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4A West First Round
(4) Northwest 1, (13) Kennedy 0 (2 OT)
(9) Montgomery Blair 4, (8) Clarksburg 0
(11) Richard Montgomery 1, (6) Churchill 0
4A North First Round
(8) Westminster 1, (9) Paint Branch 0
3A West First Round
(5) Einstein 6, (12) Rockville 0
(4) Frederick 1, (13) Northwood 0
(7) North Hagerstown 1, (10) Seneca Valley 0
(8) Damascus 5, (9) South Hagerstown 0
2A West First Round
(7) Poolesville 3, (10) Wheaton 0
4A West First Round
(9) Clarksburg 1, (8) Kennedy 0
(11) Churchill 3, (6) Richard Montgomery 0
(12) Northwest 4, (5) Magruder 0
3A West First Round
(6) Watkins Mill 1, (11) Seneca Valley 0
(8) Frederick 4, (9) Rockville 1
(10) North Hagerstown 2, (7) Einstein 0
2A West First Round
(6) Poolesville 3, (11) Liberty 1
The Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School girls soccer team will open the state tournament with a first-round bye after receiving the top seed in the 4A West region, the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association announced Monday. The Barons, who will be trying to win their fifth consecutive state championship, will face either Kennedy or Clarksburg in the second round.
First round games begin on Friday, and the tournament will run through November 17.
Full brackets are here.
First-round matchups for Montgomery County teams:
4A West
(1) Bethesda-Chevy Chase – bye (will play winner of Kennedy/Clarksburg)
(2) Gaithersburg – bye (will play winner of Wootton/Blair)
(3) Whitman – bye (will play winner of Richard Montgomery/Churchill)
(13) Walter Johnson @ (4) Quince Orchard
(12) Northwest @ (5) Magruder
(11) Churchill @ (6) Richard Montgomery
(10) Blair @ (7) Wootton
(9) Clarksburg @ (8) Kennedy
4A North
(2) Sherwood – bye (will play winner of Blake/Kenwood)
(10) Kenwood @ (7) Blake
(9) Dulaney @ (8) Paint Branch
(11) Springbrook @ (6) Western
3A West
(2) Damascus – bye (will play winner of Einstein/North Hagerstown)
(12) South Hagerstown @ (5) Northwood
(11) Seneca Valley @ (6) Watkins Mill
(10) North Hagerstown @ (7) Einstein
(8) Frederick @ (9) Rockville
2A West
(11) Liberty @ (6) Poolesville
(10) Walkersville @ (7) Wheaton
The Walter Johnson High School boys soccer team, looking to return to the state finals after suffering an overtime loss to Bowie in last year’s title game, was named the top seed Monday in the 4A West region of the 2012 Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association Championship Tournament. The Wildcats received a bye in the first round in the tournament, and will face either Clarksburg or Blair in the second round.
Watkins Mill, last year’s Class 3A state champion, was named the third seed in the 3A West region. They, too, received a first-round bye and will face either Thomas Johnson or Linganore in the second round.
First round games begin on Friday, and the tournament will run through November 17.
First round matchups for Montgomery County teams:
4A West
(1) Walter Johnson – bye (will play winner of Clarksburg/Blair)
(2) Wootton – bye (will play winner of B-CC/Whitman)
(3) Quince Orchard – bye (will play winner of Churchill/RM)
(13) Kennedy @ (4) Northwest
(12) Magruder @ (5) Gaithersburg
(11) Richard Montgomery @ (6) Churchill
(10) Whitman @ (7) Bethesda-Chevy Chase
(9) Blair @ (8) Clarksburg
4A North
(4) Blake – bye (will play Springbrook in 2nd round)
(5) Springbrook – bye (will play Blake in 2nd round)
(11) Poly @ (6) Sherwood
(9) Paint Branch @ (8) Westminster
3A West
(3) Watkins Mill – bye (will play winner of Thomas Johnson/Linganore)
(12) Rockville @ (5) Einstein
(9) South Hagerstown @ (8) Damascus
(10) Seneca Valley @ (7) North Hagerstown
(13) Northwood @ (4) Frederick
2A West
(10) Wheaton @ (7) Poolesville
Toni Urovsky (left) and the Wootton girls soccer team handed Annika Leiby (right) and Damascus a 2-0 defeat.
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Jazmyn Sollars scored one goal and assisted on another as the Wootton High School girls soccer team topped visiting Damascus 2-0 on Saturday. Alyssa Kopsidas also scored for the Patriots (3-2).
Wootton senior goalie Lindsay DeStefano made five saves to record her second shutout of the season. The shutout loss was the first of the year against a public school opponent for the Hornets (3-3), who had scored a combined 16 goals over their previous two games.
Damascus will be back in action on Tuesday, when they are scheduled to host Montgomery 3A/2A rival Rockville. Wootton will host Richard Montgomery on Wednesday in the first Montgomery 4A South game of the year for both teams.
Photos from Gaithersburg’s 1-0 victory over host Wheaton on Saturday. The winning goal was scored by sophomore midfielder Elmer Ramos on a direct free kick in overtime.
Click on images for higher resolution versions. All photos by Eric Meany.
Wheaton midfielder Heyner Pajaro.
Gaithersburg High School senior midfielder Alexis Osorio.
Wheaton High School boys soccer coach Oscar Amaguana.
Amiralah Nesru of the Wheaton High School boys soccer team.
The Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School boys soccer team will lose junior Collin Martin a year earlier than expected, as it has been announced that the standout midfielder will graduate a year early in order to play for Wake Forest University in the fall.
From the Wake Forest website:
The 2012 recruiting class for Wake Forest men’s soccer, already ranked among the top five classes in the country by several websites, picked up yet another highly-touted commitment on Tuesday, March 27 when Collin Martin committed to the Demon Deacons for the 2012 season.
The third-ranked player in the class of 2013 by College Soccer News and the lone high school junior to train with the U.S. Soccer U-20 squad in January, Martin will graduate from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland one year ahead of schedule and will round out the Deacs’ incoming class of eight players.
Paul Tenorio has a full writeup at the Washington Post.
by Eric Meany
BETHESDA, Md. — For the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School girls soccer team to continue its recent success and capture its fourth consecutive state championship this season, coach Robert Kurtz believes he will have to employ a new approach to suit the current roster.
“We’re going to go a lot deeper this year than we have in years past,” Kurtz said. “We’re probably going to play 17 or 18 girls, and we’re really really young — we’re probably going to start two or three freshmen and a bunch of sophomores.”
“We graduated a great senior class last year,” Kurtz added, “so we’re learning to live without them.”
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