MD – MIAA | Archive | April, 2008

by Joe DiBlasi

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Archbishop Spalding  got a lead off home run off the bat of left-fielder Matt Hillsinger to start the game, a bases loaded double by catcher Eddie Palmer in a five-run second inning and a two-run double from third-baseman Adam Summerfeldt, in a four run third, and the second-ranked Cavaliers would go on to a 10-3 romp over #1 Calvert Hall at Carlo Crispino Stadium, on Wednesday.

With the win, the Cavs (24-4, 13-2) moved into first place in the MIAA A Conference, taking a half game lead over the Cardinals (20-6, 12-2)  and marking the first time that Calvert Hall has not at least held a share of first place since 2006.

Senior Paul DeVito, who got the win, held the Cards to seven hits in six and one-third innings of work and Jason Patten got the last two outs in the seventh to preserve the win for coach Steve Miller.

“I made good pitches that I needed to make to get out of difficulty,” said DeVito.  “They’re a real good team, and they make you work hard.”

The Cavs turned two doubleplays to stop Cardinal threats and DeVito and Patten combined to fan eight hitters.

DeVito missed three weeks earlier in the season with a wrist injury, sustained when a line drive back to the mound took him out of the rotation.  He has been the ace of the Cavalier staff for much of his career, and his healthy return to form will bolster Spalding’s shot at the title this season.  

Calvert Hall answered the Hellsinger homer in the first, when shortstop Patrick Blair singled in Patrick Fitzgerald to tie the score.  Blair was a bright spot again for coach Lou Eckerl, going 3-for-3 with a home run and two RBI.

Fitzgerald reached base four times, with three walks and a lead-off single in the seventh.

“DeVito had real good stuff today,” said Blair.  “I take my hat off to Spalding, they outplayed us today.”

Calvert Hall starter Blake Geiger retired the first two batters he faced in the Spalding sceond, but then the roof caved in.

Kevin Moran, the outstanding quarterback on the Cavalier football team last fall, reached on an infield single, Hillsinger walked and Adam Summerfeldt singled to score the speedy Moran.  Then, with runners on first and third, the Cavs pulled a double-steal. Card’s catcher Luke Sawyer threw through to second, and shortstop Blair immediately fired home, but Hillsinger beat the throw and the Cavs were up 3-1.

Things got worse for Geiger, as he walked Jeff Kemp and Kody Hines to load the bases, and Palmer wrapped a double to center
to plate three more Cavalier runs.

Spalding would get four more in the third, when Patten doubled with one away.  Patten also stole third and scored when Moran hit a grounder to short.  With Moran on first with a fielder’s choice, Hillsinger reached base on an infield error and the rampaging Cavaliers pulled another double steal before Summerfeldt smashed a double to deep center, scoring two more.

Coach Lou Eckerl used five pitchers on the day, in an effort to keep his staff rested with games on Thursday at Loyola, and on Saturday at St. Paul’s.  Both the Dons (18-6, 8-4) and the Crusaders (14-7, 8-5) have been playing well recently as they sit in fourth and fifth place, respectively, just behind third-place Curley (15-6, 9-4).  Spalding plays  Blakefield, on Friday, so by weeks end, the A Conference standings could be shuffled even more.

Cardinal Gibbons (13-9, 5-8), which has proven it can beat anybody in the league, currently holds a one game advantage over John Carroll and two-game lead over Mount St. Joseph in the race for the sixth and final spot in the tournament.

Archbishop Spalding 10, Calvert Hall 3
AS  154 000 0  –  10  8   0
CH  111 000 0  –   3  8   1
DeVito, Patten (7), and Palmer; Geiger, Terry (3), Geiss (4), Caddick (5), Trionfo (6) and Sawyer, Trout (5).
2B: AS-Palmer, Patten, Summerfeldt.
HR: AS-Hillsinger; CH-Blair.
WP DeVito   LP  Geiger

AS  1  5  4  0 0  0  0      10  8   0
CH   1 1  1  0 0  0  0        3  8   1

DeVito, Patten (7), and Palmer
Geiger, Terry (3), Geiss (4), Caddick (5), Trionfo (6) and Sawyer, Trout (5)

2B  AS–Palmer, Patten, Summerfeldt
HR  AS-Hillsinger; CH Blair

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Matt Lewis scored three times and assisted on a fourth goal, J.T. Rohe scored three times, Matt Feldhaus scored twice, and both Joey Tangires and Will Jenkins had a goal and an assist as Glenelg Country School edged the Key School, 11-10, in Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference boys lacrosse action on Wednesday.

Devin Conway made seven saves for Glenelg Country School.

GCS: Goals – Matt Lewis- 3; J.T. Rohe- 3; Matt Feldhaus- 2;  Joe Clark- 1; Will Jenkins- 1; Joey Tangires- 1.

Assists: Joey Tangires- 3; Will Jenkins- 1; Matt Lewis- 1.

Saves: Devin Conway- 7

Key: Goals- T. Anthony- 3; Schroder- 3; Maldonata- 2; Ewing- 1. Assists: Flanagan- 4; T. Anothony- 2; Moldonata- 1.

Saves: Casey- 7.

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Archbishop Spalding coach Mike Whittles reports that at least 10 of his players from this past year’s Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference runners-up are planning to play football in
college.

“I am most proud of the academic
achievements for these athletes.  Spalding continues to
stress strong academics in preparation for college, and these players are
well prepared,” said Whittles, whose Cavaliers were two-time champions prior to last season.

“This is the highest number by far of football players from
a single class going on to play in college,” Whittles said.  “Over the last three years, we have
had hundreds of college coaches come to school and speak with our players. 
Archbishop Spalding football has come a long way. These students are
awesome.”

List of  Cavaliers’ players planning to play football in college starting in the fall:

Brandon
Matter, Wesley College, 6-foot-1, 290 pounds, defensive tackle

Jim
Lohr, Frostburg State University, 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, wide reciever

Nick Shackelford, Albright College, 5-foot-9, 185 pounds, linebacker

Kellin Morris, SUNy Maritime, 5-foot-11, 220 pounds, linebacker/fullback

Adam James, Salisbury, 6-foot-2, 215 pounds, tight end

Kevin
Moran, Salisbury, 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, quarterback

Jimmy
Thomas, Holy Cross, 6-foot-2, 190 pounds, defensive end

Mike
Brandenburg, Wesley College, 6-foot-1, 175 pounds, defensive back

Pat
Mangum, SUNY Maritime, 5-foot-10, 175 pounds, wide receiver

Ryan
Clarke, Ithaca College, 5-foot-10, 195 pounds, linebacker

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The Archbishop Curley, which has won the team title at the last two MIAA Track & Field Championship meets, edged closer to capturing the outright MIAA A Conference dual meet title with 80-66 victory over Gilman, yesterday.

The Friars, now 4-0  in the conference, are the only remaining unbeaten in the league and they can lock up the outright crown with a victory over Mount St. Joseph, next week.

Curley, which has also won three invitational titles this year, last won the dual meet title in 2005.  Combined with their championship meet victories has now captured at least one MIAA track title in each of the last four years.  And, when the championship meet is held at Calvert Hall in two weeks, Curley will be looking to win the Hoffman Cup, named in honor of Friars’ head coach Gene Hoffman, for a third straight year.

Prior to the 2006 season, the MIAA coaches voted to name the team championship award at the MIAA meet after Hoffman, in recognition of his nearly three decades of service to the league.  Since then, Curley has been the only team to hold “The Hoffman.”

Curley winners against Gilman included:

Eric Franklin  110 HH  (14.5) and 300IH (40.2)
Jerome Junior  100  (10.8) ,  High Jump (6′-2″), Long Jump  (20′-10″) and  Discus (128′)
George Chambers  400  (51.0) and 200 (22.5)  
Tim Skarda  3200  (10:25)
Byron Branch  Triple Jump  (40′)
4×100  (45.8)  Cuomo, Stevenson, Jones, Dandridge
4×200  Chambers, Cuomo, Stevenson, Dandridge

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McDonogh School grad Joe Yermal has made an immediate impact in his freshman campaign at Charlotte University. Yermal is undefeated in seven decisions on mound, gaining a no-decision in his last start Friday against Duquesne.

The six-foot, six inch righthander has a 2.73 earned-run average and 35 strikeouts in 66 innings for the 49ers, who lead the Atlantic 10 Conference. Yermal leads the conference in wins (four) and ranks in the top five in ERA (2.65; fifth), innings pitched (37.1; fourth) and opposing batters’ average (.223).

As a senior at McDonogh last spring, Yermal batted .434 with six home runs, earning Gatorade state player of the year honors. The Baltimore Orioles drafted him in the 39th round in last spring’s Major League amateur draft.

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Cardinal Gibbons’ lacrosse is on a quest to
capture the MIAA C Conference title after two years being denied in the
championship game.  The Crusaders had a large and accomplished senior
class in 2007, which led Gibbons to a combined 19-1 regular season and conference record
during 2006 and 2007.

Both years however, the Crusaders fell to
Chapelgate Christian in the title game.

Not much was expected of Gibbons in 2008, having graduated
its entire starting attack, its excellent faceoff man, and its top
defenseman.  Another returning starter on defense transfered out, and a top attackman left the school.

But, led by senior captain Dave Nesbit and junior captain goaltender
Christian Klimczyk, the Crusaders could be a factor
in the playoffs, yet again.

The Crusaders took league-leading Saint John’s Catholic Prep into double overtime before losing, 12 – 11. The Crusaders have knocked off Towson Catholic by the same score, as well as Baltimore Lutheran, by 11-9, over the past couple of weeks.

The Crusaders are 6-3 against the league with five games remaining, including a rematch with St. John’s. 

Junior Dave Stark and seniors Pat Hathaway and Dan Phelan
are leading the offense from the attack position, providing threats to opponents who focus primarily on Nesbit.

Seniors Jason Preston and Hunter Truette have been stalwarts at midfield,
joined in the last week by sophomore Mike Dougherty, who began the year on the junior varsity. Doughterty, however, has notched seven goals in the last six varsity games, including a hat trick against Baltimore Lutheran.

Klimczyk anchors an aggressive, high-pressure defensive
corps led by Don Gould and Travis Mitchell.  Senior Ryan Roth and
junior Will Foy round out the long stick unit.

The Crusaders play a pressure and gambling defense, having been a catalyst in the team’s fastbreak offense. Against Lutheran, for example, Foy and Gould
were credited with assists, and Preston had two assists.

In the Towson Catholic game, with the score tied at 11 with 27
seconds remaining, the Owls called time out to set up the potential game-winning play.

After the Crusader defense stopped the play, Klimczyk came up
with the ball with 12 seconds left. Following a long, outlet pass to Nesbit, the ensuing fast break resulted in Phelan’s scoring the game-winner off of a pass from Hathaway with four seconds left to play.

First-year coach Keith Reitenbach brings a lifetime of
lacrosse experience to the Crusaders’ sideline, and is determined to teach the Crusaders, in his words,
“the way the game was meant to be played.”

Reitenbach was a
member of the powerful Cornell University squads of the 1970’s. Among his assistants are Ralph Quillen and Matt Enoch, who share his love of the game, as well as the philosphies of spirited, fun, up-tempo lacrosse.

Quillen graduated from Towson High in 1991, from Essex in ’93, and from the University of Maryland in ’95. Enoch graduated from Loyola High in ’95, Essex in ’97, and Drexel in ’99.

The Crusaders look to win their next three weeks of games, particularly those on Friday, starting with St. John’s this week. Reitenbach coached St. John’s during its first three seasons in the MIAA, leading then St. John’s at Prospect Hall to the B Conference playoffs in 2004.

The Vikings’ current seniors were freshmen and
sophomores on Reitenbach’s St. John’s squads.

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Led by the pitching of sophomore Harrison Barton and an all-around offensive effort, Key School (1-10, 1-9 MIAA C Conference) capturedbroke through for its first win of the season, an 11-1 win over Indian Creek, yesterday in Annapolis.

Barton struck out 11 and gave up one hit in the complete-game effort. He also scored three times and smacked a triple. Fellow sophomores Maris Beigel (2-for-2, 3 runs) and Chris Fusco had solo home runs in the decisive fifth inning while sophomore Conrad Karsten had his first two hits of the season and drove in a pair of runs. Anthony Fusco added a run-scoring single and senior Jake Wechsler doubled and scored twice.

Justin Bengel struck out six batters and hit a solo home run for Indian Creek.

This was Key’s first conference win in school history.  This is the program’s second overall season and first in the MIAA C.

“It was nice to finally be on the other end,” Key coach James Peters said. “We did some good things today and Harrison just dominated on the mound.”

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Senior Paul DeVito pitched five strong innings, striking out eight, as second-ranked Archbishop Spalding rolled to an 8-1 victory over McDonogh, yesterday in Owings Mills.

It was Spalding’s fourth consecutive win and its 22nd of the year as the Cavaliers improved to 11-2 in the MIAA A Conference, where they are in a virtual tie for first place with Calvert Hall.

Jared **** and Robert Warren each pitched a scoreless inning in the win. Jason Patten was 3-for-3 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored.  Adam Summerfelt was 3-for-4 with a double, triple and two RBI.  Jeff kemp and Matt Hillsinger also had hits each, including a double each.

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