Lauren Vinson had one thing in mind when she let the pitch go to Great Bridge batter Kaitlynn Szczepanski in the semifinals of the Virginia High School League Group AAA softball tournament: get ahead in the count. Vinson’s Prince George team was locked in a scoreless battle in the bottom of the seventh inning. “I didn’t really know what she had done for their season. I didn’t know she was one of their big hitters,“ said Vinson, who had struck out Szczepanski in her previous at-bat. “I wasn’t as cautious as I should have been. I should have pitched away from her. When I saw the bat make contact, I was like ‘that’s outta here.‘“

Her first season of high school tennis completed, Emily Hahn is headed to France. She is certain to pick up some French culture, but it is tennis culture that is drawing her abroad.

Jazmin Pitts turned a lot of heads and caused a lot of head-shaking when she committed to the University of Virginia as a 15-year-old between her freshman and sophomore years at Cosby High School.