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Taylor breaks up double play to ensure winning run scores
by Preston Williams
St. Albans senior Duncan Tay-
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Kourtney Salvarola, left, struck out 10 and catcher Adrienne Gebele drove in five runs for Broadneck.
MARYLAND 4A SOFTBALL
Another title for Broadneck
Gebele sets record
BROADNECK
with three doubles and drives in five runs
by Alan Goldenbach
The hugs, high-fives and fist pumps after Broadneck’s 11-1 vic- tory over Sherwood in the Mary- land 4A final showed where the Bruins’ focus was this season: on themselves. Last year, Broadneck had a singular mission. The Bruins dedicated the season to former coach Jim Ware, who died sud- denly in July 2008, and they were determined to win the school’s first softball championship for the coach who turned the pro- gram from mediocre to elite. Broadneck went undefeated. This season, with nearly their entire starting lineup back, the Bruins wanted a different experi- ence, but the same results at the University of Maryland. “We were just playing for our-
selves,” said senior All-Met pitch- er Kourtney Salvarola, who will play for South Florida next year. “We had more pressure this year, though, just to play for a repeat.”
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Repeat county: Broadneck became
the fourth Anne Arundel County school to repeat as softball champions joining Chesapeake, North County and Northeast. No contest: All four Maryland finals were decided by at least six runs, including two mercy-rule games, and two shutouts. It’s only the second time (1984 was the other) when all four finals were one-sided.
Broadneck (22-2) entered the season with such high expecta- tions, including the ones they put on themselves. “For this group, anything less
that winning today would have been an underachievement,” Broadneck Coach Reese Kiple said.
Broadneck immediately put to rest any doubts. Senior third baseman Diana Naylor drove in junior Lauren Tolliver with a first-inning single for the game’s first run. The Bruins broke the game open with a five-run second, and scored in every inning before Naylor came home on a one-out
MARYLAND TRACK AND FIELD
Ekpone
by Carl Little
baltimore — Olivia Ekponé drew on superior speed and en- durance to deliver one of the best performances in the history of the Maryland state track and field championships. The North- west junior won four gold med- als — and put herself high on the all-time list in three events — be- neath a gray sky at Morgan State University on Saturday. “This would have to be the highlight of my high school ca- reer,” said Ekponé, a five-time All-Met. The girls’ team from C.H. Flowers won its first 4A champi- onship over Northwest and Churchill. Thomas Johnson won its second straight boys’ title over North Point and Richard Mont- gomery. In 3A, Western’s girls defeated
Northwood and Catonsville. Res- ervoir won the boys’ title over Po- tomac and Stephen Decatur. North Hagerstown won the girls’ 2A title over Digital Harbor and Long Reach. Oakland Mills won the boys’ championship over Walkersville and Randallstown. Smithsburg, Harford Tech and
Western Tech were the top three teams in girls’ 1A. Carver Vo- Tech, Williamsport and Western Tech were the top boys’ teams. Ekponé got out to a fast start, winning the 4A 100-meter dash in 11.94 seconds. She finished the day in the same way, anchoring Northwest’s 4x400 relay team to victory. Alyssa Henshaw, Britt Eckerstrom, India Knight and Ekponé got the win in 3:48.28, one second shy of the state rec- ord. In between, Ekponé won the 400 by two seconds in 53.60 and the 200 in 23.89. She had to come from behind in the 200. Aurieyall Scott (Eleanor Roosevelt) had the lead off the turn, but Ekponé moved well down the stretch and overtook her right before the line. Scott was second in 24.13.
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Northwest’s Olivia Ekponé won the 4A 100-meter dash at the Maryland state track and field championships on Saturday.
10.86 and the 200 in 21.95. He also anchored Potomac’s 4x100 relay team that won in 41.89. Glenelg’s Robby Creese was just as formidable in the distance races, breezing to wins in the boys’ 2A 3,200 (a 2A-record 9:17.28, on Thursday), 1,600 (4:18.48) and 800 (1:55.20). In the field, Largo’s Charlise
Kennedy’s Thea LaFond reacts after winning the 3A 110-meter hurdles in 14.74 seconds.
Ekponé’s time in the 400 was third fastest in meet history and her 200 was fourth fastest. It was the second time in three years that she swept the sprints, but the first time she’s taken home four gold medals. “This has got to be the most extraordinary year I’ve ever had,” she said. Wootton senior Jessie Rubin ended her high school career on a scintillating note. The Duke signee won the 4A girls’ 1,600 (5:00.17) and 3,200 (10:41.28, on Friday) while also helping the Patriots clock the second fastest 4x800 relay time in the country this season. Wootton won in a state-record 9:04.39 on Friday. Ronald Darby also won three
golds in 3A. The Potomac sopho- more had the fastest sprint times of the day, winning the 100 in
Morgan had the area’s top shot put, winning the girls’ 3A cham- pionship with 40 feet 8.25 inch- es. Chesapeake senior Lauren Al- lam won the girls’ 4A discus with 150-1 and was runner-up in the shot put (39-9.75) behind C.H. Flowers senior Brelyn Finley (40-4). Kennedy junior Thea LaFond won the 3A triple jump (39-7) and long jump (17-9) and tied for second place in the high jump with 5-4. She also won the 100 hurdles in 14.74. Nobody was better in the hur- dles than Old Mill sophomore Alexis Franklin. She won the 4A 100 hurdles in 13.96, the fourth- fastest time in meet history, and the 300 hurdles in 41.94, the sec- ond-fastest time. She was also second in the 400 in 55.53. “I was beyond nervous,” Frank- lin said. “This feels absolutely amazing.”
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groundout in the bottom of the sixth to give Broadneck a 10-run margin and end the game via the mercy rule. Leading Broadneck’s 13-hit at- tack was junior catcher Adrienne Gebele, who went 4 for 4 with a state-tournament record three doubles and drove in five runs. Each successive blast left tour- nament officials shaking their heads — from her second-inning line drive off the center-field fence that scored two runs to her shot to left-center in the fifth that also scored two runs, de- spite having Sherwood’s left- fielder playing Gebele on the warning track.
“I was ready from the moment
I woke up,” said Gebele, who has unofficially committed to Ohio. Said Kiple: “It must’ve looked
like a beach ball to her. She’s a true [Division] I softball player.” Salvarola, meantime, struck out 10 Warriors, as Sherwood (18-3) ran into another Anne Arundel powerhouse in the final. The Warriors lost their first final appearance in 2008 to Chesa- peake, which entered as the de- fending champion. “Wow, can they hit,” Sherwood Coach Pat Flanagan said.
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lor knew he had no choice but to tear down the first base line when he bounced a one-out grounder to second base with the bases loaded and the score tied in the bottom of the eighth inning of the Congressional Bank Baseball Classic on Saturday night at Na- tionals Park. No doubt there are easier ways to ensure the winning run scores in a championship than by rely- ing on your catcher’s ability to sprint 90 feet, but it worked for the Bulldogs, who were able to push across a tying run in the sev- enth and the decisive run in the eighth in a 2-1 victory over Wil- son in the third annual game that pits the D.C. Interscholastic Ath- letic Association title winner against one of the city’s top pri- vate school teams. In the bottom of the eighth, St. Albans junior Henry Sisson led off with a double to deep center field, and senior Cameron Wind- ham was intentionally walked. One out later, the runners each moved up on a wild pitch, so the Tigers walked another batter to load the bases. Up stepped Taylor, who hit a grounder that resulted in a force at second, but Taylor, hustling down the line, beat the throw to first, which meant that Sisson’s run counted. “I wanted to get there so bad,”
said Taylor, who had a bunt single in the seventh to help the Bull- dogs tie the score. “We work hard on getting out of the box quick. I knew I could get there. There’s no feeling I hate worse than ground- ing into a double play. I know this could have been my last play in high school. So I wanted to end it well.” “Two years ago, I would have said no,” St. Albans Coach Jason Larocque said when asked if he had faith in Taylor beating the throw. “But he’s matured a lot as
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Hustle pays off for St. Albans
RICHARD A. LIPSKI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Duncan Taylor has his helmet knocked off as the Bulldogs celebrate their win in the Congressional Bank Baseball Classic.
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How they arrived: St. Albans
advanced to the final earlier Saturday with a 6-3 win over Maret. Wilson blanked McKinley, 7-0, for its 18th consecutive DCIAA title and another berth in the final. One for red: In the all-star game that preceded the championship, with public and private school players competing with and against each other, the Red team scored nine runs in the top of the sixth inning to erase the Blue team’s 6-1 lead and held on for a 10-8 win.
an athlete. He’s been a stalwart for us for two years, and it’s a great way to end his career.” St. Albans has now won all three classics, each time over Wil- son, including by one run in each of the past two years.
Wilson (17-12), which lost 11-1 to St. Albans during the regular season, led the classic final from the top of the first until the bot- tom of the seventh, when the Bulldogs (22-11) tied the game but lined into an inning-ending double play. Wilson scratched for six hits off right-hander Windham, four of which were infield singles. Wind- ham struck out seven and walked none. Four of his innings re- quired eight pitches or fewer. “He’s just been an amazing pitcher for us this year,” Larocque said. “He’s surpassed all expecta- tions. He didn’t pitch a whole lot last year and we told him that we would go as far as he took us this year, because we needed him.” Wilson junior Benjamin Whit-
ener also went the distance, al- lowing six hits, striking out one and walking five, three inten- tionally.
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