Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association

Headed back to the baseball state championships

2013-05-23 12:50:44

Sitting here thinking about all the state championship games I've covered, without daring to do something logical like verifying my data, I've come to the number 18. That is how many MPSSAA title matchups I have attended during my six full high school...

Bel Air drops Towson in 3A North softball quarterfinal

2013-05-13 21:18:16

With wins Monday, the Bel Air, C. Milton Wright and Havre de Grace softball teams are moving on to the semifinal round of regional play. The Bel Air girls advanced to the 3A North softball semifinal round with a Monday road victory, as the 13th-seeded...

Chapelgate girls lacrosse advances to championship game

2013-05-09 05:55:00

When Chapelgate plays St. Timothy’s in girls lacrosse one thing is a certainty. “We always have a close game with St. Tim’s,” said Chapelgate coach Colleen Norton. Wednesday’s Interscholastic Athletic Association of...

Tech girls lacrosse loses division title for choosing to not play

2013-05-07 14:16:01

Harford Tech has been stripped of its division championship in girls lacrosse and its head coach has been suspended after the team refused to play in the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference championship game Monday. In the first public challenge...

Chapelgate advances to IAAM C Conference girls lacrosse semifinals

2013-05-06 22:27:00

Just as there are two sides to every coin, there are two halves to a lacrosse game, and Chapelgate knows which half it prefers. “We’re a second half team,” said Chapelgate coach Colleen Norton after her team rallied to defeat...

No. 1 Dunbar boys beat No. 9 New Town, 54-52, for fourth straight Class 1A state title

2013-03-16 17:32:00

Breathing a collective sigh of relief before celebrating, Maryland's most prolific boys basketball team — Dunbar — added to the program's legacy in Saturday's Class 1A state championship game at the University of Maryland's Comcast Center....

2013 boys track and field by the numbers

2013-03-17 16:40:00

0 Number of Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state championships won by local boys teams last spring. 2 Victories for Perry Hall's Vince Ciattei in last year's Class 4A state championship meet at Morgan State. He won the 1,600-...

Looking at some long overdue home-court advantage [Commentary]

2013-03-07 10:34:00

Quantifying home-field, home-court or home-track advantage can be a very tricky task. I know there's a wealth of statistical information out there on the subject, and if I wanted I could look up the exact point differential between an NFL team's home...

No. 2 Winters Mill wins third straight Class 2A-1A wrestling title

2013-03-02 19:10:00

Winters Mill's Wes Cook knew who he was facing in the 145-pound final during the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association Class 2A-1A state championship at the University of Maryland's Cole Field House. He also knew he had a debt to pay....

Several area wrestlers still in contention after first day of state wrestling tournament

2013-03-01 20:19:00

Several area wrestlers are still alive after the completion of the first two rounds of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state wrestling tournament Friday at the University of Maryland's Cole Field House. The tournament, which...

Girls basketball regional finals set

2013-02-28 06:26:00

All four defending state champions�advanced to this weekend's girls basketball regional finals --�Aberdeen, Dunbar, Gaithersburg and Calvert -- and times have been set for the title games. The winners advance to next week's state semifinals at UMBC....

Digest: No. 1 Northwestern women are upset by No. 5 Carolina in lacrosse

2013-02-23 00:30:00

College lacrosse No. 1 Northwestern women are upset Host No. 5 North Carolina took a 7-1 first-half lead and held off a rally by top-ranked Northwestern for an 11-8 victory Friday night in women's lacrosse. The win broke a four-game Tar Heels losing...

Milford Mill's players celebrate winning the Class 3A state title. The Millers topped Potomac, 84-55, in College Park Saturday.

2013-03-16 00:00:00

High school track athletes, who got their start with the Joppatowne Track Club, gathered recently for a photo at the Elkton High School track during the UCBAC meet.

2012-06-12 10:03:00

Aberdeen's Jimmia McCluskey, left, wins the girls 3A State Championship in 100-meter dash with a time of 12:36, one of the top individual performances in Harford County girls high school track for 2012.

2012-05-25 00:00:00