Sports Beats

Girl’s Basketball, Boy’s Basketball, Wrestling

Girl’s Basketball

Austin Tucker ’14

After winning five of six games, the girls’ basketball has lost two straight games. After last week’s 56-44 loss at Paint Branch, the girls got another loss on Friday in a 62-47 game at home against Blair. In Friday’s loss, senior Alia Smith led the team in points with 13 and senior Katie Ruth led the team in rebounds with 6, however the team’s play was outmatched by Blair’s leading scorer who put up 32 points. Some other notable Sherwood players were Madi McCarthy and Nikki Steiner who both put up 7 points. The girls’ next game is at home on Tuesday against Springbook High School where the girls are hoping to end this two game skid.

Boy’s Basketball

Andrew Wasik ’13

Well that one stung. On Tuesday January 11 the Sherwood Warriors  (8-3) received an absolute mauling from the Springbrook Blue Devils (9-2) 86-46.

Junior Jordan Johnsonand senior Charlie Rogers led the Warriors with 9 points each. While senior Timmy Christian led the Blue Devils with 16 points. Scott Bolen (12’) who was averaging 24.3 points was held to just 8 points overall.

The Warriors forward Joey DeStefano is returning to the team after a bout of illness missing 3 games. “It’s great to be back, but yesterday at practice we had to run 150 sprints.”

After a disappointing loss the Warriors need to keep their heads up and focus on the coming game against a very tough Blake (10-1) opponent at home on Friday January 13. Come out and support your Warriors in this coming game!

Wrestling

Brendan Cudd ’14

The Sherwood wrestling team is having a solid season so far with a record of 3-5 and relies on its depth in meets.  A few of the top performers are senior captains Tommy Kytlle, Kevin Carey and Joe Roberts, and some of the other strong wrestlers are Chris Minor and Michael Macheras.

The team opened up the season with a 70-6 win over Einstein.  In the first tri-meet the Warriors took on Paint Branch and Poolesville, resulting in a close win over Paint Branch 32-28 but a tough loss against Poolesville 43-30.  A week later the Warriors had another tri-meet where they faced Whitman and Churchill. Sherwood had a close loss against Whitman 39-36, and were dominated against Churchill 54-22. The team came back in the comeback win against Watkins Mill but then hosted Springbrook and got handed a very tough loss 57-10.  In their first tournament of the season, they placed 7^th with 2 wins and 6 losses. The Warriors next match ended with a 46-24 loss against Blair.

Despite the up and down season, the wrestlers approach doesn’t alter as they prepare for the rest of the season.  “Practice consists of drill work, live wrestling and conditioning and the team working hard and getting better every day” explained Coach Pete Siarkas.