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By Alex McVeigh

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The Dulles Corridor Rail Association hosteda “look forward” Friday, Feb. 24 inHerndon to examine the plans around theproposed Silver Line Metrorail Stations.

Phase Two will consist of six stations, starting atReston Parkway and going out to Ashburn, includ-ing Dulles Airport.

Various entities, including Fairfax County, LoudounCounty, the Town of Herndon and the Reston MasterPlan Special Study Task Force, are currently exam-ining what kind of development will allow both land-owners and residents to take maximum advantageof the opportunities offered bythe Silver Line.

Lisa Gilleran, director of com-munity development for theTown of Herndon, said thetown’s forecast for Metro devel-opment involved balancing anumber of factors.

“The economic challengewe’re facing is to balance traf-fic impact and public cost andmaximize transit oriented features and benefits tothe town,” she said. “In order to accomplish this, wefound balance is achievable with about seven mil-lion square feet of development by 2035.”

THE TOWN OF HERNDON is planning for de-velopment north of the proposed Herndon-Monroestation, while members of the Reston Master PlanSpecial Study Task Force and others are planning forthe parcels of land south of the station.

Fred Selden of the county’s Department of Plan-ning and Zoning discussed how changes to the RestonMaster Plan were being proposed to allow for addi-tional density.

“This plan focuses primarily on a half mile aroundthe stations,” he said. “We’re looking at and discuss-ing much higher levels of development.”

The proposed changes would increase the amountof residential square feet from just under 10 millionto more than 20 million and the commercial fromaround 17 million to 25 million square feet for thethree Reston stations at Wiehle Avenue, Reston Park-way and south of Herndon-Monroe.

Selden said a key part of the planning would be tomake sure the stations weren’t a disruptive force tothe residents and businesses around them, but thatthey blend in. Because of this, they are examiningthe land around each station parcel by parcel.

“To really integrate the Transit Oriented Develop-ment that’s to come, we really have to make sure it’sintegrated with the community at large,” he said.“As part of that process we’re looking how to inte-grate those stations on every level.”

Mark Canale, Phase Two manager for the FairfaxCounty Department of Trans-portation, said plans for PhaseTwo are about 30 percent com-plete, though he called the pro-cess dynamic.

He said accessibility to thestations, through a variety ofmeans, would be essentialwhen planning around stations.

“The county continues to lookat pedestrian circulation and

access to the station,” he said. “We’ve had a numberof adjacent landowners come up to us and make rec-ommendation for the street grids.”

PHASE TWO PLANNING will progress through-out this year, with preliminary engineering expectedto be completed this month, and then Fairfax andLoudoun Counties will have 90 days to review theproposals.

The environmental review and approvals requiredby the National Environmental Policy Act are ex-pected to be complete by June, and design-build pro-posals will be taken throughout the end of the yearwith the contract being awarded in January 2013.

By Meredith Billman-

Mani

The Connection

The indoor winter farm-ers market at FryingPan Farm was greeted

last Thursday with an eagercrowd of buyers. “We’ve beenwaiting for this. I really use thefarmers markets to tell me whatis in season. I can look aroundand see what’s fresh and grow-ing locally,” said Herndon’sIrene Hill. “We are trying to eatmore locally and farmers mar-kets tell me what’s in season,“said Hill.

“Spring is coming early thisyear,” said vendor MichaelAntony with Fossil Rock Farms.According to Antony, the reac-tion to the winter market setuphas been good. “People espe-cially like the fact that it’s openafter work. They seem lessrushed because of this ele-ment.”

The indoor market is heldThursdays from Feb. 23 to April26 from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Italso features a different freeactivity each week, which wasespecially popular with the par-ents. The first week had freehayrides. Fires, live music, babyanimal exhibits and arts andcrafts booths are all planned forthe upcoming market days.

Susan Dadio and her daugh-ter took their time choosingfruit at the Kuhn Orchard stall,which featured six varieties ofapples and three types of pears.“This is so nice to have. I startedmaking my own baby foodwhen she was little and wewould come to the summermarket to get the food for that.It’s great to be able to come inwinter now, too,” said Dadio.

The vendors started runninglow on produce half way intothe market. Chris Guerre, thefarmer behind Maple AvenueMarket Farms in Great Falls, wasdoing a swift business sellingbaby chard, baby beets, kale andeggs. He started his farm threeyears ago and uses the customerreactions and buying trends toknow what to bring to the mar-kets. Next week he plans tobring more produce now that hehas seen the volume of sales thismarket is capable of.

“For the first day of an indoorfarmers market, in winter andoff a main road, it’s been excel-lent,” said Guerre.

Katie Clowney with KuhnOrchards added that there weremore families and children atthis market than they had ex-pected so they would plan forthat in the weeks to come.

There is a nice range of foodand products at the indoor mar-ket. In addition to the fruit andvegetable stalls, there is a meatvendor, a sweets stall andhoney. Multiple farmers wereselling fresh eggs and herbs,including thick horseradishroots and rosemary.

Farm fresh eggs from FossilRock Farms at the indoorwinter farmers market atFrying Pan Farm. Themarket is held Thursdaysfrom Feb. 23 to April 26from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Susan Dadio and herdaughter, Amanda, tooktheir time choosing fruit atthe Kuhn Orchard stallwhich featured six variet-ies of apples and threetypes of pears at theindoor winter farmersmarket at Frying Pan Farm.

Farm to Fork atFry Pan FarmsWinter farmersmarket opens atFrying Pan Park.

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Rail Association Takes Look ForwardDevelopers discussSilver Line strategies.

From left, Bailey Hopple of JBG Companies, Patti Nicoson, Dulles Corridor Rail Asso-ciation and Maggie Parker of Comstock Partners answer questions about redevelop-ment along the Silver Line Friday, Feb. 24.

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Opinion

By Sharon Bulova

Chairman of the Board

And Jeff McKay

Lee District Supervisor and Transporta-

tion Committee Chairman

Maybe we should rename ourCounty The Bank of Last Re-sort. At our Board of Supervi-sors retreat in early February,

board members and staff discussed the toolsavailable to local government to narrow thechasm between growing needs and shrinkingresources. As the state and federal govern-ments continue to slash programs and fundsto localities, the needs in areas like human ser-vices, education, public safety, and transpor-tation continue to grow.

Fairfax County is at ground zero in all theseareas. We’re home to a growing population ofseniors in need of basic services; our top notchschools are growing fast; and our first respond-ers keep our community safe despite beingasked to do more with less.

The current debate over transportation re-sponsibilities is instructive. The Commonwealthof Virginia has primary transportation respon-sibilities that go back to the years of the GreatDepression when the state took on all publicroad maintenance and construction for all coun-ties except for Arlington and Henrico. In re-cent years, we’ve seen the fraying of this tradi-tional responsibility and core function of stategovernment as the state’s failure to act has leftmany of our most well-traveled roads in de-plorable condition. Saying, “Can’t afford it any-more, it’s your problem” seems to be the Gen-eral Assembly’s solution. That’s not reasonableand it’s certainly not responsible governance.

The current proposals in the General Assem-bly are either devolution-lite or the camel’snose under the tent. Either way, they amountto an abdication of the state’s moral and legalresponsibility to maintain our roads. Any ef-fort by the state that does not result in a long-term dedicated revenue stream is a decision

to sidestep our transportation challenges.Fairfax County should not be forced to choosebetween its citizens’ important needs simplybecause the state government is looking to takethe easy way out. And keep in mind — asFairfax County’s fortunes go, so goes the Com-monwealth. Our economic vitality supportsand funds the rest of the state. A crumblingtransportation infrastructure here will ulti-mately show up on the wrong side of the led-ger downstate.

As elected leaders, we have the responsibil-ity to listen and respond to the needs of ourconstituents. Time after time we hear thattransportation is one of our residents’ top con-cerns and key to our economic fortunes. FairfaxCounty has a creative and solutions-orientedlocal government. We believe that our trans-portation problems can be solved. Identifyinga dedicated transportation revenue stream isthe first and most important step in findingthat solution and we ask that the Governor andthe General Assembly meet their responsibil-ity and identify that stream.

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Letters to the Editor

Wolf’s CrusadeArticleTo the Editor:

Alex McVeigh’s article on Rep.Wolf ’s book “Prisoner of Con-science” [“Wolf’s Crusade,” Connec-tion, February 15-21, 2012] is verymuch worth acknowledging as hisconstituents and other constituentsof neighboring districts are not wellinformed about Rep. Wolf’s commit-ment to this issue of global humanrights. I have lived here in North-ern Virginia for 30 years and that ishow long Rep. Wolf has been inCongress representing the 10th dis-trict. It is also parallel to my 30 yearsof citizen activism and being a re-sponsible citizen. Through the yearsI have lived in Arlington, Oaktonand Reston. Rep. Wolf has been mycongressman for many of thoseyears. Due to boundary changes etc,I am not in the 10th District now.Our citizen advocacy organizationhas worked closely with Rep. Wolfover these 30 years. We recall hislife changing visit to Ethiopia andhow we were very proud of him. Hehas supported programs of UNICEFand Child Survival funding that re-ally make a difference.

In 1984, in the “State of theWorld’s Children Report” pub-lished annually by UNICEF, thenumber of child deaths (prevent-able) was 40,000 daily. In thesepast 30 years the number currentlyaccording to UNICEF is down to24,000 daily. That is still a scan-dalous number but also showsprogress in fighting human rightsviolations of hunger and diseasethat is preventable. Rep. Wolf saysin your article that back in the ’80s

there was more bipartisan supportfor human rights in Congress thanhe sees now. Isn’t that shamefulthat “partisan politics” negates thecommitment we all have to suchfundamental rights.

Len ChorazyRESULTS Coordinator, Virginia

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Equal HumanRights for AllTo the Editor:

The most recent edition of TheConnection [Feb 15-21, 2012], in-cluded an article about Rep. FrankWolf’s humanitarian crusade, andhighlighted a book he has writtenabout his experiences. Rep. Wolf’swork is exemplary, and worthy ofour praise. However, it behoovesme to point out a glaring void inMr. Wolf’s work: as strong an ad-vocate for human rights as Mr.Wolf has been, he has been anequally staunch opponent of equalhuman rights for gays and lesbi-ans here in this country.

The Connection article endswith a quote from Rep. Wolf:

“The Declaration of Indepen-dence says all men are createdequal, and have a right to life, lib-erty and the pursuit of happiness,”he said. “I think when we advo-cate and speak out, it really canmake a tremendous difference topeople all over the world, as wewould want someone to do if wewere in the same situation.”

I would say to Rep. Wolf, we AREin the same situation. A largegroup of Americans, who are ex-pected to pay taxes and adhere to

the laws of this land, are consis-tently being denied the most ba-sic privileges and protections ofthose laws. The Declaration of In-dependence says “all” men, notjust those that you prefer. I urgeRep Wolf to consider his ownwords, and follow the course thathe himself advocates for othercountries. Be a true humanitarian,Rep. Wolf, not a selective one.

Sarah O’NeilGreat Falls

The ContraceptiveControversyTo the Editor:

The federal rule requiring thatlarge employers cover contracep-tive services prompted an outcry.Arguing in the name of religiousliberty, religious leaders arguedthat the requirement violates theirFirst Amendment rights. This ar-gument is misguided for a num-ber of reasons. Contraceptives playan important role in women’shealth and religious liberty doesnot extend that far.

Religious liberty does not allowreligious groups the freedom notto follow rules or laws that havecompelling benefits to society. Forexample, religious liberty did notexempt religious groups from lawsthat ban the practice of polygamy(Reynolds v. US, 1878) and did notallow Native Americans who usedpeyote in religious ceremonies tobe exempt from employment rulesagainst drug use (Employment Di-vision of Oregon v. Smith, 1990).

Conservatives argue that reli-gious groups that object to contra-

ceptives should not be required topay for it. This argument is alsomisguided. We are all required topay taxes and in turn inadvertentlysupport policies we don’t agreewith. Co-pays act as a deterrent forthe insured – especially the lowincome. Inability to pay for con-traceptives could result in a rangeof detrimental health conse-quences and choices that are moreobjectionable than contraceptives.

The Obama administration com-promised when the first version ofthe rule caused controversy. Thenew version requires that insurersnot charge more for plans that covercontraceptives, to avoid requiringdirect payment by a religious insti-tution of coverage they find objec-tionable. While this was welcomedby the insurance industry, it wascalled an “accounting gimmick” bythose who continue to rally againstrequired contraceptive coverage.Religious leaders are still free topreach against contraceptive use.Since insurers and doctors are pro-viding the service, not religious lead-ers, there is no interference withreligious liberty. Religious womenare also free to refuse the service forany reason. However, since largeemployers employ women from arange of faiths contraceptivesshould be a covered benefit.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act pro-hibits sex discrimination. Since con-traceptives are exclusive to womenit is inarguable that this is a women’sissue. To prevent these medicinesfrom being as readily available asany man’s medicine violates ournation’s anti discrimination laws.

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Obituary

Joanne Virginia DonohueWatson, age 85, passed awaypeacefully on Friday Feb. 17, 2012at Stonehenge Assisted Living inBlairsville, Ga. Joanne resided inBlairsville for the past five years.Born in Petaluma, Calif., on Nov.26, 1926 the daughter of the lateEmmett Ignatius Donohue andDoris Rockwell, she was pro-ceeded in death by her husbandJohn Rollin Watson, Jr. (1995) andher son John Rollin Watson III(1999) and her brother JamesLockwood Donohue. She was arecent member of the First Bap-tist Church of Blairsville, Ga.While in Georgia she was activein Faith Sunday School Class, andthe Beacon Mission Team. Joannehad a heart for missions.

Before coming to Blairsville,Joanne lived 47 years in NorthernVirginia. While living in Great Fallsshe was an active member of theLewinsville Presbyterian Church inMcLean, where she served as anelder; a deacon; chair of the mis-sion committee, where she oversawthe relocation and settlement of arefugee family with five childrenfrom Laos; worked in the Clothing

Joanne Virginia Donohue Watson, 85, DiesCloset; active in Christmas in April(was one of the best painters on theteam); made communion bread; astoryteller; and acted in manychurch and local plays.

While in Herndon, she was amember of the Herndon UnitedMethodist Church.

Before coming to Northern Vir-ginia Joanne traveled the four cor-ners of the world with her husbandliving in Alaska (before it was astate), Cambodia (before thewars), and Costa Rica. She wasraised in California living in manycities (sixteen- but who’s count-ing) up and down the west coast,some including San Francisco,Carmel, San Diego, Monterey andPasadena. Her love for the oceanand beach were known by all, shewas an avid traveler, and “nevermet a stranger.”

Survivors include: daughter andson-in-law Janice and CharlesCoon of Bluemont, Va.; daughterand son-in-law Patricia and MikeBaldwin of Blairsville, Ga.; and sonand daughter-in-law William andVirginia Watson of Little Washing-ton, Va.; grandchildren JasonWatson and wife Jessica (New

York, NY); Captain ChristopherBaldwin (US Army) and wifeErika; Sarah Steel (Herndon, Va.);Timothy Baldwin and JenniferPeterson (Palm Beach Gardens,Fla.); Kelly Steel and fiancé HenryBrooks (Sterling, Va.); and twogreat grandsons Marcello andJavier Watson. Survived also byher brothers Emmett Donohue(Dolores, Colo.) and, F. MartinDonohue (Melbourne, Fla.) and bynumerous much-loved nieces andnephews around the world.

Services in Northern Virginiawill be on Saturday March 3, at 3p.m. at the Lewinsville Presbyte-rian Church, 1724 ChainbridgeRoad, McLean, VA 22101 led Rev.Justin White and Rev. DeborahMcKinley. Interment and receptionto follow the service.

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Fresh off a season in whichthey won the nationalchampionship, theHerndon High School

Step Team kicked off their seasonby hosting the 14th annualStompFest Saturday at HerndonHigh. The event featured nine lo-cal teams competing for first place.

The team got the school into thespirit the Friday before the com-petition, creating a flash mob in thecafeteria. Since they only per-formed and didn’t compete inStompFest, they were able to havea little fun with their routine.

“Everything else we’ll do this sea-son will be a competition, but withthis routine we had a little fun, re-laxed a little bit,” said senior IzabaSarabi, one of the team‘s co-cap-tains.

Coach Gary Bushrod said theteam was able to put a “fun twist”on their usual routine forStompFest, but he knows teams

will have Herndon on their radarcome competition season.

“People know Herndon is goodnow, which means they’ll be readyfor us,” he said. “We’ll take a weekoff after StompFest, and then getinto competition mode. The teamknows the stakes are higher, they’refeeling the pressure, but we’reready for it. It used to take us afew competitions to get into theswing of things, not this year.”

THE PRESSURE began day onefor the Step Team, even as theywere hosting auditions for the va-cant spots. Bushrod says the audi-tions were tougher than they’veever been.

“We’ve been going hard since thefirst day of school, adding an ex-tra hour to all our practices,” saidsenior Lin Marie Marmolejos, oneof the team‘s co-captains. “Ourchampionship has raised the barfor everybody on this team.”

Recognition has come along withtheir championship last year,Marmolejos says people will recog-

nize them from YouTube clips, andeven members of her church inTysons Corner have heard aboutthe team.

Last year’s team lost 11 seniorsto graduation, and they welcomedfive new members, three freshmanand two sophomores. The newmembers say they know exactlywhat they’ve got themselves into.

“There was pressure in the be-ginning, but I think we’ve cometogether and now I really feel likepart of the team,” said freshmanBreyuanna Wright, who has beenstepping since she was in elemen-tary school. “I’ve been watching theteam for years, and now I feel likeI’ve become part of the family.”

Sophomore Hannah Vaughn saysshe and the team treat every prac-tice like it counts.

“Even though we weren’t com-peting in StompFest, we still wentfull out during each and everypractice,” she said. “We’re treatingevery practice like we’re on stageat Nationals, because that’s howyou ramp up for the competition.”

Herndon High School hosts 14th annual StompFest.

Herndon High Step Team Kicks Off Title DefenseTHE STEP TEAM will have sixcompetitions this year, including atrip to nationals for what they hopewill be a second championship.

“We know teams will be comingfor us, that’s what happens whenyou win,” said senior ShammahOkai, one of the teams’ co-captains.“But we’re ready to get back tonationals and keep our title.”

The Herndon High School Step Team performs at theschool’s 14th annual StompFest Saturday, Feb. 25.

The Herndon High School Step Team don blindfolds forpart of their performance at the 14th annual HerndonStompFest.

The Herndon High School Step Team performs at the14th annual Herndon Stompfest on Feb. 25.The team won a national championship last year, andkicked off their season at StompFest.

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Oakton Girls Re-Claim Northern Region CrownKathleen Coyersteps up to score29 points in winover WestSpringfield.

Kathleen Coyer was named tournamentMVP after scoring 29 points and pullingdown eight rebounds in Oakton’s regionfinals win over West Springfield on Mon-day night at Robinson Secondary.

Oakton’s Elizabeth Manner (right), defend-ing here against West Springfield’s LindsayMares, scored 10 of her 12 title gamepoints in the second half.

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The “Coyer Era” ofOakton High girls’basketball could notbe winding down in

more spectacular fashion than itcurrently is.

The Coyer twins, senior guardsCaroline and Kathleen, haveplayed vital roles in the Cougars’unparalleled success over the pastfour years. Caroline, the team’spoint guard, is one of the North-ern Region’s all-time best players.Katherine, at shooting guard, is atremendous defensive player whoscores when called upon and canmatch the on-court prowess of thebest players out there.

The duo, in both their freshmenand sophomore years, helpedOakton win region crowns. Lastyear, their junior seasons, saw theCougars eliminated in the regionsemifinals to fellow region forceWest Springfield. It was Oakton’s one andonly loss of the 2010-’11 season.

On Monday, Oakton and West Springfieldmet again in a huge postseason affair, thistime in the region finals. Once again, Oaktonentered the playoff contest with the Spar-tans unbeaten. This time, however, headcoach Fred Priester’s team was able to over-come the Spartans to the tune of a 63-49triumph which earned Oakton its third re-gion crown in four years and improved itsrecord to a still perfect 28-0. The finals gametook place at Robinson Secondary.

“It’s definitely great to win, especially af-ter last year’s [semifinals loss],” said Oaktoncenter Elizabeth Manner. “We’ve continuedto work hard all year.”

Manner said Oakton, much like last yearwhen it lost just the one game, has neverallowed the pressure of being unbeaten tooverwhelm them.

“It hasn’t affected us,” she said. “Everyteam we play, we go out and know we canbeat them. We’re not cocky but we’re veryconfident.”

In Oakton’s region tournament champi-onships in 2009 and 2010, Caroline Coyerearned tourney MVP honors both years. OnMonday, following the Cougars’ decisivevictory, it was sister Kathleen who garneredMVP status during post-game award cer-emonies. No one was happier for Kathleen,who tallied a game-high 29 points in thechampionship game win, than sister

Caroline. Both are set to play college bas-ketball on scholarship next year at VillanovaUniversity in Philadelphia.

“A lot of people in the past did not giveher the respect she deserved,” said Caroline,of her sometimes unheralded twin andteammate. “We knew she had to have agreat game tonight and she did.”

While Kathleen accepted her first-everregion tournamentMVP honor, Carolineand fellow CougarKarlie Cronin werealso named to theseven-member All-Tournament Team.

Caroline said shehas thoroughly en-joyed playing highschool ball alongsideher sister for fouryears at Oakton.

“It’s awesome,” said Caroline. “She knowsme better than anyone. I can always counton her.”

THE ENTIRE OAKTON squad was ableto count on Kathleen Coyer on Monday. Shehad a simply dominant game and helpedthe Cougars get off to a good start with eightfirst quarter points as Oakton took a 12-8lead going into the second quarter. Oaktonnever lost the lead thereafter.

Oakton, which led 24-18 at halftime, saw

West Springfield get within 25-20 whenSpartans’ junior forward Lindsay Mares con-verted a 10-foot turnaround shot off the leftwing early in the second quarter. ButKathleen Coyer responded with a 14-footjumper to make it 27-20. The basket starteda 15-7 Oakton surge over the remainder ofthe quarter, helping the Cougars take a 40-27 advantage into the fourth quarter.

One of Oakton’sbiggest highlightsduring the third quar-ter hot spell was athree-point basket byCaroline Coyer fromthe left of the keywhich gave the Cou-gars a 32-20 leadnearly midwaythrough the stanza.Coyer, Oakton’s topscorer this season

and one of the greatest scorers in regionhistory, was limited to just six points on thenight but that long range trey to give herteam a 12-point lead was one of the game’sbiggest baskets. Oakton’s lead would ulti-mately reach 16 points on a couple of occa-sions thereafter.

West Springfield never relented and, be-hind the strong fourth quarter play of se-nior forward Logan Battle, fought back towithin seven points at 51-44 on a pair ofBattle free throws with two minutes, 53

seconds remaining. Throughoutthat final quarter, Battle, one ofthree Spartans to make the All-Tour-nament Team, had kept her team incontention by scoring on hard drivesto the basket. Fourteen of her team-high 18 points came in that finalquarter.

But Oakton weathered the Spar-tans’ fourth quarter threat. Followingthe free throws by Battle which gotWest Springfield within seven points,Oakton’s Manner, a fundamentally-sound, 6-foot-0 inch center who fin-ished with 12 points and eight re-bounds, scored from close rangewhile being fouled. Her ensuing freethrow made the score 54-44 Cougars.Several moments later, Manner wouldanswer a basket by Battle with a nifty,inside spin move layup off the left sideto make it 56-46 with 2:12 left. WestSpringfield never closed within 10points after that.

“I really think we all came out toplay tonight,” said Manner. “Wewere patient and physically tough.We knew if West Springfield tooksomething away [defensively] wecould counter.”

Kathleen Coyer scored 12 of herpoints from the foul line, where shewas 12-of-14. Her only long rangethree-pointer came from the left cor-ner with just over a minute remain-ing in the game, prompting chantsof ‘undefeated, undefeated’ from the

charged-up Oakton student body section.Coyer had eight rebounds to go along withher big scoring night.

Manner, like everyone else, marveled atKathleen Coyer’s huge night.

“She’s a great player,” said Manner. “Shefinishes her shots and can score when thereis pressure on her.”

“She pretty much made everything sheshot,” said West Springfield’s April Robinson(10 points), an all-tournament selectionherself.

West Springfield, with the loss, fell to 26-3 on the season. The Spartans’ only priortwo losses had come during the holidays toout-of-area opponents. West Springfield’stitle game setback was its first loss of theseason to a local opponent.

“They played a better game than we did,”said Robinson, a senior guard. “We cameout kind of timid. We’ll rebound from thisand come back at it on Friday.”

BOTH OAKTON AND WEST SPRING-FIELD, by reaching the region title game,automatically earned trips to this week’seight-team state AAA playoffs. Oakton, thisFriday night at 7, will play Central Regionrunner-up Monacan High of Richmond atRobinson. Also on Friday at 7, West Spring-field will travel to Richmond to play High-land Springs, the Central Region champion,at Virginia Commonwealth University’sSiegel Center.

“Every team we play, wego out and know we canbeat them. We’re notcocky but we’re veryconfident.”

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After returning from Guatemala in 1982, and taking a 2 year sabbatical, Fr. Moran was then assigned to St. Mary of Sor-rows Church in Fairfax, Virginia as parish priest from 1984-1990. In 1990, he returned to Guatemala for a second tour of duty for nine years. In 1999 when he returned to the Unit-ed States, he was assigned as an associate pastor at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on the south side of Chicago, where he served up until December of 2011.Visitation on Tuesday, February 27 from 2-9pm at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 3200 E. 91st Street, Chicago, IL 60617 with a prayer service at 8pm. On Wednesday, February 28 viewing at 9:00 a.m. until time of Mass of the Resurrection at 9:30 a.m. In-terment Queen of Heaven Cemetery – Hillside, IL. Elmwood Chapel Chicago, IL in charge of arrangement. 773-731-2749. www.elmwoodchapel.com

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