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After reaching the championship game with wins over Seton Hall Prep and rival Calvert Hall, the Eagles met their match in D.C. power St. John’s at the National High School Lacrosse Showcase at Blandair Park in Columbia.
- Canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Maryland School for the Blind’s Camp Abilities returned this week as the only overnight sports camp in the area for blind or visually impaired students.
- Firecracker 10K is back after year hiatus
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- When the North Harford High School baseball team lost its final game of the 2021 season just over a week ago, it wasn’t just a season-ending loss. It was the end of a career for head coach Tim Larrimore, who has written lineups, given signals and anything else baseball related for 31 years.
- Boys’ Latin midfielder Ben Smith, St. Mary’s defenseman Colin Burlace and St. Paul’s attacker Caitlin McElwee will take part in the Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Games on July 31 at Johns Hopkins' Homewood Field.
- Most of Amir Whitehead's classmates, friends and anybody among the younger crowd often do a double take when they hear about his passion for fencing. Some even laugh. Adults, though, show curiosity and interest.
- Between the 2A and 3A classifications, Carroll County athletes won eight individual events or relays at the outdoor track state championships over the weekend at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex.
- Marriotts Ridge boys lacrosse senior Jack Slack and Hammond sophomore track hurdler Morgan Lane are the Howard County Athletes of the Week for the week of June 7.
- Liberty claimed the Cup for the third time in school history, and the first in five years.
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- Mt. Hebron's Trinetra Vijayakumar, the Centennial pair of Rose Huang and Michelle Fradlin, and the Reservoir duo of Yari Armand and Joshua Cai all earned state titles while representing Howard County at the Wilde Lake Tennis Club on June 19, 2021.
- The Hereford girls track and field team gave coach Brad Duvall the sweetest of good-bye gifts Saturday — a second consecutive state title — while the Milford Mill boys ended a long title drought.
- Hereford senior midfielder Owen Cogan scored his second straight game-winning goal Saturday, giving the Bulls their 10th state championship and first since 2013 with a 5-4 victory over Kent Island in the Class 2A final.
- The Oakland Mills boys track and field team won seven gold medals and the MPSSAA Class 3A championship on Saturday, June 19, 2021. In total, Howard County athletes took home 14 gold medals at the state meet.
- Century High juniors Evan and Danielle DeLawter combined to win the 2A tennis mixed doubles state championship on Saturday at the Wilde Lake tennis club.
- Patterson Mill won its first state softball championship Friday and completed a perfect season, defeating Allegany, 4-1, for the Class 1A title at Bachman Sports Complex in Glen Burnie.
- Former Sun columnist Peter Schmuck's tribute to late former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda
- Here's everything you need to know before the Orioles' road game Saturday afternoon against the Toronto Blue Jays.
- Ravens coach John Harbaugh has played it down the middle to avoid creating a rift between himself, the organization and the players, but he should strongly recommend that everyone involved with the team gets the coronavirus vaccine before the start of the 2021 season.
- Former Navy football player Myles James, who died earlier this week while on leave, was remembered by teammates, coaches and a Naval Academy professor as a "warm, happy, big-souled man with an ebullient sense of humor and ton of personality."
- Ravens coach John Harbaugh has played it down the middle to avoid creating a rift between himself, the organization and the players, but he should strongly recommend that everyone involved with the team gets the coronavirus vaccine before the start of the 2021 season.
- A statue honoring Ernest Burke, who played in the Negro professional baseball leagues in the 1940s, is set to be unveiled in Havre de Grace on Saturday, on what would’ve been his 97th birthday.
