Boonsboro

Saturday, November 26, 2011 KINGS PARK, N.Y. - Boonsboro junior Sarah Zielinski placed second overall in the junior girls race Saturday at the Foot Locker Northeast Cross Country Championships. Zielinski, the two-time Washington County cross country champion, covered the 3.1-mile course in 20:03.9. Alexandra Russo, of Bellport, N.Y., topped the field of 43 girls in 19:58.0. Boonsboro had two runners in the boys sophomore race. Sean Snyder was 29th in 18:25.2 and Randy Lohman was 70th in 20:52.5 in the field of 87. In the seeded girls race, Winters Mill's Hannah Oneda placed sixth in 18:26.6 to qualify for the national championships.

Justin Lewis of Boonsboro was awarded a scholarship from Glenville State College for the 2012-13 academic school year. Lewis received the Pioneering Appalachia Scholarship. Appalachian Pioneer scholars are first-generation scholars with a 3.0 high school grade-point average who have successfully completed all required curricular units in English, social studies, mathematics, science, arts and foreign language in high school. The scholarship is open to students in the Appalachian region who are not West Virginia residents.

The Boonsboro football team followed coach Clayton Anders' simple philosophy. “I learned in my very first game, it's not who scores first, it's who scores most,” Anders said. After a slow start, it didn't hurt to score last, too. The Warriors spotted Manchester Valley the first 14 points in the first six minutes and then used the last 57 for their own personal playground in a 57-14 victory on Saturday at McDaniel College. Boonsboro (1-1) ran up 455 yards of offense. John Rice led the way by scoring four touchdowns - three rushing and one on a 32-yard catch on the last play of the first half.

Skip Chambers saw the perfect storm approaching, but was helpless to do anything about it. The Boonsboro boys basketball coach knew Smithsburg would apply relentless defensive pressure, but without a point guard, all Chambers could do was watch as his club turned the ball over 31 times in a 68-40 MVAL Antietam loss Tuesday. “It's all about pressure, and it's all about trapping when you can,” said Leopards coach Eric Gerber. “That's the way we play this year, and we have the quickness to do that.

If Friday’s South Hagerstown-Boonsboro boys basketball game was a video game, the Warriors would have needed to hit the reset button. The Rebels had 12 different players get on the scoresheet en route to a 76-37 thrashing of Boonsboro. Darico Provitt, Sean Prather, Micahel Wiley and Devon King each scored in double figures for South (10-1, 7-1). Provitt led the charge with 14 points, Prather had 13, Wiley scored 11 off the bench and King added 10. “I try to get as many guys in there as possible,” Rebels coach Kevin Naylor said.

Tori Poffenberger proved the number of points one scores is not as important as when the points are scored. The Boonsboro senior only put four points on the board, but they came at critical times, as the Warriors clipped county rival Smithsburg 45-42 in an MVAL Antietam girls basketball game Friday night. With the Leopards (5-5, 4-3) clinging to a one-point lead with 21 seconds left in the game, Poffenberger broke free of the Smithsburg defense and hit an easy transition bucket to give the Warriors (7-7, 4-4)

The driver of a sport utility vehicle has been cited in a two-vehicle accident Tuesday morning at the intersection of Mill Point Road and Alternate U.S. 40 west of Boonsboro, according to Maryland State Police. Pious Ifeanyi Urama, 57, of 195 Waneta Drive, Boonsboro, allegedly failed to stop at a stop sign, according to the state police report of the accident. Urama was traveling east on Mill Point Road when the 2004 Honda Pilot he was driving went into the intersection and collided with a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck driven by Lawrence Wesley Bodine, 41, 62 Madison Ave., Hagerstown, a state police report said.

Monday, February 27, 2012   GIRLS BASKETBALL North Carroll 54, Boonsboro 44 WESTMINSTER, Md. - Ashlyn Hawbaker had 13 points, four rebounds and seven steals for Boonsboro in a Maryland Class 1A West Region East Sectional semifinal loss to North Carroll. Tori Poffenberger had 10 points, Amber Smith had nine rebounds and two steals, Shannon O'Brien had six rebounds and Tiffany Bowman had eight rebounds for the Warriors (12-12), who were outscored 20-9 in the third quarter.  BOONSBORO (12-12)

BOONSBORO -- Cynthia Kauffman said she hopes to keep her town council seat and help strike a fair balance between town spending and services. Kauffman, 57, of 416 N. Main St., is one of four candidates for four council seats in Tuesday's election. She ran unsuccessfully in 2008, then was appointed to a vacant council seat last year. Incumbents Kevin Chambers and Natalie Mose also are running for council seats along with first-time candidate Janeen Solberg. Assistant Mayor Howard W. Long is running unopposed for re-election.

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