Glenelg

With 12 of a possible 14 wrestlers advancing to Saturday morning's semifinal round, Glenelg leads the team standings of the Howard County wrestling tournament, 107-96, over defending county, regional and Class 4A-3A state champion River Hill. Glenelg (2007, 2008, 2011) and River Hill (2000-2004, 2009, 2012) have combined to win 10 Howard County tournaments since 2000. The Hawks, who won the Howard County regular-season title, advanced 10 wrestlers into the semifinals, including defending county champions Cory Daniel (195)

Sam Heisig scored 17 points and Danielle Burris added 13 as No. 9 Glenelg beat visiting River Hill, 47-39, Thursday to claim sole possession of the Howard County title for the second year in a row. Had River Hill won, the two would have shared the title. "It was there for the taking," River Hill coach Teresa Waters said. Missed free throws doomed the Hawks, who hit seven of 18 as Glenelg made 16 of 22. As Howard County champion, Glenelg will face Meade, the Anne Arundel County champion, in the District V title game Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Oakland Mills.

— Even though his team was winning, Glenelg junior Glenn Lucas said there was a nervousness in the air as he took the mat for his 189-pound match against Winters Mill in the finals of the Class 2A-1A state dual meet wrestling championships Saturday evening at Linganore High School. "Every match we were nervous," said Lucas. "We weren't assuming anything until it was all over. " This was the Gladiators' third visit to the finals in the past four years, and after coming up short the first two times, they won this one, 35-25.

Oh, the letdown after a big win.No. 2 Hammond knew the feeling in last night's 60-40 victory over No. 19 Glenelg.The final score makes the game look like a rout. It was anything but.With three minutes to go, host Glenelg only trailed by eight. But the Gladiators hit a cold snap, missing their last seven shots while the Golden Bears hit their last five and added a couple of free throws."We were happy to pull this one out at the end," said Hammond guard Kacy Williams, who finished with 11 points, five rebounds, seven steals and three assists.

A keynote for Glenelg's boys basketball team this season is an uptempo style of play.Take yesterday's 75-59 victory over visiting Hammond. For three-quarters of the game, Glenelg employed a full-court press and ran the Golden Bears silly, as forward Jason Beall and guards Scott Cline and Jamie Brinker scored, forced steals and created plays with slick ball-handling and passing.Ahead from start to finish, the Gladiators were paced in points by seniors Beall (24), Cline (17), Brinker (11) and junior forward Brian Meshkin (11)

You don't have to try hard to convince Glenelg boys basketball coach Terry Coleman that there is no place like home.Coleman's upstart Gladiators, with only one loss at home all season, received balanced scoring from all five starters last night as the hosts sent perennial county champion Oakland Mills to its second loss in two days, 56-37.Glenelg (14-5, 8-4) might control its destiny in the three-way battle with Hammond and Centennial for the county basketball title."We've sold our kids on the fact that they don't have to worry about anybody else," said Coleman, whose team closes the regular season next Thursday against Centennial.

No. 3 Glenelg, the two-time defending Class 2A state champion in field hockey, is one of eight local teams to have a No. 1 seed in the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association tournament that begins Tuesday. But for Glenelg the start of the playoffs won't be easy. Glenelg will have a double-bye before being scheduled to play their first playoff game on Oct. 29. The Gladiators (13-1) also had byes in the first two rounds last year, but this season they don't have a District V championship game (which is not being played this year)

Oakland Mills' boys and Glenelg's girls completed a postseason sweep by winning state titles at yesterday's Class 2A-1A State Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Fifth Regiment Armory.Glenelg's victory ended Central's reign, which included state championships in 11 of the last 12 years. Meanwhile, Oakland Mills recaptured the title it owned in 1991."We knew that we were able to put a lot of people in a lot of positions and that's what we were counting on," said Glenelg coach Pete Adams.

Glenelg coach Chuck Struhar believes a team must keep Atholton shortstop Chrissy Gavin off the bases if it is to have any chance of beating the Raiders.And he has the statistics to prove it.After going 0-for-3 in an early-season loss to the Gladiators, Gavin went 5-for-5 with two doubles and three runs scored to lead the visiting and sixth-ranked Raiders to a 13-3 rout of No. 5 Glenelg yesterday.The victory moved Atholton (14-2, 9-2) into a second-place tie with Glenelg (1-3, 9-2) in Howard County and avenged last month's 9-1 loss.