A tough freshman season, a major knee injury, and competing interests in basketball and baseball threatened Larry Aaron’s young football career at Oakland Mills. He later developed into one of Howard County’s premier linemen before being recruited to Marshall University.
Severn was not keen on overtime. That’s how the Admirals lost last Wednesday to Indian Creek. On Friday, Severn fell to St. Mary’s in double overtime. The Admirals overtook and outlasted St. John’s Catholic Prep to edge out a trip to the MIAA B conference semifinals, 52-51, on Tuesday. After its...
Larry Aaron III, a Marshall football player and Oakland Mills alumnus, spent his winter break with old friends and his girlfriend, including on New Year’s Eve. But that night his life took a violent turn.
Matt Study was born and raised in Carroll County, and has said coaching football at Westminster High School was always his dream job.
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...
Corrigan Sports Enterprises (CSE) has released its 2019 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association boys lacrosse game of the week schedule, offering free live streaming of the country’s top conference. Fellowship of Christian Athletes will serve as the primary sponsor and to expand coverage,...
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...
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...
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For the second time in this year’s indoor track championship season, it came down to the wire between Century and Oakdale to decide a victor. The teams were tied with 73 points after 12 events were scored, but the Bears pulled away from the Knights to win the Class 2A state title with 81 points....
The Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association trophy for winning this season’s indoor track championship sat comfortably in the main office at Calvert Hall for the first part of this week. Coach Peter Frein said the trophy is now being engraved – it gets passed around to the conference winner...
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...
Boys basketball No. 4 Boys' Latin 84, John Carroll 62: Cameron Spencer had a game-high 27 points and Jake Nichols had 23 points to lead the Lakers (29-5, 15-2 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference Black Division) over the host Patriots (5-23, 3-13) in the regular-season finale....
Practice by practice, game by game, the Springdale boys basketball team is chugging along just fine in its first varsity season. The prep school, located in New Windsor, is in its second year and the Lions didn’t piece together a team until conducting tryouts over the summer. Playing a national...
In a pack of taller opponents under the basket, Mount Saint Joseph freshman guard Antonio Hamlin came down with a strong defensive rebound and then safely got the ball out to a teammate. It came with 13 seconds left in the fourth quarter with the No. 8 Gaels protecting a five-point lead in their...
The Havre de Grace boys basketball team won its 19th straight game Thursday night and it was a bit easier than many might have expected. The Warriors (19-0, 13-0 Upper Chesapeake) jumped ahead of visiting Elkton (15-3, 9-2) with a big first quarter and never really looked back, winning big, 74-56....
Thursday’s highly anticipated Patterson at Lake Clifton boys basketball was been postponed because no referees were assigned. The game, which was originally scheduled for Jan. 22 but was postponed then because of a water main break near the school, is now set to be played on Saturday, Feb. 23 at...
Destiny Ryles scored a game-high 21 points as St. Paul’s defeated No. 11 Mount de Sales, 57-48, in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland B Conference girls basketball championship game Sunday. A 23-4 midgame run helped St. Paul’s (18-3) to a 36-19 lead 90 seconds into the third quarter....
St. Frances won its fourth consecutive Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference girls basketball championship Sunday night. The Panthers, though, went through a bit of an unusual path to bring home the trophy. They scored the game’s first 10 points, and then recorded just 23...
OWINGS MILLS — At various times late in Sunday’s Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland C Conference championship game, Catholic’s chances at a second title seemed to be slipping away. After leading for the first three and a half quarters, Catholic watched Indian Creek fight back to take...
Roland Park’s defense proved to be a puzzle that Pallotti could not solve, especially in the first half Friday night. The Reds hounded the Panthers’ offense, held them to only two baskets and seven points while building up a 30-point halftime lead. That pretty much removed any suspense in this...
Girls basketball No. 1 Roland Park 64, Archbishop Spalding 46: Mir McLean and Ja'Niah Henson each scored 22 points to lead the host Reds (25-1) past the Cavaliers (8-14) in an Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference quarterfinal. The Reds will host fourth-seeded Pallotti on...
Paul Truntich (126), Rick Couch (138) and Garrett Fisk (152) each finished in first place in their respective weight classes and helped the Archbishop Spalding wrestling team finish in third at The Maryland Independent Schools state tournament over the weekend. Truntich recorded three pins and...
Oakland Mills senior heavyweight Ernie Smith said he felt like he won two county titles: one for him and one for the team. While that’s not entirely true, as the Scorpions had 11 grapplers place among the top four of their brackets, the team title at the 50th annual Howard County wrestling tournament...
Individual records for top wrestlers in Howard County for the 2018-19 season.
For the second straight season, no Baltimore-area wrestling teams will leave North Point High School in Waldorf as state dual meet champions. No. 3 Glenelg (2A) and No. 10 Sparrows Point (1A) fell in their respective championship matches for the third straight year, while No. 11 South River (4A)...
Oakland Mills coach Brad Howell said his team needed something big to happen in order to beat host Glenelg in the 2A South region dual final Wednesday night. He needed someone to find a way to score a major upset and everything else to fall their way. And while the Scorpions gave the Gladiators...