Sports shorts
The holidays are right around the corner and while most of us have been shopping and celebrating, our Rapp Athletes have been taking to the courts in practices and games, improving their skills and bringing home some wins in the process.
Rapp’s Varsity Wrestling Squad has their first two matches under their belts, last week at Eastern View and this past weekend in Madison, and already have some wrestlers tallying up some W’s. Jasean Yates, Zack Abdullah, Ethan Leake, Dalton Renner and Jake Sisk all came home from Eastern View with at least one win and then Jake Sisk added two to his victory total while Dalton Renner added three to his while at Madison.
also got a W Billy Taplin Christian at Madison and Poffenberger had the best showing of the young season, recording an ace at Madison by racking up five wins to include four by pin. And the team, in addition to posting eleven individual wins, finished ahead of the grapplers from Charlottesville High School in team points at the Madison Tournament. Wrestling fans will want to mark Jan. 3 on their calendars as that is the Rapp team’s lone home event and will also be senior night for our Varsity Wrestlers. Coaches Paul Paratore
and Kreighton Long will be working hard with their young charges to ensure a good show is put on for the home crowd.
On the basketball courts Rapp’s Varsity boys are still ISO that first win of the season, having dropped games to Central, Skyline, and Colonial Beach High Schools. Varsity are scheduled to participate in a tournament over the break at Cumberland High School. The boys return to the home court on Jan. 8 when the Generals from Stonewall Jackson come to Rapp.
Our Junior Panther boys have racked up a series of wins, scoring victories over the past couple of weeks in contests with Peter Muhlenburg, Luray, Page and Signal Knob Middle Schools. The team returns to the home court on Jan. 4 versus Madison. The boy’s Seventh Grade team is certainly improving but just as certainly still looking for that ice breaking win, dropping close games by 4 points to United Christian and then by only 3 to Fresta Valley.
On the girls’ side of the court, Coach Brandon
Burley’s Varsity squad has also made huge strides in the caliber of their play, faring much better when facing opponents Riverheads and Skyline for the second time, but still looking for a companion to the season’s thus far lone win at Nelson County. Sarah East and
Olivia Atkins have put up some impressive stats along the way, with East racking up a double double (14 points, 12 rebounds) against Riverheads and Atkins racking up 11 points, 6 rebounds and 4 steals against Skyline.
The Varsity team will be at Madison on Jan. 3 and back home against George Mason on Jan. 5. Coach Jeff
Atkins’ JV girls’ squad has shown the most success this season, posting additional wins last week over Central and Riverheads. Their schedule matches the varsity squad and they hope to add to their victory total before the New Year rolls in. And on the JP girls’ court, our young female basketballers are also in search of their first win but working hard to improve. The JP girls return to the home gym on Jan. 4, hosting Madison County.
As always, the Rapp Schools athletic calendars, both practices and games, can be found on the Rapp Athletic Website at www. bullrundistictva.org. A.D. Burley and his cast of coaches and players hope to see the Rapp faithful at upcoming games and wish to extend warmest of holiday greetings to all of their fans. They’ll be looking for you at a game soon where you can join the cheerleaders in ringing out the old year and bringing in the new with a rousing chorus of “We Are RAPPAHANNOCK!!!”