Saturday Week #2

September 26, 2009

Saturday -

Virginia Elite continued their tour around Ashburn in their second week of action. After a thrilling 73-71 victory last week over Stone Bridge High School, Virginia Elite faced the Spartans of Broad Run in their second game of the fall league. Each team was feeling the rust of a early morning game, but both team would begin to pickup their play as the game progressed. Broad Runs Senior Forward Kevin McGaughey kept Broad Run in the game with aggressive offensive play while AAU teammate focused on not letting him shoot Broad Run to victory.  

Herndon defeated Concorde district rival Centreville, as the Herndon Hornets simply overwhelmed the Wildcats from Centreville. A late run by the Wildcats in the second half allowed them to cut into the lead, making the game respectable, with the Hornets winning by a score of 53-42.

The third game of the early morning had the Falcons of Briar Woods playing Oakton High School. This game got off to a slow start as the early morning was still holding the players down. However, they battled back to eventually take the lead at certain points. Nevertheless, the Cougars did in fact prevail in the end, pulling away in the final minutes to claim a 51-45 victory.

After a heart stopping victory over the Broad Run Spartans, Virginia Elite had no time to rest, as they immediately jumped into their next game against the Osbourn Eagles. The Eagles were missing some of their marquis players, and the Elite took advantage, ultimately claiming a 56-43 victory.

After losing a heart-breaker in week one to Virginia Elite, the Stone Bridge Bulldogs looked to rebound against the Fairfax Rebels, who just transferred into the Liberty District along with the Bulldogs this year, making them district rivals for the first time ever. Both teams gave it their all during the course of the game, but in the end the Bulldogs grabbed their first win of the season, beating the Rebels 41-38.

The final game of the day proved to be a thriller, as it wasn't until late in the game that Seton started to pull away from the NOVA Suns to ultimately claim a 51-41 victory to close out Saturday's varsity games.

Sunday - 

Sunday, September 27, 2009, The ladies took to the hardwood Sunday and there were several outstanding performance and games that caught the attention of VA Elite Hoops.com. Yorktown High School and Paul VI was entangled in a good game which the inside battle between Paul VI junior All-State performer Meredith Mesasis and Yorktown senior 5"10 forward/center Lindiwe Rennert was great to see. Each possessing a different style of play but both effective as they were leading their respected teams.  The ladies of Yorktown fell in defeat to a very talented Paul VI team that is talent heavy with the likes of Ashley Lambert (2011) who is receiving attention from many major division I programs. 

Osbourn Park High School senior point guard #10 Kelly Hamner (Holy Cross) and Robinson High School senior point guard #15 Samantha Partomen really displayed their skills playing against each other this week. Along side Samantha was sophomore #22 Tyler Hansen who was battling Osbourns' #42 Rachel Gordon and #0 Destiny Shearin (both highly recruited) throughout the game. With  8:22 remaining in the final period of play Osbourn got a little shaken, maybe over looking the lady Rams but as experienced ball players Osbourn pulled out the victory 45-37.