Montgomery County Crowns A State Champion!

BASEBALL ⚾

Sherwood won their fifth state championship victory in six years! The Warriors faced top-seeded Stephen Decatur at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen on Monday afternoon. After giving up a run in the bottom of the first, Sherwood battled to upset the Seahawks 3-2. Click the video below to see the final play that sealed the state championship win. Click the link below each box score to see a recap of each baseball state championship game.

TENNIS 🎾

Montgomery County crowned seven state tennis champions throughout the weekend! Neela Wadhwa won the 4A girls’ singles title in a walkover victory over Blair’s Grace Shao. Ellen Bu and Jiajing Zheng from Richard Montgomery lost to Broadneck’s girls’ doubles pair 6-2 and 6-4 in the 4A championship, but Wootton’s Emma Ikeda and Veronica Chunikhin won the 3A title, defeating Severna Park’s pair 6-1 and 6-2.

Churchill’s Thomas Gjoklaj gave up just one point in the 4A boys’ singles state championship, defeating Urbana’s Eli Kim 6-0 and 6-1 to win the title. Poolesville’s Andy Wu won the 2A boys’ singles bracket, defeating Hereford’s Harry Smith 6-2 and 6-2. Wootton’s Anthony Hall also made the boys’ singles title game in the 3A bracket, but fell to Channing Clarke from Reservoir 6-3 and 7-6.

Kevin Nguyen and Eric Ma from Blair along with William Chen and Akshaj Mareddy from Poolesville won the boys’ 4A and 2A doubles titles. The Blazers pair beat Urbana’s duo 7-6 (6) and 7-6 (2), while the Falcons beat Howard 6-1 and 6-3. The lone MoCo mixed doubles pair to make the state championship was Griffin Chen and Lorena Peranovic from Quince Orchard. The QO duo defeated top-seeded Broadneck in three sets, winning 6-1, losing 1-6, then securing the win 1-0 (8).

Click this link to see every full brackets from the high school tennis state tournaments!

TRACK AND FIELD 🏃‍♀️

Montgomery County had no shortage of men’s and women’s track and field athletes to place top three in over a dozen events throughout state championship weekend. Click this link for a full recap of the MoCo boys’ medalists and click this link for a full recap of the girls’ medalists

SOFTBALL 🥎

Click the link below each box score to view a full recap from each softball state title game!

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