The Viking Nation​

Wake up Lowndes County. It's Game day!
Lowndes Football begins its campaign for the new football season tonight at the spring football scrimmage day. First year Head Coach, Adam Carter, leads our Vikings into a new era of exciting football.
Today's scrimmage activities begin at 4pm. Here's what the schedule looks like.
1. Our three middle schools will scrimmage at 4:00 pm
2. 9th grade (upcoming) will scrimmage at 5:00 pm
3. Varsity (upcoming) will scrimmage at 6:00 pm. The state champion baseball team will be recognized before the beginning of the varsity scrimmage.
Admission to today's scrimmage activities will be $5 per person for all contests. Only the home side will be open and all fans will need to come to the north end home gates to purchase tickets and enter the stadium. Gates will open at 3:00 pm and tickets will go on sale then. The north end home concession stand will be open for all scrimmages. All seating is general admission on the home side.

Head Coach makes $145.000 a year. All he does is coach. Has 19 assistants.

Just saw that the Jets have released TY with a non-football injury designation. I wish this young man the best and hope he will catch on with another team.

ALLEGANY
09/01
09/08
09/15
09/22
09/29
10/06
10/13 (H) Keyser
10/20
10/28 (H) Fort Hill


CLEAR SPRINGS
09/01
09/08
09/15
09/22
09/29
10/06
10/13 (H) Trinity
10/20
10/27


HANCOCK
09/01 (A) Madonna
09/08
09/15 (H) Trinity
09/22
09/29 (H) Clay Battelle
10/06
10/13 (H) Hundred
10/19 (A) Paden City
10/27

MT RIDGE
09/01
09/08
09/15
09/22
09/29 (A) Frankfort
10/06 (A) Fort Hill
10/13
10/20
10/27 (H) Keyser

NORTH HAGERSTOWN
09/01
09/08
09/15
09/22 (A) Spring Mills
09/29
10/06
10/13
10/20
10/27 (H) South Hagerstown


NORTHERN GARRETT
09/02 (A) Fort Hill
09/08
09/15 (H) Petersburg
09/22 (H) Frankfort
09/29 (H) Hampshire
10/06
10/13
10/20
10/27 (A) Southern Garrett


SOUTH HAGERSTOWN
09/01 (H) Century
09/08 (H) Spring Mills
09/15 (H) Tuscarorra
09/22 (H) St James
09/29 (A) Thomas Johnson
10/06 (H) Jefferson
10/13 (A) Williamsport
10/20 (A) Francis Scott Key
10/27 (A) North Hagerstown

SOUTHERN GARRETT
09/01
09/08 (H) Moorefield
09/15 (H) Fort Hill
09/22 (A) Pendleton
09/29
10/06
10/13 (A) Tucker
10/20
10/27 (H) Northern Garrett

Keyser made the state championship game, first time in over 50 years. They lost 3-0

A few months ago there was a tragic car accident three Clear Spring Students passed away. Two baseball players and a soccer player their jersey numbers were 3,2 and 11. Yesterday Clear Spring won the 1A state championship baseball game by the score of 3-2 in 11 innings, Number 7 hit the winning home run in the 11th inning. I’m not sure what the significance of #7 is, but the article I read pointed it out lol.

Girls
Team Places
4th AHS

5th MR

10th NG

11th FH

19th SG

*26 Teams Scored Points

100
1st Avery Miller (AHS)

8th Jaden Emerson (FH)

200
1st Avery Miller (AHS)

400
1st Avery Miller (AHS)

800
1st Mary DeLaney (MR) 1A State Record

2nd Lydia Nelson (NG)

7th Sophia Brown (NG)

1600
1st Mary DeLaney (MR) 1A State Record

2nd Lydia Nelson (NG)

8th Sophia Brown (NG)

3200
1st Mary DeLaney (MR) 1A State Record

100 Meter Hurdles

7th Samantha Preaskorn (AHS)

8th Annabeth Hughes (MR)

300 Meter Hurdles
8th Samantha Preaskorn (AHS)

4x200 Relay
7th (MR)

4x400 Relay
2nd (MR)

6th (SG)

7th (NG)

4x800
2nd (MR)

3rd (NG)

5th (SG)

6th (AHS)

Shot Put
1st Brandi Gochenhaur (AHS)

6th Alayzia Trimble (FH)

Discus
2nd Carly Bennett (FH)

7th Brandi Gochenhauer (AHS)

High Jump
3rd Maeleigh Plummer (FH)

Pole Vault
Tied for 7th Reghan Sivic (MR)

Long Jump
1st Avery Miller (AHS)

6th Sierra Campbell (AHS)

7th Jaden Emerson (FH)

Triple Jump
2nd Sierra Campbell (AHS)

5th Maeleigh Plummer (FH)

Boys
Team Places
2nd MR

6th NG

8th FH

20th AHS

28th SG

*30 Teams Scored Points

100
7th Tavin Willis (FH)

400
2nd Ashton Sober (NG)

4th DeVante Ross (NG)

800
2nd Will Haberlein (MR)

6th Brendan Kline (MR)

1600
2nd Casey Culler (MR)

3rd Ethyn Peck (NG)

3200
1st Ethyn Peck (NG)

6th Casey Culler (MR)

110 Meter Hurdles
6th Ethan Wilt (MR)

300 Meter Hurdles
2nd Ethan Wilt (MR)

7th Amar Perry

4x100
2nd (MR)

6th (FH)

4x200
5th (MR)

4x400
1st (NG)

6th (MR)

7th ( FH)

4x800
1st (MR) 1A State Record

2nd (NG)

5th (FH)

Shot Put
2nd Carter Hess (FH)

3rd Andrew Highland (AHS)

8th Payton Miller (MR)

Discus
1st Carter Hess (FH) 1A State Record

5th Brayden Sines (FH)

6th Andrew Ketterman (MR)

8th Zane Smith (AHS)

Pole Vault
4th Andrew Ketterman (MR)

Long Jump
7th DeVante Ross (NG)

Triple Jump
7th Ethan Wilt (MR)

What an amazing performance by this young lady at the Fort Hill Invitational on Saturday. Allegany girls won decisively over the other 10 teams, but Miller not only won her four events, she dominated the field. Awesome performance.

Maybe Alco can be good at baseball and softball 🤷🏻‍♂️ lol. Digging deep for a winning team on the blue side 😂

What have you been doing as of late with off-season workouts?
“As of late I have been doing a lot of bench, squat, and hand cleans.”

What do you feel you have improved on most since last football season?
“Since last season my arm strength and accuracy have improved the most.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I feel my team will continue to thrive, and dominate SMAC.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“Toughest team on the schedule is most likely Calvert, always a great rivalry.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“Honestly couldn’t say the toughest player was going to play against me, I know everyone is working and developing.”

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes, I would love to play football in college.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“As of now I have no college interest, still grinding.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“N/A.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“N/A.”

Do you have plans for more trips soon?
“N/A.”

What camps are you planning to do this summer?
“Planning on going to a Rivals camp May 21st, and possibly a Temple camp in June.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“My favorite college teams growing up would be between Ohio State and Florida State.”

What have you been doing as of late with off-season workouts?
“I’ve been lifting and getting in drills with our DB coach and head coach.”

What do you feel you have improved on most since last football season?
“I feel like I’ve most improved with my speed and endurance (two things I haven’t been the best with) and I’ve also become a bigger leader on our team.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I feel like our team will actually do great. The team is more balanced and everyone will step up and do well.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“North Point will be the most competitive team we play next season.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“I’m not sure, I feel like our team will be able to handle a lot of our opponents well.”

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes, I want to play football in college.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“Towson, temple, Shenandoah, Howard, Frostburg State.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“Shenandoah University.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“Yes, I went on visits to Shenandoah, Morgan state, and VMI so far.”

Do you have plans for more trips soon?
“I definitely have plans for more trips.”

What camps are you planning to do this summer?
“Morgan State, Bowie State, Towson, and more colleges in the DMV area.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“My favorite college is the University of Florida.”

How did the high school football season go overall?
“It was alright, wins didn’t always come but we competed hard in every game and played for each other.”

What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“It’s tough balancing workouts with basketball and baseball being my main sport, but in season training is vital so I try to lift/workout at least 4 times a week at the moment.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I think we’ll do good, we’ll have a younger team this year but I think we have a good group of guys that play well together.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“Probably either Middletown, Walkersville, Mountain Ridge, or Williamsport.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“Not sure, off the top of my head maybe Ceontae Willmore, Williamsport WR.”

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes, baseball.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“McDaniel, Wilson, WVU Tech.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“McDaniel.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“Yea a couple.”

Do you have plans for any trips soon?
“Yea over the summer I’ll be around.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“Maryland.”

How did the high school football season go overall?
“Last season went really well for me. I was usually an athletic guy and played both sides, but this I mainly focused on defense and played well through adversity.”

What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“I’m in spring ball with my team and we've been in the weight room and off the field. I also go to individual workouts outside of school.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I know that we are going to have a good season next year. We have a lot of new young pieces that we added and were expecting to 3-peat.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“I feel like our toughest competition is going to be American Heritage because it’s the season opener and the first game and they’re a pretty good team, so it’s going to be a fun game to watch, but other than that I see us going through everyone else.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“One individual won’t be able to beat us, so I don’t see any individual giving us trouble.”

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes I want to play sports in college. I want to play football.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“The colleges that have been recruiting me are Maryland, Boston College, Tennessee, USF, ECU, Marshall, Toledo, Liberty, Pitt, UNC Charlotte, UConn, and West Virginia.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“Maryland, Boston College, West Virginia, and Liberty.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“I’ve been to local places but I haven’t really taken any trips yet.”

Do you have plans for any trips soon?
“Yes, I’m planning to visit all the offers I have right now and my coach and some of my teammates will be making some trips soon too.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“Yes, my favorite college growing up was LSU.”

How did the high school football season go overall?
“Overall this high school football season was pretty fun for me being around the guys learning and adapting to a new culture, but we left a lot on the table. We didn't accomplish our main goal and that was to win the championship.”

What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“My plans right now are to get better. I’m trying to figure out certain things I need to improve on and get better at. My thing is trying to be in the best shape of my life all round, this is probably the most work I’ve ever put in when it comes to the off-season because not only do I work out 4 days a week with my team but I’ve put the work outside of my team workouts and that’s something I don’t usually do.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I think my team will do pretty well this upcoming football season, we’re more locked in than we’ve ever been. We understand that the guys who’ve won something aren’t in the locker room any more so we’re hungry and determined to bring a championship and we understand we have to step it up and carry on the legacy.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“Honestly I like our schedule, I think it will be a very tough matchup for us and always will be Flowers. They tasted what it was like to be at the top and they will try to prove that they’re here to stay and we have to reprove that we run PH county.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“There are many tough players we will have to face this year, but one group I’ll have to say is the Flowers defense. I think they’re pretty well rounded, led by that d-line.”

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes, I have dreams and aspirations to play college football at the highest level. It'll be a dream come true to know that everything you went through and worked for it’ll all be worth it.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“Not many schools have been heavily recruiting me at the moment. I have been getting interest from a pretty decent amount of schools.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“The school that’s probably been recruiting me the hardest is probably between Air Force and the University of Penn, they’ve shown the most interest in me.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“So far I’ve been down Georgetown University and during the season was down Robert Morris University but as I get my schedule fully planned out I will be down more universities.”

Do you have plans for any trips soon?
“I don’t have any plans right now, but am looking forward to going down certain schools.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“Growing up my favorite college was the University of Michigan and Florida State University.”

Find out what colleges are after Freddie Glass, Shamar Mcintosh, Gavin Watkins, Amare Middleton, and Jordan Johnson now!


......................................................................................................

Q&A with Wise athlete Freddie Glass​

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes, I have dreams and aspirations to play college football at the highest level. It'll be a dream come true to know that everything you went through and worked for it’ll all be worth it.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“Not many schools have been heavily recruiting me at the moment. I have been getting interest from a pretty decent amount of schools.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“The school that’s probably been recruiting me the hardest is probably between Air Force and the University of Penn, they’ve shown the most interest in me.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“So far I’ve been down Georgetown University and during the season was down Robert Morris University but as I get my schedule fully planned out I will be down more universities.”

Do you have plans for any trips soon?
“I don’t have any plans right now, but am looking forward to going down certain schools.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“Growing up my favorite college was the University of Michigan and Florida State University.”


......................................................................................................

Q&A with Shamar Mcintosh cornerback Shamar Mcintosh​

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes I want to play sports in college. I want to play football.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“The colleges that have been recruiting me are Maryland, Boston College, Tennessee, USF, ECU, Marshall, Toledo, Liberty, Pitt, UNC Charlotte, UConn, and West Virginia.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“Maryland, Boston College, West Virginia, and Liberty.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“I’ve been to local places but I haven’t really taken any trips yet.”

Do you have plans for any trips soon?
“Yes, I’m planning to visit all the offers I have right now and my coach and some of my teammates will be making some trips soon too.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“Yes, my favorite college growing up was LSU.”


......................................................................................................

Q&A with Catoctin right handed pitcher Gavin Watkins​

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes, baseball.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“McDaniel, Wilson, WVU Tech.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“McDaniel.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“Yea a couple.”

Do you have plans for any trips soon?
“Yea over the summer I’ll be around.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“Maryland.”


......................................................................................................

Q&A with Lackey running back Amare Middleton​

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes, I want to play football in college.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“Towson, temple, Shenandoah, Howard, Frostburg State.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“Shenandoah University.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“Yes, I went on visits to Shenandoah, Morgan state, and VMI so far.”

Do you have plans for more trips soon?
“I definitely have plans for more trips.”

What camps are you planning to do this summer?
“Morgan State, Bowie State, Towson, and more colleges in the DMV area.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“My favorite college is the University of Florida.”


......................................................................................................

Q&A with Patuxent quarterback Jordan Johnson​

Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“Yes, I would love to play football in college.”

What colleges have been recruiting you?
“As of now I have no college interest, still grinding.”

What school is recruiting you the hardest?
“N/A.”

Have you made any college trips yet?
“N/A.”

Do you have plans for more trips soon?
“N/A.”

What camps are you planning to do this summer?
“Planning on going to a Rivals camp May 21st, and possibly a Temple camp in June.”

Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“My favorite college teams growing up would be between Ohio State and Florida State.”


......................................................................................................

Find out what some of the top players in the state are saying about how football has been going as of late!


......................................................................................................


Q&A with Wise athlete Freddie Glass
How did the high school football season go overall?
“Overall this high school football season was pretty fun for me being around the guys learning and adapting to a new culture, but we left a lot on the table. We didn't accomplish our main goal and that was to win the championship.”

What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“My plans right now are to get better. I’m trying to figure out certain things I need to improve on and get better at. My thing is trying to be in the best shape of my life all round, this is probably the most work I’ve ever put in when it comes to the off-season because not only do I work out 4 days a week with my team but I’ve put the work outside of my team workouts and that’s something I don’t usually do.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I think my team will do pretty well this upcoming football season, we’re more locked in than we’ve ever been. We understand that the guys who’ve won something aren’t in the locker room any more so we’re hungry and determined to bring a championship and we understand we have to step it up and carry on the legacy.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“Honestly I like our schedule, I think it will be a very tough matchup for us and always will be Flowers. They tasted what it was like to be at the top and they will try to prove that they’re here to stay and we have to reprove that we run PH county.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“There are many tough players we will have to face this year, but one group I’ll have to say is the Flowers defense. I think they’re pretty well rounded, led by that d-line.”

......................................................................................................
Q&A with Shamar Mcintosh cornerback Shamar Mcintosh
How did the high school football season go overall?
“Last season went really well for me. I was usually an athletic guy and played both sides, but this I mainly focused on defense and played well through adversity.”

What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“I’m in spring ball with my team and we've been in the weight room and off the field. I also go to individual workouts outside of school.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I know that we are going to have a good season next year. We have a lot of new young pieces that we added and were expecting to 3-peat.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“I feel like our toughest competition is going to be American Heritage because it’s the season opener and the first game and they’re a pretty good team, so it’s going to be a fun game to watch, but other than that I see us going through everyone else.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“One individual won’t be able to beat us, so I don’t see any individual giving us trouble.”

......................................................................................................
Q&A with Catoctin right handed pitcher Gavin Watkins
How did the high school football season go overall?
“It was alright, wins didn’t always come but we competed hard in every game and played for each other.”

What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“It’s tough balancing workouts with basketball and baseball being my main sport, but in season training is vital so I try to lift/workout at least 4 times a week at the moment.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I think we’ll do good, we’ll have a younger team this year but I think we have a good group of guys that play well together.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“Probably either Middletown, Walkersville, Mountain Ridge, or Williamsport.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“Not sure, off the top of my head maybe Ceontae Willmore, Williamsport WR.”

......................................................................................................
Q&A with Lackey running back Amare Middleton
What have you been doing as of late with off-season workouts?
“I’ve been lifting and getting in drills with our DB coach and head coach.”

What do you feel you have improved on most since last football season?
“I feel like I’ve most improved with my speed and endurance (two things I haven’t been the best with) and I’ve also become a bigger leader on our team.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I feel like our team will actually do great. The team is more balanced and everyone will step up and do well.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“North Point will be the most competitive team we play next season.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“I’m not sure, I feel like our team will be able to handle a lot of our opponents well.”

......................................................................................................
Q&A with Patuxent quarterback Jordan Johnson
What have you been doing as of late with off-season workouts?
“As of late I have been doing a lot of bench, squat, and hand cleans.”

What do you feel you have improved on most since last football season?
“Since last season my arm strength and accuracy have improved the most.”

How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“I feel my team will continue to thrive, and dominate SMAC.”

What team do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule?
“Toughest team on the schedule is most likely Calvert, always a great rivalry.”

Who is the toughest individual player your team will face off against?
“Honestly couldn’t say the toughest player was going to play against me, I know everyone is working and developing.”

......................................................................................................

Hot topic on the WV board.....

Congratulations to Carly Cooper from Petersburg (George Mason), Shanel Stott and Lyndsey Evix from Allegany (UMBC).
All three girls played a major role in their respective teams conference championship games today. All three girls will play next week in the NCAA regionals. Softball draw is at 7:00 Sunday evening on ESPN 2.

Continuing what she started at Bo Manor

Blake White will be playing at Frostburg State, he decided to transfer from Towson

Congratulations to Tristan Ross for breaking a 10 year old school record at tonight’s track meet for Fort Hill. Tristan ran 11.05 in the 100M dash breaking the Sophomore Record. The previous record was set in 2013 by Ty Johnson with a time of 11.2. Congratulations Tristan! <copy & paste>

It was easy to spot Tristan's speed last year on the gridiron from his halfback position. Speed options are necessary where a 10 yard gain easily becomes a 70 yard TD.

Not sure how many remember their left handed QB Joaquin Collazo when the Hustlers came to Greenway to play Fort Hill in 2017. He could sling it. So I looked him up. He played for Bethel University in Tennessee as a junior last year and led the NAIA in passing yards.
LINK: https://fifthquarter.net/naia/2022/11/20/naia-passing-leaders/

Their other great player was Zamari Walton who signed with Georgia Tech that year. He was the guy who returned an interception 106 yards for a pick six against Fort Hill. Walton just transferred to Ole Miss where he will play his senior season after spending the last five seasons with the Yellow Jackets where he recorded 123 total tackles, 17 pass breakups, three interceptions, and one sack.

I don’t know much about it, I saw there are a few alumni from Shepard in the NFL, two that got picked up this year were a lineman from Clear Spring and a QB from Martinsburg. One to the 49ers and one to the Bears.

LINK: Dan Prete to leave Bishop Walsh; Spartans return to local basketball schedule​

It will be interesting to see who the Spartans do play and what the roster looks like. This obviously means BW is out of the NIBC. Lots of questions remain I'm sure.

I knew when they hired Coach Prete he would not be in Cumberland for the long haul. He has bounced around quite a few places, which is usually the norm for any coach.

All Natural White House Cherry is one of the best I’ve had