The knock on the door came around 7:45 on the night of Sunday, June 22. It would change the lives of Gary, Marcia and Christian Smith forever.

With a 2-point conversion in the closing seconds, Dunbar beat Ft. Hill High of Cumberland, 20-19, at Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium for the Poets' third straight Class 1A state football championship.

This year's quarterfinal matchups promise plenty of exciting football, as River Hill faces Frederick Douglass, Hereford faces Milford Mill, and more.

Eight boys and girls state soccer championship games were played last weekend played at UMBC, and four were decided by penalty kicks.

In Dunbar's last nine games in the state playoffs, the Poets are 9-0 with two state championships. They've also outscored their opponents by a whopping 368 to 161.

Dunbar defeated Edmonson Friday for its eighth straight win, while River Hill and Eastern Tech remain on a collision course again in Class 2A.

Last Saturday, Harvard beat Princeton, 24-20, and for the fourth and final time former Bel Air High School stars Andrew and Adam Berry had a chance to play against each other.

Rachel Pillon exploded off the starting line and rolled to a win in the Baltimore County cross country championships. Senior Mike Glassman of Loch Raven won the boys championship.

A former two-time state wrestling champ at Kenwood High and now the athletic director at Overlea, Bruce Malinowski is being inducted into the Maryland chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.