Evan Laratta’s win in the 3,200 keyed a first-ever county championship for the QO boys’ indoor track team. Laratta also finished second in the 1,600. Jack O’Keefe is also a county champion in the high jump, and important second place finishes counted heavily in the team standings. Evan Burnham in the 800, Malcolm Brown...
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Quince Orchard’s undefeated football season came to a halt in Baltimore on Dec. 2. The Cougars lost in overtime to Old Mill 36-35 at the state 4A championship. Quince Orchard was ahead the entire game until the end of the fourth quarter. When Old Mill scored a touchdown in the overtime period, instead of...
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UPDATE Old Mill wins 36-35 in overtime. The Quince Orchard Cougars travel to Baltimore tonight to take on Old Mill in the Maryland 4A state championship game. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. at M & T Bank Stadium, tickets cost $8. Both teams are undefeated and enter the game with a perfect 13-0 record....
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UPDATED The Baltimore Ravens locker room hosted a luncheon today for the press and coaches in the upcoming Maryland high school football semifinals game. Cougars Coach Dave Mencarini, seated next to his opposition from CH Flowers, Michael Mayo, hit the lunch line twice, his part in getting ready to go on Friday. Quince Orchard...
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UPDATE CH Flowers of Springdale, 16th-ranked at 9-3, will face the top-ranked QO Cougars (12-0) Friday (Nov. 25) night at 7 p.m. They defeated 9th-ranked Suitland, 14-7, Saturday afternoon in Suitland. There are few experiences in life that teach young people how quixotic life can be. QO’s Chris McPherson, the Cougars’ place kicker, learned...
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Evan Laratta, senior captain of the Quince Orchard Cross Country team, and a proud Lakelander, had never won a County Championship. He was not favored to win this year’s either. Will Conway of Churchill was the favorite based on faster times during the season. Conway lost to Laratta by 9 seconds as the QO...
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Dave Mencarini’s Cougars opens the season against Sherwood tonight ranked #4 in the Metro area. The chief reason is defense. Talking about them, Mencarini almost drools: “We have seven starters back and they are the heart and soul of the team.” Kieran Gregory and Darnell Leslie will anchor the outside at end with Marcus...
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It must seem a lifetime ago, when Bani Gbadyu arrived in the United States from his native Liberia. He went to elementary school in Maryland where he remembers some racial and cultural challenges. Looking back now, from his perspective as a graduate of Penn State, he says: “Getting teased in elementary school, moving around...
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The Diamond Farm Stingrays swim team is moving up to Division M in the summer of 2012 after winning the divisional meet on July 23 and ending the season undefeated (5-0). “The spirit of our team continued to amaze me as it has all season; each meet this year topped the one before as...
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