Group 1, Region B Girls and Boys to Alternate Nights This Week

[longtimerhsfan]

The Region B tournament opens this week and will be a six-night affair with girls playing Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and the boys playing the other three nights. I am sure the idea is to give fans the chance to see both their teams play.

The girls start things off with Monday night with this line-up. I believe all games are at 6 PM:

# 8 Central Lunenburg @ # 1 Altavista
# 5 ARGS @ # 4 Cumberland
# 6 William Campbell @ # 3 Riverheads
# 7 Rappahannock County @ # 2 Stonewall Jackson

The four winners will then meet Wednesday night in semi-final games, played at the highest seeds.

The boys quarter-finals are then Tuesday night, and again I believe all games start at 6:00. There was supposed to have been a play-in game Saturday that had # 9 ARGS traveling to # 8 Rappahannock County. If such a game took place, I have not seen results for it. The winner of that game will travel Tuesday to # 1 Cumberland.

The other three quarter-final games are:

# 5 William Campbell @ # 4 Altavista
# 6 Stonewall Jackson @ # 3 Carver Academy
# 7 Central Lunenburg @ # 2 Riverheads

The boys semi-finals will then be Thursday night, again at the highest seeds.

Should be an interesting tournament, considering that three different districts are represented, along with the two private schools. You will have no way of knowing who stacks up against who because of so little interaction between them during the regular season. I will do my regular thing with Riverheads' games and hopefully we will have sources keeping us posted on the other games.

 

[monty1234]

Rapp. Co. won 59-46.

 

[longtimerhsfan]

Thanks. I did see that in one of our local papers this morning.

 

[NND Sports Fan]

ARGS and Carver Academy are not private schools

 

[uvacavs1]

ARGS and Carver Academy are not private schools

Correct. They are public schools that are both in Region A districts but play in Region B as they are further west. Neither have football teams which is why longtimer may not be as familiar with them (plus their names sound like private schools).

 

[uvacavs1]

For those that may not know, ARGS is Appomattox Regional Governors School (about 360 students) and they play in the Tri Rivers (or used to?).

They have the awesome Jada Boyd (6-2 junior girl) who has the VHSL record for points in a game (69) and rebounds in a game (33). She may break more.

Problem is her team is struggles so they lose a lot. I read an article recently in RTD where a coach bragged a bit how he put his two best defenders on her the whole game and just played the others. Jada still scored like 15 and had a lot of plays but her team lost the battle of attrition.

Jada sounds awesome! She is in the big paper a lot - has been front page of Richmond paper. Great for her small school and Class 1A!

Good luck to her!

 

[uvacavs1]

Carver Academy has around 240 some kids and plays in the Tidewater District of Region A (Middlesex, Mathews, KW, WP, K&Q plus CC).

Another Region B team mentioned in this thread is Rappahannock County (not the NND's Rapp Raiders, often confused).

Rapp County High is in a beautiful mountain setting with around 300 kids. Problem is they are stuck in the tough Bull Run District which has many schools with a population in the mid to high 700s.

Rapp Co plays football but I don't think they play a VHSL playoff contention schedule but did well this past season if I remember correctly.

 

[longtimerhsfan]

Thanks guys for all the extra information. Always happy to learn something on here. As someone mentioned, the names certainly made these sound like private schools, especially the "academy" terminology.

 

[mmqp]

Folks might remember Carver Academy under their previous school name, Chesterfield Community.

 

[OHandEIGHTwhatNOW?]

Folks might remember Carver Academy under their previous school name, Chesterfield Community.

Chesterfield changed the makeup of Chesterfield Community from what I understood. It went from borderline at risk students who had hard time functioning at their home schools to a college prep/trade program when it became Carver Academy

 

[mmqp]

Chesterfield changed the makeup of Chesterfield Community from what I understood. It went from borderline at risk students who had hard time functioning at their home schools to a college prep/trade program when it became Carver Academy

Interesting. Did not know what the reasoning was behind the name change. Thanks for the info.