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          <title>Americans, Nationals battle in district tourney</title>
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Both the Amherst Nationals and the Amherst Americans made it to the championship for the District 2 Dixie Youth Darlings softball tournament that was held in Rustburg last weekend, but it was the Americans that claimed the spot in the state tournament with a 25-15 victory.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Dixie youth tourneys begin</title>
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This past weekend marked the beginning of the Dixie Youth softball district tournaments and several Amherst County teams competed for the chance to play in upcoming state tournaments.
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          <title>Young Hubbard shows promise in track</title>
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The Amherst girls&#8217; indoor track team that won the Region III title may be losing one elite jumper named Hubbard &#8211;&#8211; that is, Lacear Hubbard &#8211;&#8211; but her younger sister, Kayla Hubbard, is showing promise at Monelison Middle School.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Four Lancers sign intent</title>
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Four members of the Amherst County football team that finished as the Group AA Division 4 state runners-up signed letters of intent in the school&#8217;s library last week after the football team, the girls track team and the forensics team received recognition from members of the Amherst County Board of Supervisors and for their successful seasons.
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          <title>Amherst track team competes in state meet</title>
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Amherst shot putter Jericah Glover won the only state championship for this season&#8217;s outdoor Lancer track team with a 39-foot, 4.75-inch effort in Harrisonburg last Saturday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lancers softball takes Region III round with decisive pitching, fielding</title>
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For fans at Amherst&#8217;s first-round Region III softball game on Monday, Sydney Lewis&#8217; pitching performance might have seemed surprising, but not to her coaches.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Baseball squad finishes at 8&#45;8</title>
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The Amherst Lancers baseball season ended Monday at the hands of the Heritage Pioneers.
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          <title>JV boys soccer earns winning season</title>
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Penalty kicks come only occasionally in a soccer game, and Amherst sophomore Captain Graham Carter was the lucky player who had the opportunity.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Heritage boys soccer shuts out Lancers again</title>
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In a battle for third place in the Seminole District standings, Amherst&#8217;s boys soccer team was shut out for the second time this season by Heritage goalkeeper Austin Walker and suffered a 1-0 defeat Friday night at Heritage.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lancers baseball rallies to beat Heritage</title>
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How does it feel to rally from behind three times before beating Seminole District rival Heritage on its home field, as Amherst did Friday night? &#8220;Wonderful,&#8221; Lancers coach Mike Padgett said.           ]]></description>
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The Amherst Lancers boy&#8217;s soccer team took on the Liberty Minutemen on Friday in a Seminole District match-up.            ]]></description>
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The Amherst County Lancers took on the undefeated Jefferson Forest Cavaliers in a Seminole District boy&#8217;s soccer match on April 28 at Sabre Stadium. The Cavaliers came out with a 1-0 victory over the Lancers.           ]]></description>
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On senior night, May 1, Amherst softball coach Larry Thomas handed out a rose along with a hug to his five seniors. In return, his girls gave him a 3-1 Seminole District win over Liberty.           ]]></description>
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Amherst senior LaCear Hubbard is as fast on the track as she is athletic in the field events.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Girls soccer defeats Rustburg 3&#45;2</title>
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The Amherst varsity girls soccer team traveled to Rustburg on April 23 and came back with a 3-2 Seminole District win.
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          <title>Amherst grad earns victory for Liberty</title>
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Former Amherst Lancers baseball standout Steven Evans took the mound for Liberty University on Friday under the lights against visiting Big South Conference rival Winthrop with the chance to fan the Flames to the top of the Big South standings as Liberty trailed the Eagles coming into the three-game weekend series by half a game.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sweet Briar lacrosse can&#8217;t keep pace with Guilford</title>
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Sweet Briar College&#8217;s lacrosse team hung in with visiting Guilford College in first half last Thursday, but the Quakers scored four unanswered goals over the last five minutes of the half to take a 9-5 lead into the break and cruised to a 19-10 victory over the Vixens in an Old Dominion Athletic Conference match.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Holy Cross softball is stronger with unusual Amherst array</title>
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Holy Cross has benefited from players crossing the James River to play softball for the Gaels. This year Holy Cross is leaning heavily on three Amherst County girls to lead them to a state title.
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The Amherst girls&#8217; tennis team blitzed visiting Nelson County 9-0 to improve to 6-1 on the season as the Lancers continued to demonstrate their newfound success on Thursday.
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Amherst goalkeeper Autumn McKinney made three big stops to make Hannah Burley&#8217;s early goal stand up for the Lancers in Amherst&#8217;s 1-0 victory over visiting Nelson County in an out-of-district girls soccer match March 31.           ]]></description>
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Amherst&#8217;s boys and girls track teams had a solid performance over the weekend at the Vince Bradford Relays at E.C. Glass High School. Most of the area&#8217;s local teams were represented and the Lancer girls team finished sixth out of 19 teams, scoring 31 points. The boys&#8217; team finished eighth out of 18 teams, scoring 25 points.
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Rustburg&#8217;s baseball team scored two-out, unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh and 11th innings to tie Amherst at 1-1 and beat the Lancers 2-1 Monday night at home in a Seminole District duel rescheduled from last Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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The Amherst girls soccer team took a 1-0 lead on a goal scored by Hannah Burley in the first minute of the Lancers&#8217; Seminole District match against visiting Rustburg, but the Red Devils scored four unanswered goals to pick up a 4-1 victory. 
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Amherst&#8217;s Jon Ascencio provide all the warm the Lancers&#8217; boys&#8217; soccer team needed on damp, chilly, Thursday by scoring three of Amherst&#8217;s four goals in the Lancers&#8217; 4-2 victory over visiting Nelson County.           ]]></description>
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The Sweet Briar Vixen softball team traveled to Randolph-Macon Ashland College (RMC) last week where it lost an Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) doubleheader to the Yellow Jackets.           ]]></description>
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The Sweet Briar College lacrosse team hosted the Ferrum College Panthers last Thursday at Babcock Field, and the Vixens won their second game of the season, beating the Panthers 20-5.           ]]></description>
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It was your typical home opener for the Amherst baseball team last Thursday: Snow was forecast for later that night and the game was a little rough around the edges as the Lancers committed eight errors on their way to a 10-7 victory over visiting Appomattox.
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The Sweet Briar College tennis team hosted the Virginia Wesleyan College (VWC) Marlins on Sunday in warm and breezy conditions, with the Marlins beating the Vixens 6-3.           ]]></description>
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Sweet Briar College&#8217;s softball team defeated Penn State Altoona 5-4 Saturday at home.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Temple girls win first regional game</title>
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Temple Christian outscored Christian Heritage 22-4 in the fourth quarter to win 61-35 in the VACA southern regional quarterfinal game at home on Feb. 24.           ]]></description>
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At 6-foot-4, Harrisonburg&#8217;s Shane Pouncey isn&#8217;t quite as tall as Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, but Lancer Phil Bowling approached the 328-pound center like he was guarding the NBA center.           ]]></description>
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One win away from qualifying for the state tournament the Lancers sputtered on the court as they hadn&#8217;t in weeks, losing 56-42 to William Byrd at Northside on Feb. 27.           ]]></description>
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Brookville&#8217;s suffocating defense contained Amherst&#8217;s many playmakers in the Bees&#8217; 55-47 Seminole district tournament win Feb. 18, but not before learning the hard way and digging out of a 13-point hole in the second quarter.           ]]></description>
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Junior Olivia Turner contributed to the Lancer girls indoor track team winning the Region III meet at Heritage Feb. 21. She cleared five feet in high jump, a new personal record, and placed sixth out of 17 competitors.
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Perhaps Brookville was looking ahead to a possible rematch with Liberty and forgot to focus on its semifinal matchup with Amherst on Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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With the speed and deft hands of seventh graders Kameron Marshall and Anitra Thomas, Temple Christian School dominated New Life Christian Academy Feb. 12.. The Crusaders (14-6) won 56-17 at home.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lions deal blow on senior night</title>
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Lion Chace Davis made all four of his foul shots in the final 17 seconds to lift New Life Christian Academy to a 51-45 win against Temple Christian School on Feb. 12.           ]]></description>
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The Govs jumped out to a 15-2 first quarter lead and kept Amherst at bay to win 50-19 at Nelson on Feb. 11.           ]]></description>
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With a plethora of top finishes and several personal-best performances in field events, Amherst&#8217;s boys and girls indoor track teams led early in the Seminole District meet Saturday. But the lead dwindled as the meet moved to running events, and Amherst finished third in boys and girls team competition.
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Amherst&#8217;s boys and girls swim teams had as many near-misses as they did Region III qualifiers at Friday night&#8217;s Seminole District championships at the Jamerson Family YMCA.           ]]></description>
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If Phil Bowling grimaces running down the court, it&#8217;s not a response to botched play. It&#8217;s the pain of  playing with a torn lateral meniscus, sustained during open gym in the fall.            ]]></description>
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Amherst opened the third quarter with a 10-point run against Heritage and held on through the fourth to win 63-52 in the first round of Seminole tournament action on Feb. 16.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Pioneer pressure trumps Lancers</title>
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The Lancers turned the ball over 22 times against Heritage, leading to about as many Pioneer points in their 63-25 loss on Feb. 5.           ]]></description>
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The Lancers placed sixth in the Seminole District wrestling tournament, qualifying eight wrestlers for the Region III meet at Rustburg Feb. 13-14.           ]]></description>
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When the girls track team makes its bid for a district title Saturday, many points will come from the field events. The Lancers excel in long jump and triple jump, while shot put belongs to senior Jericah Glover.           ]]></description>
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The Lancers came away with just two wins in their final dual meet of the season. Amherst lost 70-12 to visiting Brookville on Jan. 29.           ]]></description>
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          <title>First person: Kris Cecil, Bridgewater player</title>
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Kris Cecil is a senior guard for the Bridgewater College basketball team. Cecil graduated from Amherst County High School in 2005, and played under Eddie Carter. As of Monday, the Eagles are 10-9 overall and 6-4 in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.           ]]></description>
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Amherst surged to an 11-point lead in the fourth quarter and held off Jefferson Forest&#8217;s comeback to win 61-55 in Bedford on Monday. The win keeps Amherst (8-7, 5-4) at third place in Seminole District standings, ahead of fourth-place Forest (9-9, 5-5).           ]]></description>
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If the Lancers showing at the Mid-Area Track Classic on Jan 30 is any indication, it&#8217;s going to be an exciting postseason.           ]]></description>
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The Lancers shut down Rustburg&#8217;s leading scorer, Antoine Davis, to come away with a 50-37 win the Seminole District matchup Jan. 23.           ]]></description>
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Senior Anthony Losada is a member of the Lancer swim team. He swims the 100 backstroke and legs of the 200 and 400 freestyle relays. Losada also plays in the school band and competes with Academic Competition of Excellence (ACE) team. With all this Losada said, &#8220;To my family I&#8217;m just a schedule posted on the wall so they know where I&#8217;m at.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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Strong finishes in the freestyle events led the Lancer boys to a 63-33 victory against Liberty Jan. 8. In the tri-meet, Brookville beat both teams. Amherst lost 64-33 to the Bees.           ]]></description>
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With a small lead against Heritage entering the fourth quarter, the Lancers irritated coach Eddie Carter when Mario Vaughan set up Anthony Rose on a fast break for a failed alley oop. It was a characteristic occasional misstep.           ]]></description>
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Freshman Austin Holmes wrestles for the Lancers in the 152-pound weight class. His wins on Jan. 7 helped the Lancers (3-7) defeat district opponents Heritage and Liberty. Holmes pinned Liberty&#8217;s Chase Nelson in 2:27. He defeated Heritage&#8217;s Hoss Franklin 5-2. In the LCA Invitational Jan. 10-11, the Lancers placed 16th out of 24 schools.           ]]></description>
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Four minutes before tipoff, head coach Erin Begley climbed up the bleachers to her husband Jamie, who held their five-month-old son Ethan. She kissed the happy baby and helped Jamie take off his little jacket. Then back down to the court Begley went to coach the girls basketball game.           ]]></description>
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Junior Terrance Morse is a sprinter for the Lancer track team. He competes in the 55- and 60-meter dash and the 300-meter dash and sprint relays. Morse ran his first meet of the season Jan. 5, having missed the first meet in December with a mild knee injury.
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When Grandma Kay gave Salem Cone, then 9, a Christmas Eve gift of iceskates, an outfit and skating lessons, Salem was so excited she slept in the violet dress that night.           ]]></description>
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Sophomore Allison Stansberry, of Nashville, Tenn., swims for the Sweet Briar Vixens.           ]]></description>
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The Red Devil&#8217;s experience and the play-making ability of Antoine Davis carried Rustburg to a 53-49 victory against Amherst at Rustburg Dec. 18.           ]]></description>
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Amherst head coach Brandon Stanbery&#8217;s demeanor cooled as he watched wrestler after wrestler get pinned by the Cavaliers. He could barely even holler instructions as the Lancers were shut out 81-0 by visiting Jefferson Forest Dec. 17.           ]]></description>
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The Lancers&#8217; 63-39 loss in non-district action to Appomattox Dec. 10 came down to intangibles like enthusiasm, motivation and focus according to players and head coach Erin Begley.           ]]></description>
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For the third year running, boys basketball head coach Eddie Carter is behind his competitors by weeks. But as he looked over his team the afternoon of Dec. 12, he was genuinely upbeat.
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Broad Run won its first state championship Saturday at Liberty University, beating back-to-back defending state champion Amherst County 13-0.           ]]></description>
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Boys in the Lancer wrestling room looked to be an ideal example of how to stay fit during the holiday gluttony.           ]]></description>
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Cecil Phillips passed the final minutes of the state championship loss shuffling his feet in the snow with arms crossed firmly across his chest.
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When LaCear Hubbard was a freshman, coaches looked at her and teammates Candace Davis, Alyssa Knight and Shawna Kyle and told them they had amazing potential. That potential showed in a 2006 indoor state title for the girls team. It showed in school records and individual district, region and state wins.
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The Lancer defense was not about to let Pulaski County deny them another trip to the state championship.           ]]></description>
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Lancer coaches Kim Kelly and David McDonald are pushing the swim team harder than ever this season with more yards in the pool and a goal of every swimmer racing at least once in every event.
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Punt returners Mario Vaughan and Chris McDaniel made back-to-back returns in the second quarter to set up two touchdowns and give Amherst all the leverage it needed to win the Region III championship 40-10 against Jefferson Forest Friday.
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Jefferson Forest&#8217;s football team rides a five-game winning streak into Friday night&#8217;s Division 4, Region III championship at Amherst.           ]]></description>
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With tryouts just a couple days behind them and the first game in less than a week, the Lancer girls basketball team is in a rush to get used to playing together.
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The question hung over the field during the first half like the ominous fog that bore down on the players and blurred the sidelines: Could Amherst come from behind? Twice?
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Amherst faces a familiar foe in Jefferson Forest for the Division 4, Region III championship game Nov. 21 at Lancer Stadium.
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A tranquil starry sky belied a bitter wind as the first bobbing headlamps signaled runners crossing the James River into Amherst County.
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The Lancers finished the regular season with 9-1 record. The only loss was 24-21 to Brookville in the first game of the season on Aug. 22. Since then, Amherst has outscored teams 371-72, which is a testament to full team execution.           ]]></description>
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For an offense that&#8217;s often pounding out a few yards at a time, the Lancers busted plenty of timely scoring plays in their 38-20 victory over Heritage at City Stadium Friday night.
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The Monelison Trojans showed scoring power Oct. 30, scoring on every offensive possession in a 38-6 win against cross-county rivals, the Amherst Middle School Cougars.
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The crowd at mud bog races is in for a surprise when Derek Wright wins a race and emerges from the &#8217;78 Chevy pickup with 33-inch tires.           ]]></description>
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The Lancer boys cross country team didn&#8217;t have any breakout performances, but together than ran a solid race, taking fourth place in the Seminole meet behind Jefferson Forest, Heritage and Brookville on Oct. 22.           ]]></description>
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A powerful Bridgewater team swept the Vixens in three games (25-16, 25-16, 25-12) on Oct. 18. Sweet Briar (1-7 in the ODAC) was without its starting setter, Brooke Moody, who was recovering from an illness. Her absence forced the team to learn a new rotation in one practice.           ]]></description>
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Senior Sean Clark (217 pounds, 6-foot-4) leads the offensive line as the starting center for the Lancers. Amherst (7-1, 3-1 Seminole) hosts Staunton River on Oct. 24 for a 7 p.m. senior-night game.           ]]></description>
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The Lancers fell to Liberty (7-11, 4-6) in three games at home on Oct. 9. Amherst could get on a roll if there was more talking on the floor, said senior hitter Lauren Taylor.
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Seniors golfers Tyler Hunt and Colton King finished in the top half of the field but out of medal contention in the Group AA State Tournament at Old Trail Golf Course in Crozet on Tuesday.
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The Lancer boys get one more race to see what they&#8217;re capable of before the Seminole District Meet on Oct. 22. Amherst travels to Jefferson Forest&#8217;s Wolf Branch Farm, the site of districts, on Oct. 15 for a final regular season meet.
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When senior Jacqui Wendland said, &#8220;There&#8217;s constant struggle for places on our team,&#8221; she meant it was a plus. With just eight runners, the kind of competition that improves everyone could be hard to find.           ]]></description>
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Jonathan Fitzgerald took second place to lead Amherst in a 28-31 win against Brookville on Oct. 1. Staunton River was third with 76.

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Amherst jumped on the Red Devils in the opening minutes, scoring on their first possession when big gains by Jamar Glover and A.J. Parrish led to quarterback Anthony Rose running in a 7-yard touchdown en route to a 41-8 district win on Oct. 3.            ]]></description>
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As Courtney Madison&#8217;s spike ricocheted off a diving Heritage defender for game three&#8217;s winning point, she turned to her teammates with a resounding, &#8220;Finally.&#8221;
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Coaches expect quarterbacks Anthony Rose and Kirby Anderson to produce big scoring plays. The Lancer running backs get their share, too, and the offense has averaged 300 yards a game.           ]]></description>
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Amherst trailed Jefferson Forest by 11 strokes on the season going into the Seminole District Tournament but couldn&#8217;t make up that difference on home turf, failing to qualify as a team for regionals in competition at Winton Golf Course on Sept. 22.           ]]></description>
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Seven women set off down a gravel road, winding up through the tree line under a cloudy sky just after dawn the morning of Sept. 11.
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When starting quarterback Anthony Rose was sidelined by an ankle injury at G.W. on Sept. 12, it was clear the Lancers needed two quality quarterbacks.           ]]></description>
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Defensive end Timmy Johnson was so focused on George Washington threat David Wilson that the black stickers beneath his eyes read &#8220;David&#8221; and &#8220;20.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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One week after a turnover-riddled season-opening 24-21 setback to Brookville, which ended its 26-game winning streak, two-time defending Group AA, Division 4 state champion Amherst&#8217;s football team regrouped with a 42-6 victory at Charlottesville on Aug. 29.           ]]></description>
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The boys and girls cross country teams came away from their first meet with wins over Rustburg and Liberty at home on Sept. 3.           ]]></description>
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Starting junior Renesha Chiles often single-handedly changes the momentum of the game with her powerful spikes and stuff blocks. After scoring a point, the 5-foot-10 middle blocker sets her chin and broad shoulders firm, as if to challenge her opponents.           ]]></description>
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Amherst may have lost its match 3-1 to Nelson, but coach Dennis Gilbar said the close games bodes well for the Lancers. Nelson, a Group A school, plays at a caliber comparable to the Seminole District, he said.
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Amherst bounced back from its opening loss to Brookville with a 42-6 win over Charlottesville on Aug. 29.           ]]></description>
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As the boys cross country team finished their speed work (12 x 400-meter strides), they nearly drained the water cooler that coach Bill Chavis had lugged to the shady dirt road below the high school. That&#8217;s not surprising, since Chavis has 18 boys on the varsity team.           ]]></description>
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