Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Bulldog heading to Alabama next year has won honors for a standout year.
Stone Bridge High School’s Jonathan Allen, who plans to attend the University of Alabama next year, recently won two of Virginia’s major football awards. For starters, Allen was named the 2012-13 Gatorade Virginia Football Player of the Year, an award made in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports that recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high performance in academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field. Allen is the third Loudoun County football player to win the Gatorade Award. Stone Bridge’s Ed Wang won this award in 2005 and Alex Carter of Briar Woods won it last year. In addition, Allen also was named The Washington Post’s All-Met Defensive Player of the Year. As a …
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Ashburn veteran of the annual U.S. Army-sponsored game is working with this year’s marching band, which includes a Briar Woods musician, as two current Bulldogs prepare to take the gridiron.
Today’s U.S. Army All-American Bowl – which begins at 1 p.m. at the Alamodome in San Antonio and will be aired on NBC4 locally – has multiple ties to Ashburn as the athletes and musicians from the community begin to land spots regularly in the annual high school football spotlight. A year ago, then-Stone Bridge student Andre Racanelli marched into the stadium for the All-American Bowl, among the few chosen nationwide to participate. As Racanelli, now a tenor drummer and Cadet, marched last year, Alex Carter, now a freshman standout at Stanford, took the field. This year, Racanelli returns to work with the latest batch of featured musicians, which includes Briar Woods mellophonist William Ghrist. Racanelli is one of a half dozen Cadets …
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Early deficit, turnovers prove too much for the Stone Bridge offense, despite second-half push.
The Stone Bridge Bulldogs' otherwise perfect season ended in agonizing fashion Saturday as their gallant comeback attempt from a 20-point deficit fell just short in the game's final minute, giving the Lake Taylor Titan's their first AAA Division 5 state title. The Bulldogs controlled large stretches of the game, but were ultimately done in by a handful of crucial miscues. The talented Titans capitalized and claimed the 20-14 victory. Defenses dominated nearly the entire first half of this battle between undefeated powerhouses. The Titans started things off by sacking Burns on consecutive plays during the Bulldogs’ first series. The sacks were a harbinger of things to come, as the Titans’ pass rush gave the Stone Bridge fits the entire game…
Friday, December 7, 2012
All the info you need to prepare for the Briar Woods and Stone Bridge state title games this weekend.
Wedged almost perfectly between Thanksgiving and Christmas, local high school football fans have become accustomed to a new type of holiday tradition that falls on a Saturday early in December: Ashburn teams playing for state titles. Saturday, Dec. 8, fans all across Ashburn will have reason to cheer when the Stone Bridge Bulldogs and the Briar Woods Falcons attempt to add to their trophy cases. Stone Bridge face the Lake Taylor Titans, of Norfolk, for the AAA Division 5 crown, while two-time defending state champ Briar Woods aims for a third straight AA Division 4 title against Lynchburg’s Heritage Pioneers. Here’s a guide to this weekend’s action. Check back for coverage on Ashburn Patch. 12:07 p.m., Dec. 8, University of Virginia, Scott…
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Stone Bridge faces Lake Taylor, who earlier defeated Bulldogs' longtime nemesis Phoebus, for the Division 5 title next week.
The Stone Bridge Bulldogs on Saturday earned a spot the team's fifth state championship game in eight years after grinding out a 28-21 road win over the Hanover Hawks and gritty quarterback Sam Rogers in the AAA Division 5 semifinal. Stone Bridge appeared headed for a blowout early in the match up. Displaying the same type of surgical precision that helped the team score more than 60 points in two of its first three playoff games, the Bulldogs needed just nine plays and less than three minutes to take a 14-0 lead. Those Sterling Dailey touchdown runs capped 77- and 71-yard drives. But the game soon morphed into a seesaw battle packed with big plays and high drama, most of which Hawks’ QB Rogers supplied. The 6-foot, 210-lbs. quarterback – …
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Briar Woods welcomes Courtland at home, while Stone Bridge heads to Hanover; wins would send each team to championship.
Ashburn’s high school football fans are in for a treat Saturday, with Briar Woods facing a AA Division 4 state semifinal at home against Courtland High School, and Stone Bridge heading south to play Hanover High School in the AAA Division 5 semifinal. Wins would send the Bulldogs to the state championship for the fifth time in the eight years and the Falcons to a third straight championship in their respective divisions. The Briar Woods game kicks off in Brambleton at 1:30 p.m. The Falcons (13-0) enter the contest after thumping Loudoun County 31-0 to claim a third straight Region 2 championship. Courtland (9-4) comes to town after winning a tightly contested 18-15 Region 4 title game over Smithfield. The teams met in the state semifinals …
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Bulldogs erase an early 22-point deficit to win regional championship
Fans of Stone Bridge football had reason to be concerned the first half of Friday afternoon's Division 5 Northern Region championship game against Yorktown. Spurred by four Bulldog turnovers, the visiting Patriots (12-2) jumped out to a 29-7 lead, silencing the home crowd and stunning the Ashburn team as it bid for another state playoff run. But if Yorktown's early lead was the shock of the game, the Bulldogs’ response provided the awe. Stone Bridge (13-0) relied on a dominating rushing attack and big plays on special teams to reel off 33 points in the third quarter alone and run away with the 69-50 win. The Bulldogs’ scoring burst actually started in the second quarter. Facing the prospect of a three-score halftime deficit, the Stone …
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Ashburn's Jonathan Allen and Ryan Burns are among just 90 athletes nationwide to make the cut.
Administrators at Stone Bridge High School called a special assembly for the entire school Nov. 2 to celebrate the selection of defensive lineman Jonathan Allen and quarterback Ryan Burns to the 2013 U.S. Army All-American Bowl Jan. 5 in San Antonio, TX. The Army Selection Committee picks just 90 seniors from around the country to play in the annual game, which has given dozens of NFL players their first taste of the national spotlight. Current NFL players Andrew Luck (QB, Indianapolis Colts), Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow — who are competing for the quarterback spot for the New York Jets — are among the All-American Bowl’s more recent alumni. As Army All-American Bowl spokeswoman Lauren Winfrey put it, the athletes must “earn the right to …
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Monday, October 8, 2012
Blowout district victories keep Bulldogs' and Falcons' perfect seasons intact.
While RGIII's unexpected visit to Broad Run's win over Patriot High School created a lot of Ashburn buzz Friday night, across town Stone Bridge and Briar Woods were buzz-sawing through district foes and shutting down two of the areas leading rushers to extend their unbeaten streaks this season. Stone Bridge (6-0) hosted the Langley Saxons (3-3) and lightning quick running back Philip Mun, who entered the game on the heels of a 224-yard rushing performance against Madison. The Bulldogs’ defensive game plan focused on shutting down Mun and the Saxons option attack by playing disciplined, assignment-based football to avoid getting juked by the misdirection offense. While stats don't always tell the full story of a game, in this case they do. …
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Battle of the 'Burn turns into blowout with Bulldog big plays, stifling defense
In front of a packed house of maroon and gold faithful, Broad Run started Friday night's highly anticipated Battle of the 'Burn in near perfect fashion. Led by the gritty running of quarterback Brady Reitzel and tailback Da'Qwan Earl, the Spartans executed a methodical fifteen play, 75-yard drive that ate up nearly seven minutes of the first quarter, keeping the high-powered Stone Bridge offense off the field. The home crowd was raucous, and the Spartans appeared destined to capture an early lead and momentum in this clash of Ashburn football titans. But in less than a minute, all of that changed. The Spartans missed a short field goal as the drive stalled, and the Bulldogs needed just three plays to claim an early lead they would never …
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8:14 pm on Saturday, December 8, 2012
Ashburn teams 1-1 in finals. Congrats Briar Woods on 3-peat, big win over Heritage for state crown. Stone Bridge loses heartbreaker to Lake Taylor, as comeback bid falls short in last minute. Check back tomorrow for full coverage of both games. more ›