Maryland High School Football News

Posted November 18, 2009, 5:12 p.m. With the regular season coming to a close last Friday, I have a confession to make: the best part about covering high school football is the food.

They met on a cold, somber Thanksgiving 50 years ago, two invincible football teams slugging it out for the Baltimore public schools championship before an announced 25,000 at Memorial Stadium .

Despite a valiant effort by Franklin's Navassa Brown, Hereford senior tailback Zach Witkowski slipped through several tackles on a 36-yard touchdown run in the Class 3A North Region final Friday night in Parkton.

Atholton sophomore defensive back Morgan Powell breaks up a pass intended for River Hill senior tight end Nick Bonhag.

The Anne Arundel County Youth Football Association will culminate another successful season today at Arundel High, where all seven Division I championship games will be held in front of thousands of fans.

Old Mill's Josh Furman ran for 414 yards and six touchdowns Friday night against Arundel in the 4A East Region playoffs.

In probably the biggest turnaround in the long series, the second-seeded Allegany Campers came back from a 14-0 deficit to roll over the top-seeded an previously unbeaten Fort Hill Sentinels, 35-14, for the Maryland Class 1A West Region championship Friday night at Greenway Avenue Stadium.

N.C. State athletics officials said yesterday that the ACC office has told them that a disputed call in last week's game against Clemson should have been reversed in the Wolfpack's favor.

Four Green Hornets football teams will play in their respective Anne Arundel County Youth Football Association championship game slated for Saturday and Sunday.

Teams that win championships can usually point to one game during the season in which they had to overcome adversity.

Neither wind nor rain nor North Caroline could keep Kent Island from delivering a 35-0 victory and a school-record 10th win in the Class 2A East Region football semifinal last night.

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Westlake took care of business on its muddy football field Friday night in a rain-soaked Class 3A South region semifinal contest, downing Potomac in a 30-12 first-round playoffs victory.

Franklin found just enough offense to squeak by Poly, 10-8, in a Class 3A North Region semifinal Friday evening at the Engineersa Lumsden Field.

After being held to just a field goal in the first half, top-seeded Huntingtown responded with a 20-point second half to put a 23-0 blanking on fourth-seeded Lackey in Saturday night's Class 3A South region semifinal match-up. Huntingtown will host second-seeded Westlake on Friday night in the regional final, pitting the decision that Maryland ...

Star senior running back Patrick Steele's fumble on a solid hit by Archbishop Spalding's K'Vaunte Smith was one of several miscues that cost Boys' Latin a chance to finish the season unbeaten.

I love Troy Polamalu. Brian Dawkins and Hines Ward, too. I love the way that these players play the game: In a tough, gritty, and never-stop-fighting, never-start-caringA attitude.

Five Southern Maryland Athletic Conference football teams are hopeful of doing what the league has accomplished only once before in all its years of existence.

After a slow start on offense in Saturday's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference football championship, Archbishop Spalding wanted a big second-half play to break through against Boys' Latin.

In their quest for a third straight state title, River Hill got off to an auspicious start, rolling over an overmatched James M. Bennett team Friday night, 70-0. An unusually light home crowd watched through intermittent rain as six different Hawks scored during a game River Hill controlled from the outset.