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Saints drop three in a row

Saints drop three in a row

After pummeling Benedictine on January 13, the St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes Saints have dropped three consecutive games, including a 52-44 loss to Landon on Tuesday. The two teams traded the lead throughout the matchup, but [...]

Savage ravages St. Albans

Savage ravages St. Albans

The Episcopal Maroon extended their win streak to 11 Tuesday, toppling a 6-11 St. Albans team. Kethan Savage carried his teammates to the 76-70 road victory with 27 points. It wasn’t the senior guard’s best performance [...]

Lady Titans tower over T.C. hoops

Lady Titans tower over T.C. hoops

Lacking the fans, accolades and constant coverage of their peers on the T.C. Williams boys basketball team, Gaby Moss, Christian Roberts, Johnee Lewis and coach Kesha Walton have quietly built a winning program. “We don’t get [...]

Saints secure first win

Saints secure first win

The St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes hockey squad got a much-needed win on a big stage earlier this month, beating St. John’s College High during a showdown at the Verizon Center. Hitting the ice following a [...]

Ireton grapplers take silver

Ireton grapplers take silver

Bishop Ireton’s wrestlers celebrated a second-place effort at the Capital Duals hosted by St. John’s over the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. Fast on the heels of a silver medal finish at the Alexandria City Tournament, [...]

Crenshaw honored by sportsman’s club

Crenshaw honored by sportsman’s club

The Alexandria Sportsman’s Club recognized rising St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes basketball star Dhyamond Crenshaw as the city’s athlete of the month for January. The junior forward leads her teammates in scoring, racking up 254 points [...]

Olde Town Fencing Club resuscitates ancient sport

Olde Town Fencing Club resuscitates ancient sport

If Joe Hoffman had to guess, generations of novels and movies romanticizing swordplay have turned increasingly more Americans on to fencing. That’s what did it for him at least. “I was basically just telling you my [...]

Indoor rowing event seeks volunteers

Indoor rowing event seeks volunteers

Anticipating the highest turnout in the MidAtlantic Erg Sprints’ history, event organizers hope to drum up extra volunteers in advance of its February showdown. Known as the world’s third-largest indoor rowing event, the Erg Sprints welcomed [...]

Maroon climbers can’t top Woodberry Forest

Maroon climbers can’t top Woodberry Forest

An indoor climbing meet ended in a tie between Episcopal and the North Quaker Lane boarding school’s perennial rival, Woodberry Forest, a little more than a week ago. During Episcopal’s third competition of the season, hosted [...]

Saints anointed city champions

Saints anointed city champions

St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes grapplers battled to the top of the annual citywide wrestling tournament, going undefeated against Alexandria’s other three high schools last weekend. The St. Stephen’s squad opened Saturday’s tournament with a 160-24 [...]