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After the Gilman football team upset McDonogh on Saturday, one online media outlet reported that Greyhounds coach Biff Poggi might not be back on the sideline next fall. But when asked about the report Monday, Poggi said he had no plans to leave. "I've got another son who's pretty good. He played as a freshman, so I'm not going anywhere," Poggi said of his younger son, Henry Poggi , who played on the varsity along with brother Jim Poggi , a senior. Biff Poggi said he was asked Saturday about Jim moving on to play for Iowa next year but said he didn't mean to give the impression that he was moving along, too. "I said I'm really interested in him getting settled, and I want to get out to see him as much as I can, and I think [the reporter]

Chapelgate Christian Academy put together two wins over St. John's-Catholic Prep to capture the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association C Conference baseball championship Saturday morning. The Yellowjackets (12-9) won, 4-3, after capturing a 7-3 victory Thursday to force a winner-take-all game. Boys golf Calvert Hall 12 1/2, Gilman 81/2: Jake Hormes sank a 20-foot birdie putt and fellow senior Nick Smearman parred the same 17th hole to give fourth-seeded Calvert Hall the lead for good Saturday over second-seeded Gilman in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference team championship at Caves Valley.

A day after Loyola's bid to secure a berth in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship was interrupted by lightning Tuesday night at Johnny Unitas Stadium, the No. 2 Dons finished the job with a 13-7 victory over No. 3 Gilman on Wednesday afternoon at the same site. Leading, 13-5, with 6:57 left in the fourth quarter when play was stopped on Tuesday, all Loyola (15-3) had to do was play keep-away against the inspired Greyhounds (12-4) to advance to the conference final against archrival No. 1 Calvert Hall (15-2)

Attackman Ryan Boyle (Gilman) scored 1:26 into overtime to give the Boston Cannons an 15-14 victory over the Chesapeake Bayhawks on Saturday night at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Mass. Boyle used an inside spin move to beat defenseman Michael Evans (Johns Hopkins, South River) from behind and fired a short shot past goalkeeper Kip Turner (Severn) to bring an end to a wild, back-and-forth affair. Boyle, the all-time leading scorer in Major League Lacrosse with 410 points, finished with three goals and two assists.

Today's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference baseball game between No. 4-seeded Archbishop Curley and No. 1-seeded Gilman has been moved to Yankee Stadium at the Ripken Complex in Aberdeen.  The game will begin at 6 p.m.

Gilman seniors Cyrus Jones and Ryan Ripken combined for 50 points in the Greyhounds' 67-59 victory over Annapolis Area Christian School in a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association BConference semifinal Friday at the Finney Athletic Center in Roland Park. Jones' 27-point outburst made him the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,712 points and helped Gilman advance to the conference final against St.Vincent Pallotti on Sunday at UMBC at 1 p.m. —Nelson Coffin, Towson Times

No. 9 McDonogh (6-3, 1-3 MIAA A Conference) at No. 3 Gilman (6-2, 3-1) When: Saturday, 2:30 Coaches : Dom Damico, McDonogh; Biff Poggi, Gilman Series: Gilman, 56-33-5 Last meeting: Gilman, 34-17, 2009 regular season Key players to watch: McDonogh — Joel Jorgensen, Jr., QB/DB, (115-for-211 passing for 1,729 yards; 20 TDs — 10 rushing); Denzell Walker, Sr., WR/DB (30 catches for 720 yards, nine TDs); Miles Crump, Jr., WR/DB (29 catches for 610 yards, six TDs)

Before Shane Cockerille found his seat at Byrd Stadium for Maryland's Red-White spring game on Saturday, the Gilman quarterback felt the need to pay Terps coach Randy Edsall   a quick visit. “I was ready to [commit] when I walked in,” Cockerille said. “I told Coach [Edsall that I was committing] and it put a big smile on his face. He said he was more excited than I was. It feels great. It feels like a relief.” Cockerille picked Maryland over offers from Michigan, Navy, Temple and Virginia.

For the No. 5 Gilman soccer team, success comes down to intangibles. The No. 5 Greyhounds (14-4-4) take on No. 2 Loyola (14-3-1) in Sunday's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship game, and they are banking on all the little things adding up to the program's second league title in three years. Game time is set for 5:30 p.m. at Stevenson University in Owings Mills. The Greyhounds like to frustrate opponents with tight marking, make sure to win most 50-50 balls in the middle, scratch across enough offense and put the team first.

Looking for some great high school football this week? Beginning Thursday night at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, you can find terrific matchups at the 9/11 Patriot Classic, which includes top teams from Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Three of our state's best teams, The Baltimore Sun's No. 1 Gilman and No. 2 Calvert Hall, as well as Good Counsel, highlight a three-day slate that includes No. 6 McDonogh, Archbishop Spalding and St. Mary's, as well as three of the top teams in New Jersey and the fifth-ranked team in Pennsylvania, according to the USA Today high school football rankings.

Visiting Gilman pounded out nine hits Wednesday night at Calvert Hall, but it was the Greyhounds' pitching that carried them in the second round of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference playoffs. Joe Smeton pitched 5 2/3 innings of four-hit ball to lead visiting and second-ranked Gilman to a 3-2 win over the No. 1 Cardinals. The victory advances the Greyhounds to Sunday's conference final at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen. Calvert Hall will host Archbishop Curley today in the double-elimination tournament.

William Mc. Brewster, a retired Baltimore businessman and lifelong Brooklandville resident, died May 3 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 81. The son of the owner of the Baugh Chemical Co. and a homemaker, William McIIvaine Brewster was born in Baltimore and raised in Brooklandville. After graduating from the Gilman School in 1949, he attended Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1953. He later graduated from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

McDonogh did it again. The Eagles swept the boys and girls titles at the private school championship meet indoors, and they pulled off the same feat again Saturday. McDonogh's boys took the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association crown while the top-ranked girls won the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland championship in the title meet at Archbishop Spalding. "We've never swept outdoors before," McDonogh coach Jeff Sanborn said. "The kids were committed following the victories indoors … to getting victories again outdoors.

Loyola's attack was clicking far more efficiently than in the regular season. Sophomore goalie Acie Newton was steady throughout and often sensational in the net. And in Friday's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference lacrosse quarterfinal game, the No. 7 Dons were having the better of the play against No. 3 Gilman in all the other important areas of the field. When it was all added up, the Dons had an impressive 17-13 upset win over the Greyhounds to advance to Tuesday's semifinals at Johnny Unitas Stadium.

McDonogh senior goalie Nick Doyle was playing in his final lacrosse game at home Tuesday against rival Gilman with the winner receiving a prized first-round bye in the upcoming Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference playoffs. It was pouring for much of the game and his area in front of the cage was mostly mud. Doyle showed it was nothing he couldn't handle. He finished with 14 saves, blanked the visitors for a pivotal 20-minute stretch that included the entire third quarter and helped lead No. 2 McDonogh to a 10-6 over the No. 3 Greyhounds in the regular season finale for both teams.

Lacey Aghazarian scored with 1:50 left in the second overtime period to give Hereford (11-4) a 13-12 victory over defending-champion Catonsville (13-2) in the Baltimore County District VI girls lacrosse championship game at Franklin High. Aghazarian's sixth goal of the game came 20 seconds after Catonsville's Deb Milani whistled a shot off the crossbar. The long rebound was scooped up by Melissa Meehling and cleared to Sarah Ashwood, who raced straight to goal. Her shot was saved by Grace Campbell (11 saves)

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.

Only Mother Nature was able to slow down No. 2 Loyola against No. 3 Gilman in the second game of a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference semifinal doubleheader Tuesday night at Johnny Unitas Stadium. With 6:57 remaining in the fourth quarter, the game was halted due to lightning with the Dons holding a 13-5 advantage. The game will be picked up from that point on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Johnny Unitas Stadium. Before the delay, Loyola's seniors accounted for nine goals in a 10-0 opening run helping their quest to return to the final and face archrival Calvert Hall on Friday.  Calvert Hall defeated Boys' Latin 11-10 in the other semifinal.

Two defending champions from the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association will participate in the inaugural Under Armour Brothers In Arms Classic high school football event this fall. Gilman, which has won the past two MIAA A Conference championships, is scheduled to play Manatee (Fla.) on Sept. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the University of Maryland's Byrd Stadium. In the first game that day, two-time defending MIAA C Conference champion St. Frances -- which is moving to the A Conference this fall -- is set to face Friendship (D.C.)

With 28 combined goals, Friday's Gilman-St. Paul's boys lacrosse game had more than its share of momentum-swinging turns. Gilman made sure to have the most important one. In the final two-plus minutes, the No. 4 Greyhounds made good use of a man-advantage situation, got a pivotal ground ball and played well on defense. And with senior attackman Max Greene providing the finishes - scoring two of his five goals in the the final minutes - Gilman defeated the No. 2 Crusaders 15-13 in Brooklandville.