Boys basketball Oakland Mills 92, Mount Hebron 88, 2OT: Daeshawn Eaton scored 24 points and the host Scorpions (10-3) outlasted the Vikings (6-7). Oakland Mills outscored Mount Hebron 11-6 in the second overtime. No. 5 Dulaney 54, Hereford 42: The host Bulls (7-5) cut the lead to six points in...
Wednesday was a night to remember for Severn’s A.J. Burch, so he surely didn’t mind sharing the spotlight. On a night where Burch led the Admirals in scoring and went over the 1,000-point mark for his career, Mo Terry grabbed a share of the spotlight when he scored with 13 seconds left in overtime...
Matt Study was born and raised in Carroll County, and has said coaching football at Westminster High School was always his dream job.
First team Sam Alsheimer Glenelg, linebacker, senior » Made 134 tackles as Glenelg made it to the Class 2A state title game » Finished with 95 solo tackles, plus 39 assisted tackles, and had three sacks and two interceptions » Also had eight tackles for loss Deonte Banks Edgewood, defensive back,...
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...
Check out The Baltimore Sun's All-Metro Player of the Year, Coach of the Year and first- and second-team selections for the 2018 high school boys soccer season.
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...
Gilman lacrosse coach Brooks Matthews, who guided the Greyhounds to Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference titles in 2009 and 2011, announced he will retire after the 2019 season. The 1987 Gilman grad, who will be entering his 15th season as head coach this spring, will continue...
Arundel athletic director Kevin Necessary didn’t need to search far to find his next boys’ lacrosse coach. The best choice was already in-house — assistant coach Bobby Baur. “I think he’s already very much a leader in our building, and what I hope is he’s able to really bring a positive culture,”...
After a distinguished coaching career that has spanned more than 40 years, Broadneck’s Clay White has announced he will retire following the current school year. White, 66, the head boys lacrosse coach and physical education teacher at Broadneck, emailed coaching colleagues on Monday to let them...
Beneath a scorching July sun, Anthony “Merc” Ryan unloads a box of lacrosse equipment from his car and sets it down on the turf. After a second trip, he returns with an armful of plastic water bottles, sweat beads dotting his forehead. It’s an ordinary evening for Coach Merc, who spends most nights...
Stephy Samaras has played and coached lacrosse at various levels during her career. This spring, she’ll lead the team where she first made a name for herself in the sport. After serving as an assistant coach the last four years, Samaras was recently hired as the new head girls lacrosse coach at...
John Harbaugh showed up at his weekly Ravens news conference Monday in team colors. There was gold, but not purple or black. In a Notre Dame sweater, the Ravens coach confirmed that his daughter, Alison, a junior at Bryn Mawr who plays for TLC Lacrosse, has committed to play women’s lacrosse in...
During the preseason, McDonogh girls soccer coach Harry Canellakis provided a quick-to-the-point status report on All-Metro senior Julia Dorsey, who missed the back end of last season with an ACL tear. It was good news for the defending Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference...
Five local girls lacrosse players were named Sunday to the training team for the United States women’s under-19 national team that will compete for the world championship next summer. McDonogh’s Maddie Jenner and Emma Schettig, Bel Air’s Elizabeth Hillman, Bryn Mawr’s Olivia Rubin and Hannah Leubecker,...
Fresh off its first Maryland State American Legion state title in 21 years, the Severna Park Post 175 baseball team headed south Tuesday in preparation for the Mid-Atlantic Region 2 tournament to be held at Fireman’s Field in Purcellville, Virginia. Post 175, which blanked Cecil County American...
In just its second year in the Maryland Collegiate Baseball League, the Maryland Monarchs made their mark. Cam Clark (Towson), the 2018 Capital Player of the Year for Severna Park, tossed a complete-game four-hitter and Ed Nottingham (Mount St. Joseph, Shepherd) doubled and tripled as the Monarchs...
George Lesher threw five shutout innings and a quartet of batters each collected three hits to guide Severna Park Post 175 to a convincing 13-0 five-inning victory against host Salisbury Post 64 Thursday to continue its run in this week’s Maryland State American Legion baseball tournament, which...
On the biggest stage of his professional baseball career, Buddy Reed called the shot. “There’s a mistake going to be made right here,” the onetime Finksburg resident said to manager Torii Hunter in the dugout during the bottom of the seventh inning of the 2018 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game. And...
The Archbishop Spalding softball team has done a lot of winning over the last 25 years. Nicki Trumpler has had a lot to do with the school’s success on the diamond. After falling by a run in last year’s Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference championship game, Trumpler has...
It wasn’t just Lauren Gibson’s stats that stood out to Chesapeake coach Don Ellenberger. She was the girl with the batting cage in her backyard who’d hit and pitch in her basement worked her way to glory, who’d learned every position. Her work ethic set her apart. “Best player I’ve ever seen in...
Check out The Baltimore Sun's Player of the Year, Coach of the Year and the first- and second-team All-Metro selections for the 2018 high school softball season.
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1. Mount de Sales Postseason: Fourth at IAAM A Conference meet Outlook: The Sailors won the outdoor track and cross country IAAM A conference championships and are primed to repeat with the addition of the Whittaker sisters to an already talented team. 2. Severna Park Postseason: Fourth at 4A state...
1. Calvert Hall Postseason: Third at MIAA championship meet Outlook: The Cardinals have depth in all the disciplines. Led by Sean Tucker and Ty Trinh (sprints), Amondo Lemmon (middle distance) and Owen Johnson (distance), the Cardinals are favored to take the MIAA. 2. Century Postseason: 2A state...
19 feet, 6 inches: The distance McDonogh’s Jada Seaman jumped at the New Balance Indoor National meet last season, best in the state and good enough for 5th overall. 42: The number of points that River Hill’s Sydney Robinson and Faith Meininger scored at the state meet last season, helping the...
6 feet, 7 inches: The height of the 2A state championship-winning high jump from Century’s Jalen Stanton, the best jump in the state last season. 59: The number of points scored at last year’s MIAA championships by athletes who are returning to compete for Calvert Hall this season. 15:58.08: The...
Anna Coffin Annapolis, senior For the final time, a Coffin sister will be in contention for state titles in the 1,600 and 3,200. Coffin grinded out a third-place finish at the 4A state cross country championship despite suffering a sprained ankle two days before and should be good to go for the...
Boys basketball No. 8 Lake Clifton 67, Carver 23: Armon Harried scored 24 points and the visiting Lakers (11-1) routed the Bears (0-7). Lake Clifton led 29-4 in the first quarter. No. 14 Edmondson 74, Coppin Academy 56: Markus Hocker scored 18 points to lead the visiting Red Storm (11-1) past the...
The Patterson boys basketball didn’t take its first lead until the opening possession of overtime Tuesday, overcoming a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit against a No. 3 Poly team that looked superior for most of the game. But the No. 4 Clippers still had work left in the extra time and senior guard...
One of the area’s top boys and girls high school basketball showcases returns to Morgan State this week with the 23rd annual Baltimore City Public Schools Basketball Academy, set for Thursday through Saturday. Five girls games and 12 boys games are scheduled, featuring some of the area’s most talented...
While insignificant at the time, a layup from Jaylen Manning late in the third quarter served as the start of a game-changing performance that carried Reservoir boys basketball to its biggest win of the season, 71-66, over Wilde Lake, on Friday night. The bucket came with 2 minutes, 45 seconds...
Tristan Kent called it the best game he’s ever played in. A classic crosstown rivalry between Century and Liberty turned into an overtime nail-biter that saw the Lions come out victorious in the end. There were 12 seconds on the clock when Kent converted a layup to force overtime. The Knights remained...
For Roland Park, the first quarter of Tuesday night’s Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference basketball showdown with visiting St. Frances proved rather forgettable. The Reds turned the ball over eight times, could not keep the Panthers off the offensive boards and scored...
South River’s Ashlynn Burrows did plenty to get her team off to a hot start on Tuesday against Chesapeake. In the end, she was still needed to rescue the Seahawks. In a game that was tied four times in the final five minutes and appeared to be destined for overtime, Burrows’ short jumper in the...
In a first half of the season filled with near misses, the Institute of Notre Dame got itself a much-needed momentum-building victory on Saturday against Long Reach in the Public vs Private Challenge at McDonogh. Trailing the entire game until late in the fourth quarter, Eniya Russell led the Penguins...
If Catonsville coach Mike Mohler could bottle the way his girls basketball team played against Notre Dame Prep (5-8) in the first quarter and watch them pour it on like that every quarter, the Comets (6-3) could be headed back to the state tournament’s final four for a third straight year. In the...
With injuries and schedule complications depleting its roster over the last two weeks, Glenelg Country has had to dig deep into its bench and rely on some new young faces to step up as leaders. Sophomore Ashlyn Bender is among those who have taken the opportunity and ran with it. On Saturday at...
That Glenelg would finish the year as Howard County dual champions for the fourth straight time wouldn’t have been a big surprise to anyone at the start of the season. The Gladiators have been the class of the league since 2015, and after a 9-0 start to the county schedule they entered the day...
Howard junior Shayan Kassiri has had one of the best records in Howard County since the start of last season. He went 32-1 in the regular season as a sophomore and entered Jan. 14 with a 19-3 record this winter, but despite racking up wins the 152-pounder has yet to qualify for the state tournament....
Glenelg rolled to another Howard County dual meet victory on Thursday by taking out visiting Atholton, 51-20, to improve to 9-0 in county and 18-0 overall. The No. 4 Gladiators won nine of 14 bouts, including eight by fall or forfeit, and Atholton coach Bruce Lindblad raved about them following...
Hammond kept its perfect league record intact by rolling over Wilde Lake and Marriotts Ridge at home Tuesday. The Golden Bears shut out the Wildecats, 79-0, for the second consecutive year and then overcame a 24-9 deficit to knock off the Mustangs, 54-24. Marriotts Ridge beat Wilde Lake, 72-9. ...
When a wrestling team is young and somewhat inexperienced, like the Fallston Cougars, there will be nights like Monday when the opposition is just, too tough. That’s what happened Monday evening in Fallston where the Cougars were handily beaten by the North East Indians, 59-24, in an UCBAC Chesapeake...