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Penn’s late goal helps Urbana finish High Point
Breakaway score
puts Hawks in 4A final against Magruder
BY ANDYMARSO AND ALAN SIEGEL
Senior forward Joey Penn is
Urbana’s all-time points leader and had a school-record 22 goals entering Saturday’sMaryland 4A semifinal at Richard Montgom- ery.
Given enough chances, he was
bound to finish one. After coming up empty on two
breakaways earlier in the game, Penn found the net in the 67th minute to give Urbana (16-1-1) a 1-0 win against High Point (15- 2-2). The Hawks earned a final date with Magruder, which over- whelmedSevernaPark,3-0, in the day’s first semifinal. “Fifth time’s the charm, or
something like that,” Penn said. Pennsaidhehadbeeninstruct-
ed to aim for a low corner against High Point’s 6-foot-2 senior goal- keeper Herman Keungwe. So the first twotimes hecamein one-on- one on Keungwe he tried to fi- nesse the ball in with the inside of his foot. Keungwe stopped both shots,
and also stymied a breakaway by Urbana’s Will Duddleson. “He came and gave 160 per-
cent,” High Point Coach Michael Holt said of his keeper. “That’s what it was all about. You could see he was crying [after the game]. This game means a lot to these guys.” Penn was just glad to earn
another crack at a state title after losing to Whitman in the final a year ago. “Feels amazing,” he said. “Back
to the state championship just like last year. We’ve got some unfinished business to do.” In the earlier semifinal,
Magruder (15-1-2) was in control, using quick cuts and precision passing to net Christian Bermu- dez, Matthew Greene and James Merriam goals against Severna Park (14-3-2).
Greene, a senior midfielder,
was a freshman when the Colo- nels won state in 2007. “You can’t settle for just win-
ning the region or winning the [state] semifinal,” Greene said of what he learned that season. “You put in your whole season, you put in all your practice to make it to this game, so we’ve got to take it now.”
Maryland 3A semifinals Reservoir Coach Paul Linkins,
like of all his players, sported a Mohawk hairstyle on Saturday night. “I told them if we won tonight,
I’dgo blonde,” he said. “Imay look a little foolish in school for the next week.” The Gators took care of busi-
ness with relative ease in the Maryland 3A semifinals, defeat- ing Linganore, 3-0. Reservoir (14- 3-1) will play in its first state title game next weekend. The Gators will meet Northern, 1-0 winners overHereford in the other semifi- nal.
“It’s great to see all these fans
come out and support us,” Linkins said. “It’s kind of over- whelmingat times. I didn’t expect to score three goals on Linganore (12-5-2), but it’s a great feeling.” Junior forward Colin Bonner
scored a pair of goals, his 11th and 12th of the season, sandwiched around senior forward Jake Coc- cio’s goal shortly after intermis- sion that put Reservoir up, 2-0. “The first goal in the second
half was huge,” said Bonner, who scored his second goal a few minutes later. Northern advanced on the
strength of senior midfielder An- drewGarner’s calmly converted a penalty kick after senior forward Austin Black was fouled in the box in the 69th minute. “The funny thing is, after prac-
tice on Friday, I stayed after for 15 minutes hitting PKs,” Garner said. “But I was nervous.” The Patriots (18-1) are headed
to their first state title game in program history.
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All smiles:Good Counsel players, from left, Jessica Daly,KerryMueller, andMichelle Procaccini can’t contain their happiness after Daly scored the game’s first and only goal.
WCACGIRLS’SOCCERFINAL
Daly’s goal all Falcons need to claim the WCAC
Good Counsel wins its second straight Catholic league crown
BY PAUL TENORIO In the moments before she
struck the shot that for the second consecutive year would make her the heroine for No. 5 Good Counsel in the Washing- ton Catholic Athletic Confer- ence championship, senior Jes- sica Daly told teammate Kerry Muellernot to pass her the ball. “I didn’t think I had enough
space,”Daly said. Mueller played the ball any-
way, and Daly took it at the top of the 18-yard box, dribbled to her left andstruck it towardthe far post, where the last-ditch effort of an O’Connell defender wasnot enoughto keepit out of the net. The 13th-minute goal
G. COUNSEL O’CONNELL 1 0
would prove to be enough for Good Counsel (19-3-2), which captured its second consecu- tive WCAC championship with a 1-0 win over No. 7 O’Connell in front of 1,427 at Maryland SoccerPlex. Daly had the game-winner last year in Good Counsel's 1-0 win over St. John’s. The goal was “more impor-
tant than last year,” Daly said. “We needed itmore.We lost to themearlier in the season so it was just that much more im- portant to get it early on in the game.” O’Connell (14-5-2) had de-
feated Good Counsel, 3-0, on Oct. 21 during a time in which GoodCounselCoachJimBruno said the Falcons were just not clicking. Some changes along the back line proved to be cru-
cial, and the Falcons allowed just two shots on goal in the championship game. Good Counsel dominated
possession for much of the gameandfinishedwith12shots on goal. The pace of Imani DorseyandMidgePurcecaused the Knights problems through- out the game, and O’Connell was left trying to counter.Good Counsel’s defensewas up to the task, however. “Wewere coming off a rough
patch... and we came out slow and they took advantage of their opportunities,” senior de- fender Katelyn Engen said of the earlier loss to O’Connell. “But we wanted it a lot more this time and we knew they were coming for blood so we just had tomatch their intensi- ty.”
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Whitman has reason to shout after girls’ race
Walter Johnson boys’ win third straight
BY CARL LITTLE Whitman Coach Steve Hays
wound his arm in fast, long circles on Saturday, imploring one of his girls’ runners to move up in the 4A race at theMaryland state cross-countrymeet.His face reddened as he barked out in- structions. A single vein bulged in themiddle of his forehead. “I didn’t want to take any
chances,”Hays said. “Iwas telling themto give it all you got.” Hiswordswere certainlymoti-
vating, especially in the face of withering pain, but probably not needed all that much. The girls from Whitman were just as fo- cused as their coach. The Vikings won theMaryland 4A champion- ship atHereford for the first time since 1992. Whitman triumphed by a fair
margin over Northwest. Defend- ing champion Severna Park was third. Whitman junior Anna Ryba was the overall 4A winner on the three-mile course in 19 minutes 16 seconds, the eighth- fastest time inmeet history. Hays said he saw the stars
aligning and predicted victory for a team that last year had its share ofmisfortune.Rybamissed the 2009 meet with a left foot injury. Junior Alexandra Phillips — who was fifth overall in 19:53 on Saturday—ran as a freshman, but was pulled away from the team last year after her father accepted a job in France. There is no cross-country team there, Phillips said, but “I still did [Hays’s] workouts.” And then there is Caroline Gui- ot. She also was injured at states
Vikings win title;
last year, but finished third on Saturday. Cara Bennet is the only senior and the four-year runner played a critical role in lifting a Vikings team that was 10th last year all theway to the top. “It’s so amazing,” Ryba said. TheWalter Johnsonboys’ team
was amazing in winning its third straight 4A championship. Indi- vidual runner-up Nick Regan (16:13) paced the Wildcats past Churchill and Severna Park. Northwest senior Chris Miller
came from behind to win the individual title in 16:09, the fifth- fastest time inmeet history. Hereford swept the 3A races.
Led by individual champion Ma- son Rivera (16:27), the boys de- feated Einstein and Quince Or- chard. The girls were just as dominant as they ran away from Mount Hebron and River Hill, and they were led by individual champion Erin Causey (19:59). Clarksburg sophomore Abbey
Daley was the top area girl in 3A, finishing second in 20:17. Run- ner-up Ryan O’Connor of North- ernwas the top local boy in 16:38. No area teams or individuals
finishedinthe topthree in1Aand no teams or individuals finished in the top three in girls’ 2A. Winters Mill won the 2A boys’
title over Glenelg and Kent Is- land. Glenelg’s Robby Creese was the individual champion. In the last race of the day, the
senior crossed in 16:46, running most of the distance with con- stricted airways after his asthma flared up during the first mile. After he finished, Creese was helped to the ground by his father and teammates and then took several draws froman inhal- er.
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Junior AnnaRyba of Whitman wins theMaryland 4A girls’ cross- country individual title.Her team won its first title since 1992.
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WCACBOYS’SOCCER
DeMatha claims first championship since 2005
Stags finish 24-0 following 5-1 victory over Gonzaga
BY PAUL TENORIO Last season, No. 2 DeMatha
came into theWashington Catho- lic Athletic Conference champi- onship boasting a sterling record and facing a seven-loss Gonzaga team—only to lose in a one-goal game. The memory of that loss has
served as the fuel all season long for the Stags, who went into Sat- urday night’s final with a perfect record and the hope of ending the Eagles’ four-year reign atop the WCAC. And proving to be as dominant
in the final as it has been all season,DeMatha exerted its pow- er throughout a 5-1 victory over Gonzaga to capture its first con- ference title since 2005 in front of 1,427 atMaryland SoccerPlex. “We just didn’t want to feel the
same we did last year after every- thing we had gone through in the final,”DeMatha senior midfielder Cody Albrecht said. “We just didn’t want it to happen again and it didn’t. It’s the best feeling I’ve had. It’s unbelievable.” The Eagles (17-7-1) were ap-
pearing in their 11th consecutive final and had once again showed the postseason form that has de- fined the program over the last several years.ButDeMatha (24-0) simply had too many weapons. The Stags opened the scoring
in the 18th minute when junior Vincent Conti was given space about 20 yards out and cracked a perfectly-placed shot that car- omed off the upper right post and in. With just more than five min- utes remaining in the half, Conti found the net again, this time makinga run to the near postona free kick by Albrecht and flicking it back to the far post. “I was really pumped, I was
ready to go,” Conti said.
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VIRGINIACROSS-COUNTRY
Annandale’s Bile surges for boys’ title Stafford’s Lowery
takes girls’ crown in a day of close finishes
BY JAMESWAGNER For Annandale’s Ahmed Bile,
the final stretch was the worst. Running in only his third race since missing most of the sea- son because of a sprained foot, Bile was exhausted and well aware that he was several paces behind Silas Frantz of Douglas Freeman entering the last 600 meters of the Virginia AAA boys’ cross-country race at Great Meadows in The Plains on Saturday. He needed to make a move.
The 6-foot-4 junior just wasn’t sure when. “People were telling me to go
the whole straightaway. I was debating,” said Bile, whose fam- ily, strategically positioned yards from the finish line, was among those hollering for him to keep pushing. “I was like done.AndwhenIwasabout 100 meters, I decided to go.” With one final burst of ener-
gy and a slowing Frantz, Bile edged his competitor by touch- ing the finishing mat by less than a half-foot, or by official record, 0.02 of a second. Bile’s chip-timed 15 minutes 27 sec- onds—a personal best—in the 5K race capped a season in which he was out for seven weeks, missed three invitation- als, struggled in the district championship but bounced back quickly to win the North- ern Region meet last week. “It didn’t hurt me too much
to miss that time,” he said. “If anything, I did a lot better be- cause a lot of the guys had tired legs because they ranall year.So I came back and I was fresh and
I think it benefited me.” Bile’s photo finish was one of
several contests that came down to the wire, including the opening girls’ AAA race. Head- ing into the last 600 meters, Stafford’s Hannah Lowery and Lake Braddock’s Sophie Chase were neck and neck. And in the final 100 meters,
each runner dug deep, seeming- ly changing leads with every step. But Lowery won with a personal-best of 17:41, just hun- dredths of a second before Chase. Having played in her field
hockey team’s Virginia state semifinal loss on Friday after- noon, Lowery said she had “no clue” where that final jolt of energy came from. “I don’t think I’ve ever been
able to kick like that at the end of a race,” said Lowery, in be- tween exhausted and excited panting. “But you know, I knew this was states and it was your last race and if there’s a time to put it all out there, this is it.” Midlothian swept the AAA
team competition, winning the boys’ and girls’ titles. The Colo- nial Forge boys finished second, and the girls, who won the Northwest Region title, placed third, capping the school’s best- ever finishes in state cross- country competition. GeorgeMason’s girls won the
A team championship, their third straight title, thanks to an average time of 20:08, led by sophomore Julia Estrada’s (19:11) second-place individual finish. “I think we did really well,”
she said. “Our goal was to beat ourselves and we did that.” The Loudoun County boys
finished third in the AA team competition, thanks to senior Thomas Curtin’s third-place finish (15:38).
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