Boys (End 1): Twin Springs 13, Honaker 8

Connor Lane and Ryan Horne each with 4 to lead the Titans.

Aidan Lowe with 4 to lead Honaker

The Red Devils are your Region A champions!!!

Atlantic Shores defeated Hampton Christian 54-48 to win the Metro Conference Championship

Radford up 11-3 over Gretna - end of 1

Girls’ : Region 2B title game: #ClarkeCounty 11, Strasburg 8, end 1st quarter

Loser of this game gets JM girls

Region 2D Finals, VA High 11 Graham 10 End 1st Qtr

Region 1C boys championship game as Auburn takes on George Wythe. It’s the fifth matchup between these MED foes.

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Hayfield up over Edison at half 34-28.

AU- bound Greg Jones with 13. John Awoke with 12

Girls (End 1): Eastside 14, J.I. Burton 12 Lexi Carter and Taylor Clay each with 5 for Eastside. Anyah Hollinger with 4 to lead Burton.

Girls (Half): Eastside 24, J.I. Burton 18

Azzy Hammons leading Eastside with 10 early points.

Anyah Hollinger leads the Lady Raiders with 6.

Lady Spartans in control of this one.

Girls 2D
Gate City 69 Va High 38
Ridgeview 75 Marion 52
Richlands 50 Union 41
Central 84 Tazewell 37

Thursday semis

Gate City v Ridgeview

Richlands v Central

Eastern MontgomeryMustangs in a tight one at the half of the Region finals at the Cassell - Mustangs down 22-26 at the half to Fort Chiswell.

Region 3C Boys Bracket
1st Rd Tues Feb 21
#1 Spotswood (21-2) vs #8/9 winner Fort/LCA
#4 Wilson Memorial (16-6) vs #5 Rustburg (13-9)

#3 Fluvanna (16-7) vs #6 Charlottesville (12-10)
#2 Staunton (18-4) vs #7/10 winner Heritage/Broadway

2nd Rd Thurs Feb 23
Champ Sat Feb 25

I'm calling Spotswood-Cville title game. Don't be fooled by our record, if we can put together 4 quarters, we are the 2nd best team in the region. We held 4th quarter leads in 6 of our 10 losses. (Albemarle, Western, Fleming, Smithfield, Riverside, Fluvanna) Had a head scratching season opening loss to Broadway who we later beat by 30. Got blown out by Albemarle twice and Western once for the other losses. Bobby Gardner of Fluvanna is the best player in the region though so Rd 1 rubber match should be a tremendous game.

Carroll County girls defeat Staunton River 86-15 in a Region 3D Quarterfinal in Hillsville.

Region 1B Girls BB Rapp vs. Buffalo Gap End of 1stQ Rapp 9 BG 6

What's this region looking like, any favorite to win it?

Catholic (Virginia Beach) completed a perfect conference season by capturing the TCIS championship to go along with their regular season title by defeating the Steward School 66-45.

Junior guards Brayden Thorne and Josiah Rickards broke the game open with a big second quarter. The Crusaders led 22-16 with five minutes to go but pushed the lead to 31-18 two minutes later. A three at the buzzer gave Catholic a 38-25 halftime lead.

Catholic maintained a double-digit lead throughout the 2nd half and the outcome was never in doubt.

Better late than never...

Bob Alvis
@TheSportsBuffet
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Feb 17

Region 3C Girls BB

Tonight
Brookville at Wilson Memorial (winner at Spotswood Tue)
Broadway at Fort Defiance (winner at LCA Tue)

Tuesday
Charlottesville at Liberty (winner matched with Spotswood/Brookville/Wilson)
Fluvanna at Turner Ashby (winner matched with LCA/Fort/Broadway)

Rappahannock 6 King and Queen 5 after 1

Nandua defeat Essex in the championship round. Nandua had a heck of a team with Kim Giddens. In fact, I'm pretty sure they were the first Eastern Shore to win a girls basketball title. Essex defeated King & Queen Central in the semifinals. I know all this because I witnessed it with my own two eyes. Games were played at New Kent.

The four regional championship games will be played either tomorrow or Saturday, but we now know the 8 teams who are State bound. Which two will make it to Richmond, where ultimately only one team will cut down the nets. For the record, I correctly picked 5 of the 8 teams listed when I did my regional picks. Middlesex, Twin Springs and Honaker proved me wrong, although I did have all three in the regional semifinals.

Region A: Lancaster and Middlesex. Middlesex has two losses on the season. Both were to Lancaster, by 51 and 32 points respectively. But both of those games were played over 2 months ago. Lancaster comes in undefeated and have been on a mission since their stunning loss in last year's state semifinals.

Region B: Franklin and Altavista. Altavista is a regular to the state tournament, finishing as runner up two years ago and losing to Westmoreland in the quarters last year. Franklin hasn't played at the state level recently, but this year's team is special. Length all over the floor and their defense leads them.

Region C: George Wythe and Auburn. This will be the 5th meeting between these two teams this season. GW has won three of those, but needed a buzzer beater to win last week's game. Auburn is the defending state champs and have a huge nucleus of that team back.

Region D: Twin Springs and Honaker. TS was the team that many pegged as the Region D favorite at the beginning of the season after returning the entire team that made it to the final four last year. They had a few more hiccups than most expected yet here they are back again. Honaker is a team that started slow this year, but finished strong. But despite winning their district, not many people, myself included thought they'd make it to the state tournament. But that's why they play the games and this team is playing exceptionally well right now and deserve to be here.

I'll do my state tournament predictions either this weekend or early next week, once the matchups are official for the state tournament.

Friday night produced some interesting results, maybe none more fascinating than Woodside rallying for a 57-39 win over Menchville behind 30 points, 17 in the fourth quarter, from Richmond signee Trevor Smith. The Monarchs saw their top two scorers – A.J. Clark (VMI commit) and Etienne Strothers (App State pledge) – go down with injury.

That result leaves us with four unbeaten VHSL teams on the boys side with John Marshall, Lancaster, Northside and Skyline.

If that wasn’t the biggest surprise of the night, it certainly was what happened in the Region 5D semifinals, where Stone Bridge toppled Potomac District Champ Potomac Falls 57-50. Kent Kling’s Bulldogs had lost to Potomac Falls in the previous three meetings by 15, 14 and 12 points. But now they are State Tournament bound and set to take on Patrick Henry-Roanoke, who they beat in the State Semis during the COVD-shortened campaign in 2020-21, for the regional crown.

The wildest comeback of the night came in Region 5C at Midlothian, where top-seeded Glen Allen erased a 64-52 deficit with 2:16 to go in regulation to beat Hermitage, 80-70 in overtime. Kris Tiller led the Jaguars with 31 points before fouling out. Hermitage’s leading scorer, Eiden Harvey, had 28 points before sustaining an injury in the fourth quarter. The Jaguars will take on defending Class 5 State Champ Highland Springs, which ousted L.C. Bird 62-52, for the Region 5C crown.

Below is a breakdown of how the Picks fared for Friday 2/24/23 with regional semifinals and regional title games.

6B = 1-0
6D = 1-0
5B = 2-0
5C = 1-1 (missed on Glen Allen/Hermitage)
5D = 1-1 (missed on Stone Bridge/Potomac Falls)
4A = 1-0
4B = 2-0
4D = 1-0
3B = 1-0
2A = 1-0
2D = 2-0
1A = 1-0
1B = 0-1 (missed Altavista/Franklin)

Friday 2/24/23 Total: 15-3 (83.3%)
Hatfield's Region Playoff Total: 139-34 (80.3%)


SATURDAY 2/25/23 REGION PLAYOFF ACTION:

Occoquan Region 6C: Finals
#2 Thomas Edison (21-6) at #1 Hayfield (26-1)
Hat’s Pick – Hayfield by 15


Region 3A: Semifinals at Norfolk Scope
#1 Hopewell (20-3) vs. #4 Petersburg (17-7)
Hat’s Pick – Hopewell by 6

#2 Lafayette (22-3) vs. #3 Lake Taylor (16-7; 16-6)
Hat’s Pick – Lake Taylor by 9

Region Tourney Final Pick: Lake Taylor over Hopewell


Region 3C: Finals
#2 Staunton (20-4) at #1 Spotswood (23-2)
Hat’s Pick – Spotswood by 12


Region 3D: Finals
#3 Cave Spring (21-5) at #1 Northside (26-0)
Hat’s Pick – Cave Spring by 2 in OT


Region 2B: Finals at Shenandoah University
#4 Strasburg (19-7) at #2 Madison County (21-6)
Hat’s Pick – Strasburg by 5


Region 2C: Semifinals at Radford University
Radford (19-4) vs. Gretna (15-8)
Hat’s Pick – Radford by 8

Floyd County (19-4) vs. James River-Buchanan (14-10)
Hat’s Pick – Floyd County by 3 in OT


Region 2D: Finals at Virginia High
#2 Graham (12-12) at #1 Virginia High (21-5)
Hat’s Pick – Virginia High by 10


Region 1C: Finals at Virginia Tech’s Cassell Coliseum
#2 Auburn (21-6) vs. #1 George Wythe (24-2)
Hat’s Pick – George Wythe by 4


Region 1D: Finals at Riverview Elementary
#1 Honaker (18-8) vs. #1 Twin Springs (19-7)
Hat’s Pick – Twin Springs by 9

Glen Allen and Highland Springs will face off for the Region 5C championships after both teams won Region Semi-final games at Midlothian High School. Glen Allen, the Regions #1 seed, needed overtime to put away Hermitage 80-70 while the Springers defeated L.C Bird 62-52 in an ugly game which had more made free throws than made field goals.

Glen Allen 80 Hermitage 70

In the 1st game, Glen Allen trailed Hermitage 64-52 with a little over two minutes to go in the game. But back-to-back treys by Kris Tiller sliced the deficit to six (67-61) with 1:20 to play. Tiller had 14 points in the 4th quarter including another three with 25.8 seconds remaining to tie the score at 70.

In the overtime, the Panthers were shutout including missing all four of there free throw attempts. Freshman Faron Friend scored eight of his 19 points in overtime to secure a state championship bid for Glen Allen. Tiller led all scorers with 31 points including three from downtown.

Hermitage was led by junior Eiden Harvey who scored 28 points before leaving with an injury with 5:29 remaining and the Panthers ahead 56-50. Junior Kavontae Williams had 19 points and 15 rebounds while senior Chase Weaver had 11 points and 11 rebounds.





Highland Springs 62 L.C Bird 52

Highland Springs advanced to the state tournament with a physical win over L.C Bird. The teams combined to shoot 48 free throw attempts making 36 while combining for only 32 field goals. The Springers led 14-4 after the 1st quarter and 20-6 after a three by Danzelle Coles with 4:54 to go before halftime.

In the 2nd half, a three by Highland Springs guard Vaughan extended the lead to 35-21. The Springers led 48-31 early in the 4th quarter when James Vaughan fouled out. Both teams made 10 free throws each in the final eight minutes to make the final score 62-52.

Coles, the Region 5C Player of the Year, finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Kristian Martin added 14 points and eight rebounds. Jabari Thompson finished in double-figures with 10 points including two 3-pointers.

Senior Yuri Manns led L.C Bird with 29 points Senior center Brett Dent added 15 rebounds, two blocks, and nine points while senior Brandon Wade had eight points.