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          <title>Anthony Rose to join two brothers at JMU</title>
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Lancer standout football player Anthony Rose will be joining his two brothers, Peter and Jon, at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. Rose, joined by his parents, John and Mary Rose, signed a letter of intent on March 4 to play for the Dukes. Also at Rose&#8217;s side was head coach Cecil Phillps.
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          <title>Crusaders end season in final four of tourney and with 14&#45;3 record</title>
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The Temple Christian School girls varsity team won its last game of the season to finish third in Virginia Association of Christian Athletics state play with a 14-3 record. The Crusaders topped Grace Christian 39-36 in the state consolation game.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Former Lancer wins at ODAC championships</title>
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Lacear Hubbard wasted no time fitting in with the college track world. The former Lancer track standout won first place in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference champion-ships in the long jump with a leap of 18 feet, 2&#189; inches.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Crusaders girls basketball falls to Warriors</title>
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The Virginia Association of Christian Athletics regional championships on Feb. 27 in Roanoke pitted the two No. 1 seeds, Temple Christian School against Faith Christian Academy.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Morse wins two state track titles, helps Lancers finish third</title>
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Amherst County&#8217;s Terrance Morse put the Lancer team on his back and carried them to a third place win in the group AA state championships held Feb. 27 at Liberty University.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Undefeated Crusaders win regional crown</title>
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Temple Middle School basketball went undefeated, won an invitational tournament held at Faith Christian School, and won the regional Virginia Association of Christian Athletics tournament last weekend at Timberlake Christian School.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lady Lancers lose to Lady Govs</title>
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The Amherst girls basketball team is still seeking a win this season and got one more tuneup before the start of this week&#8217;s Seminole District tournament when they hosted Nelson County on Saturday and lost 47-35.
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          <title>Amherst boys fall to Nelson</title>
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With district tournaments looming, Amherst hosted Nelson County Saturday as a final tune-up for each team and the Governors made the most of their opportunity to come away with some added confidence by cruising past the Lancers 63-46.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Crusaders split games</title>
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The Temple Crusaders boys team, coming off a high-scoring affair against Shenandoah Valley last week, fell to Faith Christian 85-60 on Feb.15.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lancers seize more wins</title>
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The frigid weather could not cool off the hot shooting of Amherst County&#8217;s Tyler Brown as he burned the nets for 17 points. He led the Lancers to a 71-45 Seminole District win over Rustburg on Feb. 8.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Girls&#8217; winning streak snapped, boys win in OT</title>
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The Timberlake Christian Tornadoes spoiled the Temple Christian Crusaders girls&#8217; perfect record on Jan. 26 with a 36-33 VACA win. The winners were lead by Danielle Alley&#8217;s 24 points, 18 rebounds and seven blocks.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lady Lancers yield to the Lady Govs, 52&#45;26</title>
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The Amherst girls basketball team continued with its struggles this season, falling 52-26 to Nelson County in Lovingston last week.
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          <title>Varsity team falls to Nelson</title>
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The Lancers varsity basketball team still is searching for consistency after having gotten a late start due to the extended football season.           ]]></description>
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John Dews hit his second game-winning shot in a week, drilling a 3-pointer as time expired to give the Amherst JV squad a 67-66 victory over Liberty on Jan 19.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Swim team prepping for the win</title>
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Amherst County High School has had wins against Heritage High School and an overall record of 1-3 for both the girls and boys teams.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Student&#8217;s baseball dreams come true</title>
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If someone had asked Josh Massie a year ago whether he thought he might play college baseball, he probably would have laughed.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lady Lancers seek to break losing streak</title>
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The Amherst County High School varsity girls basketball team feverishly seeks a win, though the victory they covet won&#8217;t cap an undefeated season or score them a state championship title.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Junior Varsity amasses wins</title>
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Monday, Jan 11th, John Dews scored with 1.2 seconds left to give Amherst a 37-35 victory over Jefferson Forest on Jan. 11. Dews led Amherst with 11 points, Floyd added 10. Amherst improved to 5-1 on the season.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Amherst&#8217;s win over Bees puts Carter at 200</title>
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The Brookville Bees varsity boys basketball team came into Amherst Monday night with a 4-4 record. The Lancers were sitting on an undefeated record &#8211;&#8211; actually, the Amherst team had yet to play a game.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lancers&#8217; Crawford adds to family&#8217;s coaching legacy</title>
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Though it may be his first year as a head coach at Amherst County High School, Joey Crawford, the Lancers&#8217; new junior varsity boys&#8217; basketball coach, has plenty of coaching experience to fall back on when he needs it.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Tinsley stands out in Flames&#8217; defense</title>
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The last two seasons have been good to the Liberty Flames.            ]]></description>
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          <title>For the second year, Amherst loses to Broad Run in championship</title>
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Amherst&#8217;s unfinished business remained undone after Saturday&#8217;s Group AA, Division 4, state championship football rematch with Broad Run.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Results split in boys, girls basketball games against Nelson County</title>
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Nelson County and Amherst split a girls and boys junior varsity basketball doubleheader at Amherst last Thursday. The Governors won the girls game 30-13, but Lancers bounced back in the boys&#8217; game to take the nightcap 44-20 as 10 Amherst players scored.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:55:44 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Lancers look to championship rematch against Broad Run</title>
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The Lancers will once again meet Broad Run the Group AA, Division 4, state championship game this Saturday in Blacksburg at Lane Stadium.           ]]></description>
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By applying relentless pressure on Christiansburg sophomore quarterback Brenden Motley and capitalizing on two turnovers and a failed fourth-down conversion, Amherst&#8217;s defense saved the day in Sunday&#8217;s Group AA, Division 4, state semifinal postponed by Saturday&#8217;s snow.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Blackwater Rollers win first home bout against Chemical Valley</title>
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Long before the Rollers were ready for a home bout &#8211;&#8211; they practice at AJ Skateworld &#8211;&#8211; they had to learn just what roller derby was, since most of the girls had little experience with the sport.           ]]></description>
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After capturing their fourth consecutive Division 4, Region III championship with a surprisingly easy 47-22 victory over Harrisonburg, Amherst County&#8217;s football team prepares to host a team very similar to itself in Saturday&#8217;s Group AA, Division 4, semifinals.           ]]></description>
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Amherst (11-0) will host Harrisonburg this Friday in the Region III Division 4 championship match after knocking off Spotswood 53-14 in the semifinals.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Trading places in Powder Puff football game</title>
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The annual Amherst High School Powder Puff football game was played on November 16 in front of a large supportive crowd.
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          <title>Youth football title game: Amherst falls in final</title>
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The Amherst Wolverines Mites team lost a close 6-0 game on Nov. 14 in the championship against Rustburg. The Red Devils avenged an earlier-season loss to the Amherst squad, which beat them with the same score. The young athletes got to play at Lancer stadium and got a small taste of turf action.
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After two weeks of practice, the Amherst Lancers will return to football action Friday when the team hosts Spotswood in the Region III Division 4 semifinals.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Saturday a good day for the 5K Turkey Trot and Fun Run</title>
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A sunny morning with unusually warm November temperatures made for a great day of racing in Elon on Nov. 14.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Temple Christian falls to Roanoke Valley Homeschoolers</title>
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The Temple Christian Crusaders volleyball season came to an end on Oct. 23 at the hands the Roanoke Valley Homeschoolers.
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Amherst cross country girls coach Teri Grey has added new meaning to the art of coaching. No, it&#8217;s not great words of wisdom or a new training method for better times, but rather it&#8217;s the stroke of a pen.           ]]></description>
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The football game between Monelison Middle School and Amherst Middle School may have been anti-climatic, as the Trojans cruised to a 34-0 victory Oct. 29, but Amherst County High School varsity football coach Cecil Phillips was there to put it all into perspective.
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If football games were beauty pageants, Friday night&#8217;s Amherst-Rustburg matchup would not have even made it out of the first round. 
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Two freshmen earned All-Seminole District honors last Wednesday at Jefferson Forest&#8217;s 3.1-mile Wolf Branch Farm course, pacing Amherst County to its fourth consecutive team qualification for today&#8217;s Region III meet at Greenfield Park.
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In the first half of Friday night&#8217;s football game at Lancer Stadium, Jefferson Forest defused Amherst County&#8217;s explosive offense.           ]]></description>
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The Amherst junior varsity football team has lost four of its six games this season but scored a big win last week when it knocked off E.C. Glass, 22-14.           ]]></description>
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Amherst continued its march toward a Seminole District title with a 52-10 victory Friday night over E.C. Glass in Lynchburg.
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&#8220;Unfinished Beesness&#8221; read one of the banners hanging outside Amherst&#8217;s football fieldhouse prior to Friday night&#8217;s showdown with defending Seminole District champion Brookville at Lancer Stadium.            ]]></description>
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For a team that has been in existence for just three years, the Temple Christian volleyball team has shown remarkable growth.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Lancers kicker began honing his skill long ago</title>
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Somewhere, Tyler Dawson is kicking a football. These days he spends most of his time down in the hollow bowl of Lancer Stadium, honing a skill that had him kicking on the varsity team as a freshman a year ago.            ]]></description>
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Amherst hits the road again this week to play Bassett before hosting Brookville on the following Friday in an important Seminole District showdown.            ]]></description>
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Amherst hosted the Region III golf tournament on Monday at Winton Country Club and a pair of Lancer golfers posted promising scores, though neither qualified for the Group AA state tournament next week in Williamsburg.
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Transitions in sports are tough. Whether it&#8217;s a leap from the junior varsity to the varsity or from the minor leagues to the majors there is usually a learning curve that must be overcome. Overcoming that curve is the aim of an instructional baseball league that has three teams in the Timberlake area, two in Rustburg and Madison Heights and one team in both Amherst and Appomattox.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:05:43 EST</pubDate>
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Pulaski County&#8217;s final drive Friday night was mostly for show, used mainly to bolster stats against Amherst&#8217;s second unit. Before that 99-yard drive, there weren&#8217;t many stats to bolster.
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Wayne Ramsey&#8217;s season has been frustrating at times &#8212; sitting on the sidelines during races and knowing that if he were out there, he could compete for the win.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:48:03 EST</pubDate>
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Amherst junior Kirby Anderson was overshadowed by senior teammate Anthony Rose in the halftime homecoming festivities of Friday night&#8217;s football game against Liberty High School.           ]]></description>
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Perhaps it was the 13-0 loss to Broad Run in the Group AA, Division 4, state championship game last December at Liberty University. Perhaps it was the fact Amherst graduated its entire starting offensive line. But it seemed like this season, more people than ever were wanting to see the Lancers prove something before saying it was the same old Amherst team that had been to three consecutive state title games.
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After posting a surprising 41-0 shutout of GW-Danville on Friday night at Lancers Stadium, Amherst&#8217;s football team got to watch four of its coaches &#8212; Josh Woods, Mike Padgett, Mike Crist and head coach Cecil Phillips &#8212; do 41 pushups each, one at a time, in the middle of the post-game huddle.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:40:13 EST</pubDate>
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Amherst County football coach Cecil Phillips employed two contrasting game plans in the first and second halves of Friday night&#8217;s Seminole District-opener against Heritage at City Stadium.           ]]></description>
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Anthony Fletcher and Josh Braxton, who played key roles in Amherst&#8217;s back-to-back Group AA, Division 4, state football championships before serving season-long suspensions as juniors last fall, were back in action for the Lancers in this past Friday night&#8217;s season-opening 66-12 rout of Tabb.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:05:03 EST</pubDate>
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Dan Hudson, a baseball player with deep roots in Amherst County, completed a rapid rise through the minor leagues this season to pitch with the Chicago White Sox last week.           ]]></description>
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The Amherst United Boys U17 travel team, coached by Steve Gordon, brought home a championship in the recent 2009 Danville Summer Sizzle Soccer Tournament held at Dan Daniels Park in Danville.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:03:16 EST</pubDate>
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The Sweet Briar Volleyball team traveled to Roanoke College for the  Maroon Classic Invitational Tournament held Friday and Saturday where the Vixens went 1-3 last weekend.           ]]></description>
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Amherst&#8217;s football team opened its season firing on all cylinders last Friday night at home.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:58:38 EST</pubDate>
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You&#8217;re not hallucinating. That voice you&#8217;re hearing address the crowd at just about any major sporting event in the Lynchburg area is the voice of one man. That man is Madison Heights native Chuck Young.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:58:21 EST</pubDate>
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With his resources slowly dwindling away and sponsors not lining up to run with his team, defending South Boston Speedway Late Model Series track champion Wayne Ramsey will not run the final two races of the season at SoBo that have points implications.           ]]></description>
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Hoping to shake off the rust that accumulates over a long off-season and overcome the jitters that naturally accompany the first game of a new season, the Amherst Lady Lancers faced off against the Nelson County Lady Governors last Thursday.           ]]></description>
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In the first match of the year on Aug. 25, Faith Christian School of Roanoke defeated the local squad 5-1. In a closer game two days later, Faith Christian Academy of Hurt blanked the Crusaders, 3-0.           ]]></description>
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After winning back-to-back Group AA, Division 4, state titles in 2006 and &#8217;07 and finishing as the runner-up to Broad Run last fall, Amherst is on the verge of dynasty status &#8212; if it&#8217;s not there already.           ]]></description>
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There&#8217;s no place like home. At least, that was the case for Amherst junior Casey Campbell in Monday&#8217;s conclusion of the sixth and final Seminole District regular-season golf match, played on his home course of Winton Country Club.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lancer Chris &#8216;Smack&#8217; McDaniel ready for action after surgery</title>
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The sun is just starting to heat up as the Amherst Lancers wrap up an early morning practice nearly two weeks ago. The question is simple, addressed to two of the stars of a stingy Amherst defense that allowed only 10.5 points per game last year; what makes this defense so good?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:16:06 EST</pubDate>
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The mood around the Amherst County High School Lady Lancers volleyball team practices is positive.           ]]></description>
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When a team&#8217;s only loss comes on a two-point conversion that caromed off a defender&#8217;s helmet and somehow found its way into the hands of a Brookville player to seal a one-point come-from-behind victory, the Amherst JV has good reason to expect more success this year.
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After two straight championship seasons in 2006 and 2007, no one would have begrudged the Amherst Lancers a year off. But as the wins continued to pile up in 2008, the improbable began to look more and more probable.           ]]></description>
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Peter Rose once feared his football career was over. It appears James Madison University will give him another chance to play.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:08:20 EST</pubDate>
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With a berth in the Dixie Girls Softball World Series in Sumter, S.C., on the line, the Amherst American Darlings fell one run short in last Wednesday&#8217;s state title game.            ]]></description>
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After more than a month of all practice and no competition, Amherst American Darlings manager John Mann feared his squad would show signs of the rust that inevitably builds up over a long layoff. His fears were validated in the opening round of the Virginia State Ponytails Tournament where the Darlings fell 15-1 in five innings to Fluvanna County.            ]]></description>
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The Madison Heights Dixie Youth O-Zone League (11- and 12-year-olds) team got a stellar performance from starting pitcher D.A. Christian and a three-run bomb from Jarred Bryant in Madison Heights&#8217; four-run first inning en route to a 5-4 victory over Rustburg at the Brookville Ruritan athletic fields last week.
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Two weeks before the District 2 Dixie Belles Softball Tournament began at Timberlake, the Amherst Nationals team made a commitment.           ]]></description>
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Amherst hosted the 2009 Amherst County Lancer Shootout 7-on-7 passing tournament and the Lancers advanced to the championship, where they fell to William Campbell 24-13.Amherst            ]]></description>
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Both the Amherst Nationals and the Amherst Americans made it to the championship for the District 2 Dixie Youth Darlings softball tournament that was held in Rustburg last weekend, but it was the Americans that claimed the spot in the state tournament with a 25-15 victory.            ]]></description>
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This past weekend marked the beginning of the Dixie Youth softball district tournaments and several Amherst County teams competed for the chance to play in upcoming state tournaments.
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The Amherst girls&#8217; indoor track team that won the Region III title may be losing one elite jumper named Hubbard &#8211;&#8211; that is, Lacear Hubbard &#8211;&#8211; but her younger sister, Kayla Hubbard, is showing promise at Monelison Middle School.            ]]></description>
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Four members of the Amherst County football team that finished as the Group AA Division 4 state runners-up signed letters of intent in the school&#8217;s library last week after the football team, the girls track team and the forensics team received recognition from members of the Amherst County Board of Supervisors and for their successful seasons.
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Amherst shot putter Jericah Glover won the only state championship for this season&#8217;s outdoor Lancer track team with a 39-foot, 4.75-inch effort in Harrisonburg last Saturday.           ]]></description>
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For fans at Amherst&#8217;s first-round Region III softball game on Monday, Sydney Lewis&#8217; pitching performance might have seemed surprising, but not to her coaches.            ]]></description>
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The Amherst Lancers baseball season ended Monday at the hands of the Heritage Pioneers.
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Penalty kicks come only occasionally in a soccer game, and Amherst sophomore Captain Graham Carter was the lucky player who had the opportunity.           ]]></description>
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In a battle for third place in the Seminole District standings, Amherst&#8217;s boys soccer team was shut out for the second time this season by Heritage goalkeeper Austin Walker and suffered a 1-0 defeat Friday night at Heritage.           ]]></description>
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How does it feel to rally from behind three times before beating Seminole District rival Heritage on its home field, as Amherst did Friday night? &#8220;Wonderful,&#8221; Lancers coach Mike Padgett said.           ]]></description>
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The Amherst Lancers boy&#8217;s soccer team took on the Liberty Minutemen on Friday in a Seminole District match-up.            ]]></description>
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The Amherst County Lancers took on the undefeated Jefferson Forest Cavaliers in a Seminole District boy&#8217;s soccer match on April 28 at Sabre Stadium. The Cavaliers came out with a 1-0 victory over the Lancers.           ]]></description>
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On senior night, May 1, Amherst softball coach Larry Thomas handed out a rose along with a hug to his five seniors. In return, his girls gave him a 3-1 Seminole District win over Liberty.           ]]></description>
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Amherst senior LaCear Hubbard is as fast on the track as she is athletic in the field events.           ]]></description>
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The Amherst varsity girls soccer team traveled to Rustburg on April 23 and came back with a 3-2 Seminole District win.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:11:08 EST</pubDate>
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Former Amherst Lancers baseball standout Steven Evans took the mound for Liberty University on Friday under the lights against visiting Big South Conference rival Winthrop with the chance to fan the Flames to the top of the Big South standings as Liberty trailed the Eagles coming into the three-game weekend series by half a game.           ]]></description>
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Sweet Briar College&#8217;s lacrosse team hung in with visiting Guilford College in first half last Thursday, but the Quakers scored four unanswered goals over the last five minutes of the half to take a 9-5 lead into the break and cruised to a 19-10 victory over the Vixens in an Old Dominion Athletic Conference match.           ]]></description>
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Holy Cross has benefited from players crossing the James River to play softball for the Gaels. This year Holy Cross is leaning heavily on three Amherst County girls to lead them to a state title.
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The Amherst girls&#8217; tennis team blitzed visiting Nelson County 9-0 to improve to 6-1 on the season as the Lancers continued to demonstrate their newfound success on Thursday.
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Amherst goalkeeper Autumn McKinney made three big stops to make Hannah Burley&#8217;s early goal stand up for the Lancers in Amherst&#8217;s 1-0 victory over visiting Nelson County in an out-of-district girls soccer match March 31.           ]]></description>
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Amherst&#8217;s boys and girls track teams had a solid performance over the weekend at the Vince Bradford Relays at E.C. Glass High School. Most of the area&#8217;s local teams were represented and the Lancer girls team finished sixth out of 19 teams, scoring 31 points. The boys&#8217; team finished eighth out of 18 teams, scoring 25 points.
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Rustburg&#8217;s baseball team scored two-out, unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh and 11th innings to tie Amherst at 1-1 and beat the Lancers 2-1 Monday night at home in a Seminole District duel rescheduled from last Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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The Amherst girls soccer team took a 1-0 lead on a goal scored by Hannah Burley in the first minute of the Lancers&#8217; Seminole District match against visiting Rustburg, but the Red Devils scored four unanswered goals to pick up a 4-1 victory. 
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Amherst&#8217;s Jon Ascencio provide all the warm the Lancers&#8217; boys&#8217; soccer team needed on damp, chilly, Thursday by scoring three of Amherst&#8217;s four goals in the Lancers&#8217; 4-2 victory over visiting Nelson County.           ]]></description>
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The Sweet Briar Vixen softball team traveled to Randolph-Macon Ashland College (RMC) last week where it lost an Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) doubleheader to the Yellow Jackets.           ]]></description>
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The Sweet Briar College lacrosse team hosted the Ferrum College Panthers last Thursday at Babcock Field, and the Vixens won their second game of the season, beating the Panthers 20-5.           ]]></description>
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It was your typical home opener for the Amherst baseball team last Thursday: Snow was forecast for later that night and the game was a little rough around the edges as the Lancers committed eight errors on their way to a 10-7 victory over visiting Appomattox.
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