they host rival County on Jan. 2.

Game: Loudoun Valley 43 (5-2, 2-1) vs. Battlefield 42 (12-20-07)

Stonewall 53, Fauquier 46
Osbourn 70, Culpeper 62
Liberty 87, OP 77

Girls basketball
Briar Woods 45, George Mason 37
The Skinny: BW improves to 3-2 on the season and earned a split of its non-district series with GM. Kim Bell scored 14 points with 15 rebounds and four blocks. Krysta Gardner finished with 10 points and five rebounds. The Mustangs led 30-28 going into the final quarter but BW took the lead on an Ashley Adams 3-pointer and never looked back, out-scoring GM, 17-7. The Mustangs did get a field goal in the final quarter until less than a minute remained. BW hosts Dominion tonight.

BW Scoring: Bell 14, Gardner 10, Adams 7, Harris 6, Aziz 6, Gilbert 2.

Jefferson WV 62, Park View 56
The Skinny: Patriots drop a non-district contest to West Virginians to fall to .500 (3-3) on the season. Rachael Miller scored 21 and Shernise Disney added 14 but Jefferson got 24 from Dakea Marshall. Pats host Heritage tonight in Dulles District action.

AAA Cedar Run District
Battlefield 43, Valley 34
The Skinny: Vikes drop third straight AAA Cedar Run District game and fourth straight contest since back-to-back wins over Stone Bridge and Loudoun County.

BOX SCORE

LOUDOUN VALLEY 34, BATTLEFIELD 43

LV (2-6, 0-3) – Sweet 12, Brea Calhoun 7, Oden 6, Haracic 5, Roth 4

Totals 12 9-18 34

B (,) – Mann 15, Jones 10, Lannarelli 8, Windsor 6, Crabtree 2, Gordle 1, Hobar 1 Totals 15 11-21 43

Halftime: B 21-15

Three-point goals: LV 1 (Sweet); B 2 (Windsor)

Scoring by Quarters

Loudoun Valley 7 8 8 11 34

Battlefield 6 15 8 14 43

Stonewall 81, Fauquier 39
Osbourn 72, Culpeper 54
Liberty 72, OP 34

Tue Dec. 18
Boys Basketball
AA Dulles District
Broad Run 73, Briar Woods 55
The Skinny: R. J. Jasper leads the Spartans to a district opening win over the Falcons in “downtown Brambleton”. Nathan Burcak hits three treys and scores a game-high 17 for Falcons. Broad Run will host Freedom Friday while Briar Woods travels to Freedom.

Freedom 63, Dominion 54
The Skinny: In a match-up of new coaches in South Riding, the Eagles gave Kevin Weeren his first district victory. The Eagles, according to Weerem, finally put together four complete quarters for the win. Freedom was led by Henry Brisibe’s 24 points and 9 rebounds, Troy Dockett’s 15 points and 3 steals, and Lee Duffy Ledbetter’s 6 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds. Dominion was led by a strong 32 point performance from junior Deandre Albritton. Freedom travels to Broad Run Friday, while Dominion hosts Briar Woods.


Park view 72, County 63
The Skinny: Thomas Mulabah scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half as PV won an early-season showdown with LC and ended the Raiders season-opening seven-game winning streak. Read Dan Sousa’s story here.

Plus click here for a link to a photo gallery from the game!

Heritage 62, Potomac Falls 55
The Skinny: Curtis Rustin led the Pride team effort with 14 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocked shots. Heritage jumped out to an early lead and held the Panthers off, time after time, in this contest. PF rallied to tied the game at 54-54, but Heritage used an 8-1 run to propel them to vicotry. The Pride now face a big test Friday at home against Park View, while PF must get ready to face LC in Leesburg in a contest that pits two 0-1 Dulles teams that surely don’t want to skid into the h0liday break at 0-2 in district.

Box score for Potomac Falls vs Heritage (12/18/07)

P Falls 12 16 15 12 55

Heritage 18 13 16 15 62

Potomac Falls (0-1, 3-4) –Bartnick 7, Owens 2, Hibson 3, Hogue 11, Kott 10, Woodlief 3, Sweger 5, Mears 5, Carter 9 Totals: 12 16-27 55

Three’s: 5 (Bartnick, Hogue 3, Kott)

Heritage (1-0, 2-2) – Massey 12, Broderick 11, Shockley 10, Donohue 3, Madison 1, Alcala 1, Rustin 14, Findley 10. Totals: 15 14-23 62

Three’s: 6 (Broderick, Shockley 2, Donohue, Rustin, Findley)

AAA Cedar Run District
Osbourn Park 65, Valley 51
The Skinny: It surely didn’t help the Vikes that the power went out in Purcellville on Monday and that prevented Valley from having a practice prior to the game. The other power outage is that the Vikes have score over 60 points only once on the season. Josh Mallory led the way with 15 for LV.

Liberty 63, Osbourn 51
Fauquier 51, Battlefield 45
Culpeper 64, Stonewall 58

Non-district
Stone Bridge 64, Falls Church 48
The Skinny: K.C. Whitaker knocked down five 3-pointers, all in the first half, and finished with 24 points and Michael Prince added 19 as the Bulldogs blew by the Jags in a non-district contest in Falls Church . SB is back to Liberty District action Friday with a home contest with Woodson.

Stone Bridge

Prince 4 10-10 19

Parker 1 1-2 3

Wright 4 0-0 8

Whitaker 8 3-4 24
Patrick 1 4-4 6

McDonald 2 0-0 4

Falls Church

Griffen 1 0-0 2

Dowdy 1 1-2 3

Gerima 3 2-2 9

Renn 0 3-4 3

Wehrheim 1 0-0 2

Gotcher 1 0-0 2

Veney 5 1-2 11

Hansen 3 1-4 7

Garrett 4 2-2 10

SB 17 43 52 64

FC 14 26 38 48

Girls basketball
AA Dulles District
Broad Run 58, Briar Woods 47
The Skinny: The Falcons fell behind early and could never catch up to Broad Run in this district opener. Alexis Campbell led BR with 19 points and Caitlin Hunter pulled down 11 rebounds. Krysta Gardner had 15 for BW. The Falcons missed 16 foul shots in the contest. BW hosts Dominion Friday while the Spartans travel to South Riding, the site where they had a big district winning streak stopped last year.

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