Trailing 9-6 entering the bottom of the sixth inning, the Huntingtown Hurricanes rallied for five runs to surge ahead of the visiting La Plata Warriors and held on for an 11-10 win in a Southern Maryland Athletic Conference baseball matchup on Monday.
La Plata (3-2, 2-2) had taken the lead on Seth Nagle’s two-run homer in the fifth, which ran the score to 8-6. The Warriors tacked on another run in the top of the sixth, but Huntingtown (4-1, 3-1) erupted for five runs in the inning’s bottom half.
After clawing back to tie the score, Billy Gaines lashed a two-run double to right-center to push the eventual winning runs across the plate. Matt O’Grady hit a solo homer for La Plata in the seventh to cut the deficit in half, but the Hurricanes were able to nail down the win on a fielder’s choice after La Plata had put runners on first and second with two outs.
The loss was the second one-run loss of the season for La Plata, the defending conference and state champ. The Warriors are scheduled to play at Leonardtown on Wednesday. Huntingtown, which suffered its first loss of the season in its previous game at Calvert on Friday, is set to host Westlake on Wednesday.
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‘Canes rally to nip Warriors
Posted on 31 March 2009 by .
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Results from 3/30
Posted on 31 March 2009 by .
Baseball
Huntingtown 11, La Plata 10
McDonough 5, Calvert 2
Chopticon 5, Patuxent 2
Great Mills 4, Lackey 2
Stone 13, Westlake 2
Leonardtown 8, Northern 6
Softball
Huntingtown 10, La Plata 3
Stone 18, Westlake 5
Patuxent 10, Chopticon 0
McDonough 2, Calvert 0
E-mail scores to astates@digitalsports.com or dcmetroscores@digitalsports.com.
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Fall Sports Tryouts
Posted on 27 March 2009 by .
Fall sports tryouts will begin on Saturday, August 15th. The pre-season meeting is Wednesday, August 5th at 7:00PM. Anyone trying out for a fall sport should attend the meeting. Eligibility for fall sports is based on the 4th quarter grades and attendance.
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Spring Sports Awards
Posted on 27 March 2009 by .
The Springs sports awards night will be held Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 7:00PM in the auditorium.
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Baseball: La Plata 8, McDonough 0
Posted on 23 March 2009 by .
By Andy States
SMAC Content Manager
A year ago, most things came pretty easily to the La Plata Warriors baseball team as it stormed to the state 3A championship.
With only a couple returning players that saw significant action last year, a much different La Plata squad took the field for this season. But through two games, the results have not been much different.
Behind six shutout innings from Nate Ryon on Monday, the Warriors knocked off the visiting McDonough Rams 8-0. It was the second straight shutout to open the year for La Plata, which blanked Westlake in its opener last Friday.
“Naturally you’ve got to be happy with a shutout,” La Plata coach Dan DeVitis sad. “I thought Nate threw a real nice game and I thought our defense played really well.”
McDonough (0-2) mustered just three hits on the game, and moved a runner into scoring position just once. Ryon struck out six, and the La Plata defense played an error-free game behind him.
“I felt great,” Ryon said. “My arm felt real good and I had the defense behind me.”
La Plata (2-0) scored all it would turn out to need in the bottom of the third. The Warriors loaded the bases with no outs, and Ryon came across the plate with the first run on a wild pitch. Later, Charlie Sturman’s two-run single increased the lead to 3-0.
In the fifth, La Plata tacked on five more runs though the squad produced just three singles — none of which left the infield. Four walks and an error aided the La Plata cause and sealed the game’s outcome.
La Plata had squandered an early opportunity, leaving the bases loaded in the first. The Warriors loaded the bases — on a walk and two hit batters — with nobody down but failed to score. The Warriors left them loaded again in the third and the fifth, as well.
“McDonough’s pitchers did a nice job,” DeVitis said. “We didn’t really hit the ball that well tonight. Three or four times we had opportunities to break the game wide open and couldn’t get it done. But the major thing is we won.”
McDonough, which dropped its opener to North Point by a 10-3 count, hosts Lackey on Wednesday.
La Plata has outscored its opposition 24-0 through two games, but will need to be more efficient at the plate with runners on base moving forward. The Warriors play at Thomas Stone on Wednesday and at Northern on Friday.
“We need to pick it up when we get guys on base,” Ryon said. “That’s something we’re going to work on.”
With an essentially brand-new team on the diamond, the Warriors are struggling a bit with the mental aspect of the game, according to DeVitis. With the luxury of an experienced, senior-laded team a year ago, that was generally not an issue.
“It’s a much different-looking team, a different group of kids,” DeVitis said. “Our seniors starting, other than Seth Donnelly and Nate, nobody really has a lot of experience. We’re trying to do a lot in a little bit of time. As a coaching staff we have to be patient. These are new kids in new situations. The kids are really working hard.”
And the Warriors are working to jell into a cohesive unit as well, another thing that last year’s group did not need to work on after coming through the ranks together.
“We’ve come together a lot on the team,” Ryon said. “The better we come together the better we play as a team, and that’s really what it’s all about — team chemistry.”
La Plata 8, McDonough 0
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Basketball: SMAC All-Star games
Posted on 20 March 2009 by .
Chopticon High hosted this year’s SMAC basketball Senior All-Star games on Friday night. The South team won the girls game 47-40 in the opener, with Huntingtown’s Savannah Hardy earning the honor as the squad’s Most Outstanding Player after scoring 11 points. Lackey’s Shavonne Duckett took the North’s honors after a 15-point effort.
Led by Lackey’s Rashad Beam and his 20 points, the North boys took a 94-79 decision in the nightcap. Beam took home the boys honors, while Chopticon’s Devon Yates earned the nod for the South after scoring 11.
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Altered States No. 8
Posted on 19 March 2009 by .
Altered States, No. 8
March 20, 2008
Well, I got through one night with my bracket intact — barely. The first couple days are always the most fun, as long as you don’t lose your Final Four teams right away. I’m planning on riding Villanova a long way, and man, American had me sweating last night.
The truth is in the last couple years I haven’t followed it all as ridiculously close as I used to. There just isn’t enough time. But as long as I beat McCray …
And with the tournament started, it also signals the start of spring, which is always a good thing. A couple track teams are coming off state-champion winter seasons, and Northern softball and La Plata baseball defend last year’s state championships. A person would be hard-pressed to find a better conference for those two sports anywhere in the state. And more than anything else, it’s just nice to be back outside.
Thinking of state championships, Westlake had its football banquet this past week to celebrate its state championship season this past fall. The varsity players got their rings, and the number of former Wolverine Randy Starks was retired. After Westlake, Starks went on to play at Maryland and has played in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans and Miami Dolphins. Go HERE to check out some pictures from the night.
See ya’ out there, and spring coaches/stat people, remember the score e-mail and hotline: dcmetroscores@digitalsports.com or call 703-401-4016.
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Altered States No. 7
Posted on 10 March 2009 by .
Altered States, No. 7
March 10, 2009
You ever just get hooked on something and couldn’t stop? Of course, we all have at one time or another. Well, McCray challenged me to this word game on the computer and in the past few days every free second, though there haven’t been many, I’ve been playing this stupid game. My wife’s even played a couple and got mad when I accidentally erased her high score.
But I can’t stop, not yet, because head-to-head against McCray I’m something along the lines of 13-30. It’s not really accurate, though, because he was familiar with the game and I wasn’t. So you chalk up most of the losses to that. But he made the mistake of getting a little too happy about it, and now he’s going to be so buried in challenges it’s going to take him until summer to play them all. And I’m not stopping until I hit .500.
That said, it was a busy week last week. Regional basketball finals, state wrestling — did anything else go on last weekend?
It’s going to be a lot of fun to see Stone back in the state semifinals this year. Would have been nice if they would have had some company from the SMAC, too, but it isn’t easy making it through those regions. And to think, that 3A South is going to get even tougher when Stone drops back into it.
But congrats to all the basketball teams, girls and boys.
Saturday, I spent the whole day at Wise watching the 3A South and 4A South girls and boys finals, which was fine, but it felt a little strange. In the years past that was always a day at the state wrestling tournament. In the years I’ve covered it the conference never had fewer than two state champs, and that was last year when La Plata won the team title, as well. This year there was just one, and part of me feels like it was my fault for upsetting the routine. But congratulations to Jeffrey Williams for bringing one home.
You know, this is a really happy time of year for me. It’s getting close to spring and nicer weather, but most importantly the Phillies are defending champs! Forgive me, been waiting to say that for a while. But just thinking of spring sports locally, we have a new e-mail and phone number to report scores to (because all of you coaches have just been clogging my lines with your nightly updates). We’re going to try to keep all of the region’s scores together, and any coaches out there reading you can send your scores to dcmetroscores@digitalsports.com or call 703-401-4016.
See ya’ out there————–
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Basketball: Results from 3/5
Posted on 05 March 2009 by .
Boys
4A East
Thomas Stone 65, Old Mill 55
3A South
Lackey 81, Chopticon 62
Friendly 64, Huntingtown 43
Girls
4A East
Old Mill 46, Leonardtown 44
3A South
Great Mills 53, Huntingtown 51
2A South
North Point 37, McDonough 19
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Basketball: Playoff Results from 3/4
Posted on 04 March 2009 by .
Boys
4A East
Old Mill 91, Leonardtown 55
3A South
Huntingtown 59, Crossland 57
Chopticon 66, La Plata 55
Friendly 85, Northern 66
Girls
4A East
Leonardtown 45, Thomas Stone 21
3A South
Huntingtown 63, Westlake 45
Great Mills 57, Chopticon 31
Crossland 60, Northern 38
Larissa Pitrat led Northern with 13 points.
2A South
McDonough 33, Calvert 32
E-mail results to astates@digitalsports.com
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