The No. 3 Hereford girls are trying to complete their own triple crown at the state championship track and field meet at Morgan State. Hereford won the Class 2A cross country and indoor track state titles this past fall and winter. Now, the Bulls want to make it a complete sweep with a victory...
Carroll County hasn’t had a girls doubles state champion since 2005, but Liberty’s Emily Brecker and Noelle Htwar have a shot at ending that drought. The Lions juniors won a pair of matches at the Class 2A state tennis tournament Thursday at Wilde Lake Tennis Club in Columbia, and advanced to the...
Montgomery County school officials have acknowledged that a football locker room at Damascus High School went unsupervised during a 25-minute period when alleged sexual assaults with a broomstick took place Oct. 31 among teammates. School officials also announced Tuesday that they removed the school’s...
The Greater Baltimore Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame will sponsor the 56th annual Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner on Thursday, March 7, at 6:35 at Martin's West in Woodlawn. The dinner will honor 69 football scholar athletes from the Greater Baltimore area including...
Check out The Baltimore Sun's Player of the Year, co-Coaches of the Year and first- and second-team All-Metro selections for the 2018 high school girls soccer season.
First team Phoebe Canoles Perry Hall, forward, senior » Four-year starter, repeat All-Metro pick and two-year captain finished with 25 goals and seven assists in leading No. 5 Gators (17-3) to first Class 4A state crown » Finished with seven multigoal games, three game-winners and an assist in...
Harry Canellakis, McDonogh The challenges were plentiful for the defending Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland’s A Conference champion No. 1 Eagles, and none were bigger than the title game against then-No. 2 Archbishop Spalding. Going in, the teams had identical 14-0-2 marks, having...
The repeat All-Metro Player of the Year closed out her senior season the same way she did every other in her stellar four-year career — leading the No. 3 Pointers to a Class 1A state championship. This time, she scored two goals, including the game-winner, as Sparrows Point claimed a 4-2 win over...
River Hill soccer star Justin Harris won’t be going far to play college ball and will be joining a championship team with familiar faces, committing to NCAA Division I College Cup champion Maryland this week. Harris, a three-year starting midfielder and captain, finished with 14 goals and 10 assists...
Check out The Baltimore Sun's Player of the Year, Coach of the Year and All-Metro first- and second-team selections for the 2018 high school field hockey season.
First team Samantha Aljets C. Milton Wright, forward, senior » Standout forward finished with 16 goals and seven assists, leading the Mustangs to the Class 3A state title » Led an offense that outscored opponents 28-0 in five playoff victories » Had a goal and an assist in the state final, helping...
Want to know Ross’ effect on the Blazers’ program? Just look at the standings. In the three years before her arrival, NDP finished a combined 6-24-4, including two winless seasons. In the three years since, the Blazers are 52-6, including 25 straight wins in the ultra-competitive Interscholastic...
Don’t let the senior’s eye-popping offensive numbers fool you. Yes, Friedman finished this season with 27 goals and 35 assists to lead the Blazers to their second straight — and second ever — Interscholastic Association of Maryland A Conference title. But it’s her complete game, including her tenacious...
Liberty field hockey did not play Glenelg during the regular season, yet ahead of the 2A state semifinals on Wednesday night, the Lions felt the need to prove themselves against the defending state champion Gladiators. That’s because in a 25-minute preseason scrimmage between the two teams, Glenelg...
High school volleyball has changed drastically over the years. Centennial’s dynasty in the 1990s and 2000s can be credited to the fact that many of its players competed on club teams year-round when most other high schools teams were lucky to have any. Now, it’s more likely that a high school team...
Check out The Baltimore Sun's Player of the Year, Coach of the Year and first- and second-team All-Metro selections for the 2018 high school girls volleyball season.
Winning might or might not come easy for Atholton girls volleyball player Lisa Zoch, but she sure makes it look as if it does. The senior, who has been on the varsity team all four years, led the Raiders to a 19-0 record and the school’s second state championship in three years to earn The Baltimore...
To say that the 2018 season has been magical for McCourt and the Bel Air girls volleyball team might be an understatement. After being promoted to the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference’s upper division before the season, McCourt led the Bobcats to an 18-3 record and an appearance in the...
First team Mary Grace Goyena Mount de Sales, outside hitter, sophomore » Provided most of the power on offense for the IAAM A Conference champion and second-ranked Sailors » Finished the year with 322 kills » Pitched in with 139 digs » Also had 51 aces Mackenzie Meehan Arundel, middle hitter, senior...
Check out The Baltimore Sun's All-Metro Runner of the Year, Coach of the Year and first- and second-team selections for the 2018 high school girls cross country season.
Check out The Baltimore Sun's All-Metro Runner of the Year, Coach of the Year and first- and second-team selections for the 2018 high school boys cross country season.
Anna Coffin Annapolis, senior » Finished her high school cross country career with a strong senior season » Took third in the Class 4A state meet as Bronwyn Patterson of South River made a late kick to win it » The previous week, Coffin beat Patterson while taking second in the East Region meet...
This was Weber’s 10th season guiding the Sailors, and everything came up big for them this fall. Mount de Sales truly functioned as a team and easily won the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference regular-season title (6-0) and crushed the field with a record-setting 29 points...
Patterson capped off a strong sophomore season by winning in the tough Class 4A state title meet in November, taking first in 19 minutes, 06.19 of a second on a cold and windy day at Hereford. She came on late, making her move with about 1,000 yards left and then scoring an impressive victory over...
Tony Incontrera resigned as head varsity boys lacrosse coach at Marriotts Ridge on Tuesday. Incontrera, who led the Mustangs to county titles this spring and in 2017 and won the 2A South region and state championship in 2018, said he wants to spend more time with his family and 2- and 4-year-old...
The polls through Sunday’s events: BOYS LACROSSE No. School, Record 1. Calvert Hall, 17-1 2. St. Mary’s, 13-6 3. Boys’ Latin, 12-7 4. Loyola Blakefield, 10-7 5. McDonogh, 12-5 6. St. Paul’s, 10-6 7. Westminster, 18-0 8. Severna Park, 18-1 9. Gilman, 9-7 10. Glenelg, 12-6 11. Broadneck, 13-4 12....
One of three four-year starters on the field for the Patterson Mill boys lacrosse team in Monday’s state championship game, senior midfielder Kevin Dyke started his career as a defensive-minded midfielder and developed a more complete game over the years. So it was fitting, and an example of how...
Mason Davis Glenelg, lacrosse The junior faceoff specialist was just that — special — last week in three playoff wins to help the Gladiators (12-6) to Tuesday’s Class 2A state championship game against Century. In Saturday’s 12-7 win over Hereford in the state semifinals, Davis won 20 of 22 faceoffs...
South Carroll waited 26 years to play in another girls lacrosse state championship game, so why not add some overtime to the scenario? The Cavaliers fought off Hereford all night in Tuesday’s Class 2A final at Paint Branch High School, and didn’t grab their first lead until less than 2 minutes...
Westminster’s girls lacrosse team danced to the tune of “YMCA” on the sidelines prior to the start of the second half. The Owls had plenty of reasons to dance — they were back in the state championship game for a second straight year, and they didn’t waste any time proving why they deserved to...
There was a time this season when playing for a state title seemed like a distant dream for the Loch Ravens girls lacrosse team. After opening the season with six straight losses, the Raiders simply wanted to win a game. “We started off really rough,” junior Tatum Joyce said. “Then we had one game...
Hereford had been waiting a year for its shot at redemption and, thanks to a big second half, the Bulls made the most of it. Trailing by two at the half of the 2A state semifinals Saturday against three-time defending state-champion Glenelg — the team that beat the Bulls in last year’s title game...
C. Milton Wright scored three runs in the first inning against Northern Calvert in the 3A state semifinals Tuesday, and that’s all starting pitcher Hunter Wright needed. Zach Stiars hit a three-run double in his team’s first at bat, and Wright stymied Northern’s bats in a 4-2 victory that secures...
To win a championship, preparation has to meet opportunity. If you call Jerry Torrence anything, call him prepared. Torrence used his opportunity to hit a bases-loaded triple in the bottom of the fifth to give Gerstell its first baseball title with a 6-4 win over three-time defending champion Boys’...
Jose Torres must have ice water in his veins. The senior entered to pitch in a tight game in the seventh inning Monday night, loaded the bases with one out, then got a fielder’s choice and a pop-up to give Calvert Hall a 4-2 win over Gilman in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A...
Gerstell’s baseball team came up big in a had-to-have-it situation. The Falcons needed a win Monday afternoon against Boys’ Latin, which had three prior lopsided victories against them this spring, to stay alive in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association’s B Conference championship. They...
Wynter Radcliffe Glen Burnie, softball The sophomore pitcher earned three wins last week in leading the Gophers to the Class 4A East region championship, the program’s first since 2013. Radcliffe’s best work came in Saturday’s 7-2 win over Leonardtown for the crown. She allowed three hits, finished...
With Shaianne Turner on second base, sophomore pitcher Wynter Radcliffe had the ticket to the state final in her sights. Once, she clubbed a single to plate her senior infielder. The other time, she drilled a home run into the sunset. From the plate and the mound, Radcliffe booked the Gophers their...
As time goes on, teams begin to come together for one for one common goal — a state championship. That camaraderie was apparent for Sparrows Point softball on Tuesday in the 1A state semifinals, with the Pointers prevailing in a back-and-forth contest for a 5-4 victory over Henry E. Lackey. Sparrows...
For a second straight season, the Eastern Tech softball team found the same roadblock in the Class 2A state tournament. This time, a late rally wasn’t enough for the No. 13 Mavericks, who surrendered a five-run fourth inning to defending champion La Plata in a 6-3 loss in the state semifinals Tuesday...
Howard County athletes won six medals on Day 1 of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association track and field championships. The six Howard County schools in Class 2A competed on Thursday at Morgan State University’s Hughes Stadium, with River Hill taking home five of the six medals....
Three Howard County schools won track and field regional team titles this past weekend. The River Hill girls won the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association Class 2A South region, while Atholton’s girls and the Reservoir boys won the 3A East region. All qualifying athletes will advance...
Camden Gilmore Loyola Blakefield, track and field The standout senior turned in the top individual performance at the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A championship, sweeping the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter races in the two-day meet that concluded Saturday at Archbishop Spalding....
Bobby Ward has been timing cross country meets for about 12 years. Ward, a Liberty High School graduate, returned to his alma mater and started coaching cross country with Dan Jones after graduating from college. Jones, Ward, and a parent of one of their athletes, founded the Eldersburg Rogue Runners...
The No. 2 Mount de Sales girls team dominated the middle- and long-distance races, ruled the relays and nipped No. 1 McDonogh to win the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference title in the meet that concluded Saturday at Archbishop Spalding. This was a two-day meet for the...
When Keith Booth was growing up in East Baltimore, he dreamed of playing in a big-time college program before going on to a long career in the NBA. But first Booth dreamed of playing at Dunbar High School, having idolized former Poets stars Muggsy Bogues, Reggie Williams and Sam Cassell. “We all...
Chad Hollwedel admits that he’s known for quite awhile that the time had come for him to step away from coaching. After 12 years serving as head coach of the Centennial varsity boys basketball team, compiling 193 victories and a handful of championships along the way, a number of personal and professional...
More than 25 years after leaving Dunbar as a McDonald’s All-American, Keith Booth has been selected by the fabled Baltimore high school program as its boys basketball coach, athletic director Dana Johnson said Thursday. Booth, 44, will succeed Cyrus Jones Sr., who stepped down in April after 12...
Lake Clifton basketball star Armon Harried, an All-Metro first-team selection, has made a commitment to play at Canisius College. The 6-foot-4 senior guard/forward was part of two consecutive state title teams, leading the Lakers (24-4) to this past season’s Class 1A crown by averaging 24 points,...
Daeshawn Eaton has heard people call him “one of the best to ever play at Oakland Mills,” many times. The Scorpions senior has certainly earned the distinction, finishing second on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,121 career points. He’s also one of only six players in Howard County history...
Throughout her time coaching at Long Reach, Kelli Cofield has stated many times that her leadership role has never gotten in the way of her being a fan of the game. She likes to think she’s had a front row seat to watch some of the best high school girls basketball in the state over the last decade....
The Baltimore Sun makes its selections for Player and Coach of the Year and All-Metro first and second team for the 2018-19 girls basketball season.
Pikesville won four games in the 2016-17 season and rarely had been any kind of a force in girls basketball since the school opened in the mid-1960s. But Michael Dukes changed everything when he took over as coach before last season. The Panthers won 22 games in 2017-18 and made it to the Class...
First team Emily Dorn Reservoir, forward, senior » Four-year starter was the team’s top scorer each of the past three seasons » Averaged 19 points, 12.7 rebounds and 3.3 steals per game this season as a multidimensional threat who helped the Gators go 17-7 » Averaged a double double in her career:...
St. Frances junior guard-forward Angel Reese led No. 1 St. Frances to a fourth consecutive Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference championship this season by averaging 22.6 points and 19.3 rebounds per game. She can play all five positions and gives St. Frances versatility....
The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association has unanimously approved an officially sanctioned girls high school state championship for the 2019-20 academic year. Maryland is the 16th state to approve a girls state tournament. The decision was approved in late April at the MPSSAA...
Three seasons ago, South River assistant coach David Hicks told everyone he had the No. 2 heavyweight in the state on the junior varsity team. Ka’Ron Lewis just had that much brimming potential. “I kept saying it over and over again,” Hicks said. “I told Ka'Ron over and over again.” With the graduation...
Everything Centennial senior Jason Kraisser does when he laces up his wrestling shoes is business like. His practice habits that include staying beyond the required hours or trekking across the region on holidays, weekends or off days to find quality opponents are unlike almost anyone else. His...
Owings Mills junior Phil Smith, McDonogh sophomore Cooper Flynn and Dunbar senior Jordan Pryor took home national titles at the National High School Coaches Association tournament in Virginia Beach, Va. on March 31. McDonogh freshman Richard Fedalen (113) placed third, C. Milton Wright sophomore...
The Baltimore Sun makes its selections for Wrestler and Coach of the Year and All-Metro first and second team for the 2018-19 wrestling season.