John Carroll

John Carroll senior Ronald Scott led the Patriots to the Baltimore Catholic League Tournament title in their first year in the league. In a 57-45 win over St. Frances on March 1, Scott had 19 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals. That performance followed one two days earlier in the semifinals against St. Joseph's, where he had 15 points, five rebounds, five assists and two steals. "He's a tenacious player with a lot of heart," John Carroll coach Tony Martin said. Scott leads the team in scoring with 16.7 points.

Winners of the past two Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference championships, the Archbishop Spalding girls soccer team displays an air of confidence at the most opportune times. For a second straight year, the No. 2 Cavaliers relied on such confidence in the closing seconds of the league semifinals against No. 7 John Carroll. All-Metro senior forward Maggie Morrison provided the magic moment, scoring with 10 seconds left in regulation to send the Cavaliers to Saturday's championship game with a 1-0 win over the Patriots.

Brendan Butler went 3-for-4 with four RBIs as the John Carroll baseball team upset host No. 5 Calvert Hall, 14-12, in nine innings Friday. The win marks a first for the Patriots (8-4) over the Cardinals (6-5) in 10 years. Broadneck 11, No. 9 Chesapeake-AA 0: Scott Nickerson (1-0) pitched five innings, gave up four hits, walked two and struck out four as the host Bruins (2-3) upset the Cougars (5-3). Softball No. 6 Glen Burnie 6, No. 2 Arundel 3: Winner Melanie Slowinski struck out 13 for the visiting Gophers (4-1)

Nicole Wojick scored the game-winner with 17 minutes left to lift No. 4 John Carroll girls soccer team over host Institute of Notre Dame, 2-1, on Wednesday. The Patriots improved their record to 7-0. Olivia Difonso headed in a ball at the 26:30 mark of the first half for a 1-0 John Carroll lead before the Indians tied the score early in the second half. No. 3 Archbishop Spalding 4, Mount de Sales 0: Mo Ostrowski scored twice to lead the host Cavaliers (6-2-1) past the Sailors.

John Carroll senior guard Rodney Elliott hit a jumper with 3.8 seconds left as the No. 7 Patriots edged No. 1 St. Frances, 42-41, on Friday night in Bel Air. The loss ends a nine-game winning streak for the top-ranked Panthers, who are now 21-2 overall, 11-1 in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference and 9-1 in the Baltimore Catholic League. John Carroll (18-6) improves to 6-3 in the MIAA and 6-2 in the BCL.  Elliott finished with 15 points, including 10 in the second half.

Something about Jarred Jones ' official visit to Loyola this week felt very familiar to the John Carroll forward. Jones, a 6-foot-6, 185-pound senior, had made unofficial trips to the school before, but it wasn't necessarily the surroundings that triggered memories. It was his potential teammates.    “I knew most of the players on the team and already had a connection with them,” Jones said Wednesday. “It's more like a family.” Playing for a Baltimore Catholic League contender in John Carroll and an AAU power in Nike Baltimore Elite, Jones frequently played against or with some of the state's top high school players.

John Carroll coach Keith Watson recalls a story in Greek mythology in which a kid is given a baby bull. Every day, the kid picks up the bull. By the time the kid is 16 and the bull is 2,000 pounds, the kid is unimaginably strong. When Watson thinks about Mathew Miller, his 152-pound wrestler, he thinks about the strength Miller has developed over years of wrestling, the past three in Watson's program at John Carroll. "We do 100 to 200 sit-ups a day," Watson says. "Matt does those, and he is constantly working to get stronger.