Brentsville has big holes to fill other high school football notes

Over the past few years, no team on Prince William County high school football has been more consistent in getting to playoffs than the Brentsville. The Tigers have made it to the playoffs in the division nine consecutive years. 
 
This year’s team, though, faces a new challenge in looking to extend its playoff streak: The linking of these two by their cause, inexperience, is notable. The Class 3 program ended the year with its loss through graduation totaling 21 players with four of them being key two-way starters. Two other starters, however, have transferred since then. 
 
Brentsville – The Tigers – 2004 outright district champs – 2004, 2005 and 2006 three peat region champs – returns four the starters offensively and three defensively for head coach, Loren White, who enters his fourth year. 
 
“We have lots of big shoes to fill,” repeated White. “We are good at making what we can and we are good at adjusting what we can do. ” 
 
There were some blows suffered by the Tigers particularly at the skills area of the field. Caleb Alexander, the two times’ first team all-district quarterback who passed for 1 972 yards and nineteen touchdowns in 2023; Nico Orlando, two times’ all-state running back, 1 441 rushing yards and fifteen scores also graduated. 
 
Wide receiver Tyler Owens, who was Brentsville’s leading target a season ago, moved to St. Michael the Archangel Catholic High School in Spotsylvania County over the summer, White said. A senior, Owens caught 47 passes for 853 yards and six touchdowns this past year He is also a first-team all-state defensive back. 
 
White said the Tigers also lost senior defensive lineman James Vaughn. Which was an all state second team selection in 2023, Vaughn moved over the summer to Radford High School in south west Virginia. 
 
It does, however, get back one of the most outstanding players in the state in first team all-state tight end, Wyatt Vonderhaar. The senior is expected to give his best in the team since he has been in the team for four years and has played varsity for four years. Vonderhaar is also back as a,starting defensive end. 

Returning are sophomore, Charles McCullough second-team All Region, seven TD receptions on the team ; Gabe Haley junior two-year starter ; Ben Funderberg junior, two-year starter, Offensive Line. Isaiah Garmon at nose tackle and Micah Tredinnick at linebacker both got some playing time on defense being freshmen. 
 
Patriot adds key transfers 
 
Class 6 Patriot already has 14 starters with them from the previous year’s 6-5 team that was fielded by the school. 
 
However, Patriots Cedar Run district rivals transfers Diasian Noakes and Mathieu Kanu from Unity Reed and the upcoming will only strengthen a team that enters its ninth straight playoff year. 
 
He is a 6-2, 170-pound senior and will immediately assist in boosting the Patriot’s receiving capabilities. Noakes stands tall and lanky and has been clared to have game-breaking ability as he goes out to open up Patriot’s passing game as timer suitable for quarterback Tyler Knutson. 
 
Evergreen entering his second season as a starter and is physically transformed from a skinny sophomore when he first touted as a Gophers starter into a 6-foot-4, 200-pounder Knutson is out to set the tone. 
 
Kanu indeed is the kind of physical specimen that is needed in the inside linebacker position at 6-3, 220 pounds. Marshall and Central Michigan have offered Paremond a scholarship, even though the junior began last season for the Lions after transferring from Ohio. 
 
more excessive LeBron James at St. Vincent-St. A large high school in the United States of America, Mary High School in Akron city in Ohio state. Finnerty was a 27-year old senior from the team as an offensive lineman while James a young 19-year old freshman from the team at the position of wide receiver. 
 
Despite the fact that James later on turned into a basketball star, he was quite a footballer. He had played till junior year and was projected as the number one football recruit in the state. 
 
Apparently, none of the staff is quite sure about when last the Manassas Park had junior varsity and the varsity football team. 
 
Well at the very least it has been fifteen years. That is how long Herman Carter has been an assistant for the Cougars. 
 
This season the Cougars, who starting their final year of an independent schedule, will have both as they welcome back second year head coach Mark Teague. Thus, Manassas Park is planning to go back to the Class 3 Northwestern District for football once the two-year rotation is implemented starting in the year 2025. 
 
At the moment Manassas Park has only three junior varsity games in the season against Osbourn Park, Meridian, and Park View. but Teague is hoping to add at least one more game to them.