2021: A football season to forget for Richmond high schools
Fred Jeter | 11/18/2021, 6 p.m. | Updated on 11/22/2021, 7:04 p.m.
This won’t be a football season to fondly remember for Richmond’s five comprehensive high schools.
Finishing 6-4, Thomas Jefferson High School was one of two city schools reaching the state playoffs.
The Vikings started the season hot, but lost their final two regular season games to Colonial Heights and Mills Godwin high schools.
Then in the quarterfinals of the Class 2 Regional tournament, Thomas Jefferson was defeated Nov.12 by Amelia County High School 7-0.
The other four RPS high school teams were less fortunate.
Huguenot High School finished 1-7, with the lone victory over host George Wythe High School 6-0 in the Nov. 6 finale.
Wythe won its opener at Caroline High School, but then lost its next eight games to finish the season 1-8.
Armstrong High School closed the regular season with a 2-7 record, with wins over John Marshall High School and Park View High School in Sterling. The Wildcats then played in the Region 3B football playoffs, where the team lost 45-0 to Meridian High School in Falls Church in the quarterfinals and finished the season with a 2-8 overall record.
John Marshall High was 0-4 before canceling the rest of its season due to lack of participation.
There is sunshine in the forecast, however. Basketball, the sport the city schools excel in most, is just around the corner.
