Harford Tech

The Harford Tech Cobras won convincingly Wednesday evening, bumping off the host-team Joppatowne Mariners, 5-0. The Cobras scored three of their five tallies in the first half. Lyndsey Endlich was the driving force behind the Harford Tech victory, scoring twice and handing out one assist. Cat Roxas and Tyler Bethke both posted one goal and one assist, while Raquel Hockaday netted a single goal in the victory. There was a wide gulf between the number of penalty corners each team had: 19 for tech versus one for Joppatowne.

It's time for the adults who lead the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference to do the grown-up thing and end the David vs. Goliath farces to determine conference champions. Here's a quick recap of last week's action: Officials stripped the Harford Tech girls lacrosse team of its Susquehanna Division championship and suspended its coach after they decided last week to not play C. Milton Wright, the Chesapeake Division champions, in the UCBAC conference championship game. The UCBAC, as the conference is most commonly known, consists of all the public high schools in Harford and Cecil counties divided into two divisions to compete for championships in almost all sports; football is a notable exception.

Right-hander Bobby Ruse threw the first perfect game of his high school career to lead top-ranked C. Milton Wright's baseball team past visiting Harford Tech, 12-0, on Thursday. Ruse (6-0) struck out 11. "He's been pitching good games all year," said C. Milton Wright head coach Tony Blackburn. "Today, he was on. They couldn't catch up to this fastball." He added, "I knew if he brought his good stuff, he could shut them down, and he did." Ryan Corn hit a two-run double in the first for the Mustangs (15-0)

Senior Ashley Lesniewski pitched a four-hit shutout to lead No. 7 Mount de Sales (16-4) to a 6-0 victory over visiting Catholic (11-6) in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference softball semifinals. With the win, the Sailors advanced to the championship game against No. 2 Seton Keough at 6 p.m. Monday at Bachman Park. It will be the Sailors' first trip to the title game since they won the crown in 2004. Seton Keough is the defending champion. "It's exhilarating," said Lesniewski, who struck out six and walked one. "We waited four years for this.

No. 8-ranked Patterson Mill outscored No. 14 Harford Tech 8-1 through the first four innings, cruising to a 15-4 victory Tuesday in the second round of the Class 2A East baseball playoffs. The visiting Huskies outhit the Cobras 17-7 and scored six runs in the last two innings. Matt Golczewski went 5-for-6 with four RBIs, five runs and three doubles. Patterson Mill faces Rising Sun or Fallston in the quarterfinals. Archbishop Curley 3, Gilman 1: The Friars took a 2-1 lead in the first inning and would not look back, defeating the host No. 1-seed Greyhounds in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference playoffs.

The recent Harford Tech numbers fairly screamed for attention: A 5-1 record, with one player getting 35 points in successive games to raise his county-leading scoring average to 28.3.Last year, with three of the current starters in the starting lineup, Tech lost its first 11 games and ended with only six wins.Scoring leader Kelly Turner, a 6-foot-2 senior from Edgewood, is only part of this season's winning equation.He is joined by the other returning starters, junior Lechea Johns, the third member of an Edgewood family to star for the Cobras in recent years, and sophomore Pete Surette, a 5-10 guard from Aberdeen.

The Loch Raven girls soccer team did everything that was needed to bring home the Class 1A state championship against Harford Tech on Saturday afternoon at UMBC Stadium. The Raiders got the all-important first goal from sophomore midfielder Kayla Toole late in the first half and then stayed persistent the rest of the way to make sure it would hold. The result was a 1-0 win over Harford Tech for the program's sixth state title and first since 2003. After the Loch Raven girls' victory, the Raiders boys defeated Pocomoke, 3-2 in overtime, at UMBC.

Juniors Molly Bole and Laurie Giorno combined for a no-hitter yesterday, as John Carroll (8-1, 2-0) defeated Harford Tech (0-6, 0-2), 15-4, in a Harford County League softball game.Both pitchers went three innings. Kelly Barnes, Katie Nietubicz and Amity Torbitt had two RBI each for John Carroll.

Harford Tech senior Mike Pistorio has used his four years as a starting midfielder to help build tradition at the school. Pistorio has been noted for his distribution of the ball at midfield, and he also has a strong defensive reputation. He was a first-team All-Harford County selection last season and is studying sports medicine in one of his courses. What is your most exciting goal at Harford Tech? I guess it came as a freshman when I was playing against Perryville. I had a left-footed chip shot from 20 yards that scored.

Harford Tech junior forward Malik Mack, 6 feet 1, is averaging 10 rebounds, along with eight points, even though he has been playing organized basketball for only two years. "He's sort of like a pogo stick," coach Bill Jones said. "He'll jump three or four times, because he's playing against guys 6-4 and 6-6, and then he'll keep jumping and tip the ball to himself." Mack carries a 3.8 grade point average and is a peer tutor and a member of the National Honor Society. He also serves on the student council and wants to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chuck Beck and Ashley Williams are engaged. Both are graduates of Harford Tech, where they met. Beck is a member of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 486 while Williams is a registered nurse at Franklin Square Hospital. Beck is the sone of Charles and Darlene Beck and Williams is the daughter of Daniel and Debbie Williams. An April wedding is planned with a reception at the Del Capri in Dundalk. The couple will honeymoon in Jamaica.

Boys lacrosse No. School Record Prev.   1.Boys' Latin 7-0 1 2. St. Paul's 8-0 4 3. Calvert Hall 2-2 3 4. McDonogh 6-1 5 5. Hereford 4-1 8 6. Gilman 3-1 2 7. Loyola 4-2 6 8. St. Mary's 3-1 7 9. Arch. Spalding 8-2 11  10. South River 2-1 10 11. Arundel 4-0 - 12. Broadneck 2-1 - 13. Severna Park 2-1 - 14. Westminster 4-0 - 15. Severn 4-2 9 Other teams considered: Dulaney (3-1)

No. School 1. McDonogh 2. Hereford 3. Liberty 4. South River 5. Severna Park 6. Dulaney 7. John Carroll 8. Atholton 9. Milford Mill 10. Western Tech Other teams considered: Franklin, Glenelg, Harford Tech, Howard, Long Reach, River Hill

No. / School / Prev. 1. / McDonogh / 1 2. / Liberty / 2 3. / Hereford / 3 4. / Severna Park / 4 5. / South River / -- 6. / John Carroll / -- 7. / Dulaney / -- 8. / Milford Mill / -- 9. / Western Tech / 8 10. / Northwestern / -- Other teams considered: Franklin, Harford Tech, River Hill, Western

Racking up a high score of 176.5 points, a team average of 605 and a total pins-plus-handicap for the season of 41,153, the team from Harford Tech won the Forest Hill Lanes 2012-2013 High School Bowling championship. The team was comprised of Chris Marshall, Ben Marshall, Alex Sorlin and Flavio Reyes. Second place, for the second year in a row, were Ben Smith, Aaron Simpers and Matt Wassin from Aberdeen.   Other significant winners were Wassin from Aberdeen, who for the second straight year racked up the individual boys' highest average.

"Look out! Here comes Audrey II!!" A man-eating plant from outer space is arriving soon at Harford Technical High School. Harford Technical High School's Cobra Theatre Company will be presenting Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's campy musical "Little Shop of Horrors" in the William H. Amoss Performing Arts Center from March 22 to 24. This small, but talented cast will present the musical adaptation of the 1960s low-budget horror movie. The musical tells the story of Seymour Krelbourn, a down-and-out floral assistant at Mushnik's Flower Shop in urban Skid Row. Seymour becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood.

Fallston overmatched Harford Tech with an outside scoring threat to complement its inside strength and breezed to a 100-58 win in the first round of the Class 1A, Region III state playoffs last night.Fallston (12-11), which will play at Perryville (13-5) tomorrow night, gave Tech an indication of what was in store when it hit its first four shots. After three minutes, the Cougars had gone inside for five baskets, four by Dave Adam, and held a 10-2 lead.The visitors, giving away height at every position, had several scoring flurries in the first 10 minutes and closed to within 27-22.

Harford Technical High School, prompted by increased enrollment and an overwhelmingly positive student poll, will inaugurate a football program in the fall.The school will field a varsity team in a new independent league and a JV team that will play an abbreviated schedule.Teams on its 1995 varsity schedule are Lansdowne, Patapsco, Sparrows Point, Western Tech, Carver A&T and Mount Hebron.Joe Foltz, a Harford Tech teacher and former assistant football coach at South Carroll High School, has been named head coach.

Derrill Lee of Edgewood graduated from Air Force basic training from Lackland Air Force Base. Lee is a 2012 graduate of Harford Tech.

CLICK HERE FOR FRIDAY'S SCORES The Baltimore Sun's Top 15 Mount St. Joseph 19, No. 10 Archbishop Spalding 13 No. 14 Milford Mill 48, Eastern Tech 24 Other scores from around the area Aberdeen 27, Fallston 21 Archbishop Curley 23, John Carroll 7 Bel Air 17, C. Milton Wright 14 Bohemia Manor 34, Edgewood 6 City 20, Poly 14 McDonogh 28, Loyola 7 North Harford 46, Joppatowne 0 ...