Culpeper must quickly find a way to get things turned around. During Friday night’s 61-14 loss to Osbourn in the Cedar Run District opener for both teams, the Blue Devils had little success on offense until the outcome was decided.

Eastern View picks up its first victory in school history.

Eastern View picks up first-ever football victory.

Going into Friday night, Orange County football coach John Kayajanian knew that picking up a win against visiting Chancellor was going to be a daunting task.
The Hornets were up to the task in the first half, but were unable to stop the Chargers rushing attack in the second half as Chancellor picked up a 21-7 win.

Maybe there’s something about jersey No. 4. A week ago, when Culpeper and Orange County faced off in the season opener, both head coaches knew that the outcome of the game would be decided, in large part, by Orange County quarterback Quintin Hunter, who wears that number.

Two weeks after they played the first game in school history, the Eastern View Cyclones hope they can take the momentum from a solid second half against Louisa and turn it into the program’s first victory tonight at home against William Monroe.

The last time Culpeper and Orange met on the football field as bitter rivals most of the players on both school’s current rosters were in elementary school, but Friday’s hard-fought affair rehashed memories of Battlefield District border wars from decades ago.

Madison County football coach Stuart Dean knows that the reward for beating William Monroe is a full year of bragging rights.

Quintin Hunter, the stellar Orange quarterback, had scored twice and led the Hornets on a third touchdown drive less than seven minutes into the game. On the way to a 40-0 drubbing of the Blue Devils the Hornets looked like a team capable of making a playoff run. But in a sloppy second quarter they also showed why they need to remain focused if they are going to compete for a state championship or even win the Jefferson District.

At the 5:41 mark of the first quarter Orange had only run five plays, but the Hornets were already on top of Culpeper 21-0. An explosive offense that swallowed yards in chunks led OCHS to a 40-0 rout over the Blue Devils in their first game of the season.

Fast start paces Hornets to a 40-0 victory over the Blue Devils to open the season.

High school football
Orange County 40, Culpeper County 0

While many teams opened the regular season last Friday night, Culpeper and Orange’s football teams had an opening bye, which gave both squads an extra week to prepare for tonight’s game.

With Culpeper County High School off the opening week of the high school football season, and the new Eastern View High School playing its debut game at Louisa Friday night, much of the talk around town the past week centered on the Cyclones.

Madison’s stellar running game leads to victory in season opener

Whitlock throws for two TDs in season opener

The Louisa Lions are leading the Eastern View Cyclones 19-7 at halftime in Louisa.

Eastern View football team has the challenge of stopping the offense Louisa took to the state championship game two years ago.

Cyclones looking to fix mistakes before season opener

On the football field, speed can go a long way toward deciding the outcome of a game. Eastern View made that apparent during Friday’s lopsided victory over Culpeper, when the Cyclones racked 10 plays that went for 20 yards or more.

Border rivalries are special to fans with only one high school in the county.

Cyclones roll past Culpeper 41-7 in first meeting

Schools fight for the hardware in the first ‘Cannonball Classic’

Community Cup will be on the line when Devils and Cyclones play games

The Cyclones made history on Friday when they participated in the first football game in EVHS history.

115 players try out for football at Culpeper’s newest high school

Turnout has been strong at EVHS summer conditioning

Strong turnout at first meeting has Hatfield excited

New Cyclones coach has a plan to make Eastern View a winner

Former Fauquier coach jumping right into his new job with Cyclones