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Patrick Conway had five strikeouts while allowing only two hits in six innings to lead the visiting Magruder High School baseball team to a 9-0 win over Einstein on Wednesday in the season opener for both teams. Zack Hester and Patrick Conway each had three hits in the win for the Colonels.
Both teams will next be in action Friday, with Einstein playing at Blake (1-0) and Magruder visiting Churchill (0-1).
The Rams won all three games (25-22, 25-20, 25-23) over the host Titans in the season opener for both teams.
Einstein will host Walter Johnson High School (0-1) on Friday at 7 p.m.
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
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.
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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by Eric Meany
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Mark Meyer finished the men’s 200-yard butterfly in second place behind his teammate and older brother Adam in each of his first two years competing in the Patriot League Swimming and Diving Championships.
Adam still holds the league’s record time in the event, but since his graduation in 2010 Mark has made the race his own, and on Saturday night in Lejeune Hall the Naval Academy senior won it for the second consecutive year.
“I’m a little sad I didn’t get any closer to his record here,” Meyer said. “But I have another chance next week.”
by Eric Meany
The University of Maryland football program got its first win of 2012 seven months earlier than expected Friday night as Our Lady of Good Counsel wide receiver Stefon Diggs announced his decision to play for the Terps in the fall.
“I feel good about my decision, I feel 100 percent sure,” Diggs said before donning a Maryland cap in front of an enthusiastic overflow crowd at Looney’s Pub in College Park, where he made the announcement. “I want to win championships, I want to win bowl games, and where’s a better place to do it than your city.”
by Eric Meany
Freshman point guard Daisa Harris.
KENSINGTON, Md. — Entering this season, there were plenty of reasons to assume that the Albert Einstein High School girls basketball team was bound for another hapless campaign. But even though last year’s squad managed just two victories and lost MVP Ann-Marie Gabriel to graduation, coach Tim Hobbs knew help was on the way.
Freshman point guard Daisa Harris, who turned heads last year while leading her Newport Mill Middle School team to an undefeated season, has stepped into a starring role early in her high school career. With Harris’ ball-handling skills and athleticism leading the way, the Titans (4-11, 4-5 Montgomery 3A/2A) matched last season’s win total six games into this year’s schedule and hope to carry that momentum forward through the end of February.
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