Albemarle’s struggles continued on Friday night, as the Patriots fell to visiting Mountain View, 45-12.

Nothing follows up an important, emotional win like another one. Ask coach Mark Ragland, whose Albemarle volleyball team knocked off Brooke Point on senior night, 3-1 (25-8, 25-9, 17-25, 25-11) to clinch the school’s first outright regular season Commonwealth District title since 2002 on Tuesday.

Western Albemarle has established its place at the top of the Jefferson District, going unbeaten in its first seven games. The battle for second place is heating up though, with a pair of one-loss teams — Louisa County and Goochland, which are set to play Friday night.

CHS, using a balanced attack and opportunistic defense, broke to an early lead and held off the Patriots 28-13.

It has been a while, but Charlottesville’s Raymond Parker is glad to be back on a football field.

Western Albemarle never led by fewer than two touchdowns after the first quarter despite its seven turnovers en route to a 42-7 victory over Albemarle.

The cast of characters is completely different, but the results were just the same.

For the past two seasons, Glover has played behind standouts Sam Roller and Chris Coiner, who led the Monticello defense to back-to-back Jefferson District and Division 3, Region II championships, including a Group AA title run in 2007.

R.J. Archer never has had a view this good at Scott Stadium. He’s also never faced odds this long.

On Wednesday night, however, it was a veteran Western Albemarle team that looked like the champs, defeating the Patriots 25-19, 25-20, 25-22 in front of an energetic home crowd.

Wendell Green enters his first season as head coach at Albemarle, as former head man Rick Vrhovac stepped down after his 2008 squad finished 4-6 overall and 2-5 in the Commonwealth District. Gone from last year’s roster are starting quarterback Jeremy Robinson, receivers Zach Vrhovac and Tyler Molinaro and key linemen Jon Pfeifer and Will Gimble.

Scott Willard has been chosen as the Miller School’s athletic director and boys basketball coach.

Chaillo ended Napolitano’s season with a 6-4, 6-1 victory at Fairfax Racquet Club.

Zach Vrhovac’s victory in the 800-meter run paced the Albemarle boys track team to a fourth-place finish at the Group AAA meet.

The Chargers beat Albemarle 10-9 on Saturday in the state quarterfinals on the strength of junior attackman Brendan Waters’ game-winning shot two and 1/2 minutes into overtime.