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Created by Phil Murphy Senior Multimedia/Content EditorWashington D.C. Metropolitan Area Top 10 Plays — Spring Season Click the video on the left for the full countdown of the Top 10 plays from across the seven DigitalSports territories in the greater Washington, D.C. Metro area. You can also view the full list of top plays [...]
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MySpeed Test DayThursday June 46:00pm – 8:00pm Do you have what it takes to be the best? Come find out how you measure up to the competition. Our monthly MySpeed testing day will be held Thursday, June 4th at the Champions Field House at 6:00 pm. MySpeed Testing consist of measuring 15 specific drills. Times [...]
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FOR RYAN OUT LOUD! Chapter 11: May 18, 2009 Previous blogsChapter 10: Rivalries, Take 2Chapter 9: Birthday Wishes Chapter 8: Rivalries, Take 1Chapter 7: BloopersChapter 6: Swimming LoveChapter 5: Signing DayChapter 4: Snow DayChapter 3: Inauguration Chapter 2: Wrestling Rules Chapter 1: Introduction Montgomery County, in my opinion, is the high school sports jewel [...]
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Created by Phil Murphy Senior Multimedia/Content EditorWashington D.C. Metropolitan Area Top 10 Plays — May 11-17, 2009Click the video on the left for the full countdown of the Top 10 plays from across the seven DigitalSports territories in the greater Washington, D.C. Metro area. You can also view the full list of top plays [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com On paper, it looked like Wootton had the upper hand in Friday’s 4A/3A boys lacrosse state semifinal. Urbana entered the game with five losses while Wootton hadn’t lost a game since last season’s state semifinals, standing at a perfect 17-0. But that didn’t faze the Hawks one bit as Urbana took a [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com As Wootton waited for its fourth straight 4A/3A West region plaque, Coach Colin Thomson broke the near silence. “Hey, you guys are awfully quiet champs,” he joked. Been there, done that. Wootton beat Sherwood, 13-9, Wednesday night at home to once again represent Montgomery County at the boys lacrosse state level. The [...]
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Boys Lacrosse Top 10*Rankings as of May 151. Georgetown Prep (20-3/LW 2)Despite having to share the IAC title with Landon, the Little Hoyas proved they are the area’s best team with a blowout win in the tournament final.2. Landon (18-4/LW 1)It was still an extremely good season for the Bears. Not many people expected them [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Churchill’s girls lacrosse team unleashed a raucous celebration when it defeated Wootton by one goal in the third game of the regular season. After Saturday’s 16-11 win in the 4A West region playoffs, however, the Bulldogs barely batted an eye. This time top-seeded Churchill improved in every facet of the game and [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com It’s time once again for the Maryland playoffs so I came up with the idea of predicting the results NCAA basketball style. For now, I predicted only the 4A and 3A for the four major spring sports since there aren’t many 2A or 1A Montgomery County teams and I don’t have much [...]
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Baseball Top 10Rankings and records as of May 41. Westfield (15-1) — LW: 1Went 2-0 on the week with wins over Centreville and Herndon. Pivotal clash with No. 3 Chantilly looms on Wednesday.2. West Springfield (14-4) — LW: 4Won three, including 5-1 triumph in marquee matchup with No. 7 Lake Braddock.3. Chantilly (15-3) — LW: [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Sherwood’s boys lacrosse team didn’t beat Wootton but it sure agitated the Patriots. Wootton racked up a staggering 12 penalties — many of the vicious variety — compared to four by Sherwood and still won 12-10 by rebounding after Sherwood took an early lead and holding on when the Warriors rallied in [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com When Sherwood lost two of perhaps its best players in one swoop when they got in a car accident just before Spring Break, the Warriors were at first shocked. But Sherwood knew the lacrosse season wasn’t going to be put on pause, so other players would have to step up to fill [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Wootton’s baseball team played a doubleheader on Saturday, including one against 3A-leading Damascus. It played defending 4A state champion Sherwood on Monday and faced off against 4A’s first-place Quince Orchard on Tuesday. But the mental and physical exhaustion from that gauntlet didn’t stop Wootton from coming from behind to beat the Cougars. [...]
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Girls Lacrosse Top 10*Rankings and records as of April 29 1. St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes (18-1) — LW: 1The Saints have won their last four games by a combined score of 70-17 since their loss to McDonogh. The Saints have scored double-digit goals in 18 games this season. 2. Good Counsel (14-2) — LW: [...]
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Baseball Top 10Rankings and records as of May 181. Westfield (18-1) — LW: 1Continued to cruise with shutouts of then-No. 3 Chantilly and Centreville last week.2. West Springfield (17-4) — LW: 2Riding an 11-game win streak, have not dropped game in over a month.3. Quince Orchard (17-4) — LW: 9Cougars defeated Whitman 7-2 in last [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Richard Montgomery junior pitcher Kristen Hutchinson was a tad disappointed at the end of Thursday’s 3-1 win over Wootton. She wanted the shutout. A year after striking out four times against Wootton, including with the tying run on second base, Hutchinson wanted to win convincingly this time around. She ended up having [...]
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By Kyle WannenFor DigitalSports.com Things did not look good for Wootton as they trailed Blake 10-8 with under two minutes remaining in their girls’ lacrosse game Friday and a desperate effort was needed to tie the game and send it to overtime. The Patriots did one better as they scored twice within 15 seconds and [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Wootton’s Evan Pappas christened Richard Montgomery’s new baseball field Thursday, hitting the first home run ever at the pristine Rockville field in a 9-4 Wootton win. Pappas connected in the top of the first inning for his first home of the year. He hit one home run last season. He didn’t know [...]
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DigitalSports and Philbin’s Family Fitness and Athletic Training Center were proud to honor 17 Montgomery County student-athletes from 10 schools in the Rockville-Gaithersburg area Sunday as part of its Student Athlete of the Month program. The honorees are chosen with help from Athletic Directors and Coaches from the respective schools. Below is March’s class and [...]
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By Gordie GoldWootton Student Junior pitcher David Hudson led the way for the Blake Bengals Saturday afternoon, throwing five innings and allowing two earned runs as the Bengals pulled off a minor upset over the Wootton Patriots, 10-4. Blake’s senior captain Jake Lorber made himself Wootton’s toughest out, recording three hits on the day. The [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Another slow start, another big win for Wootton’s boys lacrosse team. Against perhaps the Patriots’ final regular season measuring stick, Wootton once again showed it’s a notch or two above the rest of the county with a 12-3 win over Whitman Thursday on the road. The Vikings were previously beaten against Montgomery [...]
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Girls Lacrosse Top 10*Rankings and records as of April 15 1. St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes (13-0)The Saints have dominated early in the season, winning by an average of 11.8 goals through 13 games this year. Even more impressive, the Saints beat No. 4 Bishop Ireton by 11 goals and No. 6 Bullis, 14-7. 2. [...]
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Boys Lacrosse Top 10*Rankings and records as of April 15 1. Georgetown Prep (12-2)The Little Hoyas responded from a loss to Delbarton (N.J.) with a 14-3 whooping of Good Counsel. They have yet to be challenged by any Washington area team. 2. Landon (9-3)The defending IAC champions got a big win in convincing fashion over [...]
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By Phil MurphySenior Multimedia/Content EditorWashington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Real Madrid CF only needed to lose by less than three goals in its opening-round finale with Pachuca FC USA Internationals to clinch a berth in the Tiffany Cup championship game. With their performance on Thursday, it appeared like Los Merengues thought they needed three-goal victory to [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Pachuca Internationals was down a goal to rival D.C. United Academy Team at halftime and staring an early exit from the International Amateur Soccer Tournament. But luckily for Pachuca, it’s a second-half team. The Pachuca Internationals rallied with a goal just five minutes into the second half and the game-winning goal with [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com After a sluggish first quarter, the Wootton boy’s lacrosse coaches loudly prodded their team for six goals in the second quarter. Ask and the Patriots will deliver. Wootton pulled away with six second-quarter goals and held off a second-half Bethesda-Chevy Chase push for a 15-9 win in a rematch of last year’s [...]
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Created by Phil Murphy Senior Multimedia/Content EditorWashington D.C. Metropolitan Area Top 10 Plays — March 23-29, 2009Click the video on the left for the full countdown of the Top 10 plays from across the seven DigitalSports territories in the greater Washington, D.C. Metro area. You can also view the full list of top plays [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Whether it was that there was no school, or whether it was playing on a middle school field, or just simply the weather, something threw off Wootton at the start of its game against Walter Johnson at Tilden Middle School Monday afternoon. The Patriots, for the first time that some players could [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Wootton was in this position just last Friday, trailing by a few goals with time ticking down in the second half. This time, Coach Anne-Marie Steppling waved her arms from the sideline, motioning to the visiting Patriots crowd to stand up and get loud. This time, the Patriots were going to come [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com It’s just one week into lacrosse season, but Churchill’s girls didn’t care. They enjoyed their 14-13 win over last year’s regional champion Wootton to the fullest extent. Churchill’s girls embraced each other, squealed with joy and squirted their water bottles into the air. “We’ve lost to Wootton in pretty much every sport [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Bad news for the rest of Montgomery County boys lacrosse teams. Wootton is once again on top of its game. With a 10-3 win over rival Churchill Friday night, Wootton showed that despite another heavy dose of graduation, the Patriots have plugged the holes and are doing just fine. Wootton (3-0) took [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com It’s always been a game of catch up between Montgomery County girls lacrosse and the rest of Maryland. In the 4A/3A Severna Park has won the last two championships and Dulaney won the previous two. In the 3A/2A, Winters Mill ended Mount Hebron’s seven-year title stretch last season. In the 2A/1A, Glenelg [...]
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Olivia Ekpone, Wootton, Sophomore 2009 All-Beltway Girls Indoor Track First Team Ekpone continued to be one of the top overall runners in the area. She won the Montgomery County, regional and 4A state championships. Ekpone also took first in the county and regional 55 dash and second at states. **CLICK HERE to return to the [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com It’s the same story in boys lacrosse this season. Wootton is at the front of the pack. But can the Patriots finally emerge to the front of the entire 4A? Can a Montgomery County team end Wootton’s run? A year after junior varsity lacrosse started in Montgomery County, the Patriots and other [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Sherwood Coach Pat Flanagan has been coaching in Montgomery County for 33 years. And all the while, she’s been waiting and waiting for the county to catch up to the rest of the state. “Outside of Montgomery County, we’re definitely several steps back,” Flanagan said. “I don’t know how long it’s going [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com There’s definitely a confidence that Wootton senior pitcher Andi Garnher brings to the mound. After splitting time with teammate Christine Oberst last season, Garnher is Wootton’s full-time hurler now. She started it off right Saturday, tossing a one-hitter in Wootton’s 11-0 victory over Bethesda-Chevy Chase in both teams’ season opener. “I wasn’t [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Sherwood baseball Coach Billy Goodman thought his team had a good chance of winning the 4A Maryland state title in 2007 — his team was undefeated heading into the playoffs and could mash the ball from the plate. But that year, Sherwood fell in the state final. Last season, Goodman entered the [...]
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DigitalSports and Philbin’s Family Fitness and Athletic Training Center were proud to honor 19 Montgomery County student-athletes from 10 schools in the Rockville-Gaithersburg area Sunday as part of its Student Athlete of the Month program. Here are February’s honorees and some of their many accomplishments: ChurchillGirl: Alicia Watkins, SwimmingAlicia was the top scoring girl for [...]
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All boys’ basketball regional quarterfinal games involving Montgomery County high schools have been cancelled for today, Monday, March 2, 2009. The games will be rescheduled for Tuesday, March 3, as indicated below. Please also note that there have been no changes to the girls’ schedule for Tuesday, March 3. All girls’ regional quarterfinal games on [...]
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By Kyle WannenFor DigitalSports.com In last year’s 4A/3A West Regional Championships, Walt Whitman’s wrestling team only had one regional champion and finished three points behind Magruder for the team championship. This year the Vikings returned a slew of wrestlers who qualified for states in last year’s tournament, and each of them finished at least one [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Nick Sorkin’s hockey All-Star game appearance started with a stumble – literally. During player introductions, the Bullis senior was tripped by public schools foe Jake Lynes of River Hill and nearly took a spill. But Sorkin had the last laugh, scoring two goals and adding an assist in the private schools’ 4-1 [...]
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By Phil MurphySenior Multimedia/Content EditorWashington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Photo Gallery: CLICK HEREVideo Galleries: 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr The Jaguars have no problem addressing their woeful 1-21 record last year. In reality, they shouldn’t have to comment on it at all. This is not the same team. Northwest has a new [...]
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By Kyle WannenFor DigitalSports.com Last night as he streaked down the left side of his offensive zone, senior forward Jonathan Cohen received a pass from senior defenseman Andrew Stein. Then in one and flicked a quick wrister past the goalie with under five minutes remaining in the Capital Cup to extend the Pats’ lead to [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Swimmers know what’s supposed to happen in the pool come Metros. They know who they’ve beaten, who’s been training hard, who has the fastest times. And if they don’t, they’re quickly told. But when Churchill’s girls swimming team heard the swimming community talking about how they were set to end Good Counsel’s [...]
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By Ryan Mink and Kyle Wannenrmink@digitalsports.com There have been 25 three-time Montgomery County champions, starting in 1965. There’s been a three-time state champions such as Andy Lowy and even a wrestler who nearly went undefeated over his career in Eren Civan. Sherwood’s Steven Gamble has never won a state championship. But now he has something [...]
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2009 MCPS Wrestling Tournament Blair High SchoolFebruary 20 & 21, 2009 Championship – Semifinals Weight: 103Eli Bienstock (Fr), Quince Orchard Fall Jake Sutton (Fr), Winston Churchill, 1:45Mac Raum (Fr), Clarksburg Dec Ravi Choxi (Sr), Magruder, 9-5 Weight: 112Rasheim Smith (Sr), Hubie Blake Fall Ben Asadi (Jr), Clarksburg, 1:55Jordan Tolbert (So), Magruder Fall Sawyer Symington (Jr), [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Paint Branch senior Logan Shinholser became a level 10 gymnast as a high school freshman. But before Shinholser never competed at that extremely high level, he quit because of injuries and time demands. Now, after just two years of full-time diving, Shinholser’s decision seems to have paid off. Shinholser won the Metros [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Before sophomore P.J. Hall went into the locker room following his game-winning goal in Wootton’s 4-3 victory over Easton in the MSHL semifinals Thursday, senior Jon Cohan yelled to him, “Hey P.J., you’re not 12 anymore. You’re at least 15!” It seems that Hall, who was described as the baby of the [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley could have picked from a myriad of charities or organizations to get involved with. But when he thought long and hard about how he would like to give back to the community, Cooley chose education. Cooley’s thirst for education and his adamant belief that it has [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.comClick here for coverage from Friday’s diving! Churchill’s swimmers have tried to dunk Coach Rodney Van Tassell at the end of counties the past several years but were never able to get him. This year, Van Tassell was prepared to get wet and there may have been no stopping it even if he [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Magruder senior diver Brittany Powell has had an influx of young challengers this year. There’s Whitman sophomore Emily Schmidt, Walter Johnson freshman Annie Kastler and sophomore Katie Collins to name a few. But in the end, Powell continues to make the biggest – or smallest – splash. Powell ran away with her [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com In the first quarter of Friday night’s girls basketball game between Paint Branch and Wootton, Paint Branch Coach Heather Podosek called a timeout to settle her team and in particular star player Tarik Hislop, who hadn’t gotten a foul call she desired. For the first time in a Montgomery County game all [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digtalsports.com There’s two ways of looking at Wootton’s method to victory Thursday. Either Wootton turned into a bunch of sharpshooters or they were a little fortunate to come out their 4-2 win in the Montgomery County hockey championships. “Our shots were just efficient,” Wootton senior Dylan Skarupa said with a grin. Wootton (14-1) [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com If there’s one person Wootton’s girls basketball team would like to pick to take free-throws with the game on the line, it would probably be senior forward Sarah Bolmer. So when Bolmer stepped to the line with the game tied and six seconds remaining, her teammates knew it was in the bag. [...]
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DigitalSports and Philbin’s Family Fitness and Athletic Training Center were proud to honor 23 Montgomery County student-athletes from 10 schools in the Rockville-Gaithersburg area Saturday as part of its Student-Athlete of the Month program. Here are January’s honorees and some of their many accomplishments: Click the photos and videos tabs above to see and hear [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Churchill junior twins Cathy and Karen Chen weren’t nervous heading into their 100-yard breaststroke. Sure, the Bulldogs had trailed the entire meet, were behind by 11 points at the time and the twins were Churchill’s best and perhaps final chance to overtake perennial power Walter Johnson. But when the girls lined up [...]
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The Paint Branch Athletic Department and basketball coaches, Walter Hardy and Heather Podosek, invite all Montgomery County Public Schools basketball coaches to support our efforts in raising cancer awareness and the importance of cancer research by wearing suits and sneakers to basketball games on the night of January 30, 2009. Next weekend, February 1-3, NCAA coaches will [...]
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FOR RYAN OUT LOUD! Chapter 3: Jan. 21, 2009 For all those who watched the Presidential Inauguration on television Tuesday, if you saw that tiny speck of tan and blue on the National Mall, that was me. It was a long, tiring day, filled with miles of walking in the wrong direction, in the right [...]
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Girls Beltway BasketballTop-10 Rankings With the exception of a flip-flop, nine area girls teams protect their respective spots in the DigitalSports Beltway Ballers poll; One team finds itself back in the poll this week.*Records as of Monday, Jan. 19*1. Riverdale Baptist (Ind.) 14-2; LW: 12. Eleanor Roosevelt (Prince George’s) 8-1; LW: 23. Elizabeth Seton (WCAC) [...]
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Magruder 47, Wootton 25 Wootton (W) – Magruder (M) 217 Sam Hollman vs. John Rinaldi (M) – F 2:26 (0-6)287 Kevin Mrohs vs. Mike Rinaldi (W) – F 3:56 (6-6) 105 Jacob Weaver vs. Ravi Choxi (W) – F 1:43 (12-6)114 Sam Rosenblatt vs. Jordan Tolbert (M) – F 1:17 (12-12)121 Aaron Kay vs. [...]
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By Jordan KlemkoBlake High School student Walt Whitman came into Friday night’s game against the Wootton Patriots bent on avenging last year’s loss to the talented Wootton team. But despite Whitman’s intentions and Wootton playing short-handed without its top three players, Wootton still pulled off a 2-1 victory Friday night in Laurel. “The hardest thing [...]
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FOR RYAN OUT LOUD!Chapter 2: Jan. 15, 2009 Apologies to all you out there who **** wrestling because you think it’s a lewd to see boys rolling around in tights (stop being such a weirdo you people), but this blog is wrestling heavy because that’s the majority of the events I’ve been going to recently [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Wootton 125-pound sophomore Shane Bramble hadn’t tried his Kolat front-flip in a match before. But the way the Patriots handled Walter Johnson, 52-18, Wednesday night in Rockville, it turned out to be the perfect time to break it out. Wootton (7-2) rattled off seven pins en route to an impressive victory over [...]
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.Girls Beltway Basketball Top-10 Rankings Riverdale Baptist takes over the No. 1 spot in this week’s DigitalSports Beltway Ballers poll after defeating previous No. 3 Forest Park twice in the span of one week. *Records as of Monday, Jan. 12* 1. Riverdale Baptist (Ind.) 12-2; LW: 2 2. Eleanor Roosevelt (Prince George’s) 5-1; LW: 1 [...]
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Wootton (TSW)-56, Churchill (WCH)-19 189-Jack Corbett(TSW) wbf (6-0)215-Sam Hollman(TSW) fall Mike Kelly(WCH) 1:49 (12-0)285-Kevin Mrohs(TSW) fall Larry Cheung(WCH) 1:20 (18-0)103-Jacob Weaver(TSW) maj Jake Sutton(WCH) 11-1 (22-0)112-Wesley Deaver(WCH) fall Sam Rosenblatt(TSW) 4:54 (22-6)119-Mike Chen(WHC) maj Drew Ricci(TSW) 14-0 (22-10)125-Shane Bramble(TSW) maj Saam Tashayyod(WCH) 12-4 (26-10)130-Jeremy Rosenthal(TSW) wbf Yanzhi Yang(WCH) inj (32-10)135-David Lee(WCH) fall Kyle Nisson(TSW) 1:08 [...]
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Wootton improves to 4-2 on the season with a tough tri-meet against Blake and Churchill this weekend. The Bulldogs are a traditional rival of the Patriots and Blake edged the much-improved Patriots by two points last season, leaving Wootton looking for redemption. Wootton 51, Bethesda-Chevy Chase 15 152-Scott Oberst(TSW) fall Lance Ingram(BCC) 5:41(0-6)160- Noah Joseph(BCC) [...]
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Wootton team record improves to 3-2 with matches against Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Churchill and Blake this week. Jeremy Rosenthal improved to 10-2, Eric Mears moves to 13-2, Mike Barbaro is 11-2 and Kevin Mrohs is 12-2. Wootton 79, Kennedy 0 160-Greg Potemken(TSW) wbf (6-0)171-Conor Higgins(TSW) wbf (12-0)189-Jack Corbett(TSW) wbf (18-0)215-Sam Hollman(TSW) fall Demetrius Gates(JFK) 1:25 (24-0)285-Kevin [...]
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FOR RYAN OUT LOUD! Chapter 1: Jan. 7, 2009 So I just got back from a DigitalSports meeting and it’s been decided that we’re all writing weekly blogs. I’m excited about it personally because I have tons of useless stuff to talk about and never an audience willing to listen. I’m terrible at coming up [...]
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Quince Orchard defeated the visiting Wootton Patriots 64-50 Monday night to give Coach Paul Foringer his 300th career win. The Cougars raise their overall record to 5 -1 and are 2-0 in their division. Quince Orchard used a trapping defense to force 38 Wootton turnovers. The Cougars set a school record for steals in the [...]
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CLICK ABOVE FOR THE PHOTO GALLERY AND VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS AND INTERVIEWS! By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Ending the first day in first place was fun, but Tuscarora’s wrestling team still went to bed Friday night with the same goal it had when it entered the Damascus Holiday Tournament. Place in the top three. Then, surprisingly enough, the [...]
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Girls Beltway Basketball Top 10 Rankings Many D.C. area girls’ basketball teams will find an additional gift underneath the tree this Christmas in the form of a ranking as DigitalSports unveils its first “Beltway Ballers” poll of the 2008-2009 season. Check back after the holiday tournaments for the next Top 10 release: January 5, and every Monday [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com In the larger scale of the season, Friday’s boys basketball game between Springbrook and Bethesda-Chevy Chase meant very little. The two teams aren’t in each other’s class and therefore won’t see each other in the playoffs. But Springbrook has become the 4A powerhouse in recent years, and won the title last year. [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Neither Theo Marshall or brother Chad Marshall — both seniors — played for Gaitherburg’s boys basketball team last year. They didn’t really play in the first half of Friday’s game either. But the Marshall brothers showed Friday night at Wootton that it’s not how you start but rather how you finish. After [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com By Wootton girls basketball Coach Maggie Dyer’s estimation, sophomore Iris Cheng said about seven words last year as a freshman on varsity. But don’t take Cheng’s quiet demeanor as meekness. The 5-foot-1 guard hardly played throughout Friday night’s game and entered in the fourth quarter when the large crowd at Wootton was [...]
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Join us on Saturday, December 20, 2008 – 11:00 A.M. as the Eagle Bank Bowl proudly presents the DigitalSports.com 2008 Washington D.C. Area “Most Dedicated” Football Players of the Year!DigitalSports.com has selected eight deserving Washington D.C. Metro student athletes to receive this honor for the dedication they have shown towards their football teams, their high [...]
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CLICK THE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS TABS ABOVE FOR COMPLETE HIGHLIGHTS! By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Wootton senior guard Sarah Bolmer likes when she sees teams sagging inside to help defend the Patriots two big post players, 6-foot-2 senior Chelsea Craig and 6-foot-3 sophomore Gabby Flinchum. “They don’t know what’s coming,” Bolmer said. Bolmer and several other Wootton [...]
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Montgomery County Top-15 Final 2008 Rankings 1. Sherwood, (14-0)State champions. Need we say anything else? OK we will. This team wasn’t full of superstars and didn’t even have much size, but it accomplished something extraordinary. The 4A state champions had a spectacular defense and an offense that could beat you via run or pass and [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com As Whitman’s wrestling team ran sprints in its sweltering practice room, crashing against the pads with reckless abandon and sprinting amongst a chorus of cheers, the goal was for the entire team to finish in under 45 seconds. After finishing in 45.3 seconds their first time, the wrestlers ran a 43.9 on [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com The Paint Branch girls basketball team doesn’t want to sound cocky, but last season was kind of easy. The Panthers’ closest game was an eight-point win over Damascus in the regional finals, they won the program’s fourth state title by 35 points over Atholton and posted 25-0 perfect record. “It’s kind of [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Springbrook senior Jamal Olasewere still can’t believe the Blue Devils won last year’s 4A state championship. Down 18 points with a minute left in the third quarter, Springbrook stormed back to defeat Thomas Stone and capture the school’s first state championship in 20 years. Afterwards longtime Coach Tom Crowell was quoted as [...]
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2008 All-County Field Hockey Team *as voted by the Montgomery County coaches 1st Team Jennifer Bateman, Poolesville, Sr., Def.Clare Becker, Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Sr., AttackGeorgina Beven, Walter Johnson, Jr., AttackRachel Browning, Springbrook, Sr., Def.Elana Diestel, Magruder, Sr., Def.Amy Eaton, Wootton, Sr., Mid.Ariam Ford, Richard Montgomery, Sr., Def.Megan Foy, [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com The slogan “Get Good” floats all over the new Champions Field House training facility in Rockville. It’s almost a challenge from current Bethesda-Chevy Chase girls lacrosse coach Jenna Ries, the woman behind the construction of the 50,000 square foot indoor facility that opened on Oct. 30. Now with an all-year round facility [...]
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Region Semifinals Preview Who: No. 1 Sherwood vs. No. 4 NorthwestWhy: 4A West semifinalsWhen: Friday, 7Where: SherwoodWhat (is going to happen): Sherwood enters as the undefeated top seed and Northwest is coming off a 6-4 regular season and a too-close-for-comfort 38-28 win over Walter Johnson that propelled the Jaguars into the postseason. But while on [...]
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Box Score 1 2 3 4 – F Wootton 7 0 16 14 – 37 Churchill 0 13 8 6 – 27 Scoring Plays 1Q — WO — [...]
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Weekly Awards Offensive Player of the Week: Connor Frazier, DamascusFrazier returned early from a broken collarbone to play in the Hornets’ season finale, in which the sophomore went 21-27 for 233 yards, including a game-winning 29-yard touchdown pass with 55 seconds remaining to send Damascus into the 3A playoffs. Defensive Player of the Week: Sean [...]
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MOCO Top-20 Most Watched Videos Oct. 30-Nov. 6 CLICK HERE OR THE VIDEOS TAB ABOVE TO CHECK OUT THESE VIDEOS! 1. Ele Margelos game-winning goalMargelos had been close on a couple of other occasions, but this time she broke loose and sent Quince Orchard to the state semifinals. 2. Robert Niemann interview 3. Bessum Collins [...]
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Weekly Awards Offensive Player of the Week: Dayne Bolt, BlairBolt notched a 75-yard run in Blair’s 28-26 overtime upset win over defending 3A champion Damascus. Bolt ran for 210 yards on just 13 carries. Runner Up: Zack Splain, SherwoodSplain threw for two touchdowns and ran for another in Sherwood’s big win over Gaithersburg that clinched [...]
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MOCO Top-20 Most Watched Videos Oct. 23-Oct. 30 While the Seneca Valley vs. Damascus football game didn’t get as many hits as one would think considering it’s a top-notch 3A football rivalry, Joe’s run was on replay in somebody’s household. I wonder who it could be. Thanks, Rankins! We saw a push from the non-football [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com CLICK THE VIDEOS AND PHOTOS TABS ABOVE TO VIEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS GAME! Girish Chaskar stood, literally shaking from the cold. Minutes earlier he was jumping into his teammates arms, bare-chested and delirious from the excitement of scoring a game-winning goal with a penalty kick in overtime. “It’s never too cold to [...]
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Montgomery County Top-15Week 8 1. Sherwood, (8-0), LW 1Sherwood is on a roll and looking like the 4A favorite with Quince Orchard battling injuries to its No. 1 and No. 2 quarterbacks, Kevin Adams and Travis Hawkins. The Warriors should watch out for a desperate Gaithersburg team who will be playing at home this Friday, [...]
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Weekly Awards Offensive Player of the Week: Jaiquan Moore, Seneca ValleyMoore battled for this award with Damascus running back Brian Lucas. In a game where passing was nearly impossible against stingy defenses, the two running backs took over. Moore, however, gets the honor for his two touchdowns and for leading his team to the win. [...]
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Montgomery County Top-20 Videos Oct. 16-22 After looking at the numbers, I decided it doesn’t make much sense to limit this to a Top-10. So why not do Top-20?!?!?! These rankings are judged by how many video plays and individual video gets on DigitalSports and therefore are not opinion based. If you want to move [...]
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Montgomery County Top-15 1. Sherwood, (7-0), LW 2The Warriors knocked off the big dog, ending Quince Orchard’s 20-game winning streak, and putting themselves atop the 4A. Zack Splain continues to make big time plays at quarterback and Steven Gamble has been a monster on defense.Next: Saturday vs. Richard Montgomery, 6:30 2. Seneca Valley, (7-0), LW [...]
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Weekly Awards Click the “Videos” tab above the story to relive some of the weekend’s highlights Offensive Player of the Week: Mike Cresham, WoottonLet’s just say this, nobody has ever had a better passing performance than Cresham had this week. The Wootton senior broke the Maryland state record for passing yards in a game by [...]
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Wootton senior quarterback Mike Mooney broke the Maryland state record for most passing yards in a single game Thursday, throwing for 451 yards in Wootton’s 36-7 home win over Blair. The record was previously held by Oakland Mills’ Justin Sottilaire, who threw for 448 yards in a 50-26 loss to Marriotts Ridge last season. Mooney [...]
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By Ryan Minkrmink@digitalsports.com Wootton’s golfers can only assume that their challenge at this year’s state tournament starting Oct. 23, will come from outside Montgomery County, the county riddled with by far the most previous champions. That’s because Wootton, this year’s district champions, hasn’t even been challenged in Montgomery County this year. So when it came [...]
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Montgomery County Top-15Week 6 1. Quince Orchard, (6-0), LW 1Since a scare in Week 1 against Wootton, the Cougars have done nothing but proven that they are just as good as advertised and the leading contender to defend their 4A title. This week they’ll get a chance to cement themselves at the top.Next: Friday at [...]
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Weekly Awards Offensive Player of the Week: Curran Chabra, ChurchillChabra was nearly perfect Friday night – in fact he would have had a perfect passer rating by NFL standards. He went 10-of-12 for 253 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions as the Bulldogs rolled over Northwest in a game that cemented Churchill as a [...]
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Washington D.C. area high school and youth sports to be featured as part of innovative alignment between leading D.C. media properties Washington D.C. - October 10, 2008 - ABC 7 WJLA and DigitalSports.com, the region’s top source for local youth and high school sports coverage, have announced a media partnership. The joint venture has been developed to [...]
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Montgomery County Top-15 1. Quince Orchard, (5-0), LW 1Last year’s game against Gaithersburg was at least close. This year the Cougars scored 35 first-half points and posted a shutout. Scary.Next: Friday vs. Whitman, 6:30 2. Sherwood, (5-0), LW 2Sherwood hasn’t lost yet, but there’s now been two close ones in a row, which can’t help [...]
