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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]

HERSHEY, Pa. -- If its first few minutes returning to the Big 33 Classic were any indicator, Maryland didn't belong. Returning as Pennsylvania's opponent in the annual high school football all-star game for the first time in 21 years, Maryland opened the game at Hersheypark Stadium by allowing Tyler Boyd to take back the opening kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown. The hosts scored the first 28 points in a 58-27 victory, as Maryland used the rest of the night finding its footing in the territory it had left in 1992.

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)

Gilman's Biff Poggi was looking forward to one final chance to coach his son, Henry Poggi, the Greyhounds standout and Michigan-bound defensive lineman. "I sure would've liked to coach him one more time," said Biff Poggi, the original coach of the Maryland team in Saturday's Big 33 Football Classic at Hersheypark Stadium who stepped down from the position last week for reasons he discussed in a phone call Friday afternoon. "It's a different schedule than I thought it was going to be," said Biff Poggi, who coached in this year's Under Armour All-America Game and was previously on staff in the 2011 Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl and Chesapeake Bowl.

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.

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)

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.

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.

With three days until Maryland's return to the Big 33 Football Classic for the first time since 1992, five replacement players for the team's roster were announced Wednesday. Three Gilman defensive standouts -- lineman Henry Poggi, and linebackers Micah Kiser and Miles Norris -- won't play in the game. Neither will Severna Park's Mike Minter and Potomac's Marcus Pickens, according to a news release from the Big 33 Scholarship Foundation, Inc. Poggi and Kiser were selected as co-All-Metro Defensive Players of the Year last fall after leading the Greyhounds to the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship, while Norris made the All-Metro first team.

As the Maryland players prepare to play against Pennsylvania in Saturday's Big 33 Football Classic at Hersheypark Stadium, they're practicing with a new head coach. Gilman's Biff Poggi stepped down last week as Maryland's coach in the high school football all-star game, and Quince Orchard's Dave Mencarini replaced him in the role. "Dave Mencarini was involved with the whole coaching staff from the beginning, so we made him the head coach," Maryland team director Scott Ripley said in a phone call Wednesday.

It took two unexpected turn of events for former Gilman lacrosse standout Gordie Koerber to end up playing at the University of Denver, one of four teams left in this year's Division I NCAA men's lacrosse tournament. Until seventh grade, Koerber was the goalie for his lacrosse team before suffering two injuries made him change his mind about the position. After taking two close range shots to his chest just days apart, Koerber's parents, Bryan and Gillian, were fearful of additional injuries, especially as he faced larger, stronger players.

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.

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.

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.

Here we are at No. 1 in The Baltimore Sun's countdown of the Top 5 high school football teams and it's likely no surprise to anyone. Gilman takes the top spot coming off its 10th Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship since 1998. The Greyhounds should again have the area's top defense as they prepare to fight off their most likely challengers, Calvert Hall and McDonogh, for the A Conference crown. Now that the Top 5 have been revealed, you can see the entire Top 15 poll as well as the top players to watch in Friday's football preview in The Baltimore Sun and on baltimoresun.com.

Micah Kiser Gilman, linebacker, senior Henry Poggi Gilman, lineman, senior Opponents found it exceptionally difficult to run on the Greyhounds with Kiser and Poggi clogging up the middle. Coaches needed at least a double team to contain the 6-foot-4, 258-pound Poggi at tackle, and it was tough to counter 6-2, 227-pound middle linebacker Kiser with one player. They fed off each other in leading a defense that allowed just 8.1 points per game, as the No. 1 Greyhounds (9-2)

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.