Through two rounds of the Mid-Atlantic Prep Hockey League playoffs, the Stags are showing they saved their best for last.

Gathered in front of the weight room expecting the usual lifting session, the players groaned. “The kids, usually when they hear different, think, ‘Oh, no. What are we going to do now?’ because I’ve done some crazy things with them in the past,” said Stein, the team’s strength and conditioning coach. He quietly led them upstairs into a carpeted classroom, closed the blinds, took of his shoes and held up a DVD. Stein loaded up “All Sport Yoga: Yoga Hoops.”

The Robinson senior had just scored three points in the third period to earn a 3-2 come-from-behind decision over Salem’s Zach Kechter in the145-pound final at the Virginia AAA wrestling tournament, and Martino celebrated by reminding the near-capacity crowd it was his second consecutive state title.

On the surface, it looked like just another game for Mountain View girls’ basketball Coach Ben Sargent last week. It was anything but. He coached on Valentine’s Day with a broken heart.

You have to start with the obvious: Aquille Carr is 5 feet 7, maybe a buck-forty-five soaking wet. It’s what you notice first about the junior point guard from Baltimore’s Patterson High, even before the impossible vertical leap and the sick crossovers and the radiant smile and the incessant trash talk. He isn’t small. He isn’t smallish. He’s tiny.