Liberty’s Mario Cosby spent four years, including one redshirt season, playing various backup positions along the offensive line. But as his senior year approached, and starting positions opened, Cosby’s first impulse was to cut bait.

Harrison Scharf missed E.C. Glass’ first two Seminole District meets last week while he and his family vacationed in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

A teenager charged in the wounding of a high school cheerleader in a drive-by shooting last summer pleaded guilty to four charges Friday but still maintains his innocence.

George Gianakos experienced a senior campaign on the tennis court that was almost too good to be true.

The first blowout was expected. The second came as a complete surprise.

It’s been a season of healing and restoration for E.C. Glass’ boys tennis team, playing in memory and in the competitive spirit of Nelson James.

The former three-sport athlete and No. 3-seeded singles player, who died in a Sept. 27 car crash that also seriously injured fellow senior George Gianakos, left a void in the Hilltoppers’ lineup and in their collective hearts and minds.

E.C. Glass’ boys lacrosse coach Brad Barth remembers the way the Hilltoppers used to play when he started the program six seasons ago. Comparing that to how they are playing now is like night and day.

Youth was on display Tuesday night in a Western Valley District baseball skirmish between E.C. Glass and GW-Danville, an agonizing 6-5 loss for the host Hilltoppers.

The Eagles (10-3, 2-2 WVD), who feature five sophomores, committed five errors in the field, leading to four of Glass’ five runs.

The Hilltoppers (3-6, 1-3), who have four freshmen and four sophomores on their 11-man roster, battled back from a 4-1 deficit to take a 5-4 lead in the fifth, scoring four runs with two outs against starting pitcher Josh Hackworth on two errors, a walk, a hit and a hit batter.

E.C. Glass junior midfielder Jen Mawn plays soccer the way she has lived her life so far, always on the move.

Growing up in a military family, she and her older sister Lauren, who starred for the Hilltoppers from 2003-06, relocated multiple times before finally landing in Lynchburg when Jen was in the fifth grade.

Kent Brizendine hit a two-run home run in the top of the sixth inning off Liberty Christian Acad-emy starting pitcher Brock Wilson to lift E.C. Glass to a 6-5 non-district victory at LCA on Monday.

The Hilltoppers (1-2) scored all six of their runs in the last three innings, capped by a three-run seventh.

David Verburg is a man on the move, in more ways than one.

The E.C. Glass senior indoor and outdoor track standout was born in Oklahoma but didn’t live there long. His family moved to Tennessee, Kentucky, Wyoming and back to Kentucky before arriving in Lynchburg last spring.

Coming off an emotionally charged victory over cross-town rival Heritage on Saturday, E.C. Glass’ girls basketball team had a great carry-over effect in Tuesday night’s stunning upset of Western Valley District power Patrick Henry.

The Hilltoppers’ boys team, on the other hand, followed its big win over the Pioneers with a flop against the Patriots in the nightcap.

Balancing sports and studies is a challenge for most student athletes.

E.C. Glass sophomore swimmer Maddy Skorcz is no exception, though she is exceptional at both.

E.C. Glass’ exit from the Western Valley District was as agonizing as imagineable, Friday night at City Stadium, a 20-14 loss to Franklin County.

The Hilltoppers, who will join the Seminole District next fall, had trimmed the Eagles’ lead to six points on an explosive 13-yard run by fourth quarterback Lamont Hamlette, a JV call-up, with 3 minutes, 24 seconds to go.

E.C. Glass senior Daniel Bost shot a 74 to win The Society of Seven Sports Club’s second annual All-American Cup, featuring many of the top-seeded golfers from all of the area’s high schools, Saturday at Poplar Grove in Amherst.