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By KEITH McMILLAN [email protected] Late in the second quarter of Manassas Park’s season-opening win over Amelia County, head coach Jeff Lloyd watched quarterback Zach Terrell squeeze a deep spiral in between two defenders, hitting receiver A.C. Fitchett for a 62-yard touchdown pass. “Damn,” Lloyd recalls saying after seeing the throw. “That’s really nice. I’ve got…

Staff report Stonewall Jackson High School graduate Jeff Causey has been named the goalkeeper coach for the Boston Breakers of the WUSA. Causey, 31, served as an assistant coach last fall for the University of Marylands mens soccer team that went 20-5 and reached the national semifinals. Causey was a goalie in MLS for six…

DALE CITY — Had she been born 60 years earlier, Sarah Malene probably would have grown up to become a Hall of Fame baseball player. It’s the Gar-Field softball team’s good fortune that the heyday of the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League was in the 1940s. If it still existed today, Malene surely could be…

Prince William County has appointed A. Keith Sykes, a Hampton executive, as the new director of its Department of Social Services. Sykes will replace Ric Perez, who will retire at the end of October after 27 years as director, according to a recent Prince William County press release. Sykes, the co-founder and current director of…

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Jean Sellers was cycling under a full moon across the deserts of New Mexico. When it’s dark and quiet she has time to think. “Dad, are you watching me now?” Sellers, an oncology nurse and a 1975 graduate of Woodbridge High School, lost her father to cancer. Today…

James Daly III James Patrick “J.P.” Daly III, 7 weeks, of Woodbridge died Sunday, July 7, 2002 at Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. He was born May 15, 2002 in Woodbridge. He is survived by his parents, Andrea and James Daly; one sister, Patricia Denise Daly of the home; his paternal grandparents, Marisela Lopez…