Preps Plus

According to the Daily Press in Newport News, Charlottesville High has found a head coach for the football program. Smithfield High football coach Chris Fraser will take over the reins from retired head coach Garwin DeBerry.

Following a double overtime victory on the road at North Stafford on Wednesday, Albemarle returned home to knock off Mountain View 15-3 on Thursday and remain undefeated on the season (11-0, 9-0 Commonwealth District).

Western’s girls soccer team edges Louisa after a flurry of missed shots.

Here they are. The 2008 All-Central Virginia Boys Basketball Teams.

Forget playing long ball against the Hornets at home. Porterfield Park has major-league type dimensions.

Louisa County, in its third trip to the Myrtle Beach tournament, posted a 3-2 record during the Grand Strand Softball Classic with wins over Logan High School (West Virginia) Charleston Catholic (West Virginia) and Myrtle Beach.

“Ashley threw the ball well – she had control of her pitches all day,” said Albemarle coach Bill Hutchinson. “She keeps us in the game, and we’ll scrape and scramble to get a run or two.”

Check out Sunday’s paper for previews on high school baseball.

The Jefferson District will soon be getting a new member—Goochland County. 

Welcome to the new Preps Plus blog, an extension of our high school sports coverage in the Daily Progress. This space will give our high school writers (Preps editor Liz Keller and staff writers Bart Isley and Chip Knighton) the opportunity to provide readers with a daily dose of high school sports here at dailyprogress.com. 

“We were one or two plays from breaking the game wide open,” said Western coach Hunter Price. “You have to commend Covenant though, they pressured us on offense, they pressured us on defense. But we matched their intensity.”