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Last year, Damascus came into the Maryland 3A state championship game riding a 53-game winning streak and having won three state titles in a row. Then something unexpected happened — they lost to Oakdale. With a chance to reclaim the championship trophy, the Swarmin’ Hornets left nothing to chance Thursday night routing Linganore (12-2) 38-0 […]

Damascus defensive lineman Bryan Bresee has won a state title (2017) and almost every imaginable individual award and honor for which he’s eligible. Now he’s got a story for his grandkids. Bresee broke his hand in the first half of the Hornets’ 3A state semi-final win over Huntingtown November 29. He stayed in the game […]

Two Montgomery County teams, Northwest and Damascus, are gearing up for their respective state football title games on back-to-back nights this week at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. The Swarmin’ Hornets of Damascus (12-2) take on the Linganore Lancers (12-1) from Frederick in the 3A state championship game on Thursday at 7 pm. The […]

If you’re a football fan and you live in Montgomery County, there’s only one place to be Friday night — the Cougar Dome in Gaithersburg — where Quince Orchard (12-0) hosts Northwest (11-1) at 7 p.m. for the right to play in the state 4A championship game. The state semi-final game promises to be the […]

Kayla DiCello is a 15-year-old sophomore at Northwest High School who is doing big things. Over the summer, she made a splash at the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships winning three gold medals. And last week, the Montgomery County Council honored her for her accomplishments. Next July – if all goes well – DiCello could be […]

The fact that the nation’s top-rated high school football player — Damascus defensive lineman Bryan Bresee — made the biggest play of the game came as no surprise. What was stunning was that the Clemson-bound senior clinched the win for the Hornets on offense…as a running back. With just over a minute to go in […]

Cougar Dome – Gaithersburg, MD:  Friday, November 21, 2019 Quince Orchard kept it grounded against Arundel in the third round of the MPSSAA State football playoffs.  Amid some on and off-field distractions, Quince Orchard took this game in business-like fashion.  They dispatched the upstarts from Annapolis 69-32 in a wild and chippy game. Arundel upset […]

Four Montgomery County football teams are still alive heading into the third week of the playoffs. In 4A play: Quince Orchard (11-0) hosts Arundel (8-3) Northwest (10-1) hosts Paint Branch (10-1) Winners advance to the state semi-finals next week. In 3A play, 9-2 Damascus, led by Clemson-bound defensive lineman Bryan Bresee, the best player in […]

Gerardo Parra, the popular reserve outfielder and the inadvertent creator of the Nats’ Baby Shark phenomenon, sent out his official farewell message to Nats’ fans via Twitter. https://twitter.com/88_gparra/status/1197602534485110784?s=20

Gerardo Parra, the man responsible for the Baby Shark phenomenon that became synonymous with the Washington Nationals’ run to a World Series title will not be back for the 2020 season. The 32-year-old outfielder signed a deal with Yomiuri Giants in Japan’s Nippon professional baseball league this week. Parra was signed by the Nats in […]