Coach Scott Sarratt’s U9 Boys, the Blue Thunder (pictured at left) also won four games...but in their case it meant coming home with a championship trophy after besting Prince William, Annandale, and Reston in preliminary games and then surviving a scare in the championship before beating Northern Virginia Soccer Club (Springfield) in the championship game.
Mitch Peyser’s U13 Boys won their first three games over Springfield, Sterling and Reston by a combined score of 8-1. They then faced the same Springfield club in a rematch for the championship. The score was knotted at 0-0 with only 15 minutes to play before BRYC broke the ice...with one of their forwards scoring three times in quick succession, to earn the winner’s trophy. Pictured at the right, they hoisted their goal scorer on their shoulders as they left the field.
Tragedy hit a local baseball field Wednesday night when two young boys were struck by lightning as they tried to get in a game of catch before thunderstorms rolled in. One was killed. The other is in grave condition.
The call to 911 came in at 6:25 p.m. Wednesday from the baseball field behind Lee Hill Elementary School in Spotsylvania County, VA. click here for article.
According to investigators, a Little League game had been called off early because of the approaching storms, but the 11- and 12-year-old boys had gone back onto the field to play catch, while their parents looked on. Shortly thereafter, witnesses say lightning struck the 12-year-old, and transferred to the other boy.
As horrified spectators and teammates looked on, both boys fell to the ground and went into cardiac arrest. Two nurses who were at the ballfield performed CPR until rescue workers arrived. The 12-year-old died on the field. The other boy was taken by helicopter to an area hospital, where he was last listed in critical condition.
Like most baseball diamonds, the field behind Lee Hill Elementary has a metal backstop, metal benches, and metal bleachers that could easily conduct electricity.
