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Volume 2 Issue 40 - Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Maryland 5 Star brings top talent, championship feel to Cecil County
By Victor Hensley
FAIR HILL - The sprawling, 5,613-acre grounds at Fair Hill leaves little to be desired and everything to be soaked in. Whether it’s the village of pop-up shops selling everything from horse saddles to miniature dog coats, the miles-long stretch
of tailgating tents bringing together equestrian novices and veterans alike, or the high-level competition taking place over the span of four action-packed days, there’s something for everyone at Fair Hill. Over the weekend, Fair Hill was the focal point of the equestrian world when it hosted the sec-
ond-ever MARS Maryland 5 Star, a four-day equestrian eventing competition at the sport’s highest level, consisting of a mixture of dressage, cross-country riding and show jumping, with nearly 25,000 people in attendance. The Maryland 5 Star – labeled a CCI5* event by Fédération Equestre Inter-
nationale (FEI), the sport’s highest distinction – is one of only two events of its kind in the country, and one of seven in the entire world. It attracts some of the sport’s biggest names, including New Zealand’s Tim Price, ranked the No. 1 rider in the world, who took home the crown at this year’s competition with a total score
of 28.2 after finishing No. 1 in both cross-country riding and show jumping. But for many, making the trip to Fair Hill is less about the competition’s final results and more about the spectacle of it all – the atmosphere, experience and, of course, the view. “It’s pretty wild,” said Barry Morrison, a Cecil
County resident who attended the cross-country portion of the competition on Saturday with his wife – a Fair Hill veteran – and kids. “The kids love it because they see the animals, the vendors are great and it’s a beautiful course. … Last year was awesome. We had continued on D-2
line was churning’: Tigers stun Eagles INDIANS WIN!! SEE PAGE A-8 ‘Our behind Russell’s 227 rushing yards, 3 TDs By Victor Hensley
As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That decades-old idiom can be applied to a plethora of situations, but last Friday night, it perfectly described Rising Sun’s lategame offensive strategy. The Rising Sun Tigers (5-2) earned a comefrom-behind victory over the Bo Manor Eagles (5-2), 20-13, on the legs of senior quarterback Gannon Russell, who carried both the rock and his team to its
fourth win in a row. “Our line was churning and churning,” said Clem Vaughan, the Tigers’ head coach, of his team’s performance on the ground. “And we knew how they were lining up that there was something we could expose there a little bit.” Russell, who has undoubtedly cemented himself as one of the county’s top players, carried the ball a whopping 36 times in the Tigers’ comeback win, finding the end zone three times on the ground in the pro-
cess.
That includes the game-winning score, which came on a 17-yard run with 6:37 to play in the fourth quarter as Russell ran up the middle, juked by a pair of Eagles defenders and strolled, a little off-balance, into the end zone to give the Tigers a 20-13 advantage they’d never relinquish. “I just know that I’ve got to put my team on my back and do whatever we’ve got to do to win,” Ruscontinued on A-5