NOVA will play the newly formed team from Lord Fairfax Community College in Winchester Saturday. Lord Fairfax CC is 2-0 in Virginia Community College System Conference play and has had crowds of over 500 for their home games. The NOVA Raiders are in for a battle with the large home crowd and the unpredictability of on the road officials. The tipoff is set for 7:30 PM

This will be the NOVA Raiders first VCCS Conference game this season. The Raiders could use fan support for the first road VCCS contest. NOVA comes in to Saturday’s game with a 5-2 record.

LOCATION:

Winchester City Parks and Recreation Gym
1001 East Cork Street
Winchester, VA 22601

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The former NOVA Raiders Mark and Sam are both on the Varsity team at the University of Virgina, Wise.

Sam is #23 Mark is #25

Nov 20- LaPlata MD, The NOVA Raiders extended their wining streak to three with a win over the College of Southern Maryland last night by a score of 104-93. NOVA’s record for the season goes to 5-2 with the only loses coming from nationally ranked Cecil and Montgomery – Germantown.

The Raiders started off slowly against CSM with a rather soft defensive effort and a lethargic offense in the first 10 mnutes of the game. In the later part of the first half the Raiders got boost from Joe Scorah with two 3 pointers and 10 first half points. Cordero Holt two three pointers and 18 first half points to give NOVA a 56-47 lead.

In the second half NOVA used their depth to keep the aggressive defensive pressure on CSM to force bad shots and turnovers to extend the lead to double digits. NOVA maintained a comfortable lead the entire second half. Some sloppy play and carless fouls by the Raiders allowed CSM to close the gap to 11 points in the closing minutes.

NOVA 104 CSM 93
Half Time Score NOVA 56 CSM 47

NOVA
Holt 29, Smith 15, Scorah 15, Ingram 13, Romeo 8, Walker 6, Washington 6, Dutton 5, Jones 4, N’ Garmin 2, Wright 1

CSM
Young 25, Smith 12, Posey 10, Shannon 11, Gwen 8, Murphy 7, Wilson 3, Foot 3, Smoot 2

Nov 17- The NOVA Raiders go to 4-2 with a big win over the Massanuttan Military Academy which is a post graduate prep school. This is the first time in modern history that NOVA has beaten Massanuttan. In most seasons, Massanuttan will have three or four future NCAA D1 players that need to work on grades or hone their basketball skills to get to the next level.

The two loses this season have come to Nationally ranked opponents. For the second time in four years all NOVA players scored. That is fourteen players on the score board. Jermaine Wright lead all Raiders with 14 points. NOVA came out strong with a pressure man to man defense and never let Massanuttan get started leading at half time 42 to 24.

Half Time NOVA 42 MASSN 24
FINAL NOVA 85 MASSN 61

NOVA Wright 14, Washington 12, Holt 11, Scoran 10, Jones 7, Fair 6, Barlow 5, Ingram 5, Dutton 4, N’Garmin 4, Romeo 4 Lyles 2, Smith 2, Walker 1

MASSANUTTAN Brown 16, Able 15, Jones 12

Sat 11/14/09 The NOVA Raiders today at Cecil with a 4:00 pm tip off.

The former Georgetown U and NBA star player now Chesapeake CC Head Men’s Basketball Coach thoughts after loss to NOVA:

Rockeem Harris, a freshman guard from Kent County High held to five points in the Howard game, exploded for a team-high 27 points in the loss to Northern Virginia. Harris also had four assists and two steals.

“Rockeem did a pretty good job getting everybody else into the flow of the offense,” said Williams.

Freshman forward Andre Dickerson (Woodbridge High) added 17 points and Sanders chipped in 15, but it wasn’t enough to offset NoVa’s relentless running game.

“Our transition defense wasn’t very good,” conceded Williams. “We weren’t balancing the floor very well on offense. Once the shot went up, they (NoVa) ran it down our throats. We needed to run our passing game better to neutralize their fast break.”

Nov 11- NOVA beat Montgomery College (Rockville) 92 to 81 to make three straight victories against MDJUCO teams. Krizzio Washington and Shaun Ingram each had 21 points followed by Mike Walker with 12 and Cordero Holt with 11 points.

The NOVA Raiders men’s basketball team played possibly the best weekend of basketball in the team’s history by wining back to back games against two of the best Maryland JUCO NJCAA teams over the weekend.

On Saturday the Raiders took on the NJCAA Division I team Chesapeake College coached by Georgetown and NBA Star Reggie Williams. The Raiders were prepared for a war deploying a tough man to man pressure defense that surprised Chesapeake with the amount of pressure on the ball and one pass away holding them to 35 first half points. NOVA on the other had three players with double digit first half points from Codero Holt, Shaun Ingram and Krizzio Washington as part of the 56 first half production. The Raiders came out strong in the second half and delivered Coach Williams his first college loss. The Final score was:

NOVA 108 Chesapeake 84
Halftime Nova 56 Chesapeake 35

NOVA
Krizzio Washington 27, Cordero Holt 18, Jermaine Wright and Shaun Ingram 17 each, Jamal Jones 8, Dion Romeo 8, Walt Smith 7, Mike Walker 2, Brad Dutton 2, Howard Lyles 2, Jon Gaston 1

Chesapeake
Rockeem Harris 27, Andre Dickerson 17, Sam Sanders 15

After the big win on Saturday the Raiders came out a little flat Sunday against the third place Maryland JUCO Howard County Community College Dragons. The lead changed hands a number of times in the first half with Jermaine Wright and Shaun Ingram carrying the load on offense with 10 points and 13 points respectively in the first half. At half time it was tided at 43. The second half was a repeat of the first half with the lead going back in forth. With a size and bench strength advantage NOVA had they wore down the Dragons. With only seconds left Walt Smith made a key steal at mid court with a tided score. Smith shot a 40 footer at the buzzer to win the game.

NOVA 89 Howard 86
Halftime 43 43

NOVA
Shaun Ingram 19, Cordero Holt 18, Walt Smith 17, Jermaine Wright 14, Krizzio Washington 10, Howard Lyles 7, Mike Walker 4

Howard
Kyle Servance 23, Kameron Crump 21, Tyrell Crowell 20

The NOVA raiders lead at half time by six but could not hold on the lead and lost by a couple of buckets to pre-season national ranked Montgomery College Germantown.

Cordero Holt lead the Raiders with 21, Krizzio Washington had 18 points and Brad Dutton 8 points, 4 blocks and 12 rebounds

Here is what MCG had to say

November 4, 2009 The MC Germantown Men’s Basketball Team were able to pull out a win against a very talented Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) team by making 22 out of 23 free throws. NOVA attempted to use its size over the smaller Germantown team. That was a very talented NOVA squad. It actually was one of the most talented teams I’ve ever coached against. Our guys were just resilient and made an amazing 22 of 23 free throws,” said Coach Joyner.

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