During a professional work day for Howard County teachers on Feb. 5, Atholton boys basketball coach Jared Albert heard an insightful phrase he thought would resonate with his players as they pursued a county championship. “When you know your why, your what becomes more important.” Delivering the...
The Havre de Grace Warriors boys basketball team polished off a perfect regular season Thursday night with its lopsided, 80-44, win at Rising Sun (2-10, 4-10). The Warriors finish the regular season at 20-0 and 14-0 as champions of the UCBAC’s Susquehanna Division. Junior guard Gary Gibson led...
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.
As Los Angeles Rams inside linebacker Micah Kiser headed for the Houston Texans’ backfield in a preseason game last August, Texans offensive lineman Roderick Johnson got to him first. Johnson pushed Kiser back about 10 yards, thwarted the rookie’s attempt to bring down running back Lavon Coleman...
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...
When Northeast girls lacrosse takes the field this spring, the Eagles will not only be carrying lessons on stickwork and endurance with them. While mechanics, of course, will be part of Northeast’s training regimen, new coach Kim Kolarik will stress a principle becoming increasingly more prevalent...
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...
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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With the competition ramped up to its highest possible level, Anne Arundel County’s distance runners responded with a big day at the Maryland Indoor Track State Championships on Tuesday at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex. The feeling of redemption seemed to be the prevailing impetus...
Kenneth Lee Smith, a retired Baltimore schools track and field coach and teacher who officiated at running events, died of heart disease Feb. 11 at Meadow Park Rehabilitation in Randallstown. The Gwynn Oak resident was 68. Born in Reading, Pa., he was the son of Dr. Peter J. Smith, a dentist, and...
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....
Rarely does an individual athlete win a state title from the second-to-last heat of an event final, but River Hill senior Chase McGeehan gave himself a decent chance to accomplish that feat with his 500-meter dash performance at the 2A state championships on Monday afternoon. McGeehan only ended...
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...
Baltimore City boys basketball championship game No. 6 Edmondson (18-2) vs. No. 1 Patterson (17-3) When: Thursday, 7 p.m. Where: Morgan State’s Hill Field House How they got here: Both teams went undefeated in their respective divisions – Edmondson winning the A and Patterson winning the B. In...
Century’s boys basketball team has asserted itself as one of the most successful teams in Class 2A West over the last two months. The Knights have lost just one game since Dec. 28, a 79-78 overtime battle at the hands of county foe Liberty on Jan. 11. They’ve reeled off nine straight wins since...
Brian Tombs and his coaching staff weren’t all that pleased as they watched their Liberty boys basketball team compete Tuesday against Westminster, an opponent the Lions defeated by 26 points last Thursday. This time Liberty hit the road to face the Owls, and by the looks of the coaches things...
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...
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....
Refocused and reenergized, Oakland Mills played like a team on a mission Thursday evening against Winters Mill. The Scorpions, on the heels of back-to-back county losses last week, raced out to a 15-point lead in the opening five minutes and never slowed down on their way to a 76-36 victory over...
Nearing the tail end of a season filled with more than its fair share of moral victories, Glenelg girls basketball is beginning to pile up the tangible results as well. The latest triumph came on Tuesday evening against Wilde Lake, with the Gladiators starting fast and maintaining that advantage...
Imani Reid wasn’t even a year old yet the last time Hammond’s girls basketball program finished with a winning record. It was the winter of 2002 and Reid’s mother, Mona, was in her first year as head coach of the Golden Bears varsity team. That group ended up posting an overall record of 21-7 and...
The race to decide the Howard County girls basketball county champion will come down to the final game of the regular season. Howard, courtesy of a 57-50 victory over Long Reach, pulled itself into a tie for first place in the league standings with the Lightning on Monday evening. Marisa Sanchez-Henry...
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....
Ashley Knapp says she feels like one of the guys as a member of the Southern wrestling team. Only thing is, she’s not a guy. The only female member of the team just completed her third year and has a goal of cracking the varsity lineup next year as some of the current lightweight wrestlers move...
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)...