Category: High School

Most Baltimore City high school football buffs will have their attention locked on this Saturday’s matchup between Dunbar (6-1 overall) and Edmondson Westside (5-2 overall), two top contenders for postseason play. But even the top contenders would warn you not to overlook teams like the City College Black Knights, who aren’t far from the top […]

Click here to view a slideshow of Patterson High School’s victory over Lake Clifton. A good team occasionally lets its guard down when facing inferior opponents, but Patterson High School stayed on their game as they made light work of a struggling Lake Clifton on Oct. 14. Fresh off a big win against City College […]

Last season the AFRO overheard Dunbar Poets’ football coach Lawrence Smith tell his players during a post-game pep talk that they’re sending a message with every game that Dunbar “still rules Baltimore City.” That regal attitude and mentality to prove themselves as the very best is perhaps the reason Dunbar has won more Baltimore City […]

Click here to view more photos of Suitland’s victory over the Flowers Jaguars. It was a play that Suitland quarterback Nyema Washington said the team runs in practice all the time: a simple roll out to the right and a throw back to the left. But Washington didn’t expect it to work against a tough […]

Click here to view a slideshow of Gonzaga’s victory over DeMatha Ten straight losses to an opponent doesn’t exactly scream rivalry, but the facts don’t often tell the whole story. There isn’t a bigger matchup in the Washington, D.C. area than DeMatha vs. Gonzaga, even if the latter hadn’t defeated DeMatha in the last ten […]

Football hazing is back in the spotlight after a Florida high school freshman was beaten by his teammates in an apparently ritual-like incident. Darrion Denson, a student at Dr. Phillips High in Orlando, entered through the front door of the team’s locker room in spite of the custom for freshman to enter through the back […]

Rivalry, disrespect or oversight—whatever the reasons, maybe the Gilman Greyhounds just don’t like teams from the Washington, D.C. area. A few weeks ago, Baltimore’s top-ranked school dismantled Good Counsel, last year’s Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) champion, 28-7, at the I-95 Kickoff Classic. On Sept. 18, it was DeMatha, last year’s WCAC runner-up, who was […]

Matchups between top Baltimore and Washington, D.C. high school football programs have been an ongoing trend this fall. Baltimore’s Calvert Hall Cardinals’ 21-6 dismantling of the District’s Dunbar Crimson Tide on Sept. 10 continued the season’s other trend: the dominance of Baltimore schools over District opponents. In front of a crowd of fans, evenly split […]

Matchups between top Baltimore and Washington, D.C. high school football programs have been an ongoing trend this fall. Baltimore’s Calvert Hall Cardinals’ 21-6 dismantling of the District’s Dunbar Crimson Tide on Sept. 10 continued the season’s other trend: the dominance of Baltimore schools over District opponents. In front of a crowd of fans at Dunbar […]

Maryland high school football powers DeMatha and Gilman are set to meet on Sept 20, but they first tuned up for the big game later this month by brushing off opponents at the inaugural I-95 Kickoff Classic at Towson University on September 4. With rushing attacks that would make professional teams envy, both schools displayed […]

Team USA’s 14-and-under national baseball team will be headed to Managua, Nicaragua, on July 22, and they’ll be taking a piece of Baltimore with them. Baltimore native Troy Stokes Jr. is one of only 18 youths selected to represent the U.S. in the COPABE Pan Am ‘A’ 14U Championships scheduled to begin this weekend. With […]

“They say he’s an All-American, well show me something!” one spectator demanded. “This ain’t no Catholic league son; it’s the blacktop,” another bystander declared. The vultures were out in cut throat fashion and ready to pounce on Tuesday at Washington, D.C.’s Goodman League. With their sights set on DeMatha High School’s decorated point guard Quinn […]