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weekend tV and radioBY MICHAEL ERRIGOComing into Monday’s regular
season finale, the basketball pro-
grams at DeMatha and Good
Counsel possessed different
goals.
Both were looking for a victory
to end the season, to be sure. But
the Stags were fresh off a Sunday
night loss to Paul VI that spoiled
their hopes of finishing with an
undefeated conference record.
They wanted to move past that
and celebrate senior night by
fending off the Falcons. Good
Counsel, amid the program’s f irst
winning season since 2010, was
looking to build momentum on
the road before this weekend’s
Washington Catholic Athletic
Conference tournament.
Such is life in the WCAC. A
handful of programs, nationally
recognized and celebrated, play
with everything to lose; the rest
of the conference seeks to dis-
rupt the status quo.
“Seeds 5 through 11 in that
tournament, they’re always go-
ing to give you their best shot,”
DeMatha forward Earl Timber-
lake said. “There’s no slouches in
the best league in the country.”
On Monday, the traditional
hierarchy held true as DeMatha
pounded the Falcons, 77-45. At
19-1 in the league, the Stags will
enter the bracket as the top seed
and team to beat.
Good Counsel, at 12-8, will be
the No. 5 seed and face St. John’sin the quarterfinals.
To urnament play began
Thursday with three play-in
games, followed by the quarterfi-
nals Saturday at Gallaudet Uni-
versity. The semifinals will be
paired with those from the girls’
bracket S unday at A merican Uni-
versity, followed by the champi-
onship games Monday night.
DeMatha, Paul VI, Gonzaga
and St. John’s are the boys’
bracket’s top four seeds. That
group also made up last year’s
semifinals, and each has played a
national schedule this winter.
But all of them, with the excep-
tion of DeMatha, dropped at
least one game during the regu-
lar season to a team outside the
WCAC’s top four.
Mike Jones, DeMatha’s coach
since 2003, knows what kind of
threat the field can pose. One of
the most successful high school
programs in the country, the
Stags are used to having a target
on their backs. But early in his
tenure, DeMatha entered the
tournament as the No. 8 seed in a
nine-team league. It went on to
upset No. 1 O’Connell.
“We played out of our minds
because we had absolutely noth-
ing t o lose,” J ones said. “ We k now
that teams are going to be capa-
ble of doing that.”
The Stags have the talent to
expect they will vie for the cham-
pionship. The Falcons, led by
fourth-year coach G.J. Kissal,
have a different aim a s they e nterthe postseason.
They already have much to be
proud of this season. The players
from Kissal’s first real recruiting
class are juniors, and the pro-
gram has started to reap the
rewards of their growth. The
Falcons have won more games
this season than the past three
years combined.
“This has definitely been a
year of accomplishment for us,”
Kissal said.
Last season, they knocked off
Carroll in a play-in game and
made it to the quarterfinals for
the first time in five years. This
season, their goal is to make it to
American University for a semifi-
nal.
“You don’t just go from the
bottom of the league to the top of
the league,” Kissal said. “We feel
with the youth of our talent that
getting to AU would be success.
And then once you get there you
roll the dice and see what hap-
pens.”
Reaching that goal is fairly
simple: just beat St. John’s. But
the Falcons have not defeated
the Cadets since 2010. Kissal is
hoping for a level-headed per-
formance on this postseason
stage.
“Mental toughness and men-
tal preparedness are the two
biggest assets you can bring into
a tournament setting,” he said.
“The ability to manage a slow
start or a great start is vital.”
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Upset-minded programs want to disrupt top seeds in WCAC tournament
will newton for the washington PostEarl Timberlake and DeMatha will enter the WCAC boys’ basketball tournament as the team to beat.BY TRAMEL RAGGSWhen Oxon Hill boys’ basket-
ball coach Lewis Howard
opened the locker room door, a
mob of white, sweat-soaked jer-
seys swallowed him up.
Fresh off a hard-fought 67-61
win over visiting Potomac, the
Clippers filled the room with
shouts of “One chip down” and
“We the champs.” The usually
subdued Howard broke into a
dance.
No. 15 Oxon Hill (19-3) had
experienced the thrill of winning
18 times before Thursday, but
this victory held more weight for
the Clippers than all of the
others combined. Not only did
they knock off the crosstown
rival Wolverines (20-2) for the
second time, they also captured
the program’s first Prince
George’s County 3A/2A/1A title
since 2010.
“Man, getting this win felt so
good, bro,” senior guard Ronald
Polite said. “Getting a title dub
versus a team that we have
history with, at the crib on
senior night, you really can’t
script this.”
From the opening tip, it was
clear Oxon Hill planned to deliv-
er the game’s first blow. The
Clippers jumped out to an early
15-3 advantage and were off.
“Potomac is an amazing team
that does an excellent job of
disguising and hiding its flaws,”
Howard said. “But as we scouted
them a bit, we noticed that they
struggled to play the same brand
of basketball that’s allowed them
to score 100 on teams when they
fall behind early. So as obvious
as that sounds, as a team we said
that we just wanted to jump out
early and make them uncomfort-
able, see what they are made of.”
By taking control early, the
Clippers forced the visiting Wol-
verines, a team that traditionally
likes to drive to the basket, to
take tough shots. Oxon Hill also
forced Potomac into 21 turn-
overs.
Polite set the tone for the
Clippers, finishing with
28 points and seven rebounds.
The George Mason commit de-
livered the highlight of the night
when, following a steal, he broke
away from the pack and deposit-ed a dunk on the lone Potomac
defender in his way, giving Oxon
Hill a 12-point lead midway
through the third quarter.
“A s soon as I got it, I knew that
I was going to try to put it on his
head,” Polite said. “If I attacked
the rim hard, I knew it was
either going to be a dunk or
foul.”
Oxon Hill led 59-40 entering
the fourth quarter before Mary-
land football commit Corey Dy-
ches got Potomac back in it.
Dyches went on a personal 8-0
run to trim the lead to 11, and the
Wolverines continued to chip
away until they pulled within
three with under a minute to
play.
But Reiss Jones grabbed a
rebound and made two clutch
free throws to give Oxon Hill
some breathing room, and be-
fore long the Clippers were cele-
brating with their coach in the
locker room.
“We’re 19-3 [at the] end of the
season,” Howard told his team,
which will be the No. 3 seed in
the Maryland 3A South region
tournament. “This is the best
Oxon Hill’s done in a long time,
guys. Check the books.”
[email protected]prince george’s 3a/2a/1a boys’ basketball
For Clippers, title is one for the books
oxon Hill 67,
Potomac 61BY KYLE MELNICKMaryland high school football
powerhouse Damascus hired
Josh Klotz as its coach, Athletic
Director Clifford Elgin confirmed
Thursday.
Klotz, 41, who spent the past
seven years as Richard Montgom-
ery’s coach, takes over a program
that has won the second-most
state titles in Maryland history
(11) but is still dealing with the
fallout from a 2018 locker room
hazing incident that made na-
tional headlines and prompted
an administrative overhaul at the
school.
“Everything that I and the
coaching staff will bring is about
kind of the future,” Klotz said,
“and continuing to move the pro-
gram forward.”
Richard Montgomery finished
2-8 in each of Klotz’s initial two
seasons, but the Rockets qualified
for the Maryland 4A playoffs in
the past five and turned into one
of Montgomery County’s top
teams. In the seven seasons be-
fore Klotz became Richard Mont-
gomery’s coach, the Rockets post-
ed one winning season and two
winless campaigns. He finished
with a 46-31 record at the Rock-
ville school.
“He told us this was probably
the only school he would leave
RM for,” said Elgin, who sent a
letter to staff and parents Thurs-
day announcing the hiring. “He’s
interested in developing the
whole person, not just winning
football games. That i s something
we were looking for.”
Klotz, who hopes to teach Eng-
lish at D amascus next school year,
has lived in Damascus since De-
cember 2016 and said he has
noticed how the community ral-
lies around the football program.
The Swarmin’ Hornets have a
feeder league, and many of the
town’s stores shut down Friday
nights for the school’s football
games.
While at Richard Montgomery,
Klotz tried to instill a similar
sense of community, attending
middle school games and devel-
oping relationships with boosters
and football alumni. Now he will
be a central figure in the town in
which he resides.
“I’m excited for the challenge,”
Klotz said. “Definitely high expec-
tations and a high standard, but
that’s actually what I want. I wantto try to rise to those high expec-
tations.”
Klotz takes over for Eric Wal-
lich, who resigned last month,
citing a desire to spend more time
with his twin children as they
move into high school. Wallich
led the Swarmin’ Hornets to four
state titles in the past five years.
He also was the school’s coach
when the hazing incident involv-
ing Damascus junior varsity play-
ers began roiling the town.
This month, parents of three
teenagers who were sexually as-
saulted by their football team-
mates sued Montgomery County
school officials, accusing them of
neglectfully providing junior var-
sity players unsupervised access
to the football locker room for up
to an hour a day and ignoring
warnings of an alleged hazing
ritual at Damascus.
Amid the continuing contro-
versy this past season, the Swarm-
in’ Hornets finished 12-2 and won
the Maryland 3A crown while
producing the nation’s t op recruit
in Clemson commit Bryan Bresee.
“The program is in good
shape,” Elgin said. “I really see
Josh continuing that.”
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