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At any degree in sports activities, for a workforce to go a full season unbeaten is sort of an accomplishment. To date, Montgomery Blair’s girls soccer workforce is doing simply that, sporting a powerful 14-0-1 report and alongside the way in which capturing the county championship and profitable their Regional Closing to advance to the Maryland State Class 4A championship match. Blair, the highest seed, will host Severn Run in a quarterfinal matchup at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1.
That is the fourth straight journey to the State playoffs beneath coach Bobby Gibb who’s in his thirty seventh season on the faculty. “This workforce loves enjoying collectively and they’re simply having enjoyable,” Gibb stated. “‘I’ve been round a very long time and that is what it’s all about.”
Gibb, in actual fact, has been on the helm for therefore a few years he’s now teaching a former gamers’ child. Jackie Martins, who performed for Gibb within the early Nineteen Nineties, now has her daughter Madaleina Martins on the workforce. Older daughter Alegria Martins, performed for Gibb, as properly, and is now a freshman goalkeeper at Salisbury College.
With 17 seniors misplaced from a season in the past and solely two returning starters, there have been actually questions heading into this 12 months however they had been rapidly answered with early season wins when Blair scored six objectives in back-to-back video games. Blair scored six objectives once more of their 6-0 regional ultimate win over Eleanor Roosevelt on Oct. 28 to catapult the Blazers again in to the State match.
Blair is led by senior captain Meron Koro, who’s headed to play at Towson College subsequent 12 months. “She is the glue, the inspiration to our workforce,” Gibb stated. “She simply makes everyone round her higher.” Koro scored a dramatic double additional time recreation profitable aim within the County title recreation towards Sherwood.
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Blair is again in acquainted playoff territory, however workforce leaders stated they might love to attain one thing this system has by no means completed and that’s win a state championship. The Blazers had been so shut once they had been runners-up in 2023 and the distinction this 12 months simply may be the workforce’s depth.
“We are able to rating from all over the place,” Coach Gibb stated. “‘You may’t simply shut down one participant.”
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Frank Hanrahan is Montgomery Group Media’s Sports activities Reporter. Hanrahan has been masking sports activities within the Washington, D.C. space for over 25 years. Hanrahan has labored as a sports activities anchor/reporter at WTOP, WUSA and NBC Sports activities Washington amongst others. Hanrahan was additionally the play-by-voice of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics for 11 seasons and labored nationally for the Huge 10 Community masking soccer and basketball.
A local Washingtonian, Hanrahan has been dwelling in Takoma Park, MD for the final 15 years together with his spouse and three youngsters.
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