Donald Davis recalls times during his 12 years as head coach of Calvert Hall when he had the luxury of meticulously game-planning for every aspect of his team’s annual season-ending showdown with archrival Loyola Blakefield. This year, with just three practices to prepare for Thursday’s 99th Turkey...
The McDonogh Eagles opened as the area’s No. 1 ranked team as defending MIAA A Conference champions, overcame a 1-4-1 skid late in the regular season and ultimately landed back in the top spot in the final Top 15 poll after a successful defense of their crown. River Hill came into the final week...
When Franklin played Dundalk earlier this year, the Indians posted a 23-point victory over the Owls. The teams met again in the Class 3A North Region final on Friday, and it was Franklin's night once again. The visiting Indians got a special teams touchdown before they even gained possession, and...
Peter Moore kicked a 30-yard field goal with 1:39 left in to lift No. 2 Calvert Hall to a 17-16 football victory over Avalon in the inaugural Maryland Christian Schools Invitational on Thursday. The Cardinals (10-1) will face the winner of Saturday's game between No. 4 Archbishop Spalding and Riverdale...
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,...
A highly competitive girls soccer season comes to a close this week with No. 2 River Hill (16-1), No. 4 Sparrows Point (15-0) and No. 5 Perry Hall (16-3) all looking to bring home state titles. On Thursday, two-time defending 2A champion River Hill takes on Walkersville looking to add to its state-best...
River Hill girls soccer coach Brian Song doesn’t know how to explain the program’s unprecedented and unusual run of threes. The Hawks have won 12 state titles in program history — more than any other team in state history — and three times they have won back-to-back-to-back championships. The first...
UPPER MARLBORO — The Severna Park girls soccer team didn’t surrender a playoff goal until midway through the second half of Saturday’s Class 4A state semifinal against Walt Whitman. Unfortunately for the No. 5 Falcons, it was enough to end their season. In a tightly contested game that had few...
McDonogh’s Andrew Privett and Archbishop Curley’s Anthony Dragisics — both standout senior midfielders — have been chosen to play in the High School Boys Soccer All-American Game, set for Dec. 1 in Orlando, Fla. Privett closed a fine four-year career on Sunday by leading the No. 2 Eagles past Loyola...
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...
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...
Glenelg senior Maddie Southern has envisioned this moment for years. As an eighth grader, she traveled to University of Maryland’s Ritchie Coliseum to cheer on the Gladiators in the 2014 3A state championship match, which the Gladiators lost to North Hagerstown. Fast forward to Tuesday night, when...
Despite winning in three sets when the teams met early in the season, the South River volleyball team knew it was going to get all it could handle from Broadneck on Wednesday. The Bruins won the first set and had leads in each set the rest of the match, but South River found a way to win the Class...
Arundel was down, but it was never out. Most volleyball teams down two games to none have little hope of victory. It was Severna Park’s match to win, and as the Wildcats huddled together before what could have been their last set of 2018, coach Ashley Yuscavage asked them one question. “What do...
Kristin Vaeth said Winters Mill volleyball coach Kari Totten emphasized one message leading up to the season — this was the Falcons’ year. With seven seniors on the current roster that progressed and suffered growing pains together on the varsity level since their sophomore year, WM took Totten’s...
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...
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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First team Caitlyn Bobb Harford Tech, freshman » Second in 200-meter run at Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference championships in 26.03 seconds; ran third leg of winning 4x200 relay (1 minute, 45.78 seconds) and winning 4x100 relay (49.50); won 400 (59.46) » At Class 2A East Region meet, won...
McDonogh’s Jada Seaman, despite being relatively new to track and field, burst onto the scene in last year’s outdoor season, performing well enough to earn a spot on The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro first team. Seaman continued her progression this year as she steadily continued to improve her times...
Before this spring, a Harford County school had never won a girls state championship in track and field. Harford Tech coach Darrell Diamond didn’t have the luxury of a full season of indoor track to prepare for this spring as the school does not have an indoor track program. “It’s more considered...
Check out The Baltimore Sun's Performer of the Year, Coach of the Year and the first- and second-team All-Metro selections for the 2018 girls outdoor track and field season.
St. Frances senior guard Rajeir Jones has made a commitment to play basketball at Chicago State. Set to become a three-year starter, Jones averaged 10 points, four rebounds and two assists per game last season for the No. 1 Panthers. In addition to his balanced numbers, he brings strong defense...
The last time Gerard Mungo was so prominently in the public eye, he was a 7-year-old being arrested and handcuffed by Baltimore Police for sitting on a dirt bike. Today, the Patterson basketball star is gaining attention as he makes his commitment to play at Millersville (Pa.) University. When...
The Harford County Public School system and the athletics department were saddened again this week with the passing of Paul Perkovich, a teacher, coach and Athletic Director at C. Milton Wright High School. ‘Perk’, who died Sunday, was 53. Perkovich was the AD at CMW from 2006 to 2017, having stepped...
Danny Hoffman acknowledges he passed right over Evan Flaks when he saw him for the first time. Many do, at first. Flaks is undersized for a basketball player, even after a growth spurt this year. At 5-foot-9, 135 pounds, the sophomore point guard isn’t built like the type of player that would be...
The second annual Rudy Gay Flight 22 Classic, a high school boys basketball showcase featuring East Coast teams, is set to take place Saturday, Aug. 18, and Sunday, Aug. 19, at Park School in Baltimore. Milford Mill and Frederick Douglass are among the area teams participating, along with Connecticut-based...
Ciaran Lesikar has a lot to do. “For me, it's just now going through all the preseason planning week by week, structuring around the games, when am I going to get the different skills in?” he said. “Building out our playbooks — the whole nine yards. Getting signs printed. Lot of scheduling issues.”...
Rayna DuBose owns six sets of prosthetics, but her favorite pair is her “girly girl legs.” The coach for Marriotts Ridge High School — whose hands and feet were amputated in 2002 after she contracted meningitis as a college freshman on a basketball scholarship — likes that they’re designed for...
St. Frances All-Metro forward Angel Reese trimmed her college basketball recruiting list to 10 programs Friday, announcing her top 10 on Twitter. One of the nation’s top recruits in the Class of 2020, Reese is considering Baylor, Louisville, Maryland, Rutgers, South Carolina, Syracuse, Tennessee,...
The fifth annual U.S.E. Basketball Family Reunion, featuring a panel discussion about how young girls can use the game to achieve their dreams no matter what level they aspire to reach in the sport, will be held Sunday at Pikesville High School. They daylong event also features games from the elementary...
For Bill “Bookie” Rosemond, a longtime girls basketball coach in the county, familiarity breeds contentment. Rosemond spent nine largely successful years while patrolling the sidelines in the highly-competitive Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference, including capturing a...
David Dodson has spent much of his life involved in wrestling.
Wrestling has its demands. Both physically and mentally, participants at all levels of the sport are asked to commit copious amounts of time, including training and consistently maintaining or cutting weight. It’s not easy, but that doesn’t mean enjoyment is lacking. In fact, when Winters Mill...
Longtime wrestling coach Dan Youngblood, who led Old Mill to the 2009 Class 4A-3A state championship, died Sunday in a boating accident on the Severn River. He was 51.
Vikings senior Cassy Lopez became the first woman in the U.S. to sign a national letter of intent to wrestle at a Division I school, Presbyterian College in South Carolina.
An 18-year-old Howard County student was killed inside a car in Laurel on Tuesday, according to police. William Riley Jr. was shot multiple times, Laurel police said. Officers found him at Millbrook Lane and Sandy Spring Road around 7:30 p.m. while responding to a traffic accident. He was taken...