by Willie Sean Coughlan | Dec 6, 2023 | High School
2/1A State Championship The Dunbar Poets captured their MPSSAA-best 13th state crown on the gridiron, pulling out an 8-0 win over Calvert in the 2/1A championship game on Friday night. A week after coming back, then holding off a SMAC juggernaut on the road in a...
by Willie Sean Coughlan | Nov 29, 2023 | High School
The thirteenth. The MPSSAA record thirteenth. The Dunbar Poets will be seeking their 13th state championship when they face the Calvert Cavaliers at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Friday in the 2/1A state championship game. The Poets will also be looking...
by Willie Sean Coughlan | Nov 29, 2023 | High School
For the Mervo football team, the pandemic paled in comparison to the adversity they have fought against since the outbreak. After missing an entire season in either the Fall of ‘20 or Spring of ‘21, the Mustangs have seen tragedy, followed by unbridled jubilation,...
by Willie Sean Coughlan | Nov 28, 2023 | High School
At last. On their 20th anniversary, at that. The Broadneck Bruins went on the road to Montgomery County for a second week in a row and knocked off their lower-seeded hosts yet again, and in doing so, clinched their first state final berth since 2003, their first and...
by Willie Sean Coughlan | Nov 22, 2023 | High School
4A Broadneck (9-2) pulled out one of the most impressive victories of the weekend’s 24 games, going into the ‘Black Hole’ in Germantown and beating the three-time state champion Northwest Jaguars, seven days after the Jags stunned #1 Quince Orchard. The game featured...
by Willie Sean Coughlan | Nov 15, 2023 | High School
MIAA A The MIAA A semifinal between the defending champion Spalding Cavaliers(9-2) and the Loyola Dons (6-4) appeared to be heading to another classic, just as their regular season meeting that was extended to overtime was two weeks before. Then, Kaden Curtis...