NEWS
By Katherine Dunn | January 29, 2009
Senior Keirah Hicks started her high school basketball career at Southside but transferred after her sophomore year to Western, looking for stronger academic and athletic challenges. She played in the state finals with Southside as a freshman, but when coach Dafne Lee-Blakney left, Hicks departed too. With the No. 2 Doves, she is one of the better players in a strong backcourt. The 5-foot-6 guard averages 11.1 points as well as 2.7 assists and two steals. Hicks wants to play in college and is considering her options.
NEWS
March 7, 2007
Boys Josh Asper Hereford, wrestling The junior won a battle of Class 2A-1A state champions, 6-2, over Southern of Garrett County's Justin Ratliff at the University of Maryland's Cole Field House on Saturday night to become the Bulls' first three-time state titlist. The 160-pounder earned his 24th pin of the season in his first of four tournament bouts, and won his next three matches by a combined 18-3 to raise his record to 39-0 this season and 114-7 for his career. Asper has won 50 consecutive bouts since an 8-7 loss to Hammond's three-time state champ, Vince Taweel, in February 2006.
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By Paul McMullen | January 17, 2007
April Anderson Greene taught her son, Donte, much more than how to play basketball. As a federal government employee, she took him around the world and showed him the difference between a game's outcome and real loss. Today, the Towson Catholic senior is one of the nation's top high school players, with potential that has earned him a scholarship to Syracuse, but because his mother died unexpectedly six years ago and isn't alive to see it, Donte Greene twice tried to throw everything away by attempting suicide.
NEWS
By Lem Satterfield | March 14, 2007
River Hill lacrosse coach Keith Gonsouland knew senior Daniel Hostetler was special after playing a one-on-one basketball game against him when Hostetler was an eighth-grader. "Even though I was bigger and stronger than him, he played so hard," Gonsouland recalled. "As I remember, he fouled me every time I posted up. That impressed me, because he kept coming at me and didn't quit. That desire to compete is what makes him exceptional and sets him apart in all of the sports that he plays."
NEWS
March 14, 2007
BOYS Tommy Brenton River Hill basketball The 6-foot-4 senior had 58 points, 35 coming at the free-throw line, 20 rebounds, five assists, five blocks and five steals to lead River Hill to victories over Mervo and Bethesda-Chevy Chase of Montgomery County and to the program's first boys state basketball championship. In Thursday's 62-53 semifinal win over Mervo, Brenton scored 16 of his 30 points at the foul line, grabbed 10 rebounds, blocked four shots, and had three steals and three assists.
NEWS
By BILL FREE | February 4, 2007
Senior forward Warren Gordon scored 10 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in an upset of Westminster last week. Gordon, 6 feet 3, averages four points, 5.5 rebounds and one assist a game while blocking a team-leading seven shots this season for the Panthers (9-6). His coach, Lloyd Ford, said the most impressive thing about Gordon is, "he just plays like he's having a good time." Talk about your performance in North Carroll's win over Westminster. I just stayed focused and stepped up for that game.
NEWS
December 19, 2007
Girls Miriam McKenzie Oakland Mills, basketball The 5-foot-8 senior guard averaged 29 points and 14 rebounds and had a triple double in leading the Scorpions (5-0) to three victories. McKenzie had 24 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists in a 59-36 win over Long Reach. She added 38 points and 18 rebounds against Reservoir and 25 points, 11 rebounds and eight steals against Marriotts Ridge. A second-team All-Metro selection a year ago, McKenzie averages 28 points and 13 rebounds this season.
SPORTS
By DAVID STEELE | October 4, 2007
About a year ago, Bob Wade took a tour of the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards along with other state high school athletic administrators who were in the facility for a meeting. Wade, the legendary former football and basketball coach at Dunbar, had an idea what to expect - and what not to expect. "People who had taken the tour had told me there was hardly any basketball in there. Not just the professionals and the colleges, but no mention of Dunbar ... or any of the rich history of high school basketball," Wade, now the city schools' athletics director, said this week.
SPORTS
By Sirage Yassin | June 7, 2007
Overall No. 1 picks in the NBA draft can't hide. Some are more visible than others. Then there is LeBron James. James, who made the jump from high school to the NBA, pulled on a No. 23 jersey - fully knowing its significance - and lifted an entire city, not just a franchise, onto his back. Tonight, Ohio's favorite son will play on basketball's grandest stage, when he leads the Cleveland Cavaliers in their first NBA Finals appearance, against the San Antonio Spurs. At 22, James is not the youngest player to reach the Finals, but perhaps he is the youngest to do so with so much pressure and so many expectations on him. Since James entered the NBA in 2003, he has lived with comparisons daily.
NEWS
December 26, 2007
Girls Asya Bussie Seton Keough, basketball 6-foot-3 junior center faced some of her most formidable post opponents last week and led the No. 1 Gators to four wins. She averaged 12.8 points, 11.3 rebounds and 3.8 blocks in wins over No. 4 Arundel, No. 6 McDonogh, Towson Catholic and Mount de Sales. She had 10 points and 14 rebounds in the win at Arundel and 22 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks at McDonogh. Bussie, an All-Metro selection last winter, averages 15 points and 11 rebounds for the 10-0 Gators.