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Frederick, MD (DC News Now)–Football is not new at Frederick High School. However, Wednesday night games are, and so is this version of the sport. The Cadets hosted Brunswick High School during the inaugural season of girls’ flag football. “This is so much fun. I didn’t really expect it to be this much fun, but […]

All sports fields in the city, including those leased by the city and school fields, are closed today, September 24, 2023. This means the fields are off-limits. Violations may lead to fines or loss of seasonal usage rights. Unpermitted users could face warnings or citations.

The football team (2–2) squeaked out a close victory against the Governor Thomas Johnson Patriots (2–2), 10–7, on Friday night. Defense was the name of the game for both sides in the first quarter. The Vike’s defense started strong on their first drive with a red zone stand leading to a missed Thomas Johnson field goal. The defense kept the momentum going with a blocked punt on Thomas Johnsons’ second offensive drive. Whitman’s defensive effort gave the offense a great field position, but with the Patriots’ goalline stand, the Vikings did not capitalize and get the ball into the endzone. In the second quarter, it was both offenses taking the initiative. The 0–0 stalemate was broken in the second quarter by Thomas Johnson with a long passing touchdown, giving them an early 7–0 lead. Whitman immediately responded with a rushing touchdown of their own, run by senior Ben Schlotterer. The score remained seven all at the half.

While Katie Stevens grew up in Frederick County and has attended The Great Frederick Fair before, she had never stopped to watch the harness races. Being invited to participate in the fair's celebrity harness races this year was a first for her. Stevens is the director of workforce development and...

Saint James 34, South Hagerstown 28 (OT) The Saints scored two touchdowns in the final four minutes of the fourth quarter to erase a 28-14 deficit, and quarterback Jayden Yates' 5-yard scoring run in overtime gave host Saint James (3-1) the victory in its first-ever meeting with the Rebels (2-2).

Oakdale quarterback Evan Austin has an unwavering belief that, when he absolutely has to make a play, he will make it. "When it's clutch time, he's the absolute best," Bears coach Kurt Stein said on Sept. 1 after Austin helped pull his team out of the fire against last season's unbeaten 2A state champion, Milford Mill, directing the game-winning drive as time was running out and scoring the game-winning touchdown in a one-point, season-opening road win.

Linganore (3-0) at Oakdale (3-0): The annual de facto Game of the Year (on paper) in Frederick County pits two of the leading contenders for the Class 3A state title against one another. Both have looked the part so far, rolling over an impressive schedule (in the case of Oakdale) and by impressive margins (in the case of Linganore, 139-12) through three games. Oakdale is coming off a 28-16 victory at Frederick High last week, while Linganore turned in a dominant 42-12 win over visiting Walkersville. This will be the second consecutive year the Bears have hosted the Lancers. Oakdale snapped a two-game losing streak to Linganore with a 28-14 victory last season.

Kutztown faces its second top-25 ranked opponent in the early portion of the season on Saturday. The Golden Bears travel to take on no.13 Shepherd, a very familiar opponent over the past few seasons.

BRUNSWICK — Brunswick's football team broke out the usual weapons in its 35-6 homecoming win over visiting Smithsburg on Friday. Running back Ben Wells, using vision, speed and power to read good blocks and break tackles for extra yardage, rushed for 147 yards and one touchdown on 16 carries.

Oakdale’s Ekow Yankah sought redemption for missed opportunities twice in Thursday night’s boys soccer match with Frederick High. The second of those came in the 97th minute, as a draw loomed. Yankah had earlier struck a set piece too softly, enabling Cadets keeper Gavin Riser to easily handle the ball.

The quarterback leading Frederick County in passing is not from one of its powers. Instead, it’s Catoctin’s Haydn Mathews, who’s led a Cougars attack that has been more willing to air it out than in recent years. But sometimes, they fall back on old reliable.

At this point, it doesn’t feel like there can be much more adversity thrown at the Tuscarora High girls soccer team. The Titans have been beset by an incredible rash of injuries to some of their top players.

FREDERICK, Md. – The Cumberland Valley Christian Blazers scored twice within the game’s first few minutes and romped to a 10-0 victory over New Life Christian Tuesday in a Mason Dixon Christian Conference boys soccer game. The Blazers (9-1-1, 6-1 MDCC) were never in jeopardy in the lopsided...

Linganore quarterback Savannah Eanes admitted she hates overtime. The immense pressure of the moment combined with the minuscule margin for error makes it a stressful situation for anyone. But, she found herself leading the Lancers’ girls flag football team in a tie game with Oakdale into that extra period after coming about 2 yards short of winning the contest in the dying seconds of regulation.

Oakdale senior hitter Molly Stevenson’s powerful spike was touched by two Frederick players before it finally sailed out of bounds near the scorers table. Hard-to-handle hits from Stevenson are nothing new, but this one was noteworthy. It gave the Bears, who opened the season with a gauntlet-like schedule while they broke in several newcomers, their first match-winning point of the season.

Welcome to the Oakdale High Prophets. This is the first year where some of the classmates predict the future scores for all Oakdale Athletics Sports for the upcoming week. As the year goes on, the sports for each week will change and so will every opponent that they go up against. Some weeks we might even predict the scores for some of Maryland’s National teams such as The Terrapins, Ravens, or later in the year, Orioles.

Week 4 of the Washington County high school football season is here, with five of the eight teams looking to maintain their winning records, another two aiming to reach .500 and one searching for its first win. There are four games Friday and two Saturday. In two of the games, county opponents will be...

It’s the second school to receive such an honor in Frederick County. Frederick, Md (KM) Another Frederick County public school has earned national recognition from Special Olympics. Tuscarora High has been named a Special Olympics Unified Champion School for its efforts to provide inclusive sports and activities for all students. The School System says Tuscarora High earned this honor for meeting national standards of excellence for inclusion, advocacy and respect.

MIDDLETOWN, Md. — “We started playing in 2020 when we were in Alpine Lake, West Virginia,” said Jennifer Falcinelli regarding her family’s new love for pickleball. She and her husband Dave went to Walmart while on vacation and bought a cheap set. “We went up and...

CALIFORNIA, Pa. — It seemed as if all manner of things were in the air. Completed passes, penalty flags and an escalating number of points dominated the entertaining, 44-34, Shepherd University win over hostPennWest California from en.wikipedia.org Pennsylvania Western University, California on Saturday in a PSAC crossover game where the lead continually changed hands.