Category: High School

As the deficit continued to mount, Sherrod Baltimore never lost his cool. With each timeout, the Friendly Patriots’ senior point guard continued to strut to his bench and tell his coach that they would find victory somewhere, even if a stunned crowd couldn’t see it coming. Baltimore plays both football and basketball for Friendly but […]

If it’s one thing the Eleanor Roosevelt Raiders boys’ basketball team can do, it’s play defense. The Greenbelt, Md. school held an opponent to 19 points earlier this season, and they followed that up with perhaps their second most impressive performance of the season in a 51-30 win over the Charles Herbert Flowers Jaguars in […]

A deep run through the Maryland state high school basketball playoffs may be easier than expected for the Patterson Clippers of Baltimore, Md. The top-ranked Patterson squad ripped Urbana High School, 93-54, in the 4A North Regional Semifinals on March 4 at Morgan State University. No one has been able to stop Patterson’s star sophomore […]

The No. 1 ranked Patterson High School Clippers didn’t have any problems advancing past the first round of the Maryland Class 4A Regional’s, thanks primarily to sophomore sensation Aquille Carr, easily considered the best high school basketball player in Baltimore City. Carr nearly recorded a triple-double of 39 points, 16 assists and eight rebounds, helping […]

The atmosphere was circus-like. Moments before the start of the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) championship, there was a distinct buzz in the air. As an evenly split crowd continued to fill American University’s Bender Arena on Feb. 28 for their third-straight helping of a Gonzaga vs. DeMatha title game, the anticipation was mounting. Nearly […]

The Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) hosted its semifinal playoff games at American University in northwest Washington, D.C. on Feb. 27. Longtime rivals DeMatha and Gonzaga will meet in the WCAC championship game on Feb. 28 at 8:30 p.m. The AFRO recaps the days high school hoops playoff action. Paul VII Panthers (Fairfax, Va.) vs. […]

The Gonzaga Eagles have worked hard all season, but the team appeared ready to turn it up a notch for their Washington Catholic Athletic Association Conference (WCAC) playoff run. In a quarterfinal game against the St. Mary’s Ryken Knights on Feb. 25, Gonzaga showed that fire and handed the St. Mary’s their largest defeat since […]

The City College Black Knights knew that to win their third straight Baltimore City Division I High School Basketball Championship they would have to stop the No. 1 ranked Patterson Clippers and sophomore sensation Aquille Carr, considered the best player in the city. And for the entire first half, it appeared as if City College […]

Surrattsville High School guards Chaz White and William Johnson are not strangers. The two seniors have been playing side by side in the backcourt for quite some time, and their on-court chemistry is evident. So, on a night where Johnson fouled out early, it was his partner White who picked up the slack to help […]

With first place on the line in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference, the DeMatha Stags and Gonzaga Eagles gathered to renew their historic rivalry Feb. 20 at DeMatha’s Convocation Center in Hyattsville, Md. One week after Gonzaga held on for a 62-52 win at home Feb. 13 over their rivals in Washington, D.C., DeMatha players […]

There isn’t any love lost between Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) powers the DeMatha Stags and the Gonzaga Eagles. So fittingly, on Feb. 13th the day before St. Valentine’s Day, the two schools gathered to exchange pleasantries at Washington, D.C.’s Gallaudet University. Games between the two schools typically draw enough of a crowd to surpass […]

Mike Daniels, coach of the No. 9-ranked City College Black Knights boys’ basketball team, wondered how his players would respond after a fight broke out between players and students in the stands during their game against the defending Baltimore City champs, Edmondson Westside on Feb. 4. But even a shorthanded roster couldn’t stop the City […]