Football

Bean, a 5-foot-7, 155-pound wide receiver, tied a state record with five touchdown catches in the No. 6 Owls' 49-14 victory at Linganore on Friday. His touchdowns went for 53, 52 and 4 yards as well as twice for 22 - all on passes from quarterback Deryk Kern. Bean totaled seven receptions for 188 yards against the Lancers. His five touchdown receptions tied the record set in 1993 by City's Dwight Banks. For the season, Bean has 16 receptions for 432 yards and seven touchdowns as the Owls are off to a 3-0 start.

MIAA officials have had to switch Saturday's A Conference football semifinals from Stevenson University to Archbishop Spalding, because Stevenson had to reschedule a home football game for Saturday. The new schedule has No. 2 Calvert Hall kicking off against Mount St. Joseph at 11:30 a.m., followed by No. 1 and defending champion Gilman facing McDonogh at 2:30 p.m.

The senior wide receiver caught 12 passes for 271 yards and four touchdowns in a 66-34 Wildcats victory over Anne Arundel County rival and defending Class 4A state champion Old Mill on Friday. Young's second touchdown catch cut No. 6 Old Mill's lead to one, and then he helped give the No. 4 Wildcats the lead for good when he began a hook-and-lateral play that resulted in a touchdown for Dillon Tighe with 1.6 seconds left in the first half. He also kicked six extra points. Young, 5-foot-9, 180 pounds, has 38 receptions for 654 yards and nine touchdowns this fall for the Wildcats (6-0)

Saturday night's football game between No. 1 Gilman and New Jersey power Don Bosco Prep, last year's No. 1 team in USA Today's Super 25 national rankings, will be streamed live on www.msgvarsity.com/livecast . The game will be available to subscribers and non-subscribers when it kicks off at 7:45 p.m. You can also see the earlier game between Good Counsel and another New Jersey team, St. Joseph's Regional, at 4:30 p.m.

Bernard Pollard is a complicated guy. He is one of the hardest hitters in the NFL, but speaks passionately about player safety. He clearly loves the game, but said Thursday that he understands why parents are steering their kids away from it -- and he will do the same with his young son. "I'm not grooming him to play," Pollard said," "If I cannot stop him ... if he's adamant to want to play, I will allow him to check it out, to try it out, but...