Lakers boys edge Roosevelt in hoops
Brown makes winning free throw with 3 seconds left; Coffin 10th in national meet
Rasheed Brown made the game-winning free throw with three seconds left in the game to lift No. 5 Lake Clifton boys basketball team over Eleanor Roosevelt, 62-61, at the Baltimore/D.C. Challenge at H.D. Woodson on Saturday.
Brown, who finished with 20 points, drove the lane and was fouled and made one of two. The Raiders attempted a half-court shot that missed.
“It was a scrappy game,” Lake Clifton coach Herman Harried said. “They played hard-nosed defense, tough man-to-man the whole game.”
Eleanor Roosevelt led 25-10 after the first quarter, and the lead changed several times throughout. The Lakers improved to 3-0.
RIVER HILL 56, NORTH COUNTY 38: Jay Martin and Josh Mann combined to score 31 points to lead the Hawks (1-2) past the Knights (0-2).
Martin finished with 16 points. Mann had 15.
“The difference in the game was that we weren’t mentally focused from the jump,” North County coach Christ Schrader said. “These wrinkles in the schedule will throw you off sometimes, but we can’t let that happen. You are going to face much harder controversy in life. You have to come into these situations ready to go. We felt prepared coming into it, didn’t work out that way.”
NO. 12 GLEN BURNIE 64, HOWARD 59: Dayvon Cuffey scored a game-high 30 points to lead the Gophers (2-0) past the Lions (0-3) at the Anne Arundel-Howard County Challenge.
Howard made nine 3-pointers in the first half.
Girls basketball
NO. 4 WESTERN 67, WILSON (D.C.) 53: Jasmen Walton scored 15 points to lead the Doves (3-0) past the Tigers at the Baltimore/D.C. Challenge at H.D. Woodson.
NO. 5 CATONSVILLE 55, CROSSLAND 42: Jasmine Dickey scored 27 points to lead the Comets (3-0) past the Cavaliers at the She Got Game Classic at St. John’s (D.C.).
NO. 12 CHESAPEAKE-AA 66, HAMMOND 52: Hallie Perell scored a game-high 20 points and Brooke Worrell had 19 points to lead the Cougars (3-0) past the Bears (1-2) in an Anne Arundel-Howard County Challenge at Northeast.
Chesapeake-AA took control early and led 34-14 at the half.
Cross country
FOOT LOCKER CHAMPIONSHIP: Maria Coffin of Annapolis finished 10th overall, and McDonogh’s Dalton Hengst took 21st in the Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships on at Balboa Park in San Diego.
Coffin, the Class 4A state champion in Maryland, finished in 17 minutes, 50.2 seconds, while Hengst, the MIAA A Conference winner this fall, clocked 15:31.7.
“It was my strategy to start toward the middle, even toward the back was fine, because last year I went out too fast and I took a lot out of me and I just didn’t have enough left for the end,” Coffin said in a phone interview after the race.”