Sand
soccer
Adrian Bravo Quintero, 14,
of Virginia Beach, dives
to make a save during the
North American Sand Soccer
Championships. The kick was
high and sailed over the goal.
The championships, on 50
fields across 18 blocks of the
Oceanfront, conclude today.
Story on Page C4.

BILL TIERNAN/THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

C1

BELMONT STAKES: Afleet
Alex pulls away to a big
victory / C11

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Title town
Three dramatic championships Saturday bring Beach’s season total to 10

L. TODD SPENCER/THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

Beamer Weems, center, is mobbed by his Princess Anne teammates after scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 12th on Jake McAloose’s two-out, two-run single to give the Cavaliers the state baseball title.

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COMMENT

KELLAM GIRLS SOCCER

KEMPSVILLE SOFTBALL

PRINCESS ANNE BASEBALL

A bountiful year
grows greater still

By refusing to lose,
Knights make history

Whitehurst saves
her best hit for last

Down 8-0, Cavs rally
and then win in 12th

Maybe it’s something in the drinking
water. Or maybe a
gentle breeze off the
Atlantic has blown in
some uncommonly
good fortune.
Who knows?
Some things can’t
BOB
be explained, only
MOLINARO
applauded. Like the
dominance of Virginia Beach high school sports.
Kellam in girls soccer. Kempsville
in softball. Princess Anne in baseball.
All won on Saturday, raising to 10
Please see Molinaro, Page C4

BY VICKI L. FRIEDMAN

BY MIKE KEECH

BY JAMI FRANKENBERRY

T HE V IRGINIAN - PILO T

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NEWPORT NEWS — Senior Kelli
Rankin described it as perfect, and
indeed it was.
All season long, with the icing
reserved for Saturday. That’s when
unbeaten Kellam capped a glorious
season of soccer by stunning Lake
Braddock 2-0 at Christopher Newport
to win the Group AAA state championship. It is the first state title for an
Eastern Region girls team since the
tournament began in 1984.
Tears soaking her sweaty cheeks

NEWPORT NEWS — With one swing,
Bre Whitehurst became the most
unlikely hero of the biggest victory
in Kempsville High School softball
history Saturday at Stoney Run Park.
With two outs in the seventh
inning, Whitehurst golfed an 0-1
pitch over the head of leftfielder
Sarah Schultz, scoring Becky Pfiel
from third base to give Kempsville
(27-2) a 1-0 victory over previously
unbeaten Osbourn and its first state
Group AAA championship.

WILLIAMSBURG — There are plenty of historic sites within a long fly
ball of William and Mary’s Plumeri
Park, and roller-coaster thrills are
just a few miles away at Busch Gardens.
But on Saturday those weren’t
more riveting, exhilarating or heartstopping than what played out during a you-had-to-see-it-to-believe-it
Group AAA state baseball championship game.
Princess Anne scored two runs

Please see Soccer, Page C6

Please see Softball, Page C6

Please see Baseball, Page C6