Early in the third quarter of Monday’s game against Severn, Broadneck’s Michael Cantrell stole the ball and sent it up the court to Nicky Gatton, who then tipped it to Che Colbert for a basket and a foul. That was just the start. Colbert had 14 of his game-high 25 points as the Bruins quickly turned...
Jack Callis made two free throws, but one was the go-ahead basket and a defensive block saved the game for host Hereford in boys basketball Friday night. Callis went 1-for-2 from the line with 13 seconds left and blocked the potential game-winning dunk at the buzzer to preserve a 41-40 victory...
It’s a streak for the ages, the 47 consecutive games that the Howard High football team won almost half a century ago. For nearly five years (1971-1975), the Lions ran the table, torching opponents and earning their place in the record book. For decades, Howard’s victory string was the longest...
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With a 15-0-2 mark and second straight IAAM A Conference crown, the McDonogh girls went wire to wire at No. 1 — emphatically stating their case with a 5-0 win over then-No. 2 Archbishop Spalding in the title game a couple weeks back. Over the weekend, three area teams came home with state titles...
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With just under 11 minutes to play in the Class 1A girls soccer championship on Saturday, Sparrows Point senior midfielder Julie Lynch lined up to take a penalty kick and the No. 4 Pointers knew what would happen next. Last year’s All-Metro Player of the Year was plenty poised, having been there...
The Perry Hall girls soccer team had reached the state championship game five times before, each time watching the other team joyously pile on the goalkeeper, take photos with the bigger plaque and leave the field with the big smiles. These 2018 Gators, an ideal blend of skill and grit and togetherness,...
The final week of the boys soccer season is upon us with state championships in the public school ranks left to be decided. With it comes the biggest question left: Can No. 1 River Hill (16-0-1) hold on to the top spot with a victory over Oakdale in the 2A title game? A win on Thursday would give...
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...
Anchored by a pair of second-half goals, South Carroll shut out Crisfield 2-0 on Wednesday in a Class 1A state semifinal played at Broadneck High School to reach its first state championship game in 16 years. The win puts the Cavaliers into the 1A state final Saturday afternoon at Washington College....
A pair of Carroll County field hockey rivals has reached the state tournament in Liberty and South Carroll, one of which is back for a third consecutive season and the other returning for the first time in 14 years. The Lions are two wins away from their second state crown in three seasons. The...
Dulaney’s field hockey team scored a goal in each half and defeated Winston Churchill, 2-0, in the Class 4A state semifinal game, played Monday night at Paint Branch High. The Lions (12-6) advance to the state finals for the second straight year and they will play South River, Saturday, Nov. 10,...
BURTONSVILLE — It’s always dangerous to let an overmatched team hang around. South River’s field hockey team dominated play in the first half of Monday’s Class 4A state semifinal against Clarksburg, but found itself in a scoreless game as the second half started. One harmless deflection, and all...
For the past 20 years, if you wore the blue uniform of the South River Seahawks volleyball team, you knew that you would always be in the hunt for a county championship, and maybe even a region title. South River has been close for so many years for both the county championship and a region crown,...
Leading 24-15 in the third and final set of its perfect season, Atholton coach Larry Schofield called a timeout. They huddled together and smiled and laughed, soaking in the last moments of a season that will be remembered for years to come. “We had 38 seconds left in the timeout and I said, ‘Enjoy...
No matter what future teams at Western Tech do, the 2018 Wolverines will always hold the place in history as the first volleyball team ever to be a state finalist. The No. 13 Wolverines (17-3) finished with the most wins of any other team, but it ended with a 25-14, 25-15, 25-13 loss to Clear Spring...
Williamsport came out of the gates firing and never looked back to beat Glenelg in straight sets, 25-11, 25-13, 25-14, to win the 2A state championship Monday night at University of Maryland’s Ritchie Coliseum. It’s the 15th state title for the Wildcats (14-5), who broke a tie with Centennial for...
Atholton took a great deal of pride in its streak of 37 consecutive sets won and 16 of its 17 victories coming in straight-set sweeps. It was a sign of dominance, that there are no letdowns. But that special streak came to a sudden end in a 3A state semifinal game at the hands of a powerful Westminster...
Centennial coach Al Dodds kneeled in the front row for the team picture after his boys won the Class 3A state title Saturday. The soft-spoken coach held the trophy with both hands and wore a smile big enough to light up the gym they were in at Hereford. Any state championship is something to remember...
The Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference cross country championship race was close — in more ways than one. Owen Johnson of Calvert Hall made a late move to win the race, edging Camden Gilmore of defending champion Loyola Blakefield by less than one second. The Cardinals were...
Mount de Sales freshman Juliette Whittaker had been the Sailors’ No. 2 runner for much of this season. Samantha Facius is a senior who won the conference championship last fall and held the top spot during much of this season. Whittaker said she hoped to get at least second place overall when the...
After back-to-back years at Chesapeake High, the Anne Arundel County Cross Country championships shifted back to Kinder Farm Park in Severna Park. Despite a change in location, results remained the same, as Annapolis’ Anna Coffin and Severna Park’s Garrison Clark repeated as individual champions,...
Rubie Goffena might have to get used to running alone during a cross country race. The Manchester Valley freshman won the annual Crossfire Invitational at Liberty High School on Tuesday in 20 minutes, 12.2 seconds, well over a minute ahead of the next finisher. She ran alone and without pressure...
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...
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,...
Meghan Miller, a former All-American at Duke, has been named the Roland Park lacrosse coach after three years as an assistant with the Reds. Roland Park athletic director Carol Hatton, in her announcement Tuesday on Twitter, said Miller, who played at Severna Park, has extensive college coaching...
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...
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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...
The St. Frances boys basketball team was far from its best for stretches Wednesday night against visiting St. Maria Goretti. But the No. 1 Panthers were impressive in showing two things: How quickly they can take over and the ability to close out a game. Taking hold of the game with an explosive...
Senior James Bishop scored 11 of his game-high 31 points to get No. 3 Mount St. Joseph off to a hot start and the host Gaels (5-1) never let up in a 93-50 victory over No. 8 Gilman (1-2) in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference opener on Wednesday night. “I just try to...
There’s no shortage of talent across Howard County boys basketball entering the 2018-19 campaign. Co-Players of the Year Jaden Martin (River Hill) and Ryan Davis (Glenelg) have graduated and since began their college basketball careers, but four of the five first-team All-County honorees return...
Mark Amatucci’s recently released book about his life and long career as a basketball coach is not an autobiography. It’s not a memoir either, although both of those two descriptions could be used to describe “No Limits, one coach’s remarkable journey of athletic, social and cultural success on...
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Survey county basketball coaches heading into this winter and it’s no secret where the bar is. The run of success for Howard — county champions four of the last five years — and, more recently, Long Reach — 3A state finalists last winter and three straight 17-plus-win seasons — has forced the rest...
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St. Frances coach Jerome Shelton and his girls basketball team have won three consecutive Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference championships. The Panthers want to make it four in a row. That is probably why they have adopted the theme of “embrace the challenge” for the...
0 State championships won by local public schools last year. Catonsville and Long Reach lost in the state finals. 3 Consecutive IAAM A Conference titles that St. Frances has won. 20 Offensive rebounds Poly secured in the Class 3A state semifinal against Long Reach — but the Engineers still lost.
1. St. Frances Coach: Jerome Shelton Last season: 24-4, No. 1 Postseason: IAAM A Conference champion Outlook: The Panthers are going for a fourth straight championship, and Shelton certainly has enough talent to make things interesting. Angel Reese, who is one of the top wings in the country, returns...
Glenelg knows what it’s going to get from its top wrestlers Kevin Hansberger, Jared Thomas, Jacob Jones, Drew Sotka and Sam Alsheimer. Pins mostly, but almost always wins, which will carry the Gladiators to victories in most of its matches this winter. But there are nine other matches each time...
PARKTON — Hereford's state title banner is pretty empty. Only one year, enlargened to fill the space, and one title — 1970 — spotlighting that the Bulls were better than any of their opponents. The Bulls that wrangled Pikesville down on Thursday night looked more than capable of changing that in...
Glenelg did everything it could last year to be the first team to defeat Damascus since 2012. The Gladiators went to the Swarmin’ Hornets’ holiday tournament to get a closer look at their wrestlers, and they matched up several times again at the War on the Shore tournament at Stephen Decatur. It...
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Harry Barnabae graduated from Mount Saint Joseph more than 40 years ago, but his first time experiencing the rivalry with McDonogh is still fresh in his mind. He can’t remember why exactly, but there were a lot of bragging rights on the line when the Gaels and Eagles squared off during Barnabae’s...