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The Lighted Loats Baseball and Riverwalk Softball Fields are closed on September 27, 2023. This closure affects all city fields, including those leased to city schools. No one is allowed to use the fields during this time. Any league found using a closed field may be fined or lose access for the season. Unpermitted users may receive a warning or a fine.

He says that means more time to make improvements to Harry Grove Stadium. Frederick, Md (KM) The Atlantic League Spire City Ghost Hounds in Frederick will be sitting out the 2024 baseball season, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. That’s according to Mayor Michael O’Connor who was a guest recently on WFMD’s “Morning News Express.” He said the Maryland Stadium Authority has contracted with a company to make improvements to Harry Grove Stadium where both the Ghost Hounds and the Frederick Keys play their home games.

Sep. 26—MIDDLETOWN — Paul Bryan is careful to not get too carried away. The Walkersville High girls soccer coach knows there is a lot of season to play, and he doesn't want to heap a bunch of pressure onto the shoulders of his players. But the excitement around...

Two volleyball teams that reached the final match of the season last year faced off Tuesday in a contest that now has both county and state playoff implications. With last year’s Class 2A state champion Liberty Lions joining1A, where South Carroll finished as state runner-up, , both teams look to get ready for anoter playoff run, while aiming to keep up with Westminster in the county standings ...

After putting the county on notice with a 42-0 rout of South Carroll last week, for many the football landscape became clear: the road to conference title likely runs through the Owls this year. Several teams, including undefeated Winters Mill, will have their shot at the prohibitive favorites soon and are looking to gain momentum heading into the heart of the season. They will all have to ...

Each week, The Baltimore Sun will recognize one high school player from a boys sport and one from a girls sport for their athletic achievements. Boys sport Athlete of the Week: Jonas Kligys, Loyola Blakefield, football The glue to the Loyola’s defense, the 6-foot-2, 212 pound middle linebacker brings confidence-boosting consistency and a knack for making big plays when needed most. In the ...

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.

Cross country is well underway this season and is starting to ramp up. Here’s everything you need to know about the season thus far:. The men’s cross country team opened up their season at the Galen Piper Challenge on Friday, Sept. 1. They finished ninth out of 12 teams on the day, as Shippensburg took the victory with 24 points.

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.

LITTLESTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) – The Delone Catholic Squires (2-3) defeated the Littlestown Thunderbolts (3-2) with a 14-6 win on Friday in week five of the season.

Watching a Century girls soccer practice, one would notice some changes and some program staples from coach Chris Little’s defending Carroll County and Class 2A state champions. Gone are key starters from the championship run, headlined by last season’s county Player of the Year, goalkeeper Mia Graff are gone, and members of the defensive line in front of her that didn’t allow a goal during ...

Here is who’s leading Carroll County in goals and assists in boys and girls soccer and field hockey.

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.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown women's rugby team (1-1) hits the road to take on NIRA Division I newcomer Queens (1-1) in a neutral site contest Saturday morning in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Brown and Queens will meet for the first time in series history with the match scheduled to begin...

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.

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.

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.

Ella Cozad went 3-for-3 with three RBIs and one run scored to lead Westminster to a 17-2 victory over St. Charles West. Cozad picked up the win for Westminster.

The Squires came out strong in the first half dominating possession and scoring 11 minutes into the game. J.P. Groves #4 dribbled up the sideline with a give-and-go to Angello Salazar who gave a quick pass to the middle to Ethan Sevison who took a couple of steps and struck it into the back of the net.

Two seasons ago, Hunter Thompson could still slip past a defense and the gaze of an onlooking crowd rather inconspicuously. He was a sophomore at Oakdale High School at the time and not quite as big, strong and fast as he is today. He was not as accustomed to the big stage as some of his teammates. And his route running lacked the pristine finish that now makes him one of the best high school receivers in Maryland. Bears coach Kurt Stein calls him “elite.”