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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Culpeper/Eastern View
Osbourn Park High School was able to stay within a touchdown of an undefeated Battlefield High School football team last week, finally losing 25-17. That's not good news for its opponent this week, Culpeper County High School.
Culpeper dropped to 0-5 last week, falling to C.D. Hylton, 48-0, in its third shutout loss of the season. New quarterback John Leczano, making his first start for Culpeper, threw four first-half interceptions as the Blue Devils dug themselves a 41-0 halftime hole en route to their eighth straight loss. Only nine years ago, Culpeper won the state title, a drop in stature only reinforced by the fact that that the coach who led them to the top, Lou Sorrentino, was there at the game, helming Hylton (3-2) to victory.
Osbourn Park (3-2) is led by quarterback Dominique Terrell, who ran for 139 yards and a touchdown and passed for 72 more against Battlefield, helping the Yellow Jackets put up almost as many points as the Bobcats' previous four opponents combined. A Terrell fumble, however, proved the difference, as Battlefield picked it up and returned it 65 yards for a touchdown. The Jackets edged the Blue Devils, 28-22, in last year's meeting, winning it on a touchdown with 22 seconds remaining.
If recent history is any judge, Eastern View High School's game with Madison County High School will also come down to the final seconds. But if it doesn't, and Eastern View winds up with the loss, don't be surprised: Madison is off to a 5-0 start, with double-digit wins over all but one of the schools they've faced thus far. Last week, Madison traveled to Stonewall Jackson and emerged with a 26-13 win to remain the lone undefeated team in the Bull Run District. Both Eastern View and Madison have faced one common foe this season, William Monroe High School, with Madison blanking the Dragons, 28-0, and EV edging them, 28-21.
Madison features a Terrell of its own, running back Logan Terrell, who caught a 65-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Will Taylor. Eastern View (3-2) is led by running back Stevie Strother, who has scored touchdowns in all five games this season, and ran for 142 yards and a score last week in a 15-12 loss to Caroline High School.
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