Category: High School

It didn’t take long for the City College Knights to bounce back from their first loss of the season at the hands of the Dunbar Poets last week. The Knights still remain near the top of the Baltimore’s high school football standings after a 20-14 overtime win over Mervo on Oct. 17. Not only did […]

Senior quarterback William Crest scored three touchdowns, including a last second game-winning run for a score as the Dunbar Poets edged the City College Black Knights, 28-26 in a rainy thriller on Oct. 11 in Baltimore, Md. The outcome of the game was just as dramatic and unpredictable as the Friday night weather was Friday. […]

Seventeen-year-old Baltimore native Dorian Claggett did his city proud as he recently won the New Balance National Emerging Elite 400-meter race on June 14 at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, N.C. Claggett earned the national 400-meter title by finishing with a winning time of 48.48 seconds. AFRO readers may remember Claggett, grandson of Marvin […]

(Updated 05/01/13) Some of the best high school basketball players in the country converged on T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria April 28 for the 40th annual Capital Classic All-Star Basketball Game. The U.S All-Stars edged out the Capital All-Stars for a 126-120 victory. The score was tied at 111 with less than two minutes […]

BALTIMORE, Md.–There’s a reason Baltimore, Md. has a reputation for having some of the best basketball talent in the nation. That was proven again as Dunbar, Edmondson-Westside and Milford Mill, all Baltimore high schools, won state titles on March 16 at the University of Maryland Comcast Center. The sweep weekend marked the fifth straight year […]

Milford Mill junior forward Allen Costley scored a game-high 19 points to help his team edge by City College of Baltimore, 70-65, in the Maryland Class 3A North Region boys’ basketball title game on March 8 at the Deborah Stephan’s Gymnasium in Baltimore County, Md. Baltimore County’s Milford Mill (24-2) advanced to the Maryland State […]

Coolidge High School captured its second-straight D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association men’s basketball championship with a 62-61 thrilling win over northwest D.C. rival Theodore Roosevelt on March 4. Coolidge edged Roosevelt for the title with a game-winning free-throw made by junior guard Kory Cooley, who was fouled as he attempted to catch an inbound pass with […]

Baltimore’s Patterson High School Clippers saw their chances of repeating as Maryland state 3A champions come to a close with a 64-50 loss to Baltimore County’s Milford Mill Academy on March 5 in the 3A North regional semifinals at Deborah J. Stephans Gymnasium in Baltimore County, Md. Patterson defeated Milford Mill in the finals to […]

It was the third straight year Baltimore’s Dunbar Poets had reached the Maryland State 1A Class high school football championship game, but for those watching, it looked just like every other game the Poets had played this season. Dunbar routed Owings Mills, MD’s New Town Titans, 39-0, to claim their third consecutive state title and […]

BALTIMORE — The Dunbar Poets saw its five game shutout streak come to an end but that still didn’t stop them from blowing away their opponents as they clobbered the Brunswick Railroaders from Frederick County Md, 40-8, in the state 1A football semifinals on Nov. 24 at the Sugar Cane Field in Baltimore, Md. The […]

WASHINGTON–If Holiday football is supposed to be tough, edgy and competitive then the 5,000 in attendance at the 43rd annual Safeway Turkey Bowl had a lot to be thankful for. On a clear and perfect Thanksgiving Day, a grudge match between the Dunbar Crimson Tide and Anacostia Indians may not have been pretty but the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.– UPDATED 11/20/12 Woodrow Wilson High School was disqualified from the D.C. Interhigh Athletic Association (DCIAA) football championship game scheduled for Thanksgiving Day, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) officials announced Nov. 18. The Wilson Tigers football team, which was to appear in its first D.C. football championship game since 1991, included a player […]