Dulaney High School | Archive | December, 2007

 by Derek Toney

Terrence West said he’s never won a championship. That changed Friday
evening for the Northwestern High boys’ basketball junior, who could be
a major asset in another title.

West had a career-high 21 points and added five steals as  the No. 6
Wildcats defeated Dulaney, 52-45, in the finals of the Community
College of Baltimore County-Dundalk Holiday Classic. The six foot guard
was named most valuable player for the two-day tourney.

Senior guard Justin Lee contributed 11 points and four assists for the
Wildcats (6-1). Junior guard Jamie Cowherd led all scorers with 24
points for Dulaney (3-5) and Alex Frederick contributed 12.

The defending Baltimore City champion Wildcats pulled away late to turn
away the upset-minded Lions, who closed a 13-point deficit to four in
the last quarter. After an embarrassing loss at No. 13 Mervo earlier
this month, Northwestern has won five straight decisions.

“We’re playing more together, we’re understanding when we’re flat at
times to switch to something else,” said Wildcats coach Doug Robertson,
whose team knocked off two-time tournanment champ Kenwood in Thursday’s
opening round. “We know how to be mentally prepared, if I have to use a
timeout or watching them develop on their own make adjustments.”

The Park Heights Avenue school have been making strides without Warren
Wright, who has yet to play this campaign because of a knee injury.
Robertson said 6-3 guard/forward who’s the top returning scorer from
last season could be back in the next two weeks. West, a standout on
the football field this past fall, has helped fill Wright’s absence.

“I’m just playing hard,” said West. “I wasn’t worrying about the
points, I just wanted the ‘W’. This is my first championship and I was
hungry for it.”

“I don’t think you’ve seen this kid’s athletic ability yet because he
holds back a little,” said Robertson. “He’s trying to break some old
habits, but he has a lot of speed. He’s getting a little more
confidence in his jump shot.”

West was the beneficary of several transition baskets as the Wildcats’
1-3-1 zone defense often stymied Dulaney. He started a 13-3 run with
consecutive scores, giving the Wildcats a 39-29 advantage after three
periods.

West opened the final period with a three-pointer extending the lead to
13, but the Lions picked their defensive play to score nine straight
points, capped by a steal and layup by junior guard Kevin Harrison. The
Baltimore County school got no closer as Lee, named to the all-tourney
squad, scored the Wildcats’ next six off layups created by turnovers.

“When we didn’t knocked down shots, they secured the rebound, when they
didn’t knocked down shots, they created second and third
opportunities,”  said Dulaney coach Matt Lochte, whose team defeated
Carver Tech, 68-65, in Thursday’s opening round. “We hung tough, our
press gave them a little bit of issue early.”

Frederick, a senior guard, joined Lee and West on the all-tournament
team. Kenwood forward Jaraad Walker and Donta Kane from Carver Tech was
also selected.

Northwestern will start the 2008 portion of its campaign with a home
game against Patterson Friday. West thinks the Wildcats are ready to
begin their push towards defending their City crown.  

“We need to continue improving on our defense and play as a team,” said
West. “No matter if we’re on the bench or not, we’re going to play hard
as a team.”

CCBC-Dundalk Holiday Classic
Championship
Northwestern 52, Dulaney 45
Northwestern: West 21, Price 4, Banjoman 8, Lee 11, Brightful 6, Willis 2. Totals 24 1-8 52.
Dulaney: Harrison 7, Diaz 2, Lynch 3, Frederick 12, Cowherd 21. Totals: 17 7-8 45. Halftime: Northwestern 26, Dulaney 21.

Northwestern    13 13 13 13-52
Dulaney               7 14   8 16-45

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 by Brad Jaeger

This indoor track season in Baltimore County was one of uncertainty.
With graduation taking the best runners and field event people out of
just about every event, the individual and team titles in the county
were up for grabs.

But over the first month of the season, a typical pattern for indoor track has developed over the first few meets.

The girl’s team title is being fought over once again by Dulaney and
Hereford both with strong distance squads and this year adding scoring
athletes in both the field and sprints.  Parkville will be resting
their hopes on two sprinters who have the ability to win four or five
events and Loch Raven and Western Tech.

The boy’s team race could belong to Eastern Tech with strong sprinters
and jumpers or Hereford with strong field event athletes and enough
quality distance runners and sprinters to sneak out a win.  Parkville
lost most of their sprinters from last year, but has a deep team and
two high jumpers that could sweep that event. Loch Raven is also in the
mix hoping to duplicate their county win in cross country.

SPRINTS

Eve Waithe of Parkville, a transfer from Perry Hall and
Jermia Dix of Western lead the pack for the girls in the 55 Dash. 
Waithe is on a mission this year and stayed in shape during the fall
playing field hockey and is excited about training with teammate Uju
Ochoke this season.  Dix has only run one race this season, but tied
Waithe for the fastest hand time 55 dash.  The boys 55 Dash will have a
whole new final race this year with everyone graduating this year.
After the first three meets there are over 15 boys with hand times
between 6.7 and 6.9 seconds.

1. Waithe, Parkville  7.3;  Dix, Western STES 7.3; 3. Hutton, Overlea ; Gethers, Western STES 7.5;  5. Claude, Woodlawn 7.6.

1. Dailey, New Town; Wilkes, Western STES; Roberts, Franklin 6.7; 4.
Scruggs, LR; Dukes, Towson; Wallace, Obua, Overlea; Shannon, Western
STES; Arnold, Parkville, 6.8.

Fallon Rovel-Jones of New Town leads the girls in the 55 Hurdles and
has the most experience of the top performers in the county, but Naomy
Ramos of Catonsville has the fastest FAT timed race this year. Jen
Bates of Eastern Tech has also been improving each race in the early
season and benefits from training with a strong group of hurdlers and
experienced coaches.  Mark Cover of Eastern Tech and Jermol Dix of
Western STES have separated themselves from the field early and will
battle over the year. The race in the county is for third place.

1. Rovel Jones, New Town 9.2; 2. Bates, ET 9.4; 3. Ramos, Catonsville
9.48; 4. Bowie, Randallstown 9.7; 5. Reed, Catonsville 9.77.

1. Cover, ET 7.70; 2. Dix, Western STES 7.79; 3. Kiser, Western STES; 8.30; 4.Boyer, Parkville, Goodling, Hereford, 8.6.

The 300 for the girls could be the race of the championships with
Kellie Christian of Catonsville, Ofoche and Waithe of Parkville and
Michelle Newman of Eastern Tech. Christian will have to learn how to
run on the armory floor if she expects to win.   The boy’s race is
another case of an entire new field and as of now coaches are
determining where to use their athletes to maximize the points.

1. Ofoche, Parkville 41.5; 2. Waithe, Parkville, 43.6; 3. Christian,
Catonsville 44.00;   4. Newman, ET  44.5; 5. Hawkins, New Town  44.4.

1.  Thsiams, Ches-BC  38.6; 2. Wilson, Randallstown 38.7; 3. Flescher,
Loch Raven 38.8; 4. Hawkes, Western STES 38.9; 5. Dix, Western STES
39.1.

Christian of Catonsville leads the 500 by four seconds and off of her
55 second 400 outdoors last year will have to fall to lose this race.
Second through fifth place is wide open at this point.  The boys race
could be just as exciting with a new champion to be crowned this year. 
After the first month, there are five boys within 0.8 seconds of each
other.

1. Christian, Catonsville  1:21.8; 2. Davis, LR 1:25.6; 3. Dauses, LR ;
Novotny, Parkville  1:29.00; 5. Kutcherman, Milford Mill  1:29.80.

1. Kent, New Town  1:13.00; 2. Taylor, Western STES  1:13.20; 3. Banks,
Milford Mill  1:13.40; 4. Wilson, Randallstown  1:13.60;  Scruggs, LR 
1:13.80.

DISTANCE

The distance events will be wide open as well with
Dwight Parker of Woodlawn and Vince Walsh of Dulaney graduating and
seniors Kristen Malloy of Hereford and Sumanth Kuppalli of Perry Hall
running unattached this winter.

The Dulaney and Hereford girls will still dominate the distance events
on the girls side with Jenna Cimino and Cori Dimes leading the girls
for Hereford and Emma Larkin, Kelly Rush, Chelsea Bush, Angelica
DiNucci, Brooke Martin and Jennifer Bae leading the Dulaney team.

The boys races will be between Chris Mills of Western STES, Mike
Glassman of Loch Raven, Mason Campbell of Towson , Ryan Chelton of
Hereford and Corey Hancock of Dulaney leading the county. Danny
Genrette of Chesapeake, Bill King and Charles Larsen of Dulaney, John
Steinbacher and Andy Passmore of Hereford and Jay Theirer of Towson
adding themselves to the mix.

800 Leaders

1.  Larkin, Dulaney  2:30.0; 2. Franke, LR  2:34.0; 3. Schwaab,
Catonsville  2:36.4;  4. Davis,  LR  2:36.5;  5. Atelfeck, Milford
Mill  2:40.9
.
1. Fawcett, Catonsville  2:08.42; 2. Glassman, LR  2:13.6; 3. Thierer,
Towson  2:13.9;  4. Hancock, Dulaney  2:14.0;   5. Taylor, Western
STES  2:17.32
.
1600 Leaders

1.  Cimino, Hereford  5:41.7;  2. Franke, LR   5:43.5;   3. Bush,
Dulaney  5:50.8;  4. Rush, Dulaney  5:51.6;  5. Williams, LR   5:55.5.

1.  Glassman, LR  4:51.0;  2. Steinbacher, Hereford  4:59.0;  3.
Genrette, Chesapeake  4:59.3; 4. Mills, Western, STES  4:59.5; 5.
Sufczynski, ET  5:02.00

3200 Leaders

1.  Rush, Dulaney  12:41.0;  2. Kavanagh, Towson  12:45.2;  Dimes,
Hereford  12:56.0;  Pillion, Towson  13:04.1;  5.  Shultz, Dulaney 
13:30.2.

1.  Mills, Western STES 10:00.4;  2. Prendergast, Catonsville 
10:42.4;  3. Glassman, LR  10:49.0;  4. Conley, Catonsville  10:50.7; 
5. Larson, Dulaney  10:56.5.

FIELD EVENTS

Uju Ofoche of Parkville is also the class of the girls high jump
field.  Her 5-04 jump is well the best jump in the county.  There are
few girls between 4-08 and 4-10, but they are jumping for second place
at this point.  Parkville also has the leader in the boys high jump in
Matt Stankiewicz who has his PR of 6-00 of the slippery armory floor. 
A gaggle of 5-08 jumpers follow behind.

1.  Ofoche, Parkville  5-02; 2. White, Franklin 4-10; 3. Montgomery,
Milford Mill; Gethers, Western STES; Guthall, Hereford, 4-08.

1. Stankiewicz, Parkville  6-00; 2. Toure, Randallstown; Rever,
Dulaney; Kizer, Western STES; Colliflower, Dulaney; Wilson, Kenwood;
Arnold, Parkville  5-08.

Sarah Koehn of Hereford leads the field with the only 31 foot throw
this season, but Franklin has two with experience gaining ground, Cathy
Agoris and Emily Chase.  Cameron McDearmon of Franklin was supposed to
be the odds on favorite this year, but Matt Meadows of Eastern Tech 
and Nelson Knight of Perry Hall have been impressive in the early
season.

1.  Koehn, Hereford  31-10;  2. Chase, Franklin  30-03;  3. Agoris,
Franklin  29-04;  4. Reass, Hereford  28-09;  5. Sullivan, LR  28-07.5
.
1.  McDearmon, Franklin  45-11.5; 2. Meadows, ET  45-05;  3. Knight,
PH  43-00.25;  4. Hardy, ET  42-03.5;  5.  Deady, LR  41-10.
With Jess Stadler of Perry Hall graduated, the field is wide open and
waiting for someone to come through with a big jump.  Katie Riesett of
PH has the most experience of the returning vaulters. Shawn Meyers of
Perry Hall and Colin Goodling of Hereford will trade jumps all year
with both vaulters looking to go over 14 feet.

1.  Riessett, Perry Hall; Hiller, Hereford  7-06; 3. Feinour, Hereford  7-00;  4. Greeley, Meehan, Hereford  6-07
.
1.  Goodling, Hereford  12-06;  2. Meyers, PH  11-06;  3. Durkin,
Hereford   10-06;  4.  Manacell, Hereford  10-00;  5. Jeremenko,
Catonsville   9-06.

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