Calvert Hall senior Kevin Lingerman is one of the best high school baseball players in the country, but there is much more to the story. He is also a boy who has battled cancer, not once but twice.

With a fresh start to this season, the Calvert Hall Cardinals are ready for the national matchup against California's El Dorado High School.

Former Gilman star quarterback Ambrose Wooden, who was once hotly recruited by many major college programs, recently finished his college career at Notre Dame.

Kevin Huntley, a former All-American lacrosse player at Calvert Hall, is performing well heading into the halfway point of his senior year at Johns Hopkins.

There always seems to be some sort of connection in local high school and college basketball, and this week it's the men's team at UMBC and the boys' team at Parkville.