Hermitage————————————- 13 21 25
Monacan————————————- 25 25 27
Highlights: Matt Butta (M) 10 kills, 1 ace; Grayson Williams (M) 6 kills, 2 aces; Nick Robertson (M) 22 assists, 2 kills; Bryan Hogan (M) 14 digs Records: Hermitage 0-5; Monacan 1-1

2008 records: 7-0 Colonial, 8-3
  Offense: Inexperience is the key word. Nine starters have departed. RB Easton Gordon (5-9, 170, Sr.) and center Josh Dolin (5-11, 235, Sr.) are the only holdovers. Gordon should be one of the region’s top running backs. Brendon Riddick (5-11, 175, Jr.) takes over at QB. He has a superb target in Derrick Britt (5-9, 170, Sr.). The line has good size with all the projected starters weighing 230 or more. Three of them are juniors.

Lee-Davis 3 4—7 Hermitage 0 0—0 L-D: A. Reynolds 3, K. Reynolds 3, Davis Saves: Clark (L-D) 0; Sairlamb-Mason (H) 22 Records: Lee-Davis n/r; Hermitage 0-2

Gene Crane, a former track star at Hermitage High School, will join five others in the latest class selected for the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame. In 1977, Crane set a school record in the steeplechase that still stands when he ran a time of 8:47.2 on the way to a third-place finish in the 1978 State Championships. He also set a school mark in the 5,000 meters that day, finishing fourth. Crane took second place in the steeplechase at the 1979 Metro Outdoor Track & Field Championships. He finished second in the event at the Atlantic Coast Relays and the State Championships that season.

Atlee————————————- 5 1—6
Hermitage————————————- 0 0—0 A: Mackay 2, Dietrick 2, Leitch, Richards Saves: Lassiter (A) 1; Fairland-Mason (H) 14 Records: Atlee 1-0; Hermitage 0-1

Here’s the irony that makes even Jameel Sewell laugh: During the quarterback’s academic suspension from the University of Virginia last year, he tutored at Charlottesville’s Buford Middle School. Buford’s principal, Eric Johnson, knew some explanation would be requested. Parents had questions, as did Buford students attuned to Cavaliers’ athletics. How can an academically suspended guy tutor? What kind of signal does that send?

The 40th anniversary Big Band Summer Concert with Bill Zickafoose and The Continentals takes place tonight from 7 to 9 at Hermitage High School, 8301 Hungary Spring Road. The free concert, with Floyd Henderson as emcee, is sponsored by the Henrico County Division of Recreation and Parks.

Marjorie Webb Rowe’s love of writing was the common theme that ran through her two careers. Mrs. Rowe, who died Monday at 84, was an English and journalism teacher who took a 15-year break from education to work as a reporter and editor for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The widow of longtime country music columnist Norman Rowe, Mrs. Rowe began work at The Times-Dispatch as a reporter in 1959. She was the editor for what was then called the women’s department when she left in 1974 to return to teaching.

After seven years as a high school assistant football coach at L.C. Bird (one year) and Meadowbrook, Troy Taylor was antsy to be a head coach. Taylor left Group AAA, Division 6 Meadowbrook for Group A, Division 1 Amelia County last season. The Raiders featured one of the area’s top running backs, Tyrell Banks, and finished 5-5. Little did Taylor know it would be his only year at Amelia. His boss at Meadowbrook, Bill Bowles, retired, and Taylor, 30, is back at Meadowbrook as the head coach.

Samantha Stephenson is the recipient of the 2009 Pamplin Leader Award at Hermitage High School in Henrico County. The Pamplin Leader is a one-year $1,000 tuition scholarship to Virginia Tech. It is presented annually to a top student from each public high school in Virginia. It was established by Robert B. Pamplin Sr. (VT, Class of ‘33) and Robert B. Pamplin Jr., to acknowledge students for academic achievement, community service and leadership experience.

The cancellation of yesterday’s scheduled track meet at Hanover was the 76th postponement or cancellation for Hanover this spring.

Other members of The Times-Dispatch 2008 All-Metro Wrestling team.

college football CHARLOTTESVILLE Every time he turned around, Jeffrey Fitzgerald got a hug or a handshake - or both - from former teammates and coaches at the University of Virginia. “He’s not playing for us, so we can’t call him one of our players, but we still think of him as being one of our guys,“ Virginia football coach Al Groh said.

Basketball coaching vacancies have opened at Hermitage and Mills Godwin. Health is a factor in both situations. Joe Coulter has resigned as the Hermitage boys coach after a seven-year run. The Panthers compiled a 113-60 record during his tenure. The Panthers won three Colonial District titles, and Coulter was district coach of the year three times.

Hermitage student accused of sl apping vice principal faces assa ult count A Hermitage High School student was charged with assaulting a vice principal at the school on Wednesday, police said. Jessie Lynn Shelton, 18, of the 10100 block of Flanders Road was arrested after he allegedly slapped the school administrator around 11 a.m., said Henrico County police spokesman Lt. Doug Perry.