County titles on the line
Severna Park (Anne Arundel), Dulaney (Baltimore) and Centennial (Howard) will play familiar opponents for county championships tonight.
Tenth-ranked Severna Park will meet 11th-ranked Broadneck, which it defeated, 11-9, earlier this season. Severna Park’s high-scoring attack of Colby Rhodes, Chris Hunt and Eric Lusby are expected to pressure Broadneck’s Pat Simpson, one of the county’s premier goalies.
Dulaney routed Hereford, 14-4, earlier this season. Since then, however, the Bulls (10-1) have won six consecutive games. Dulaney, ranked 15th, receives balanced scoring from attackmen Spencer Martin and Mike Colonell, and midfielders Eric Keppeler and Jay Mann. Hereford counters with Perry Menzies, Sam Mowell, Dixon Green and Colin Gload.
The best matchup of the three could be at Centennial, where the Eagles play Mount Hebron, an 8-7 loser in overtime in the teams' first meeting. Faceoff midfielder Jonathan Stumpf and defender Mike Rossberg pace Centennial. Mount Hebron is led by goalie Billy McNamara, midfielder Justin Martinelli and attackman Bobby Cooke.
In the junior college ranks, freshman Alex Ashcroft, a Centennial graduate, scored 10 goals and assisted on another to lead host Howard Community College to victories over Harford and Essex last weekend for its first Region XX title.
Ashcroft, midfielder Holt Skovron (Liberty) and defender Tom Cooper (McDonogh) were named to the all-tournament team. Attackman Sean Stevens (Calvert Hall) made second-team, and midfielder Doug Strickland (Eastern Tech) earned honorable mention for Howard, which defeated Essex, 16-13, for the championship. Howard will play in its first NJCAA Final Four this weekend at Nassau Community College in Garden City, L.I.
Ranked No. 2 nationally, Howard (14-1) will face Nassau-CC in Saturday’s 3 p.m. semifinal. The championship game is on Sunday at 1.





