Soccer
Digest (Dec. 18): Joe Mallia returns to coach Loyola Maryland women's soccer
Joe Mallia, the winningest head coach in Loyola Maryland women's soccer history, is returning to lead the Greyhounds' program 14 years after last serving in that capacity. Mallia, who most recently was an assistant coach at Navy, guided the Greyhounds to an 87-45-8 record over seven seasons from 1998-2004. During that stretch, Loyola compiled a 54-4-5 record in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference , winning MAAC Championships and earning NCAA College Cup bids in each of his past five seasons. In his seven seasons as head coach at Loyola, Mallia's teams won a minimum of nine total games and at least six in MAAC play each year. In addition, the Greyhounds posted...
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Digest (Dec. 18): Joe Mallia returns to coach Loyola Maryland women's soccer
Joe Mallia, the winningest head coach in Loyola Maryland women's soccer history, is returning to lead the Greyhounds' program 14 years after last serving in that capacity. Mallia, who most recently was an assistant coach at Navy, guided the Greyhounds...
Glenelg's Jenny Giampalmo caps field hockey career as Howard County Player of the Year
Jenny Giampalmo was torn.
It was the night before field hockey and soccer tryouts her freshman year, and she had yet to fully commit to either sport. She could follow in the footsteps of her two older sisters, Susie and Christina, and play for the...
Maryland men’s soccer’s ‘special’ run to NCAA title might open doors for Donovan Pines
Everything about the Maryland men’s soccer team’s march to its fourth national championship last weekend took on a magical feel for Donovan Pines — with one exception.
The junior center back had capped the 11th-seeded Terps&
Maryland men’s soccer greeted warmly Monday night after winning NCAA title
At the tender age of 20, Donovan Pines has yet to experience the full buffet that life has to offer. But on the heels of helping the Maryland men’s soccer team capture the NCAA Division I championship Sunday night, the junior defender has a pretty good...
Offense for Maryland men’s soccer fueled by friendship between 'polar opposites' Amar Sejdic, Paul Bin
Paul Bin had been in Amar Sejdic’s position before.
Just weeks removed from returning to the United States after spending a year playing soccer in Holland, Sejdic began scouring for a high school team. One visit took him to Utah’s Real Salt Lake Academy,...
Blast open MASL championship defense with 11-3 rout of expansion MetroStars
The Blast and visiting Mississauga MetroStars played their expected roles in Saturday’s Major Arena Soccer League season opener.
The home team mostly looked every bit like the three-time defending league champions, while the Ontario-based MetroStars...
Coach Danny Kelly, assistant David Bascome determined to keep Blast on top in 2018-19
The Blast wrapped a training session last week with an intrasquad scrimmage that head coach Danny Kelly and assistant coach David Bascome considered lackluster.
The message to the players that followed, this time from Bascome, was loud, clear and...
Surging defense, with shades of 2008 title team, key to postseason run for Maryland men’s soccer
The words came out before Sasho Cirovski could stop himself.
The dean of men’s soccer at Maryland has watched defenses come through the program for 25 years, and the unit that helped capture the NCAA Division I championship in 2008 was perhaps one of the...
C. Milton Wright boys capture second straight state soccer title
A few hours after Patterson Mill won its first-ever state title in boys soccer, C. Milton Wright won its second consecutive title at Loyola University’s Ridley Athletic Complex on Saturday.
The Mustangs (15-2) knocked off an equally talented and tough...
Lynch, Pinter lead Sparrows Point girls soccer to a state-best sixth straight Class 1A title with 4-2 win over Smithsburg
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...
Oakdale edges River Hill boys soccer in shootout to win 2A state title
Oakdale scored late in the first half and then won the shootout to beat River Hill, 2-1, in the Class 2A state championship game Saturday morning at Loyola University’s Ridley Athletic Complex in Baltimore.
Senior goalkeeper Jack Roby saved the first two...
River Hill girls soccer shuts out Walkersville to win third straight state title, 13th overall
A multitude of questions loomed over eventual state champion River Hill entering this season, and coach Brian Song admits he did not have all the answers. The Hawks were coming off their second straight state title but lost two first-team All-Metro...
Perry Hall pushes past Walt Whitman to win its first girls soccer state championship
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...
Towson girls soccer falls to Northern in Class 3A state semifinal
When the Towson High girls’ soccer team lost four of its first six games this season, dreams of a deep postseason run weren’t on the radar.
But, the young Generals got their defense in order and won eight of the next nine games, including seven in a...
River Hill girls soccer rallies to beat Hereford in 2A state semifinal
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...
Thomas Johnson girls soccer holds off Mt. Hebron to advance to 3A final
In a 3A state semifinal match-up between a pair of programs — Mt. Hebron and Thomas Johnson — that were each making their first trip to the state final four in the last eight years, settling nerves and establishing momentum was even more critical than...
River Hill boys soccer advances to 2A state final with 3-0 win over Hereford
A team as dominant as River Hill boys’ soccer has been this season could easily overlook an opponent and look ahead, even during the do-or-die playoffs. It would be hard to blame the Hawks considering they have outscored opponents 61-7 and have yet to...
Loch Raven boys soccer starts fast, closes out 3-1 win over Langley Park for trip to 1A title game
Bolstered by a strong senior class, the Loch Raven boys soccer team had this season pegged as potentially special for awhile now.
The Raiders are making good on the opportunity.
In Friday’s Class 1A state semifinal against International High School at...
Fallston, Patterson Mill girls claim region soccer titles
Three girls soccer teams played for region titles on Wednesday. Fallston and Patterson Mill both win, while C. Milton Wright did not.
In Class 2A East, Fallston (9-5-1) won another overtime thriller, beating host Queen Anne’s, 3-2. It was Fallston’s...
Belfiore's four goals lead C. Milton Wright boys soccer past Towson, 5-1, for 3A North crown
In the past three years, goals had been hard to come by when the C. Milton Wright and Towson boys soccer teams met in the Class 3A North title game.
Senior Ryan Belfiore and the No. 4 Mustangs had another plan Wednesday night in Bel Air.
The All-Metro...