Rushing leaders, passing leaders, receiving leaders and scoring leaders

Thomas Dale’s Eric Williamson ran a 16:45 yesterday to help the Knights win the Central District boys cross country title over the upper course at Pocahontas State Park. It was the 18th consecutive in individual title for a Knights runner. Thomas Dale also won the team title, upsetting regular-season champion Matoaca. Coach-of-the-year honors went to Thomas Dale’s Bob Gulley.

Games in the next week

Dontae Jefferson passed for one touchdown and ran for another as L.C. Bird, ranked third in the T-D Top 10 Poll, knocked off No. 10 Monacan 21-7

Friday’s top high school performances

High school football for the next week

Meadowbrook, No. 4 in The Times-Dispatch Top 10 Poll, scored 26 points in the second quarter, building a 20-point lead that proved insurmountable for Petersburg.

Coach and quarterback explain what makes Clover Hill’s offense so explosive.

Published Oct. 3

Coach Mike Scott’s football team stands as something positive in Petersburg—trying to prove they’re more than their test scores and better than their circumstances.

Getting to Petersburg football practice in the afternoon is a lonely drive. Grass grows ankle high around empty driveways. Salons have hand-painted signs advertising over dark windows. No cars are parked at the gas pumps. Streets are blocked off in the middle of the day, but no one is working on them. Making it to the football field isn’t necessarily easy for the kids that live there, either. The dropout rate for Petersburg High School is more than four times the state average. Of those who stay in school, 60 percent qualified for free or reduced-price lunch this year.

Published October 1

Antone Exum tossed five touchdowns and ran for another as Deep Run, No. 3 in the Times-Dispatch Top 10 Poll, defeated John Marshall 51-20 last night in each team’s Colonial District opener.

Deadline for nominations for the Scholar-Athlete award for September is Oct. 8.

Delayed games, plus next week’s schedule