Year: Senior
  Position: Center back
  The skinny: Moves up from All-Metro second team as a junior. He scored four goals and had seven assists even though he was primarily a defensive player. Was all-district and all-region first team and will attend Radford. The Raiders eliminated undefeated Thomas Dale in the region quarterfinals.

Times-Dispatch All-Metro boys tennis team. Evan Charles, Deep Run. Playing No.2 singles and No.1 doubles with Hunter Koontz, Charles helped Deep Run defeat Mills Godwin and win the Colonial District title. He lost just three singles matches and teamed with Koontz to advance to the state tournament in doubles. The Wildcats were the region and state runners-up in team competition.

CHANTILLY—With the game headed to overtime, everything looked like it was going well for the Eagles. They had double the shots of Frank Cox of Virginia Beach, were playing a man up because of a red card and goalkeeper Jack Van Arsdale was unbeatable in the second half. Two minutes later, it all came crashing down.

The Mills Godwin boys soccer team has been wearing red uniforms for a while. The whites have been in the closet because that’s the uniform that the home team—the favorite—gets to wear. This hasn’t been a problem for the Eagles, just as it wasn’t yesterday as they defeated Hickory-Chesapeake 2-0 to advance to the state final. “I like being the underdog,“ senior Garrett Harvey said. “All these teams come in and think, ‘Oh, we can beat these guys.‘ Then we surprise them.“

All games at Westfield High
Tickets $10
Yesterday, semifinals
Menchville 6, Stafford 4 (completion of quarterfinal)Menchville 6, West Springfield 5
Hanover 3, Frank Cox 0
  Final, today
Hanover vs. Menchville, 4 p.m.
Yesterday, semifinals
Loudoun Valley 2, South County 0

All games at Westfield High
Tickets $10
Today, semifinals
Completion of Menchville-Stafford quarterfinal, 1 p.m.West Springfield vs. Menchville-Stafford winner, 4
Frank Cox vs. Hanover, 7
  Final, tomorrow
Semifinals winners, 4 p.m.
Today, semifinals
Loudoun Valley vs. South County, 5 p.m.

GROUP AAA All games at Westfield High
Tickets $10
Tomorrow, semifinals
West Springfield vs. Menchville-Stafford winner, 3 p.m.Frank Cox vs. Hanover, 7
  Final, Sunday
Semifinals winners, 3 p.m.
Tomorrow, semifinals
  Loudoun Valley vs. South County, 4 p.m.
Great Bridge vs. Prince George, 7 Final, Sunday

GROUP AAA All games at Westfield High
Tickets $10
Tomorrow, semifinals
West Springfield vs. Menchville-Stafford winner, 3 p.m.Frank Cox vs. Hanover, 7
  Final, Saturday
Semifinals winners, 3 p.m.
Tomorrow, semifinals
  Loudoun Valley vs. South County, 4 p.m.
Great Bridge vs. Prince George, 1 Final, Saturday

The state champion Mills Godwin girls tennis team decided to wait for the boys team before taking its traditional victory plunge in the nearby James River. To earn their river dip yesterday, the Eagles boys had to beat Colonial District and Central Region rival Deep Run in the final of the Virginia High School League Group AAA team tournament at Huntington Park. The Eagles’ previous three state titles (2002, 2003 and 2005) had come against district and region rival Douglas Freeman.

Central Region boys soccer final Cosby’s offensive plan isn’t a big secret. It doesn’t need to be. Less than 24 hours after a close game with Atlee, Cosby answered any questions about sluggishness with a rapid-fire attack that defeated Mills Godwin 2-0. The Titans scored both goals in the first 30 minutes of play. As a result, they’re the Central Region champs and will host a state playoff game Tuesday.

The Mills Godwin and Deep Run boys tennis teams can hardly be more equal. When the two Colonial District teams met during the regular season, Deep Run won 5-4. It was the first time Deep Run had beaten Mills Godwin. The Eagles turned the tables in the Central Region team final, winning 5-4 in match that took a couple of days to complete.

With the humidity rising and the heat lingering, a sticky night of soccer rewarded aggressive play as Mills Godwin and Cosby punched their tickets to the state tournament. They’ll also play each other—for the first time—in tonight’s Central Region title game. Early rainstorms last night created tough conditions early. Each Eagles header made a splash in the small wading pool of sweat that the players had developed on their foreheads.

For three years in a row, Mills Godwin boys tennis coach Tom Hoy and the Eagles have walked across the court at the close of a Virginia High School League state match against James Robinson of Fairfax to congratulate the Rams on a victory. The handshake came twice after state finals in 2006 and 2008. The Eagles lost in the semifinals in 2007.

VHSL quarterfinals: Top bracket, Princess Anne at E.C. Glass; Deep Run vs. Thomas Jefferson-Science & Technology at Mason District Park (Annandale), 11 a.m.; Lower bracket, Albemarle at Frank Cox; James Robinson at Mills Godwin, 2:30 p.m.
  Semifinals: Friday at Huntington Park, Newport News, noon.
  Final: Saturday at Huntington Park, noon

Quarterfinals: Top bracket, Midlothian (12-5-1) at Mills Godwin (14-1-2), 7 p.m.; Matoaca (13-3-1) at Lee-Davis (12-4-1), 7; Lower bracket, Deep Run (12-3) at Cosby (14-1-1), 7:30; Atlee (10-4-1) at Thomas Dale (16-0), 7
  Semifinals: Thursday at Cosby High, 5 and 7:30 p.m.
  Final: Friday at Cosby High, 7:30 p.m.