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- No. 13 Gladiators won five matches by fall to hand No. 7 Seahawks their first loss of the year, 41-27.
- The No. 2 Eagles stay unbeaten with road win against the No. 3 Cavaliers Thursday.
- Freshmen Michael Pizzuto (106), Gage Owen (120) and AJ Rodrigues (126) and sophomore Ryan Athey (113) are 83-1 with 46 pins combined so far this season.
- Four local wrestlers claim titles at the 16th annual Mount Mat Madness tournament in Baltimore.
- Mount Saint Joseph, McDonogh, Archbishop Spalding, Loyola Blakefield and C. Milton Wright remain the top-five teams this week.
- The host Patriots rallied from early deficit to beat the Scorpions, 40-30.
- The Mustangs beat the Gladiators for the first time in school history and hand Glenelg first league loss since Feb. 4, 2015.
- Seahawks are first Maryland team to beat Damascus since 2012.
- The host Vikings win eight matches, including six by fall or forfeit, to beat the Eagles.
- The Hawks (2-0, 8-2) swept a tri-meet with Hammond and Howard.
- The Gators win their season opener at home against the Wildecats.
- The gap between the top teams — Glenelg, Oakland Mills and Hammond — isn't so big entering the 2019-20 Howard County wrestling season.
- Less than a month ago, Helen Maroulis, a 24-year old native of Rockville, was winning an Olympic Gold Medal in the sport of women's wrestling in Rio.
- The weekend convention, Otakon, is leaving Baltimore after nearly two decades. Organizers said 29,000 people came Friday through Sunday, and they've outgrown the Baltimore Convention Center. Next year, Otakon will be in Washington, D.C.
- Helen Maroulis of Rockville clinched a spot in the Rio Games by winning an Olympic qualifying tournament in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Saturday, beating Greece's Maria Prevolaraki, 10-0, in the gold-medal match.
- Twenty-year-old Kyle Snyder, the youngest world wrestling champion in U.S. history, qualified for his first Olympics at 97 kilograms.
- Ohio State sophomore Kyle Snyder, a Woodbine native who went to high school at Good Counsel in Olney, defeated two-time defending national champion Nick Gwiazdowski of North Carolina State with a takedown in overtime to win the 285-pound NCAA national championship Saturday night in New York.
- Maryland incoming freshman Brindi Griffin scored six of her game-high seven goals during a first-half run and the top-ranked McDonogh girls lacrosse team (2-0) earned its 135th straight victory, 21-4, over host Ponte Vedra (Fla.) on Friday.
- aryland announced that all athletic competitions scheduled for this weekend have been postponed because of the impending winter storm.
- Washington Wizards guards John Wall and Bradley Beal have been selected as two of 30 finalists for the 2016 men's Olympic team.
- Scorpions and Gladiators are only two undefeated county teams left
- The junior dominated the 195-pound weight class at Stephen Decatur's War on the Shore tournament last weekend, winning all four bouts by pin to help lead the No. 3 Gaels to a second-place finish in the 22-team field.
- Catonsville has seven wrestlers who are unbeaten in dual meets this season
- A handful of Harford County wrestling teams were in action over the weekend, with Harford Tech leading the way with an tourney win at Havre de Grace.
- Towson High wrestling coach Phil Simmonds sees promise in his young wrestlers, but the Generals also are experiencing growing pains. Towson has only four seniors in Daryl Cockerille (160), Nikko Regalbuto (220 pounds), Matt Hayden (152) and Toheeb Aroworowon (189).
- This week on the Ring Posts Roundup, we look at the return of a WWE series, the location of SummerSlam, and who will be appearing on Raw this week.
- Competing against some of Maryland's best wrestling teams -- and more from Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia -- Loyola Blakefield finished third at the Cavalier Duals, despite being without five starters.
- The host Archbishop Spalding boys basketball team proved its tenacity by hanging with No. 6 Mount Carmel in the first half Thursday. But the Cougars regrouped and built the lead in the second half to win, 54-47.
- As the regular season winds down for the Dulaney wrestling team, Lions¿ Desi McNelis said a lack of depth and several banged up wrestlers are two issues that concern him.
- Patterson Mill senior Jake Nikkila has been a solid part of an ever-improving wrestling program.
- A feature Q&A with Reservoir senior wrestler Trent Kilcarr
- Reservoir wins 11 bouts to earn third county win
- Gilman guard-forward Kai Locksley is the Boy Athlete of the Week.
- For the past six months, Roman Reigns has been the presumed winner of this year's Royal Rumble. But then something started to go wrong. Specifically, his promos went wrong.
- Loyola Blakefield wrestling coach Steve Truitt says it's unlikely his Dons will win the MIAA A Conference. Still, Truitt is fine with a top-four finish, because the league includes the top three teams in the Baltimore Sun's high school wrestling poll -- McDonogh, John Carroll and Mount St. Joseph.
- Mt. Hebron, Centennial, Long Reach and Howard all competed in the tournament hosted by Mt. Hebron
- This week's roundup will take a look at a shakeup in the WWE commentary teams, TNA's Destination America debut and the possible WWE pay per view schedule for 2015.
- Oakland Mills improves to 11-3 and 6-0 in county
- The highly-anticipated Wrestle Kingdom 9 show from New Japan Pro Wrestling finally happened this weekend, and the great show raised even more questions about if NJPW could make in-roads in the United States.
- When the Lansdowne wrestling team holds its first home match of 2015 on Thursday at 6:30 p.m., Vikings coach George Dunn will be eager to see the effects of a tough pre-holiday tournament on his wrestlers.
- Accomplishments in football, soccer, softball, wrestling, golf and track marked 2014 calendar in Arbutus sports. Here are some of the highlights:
- John Carroll wrestler Christian Scott is the Boys Athlete of the Week.
- The Authority returned with a vengeance on WWE Raw on Monday night, putting John Cena in a place where he hasn't been in quite a while.
- Sean Hoffman has captained the Dulaney wrestling team alone for nearly a month and has been the Lion's top wrestler, accruing a 14-1 record.
- The Mount Mat Madness wrestling tournament is one of the toughest in the state, but No. 2 John Carroll made winning it look easy.
- Sidelined by neck surgery, WWE superstar Daniel Bryan says he'll return in 2015's Royal Rumble.
- Through the first day of the 11th annual Mount Mat Madness wrestling tournament at Mount Saint Joseph, John Carroll has made it look easy.