NOVA’s women’s volleyball team lost its return match to a strong West Potomac State College Catamounts team on Monday evening, Oct. 19 at Annandale’s Ernst Gym, losing all three games.
The Catamounts, whose two year college is located in Keyser, West Virginia and is part of West Virginia University, were not imposing physically. However, they had a number of players who were adept at smashing the ball at the net, making digs and serving. They are a team that just won the Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association championship. They arrived a bit …

The NOVA hockey team won its first match of the year 7-6, on Friday, Oct. 16 at the Virginia Stating Center in Charlottesville with a 9:45 pm start. As an exultant Coach Haga stated afterwards, “We got a monkey off our back,”in two ways, in winning its first game of the year after two losses and in coming back from a very early 3-0 deficit.

All five NOVA sports teams that compete in the collegiate realm are now either playing competitive schedules or are practicing for the upcoming seasons.
The men’s soccer team under fourth-year coach Brian Robertson and assistant Kristi Beckham has streaked out to a 5-0 record. They will play five more games before their season ends in October, with the lone remaining home game being Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. at the Loudoun campus.  Scores are as follows:
8/28        NOVA 5, Harford Community College 1, overtime
9/1          NOVA 4, Hagerstown Community College 2
9/12        NOVA 1, …

The NOVA hockey team lost the “Battle of Northern Virginia” to Atlantic Division foe George Mason University, 6-3, on Oct. 9 at the Mount Vernon Recreation Center. The large crowd, composed mainly of NOVA supporters, had its cheering limited mainly to the upending of GMU players.

Snake charming was one of the favorite attractions at the October 10 Community Fair at the Alexandria campus. The male student volunteer holds a 12 foot python while the young lady holds a boa constrictor. Both snakes are from the Critters & Creatures animal shelter in Leesburg.

The NOVA women’s volleyball team lost its match to the match-experienced Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville team by a game score of 3-1 on the night of Oct. 8, at the Ernst Center on NOVA’s Annandale campus. The enthusiastic crowd was treated to some exciting plays, occasional long rallies and some searing smashes at the net.

NOVA’s men’s soccer team overwhelmed the Cecil College Seahawks 8-0 on September 24 at the Virginia Highlands Park located next to Pentagon City. For a sport that generally sees few goals, the score represented a huge win.

NOVA went out to a 6-0 lead at halftime as it had little difficulty scoring against the porous Cecil defense, as Cecil’s goalie generally had little chance to make saves. Scoring play was tempered in the second half as NOVA scored only two more goals. One goal was a bit of an oddity, as the NOVA goalie took a penalty kick against the Cecil goalie, scoring to make it 7-0. Goals by a goalie are a rare occurrence.