Rec sports
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Soccer
Thunder Soccer Club
The Thunder Soccer Club Tormenta (U-15 girls) earned finalist medals in the Elite Division of the SAC United Columbus Day Tournament, Oct. 8-9, at Harford Polo Grounds. On the weekend, the girls tallied nine goals, while allowing only two, and recorded two shutouts in four games. Tormenta advanced as the No. 1 seed from pool play, then won the semifinal match, 4-1, against the McLean (Va.) Force Gold.
The final was well played and ended in a draw, 1-1, against CSA Spirit from Calvert County, MD. CSA took home championship medals after a penalty-kick shootout.
Soccer Association of Columbia
The SAC Barca (U-10) boys beat Bethesda, 1-0, to avenge an earlier loss and with the Columbus Day Tournament championship.
Running
Howard County Junior Striders
The beautiful weather on Oct. 9 brought out 85 Howard County Junior Striders for the youth cross country meet at Kemptown Park in Monrovia. The 6-and-under girls and 7-8 boys teams won, while Peter Keating, Britt Lang and Corey Hamilton won their individual races.
6-U Girls (1k): 3. Erika Mosely, 5:00; 4. Jackie Esquivel, 5:07; 6. Emma Koech, 5:25; 11. Nicole Mejia-Barringer, 6:02; 12. Emily Woolford, 6:05; 13. Nellie Kay Squirlock, 6:45.
6-U Boys (1k): 1. Peter Keating, 4:53; 4. Connor Kovach, 4:57; 10. Reid Thomas, 5:46; 16. Ilan Tracton, 6:50; 17. Joshua Pennsy, 7:20; 18. Dominic Delpo, 7:28.
7-8 Girls (2k): 3. Haley Glassburn, 10:08; 6. Olivia Tedsco, 11:05; 11. Isabel Sinnott, 11:21; 12. Talia Tracton, 11:22; 18. Caroline Barrett, 12:46; 21. Romy Delpo, 14:37; 22. Madelynn Hildebrand, 14:50; 23. Elise Mejia-Barringer, 15:14.
7-8 Boys (2k): 2. Andrew Fritz, 8:51; 4. Liam McCaffrey, 9:09; 6. Connor Croft, 9:45; 8. Bryce Johnson-Dendy, 9:52; 9. Jeremiah Windsor, 10:05; 14. Logan Kim, 10:41; 15. Mats Chattin, 10:42; 16. Colin Krause, 11:23; 20. Joey Squirlock, 12:09; 27. Matthew Cheruiyot, 12:50; 29. Joey Pensy, 13:05.
9-10 Girls (3k): 10. Zoe Reading, 13:34; 20. Claire Warman, 16:02; 27. Kyria Windsor, 16:35; 28. Gabriella Esquivel, 16:45; 30. Bridget Keating, 17:15.
9-10 Boys (3k): 11. Diego DelaCruz, 12:53; 12. Camren Kovach, 13:00; 16. Collin Dempsey, 13:06; 18. Liam Sullivan, 13:22; 24. Connor Malone, 13:50; 25. Tyler Richardson, 13:56; 26. Philip Allen, 14:18; 33. Andrew Dworski, 15:17; 35. Ben Roseman, 15:23; 36. Jacob Orloff, 15:27; 47. Ryan Rose, 17:22; 50. Rocco Delpo, 17:49; 51. Spencer Thomas, 18:07; 53. Michael Cheruiyot, 18:45; 55. Noah Kim, 19:09.
11-12 Girls (3k): 5. Megan Prescott, 12:25; 7. Natalie Perkins, 12:40; 17. Olivia Poirier, 13:39; 18. Courtney Mann, 13:42; 19. Grace Chaverini, 13:42; 21. Haley Krause, 13:52.
11-12 Boys (3k): 4. Ben Oldhouser, 11:29; 6. Kevin Reynolds, 11:40; 10. Anders Chattin, 12:10; 12. Ben Rosicky, 12:23; 13. Thomas McCarty, 12:23; 21. Brendan Fitzgerald, 13:51; 30. Joshua Krutz, 15:02; 33. Lucas Kaiser, 15:15; 35. Billy Bott, 16:03; 39. Seth Papp, 16:14; 40. Mikie Allen, 16:20; 41. David Polefrone, 16:20.
13-14 Girls (4k): 1. Britt Lang, 15:40; 5. Kara Taylor, 16:40; 6. Eileen Ying, 17:39; 13. Abigail Hines, 18:27; 15. Katarini Krutz, 19:22; 23. Stephanie Crispell, 21:04; 25. Sierra Johnson-Dendy, 22:28; 30. Alicia Shread, 28:36; 31. Emma Groman, 28:56; 32. Summer Skerritt, 30:03; 33. Simone Skerritt, 30:07.
13-14 Boys (4k): 1. Corey Hamilton, 13:51; 2. Kevin Wegner, 14:40; 11. Shane McGovern, 16:12; 14. Trent Rose, 17:22; 17. Jason Vanisko, 18:12; 18. Jake Ricker, 18:50.
Howard County Striders
There were 53 runners that came out on a surprisingly warm Sunday afternoon to run the Howard County Striders' weekly series race at Longfellow Elementary School. Hafiz Shaikh and Marquel Bowler won the 2 miler. Joseph Haber and Caroline Bauer led the 10k race. Karsten Brown led the men in the 15k, while it was a three-way tie for first between Amanda An, Marsha Demaree and Grace Tran in the ladies 15k.
2-mile race: 1. Hafiz Shaikh, 12:38; 2. Marquel Bowler, 14:19; 3. Tammy Hermstein, 14:30; 4. Alan Murray, 15:03; 5. Ronnie Wong, 15:26; 6. Eric Johnston, 15:51; 7. Kenny Walker, 16:10; 8. Karen Harvey, 17:05; 9. Roger Calvert, 17:10; 10. Ed Beach, 17:39.
11. Kash Hartz, 17:44; 12. Bill Brandenstein, 18:28; 13. Melinda Krummerich, 20:26; 14. Sarah Beach, 22:37; 15. Barbara Calvert, 24:36; 16. Melissa Burger, 25:11; 17. Elizabeth Colvin, 25:38; 18. Caleb Haber, 28:43; 19. Hannah Haber, 33:06.
10k race: 1. Joseph Haber, 41:08; 2. Lochlann Boyle, 42:24; 3. Ken Sevik, 43:32; 4. Caroline Bauer, 45:17; 5. Xinhua Xu, 46:16; 6. Bram Arrington, 48:45; 7. Chris Farmer, 51:08; 8. Mike Fleming, 53:03; 9. Jen Pullen, 55:47; 10. Amelia Mullican, 1:02:22.
11. Sue Emerson, 1:07:25; 12. Julie Mackel, 1:08:48; 13. John Wheatland, 1:09:54.
15k race: 1. Karsten Brown, 54:57; 2. Keith Levassuer, 58:29; 3. Jeremy Rea, 58:33; 4. Georg Schroeder, 1:04:54; 5. Greg Schuler, 1:05:53; 6. Steve Bohse, 1:06:57; 7. Donnie Chapman, 1:07:30; 8. Michael Hagan, 1:08:42; 9. John Way, 1:10:31; 10. Gregg Ford, 1:13:02.
11. Tim Howe, 1:14:12; 12. Robert Blanco, 1:16:19; 13. Kirk Gordon, 1:23:24; 14. (tie) Amanda An, 1:29:49; 14. Marsha Demaree, 1:29:49; 14. Grace Tran, 1:29:49; 17. David Ikels, 1:31:12; 18. Amanda Liberman, 1:35:44; 19. Kim Hartke, 1:35:47; 20. Michelle Fullerton, 1:44:42; 21. Faye Weaver, 1:44:44.
Field hockey
Howard Stampede Elite
In what was their toughest contest of the year, the Stampede Elite team battled North Carroll Elite and ended up on the short end of a 1-0 loss. Stampede carried the play most of the day with a 6-3 advantage in offensive corners.
Early on the front line of Caleigh Covell, Carly Clarke, Maddie Zehring, Lexi Rieu and Julia Sheehan did everything but score. The ball was in the North Carroll end for most of the first half and Stampede registered seven shots but could not score.
The second half was more back and forth. North Carroll pressed into the Stampede end several times and the defensive corp of Megan Hooper, Lexi Sounder, Denise Lin and Mary Monroe creaked the ball up field and out of harms way. Noelle Frost had her best game of the season making several amazing saves to keep the game scoreless.
Finally, with 10 minutes to play, North Carroll scored the game's only goal off of an offensive corner. Other standouts for Stampede were Gabby Cadoux, Bridgett Cavanaugh, Natalie Fyock and Grace Olson.