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Byline: Joshua Needelman;Jacob Bogage; 1. Riverdale Baptist (9-0) Last week: 1 In a span of three wins in three days, the Crusaders outscored opponents 29-2, and two of those wins [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Covered cap to cleats in infield dirt, Damascus junior Mitchell Kline thought back to the six runs he scored Saturday and tried to pick out his favorite. [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Covered cap to cleats in infield dirt, Damascus junior Mitchell Kline thought back to the six runs he scored Saturday and tried to pick out his favorite. [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Curtis Holland III is best known for his hops. Snippets of his jaw-dropping dunks flowed through area basketball circles this season, giving name recognition to the 6-foot-2, [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The shock had not yet worn off from Fairmont Heights' first state championship win in 36 years, but Coach Chuck Henry was trying to put everything in [...]

Byline: Nick Eilerson;Joshua Needelman Damascus could have been one of the best high school wrestling teams ever to come through the Washington area. That's what Coach John Furgeson said he [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The 2016-17 campaign has been one of firsts for the Marriotts Ridge girls' basketball team under Coach Caitlin Reese. First win over Glenelg. First win over Centennial. [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman As soon as the whistle blew, Leonardtown freshman Sean Vosburgh ran toward the assistant coach he calls his 'inspiration' and jumped into his arms. Bobby Samuel has [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Potomac senior Gary Robertson put his arm around Jason Newman and pulled the junior close to his chest Tuesday night, a triumphant embrace for the young guard [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Sitting alone in the corner of the bleachers, Kaleb Addisu didn't bother to glance up at the celebration on the Centennial high court. He didn't have time. [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The Oakland Mills Scorpions used to own Howard County basketball. Entering this season, the team had won at last 20 games in each of the past four [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The Washington Catholic Athletic Conference semifinal between St. John's and Elizabeth Seton had barely tipped off when Cadets senior Niya Beverley went crashing to the hardwood. Bender [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Bailey Thomas didn't have a plan for a postmatch celebration if he won a National Prep Championship title Saturday. But the Good Counsel senior knew what he [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman This time, with the Anne Arundel County championship on the line, Old Mill did not collapse. Four days after blowing a 19-point lead on the same court [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty;Eric Goldwein;Joshua Needelman;Dan Roth The Maryland boys' basketball state tournaments take flight this weekend, with teams from all four classifications looking to make the final four at Xfinity [...]

Byline: Eric Goldwein;Jesse Dougherty;Joshua Needelman;Dan Roth The Maryland girls' basketball playoffs are finally here, as the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association released the brackets for the four tournaments on [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The past two weeks had been long for Ethan Krause. Without live competition to sate his wrestling appetite, the Georgetown Prep senior found himself getting anxious. He [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman As the ball trickled down the court, the Southern fans braced themselves. Junior Curtis Holland III had poked the ball loose, and if he could recover it, [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman There were pink balloons. Pink streamers. Pink posters. Pink socks. The pink shooter shirts read: Hoopin' for Hope. Friday night was about more much than basketball for [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Edison Coach Scott Racek opened the folded note, glanced at his captain and nodded. Robert Garnett nodded back. Both Garnett and Racek knew the 138-pound's mission for [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Avion Robinson twirled his arm around like a ceiling fan, having just watched his three-pointer trickle through the net for Old Mill's first points Friday night in [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Morgen McLaughlin wants to earn the respect of her Northern wrestling teammates, to have them accept her as one of their own. But sometimes during tournaments, she'll [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman;Nick Eilerson Churchill didn't make it this far last season. It finished with a 20-6 dual record, one of the best in the area but not competitive enough [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman When it came time to finally rest, Anthony Duruji couldn't bring himself to do it. The St. Andrew's senior had put together a tour de force in [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Central High senior Trent Dixon couldn't feel his toes after the Falcons' 73-55 win at Largo on Friday night. Not from all the running against the Lions [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman From afar, it seemed the Old Mill boys' basketball team was rolling with no losses through 10 games this season. But Coach Mike Francis had a different [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Bruce Strunk stepped down as Coach of the Howard football team after nine seasons Thursday. Strunk guided the Lions to their first state championship appearance in 40 [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The first warning sign came last April, when Kara Blanchard's feet became so numb her flip-flops would slide off. The sensation subsided, but then in early December [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The Damascus Swarmin' Hornets were not wrestling inspired. The four-time defending Maryland 4A/3A dual meet champions have steamrolled through tournaments and duals alike this season, but they [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The North County student section offered nothing but jeers for Glen Burnie from the moment the unbeaten Gophers stepped into the gym Friday night, and it didn't [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman To the untrained eye, it might seem that Kiana Williams doesn't take herself seriously on the court. But Long Reach Coach Kelli Cofield knows better. Cofield sees [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Clutching her Joe Cascio Holiday Tournament MVP plaque, senior Ty Taylor marveled at how far the West Potomac girls' basketball team's had come. The Wolverines had participated [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman For the Severna Park girls' basketball team, motivation is plastered across the gym's walls. The Falcons' 102 state championship banners are a constant reminder of the school's [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The ball popped loose and trickled down the court, leaving one last mad dash for possession. But once the scrum of Howard and Old Mill players piled [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman;Nick Eilerson It's that time of year again. The mats are rolled, the whistles are out and grapplers across the Washington area are ready for battle in one [...]

Byline: Nick Eilerson;Joshua Needelman As the wrestling season gets underway around the District, Maryland and Virginia, here's a look at The Post's preseason individual and team rankings. The individual rankings [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Amidst of the swarm of classmates walking through the Stonewall Jackson hallways Friday, Megan Callahan found excitement. Whenever the senior would peek through the crowd and see [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Sitting alone on the field, reality finally set in for Calvert senior Jack Lanham. After the Elkton took a two-score lead with less than three minutes remaining [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman After his third rushing touchdown of Glenelg's Maryland 3A East final against River Hill on Friday, Gladiators sophomore Wande Owens returned to the sideline to a serenade [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Not 48 hours had passed since Andre Whitehead had attended his aunt's funeral, so after the Theodore Roosevelt senior hauled in the game-sealing, eight-yard touchdown late in [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman CHESTERTOWN, MD. -- Leaning her head against the flagpole holding Chesapeake's light-blue team flag, sophomore Hannah McKeon beamed and said it felt like 'a dream.' With a [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman CHESTERTOWN, MD. -- When the final buzzer sounded to the end the Maryland 4A field hockey state championship Saturday at Washington College, both No. 7 Churchill and [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Longtime Arundel boys' basketball Coach Jeff Starr has stepped down to take an administrative position at Meade. Rodney Ramsey, who has coached at Arundel for six years [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Glenelg senior Hunter Forsyth could've been angry with himself. In the first half of the Gladiators' Maryland 3A East first-round playoff game against Wilde Lake, Forsyth lined [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman When it had become clear that these final two minutes would be the last of Patuxent's season, the players on the sideline started to embrace. Draped in [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman It's not like St. Stephens/St. Agnes takes winning ISL titles for granted. The Saints stormed the field at Episcopal on Sunday afternoon after beating Stone Ridge, 2-0, [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman The Calvert defense did its homework on Lackey senior Malik Burns. The Cavaliers had heard all season how the converted defensive end was making the rest of [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman Joan Forsyth was supposed to be in a Johns Hopkins Hospital bed Friday night, not wrapping her arms around her son during his senior night ceremony. She [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman That Maret attracted as many fans as it did for Saturday's game against Flint Hill was noteworthy for Coby Davis. The senior estimated that the Frogs usually [...]

Byline: Joshua Needelman As if Cameron Hooper's week couldn't get any worse, the Howard senior was restless in bed Thursday night, and his mind raced with anticipation. He was sick [...]