ABERDEEN — The Century Knights used power hitting and power pitching to beat La Plata, 4-1, on Saturday evening and secure the Carroll County school’s first MPSSAA Class 2A state championship. How It Happened It only took two innings for the Knights to go deep — something that the team has done...
ABERDEEN — The Boonsboro Warriors fell to the St. Michaels Saints during last year’s Class 1A Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletics Association championship game. Boonsboro wasn’t going to let that happened a second straight year. In a thriller Saturday afternoon, the Warriors captured their third state title with a 12-9 victory against St....
ABERDEEN — Howard High School couldn’t have scripted a better way to win its first state championship. After falling to Northwest in the Class 4A Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state finals a season ago, the Lions rallied from three runs down in their final at-bat Friday night against Severna Park...
Starting tonight – and ending Saturday evening – the top eight public school baseball teams in Maryland will step on Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen to compete for their respective class championships in the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association. They represent eight different counties. Six have won previous state...
College baseball season is coming to a close, and only one of Maryland’s four-year colleges remains in action. Mount St. Mary’s University (21-31 overall, 15-13 conference) is back in the postseason for the first time in 10 years. In 2008, the Mountaineers went into the NEC Tournament as the fourth seed and...
I always enjoy when a previous blog entry leads us to a Connolly’s Tap Room topic. That happened Tuesday, when I wrote about shortstop Manny Machado, and stressed the Orioles’ need to remain patient until late July when they can get the most for him on the trade market. Several of the...
The Class 4A state semifinals are set. The others, not so much. Rain on Friday pushed back one sectional finals and nine of the remaining 12 regional title contests to this afternoon. The winners are back Tuesday, battling for state championship game appearances which – weather permitting – will be held Friday...
The Orioles’ season-long ineptitude on the road continued over the weekend in Boston, where the Red Sox bagged three wins in the clubs’ four-game set at Fenway Park. The Orioles now hold the worst road record in baseball at 4-19, giving them a whopping .174 winning percentage. They are 1-18 (.053 winning...
The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA) regional baseball finals are set. From today until Monday, 32 teams take the diamond — weather permitting — for a chance to move onto the state semifinals in their respective classes. As of early Friday afternoon, a dozen of those schools resides in our...
Welcome back to the Tap Room. The Orioles are headed onto the road again – so I figured you might need a drink or nine. Heading into today’s opener of a four-game series at Fenway Park, the Orioles have lost 16 of 19 away from Camden Yards in 2018. This is no...