Peter Rose once feared his football career was over. It appears James Madison University will give him another chance to play.

Amherst County High School graduates 355.

Marian Almond was told no, and she didn’t accept that.

William Byrd pitcher Jessica Mahoney came into Monday’s Region III first-round softball game against Amherst highly regarded.

After all, the sophomore has pitched a perfect game, a combined no-hitter and routinely recorded double-digit strikeout totals this season. She was named the Blue Ridge District’s pitcher of the year.

But on Monday, she was overshadowed by Amherst’s junior pitcher Sydney Lewis, who threw a seven-hit shutout to lead the Lancers to a 6-0 win. Mahoney, meanwhile, went the distance and gave up five earned runs, five hits, two walks and hit two batters.

AMHERST — Ashley Hill’s two-run two-out double off the outstretched glove of Rustburg center fielder Elizabeth Hargis proved to be the difference in the Lancers’ 4-2 Seminole District softball tournament championship victory, Friday night at home.

Though she was thrown out at third trying to stretch the hit into a triple, Hill drove in Ashley Campbell and Nia Chiles, who had walked, pushing Amherst’s lead to 4-0 in the top of the sixth.

The Lancers, who upset top-seeded Jefferson Forest in the semifinals, knocked off the defending district tournament champion Red Devils (11-8) to clinch the No. 2 seed in Monday’s Region III tournament opener.

Heritage rallied from a 4-1 deficit to post a 5-4 victory over visiting Amherst on Monday in the first round of the Seminole District baseball tournament.

Heritage (11-8) will face Rustburg in Wednesday’s nightcap at Jefferson Forest Middle School in the semifinals.

Both teams pushed across a run in the first, but the Lancers scored three more in the top of the second before the Pioneers rallied with two runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth.

AMHERST — Tyrease Brown sprints down the long and triple jump runways with a similar style and reckless abandon as he used as a linebacker for Amherst in football — stealthily quick, low to the ground and explosive.

The News & Advance All-Area girls indoor track athlete of the year

AMHERST — Former Amherst County football star and Virginia Tech hopeful Peter Rose was expected, under state sentencing guidelines, to leave court Wednesday as a free man, but as a convicted felon.

As Brookville’s quarterback in football the past two seasons, Logan Thomas ran the show. On the basketball court, Thomas has assumed a similar level of leadership this winter.

Amherst’s boys basketball team overcame a 10-point halftime deficit before beating Heritage 54-53 in a Seminole District clash Friday night at home, clinching the top seed and home-court advantage in the newly split Region III, Division 4, playoffs.

Could Amherst come from behind? Twice? They hadn’t been put in this position since the season-opening loss to Brookville, but the Lancers were able to put it together, come back, and then hold off a strong Blue Streak team to win the Region III semifinal game 28-21, Friday night at Stinger Stadium.

Two-time defending Group AA, Division 4 state champion Amherst opens Region III playoff action tonight against the same Harrisonburg team it beat 47-7 in last season’s semifinal.

For an offense that’s often pounding out a few yards at a time, Amherst busted plenty of timely scoring plays in its 38-20 victory over Heritage at City Stadium on Friday night.

AMHERST — Amherst proved to be the better study Friday night, scoring early and often in its 35-6 win over Jefferson Forest at home.

The Lancers (6-1, 2-1) produced on all but one possession while holding top running back Desmond Goode and the Cavaliers to four first downs and 81 yards of offense in the first half.