Patrick Hite
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I write about education and other topics for @NewsLeaderNOW , part of the @USAToday Network. @karihite ’s husband. Author @85Staunton . Pronouns: He/Him/His
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Final: Lee High 84, Amelia County 71. Lee High is the 2017 2A boys basketball state champion.
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Riverheads fans singing “Take Me Home Country Roads” at halftime. A Rappahannock County fan shouted, “You’re already home you bunch of hicks.” Guess that fan not happy her school is down 23 points.
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Apparently Burger King and the Washington Nationals are in the market for the same thing.
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Mike Ditka just denied he farted on Monday Night Countdown, then told
@LeBatardShow
it might be the crappiest show on radio.
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“The people that really broke it open for us were the Statler Brothers,” said
@DUANEALLEN
of the
@oakridgeboys
. “They made it OK to have a quartet that could have hits in country music."
@joebonsall
@TGSheppardmusic
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That Augusta County School Board meeting last night may have been the most bizarre one I've ever attended, and I went to one last year where a person swore she'd lick floors to prove COVID wasn't dangerous.
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Darius George has a bright future at Marshall via
@newsleadernow
@coldestdarius
@HerdMBB
@LeeHighMedia
@LeeHighPepClub
@LeeFightingBB
@VHSL_
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William Monroe’s Sam Brunelle (
@babybruney33
), the top junior basketball player in the country, announces her college choice: Notre Dame
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One of the smartest and most reasonable voices at ESPN, Mina Kimes is spot on here.
Saw people arguing that giving teams draft picks for hiring minority candidates was "demeaning."
While I don't think that idea makes sense...let's talk about what's truly demeaning. From
@OTLonESPN
this morning:
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Stuarts Draft wins the Class 2 cheer state championship for a third year in a row.
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You know what I miss in the high school basketball postseason? Teams actually having to win to keep their seasons alive.
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Joseph White has died. The owner of Staunton's Cranberry's gave up covering Washington D.C. sports to buy the eatery in 2015.
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Wilson Memorial High School’s track will be named in honor of its late coach, Gary Kessler. It will be named Gary Kessler Track at Steve Geiman Stadium. Augusta County School Board unanimously approved motion.
@run_wilson
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Fort Defiance senior Jacob Jones announced Friday night on Facebook that he will be running for Charleston Southern University next year. The Charleston, S.C., school is a Division 1 athletic program that's part of the Big South Conference.
@FDHSTribe
@FortSportsClub
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Lee High will play Amelia for the 2A state championship Thursday night at VCU. First time for Lee in state title game since 2006.
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Wilson Memorial’s
@Sarrrah44
goes over the 1,000-point mark for her high school career.
@WMGreenHornets
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Michael Bell is the new head football coach at Staunton High School
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Lee High AD David Tibbs just made it official tonight - Terrell Mickens will be the
@LeeFightingBB
head coach, with the interim tag being removed from his title.
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Leah Calhoun in tears as she walks off the court, tears of joy. She hits game-winning shot for Bison.
#VHSL
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Final Lord Botetourt 35, Riverheads 21. 52-game win streak comes to an end for Gladiators. Still tied for state record in consecutive victories.
#VHSL
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Wow. Rockbridge County beat Spotswood 69-56 for the Valley District Tournament boys championship. Breaks an 86-game Valley District winning streak for Spotswood.
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Final Waynesboro 43, Turner Ashby 41. De’nia Jones with the game-winner.
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Just found out that Lee High's
@coldestdarius
is the VHSL 2A player of the year and
@Hatch_22
is the VHSL 2A coach of the year. Congrats.
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Eric Potter, a 14-year-old who has autism, may have been a good luck charm for
@FightingMbu
basketball this season.
@MaryBaldwinU
@WMGreenHornets
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Kevin Madden is the new head basketball coach at Staunton High School. A member of the 1984 state championship team, Madden played for Dean Smith at UNC before returning to Staunton. He was most recently an assistant at Staunton.
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Jayden Williams scores. Lee High wins and advances to state championship next week.
#NL_Huddle
#LeevPoquoson
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Liver transplant successful for Fort Defiance's Sam Hill via
@newsleadernow
@FDHSTribe
@FortSportsClub
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Buffalo Gap’s Carter Rivenburg picks Virginia Tech for his college football choice.
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Wilson Memorial’s Cassidy Davis almost two months post surgery for a completely torn ACL and partially torn MCL in her left knee. The junior is making great progress.
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Kyle Stenzel’s PK puts Lee High up 2-0 with 10:20 left in boys soccer state championship
#VHSL
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Shenandoah District boys basketball player of the year: Lee High's Jarvis Vaughan. Coach of the year Lee High's Terrell Mickens.
#ShenandoahDistrictBBB
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Eric Payne is the new Staunton High School girls basketball coach.
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Lee High’s Oliver Wilson-Cook wins the VHSL Class 2 boys 3200 state championship, defending his outdoor title from a year ago.
@LeeHighMedia
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Marshall's Darius George part of March Madness via
@newsleadernow
@LeeHighMedia
@LeeFightingBB
@LeeHighPepClub
@HerdMBB
@HerdNation
@coldestdarius
@misshugahill
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Technical difficulties with the playing of national anthem tonight at Wilson Memorial. So the fans just sung it.
#volleyball
#NLSports
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Jarrett Hatcher just texted me that the last Lee High regional championship in football before tonight was in 1990, following a Lee state title in hoops in 1990. Now both happened again in 2017.
@LeeHighMedia
@LeeFootballFans
#NL_Huddle
#LurvLee
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Final: Stuarts Draft 4, Richlands 1. Cougars will play for 2A girls state title Saturday.
#NLSports
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Carolina, Duke, Virginia and Clemson. Can we pack up and move this thing back to Tobacco Road where it belongs?
#ACCTournament
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Happy 80th birthday to hall-of-fame coach Paul Hatcher. Winner of four state championships, Hatcher led his teams to 897 wins, including a state record 85 in a row from 2003-06. He was the basketball coach at Lee High (now
@StauntonHS
) for 43 years.
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Congratulations to Fort Defiance’s 2018 Hall of Fame inductees.
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Getting a tour of the new and improved Staunton High School this morning.
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Lee High's Jarvis Vaughan named Region 2B boys basketball player of the year. Buffalo Gap's Leah Calhoun named Region 2B girls basketball player of the year.
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VHSL names Lee High’s Kyle Stenzel Class 2 Boys Soccer Player of the Year; Lee’s Homes Tehrani Class 2 Boys Soccer Coach of the Year
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It's both relevant and newsworthy because, agree with wearing a mask or not, Augusta County Public Schools said to fans, if you want to attend games you'll wear masks. And yet, adults can't follow a simple rule for two hours.
@swordsupcavs
@Patrick_Hite
He/him/his is one reason why the local newspaper is dying. Writing garbage not relevant and not newsworthy.
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Terrell Mickens has done an amazing job with this
@LeeFightingBB
team. Players deserve credit also, obviously. What a difference from where they were early season to now, district tournament champions.
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Overlooked in the MLB draft,
@StauntonBraves
' Andrew Czech is proving he deserves a chance at the next level with a strong summer so far
@WalshUBaseball
@WalshCavaliers
@VBLBaseball
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I’m just a reporter and I’m still on a high after
@_calhounnn_
’s shot to give
@BGHSgbball
the win.
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@darrenrovell
But if the score was 65-31 at halftime I’d find another game to watch. But 94-31? I’ll keep watching.
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Lee High's Jayden Williams named Shenandoah District player of the year. Lee's Scott Girolmo coach of the year.
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Oak Hill’s Keyontae Johnson, who has signed with Florida, on the receiving end of an alley-oop at the Rock the Ribbon.
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Final score: Riverheads 35, Chilhowie 7. Riverheads wins the
@VHSL_
Class 1 football state championship. It's the Gladiators third-straight state title and the sixth in program history, all since 2000.
#NL_Huddle
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Goforth just asked the crowd that if they think teachers are as bad as they've been saying, why do they want their kids around them five days a week.
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Staunton's Tavion Hall feels like he's found his home with Mary Baldwin baseball
@StauntonHS
@SHS_StormMedia
@MaryBaldwinU
@FightingMbu
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And I'm checking on the rumor that the VHSL has changed this from a state track meet to a state swim meet.
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Note to the rest of the high school basketball season: good luck living up to the Lee High-East Rock game Saturday night.
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Dealing with the fallout: After DUI, former coach Jarrett Hatcher finds life in standup comedy
#basketball
#comedy
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Staunton Braves fire popular manager George Laase, make other leadership changes via
@newsleadernow
@VBLBaseball
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I assume the parents shouting instructions from the stands have just forgotten there’s a coach that’s paid to do that job.
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My fantasy football tribute to Mantzoukas &
@ComedyBangBang
. No one in the
@NL_Sports
Primo league will get it.
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Draft wins 16-13 on 4-yard pass from a Campbell to Lehmann
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.
@BGHSgbball
's
@_calhounnn_
and
@LeeFightingBB
's
@VaughanJarvis
land on all-state 1st team. Lee's
@Jayskins217
& Wilson's
@Sarrrah44
earn 2nd-team honors via
@newsleadernow
@VHSL_
@WMGreenHornets
@BGHSGBBALLSTATS
@LeeHighMedia
@LeeHighPepClub
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Buffalo Gap’s Amaya Lucas finished with 29 points and 11 rebounds in her team’s win. She tried pulling her hood over her head to escape my camera after the game. No luck.
@GAPSportsCorner
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Steve Girolmo put 25,000 miles on his car last year driving from New York to Virginia to help his son, Scott, coach Lee High football. Both men loved every minute of it. via
@newsleadernow
@LeeFootballFans
@LeeHighMedia
@LivoniaHS
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Joseph White remembered as unique individual by friends, colleagues in Washington D.C. media
@granthpaulsen
@lizclarketweet
@dcsportsbog
@ZacBoyer
@Snide_Remarks
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Brad Wygant is the new football coach at Buffalo Gap. He replaces Andy Cline, who stepped down after this past season. Wygant was an assistant coach at Wilson Memorial.
#VHSL
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Stuarts Draft’s Rissa Martin scores on PK with no time remaining in 4th OT to give Cougars 1-0 girls soccer win over Central Woodstock in Region 2B quarterfinals.
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A first. Snow for the football opener. Also a first, the football opener in February. Wilson at Waynesboro
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This came in the mail today. Guess on know what I’ll be doing tonight.
@ComedyBangBang
@ScottAukerman
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Former Buffalo Gap stars
@_calhounnn_
and
@Hannnnah_3
helping
@FightingMbu
basketball resurgence
@BGHSgbball
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Lee’s Jayden Williams VHSL Class 2 offensive player of the year.
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Final: Riverheads 13, Honaker 1. Riverheads wins the Class 1 state baseball championship, second in school history.
#Class1Baseball
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