River Hill Wins Battle of Unbeatens to Win Maryland 2A Title

River Hill captured the school's first Maryland high school football championship Saturday beating Eastern Tech 14-7 in the 2A final.

Both teams entered the game with unbeaten records. Eastern Tech had driven inside the River Hill 10-yard line when time expired.

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Dunbar's Maryland 1A Championship Poetic Justice

Tomorrow would have been the late Ben Eaton's 59th birthday. Eaton died August 27th putting extra meaning into Dunbar's drive for a second straight Maryland 1A high school football championship.

The team honored its former head coach Saturday with a 58-34 win over Allegany in the title game. It was the Poets fifth championship.

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Quince Orchard Stages Huge Comeback to Win Maryland 4A Title

With eight minutes to go in its Maryland 4A high school football championship against Quince Orchard trailed Arundel 23-7...when the final horn sounded...Quince Orchard was ahead on the scoreboard 36-30.

Running back Thomas Addison was the big man in the 29-point fourth quarter. Addison scored on runs of 28, 86 and 42 yards and finished the night with 19 carries for 219-yards.

To read a complete recap of the comeback, click here.

Damascus Captures Maryland's 3A Championship

Another big weekend of handing out the hardware began Thursday night with the first championship trophy being awarded in Maryland.

Damascus (13-1) beat Hereford 40-20 for Maryland's 3A championship. Damascus was led by Kyle Frazier, who was very efficient completing 10-of-13 pases for 211 yards and four touchdowns. His top receiver was Lee Hertel, who caught six of Frazier's ten completions for 166 yards and one touchdown. When Frazier wasn't throwing he was handing off to running back Evan Zedler, who carried the ball 33 times for 203 yards and a touchdown.

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Maryland 4A Championship Game Preview

When Arundel plays Quince Orchard on Friday night for the Maryland 4A high school football championship all eyes will be on Arundel's quarterback Nick Elko, who has spent the season rewriting the state's passing record book.

Last week when the Cougars beat defending state champion Suitland 14-13, Elko tossed his 39th and 40th touchdown passes of the year that set a Maryland single-season mark. On Friday, he can set two more. Elko is 205 yards aways from the single-season record for passing yardage and 12 completions short of the single-season record of 237.

For a preview of the game, click here.

Championship Schedule
at M&T Bank Stadium

Class 3A Final
Thursday, December 6, 2007

Hereford vs. Damascus

Class 4A Final
Friday, December 7, 2007

Quince Orchard vs. Arundel

Class 1A
Saturday, December 8, 2007

Dunbar vs. Allegany

Class 2A
Saturday, December 8, 2007

River Hill vs. Eastern Tech

Maryland High School Football Scoreboard - Semifinals

Maryland High School Football Scores
Friday & Saturday, November 30 & December 1, 2007

Semifinals

4A
Arundel 14 Suitland 13
Quince Orchard 24 Thomas Johnson 7

3A
Damascus 35 Wilde Lake 6
Hereford 35 Lackey 20

2A
Eastern Tech 35 Clarksburg 0
River Hill 28 Elkton 0

1A
Dunbar 34 South Carroll 8
Allegany 27 Joppatowne 21

Maryland High School Football Semifinal Match-Ups

Defending 4A state champ Suitland will host Arundel in a Maryland Class 4A semifinal. Suitland has won 25 straight. In the other semi, top-ranked Quince Orchard plays Thomas Jefferson.

Here's the rest of the semifinal match-ups...

Class 4A

Friday, November 30, 2007
Thomas Johnson at Quince Orchard

Saturday, December 1, 2007
Arundel at Suitland

Class 3A

Friday, November 30, 2007
Lackey at Hereford
Wilde Lake at Damascus

Class 2A

Friday, November 30, 2007
Elkton at River Hill
Clarksburg at Eastern Tech

Class 1A

Friday, November 30, 2007
Joppatowne at Allegany
No. 1 Dunbar vs. No. 4 South Carroll
at Greenway Avenue Stadium

Saturday, December 1, 2007
South Carroll at Dunbar
at Poly Complex

DeMatha Wins Fifth Straight Washington Catholic Athletic Conference Title

2007 won't go down as DeMatha's (Hyattsville, MD) most dominating performance in its five year run of Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles, but it end just like the four prior ones...with a win.

DeMatha beat Good Counsel 12-7 on Sunday to capture its fifth straight crown and 15th in head coach Bill McGregor's 26 years as the main guy.

The Stags won it with a solid defense that limited Good Counsel to 132 yards of total offense. The championship comes just two weeks after Good Counsel came from behind to beat the Stags 28-24.

To read more about the Stags' win, click here.

Maryland High School Football Scoreboard - Week 3

Maryland High School Football Scores
Friday, September 21, 2007

Allegany 33, Beall/Mountain Ridge 18
Archbishop Spalding 17, Archbishop Curley 7
Atholton 17, Howard 6
Bladensburg 24, Laurel 14
Bowie 36, High Point 0
C. H. Flowers 41, DuVal 0
Dunbar 47, Baltimore Douglass 0
Edmondson/Westside 28, City College 27
Eleanor Roosevelt 25, Parkdale 0
Fort Hill 45, Oakland Southern 12
Frederick Douglass 44, Central 0
Friendly 36, Crossland 0
Hammond 43, Mt. Hebron 7
Keyser, W.Va. 48, Northern - G 22
Long Reach 7, Centennial 6
Maryland Christian 25, Annapolis Christian 7
North Harford 13, Elkton 6
Snow Hill 30, Col. Richardson 0
Stephen Decatur 35, Kent Island 21
Suitland 21, Oxon Hill 9
Tower Hill (DE) 19, Harford Tech 7
Wilde Lake 45, Marriott's Ridge 12
Winters Mill 21, Smithsburg 9

Maryland High School Football Scoreboard - Week 2

Maryland High School Football Scores
Friday, September 7, 2007

Albert Einstein 26, Wheaton 0
Allegany 52, Oakland Southern 12 
Arundel 34, Broadneck 28
Atholton 20, Centennial 0 
Baltimore Poly 23, Digital Harbor 6
Baltimore-Lutheran 21, Clear Spring 0 
Carver Vo- Tech 24, Southwestern 0 
Catonsville 23, Cardinal Gibbons 7 
Century 35, South Hagerstown 20 
City College 36, Forest Park 20 
Damascus 24, John F. Kennedy 6 
Eastern Tech 49, Western STES 6 
Elkton 17, Edgewood 14 
Fort Hill 31, Frankfort, (WV) 6 
Francis Scott Key 14, Westminster 9 
Frederick 21, Tuscarora 0 
Gaithersburg 7, Springbrook 0 
Harwood Southern 21, Largo 13 
Heritage (Leesburg) (VA)26, North Hagerstown 20 
Howard 41, Oakland Mills 29 
Lansdowne 18, Loch Raven 12 
Linganore 42, Lake Clifton 6 
Marriott's Ridge 28, Hammond 24
Maryland School for the Deaf 28, Southside Academy 8 
McDonough 14, Huntingtown 0 
Mergenthaler 21, Baltimore Northwestern 14
Middletown 53, Liberty 36 
Moorefield (WV) 14 Boonsboro 13 
Mt. St. Joseph's 47, Archbishop Spalding 14 
North Caroline 8, Kent County 0 
North Carroll 32, Joppatowne 17
North County 13, Pasadena Chesapeake 6 
North Harford 34, Annapolis 6 
Old Mill 23, Severna Park 8 
Pallotti 26, Harford Tech 6
Parkside 26, James M. Bennett 13 
Patapsco 7, Dundalk 0 
Poolesville 20, Brunswick 16
Queen Anne's 17, Col. Richardson 0 
Quince Orchard 41, Wootton 6 
Reservoir 42, Long Reach 14
River Hill 48, Mt. Hebron 0 
Rockville 21, Northwood 0
Saint Paul's Boys 14, Perry Hall 12
Seneca Valley 41, Watkins Mill 20 
Severn 18, Catoctin 14 
Sherwood 21, Magruder 2 
Smithsburg 27, Northern 0 
Snow Hill 16, Seaford (DE) 0 
South Carroll 26, Williamsport 6
South River 34, Glen Burnie 6 
St. John's Catholic Prep 10, Bohemia Manor 0
Stephen Decatur 58, Washington 0 
Thomas Johnson 38, Northeast - AA 0 
Thomas Stone 32, Leonardtown 12 
Urbana 12, Lackey 0 
Wilde Lake 24, Glenelg 7 
Winston Churchill 28, Richard Montgomery 14 
Winters Mill 13, Walkersville 7

#4 St. Xavier (OH) Downs #5 DeMatha (MD)

St. Xavier of Cincinnati scored 21 unanswered points on its way to a 28-7 win over DeMatha from Hyattsville, Maryland in Sunday's showdown between national powers in the Kirk Herbstreit Ohio Vs. USA Challenge III. The loss snapped DeMatha's 22-game win streak.

St. X, which entered the game ranked #4 by USA Today, was playing without its star running back Darius Ashley, who sprained his ankle in the team's season opener. In Ashley's absence quarterback John Hurley threw three TD passes, while Patrick Berning rushed for 99-yards and one touchdown.

The St. Xavier defense was awesome allowing just 132 yards in total offense. Meanwhile the DeMatha "D" was really tested. In fact, the 28 points allowed was the more than it allowed in the Stags first seven games combined in 2006.

To read a complete game wrap from the Washington Post, please click on our headline "#4 St. Xavier Downs #5 DeMatha".

Preview #4 St. Xavier (OH) vs. #5 DeMatha (MD)

Ohio versus USA Challenge III has eleven big games, but maybe none bigger than Sunday's showdown in Cincinnati where St. Xavier, ranked #4 by the USA Today, takes on DeMatha of Hyattsville, Maryland, ranked #5 by USA Today.

It will be a national stage for DeMatha head coach Bill McGregor, who since taking over the reigns of the program in 1982 is 239-32-3!!

To read more about McGregor and a preview of Sunday's game from The Enquirer, please click on our headline "Preview #4 St. Xavier vs. #5 DeMatha".