Suitland

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Suitland guard Roddy Peters has made it clear he'd like to play for the University of Maryland, and with a scorching start to his junior season, he's doing his best to make the Terps' coaching staff take notice. Peters, a 6-4 guard who averaged 16 points as a sophomore, has made the transition to the point and it's paid off to the tune of 26.8 points, 8.3 assists and five rebounds per game in Suitland's 6-2 start.

After completing an injury-plagued senior season and coming up a bit short in the classroom, Levern Jacobs headed to Milford Academy in August for a post-grad year.  Less than five months later, the former Suitland star is headed back to Prince George's County. Jacobs, a 5-foot-11, 175-pound wide receiver, committed to Maryland on Wednesday. Suitland coach Ed Shields said his former player will start classes in College Park this month. “This is a hard-working, stand-up kid,” Shields said.

A Suitland man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for his role in a fatal shooting during what authorities believe was a drug deal gone wrong in an upscale neighborhood near Arundel Mills. Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Paul G. Goetzke sentenced Marvin Craig Little, 21, to 25 years in prison, with 15 years suspended, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and as an accessory after the fact in the Jan. 10, 2008, shooting of Derrin Davon Thomas, 27, of Baltimore, whose body was found in his pickup truck, which was still running.

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Suitland guard Roddy Peters has made it clear he'd like to play for the University of Maryland, and with a scorching start to his junior season, he's doing his best to make the Terps' coaching staff take notice. Peters, a 6-4 guard who averaged 16 points as a sophomore, has made the transition to the point and it's paid off to the tune of 26.8 points, 8.3 assists and five rebounds per game in Suitland's 6-2 start.

Kmart Corp., the nation's No. 2 discount retailer, has notified the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation that it will close two stores in Maryland and lay off 147 employees by the end of April.Kmart will shut down its Bel Air store, in Tollgate Plaza at the intersection of U.S. 1 and Route 24, by April 21. The store employs 48 people, Kmart said in its filing with the state.A second store, in Suitland in Prince George's County, will close by mid-April. It employs 99 people, Kmart said.

SUITLAND -- Here on Silver Hill in the quiet Maryland suburbs the gleaming, cigar-shaped fuselage of the infamous Enola Gay lies harmless, the once-mighty B-29 bomber cut into pieces and eviscerated of its avionics.But the aircraft, which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945, is in good hands. And in 1995 the historic bomber will re-emerge from its present drafty quarters looking just as it did on that fateful August day -- right down to the last perfectly restored cockpit dial and control wire.

Emmanuel Williams scored his third touchdown on a 4-yard run in overtime and Yanni Davis converted the extra-point kick in a come-from-behind, 39-38 overtime victory, as Suitland of Prince George's County captured the Class 4A state football title over Sherwood of Montgomery County last night at M&T Bank Stadium. On Sherwood's overtime series, Dominique Budd scored his third touchdown of the game on a 10-yard run. Then the Warriors (11-3) chose to go for the win with a two-point conversion attempt, but Budd's run failed, giving the Rams the title.

Suitland emerged from yesterday's Class 4A championship as the only team to weather the girls state basketball tournament unbeaten. The Rams (22-0) ran up a 12-point lead in the middle of the third quarter and held on to beat Churchill, 61-57, at UMBC. Churchill, which had beaten No. 1 and defending champ Arundel in Thursday's semifinals, rallied behind two Louisa Feve three-pointers, the second a 24-footer that cut the lead to 60-57 with 22 seconds left. But the Rams moved the ball so quickly that Churchill (26-1)

Arundel's football team is on the same path that Broadneck was a year ago. To get to the Class 4A state championship game at M&T Bank Stadium means going through Suitland of Prince George's County in the state semifinals. The Wildcats will travel to Suitland in District Heights for a 1 p.m. kickoff Saturday in a matchup of 12-0 teams. The Rams, who are on a 25-game winning streak, seek their second straight state title and third in four years. No. 4 Arundel advanced with a 49-20 victory over then-No.

District Heights -- The last time Arundel was in a state football final was 1979, when the Wildcats lost the Class A (now 3A) championship to Seneca Valley. A fledgling coach and Arundel graduate was the defensive coordinator for coach Buddy Hepfer. That coach was Chuck Markiewicz, who is in his 20th season as an Anne Arundel County head coach and has been at his alma mater for the past seven years. Yesterday, Markiewicz led his No. 4 Wildcats to a 14-13 upset in a Class 4A semifinal at defending state champion Suitland (12-1)

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. The Terps have widened their search for a point guard in the 2013 class. Suitland (Md.) junior Roddy Peters received a phone call [last Friday] from Maryland assistant coach Dalonte Hill. “He just talked to me to see how my season is going and invited me to the [Florida Gulf Coast] game,” Peters said.

SATURDAY  BASEBALL  STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (at Ripken Stadium) CLASS 3A J.M. Bennett 5, LaPlata 2, 8 inn. CLASS 2A N.Caroline 17, No. 10 Lansdowne 6  CLASS 1A St. Michael's 4, No. 7 Patterson Mill 0 SOFTBALL  STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (at College Park) CLASS 4A Urbana 5, No. 1 Chesapeake-AA 3 CLASS 3A Northern-Calvert 3, No. 3 Howard 0 CLASS 2A Easton 8, No. 6 Lansdowne 5 CLASS 1A Catoctin 10, No. 15 Loch Raven 0 TRACK AND FIELD  STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (at Morgan State)

On January 10, 2010, Willie J. Bishop Family and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home, Inc., 9705 Belair Road, on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. where a funeral service will be held on Thursday at 10:00 A.M. Interment to follow with military honors at the Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, MD. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in Kirk Bishop's memory to the Maryand School for the Blind, 3501 Taylor Avenue, Baltimore, MD...

A Suitland man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for his role in a fatal shooting during what authorities believe was a drug deal gone wrong in an upscale neighborhood near Arundel Mills. Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Paul G. Goetzke sentenced Marvin Craig Little, 21, to 25 years in prison, with 15 years suspended, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and as an accessory after the fact in the Jan. 10, 2008, shooting of Derrin Davon Thomas, 27, of Baltimore, whose body was found in his pickup truck, which was still running.

District Heights -- The last time Arundel was in a state football final was 1979, when the Wildcats lost the Class A (now 3A) championship to Seneca Valley. A fledgling coach and Arundel graduate was the defensive coordinator for coach Buddy Hepfer. That coach was Chuck Markiewicz, who is in his 20th season as an Anne Arundel County head coach and has been at his alma mater for the past seven years. Yesterday, Markiewicz led his No. 4 Wildcats to a 14-13 upset in a Class 4A semifinal at defending state champion Suitland (12-1)

Arundel's football team is on the same path that Broadneck was a year ago. To get to the Class 4A state championship game at M&T Bank Stadium means going through Suitland of Prince George's County in the state semifinals. The Wildcats will travel to Suitland in District Heights for a 1 p.m. kickoff Saturday in a matchup of 12-0 teams. The Rams, who are on a 25-game winning streak, seek their second straight state title and third in four years. No. 4 Arundel advanced with a 49-20 victory over then-No.

Marte Harley scored on a 1-yard run with 3:29 left, ending a 14-play, 66-yard drive that consumed over seven minutes, as Suitland of Prince George's County dethroned Damascus of Montgomery County, 14-7, in last night's Class 4A state final at M&T Bank Stadium. Navorro Bowman (19 carries, 148 yards) rushed nine times for 37 yards in the drive, which ended a nine-game winning streak for the defending champion Swarmin' Hornets' (12-2), along with their quest for their sixth overall crown.

A Suitland man pleaded guilty yesterday in Howard County Circuit Court to three armed robberies and related handgun offenses committed during an alleged 2 1/2 -month crime spree in Maryland and northern Virginia.Terrance Maith, 21, entered his plea before Judge Raymond J. Kane Jr., who set sentencing for Jan. 30. Maith pleaded guilty last week to two related counts of armed robbery in Anne Arundel Circuit Court and is scheduled to be sentenced there Jan. 19.Assistant State's Attorney Mary V. Murphy said that under the plea agreement, prosecutors are asking the judge to impose a 25-year sentence, including a 10-year mandatory term for the gun offenses.

Emmanuel Williams scored his third touchdown on a 4-yard run in overtime and Yanni Davis converted the extra-point kick in a come-from-behind, 39-38 overtime victory, as Suitland of Prince George's County captured the Class 4A state football title over Sherwood of Montgomery County last night at M&T Bank Stadium. On Sherwood's overtime series, Dominique Budd scored his third touchdown of the game on a 10-yard run. Then the Warriors (11-3) chose to go for the win with a two-point conversion attempt, but Budd's run failed, giving the Rams the title.

Suitland pastor fatally shot outside church SUITLAND -- A 50-year-old minister was fatally shot yesterday morning outside his church, which includes a private transitional home for poor families, Prince George's County police reported. The Rev. Milton L. Moore was shot in the upper body about 7 a.m. outside the entrance of his Warriors for Christ Ministries and died in the afternoon, police said. Police had made no arrests and had no suspects last night. "We don't know at this point what the motive is," said Cpl. Diane Richardson, a police spokeswoman.