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Volume 2 Issue 36 - Tuesday, September 20, 2022

CECIL COUNTY

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‘A very cohesive group’:

Golden Elks earn bounce-back win in excitement-filled visit to Aberdeen By Victor Hensley

Soaring Eagles off to 3-0 start, trounce Havre de Grace behind Granado’s 4 scores

By Victor Hensley

On a crisp evening in Havre de Grace last Friday, the Bohemia Manor football team huddled near the southern end zone at a packed James R. Harris Stadium, ear-to-ear grins flooding their faces. Coaches crack jokes – one referring to a prior wager centered around shaving one of their heads –

and players let out laughs, the entire group relishing in yet another successful showdown with Harford County. After all, there’s plenty to celebrate for Chesapeake City’s hometown team. Just a few minutes earlier, the Bo Manor Eagles (3-0) earned their second shut-out win of the season against the Havre de Grace

Warriors (0-3) in blowout fashion, 28-0. The unblemished Eagles are in the midst of their best season in over a decade, their last 3-0 start coming in 2010, the year they began 7-0 and coincidentally fell to these very same Warriors in the second round of the playoffs, shattering potential title hopes. However, as fun as it is to celebrate a still-per-

fect record in mid-September, Bo Manor Head Coach Vincent Ricci kept his own emotions in check. “We’re feeling really good right now, but we have a 24-hour rule,” Ricci said following the victory. “We’ve lived by that this year, and the kids actually came up with it. After the first week, we got a big win, and they said, ‘Let’s enjoy it for 24 hours, then it’s on to film on

Following his first win in a head coaching role last Friday, Elkton’s Mike Rossi – thrust into the spotlight due to the absence of Matt Feeney, the Golden Elks’ head coach – was as humble as they come. The team’s success, he said, primarily stems from the team itself. Coaches are only a sliver of the equation. “It’s not about how I did, it’s a team collective effort,” Rossi said. “When we knew Coach Feeney was out this week, everybody rallied around and leaned on each other. … The kids

are the ones out there making the plays. They practiced really hard this week and they knew they were going to face a lot of adversity, but they did their jobs and they did them well.” Elkton made the 21mile trek to Aberdeen last Friday for its second-straight road game, where it proceeded to trounce the Eagles, 22-6, en route to a 2-1 start to the season. A week after a brutal 34-point defeat at the hands of the unbeaten Edgewood Rams (3-0) on Sept. 9, the Golden Elks’ snap-back performance against the Eagles oozed with confidence, CONTINUED ON PAGE A-6

FIELD HOCKEY: Perryville Lady Panthers defeat Tome in home opener SECTION D

Winless no more: Indians cruise past Joppatowne in home opener, earn 1st J.V. win since 2019

By Victor Hensley

Prior to their matchup with Joppatowne last Thursday, it’d been 1,077 days since the North East Indians won a junior varsity football game. Since that victory – a 12-6 barnburner over Perryville on Oct. 4, 2019 – the team had endured it all: a global pandemic, a can-

celed 2020-21 season and an 0-11 stretch dating back to 2019, including a winless (0-7) campaign last season. But, when the Indians took the field against the Mariners on a breezy afternoon for their home opener, it was clear that things would be different this time. North East (1-1) proceeded to hand Joppatowne (1-1-1) its first loss

of the season, 40-6, in an offensive firestorm, one that saw the Indians host a masterclass on both sides of the ball. “It feels great (to get the win),” said North East Head Coach Mark Mossa following the victory. “After a long camp and a tough first week, I’m really proud of these boys. They came out and they fought.”

You’d have to go back eight years – or, in sticking with the theme, 2,519 days – to find a North East J.V. performance as dominant as Thursday’s, with its last 34-plus-point victory coming on Oct. 23, 2015, in a 35-0 trouncing of Perryville. The star of the show – and the winner of

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL: Rising Sun’s Lady Tigers get 3-1 win over C. Milton Wright Mustangs SECTION B

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BOYS SOCCER: Tri-State Crusaders travel to Bohemia Manor SECTION C