Ice hockey
The worst snowstorm of the winter couldn't stop the Howard County Youth Hockey Club Squirt A Huskies from playing their game Saturday morning at the Benfield Pines Ice Rink.
rival Bowie, however, kept them from winning it.
Bowie scored the winning goal with 3:58 left to pull out a 3-2 win and remain in first place in the Capitol Beltway Hockey League.
Down, 2-0, after two periods, the Huskies used high-pressure offense, tight defense and standout goaltending by Kurt Carter to battle back and tie the game.
Wayne Lamanna made it 2-1 with a goal early in the third period, then Jonathan Martinez took a pass from Daniel Baron and scored with 4:36 to play to knot the game at 2.
Basketball
* 8-9 Boys -- The Runnin' Rebels of the Columbia Basketball Association scored two key wins last week, defeating the Celtics, 25-18, and the Suns, 40-18.
Against the Celtics, tough defensive play by Scott Caplan and Noah Smith held the Rebels scoreless for the first quarter and to a season-low 11 points for the first half.
But down the stretch, the Rebels proved too strong, as Stevie Bacon (11 points ) scored two late layups to seal the win. Defensively, the victors were led by Michael McLaughlin and Alex Goffin.
Patrick Nairn also performed well, scoring six and pulling down 17 rebounds.
Goffin led the way against the Suns, scoring 10 of his 14 points in the second half to go along with 22 rebounds.
Other key contributors were Bacon (10 points, five assists), Timmy Riismandel (four, eight), Nairn (four points, 15 rebounds) and McLaughlin (eight, 12).
Justin Griffith and Brandon Bell led the Suns with six points each, while Leif Ellingson and Adam Fisch set the tone on defense.
* 10-year-old boys -- The Howard County Youth Program Hawks went 3-1 in recent games, beating Cockeysville in the Gray-Charles League before winning two out of three in the Catonsville League.
The Hawks improved to 6-0 in Gray-Charles play last week, scoring a 39-17 win as every player on the roster scored. Mike Taneyhill paced the defense and Jeff Hill and Tim Lane both played solid overall games.
The Hawks then dominated Arbutus en route to a 32-9 win in Catonsville League play.
David Freund led the offense with eight points, Scott Clipp and A.J. Berens provided strong rebounding, and Matt Hashimoto chipped in with clutch defensive play.
Howard continued to roll against Catonsville, as Brad Loveless scored 12 points in a 26-20 win.
Andrew McSkimming added four points for the Hawks while Andy Starr led the defense.
But the winning streak ended last weekend, as the Columbia Jaguars dominated play en route to a 40-13 win.
Gymnastics
A handful of athletes from the Top Flight Gymnastics Club of Columbia earned top-15 all-around finishes at last week's Peach Tree Classic in Atlanta.
In Level 8, Jennifer Chairs took fourth, Yael Sollins sixth, Daria Hay 10th and Kim Jewell 14th. Chairs took first place in the vault with an 8.85, while Sollins scored a win on the beam, also with an 8.85.
The Level 8 team took third overall.
Several athletes in Level 9 had similar success.
Maura Markowicz took first place in both the uneven bars (9.05) and floor exercise (8.85) en route to a seventh-place finish in the all-around. Kierney Hiteshew also placed 12th for Top Flight, along with Lindsay Boyer and Rebecca Berkowitz helping the Level 9 team to eighth place.
The meet, played host to by the Atlanta School of Gymnastics, included 500 gymnasts from 52 clubs representing 20 states, Canada and Australia.
Top Flight also had success at the Harford Trophy Meet.
Leading the way was the Level 7 team of Cathy Schnell (first all-around), Amara Lattimore (second), Gabrielle Federline (third) and Megan Miller (fourth). The team captured first place to remain unbeaten.
Other top performers were: in Level 6, Emily Pieplow (second) and Tara Lancaster (sixth); in Level 5 for ages 9-11, Allison Holden (second), Kristina Macey (third) and Keri Farrish (fifth); and in Level 5 for ages 7-8, Samantha Epstein (second), Michelle Parry (fourth) and Molly Pieplow (sixth).
Four gymnasts from host Columbia Gymnastics qualified for the state meet at a Level 6-7 Sectional last weekend.
Headed toward the states in Level 6, 8-11 age group will be Lindsay Derenberger and Katie Muth, in Level 6, 12-14 Nicole Saddic and in Level 7 Stephanie Greenhalgh.
Muth took third place on the vault with an 8.90, Saddic took fourth on the vault (8.95) and third on bars (8.80), floor (9.05) and all-around (34.20), and Greenhalgh placed second all-around with a 30.00.
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Submit your Howard County recreation results and information by calling Rich Scherr at (410) 521-0505.