NOVA came home to Woodbridge on Friday afternoon, Oct. 7 to play the Lord Fairfax team that was undermanned, both in players and skills

NOVA has recently announced that it has joined the National Junior College Athletic Association, effective for the 2011-12 academic year.

The NOVA men’s soccer team won its second match of the young season on the afternoon of Sept. 27 at Woodbridge’s Howison Homestead Park.

With the loss, Coach Matt Blarney’s team ended with a 3-8 record in NOVA’s second year of fielding a lacrosse team.

About 80 NOVA athletics, coaches and managers from six teams gathered at the Springfield Hilton on the night of April 28 to celebrate their various sports, at the annual sports banquet.

The Northern Virginia Community College men’s lacrosse team played three home games, beating the County College of Morris (N.J.) 12-8 on March 19 at GMU. Then, on March 23, they tied the Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville 7-7 in a game suspended after three quarters and which was to be finished later. The third game resulted in a win over Delaware Technical & Community College 8-6 on April 2.

The NOVA women’s basketball team ended its regular season on February 24 and 26 with two losses, first to the Hagerstown Community College Hawks 73-48 at the Annandale campus and then to Thomas Nelson Community College in a close one, 62-61, at Hoop Magic in Chantilly, Virginia.

In the game against the strong Hagerstown team, NOVA never led though it tied the scored a few times early on. At the ten minute mark of the first half, NOVA was down by six at 23-17, and by the seven minute to go mark, Hagerstown had opened its lead to 33-19. At halftime, NOVA trailed 42-29, and it was led by Kimberly Walton’s ten points.

The NOVA women’s basketball team earned a second seed for the VCCS tournament by going 5-3 during the regular season and finished second in the March 4-6 tournament in Chesapeake, losing to Tidewater Community College Storm in the final, 57-47, on Sunday afternoon.

After losing to George Mason University on Jan. 21, it still looked like the Northern Virginia Community College ice hockey team had a chance to make the Blue Ridge Hockey Conference playoffs. But it appeared it would take wins over both the College of William and Mary and James Madison University over the Jan. 28 weekend to do so. Instead, it turned into a double debacle weekend.

The Northern Virginia Community College women’s basketball team defeated its VCCS rival, Southside Virginia Community College, at Annandale’s Ernst Gym on Jan. 29 to win its second game in a row, 76-66 in overtime.

This close game saw Southside take a slim 30-29 halftime lead. Kimberley Walton paced NOVA in the first half with 11 points, while Lauren Amonett added nine.