HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER
Four Kellam High girls soccer players have made the VHSL Class 6 all-state first team.
Forward Jashyra Johnson, midfielder Dylan McEntarfer, defender Madisen Hood and goalie Kiley Cass represented the Knights.
Kellam posted an undefeated regular season and made the state tournament, falling in the quarterfinals.
Landstown’s Janessa Lowe joined the Kellam quartet on the first team.
Western Branch’s Jayda Sutton was on the second team.
Colgan High swept the top individual honors, with forward Sam DeGuzman the Class 6 Player of the Year and Tom Warzywak the Coach of the Year.
PRO BASKETBALL
State players find NBA teams
Virginia’s Kihei Clark and Armaan Franklin and Virginia Tech’s Justyn Mutts weren’t selected in Thursday night’s NBA draft, but they have embarked on an alternate path to the league.
The Utah Jazz have signed Clark, a 5-10 guard, to their summer league roster, according to The Athletic. He averaged 10.7 points and 5.4 assists a game last season.
Franklin, a 6-4 guard, has agreed to an Exhibit-10 contract with the NBA champion Denver Nuggets, The Athletic reported. He averaged 12.4 points and 4.1 rebounds a game.
Mutts has agreed to join the summer-league team of the Sacramento Kings, according to USA Today. He averaged 13.3 points and 7.4 rebounds a contest.
Meanwhile, Liberty guard Darius McGhee has agreed to join the Indiana Pacers, the university announced. He averaged 22.8 points per game, which ranked third in the country, and was an AP All-American honorable mention selection.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
NSU to play in Puerto Rico
The Norfolk State men’s basketball team will play three exhibition games in Puerto Rico from Aug. 10-15.
It will be the Spartans’ first offseason overseas trip since the team went to Costa Rica in 2016.
NSU face competition from Liga de Baloncesto Puertorriquena during the trip.
COLLEGE WOMEN’S GOLF
ODU adds a pair of recruits
The Old Dominion women’s golf team has added Svarin Yuenyong and Carley Rudolf to its 2023 signing class.
Rudolf, a First Colonial High graduate, won a state championship as a freshman in 2015 and was a co-medalist in the 2017 state championship match.
Yuenyong, from Bangkok, Thailand, played the past four years at Elon, where she averaged a 77.14 in 25 tournaments. She tied for sixth at the 2023 CAA Championship.
The two will join earlier signees Faith Garcia and Sarah Mardani and Puneet Bajwa, who signed in December.
Briefly
* William & Mary field hockey players Lauren Curran, Maddie George, Pyper Friedman and Jayden Moon have been selected to compete in the Senior Nexus Championship on July 11-16 at the Virginia Beach Regional Training Center.
* Christopher Newport field hockey star Abby Asuncion has been named a second-team Academic All-American by by the College Sports Communicators.
* Lionsbridge FC will face Patuxent Football Athletics in a USL League Two matchup at 7 p.m. Saturday at TowneBank Stadium in Newport News.
* The University of Virginia’s Connor Shellenberger and Duke’s Brennan O’Neill have been named the ACC Men’s Lacrosse Scholar-Athletes of the Year.
