Mike Nortrup

Rec Sports Spotlight for Aug. 26, 2018.

Rec Sports Spotlight for Aug. 19, 2018.

Rec Brief for Aug. 12, 2018.

Rec Sports Spotlight for Aug. 12, 2018.

Rec Sports Spotlight for Aug. 5, 2018.

Rec Sports Brief for July 29, 2018.

Rec Sports Spotlight for July 29, 2018

Rec Sports Spotlight for July 22, 2018.

Rec Sports Spotlight for July 15, 2018.

A rec sports brief for July 15, 2018.

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.

Rec Sports Spotlight for Jan. 6, 2018.

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.

Rec Sports Spotlight for Dec. 10.

Rec Sports Spotlight for Dec. 3.

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.

Rec Sports Brief for Nov. 19

Rec Sports Spotlight for Nov. 19.

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.

Rec Sports Spotlight for Oct. 29.

Eleven boys remain from the 2014 team, and that gives them a huge advantage in terms of cohesion.

Rec Sports Spotlight for Oct. 8.

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.