Basketball Teams

HANCOCK - The Hancock Middle-Senior High School will serve a pancake breakfast Saturday to raise money for the boys' and girls' basketball teams. The all-you-can-eat breakfast will be served from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the cafeteria. Organizers are asking for a donation of $4 for adults and $2.50 for students.

Ten new faculty members greeted the 235 new students at Saint James School for the 2007-08 academic year that started Aug. 30, according to a school press release. · Sarah File will teach biology and pre-algebra, and assist with the dance and girls tennis teams. She is a graduate of Wake Forest University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in biology with a minor in chemistry. · Denise Holding will teach conceptual physics and chemistry, and assist with the girls soccer and tennis teams.

BY BILL STERNER / Staff Correspondent photo: RICHARD T. MEAGHER / staff photographer Washington County tourism did not score a lot of points with the Baltimore Community College basketball teams last night - because the Hagerstown Community College basketball teams scored points - lots of 'em. HCC swept to a pair of wins last night as the Hawks, behind Shanna Williams' 18 points, dunked the Red Devils, 79-34. In the nightcap, the men's team took advantage of a six-minute second half scoring drought by Baltimore to come away with a 99-65 win. The script was essentially the same in both games as both Hawks teams started slowly, then wore down the overmatched and undermanned Red Devils, who dressed only five on the women's team and six with the men. But for a Lady Hawks team that dropped their last two, the performance of the defense and the second-half awakening of an offense that had gone south recently was refreshing to coach Marlys Palmer.

With the weekend's snow storm continuing to stack up local sporting events higher than shoveled piles, some of the colleges will attempt to get back to normalcy today. Hagerstown Community College and Shepherd College will resume their seasons with makeup games today. The HCC men's team will host Baltimore in the first round of the Maryland JuCo Conference tournament at 7 p.m. at the school's athletic complex. The game was orginally scheduled to be played Tuesday. The men's game will follow the HCC women's matchup with Howard at 5 p.m. Both HCC teams are attempting to advance to the final eight, which will be played at one site.

WOMEN'S SOCCER Wheeling Jesuit 2, Shepherd 0 WHEELING, W.Va. - Jamie Albert and Katie Groff each scored for Wheeling Jesuit, while Laura Bruno and Katelyn Miracle had an assist each as the Cardinals knocked Shepherd out of the WVIAC Tournament. Jessica Park recorded two saves for Wheeling Jesuit (11-6). Amy Bell had 14 saves for the Rams (8-12). BRIEF Meet the Hawks night Hagerstown Community College's annual Meet the Hawks Night will be held on Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the ARCC.

My son came home from preschool the other day with the following assignment: The next time you come to class, bring with you a sign of spring. This prompted some discussion with me and his older brother, a first-grader who had some suggestions of his own. "You could take some flowers," the 7-year-old said. "Or birds, they're a sign of spring. " I wasn't quite sure how I would have managed to get a bird into his classroom if that suggestion had been considered a good one. Luckily, my 4-year-old had an idea of his own. "I could take a baseball," he said.

'March Madness,' high school style High school playoff time almost makes me feel like singing an Andy Williams tune. "It's the most wonderful time of the year ... " The open playoff format in Maryland, which ensures every team advances to the postseason regardless of its record, makes for great drama. It's a whirlwind of activity for two weeks, from the time the ping-pong balls are drawn from the lottery machines to determine the tournament pairings until the regional finals are played.

Sometimes, the simple play means as much as the spectacular one. Many sports media types - and I'm certainly one of them - over-hype the flying dunk, the tape-measure home run (or the leaping catch to rob it) and the 80-yard touchdown throw. But many times, it's an outlet pass, the patience to work a 3-1 count or the tailback picking up the blitzing safety that leads to the ensuing highlight. Now, like anybody else, I rave over the dunks, the homers and the touchdown bombs.

It takes a lot to scare the dickens out of someone. Sporting events aren't like exorcisms. The devil will make fans do a lot of really questionable things, but in most cases, the games aren't all that life-changing. That certainly goes for South Hagerstown and Clear Spring's midseason boys basketball game on Wednesday. On the surface, there wasn't anything all that shocking about the Rebels' 68-51 victory, outside of a 16-1 advantage in the second quarter. To be truly honest, the outcome is about what most would have expected.

I am gladly relinquishing my space this week of personal opinion in favor of using it for recognition. By and large, we usually fail seeing 'outside the box' the lives those of us are fortunate enough to live without any disablilities. While there are many individuals who suffer in this world, I want to bring to your attention one little gal that really caught my eye recently when I was assigned to cover the Thomas Johnson-Frederick boys basketball game. While the teams were back in their lockers getting instruction prior to tipoff, several team managers were on the floor shooting.

Black History Month 2013 In honor of Black History Month, the Doleman Black Heritage Museum recognized the following athletes during a program Feb. 23 at The Maryland Theatre: Tom Parson Jr. Parson played basketball at North Hagerstown High School and Hagerstown Junior College. He was captain of the HJC men's basketball team, led the Hawks in assists in 1972 and 1973, and was named to the Maryland JuCo All-Tournament Team. He studied education at Concord College in West Virginia, where he led the team in assists.

The Hagerstown Community College men's basketball team won a game in color-by-number fashion. It was 32, 31, 33, 34 along with 24, 10 and 5 to fill in all the green, black and white needed to repeat as champions. The numbers make up the main characters in a complete team effort to lead the Hawks to a third consecutive Region XX championship with a 94-80 victory over top-seeded Baltimore on Sunday at HCC's athletic complex. “I told them before the game that I have never felt as confident about a team going into a game as I did today,” HCC coach Barry Brown said.

It takes a lot to scare the dickens out of someone. Sporting events aren't like exorcisms. The devil will make fans do a lot of really questionable things, but in most cases, the games aren't all that life-changing. That certainly goes for South Hagerstown and Clear Spring's midseason boys basketball game on Wednesday. On the surface, there wasn't anything all that shocking about the Rebels' 68-51 victory, outside of a 16-1 advantage in the second quarter. To be truly honest, the outcome is about what most would have expected.

If ever a Washington County girls basketball season was shrouded in uncertainty, it's this one. Who's the team to beat? No one knows for sure. Is it Smithsburg? The Leopards reached the Maryland Class 1A state final two years ago and made the 1A West final and finished 23-2 last season, but lost 2010-11 Herald-Mail Player of the Year Katie Sprecher and two other All-County performers (Sara Rishell and Taylor Belella) to graduation. “We're just so different this year,” Smithsburg coach Katy Barnhart said.

One of two Hagerstown teenagers charged in an attempted robbery Sunday at Nadia's convenience store on West Franklin Street was a member of the Greencastle-Antrim High School basketball team, the school's principal said Thursday. Eric Shaquille Baymon, who was 17 at the time of the incident, has been removed from the basketball team, Greencastle-Antrim High School Principal Ed Rife said. Rife said school authorities were investigating the situation and that Baymon's educational future at the high school was uncertain.

BEIJING (AP) -- The climb back to the top is nearly complete. One more win and U.S. basketball is golden again. The Americans ended their streak of final four flops and Argentina's hopes of an Olympic gold-medal repeat, starting fast and finishing strong in a 101-81 semifinal victory Friday. All that's left is what the U.S. players came for: a gold medal. The United States scored 21 of the first 25 points, got a big break when Argentina star Manu Ginobili reinjured his left ankle, and surged into its first gold-medal game in eight years.

Friendship Quilters Guild of Hagerstown has made a blue, white and green traditional-style quilt to be auctioned. Chances to win the quilt are being sold to benefit the Hagerstown Lady Hawks Basketball Scholarship Fund. The quilt is on display at the Hagerstown Farmers Market on the Saturdays Lou Scally will be broadcasting at the market. Tickets cost $1 each or six for $5 and can be purchased at Joanne's Fabric at South End Shopping Center or Howard's Arts and Frames on Dual Highway.

Editor's note: What are your best memories from your senior year of high school? Was it prom? Making the basketball team? Did you get your driver's license that year? This school year, The Herald-Mail will talk with seniors from each public high school in Washington County about the memories they are making. Each month through their graduation, the eight students will talk about the moments that are making their senior year special. BOONSBORO ? He was able to score 17 points in a single basketball game, and said he's only improved over the years.

The Hagerstown Community College women's basketball team called out the reserves on Sunday afternoon. The Hawks got 31 points from their bench to raise their record to 4-0 by defeating the Globe Institute of Technology 70-54 during the second day of the Hagerstown Classic at the HCC athletic complex. HCC led 29-24 at halftime before using an opening flurry to get comfortable, be it only for awhile. The Hawks ran off an 11-5 spurt in the first 5:40 of the half, but couldn't put the Knights away.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - The Shepherd University women's basketball team is refocusing its aim. Usually, the Rams are calibrating for the baskets they need to make it to the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament. This year, Shepherd is shooting for the stars. The Rams open the season tonight against Holy Family - which finished 29-3 last season - in the opening round of the Golden Bear Classic at Kutztown University with the goal of ending the season at unprecedented heights.