On Thursday night the BSN Hoops Summer League at DeMatha Catholic opened with some excitement. Host DeMatha lost in a nailbiter to rival O’Connell. Capitol Hoops will be making a lot of trips to Hyattsville this summer to bring you highlights. Thursday 5/31 7:30 DeMatha vs. O’Connell 9:00 Parkdale vs. Wise Friday 6/1 6:00 Parkdale vs. Carroll 7:30 Edison vs. Ryken 9:00 WT Woodson vs. McNamara Saturday 6/2 10:00 Central vs.…
Largo and Lake Clifton both won 2A semi-final games on Friday evening at the Comcast Center. However, the two games will be remembered for different reasons. Largo 61 Easton 44 It was the third consecutive season that Easton won a regional championship and landed at the Comcast Center. It was the third consecutive year that Easton lost in the state semi-finals. Take nothing away from Easton, Largo played as close…
Thursday evening was quite eventful at the Comcast Center. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Akil Charles hit a game winner versus reigning 4A champion North Point and Sherwood took arch-rival Magruder to over-time after Scott Bolen hit an NBA range -3 in the final seconds of regulation to tie it. It was quite an eventful day at Comcast. We will break down both 4A games. Magruder 75 Sherwood 68 in Over-time Many thought…
Top Row left to right: Coleman Johnson (Paul VI), Jerami Grant (DeMatha), BeeJay Anya (DeMatha), Stanford Robinson (Paul VI), James Robinson (DeMatha), Player of the Year Kris Jenkins (Gonzaga), Coach of the Year Glen Farello (Paul VI) Bottom Row left to right: Darian Anderson (St. John’s), Melo Trimble (O’Connell), Nate Britt (Gonzaga), Patrick Holloway (Paul VI), Byron Hawkins (Good Counsel)
It’s that time of year again folks. Brackets have been released for the Maryland boys state basketball tournament, click here to view them The top four seeds in each region were decide based on conference records. Remaining teams were put in to a hat and randomly assigned a seeding. The major problem with this system is that you could have the 5th and 6th best teams in a particular region…
The IAC playoff bracket is set, Episcopal has the #1 seed, and Bullis has the #2. They are heavy favorites to meet for the championship. The tournament’s last day is sat, feb 18th at Georgetown prep. There is a 5th place game, a 3rd place game and the chip is scheduled for 7pm. Get there early, it should sell out. First Round – Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1. Episcopal…
A few local players have put together some incredible games this week around the DMV. Magruder’s Nick Griffin and Coolidge’s Maurice Jeffers each put together a stat line that will be hard to pass this year. Griffin, a junior shooting guard on the #5th ranked Colonels of Magruder High School went off for 40 points, while connecting on 10 3-pointers on Tuesday night against Wheaton. Both numbers tied school records.…
With the high school basketball regular season about 2/3 of the way over Capitol Hoops comes out with our third rankings of the year….. and yes, there is a new #1. #1 Paul VI 19-2 (Fairfax City, VA) #2 Gonzaga 19-2 (Washington, DC) #3 DeMatha 18-3 (Hyattsville, MD) #4 Montrose Christian 15-2 (Rockville, MD) #5 Magruder 14-1 (Rockville, MD) #6 Dunbar 14-2 (Baltimore, MD) #7 Episcopal 15-2 (Alexandria, VA) #8 Thomas…
Many have voiced that DeMatha Gonzaga is the best high school basketball rivalry in the country. Not in the DMV, not on the east coast, but in the country. Well, it appears that ESPN is on board because they just announced that they will be airing the second game between these two rivals on Friday, February 10th on DeMatha’s home floor. With last night’s Gonzaga/Patterson being aired on Comcast, and…
After a couple weeks of play under our belts Capitol Hoops has taken the opportunity to watch a lot of basketball and while a familiar face is ranked #1 its our #2 ranking that’s stirring up the controversy. Check out our top-25 as follows ….. #1 Montrose Christian 5-0 (Rockville, MD) #2 Paul VI 5-0 (Fairfax City, VA) #3 DeMatha 3-0 (Hyattsville, MD) #4 Gonzaga 5-0 …
