Fishburne coach Ed Huckaby hopes his team got a wake up call on Monday afternoon during its inaugural home game.

After months of practice and anticipation, the Fishburne Military School Post Graduate basketball team will get its day on the court.

Today at 4:30 p.m., the Caissons will host Mack Academy for the team’s home opener, looking to start the program’s first season off with a win.

The annual QDD Fall Festival swim meet, hosted by the QDD swim team, was held at George Mason University’s Freedom Aquatic Center on Oct. 17 and 18. SMAC swimmers, who had been fighting the H1N1 flu the week prior, took 12 athletes to the meet.

WAYNESBORO — Dream big, sacrifice all, and enjoy the victory that follows. This is the motto that Henry Cejudo lives by and this is the message that he left with the area wrestlers and coaches who attended his clinic on Saturday at Kate Collins Middle School to benefit the Waynesboro High School wrestling team.

Waynesboro wrestling coach Rick Palmer has been trying to bring in an Olympic caliber wrestler for years to host a clinic — little did he know that the biggest name in American wrestling would be available.

The Fishburne Military School post-graduate basketball team will play seven games in Waynesboro in its inaugural season that begins on Oct. 17.

The Augusta FC under-17 Girls Red travel team will host the Loudon ’92 Girls Red team from Loudon Soccer in a first round Virginia Youth Soccer Association State Cup match. The game will be held at Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind on field No. 1 at 1:00 pm on Saturday.

Clover Hill – After six nail-biting games of high quality baseball, Game 7 of the Rockingham County Baseball League Championship Series was sloppy and largely anti-climatic as the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks fell to the Clover Hill Bucks 7-1 at Buck Bowman Park.

It’s the game Rockingham County Baseball League fans have dreamed about — and the one that the teams dread.

Big ninth ties series

Clover Hill beat Stuarts Draft 6-5 to force a Game 7 in the Rockingham County Baseball League Championship series.

CLOVER HILL – The Clover Hill Bucks kept their championship hopes alive on Tuesday night against the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks.

Going for their first Rockingham County Baseball League Championship, the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks have to now wait for 30-minute lightning delay.

The game in scorless in the third inning.

Marathon 12-inning win over Clover Hill puts D’backs one win away from first RCBL Championship

Waynesboro High School introduced its new varsity girls basketball coach on Thursday afternoon.

Butterworth’s 9th-inning blast gives D’backs 2-0 lead in series with Clover Hill.

CLOVER HILL — Stingy defense and a strong outing by Jake Rule gave the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks all the room they needed to take an early lead in the RCBL Championship Series.

For the second straight year, the Clover Hill Bucks and Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks will meet in the Rockingham County Baseball League championship series.

SMAC dominates at Long Course State Meet

Stuarts Draft earned a spot into the Rockingham County Baseball League Championship series against rival Clover Hill after defeating the Elkton Blue Sox 11-3 on Monday evening.

The Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks took home two RCBL honors, and both went to former area prep standouts.

After watching the on-the-ropes Blue Sox tee off on him, Stuarts Draft starter Drew Dobbins was ready to go to his weapon of last resort.

In Elkton, the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks took a 2-0 lead in the RCBL semifinals on Friday night, defeating the Elk-ton Blue Sox 11-0.

STUARTS DRAFT – After a slow first three innings, the Diamondbacks finally came together to demolish the Blue Sox 15-1 on Thursday, with help from Wes Harlow’s two home runs, in the first game of the semifinal round.

The Waynesboro Family YMCA announced on Wednesday that Doug Wharam will be its new director of competitive swimming and leader of the Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club.

STUARTS DRAFT- The Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks survived a late rally from the Bridgewater and held on to win 6-5 in the first game of the opening round of the Rockingham County Baseball League playoffs.

STUARTS DRAFT — The Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks pounded seven first inning runs and Ryan Cooper had a strong outing on the mound as the Diamondbacks defeated the visiting Montezuma Braves 10-5 on Saturday night in Draft in a rain-shortened, seven-inning game.

After leading the Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club to a complete turnaround, coach Ryan Sprang will be leaving the team after next weekend’s Virginia Swimming Age Group Championships in Newport News.

The Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks are two games away from forcing a one-game playoff for the regular season RCBL title after defeating New Market 7-0 on Tuesday night.

The Cal Ripken Sr. League was not given a bit of a chance to win the Mid-Atlantic Classic by anyone but themselves and thanks to a defensive sixth inning, they held on for a 2-1 win Wednesday night at Regency Furniture Stadium.