Mike Nortrup

Mike Fenlon's Gamber team won a thrilling, 7-6 overtime game over the Anne Arundel County-based Bays to win the state title.

The Titans Baseball Club's 12-under "tournament-only" baseball team has struggled to gain respectability this year. The team, part of the Westminster-based

Youth team wins Maryland Youth Lacrosse Association Midget 1 postseason tourney

Longtime club soccer coach retiring after 11-year run

MYLA Junior B Division squad had successful spring

Since February 2013, the Central Carroll Dynamo has five first-place finishes and 10 seconds in tournaments and leagues.

Both of them closed out their season May 7 by finishing first in their brackets at the Cheer Power Battle of the States competition in Hershey, Pa.

Winfield wrestling team competed in junior league dual meet finals

Manchester Wrestling Club president and coach Jason Myers knew something was up as he watched his young wrestlers work out during the first night of practice

Mat Hall's Freedom girls travel team has won a lot of basketball games since it was formed three years ago. In fact, it has won three league championships in

Freedom Area hoops league embarking in new season

Last year, Westminster won the title. But two Sundays ago, it was Freedom's turn. The South Carroll-based kids, led by Century boys varsity basketball coach George Wunder, topped Westminster, 38-34 to win the title.

Bruce Woodyard has been a fixture in Westminster's youth basketball circles for literally decades. He joined up with Westminster's travel basketball

First-timers reach championship game before falling

The Winfield Recreation Council's Volunteer of the Year for 2015 is what you might call a volunteer for all seasons.

When it came time for league officials to name its Volunteer of the Year for 2015, there is no way they could have selected one of these men and not the other. So, Zapf and Yinglng were named St. John's Co-Volunteers of the Year for 2015.

Duley has been volunteering through MAYAA for more than 2 decades

The powers that be in the Freedom Recreation Council have recognized Chrissy Elliott's contributions by naming the Eldersburg resident its Volunteer of the Year.

This resident of Taneytown has four children who have gotten heavily involved in youth sports. That gave him ample incentive to get involved, himself. About nine years ago, he did. He took over a boys team with Taneytown's Francis Scott Key youth soccer program.

These kids from Hampstead and Manchester have lost all four of their games in the county's girls travel basketball league this season. However in late-December's Holiday on the Hill basketball tournament in Westminster, they were more or less electric.

FSK's sixth-grade travel basketball team celebrated the holidays at McDaniel College by going undefeated in the school's Thanksgiving Turkey on the Hill tournament and sweeping to the championship of its Dec. 27-28 Holiday on the Hill tourney.

The win culminated a three-game playoff sweep and one of the more unlikely championship runs in recent Carroll County rec sports history. The Cavaliers won only three of eight regular season games and seemed to be among the least likely to succeed in terms of winning a football championship.

Groves explained that a lot of players had come and gone over the team's five-year run. Five new ones came on this fall, changing the 8-8 summer team's roster by almost half. Many on this revised roster were from the Westminster area and some, including Groves, were from Hampstead. A couple of players even commuted from Hanover.

The title was the first for the team in the fall loop, although manager Justin Rill noted that his team has finished second in that league a number of times. His team also won the summer Men's League's Sunday Division two years ago.

Gamber overpowered everybody this season. Over one stretch, The Mustangs shut out six straight opponents, and then seven of eight. They outscored everybody else in the Varsity Division with 281 points. They allowed 42 points, which were second lowest in the league.

Three Sundays ago at Frederick County's Kemptown Park, the young Lions swept three playoff games to win the Middle Atlantic Baseball Association's 12-under fall season championship. And judging from its performance in those wins, manager Griffin and assistant coaches "Pop" Griffin, Brian O'Donnell, Brian Mount, and Clint Walker can rest assured that those things they wanted to improve this fall got improved.

The Central Carroll Soccer Club squad is undefeated at 4-0-1. That ties it for first on points with Harford Kicks Synergy. Each team has 13, however Synergy has a loss

The Tigers are a unified team. A unified team features the Special Olympics athletes themselves along with coaches who also play some of the positions on the field. They help the athletes by telling them what to do on fielding plays and also by giving them pointers when they bat. The Tigers usually had five players with special needs on the field at a time.

In 2005, the newly-minted Christian Crusaders took the field for the first time. The program recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a homecoming game at Deer Park.

This was a year of change for the Finksburg Lady Lions 12-under softball team. The girls had reached the age where they would be playing real fast-pitch softball for the first time.

Crush manager Erin Vorke picked up several new players for this campaign, and they helped the team over the top. The Crush finally reached the summit in late July when it emerged from the championship tournament's consolation bracket to beat Hits and Balls twice and take the title.

Herb Eyler's Junior Division Cougars braved the heat to take the championship — his first in six years as a coach.