Over the past two weeks, Long Reach baseball coach Brian Wyman has noticed a drift within his team’s offensive approach. Instead of stepping to the plate with an opportunistic, aggressive mindset, timidness has been taking control. It’s shown in the box scores, as the Lightning had plated just...
Senior pitcher Andrew Spinnenweber is putting the finishing touches on a stellar career with the Merchant Marine Academy baseball program. The Chesapeake High graduate has broken three notable school records this season and still has time to add to his impressive totals. Spinnenweber spun a real...
In April, the sports talk at Calvert Hall and Loyola Blakefield is typically centered around the promising lacrosse season. But Monday afternoon was different. It’s never too early to talk Turkey Bowl when one of the most storied high school football rivalries gets set to play its 100th game on...
Will Thompson said his first thought at becoming the new football coach at Francis Scott Key was one of surprise. Not that Thompson, a Virginia native and former college football player, wasn’t ready for the gig. But the 30-year-old said he felt grateful he was walking into a successful situation....
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...
No. 12 Severn boys lacrosse was hoping to avoid its third loss this week after falling 13-5 to No. 1 Calvert Hall on Tuesday and 10-9 to No. 14 Broadneck on Thursday. It didn’t happen. The host Admirals led with less than three minutes left in regulation before giving up two goals and falling 9-8...
Boys lacrosse No. 14 Broadneck 10, No. 12 Severn 9: Brenden Kennedy had three goals and an assist and Vinny Facciponti also scored three goals to lead the Broadneck boys lacrosse team to a win over Severn on Thursday at the Public/Private Challenge at Severna Park. Keegan Houser scored two goals,...
It was 2002 when Anthony “Merc” Ryan and Lloyd Carter founded Blax Lax, a nonprofit lacrosse program aimed at attracting Baltimore City youth to the sport the two coaches share a passion for. When the longtime friends — teammates and graduates of Edmondson and Morgan State — were on the phone earlier...
Hereford’s Jake Baldwin got a nifty pass at the crease for his 18th birthday at Towson on Wednesday. It came from Jack Callis in the opening minute of the second overtime and the senior midfielder did the rest, one-timing a shot that trickled in to give the Bulls a resourceful 8-7 win over the...
With just over two weeks left in the regular season, the top scorers in Howard County girls lacrosse have established themselves. As of April 21, every public school team has played at least seven games and there are 40 players that have accumulated 14 points or more. One point is awarded for a...
After Tuesday’s one-goal loss in the final minute to Glenelg Country, a game the Notre Dame Prep girls’ lacrosse team was outnumbered in ground balls, coach Mac Ford implemented a new drill for Wednesday’s practice. The 2018 Baltimore Sun All-Metro girls’ lacrosse Coach of the Year divided his...
Softball No. 1 Severna Park 13, Meade 1: Campbell Kline (2-for-2) had her 167th career hit and the visiting Falcons (9-2) bounced back from Tuesday’s 5-0 loss to No. 5 Chesapeake-AA. The Falcons’ coaching staff believes Kline might have established a state record with her career hits. Starter Kylie...
McDonogh girls lacrosse standout Blair Pearre was the only area player named in the second wave of seniors selected to play in the boys and girls Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Showcase games on June 29. Pearre joins teammate Emma Schettig and Glenelg Country’s Shaylan Ahearn, who were both...
Calvert Hall pitcher Brady Power was spot on with his location, shortstop Jose Torres hit another timely long ball and the No. 1 Cardinals kept doing what they’ve been doing at Mount Saint Joseph on Thursday — playing winning baseball. Power pitched a one-hitter and Torres hit a two-run home run...
Dulaney sophomore pitcher Todd Mozoki earned the victory and senior David Mathai notched the save as the Lions (10-1), nipped visiting Northeast A.A. in Thursday afternoon baseball action. Mozoki hurled 6 2/3 innings and allowed five hits, while striking out seven. The Lions got three runs in the...
Gerstell’s baseball team is likely going to go as far as its upperclassmen take it, and for this year’s Falcons that means steady contributions from a small crop of veterans and a good mix from a host of freshmen and sophomores. Reece Early is the catalyst. He’s approaching the final month of his...
Kate Sites scored four goals and Shay Ahearn added two goals, including the game-winner with just under a minute to play, as No. 5 Glenelg Country rallied to beat host No. 3 Notre Dame Prep 10-9 on Tuesday. The Blazers, the defending Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference...
The Edgewood Rams (3-4, 5-5) softball team won its third straight game Monday, beating host Havre de Grace (3-5, 3-8), 16-3, in UCBAC Susquehanna Division play. The Rams built up an 8-0 lead before closing the game with three runs in the sixth and six in the seventh. Edgewood pounded out 14 hits,...
The polls through Sunday, April 14, events: BOYS LACROSSE No. School , Record 1. Calvert Hall, 9-1 2. St. Mary’s, 7-4 3. St. Paul’s, 7-2 4. Gilman, 7-3 5. Boys’ Latin, 7-4 6. Loyola Blakefield, 6-4 7. McDonogh, 7-4 8. Westminster, 8-0 9. Severna Park, 6-0 10. Arch. Spalding, 6-5 11. Marriotts Ridge,...
Maybe it was Glen Burnie’s “Spring, fall, Wynter, summer!” chant, intensified as the moment called, or their rendition of “Happy Birthday,” despite the fact that her birthday was two months away, that motivated Wynter Radcliffe as she hit with the bases loaded. On a one-one count, as the blustering...
Ashlee Fahey hit two home runs and Janette Robinson also homered for Meade in a 10-7 victory over Southern on Monday. Fahey also went the distance and struck out nine, Simi Lyons had two hits and Emily Bickel tripled for the Mustangs. Justice Washburn homered and Ruth Marshall had two hits for...
The polls through Sunday’s events: BOYS LACROSSE No. School , Record 1. Calvert Hall, 8-1 2. St. Mary’s, 6-3 3. Gilman, 6-2 4. St. Paul’s , 5-2 5. Loyola Blakefield, 5-3 6. McDonogh, 6-3 7. Boys’ Latin, 5-4 8. Westminster, 5-0 9. Severna Park, 4-0 10. Arch. Spalding, 6-3 11. Severn, 2-6 12. Broadneck,...
Howard track and field runner Max Myers spent much of his time last winter trying to catch his middle distance teammates, both during workouts and in competition. Sure, Myers took third in the 500-meter dash at the county championships, but he did not compete in an individual event at the 4A state...
Sprinter Sierrah Matthews has been chasing a singular goal since entering high school in September 2017. “Being able to go to the college I want to,” Matthews said. And what college would that be? “Any,” she added. “I haven’t really chosen yet, but Division I is the range I’m looking in right now.”...
The Harford Tech girls won six of the seven relays in the Cobra Relays last Friday at Tech, but the standout performers in the meet were the jumpers and milers. Beyonce Kelly tied her county record in the high jump with a leap of 5-6, a mark the Tech senior has twice previously achieved. She teamed...
Harford runners captured age-group wins in several races during the second weekend of spring. Brian Larocco ran his fastest 26-miler, clocking 3:03:05 in the B&A Trail Marathon in Severna Park Sunday. The 42-year-old Jarrettsville resident ran an evenly paced race, hitting 1:30:06 at the halfway...
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...
Patterson basketball star Marvin Price, an All-Metro first-team selection who led the No. 1 Clippers to Baltimore City and Class 2A state titles this past season, has committed to play at Ohio University. Price, a 6-foot-4 guard/forward, averaged 21.4 points and 10.3 rebounds as Patterson closed...
A good chunk of practice time for the Boys’ Latin lacrosse team going into Friday’s home game against rival Loyola Blakefield was spent on making sure to start fast. The No. 7 Lakers impressively applied what they worked on. With freshman attackman Dominic Pietramala the igniter, Boys’ Latin scored...
Coming off a second straight Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference championship in February, the Gerstell Academy boys basketball team is making the jump to the A Conference next season. The league’s competition committee, which permits league movement for the various participating...
The Maryland vs. Pennsylvania boys basketball all-star game, which features Maryland seniors from throughout the metro area, is set for 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Harrisburg Christian School. Last year, Maryland fell to Pennsylvania, 134-114. The Maryland team will be coached by Jeremy Snyder (Westminster),...
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....
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.
Few wrestling programs in Maryland have has much tradition as Mount Saint Joseph, which makes its 2018-19 season even more remarkable. The Gaels, coached by alumnus Harry Barnabae, ran the table in dual meets, finishing with a perfect 14-0 record, and won tournament titles at Ocean Lakes (Va.),...