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

RADFORD — Rain caused havoc for local teams in the regular season and playoffs, now wet weather has disrupted the state tournament.

Weather permitting, three area teams will compete in today’s Virginia High School League Group A and AA state Final Four.

FOREST — Jefferson Forest’s girls soccer team generated numerous scoring chances in its Group AA state quarterfinal soccer match against Region IV power Hidden Valley.

FOREST — Martinsville senior goalkeeper Will Reynolds, who will play for Virginia Tech next year, has 14 shutouts this season and 52 for his four-year varsity career, possibly a Virginia High School League record for all classifications.

FOREST — Opportunistic hitting and an efficient pitching performance by Jefferson Forest junior southpaw Erik Heiligenstadt helped the Cavaliers cruise past Harrisonburg 16-4 in Tuesday night’s Region III quarterfinal.

JF, coming off a dramatic 6-5 loss to Rustburg in Friday’s Seminole District championship game, bounced back in a big way, racking up 11 hits. The Cavaliers would have put the 10-run rule into effect in the fifth, but there isn’t one in postseason play.

Both Jefferson Forest’s Ashley Parsons and Spotswood’s Molly Smith put on pitching performances that players, coaches and spectators aren’t likely to forget soon in Tuesday’s Region III quarterfinal game in Forest.

AMHERST — After missing multiple one-on-one opportunities with Staunton River goalkeeper Moira Guzi, Jefferson Forest finally slipped one past the stingy sophomore midway through the second half of Friday’s Seminole District girls soccer tournament final.

Sophomore forward Emilee McDaniel sent a long ball from the left side toward the center of the goalie box. The ball skidded past Guzi and sophomore midfielder Courtney Zongrone was there to finish it off on the goal line for the game’s only score.

FOREST — Seminole District regular season champion Jefferson Forest led 5-1 with two outs in the top of the sixth when Rustburg’s smallest player — second baseman Chad Wisecarver — stepped to the plate with the bases loaded.

That’s when Wisecarver did something he hadn’t done since he played Dixie Youth Baseball — he put one over the fence.

FOREST — E.C. Glass’ girls soccer team features the three-headed monster of sophomores Dessi Dupuy, Ashlea Caylor and Nikki Good on attack.

Jefferson Forest counters with nearly as dangerous a duo of sophomore Chelsea Hayes (21 goals) and senior Cameron DeWitt (11 goals, 8 assists). They get plenty of support from fellow senior forward Taylor Duff, who had a goal and four assists in Wednesday’s 7-1 Seminole District semifinal win over Amherst.

“Chelsea’s a very polished striker who strikes fear in the rest of the district, I think, much the same way Dessi Dupuy from Glass does to us,” JF coach Stan Golon said. “At any point in time, she can burn you.

Unconventional doesn’t begin to describe Jefferson Forest’s 3-0 Seminole District tournament semifinal win over Brookville on Wednesday at Forest Middle School.

Together, Jefferson Forest’s No. 1 doubles team of Sarah Ranowsky and Meghan Canter complement one another to near perfection, as their undefeated record this season shows.

FOREST — David Jackson and David Rochow, two of the most accomplished players on Jefferson Forest’s boys soccer team this spring, will continue their careers at service academies next fall, Jackson at the Naval Acacemy and Rochow at VMI.

The four members of Jefferson Forest’s boys 200-yard medley and 400 freestyle relay team — Caleb Williams, Joe Euhus, Carter Watson and Chad Nowakowski — bring similar mindsets to the dock for the first and last events in every high school swim meet.

“We’re all really close, personality-wise,” Nowakowski said. “We all like to work hard and love the sport of swimming. We try to do our best every meet and we have the same goals.”

For today’s Group AA state competition at Virginia’s Fitness and Aquatics Center, they are fully focused on qualifying for Saturday’s championship finals with top-eight preliminary finishes.

FOREST — As Jefferson Forest boys basketball coach Paul Smith instructed his team on how to defend Broadway in the final 5.5 seconds of Tuesday night’s Region III, Division 4 quarterfinal, guard Brandon Harrison walked circles outside of the team huddle, hands on the back of his head, presumably trying to calm his racing nerves.