These happy first graders are excited about our blanket collection for the Danville Community Christmas Dinner. There is still time to donate if you haven’t done so already.
5th grade diligently working on decimals in Math.
Telling the story of baby Jesus’ birthday!
One of our 4th graders anticipating her solo for the Elementary Christmas Play
Earth Science class was “rock”ing today!
Merry Christmas from Mrs. Perez’s class!
Notification test
The Westover Christian Academy band warming up and tuning up for the Danville Christmas Parade.
Gingerbread Man STEM! Mrs. Beach and Mrs. Porterfield’s K4 class used materials to create a different way for the Gingerbread Man to cross the river so he would not be eaten up by the fox! There were some boats, airplanes, bridges and LOTS of imagination!
Danville Christmas Parade 2019
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The Westover Christian Academy varsity boys basketball team lost its first game Friday night at New Covenant. This was WCA‘s first game in two weeks. The rust was very evident in the first quarter, the Bulldogs fell behind 22 to 9 trying to play man to man defense. The Bulldogs were unable to hold down New Covenant’s best player Jaden Walker who scored 32 points on the night, 25 in the first half. WCA would trail by as much as 24 points before making a run at the end of the first half to cut it to an 18 point lead 42 to 24 at the half.
The Bulldogs went into a 3-2 quarter court press and was able to contain the gryphons for the second half holding New Covenant to 25 total points. The Bulldogs cut the lead as low as eight before losing the game by 11. WCA was led by Dylan Aron who had 17 points seven rebounds Dylan connected on three three-pointers. Jezekiah Morris kept WCA in the game in the second half hitting 5-3 pointers to keep the game within reach. WCA was plagued by turnovers all night committing 14 turnovers and missing 8 free throws.
Noah Burton also added 10 points and Josh Lewis added 9. Dawson Booth had 8 rebounds for the Bulldogs. Dawson also had three points. Chris Miller chipped in two points as well.
The Bulldogs will be at home against district opponent Faith-Hurt on Tuesday night at 7 o’clock. WCA is 3-1 overall and 3-0 in the VACA
The Westover Ladies Choir singing Christmas Carols along the Dan River for Danville Parks and Rec Luminaria Walk
The WCA middle school girls took on new covenant tonight in our gym and came away with a 24 to 9 victory. Emily Evans led all scores 11 points followed by Skyla Goddard with six, Rihanna Smith have four, and Brooke Barrington have four.Way to go lady Bulldogs! Our record is now 4-1 for the young season.
Adorable! Second graders love to read. They even read when they are waiting in line.
Senior homecoming nominees did an awesome job telling the students in chapel a little more about themselves through questions given to them to answer. Proud of them!
It's starting to look like Christmas!
Danville,
The Westover Christian Academy JV Boys Basketball team was back in action Thursday evening against the Tornados of Timberlake Christian School and came away with a convincing 61-31 victory. WCA last played two weeks ago on the road against Dayspring Christian and hadn't been able to practice since Monday. The layoff did seem to effect the Bulldogs early with some sloppy passes and unforced errors, however they were able to race out to an early 11-1 lead with high pressure defense in the full court.
Those sloppy passes would enable TCS to hang around into the 2nd quarter before the Bulldogs put the clamps down defensively to go up by 24 points at halftime, 39-15. The Bulldogs started the 3rd quarter in a man-to-man defense and the Tornados managed to bank in 2 three pointers to force the Bulldogs to adjust their defense to eliminate the threat from downtown. The two teams would actually trade baskets throughout the frame and both scored 13 points for a margin of 52-28 heading into the final stanza. All 13 of the Bulldogs players would see game action tonight and 11 of 13 would score with all players contributing. Westover would get up by over 30 points which triggered an automatic running clock for the remainder of the game and the Bulldogs cruised to a 30 point win 61-31.
WCA was led in scoring by Ashton Bettendorf who had 12 points and 6 steals. Luke Barber had 9 points going 3 of 4 from behind the arc, while Blake Barber played awesome coming off the bench to score 8 points, collect 7 steals and draw a charge when we were already up by 25. Tyler Hughes got his first action of the season scoring 7 points, Bailey McDowell had 5 points while Isaac Von Eime, Brayden Bortz, Dallas Wheeler and Matthew Millner all had 4 points apiece. Aaron Salmon and Neal Talbott both chipped in with 2 points. With the win WCA improves to 3-0 (3-0 VACA) on the season.
We are back in action tomorrow night on the road against former VACA foe the Gryphons of New Covenant School at 5:30pm.
The Westover Middle school boys faced off against the Timberlake Christian Tornadoes on Thursday night. The Bulldogs struggled early to get their shots to fall while the Tornadoes took an early lead in the first quarter. Westover continued to fight and closed the gap ending the first half only down by one point with a score of 13-14. Westover came out of halftime and jumped to a three point lead but could not hang for long due to several players being in foul trouble. A hard fought game ultimately ended in Westover’s first loss of the season with a final score of 29-34. The Bulldogs are now 2-1.
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Jon Ragan
Happy Birthday Aiden!
Westover Middle School girls took to the court for their first home game and came away with a resounding 30-7 victory. WCA’s defense kept their opponent from running any type of offense while scoring eight points in transition.
WCA was led by Emily Evans with 14 points and followed by Skyla Goddard with 11. Also scoring and playing tough defense was Addy Nelson with one point, Brooke Barrington contributed two and had three steals, Rhianna Smith scored two. Chloe Smith and Michelle Jennings’s defense was outstanding.
Our next game is a Friday home game against New Covenant. Starting time is 4:30.