Mike Nortrup
191 stories by Mike Nortrup
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Rec Sports Spotlight for Aug. 26, 2018. -
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- Rec Sports Spotlight for Aug. 5, 2018.
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- Rec Sports Spotlight for July 22, 2018.
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- Rec Sports Spotlight for July 8, 2018,
- When the season ended, the Panthers were 12-13-1, good enough for second place in the five-team Ponytail loop.
- These kids had never played together, and it took awhile for them to jell. But Scheller was patient through the team's early ups and downs.
- The Westminster Cougars finished first this year. Last year, they swept the Junior Division’s three championships including the regular season plus the pre and postseason tournaments.
- Central Carroll Soccer Club Wildfire has won seven league and tournament championships since October, 2016.
- In March, she won the Level 8 USA Gymnastics' State Championship. She did this by having the highest all-around score. The all-around is the sum of the scores achieved in the floor exercises, balance beam, uneven bars and the vault.
- Rec Sports Spotlight for May 27, 2018.
- Over the past three years, Gamber has gone 29-1. This year, it was 10-0 in the boys Junior B Division for eighth graders. This weekend, that division begins its postseason playoffs which will culminate for the local kids next weekend if they are still around.
- Maryland Lady Hoopmasters director LaTonya Hardy says her group wants want to make this an annual event.
- Morrison's Check-Hers 2021 Black squad won all 10 of its games in Carroll Indoor’s winter session which ended Feb. 26. That had to please the officials of the Westminster-based Check-Hers girls lacrosse club.
- The squad, whose players come mostly from the North Carroll area of the county, has finished first three times in three 2017-2018 leagues and has taken two postseason championships. The 2 Left Feet team has been around about 10 years, manager Chris Briley said
- Over the fall and winter, Maggie's has won three straight co-ed soccer championships at Westminster's Carroll Indoor Sports Center.
- Rec Sports Spotlight for April 15, 2018.
- The Westminster-based Mid Atlantic Legacy 2022 and 2024 teams each won tournament championships recently in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
- Dark Gray never lost a game. The kids won all six regular-season contests and then took their two postseason tournament games March 4 at East Middle School.
- Two weeks ago, Freedom beat the Elkridge Hurricanes 45-29 in the Carroll County Basketball League’s sixth grade division postseason tournament title game. The win closed out an undefeated season for the new league champs.
- North Carroll topped Westminster 31-23 for the divisional championship. It was the second straight title for the Chargers who won the 6th grade division the year before.
- He's president of the Sykesville Raiders football program and coaches two of its teams. He's the vice president of the Carroll County Football League and heads the league's important rules committee.
- The late Finksburg resident, who died Feb. 3 at the age of 80, was a pioneer in youth recreation sports in this county.
- Susan Chaney and four others were inducted as part of the Department's annual Volunteer of the Year Awards ceremony which was held Nov. 2 at the Carroll Arts Center.
- Going into the finals last Friday, the Bears were 7-4-1, coached by Steve Tingley, Paul Finch, Rob Finks, and Tom Chase.
- Rec Sports Spotlight for Jan. 21, 2018
- The North Carroll Soccer Club had a big year, winning Central Maryland Soccer Association championships.
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- The North Carroll Soccer Club squad recovered from a rough fall, 2016, and went undefeated to win the Central Maryland Soccer Association's (CMSA) Saturday division under-14 girls title.
- Rec Sports Spotlight for Dec. 24, 2017.
- Rec Sports Spotlight for Dec. 17.
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- Westminster's Wildcats beat the odds and gave their home crowd at Jaycee Park a thrill as the youngsters beat Arbutus 14-6 to win the Super Bowl.
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- Rec Sports Spotlight for Nov. 12, 2017
- They went 8-0 in the division; no Carroll County youth team did better. They shut out their final five opponents by an aggregate score of 210-0.
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- Eleven boys remain from the 2014 team, and that gives them a huge advantage in terms of cohesion.
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- Goff hoped to get the season off to good start when she took her Xtreme to play in the Lutherville-Timonium Soccer Club's Challenge Cup tournament.
- The Xplosions started with their usual winning ways this spring. They won late May's Gettysburg's Blue and Gray Cup tournament.
- Roughly 18 youngsters signed up for the new group this summer; about half were in high school.
