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Sophomore midfielder Emily Stoll scored her third goal of the game with four seconds left in the second half to give the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School girls lacrosse team a season-opening 11-10 victory over visiting Springbrook on Thursday.
Senior Kayla Hanley added four goals and sophomore Leanne Klock made seven saves for the Barons.
Magruder High School boys basketball coach Dan Harwood took some time after his team’s victory in the Class 4A Maryland State Championship Game to discuss the memory of Spencer Datt, who was killed in an automobile accident in 2011.
We lost Spencer Datt. He graduated in 2010, he was teammates with J.J., Garland, Nick, and Luke. All the kids knew him from my basketball camp. And it was devastating to us. Any time you lose a young person at that stage in their life in a tragic accident – it was unbelievable. But all the things you see with the shirts — the “Who Datt,” the “We Datt,” the stuff with the sayings — it was all kid-generated. You don’t have to report this stuff, I know it’s not the main story, but my team that’s the kind of kids they were. It was all kid-generated, they designed those shirts, they came up with those shirts, they have all the sayings. They were fighting for Spencer all year. I’m just so proud of them that way, and I know Spencer was looking down on us.
by Eric Meany
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.
by Eric Meany
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.
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