The Cosby boys volleyball team’s Achilles’ heel this season has been an inability to handle adversity in some big matches. Get down, they’re out. Great Bridge of Chesapeake had the Titans backpedaling last night in the semifinals of the Virginia High School League Group AAA tournament at the Siegel Center. Cosby won the first two games, but the unbeaten Wildcats won the third and fourth sets and served for the match in Game 5.

MONETA - High scores were the order of the day at the Virginia High School League Group AAA golf tournament at Waterfront Country Club. The favorite, Westfield, posted four counting scores that totaled 312. Fellow Northern Virginia representative James Madison trails by two strokes. Defending state champion James River, the runner-up from the Central Region, is tied for third with Loudoun Valley at 327. Deep Run trails the field with 332, but the difference between third and eighth is just five shots.

All games at Westfield High
Tickets $10
Yesterday, semifinals
Menchville 6, Stafford 4 (completion of quarterfinal)Menchville 6, West Springfield 5
Hanover 3, Frank Cox 0
  Final, today
Hanover vs. Menchville, 4 p.m.
Yesterday, semifinals
Loudoun Valley 2, South County 0

All games at Westfield High
Tickets $10
Today, semifinals
Completion of Menchville-Stafford quarterfinal, 1 p.m.West Springfield vs. Menchville-Stafford winner, 4
Frank Cox vs. Hanover, 7
  Final, tomorrow
Semifinals winners, 4 p.m.
Today, semifinals
Loudoun Valley vs. South County, 5 p.m.

GROUP AAA All games at Westfield High
Tickets $10
Tomorrow, semifinals
West Springfield vs. Menchville-Stafford winner, 3 p.m.Frank Cox vs. Hanover, 7
  Final, Sunday
Semifinals winners, 3 p.m.
Tomorrow, semifinals
  Loudoun Valley vs. South County, 4 p.m.
Great Bridge vs. Prince George, 7 Final, Sunday

Enough of this rain, already. Rain has plagued high school sports all spring, and now it has thrown the Virginia High School League Group AAA baseball, softball and soccer tournaments at Westfield High School in Northern Virginia for a scheduling loop. A Noah’s Ark deluge Wednesday soaked the fields at the Fairfax County high school. More rain fell yesterday and with more projected today, VHSL officials decided yesterday to move the semifinals scheduled for today to tomorrow. Championship games will be played Sunday.

GROUP AAA All games at Westfield High
Tickets $10
Tomorrow, semifinals
West Springfield vs. Menchville-Stafford winner, 3 p.m.Frank Cox vs. Hanover, 7
  Final, Saturday
Semifinals winners, 3 p.m.
Tomorrow, semifinals
  Loudoun Valley vs. South County, 4 p.m.
Great Bridge vs. Prince George, 1 Final, Saturday

The state champion Mills Godwin girls tennis team decided to wait for the boys team before taking its traditional victory plunge in the nearby James River. To earn their river dip yesterday, the Eagles boys had to beat Colonial District and Central Region rival Deep Run in the final of the Virginia High School League Group AAA team tournament at Huntington Park. The Eagles’ previous three state titles (2002, 2003 and 2005) had come against district and region rival Douglas Freeman.

The Mills Godwin and Deep Run boys tennis teams can hardly be more equal. When the two Colonial District teams met during the regular season, Deep Run won 5-4. It was the first time Deep Run had beaten Mills Godwin. The Eagles turned the tables in the Central Region team final, winning 5-4 in match that took a couple of days to complete.

NEWPORT NEWS—The Mills Godwin girls tennis team beat Frank Cox of Virginia Beach 5-0 today to earn its eighth consecutive trip to the Group AAA championship match. The Eagles are two-time defending champions and have won five of the past seven crowns. Cox won the two the Eagles didn’t. Mills Godwin will learn its opponent later today.

With more power than grace, Jazmin Pitts came down the edge of the court, driving for the basket. Cosby’s big center doesn’t often take the ball baseline to baseline, but with her Titans trailing Princess Anne by five in a Group AAA semifinal, she snatched the rebound from a missed one-and-one and headed for home. Elizabeth Williams, the Cavaliers’ 6-3 sophomore, met her under the Cosby basket. In a collision of four-foul carrying big players, Williams spilled onto the hardwood. Pitts dumped in the layup that would have cut the deficit to three.

Nationally ranked Crimson Wave falls to King’s Fork of Suffolk before capacity crowd at Siegel Center.

As she crossed halfcourt, dropping back into defense, Becca Wann clenched her fists down low by her sides and flexed—just a little bit. Just under eight minutes into the Group AAA quarterfinals, the Cosby junior already felt good. Her 3-point shot had been a little off the past few games, but with 9 seconds left in the first quarter, she was good on her second consecutive attempt.

The Central Region basketball tournament championship games originally were scheduled to be played Monday. That meant Petersburg and John Marshall had either four or five days before play commenced in the Virginia High School League state tournament depending on which team won and lost. Then it snowed. The title games were played Wednesday night. Petersburg (29-0) won 68-58 and earned the right to play tonight against Northern Region runner-up Hayfield (21-7). Game time is 8:45 p.m. at the Siegel Center.

The bounce is back in Jasia Richardson’s step. Last night she bounce, bounce, bounced her way to her second Group AAA triple jump title at the Boo Williams Sportsplex in Hampton. Leading all the way, the J.R. Tucker High senior’s 40-2¼ leap on her first attempt in the finals bested Grassfield’s Karimah Shepherd by 5 inches.