RM Rockets wrestlers Nadia Estrada (145) and Cielo Prieto (125) win their respective divisions at the MCPS County Championships on Saturday February 18th held at Gaithersburg HS. Overall, they led the girls team to a third place finish overall in the county. On the co-ed side, freshman Isisiah Womack finished 3rd in his division.
Congratulations to first year coaches Sid Caesar and Nick Coates as well as all the wrestlers who competed at a high level throughout the season. On to regionals!!
The Moco Show
Richard Montgomery High School’s Nadia Estrada won the 135 lb weight class 2022 Girls’ State Championship at the Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro– her 2nd state title.
She won it all at 122 lbs in 2020, one week before everything shut down due to Covid-19 restrictions and was unable to defend her championship last year due to continued restrictions.
Nadia recovered from a surgically repaired meniscus in July of 2021. She tore the MCL in the same knee in September while training, but that injury did not require surgery.
The surgeon told her that her wrestling season was done and that she’d have to wait until next year. She was cleared to train on February 1st, so she decided to make a come back attempt and trained for the entire month leading up to the tournament.
She beat Brooke Bickers out of Boonsboro High School in the finals by decision,12-7.
We are pleased to announce the 2023 USA Lacrosse Girls High School Awards for the Potomac Chapter (District of Columbia), recognizing coaches and players of our Chapter, as nominated and voted on by our Chapter coaches.
USA Lacrosse Girls High School All-Americans 2023
Potomac Chapter – District of Columbia
Name Grad Year Position High School
Hannah Wakefield 2024 Midfield Centreville
Emileigh Goodloe 2023 Goalie Chantilly
Rowan Clancy 2023 Defense Georgetown Visitation
Maeve Obrist 2024 Goalie Georgetown Visitation
Madison Rassas 2024 Midfield Georgetown Visitation
Veronica Counts 2023 Attack James Madison
Alyeska Yee-Jenkins 2023 Midfield Oakton
Hannah Rudolph 2024 Midfield Our Lady of Good Counsel
Catherine LeTendre 2025 Defense Potomac School
Kate Motley 2023 Midfield Potomac School
Lauren Archer 2023 Midfield St. John’s College
Meryl Docking 2024 Attack St. John’s College
Stella Shea 2023 Midfield St. John’s College
Anna Viglione 2023 Midfield St. Paul VI
Mason Mantey 2024 Midfield St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes
Carolyn Jacobs 2023 Defense St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes
Devon Fogg 2023 Attack St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes
Sophia Stoltz 2025 Attack Stone Ridge
Corey White 2023 Midfield Stone Ridge
Reese Cuviello 2024 Midfield W.T. Woodson
Annalise Thaler 2023 Goalie West Springfield
USA Lacrosse Girls High School All-Academic 2023
Potomac Chapter – District of Columbia
Mae Zaremba 2024 Attack Academy of the Holy Cross
Olivia Kuehl 2023 Defense Bullis
Ava LaRuffa 2023 Defense Centreville
Wynne Boggan 2023 Midfield Episcopal
Rachel Koeneke 2023 Midfield Freedom (South Riding)
Madeline Feldner 2023 Defense Holton-Arms
Maddie Mitchell 2024 Attack Holton-Arms
Anna Talbot 2024 Defense Langley
Hailey Buursink 2024 Attack McLean
Sage Stretch 2024 Midfield National Cathedral
Erin Fagan 2023 Midfield Our Lady of Good Counsel
Hailey Huebner 2024 Defense Our Lady of Good Counsel
Camilla Madonna 2023 Midfield St. Paul VI
Francesca Cristofari 2023 Midfield St. Paul VI
Julia Duvall 2023 Defense St. Stephens and St. Agnes
Mollie Kemp 2023 Attack St. Stephens and St. Agnes
Kathryn Snyder 2024 Goalie St. Stephens and St. Agnes
Caroline Lennon 2024 Attack Stone Ridge
Maggie Myers 2024 Attack Stone Ridge
Ava Nasse 2023 Midfield Thomas Edison
Libby LaPierre 2024 Attack Yorktown
Jackie Pitts Award
Potomac Chapter – District of Columbia
Lauren Archer, St. John’s College
Coach of the Year
Potomac Chapter – District of Columbia
Rich Hayden, St. Paul VI
Jack Baer | Ysports
In the span of one year, Alyssa Thomas has become the unquestionable WNBA triple-double queen.
The Connecticut Sun star already had the most triple-doubles in WNBA history with four entering Tuesday, despite not having a single one at this time last year. She was already one of three players to record multiple triple-doubles in a single season, alongside Candace Parker and Sabrina Ionescu. She was already the first person to ever record a triple-double in the WNBA Finals, doing so last year.
Thomas added to that legacy Tuesday with another triple-double in an 89-81 loss to the New York Liberty, giving her unprecedented back-to-back triple-doubles after accomplishing the feat Sunday. She also became the first player to post three triple-doubles in a season, and all of them came within a week’s time.
She finished the game with 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, plus four steals, one block and only one turnover.
It took 24 points from Breanna Stewart, a double-double from Jonquel Jones and nine assists from Courtney Vandersloot to get the win for the Liberty, who are starting to look like the super-team they were expected to be before the season.
In regards to Thomas, let’s put it this way. Counting the playoffs, there have been 23 triple-doubles in the 25-year history of the WNBA. Thomas has posted the last seven, a figure that represents more than 30% of the total.
Add that to a level of defense that made her a Defensive Player of the Year finalist last season, and you have the arguable favorite for WNBA MVP this season.
CHICAGO — Incoming South Carolina softball freshmen Reganne Bennett (Novi, Mich./Novi) and Sage Mardjetko (Lemont, Ill./Lemont) were named the Gatorade Player of the Year in their respective states. It’s the second Player of the Year award for Mardjetko, who also earned the honor in 2022.
In its 38th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, the award recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field. Both are now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year award to be announced in June.
Bennett, a 5-foot-10 right-handed pitcher and first baseman, batted .598 with 18 home runs and 20 doubles this past season, leading the Wildcats (25-12-1) to the Division 1, District 19 tournament final. Bennett scored 60 runs and drove in 63 while posting a .664 on-base percentage and a 1.295 slugging percentage. In the circle, she posted an 11-5 record with a 1.12 ERA, fanning 239 in 131 2-3 innings pitched. She is ranked as the nation’s No. 18 recruit in the Class of 2023 by Extra Inning Softball.
Bennett has volunteered locally with the Novi High School Unified Basketball team, a program that empowers individuals with and without intellectual disabilities to engage through the power of sports. She has also donated her time as an elementary school classroom aide. Bennett has maintained a weighted 4.06 GPA in the classroom.
Mardjetko led Lemont to the back-to-back Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Class 3A state championships, capping off her career with a 12-inning, 24-strikeout, no-hitter in the state championship on Saturday (June 10). She also threw a no-hitter in the 2022 IHSA state championship. In 2023, the 5-foot-10 right-handed pitcher finished with a 23-0 record and a 0.00 ERA, leading the Indians to a 35-1 record. The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, Mardjetko struck out 340 batters while allowing just 18 hits and 21 walks in 143 1-3 innings over 24 games. She fired 12 no-hitters, including two perfect games, and allowed just three unearned runs all season. Mardjetko becomes only the second pitcher in IHSA history to finish a season with a 0.00 ERA (min. 70 innings). Ranked as the nation’s No. 10 recruit in the Class of 2023 by Extra Inning Softball, she also batted .348 with five home runs and a .667 slugging percentage.
A member of the Lemont High School Athletic Council, Mardjetko has volunteered locally with Young Hearts for Life, a heart-health screening program, and as a peer tutor. Mardjetko has maintained a weighted 4.30 GPA in the classroom.
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media, and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state winners in each sport.
For the latest on South Carolina Softball, visit GamecocksOnline.com or follow the team’s social media accounts on Twitter @GamecockSoftbll, Facebook /GamecockSoftball, and Instagram @GamecockSoftball.
John Whittle | 24/7 Sports
Incoming pitcher Sage Mardjetko earned Gatorade Player of the Year honors in her home state of Illinois.
There’s a huge void on the mound that needs to be filled as Donnie Gobourne finished her one-year career with the South Carolina softball program. There are other pitchers moving on, too, and head coach Beverly Smith went and signed one of the top players in the country to take a leading role on the mound.
Sage Mardjetko, the two-time Gatorade Player of the Year for softball in her home state of Illinois, is getting set to come to Columbia with absolutely sterling numbers. In 36 games pitched as a senior this season, Mardjetko threw 143 1/3 innings and didn’t give up a single earned run.
For the second year in a row, she picked up the win in her team’s state championship game by throwing a no-hitter. This year’s was special, not only because it was the final game of her high school career, but it was a 12-inning no hitter that saw her strike out 24 hitters in the game.
In the 143 1/3 innings she pitched this season, she struck out 340 hitters and allowed only 18 hits with 18 walks. Over the course of her season, she tossed 12 no hitters, which included two perfect games.
Mardjetko is considered the No. 10 recruit nationally by Extra Inning Softball, and also hit for her Lemont High School team. Her numbers, which calculated through the quarterfinal round of the state tournament, included a .386 batting average with five home runs and a .754 slugging percentage.
According to a press release from Gatorade, Mardjetko also owns a 4.30 grade point average.
Mardjetko isn’t the only top-flight softball signee for the Gamecocks this offseason. First baseman Reganne Bennett won the Gatorade Player of the Year award in Michigan. Considered the No. 18 recruit nationally, Bennett batted .598 with 18 home runs and 20 doubles this season. She scored 60 runs and drove in 63 while posting a .664 on-base percentage and a 1.295 slugging percentage.
Bennett also featured as a right-handed pitcher and put up great numbers in the circle, too, with an 11-5 record with a 1.12 ERA. She struck out 239 in 131 2/3 innings pitched.
Gatorade
CHICAGO (June 9, 2023) — In its 38th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Sage Mardjetko of Lemont High School is the 2022-23 Gatorade Illinois Softball Player of the Year. Mardjetko is the second Gatorade Illinois Softball Player of the Year to be chosen from Lemont High School. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Mardjetko as Illinois’ best high school softball player. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year award to be announced in June, Mardjetko joins an elite alumni association of state award-winners in 12 sports, including Jordyn Bahl (2020-21, Papillion-La Vista High School, Neb.), Megan Faraimo (2017-18, Cathedral Catholic High School, Calif.), Rachel Garcia (2014-15, Highland High School, Calif.) and Cat Osterman (2000-01, Cypress Spring High School, Texas). Entering today’s Class 3A state semifinals (June 9), the 5-foot-10 senior right-handed pitcher owned a 21-0 record and a 0.00 ERA, leading the Indians (33-1) to the final four.
The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, Mardjetko struck out 303 batters while allowing just 16 hits and 18 walks in 125.1 innings over 34 games. She fired 11 no-hitters, including two perfect games in that span, and allowed just three unearned runs all season. Ranked as the nation’s No. 10 recruit in the Class of 2023 by Extra Inning Softball, she also batted .386 with five home runs and a .754 slugging percentage. A member of the Lemont High School Athletic Council, Mardjetko has volunteered locally with Young Hearts for Life, a heart-health screening program, and as a peer tutor. “Sage is definitely one of the best pitchers I have seen in a long time,” said Vince Brown, head coach of Thornton Fractional North High School. “She knows how to throw the ball inside, outside, high or low. To me, that’s the definition of a great pitcher.” Mardjetko has maintained a weighted 4.30 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to play softball on scholarship at the University of South Carolina this fall.
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state winners in each sport. Two-time winner Mardjetko joins recent Gatorade Illinois Softball Players of the Year Abby Dunning (2020-21, Marist High School), and Bailey Dowling (2019-20 & 2018-19, St. Joseph-Ogden High School), among the state’s list of former award winners. Being a Gatorade Player of the Year means paying it forward for the next generation. Through G
atorade’s Play it Forward initiative, every Player of the Year receives a grant to give to one of Gatorade’s social impact partners, supporting Gatorade’s ambition to fuel the future of sport. To date, Gatorade Player of the Year winners’ grants have totaled more than $3.5 million across more than 1,300 organizations. For nearly 40 years, Gatorade has honored high school athletes at the top of their game as teammates, supporting their communities and achieving academic success. From CEOs and coaches to star athletes and community leaders, Gatorade Player of the Year winners showcase the power of sport.
To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student-athletes, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com or follow us on social media on Facebook at facebook.com/GatoradePOY, Instagram at instagram.com/Gatorade and Twitter at twitter.com/Gatorade.
Chattanooga Mocs freshman golfer Kera Healey continued her solid run following the turn of the calendar to 2023. The South African turned in her best 54-hole total with a 2-under 214 leading her squad at the Clover Cup on Longbow Gold Club.
Healey’s even-par 72 led the Sunday effort by two ahead of Dorota Zalewska at 74. Carolina Hortian was next with 80 as Nieves Martin’s 82 closed the team scoring. Megan Docherty posted the drop score of 83.
Healey just missed her second top 10 while recording her third straight top 20. Her 214 was good for a tie for 11th. Zalewska joined her in the top 15 tying for 13th with a 1-under 215. Hortian was third at 242 just clear of Docherty’s 244. Martin ended up at 260.
Texas A&M claimed a 15-stroke victory shooting 841. New Mexico was a distant second at 856 with Georgia in third with 860. Tennessee’s Angela Arora won medalist honors with 205.
The Mocs are off until early April hosting the Chattanooga Classic. It’s a 3-day, 54-hole event at Council Fire Golf Club with 18 holes per day beginning on Sunday, April 2, and ending Tuesday, April 4. Admission is free.
Lineup
13th of 14: 304-305-305=914
T11) Kera Healey: 69-73-72=214 (-2)
T13) Dorota Zalewska: 71-73-71=215 (-1)
T69) Carolina Hortian: 87-75-80=242
71) Megan Docherty: 77-84-83=244
75) Nieves Martin: 89-89-82=260
CHATTANOOGA—The Chattanooga Mocs women’s golf team completed its own Chattanooga Classic with 307 Tuesday at Council Fire Golf Club. That gives the squad a total of 919.
The Mocs finished in 16th, one behind Old Dominion in 15th. Indiana was 14 behind the hometown lasses with Jacksonville another eight behind the Hoosiers. Carolina Hortian and Kera Healey carded 73s to lead the way. Dorota Zalewska added 77, while Megan Docherty chipped in 84.
Zalewska claimed yet another top 20 tying for 18th overall with 219. Healey was next at 226 with Hortian close behind with 228. Docherty and Isabela Yu Lee, who played as an individual, added 246s to the ledge with Nieves Martin rounding out the six totals with 264.
SMU set records in pulling away with the team titles. Today’s 11-under 277 is two better than UTSA’s 279 record set last season adding on to yesterday’s new 36-hole mark of 573 (-3). That means the Mustangs shattered the 54-hole record by 19 shots with 14-under 850. It also meant a 20-stroke win over Xavier in second, although they didn’t leave empty-handed.
The Muskateers’ Emma McMyler held off a late charge for medalist honors tying 2022 champion Anne Chen’s (Duke) scoring mark of 207 (-9). That charge came in the form of SMU’s Michelle Zhang’s 8-under 64, yet another new tourney standard.
The Mocs return to action in two weeks at the Southern Conference Championships. This year’s event returns to an old haunt, Moss Creek Golf Course in Hilton Head, S.C. The 3-day, 54-hole event is April 6-18. Full results, live scoring and pairings, when available, can be found on GoMocs.com’s women’s golf schedule page.
Chattanooga Classic
April 2-4 (Sun-Tue) | 54 holes (18 per day)
Lineup
Team – 16th of 18: 308-304-307=919
T18) Dorota Zalewska: 73-69-77=219 (+3)
T42) Kera Healey: 79-74-73=226
T50) Carolina Hortian: 77-78-73=228
T89) Megan Docherty: 79-83-84=246
T89) Isabella Yu Lee (Ind.): 79-85-82=246
94) Nieves Martin: 87-87-90=264
Course
Council Fire G.C. | Par 72 | 6,209 yards
Field
Chattanooga, Augusta, Campbell, Central Arkansas, Colorado State, ETSU, Grand Canyon, Indiana, Jacksonville, Middle Tennessee, Minnesota, Notre Dame, Old Dominion, USF, SMU, UTSA, Xavier, Yale
History
2009 Lady Mocs Intercollegiate (April 6) | Lookout Mountain GC
Champion: Kentucky: 325 (+37)
Runner-Up: Chattanooga: 326 (+38)
Medalist: Mallory Blackwelder, Kentucky: 77 (+5)
2015 Chattanooga Classic (April 6-7) | Council Fire GC
Champion: Chattanooga: 298-296-293=887 (+23)
Runner-Up: Central Arkansas: 300-301-301=902 (+38)
Medalist: Morgan Ransom, Vanderbilt: 71-72-71=214 (-2)
2021 Chattanooga Classic (March 29-30) | Black Creek GC
Champion: ETSU: 294-296-297=887 (+23)
Runners-Up: Chattanooga & Iowa: 894 (+30)
Medalist: Tereza Melecka, ETSU, 68-72-72=212 (-4)
2022 Chattanooga Classic (March 27-29) | Council Fire GC
Champion: UTSA: 297-279-293=869
Runner-Up: North Florida: 294-284-292=870
Medalist: Anne Chen, Duke, 72-69-66=207 (-9)
Live Scoring
Golfstat
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