No. 4 Gaels top No. 9 Cardinals, 17-7, in football

Dulaney boys win third straight cross country title

Junior running back Sam James scored the go-ahead touchdown with six minutes left in the first half, and No. 4 Mount Saint Joseph beat No. 9 Calvert Hall, 17-7, in football Saturday.

James score gave the host Gaels (7-1, 3-0 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association) a 10-7 lead.

Mount Saint Joseph is tied with No. 1 Archbishop Spalding (7-1, 3-0) and No. 2 St. Frances (8-1, 4-0) at the top of the conference.

DULANEY 30, TOWSON 13: Ty Woodard threw for 302 yards and three touchdowns — including 70-yarders to Nolan Matsko and Charles Byers — as the Lions (4-3) defeated the visiting Generals (1-6).

Boys soccer

NO. 3 MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH 3, NO. 14 EASTERN TECH 0: Andrew Robbins socred twice and the host Gaels (12-2-2) shut out the Mavericks (10-3).

Cross country

The Dulaney boys won their third straight Baltimore County cross country championship and the Dulaney girls earned their second title in the past three years at Dulaney High.

Towson senior Jon Ellis captured the boys race in 16:03.27.

“It’s amazing,” Ellis said. “The feeling that I got when I finished there is nothing I can really describe, just a lot of happiness.”

Dulaney’s Matt Owens (16:10.18), Eastern Tech’s Taylor Baranoski (16:26.75), Dulaney’s Brian McCullough (16:35.09) and Catonsville’s Graham Strzelecki (16:36.90) rounded out the top five.

Connor Martin (seventh, 16:43.96), Ethan Samels (eighth, 16:46.07) and Brendan O’Brien (ninth, 16:46.97) completed the top five for the Lions, whose 30 points were well ahead of second-place Towson’s 55.