COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Two nights after propelling his team to an overtime victory in the semifinals, junior J.J. Epps hit four free throws in the last minute of play to give the Magruder High School boys basketball team a 39-36 win over Eleanor Roosevelt in the MPSSAA Class 4A championship Saturday at the Comcast Center.
The Roosevelt Raiders (22-5) led Epps’ Colonels (26-1) by one point with 43.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter when Epps stepped to the line to shoot two free throws. Despite the significance of the situation, Epps said he didn’t let it affect his approach.
“No pressure,” the soft-spoken Epps said with a smile after the game. “I mean, it’s just a free throw. You just go up there and shoot it.”
Scott Bolen’s 3-pointer capped a 17-8 run in the last 1:50 of the 4th quarter for Sherwood High School and forced overtime against Magruder in the semifinals of the MPSSAA State Championship Tournament at the Comcast Center in College Park, Md., on March 8, 2012. Magruder dominated the extra period and came away with a 75-68 victory.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Sherwood High School boys basketball team went on a 17-8 run in the last 1:50 of the fourth quarter to force overtime after trailing for most of the game, but Magruder dominated the extra period and came away with a 75-68 victory in the semifinals of the MPSSAA Class 4A State Championship Tournament at the Comcast Center on Thursday night.
Senior guard Scott Bolen sank a long 3-pointer to tie the game with 4.8 seconds left in regulation, then hit a free-throw six seconds into overtime to give the Warriors (17-9) their only lead since early in the first quarter before watching the Colonels (25-1) take control the rest of the way.
Magruder guard J.J. Epps scored six of his 16 points in the four-minute overtime period, helping the Colonels finally take control of a game that seemed on the verge of slipping away.
When coach Chris Robinson of the McDonogh School in Owings Mills recently referred to senior midfielder and Maryland recruit Taylor Cummings as the best female high school lacrosse player in the country, it seemed reasonable to check with more objective sources before accepting his opinion as fact.
Outside authorities only reinforced Robinson’s assertion, as Cummings was Lacrosse Magazine’s National Player of the Year in 2011 and is ranked as the nation’s best player in her class by Inside Lacrosse and ESPNHS.com. She was also named The Baltimore Sun’s female athlete of the year and girls lacrosse player of the year after a junior season in which she scored 65 goals and had 15 assists in 19 games for McDonogh.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Two nights after propelling his team to an overtime victory in the semifinals, junior J.J. Epps hit four free throws in the last minute of play to give the Magruder High School boys basketball team a 39-36 win over Eleanor Roosevelt in the MPSSAA Class 4A championship Saturday at the Comcast Center.
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