High School

Thursday is named after Thor, that hammer-smacking god of Norse mythology.

Well, it may not have been Thor, but someone took a hammer to the hopes of Bedford County athletes last Thursday.

On that bleak day, three of the four county teams still in the hunt for State glory had their dreams dashed.

On the JF baseball diamond, Staunton River saw its unlikely run end, 9-5, at the hands of Alleghany.

On the William Byrd pitch, the Jefferson Forest soccer crew fell to arch nemesis E.C. Glass, 2-1.

They're starting a new tradition.  Unfortunately for Liberty, the Minutemen were the first to be pilloried in that new tradition.

Jefferson Forest, which will not win a Seminole District regular season title for the first time in over two decades, took out its frustration on the Minutemen, pounding the Libertarians at Minutemen Stadium.

In recent years, while the JF girls soccer team would win the battle of the scoreboard, it was Brookville that won the battle of the bruises.

Not this time.

The Lady Cavs came away with a convincing 3-0 win over the Bees.  The JF crew also gave as good as it got in a physical, though cleanly played match at Sabre Stadium.

Senior Ashlie Freeman set the tone when she took a feed from Alyssa Mitchell and blasted a sand wedge over the head of Bee keeper Kaily Weiss just a few minutes into the game.

 They did leave the Seminole, right?