Rams Fall to Warriors in Season Opener

Ulric Erickson and William Gangnath

December 7, 2017

Filed under Showcase, Sports, Winter Sports

Girls varsity basketball (0-1) lost their season opener against the Sherwood Warriors (1-0) 47-19 Dec. 6 at home succumbing to their opponents' strong play at both ends of the court. The Rams struggled with the Warriors' aggressive offense throughout the first half being held to under 10 points, closi...

Stadium Grass to be Replaced this Summer

Jonathan Brake, Staff Writer

November 30, 2017

Filed under Fall Sports, Sports, Sports Showcase

Joseph B. Good Stadium will be redone with bermuda grass by Game Day Landscaping and Maintenance after the 2018 spring sports season, as a result of student and parent requests for a better field. Athletic Director Michael Hayes has regularly cut and painted the field in the past and plans to maint...

Rampage Holds 8th Annual Rampace

November 30, 2017

Filed under Showcase, Sports

Saturday Nov. 18 was the eighth annual Rockville Rampace 5k to raise money for the journalism program at RHS. Barney had the fastest time of cross country runners that competed with a time of 19:14.6, third overall out of the men. Maddox finished first with a time of 18:26.4 and Noe Garcia fini...

RHSN Episode 5

November 30, 2017

Filed under RHSN, Showcase, Sports, Sports Videos

Kaytlin Wack Represents RHS at Senior All-Star Volleyball Game

Elenna Mach, Sports Managing Editor

November 28, 2017

Filed under Fall Sports, Showcase, Sports, Sports Showcase

Joining 23 other MCPS students, outside hitter and co-captain Kaytlin Wack was the only RHS player selected to represent the Rams at the annual Montgomery County senior All-Star volleyball game Nov. 20, hosted at RHS to support the Walt Hardy Memorial Fund raising a total of $687. Over the 16 years t...

Sophomores Tackle ’18 and ’19 to Win Powderpuff Championship

Aidan Brami, Staff Writer

November 16, 2017

Filed under Showcase, Sports, Sports Showcase

After being rained out the day before, the class of 2020 ran away with this year's Powderpuff championship Nov. 8, defeating the class of 2018 in the final game 6-0, in an evening filled with fun competition with all proceeds going to the Lily's Hope Foundation. In the semi-final games, the class of 2020 c...

Cheer Takes 4th Place at MCPS Cheer Competition

Esther Frances, News Managing Editor

November 14, 2017

Filed under Showcase, Sports, Sports Showcase

In their last competition of the year, the varsity cheerleaders took home fourth place at the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Division Three Cheerleading Competition Oct. 26 at Montgomery Blair HS. The cheer team improved from placing eighth out of nine schools last year to jumping past four...

MCPS: It’s Time to Implement a Mercy Rule for Everyone

Gabe Reyes, Online Editor-in-Chief

November 10, 2017

Filed under Showcase, Sports, Sports Showcase

Coaches often express as much sportsmanship as possible, shaking hands and telling athletes "good play" in order to boost morale and set an example for how to act. Another common sportsmanship tool is to pull starters and put backup players in when a team has a strong lead. Unfortunately not all tea...

Girls Soccer Season Ends in Second Round of Playoffs

Matt DiFonzo, Staff Writer

November 6, 2017

Filed under Fall Sports

Varsity girls soccer defeated the Watkins Mill Wolverines 4a��1 in the first round of the Maryland State Soccer Playoffs Oct. 26. The Wolverines struck first in the first half, scoring off of a corner kick. But that was all of the scoring the team would produce as the Rams defense played a hi...

Boys Soccer Comes up Short in Playoff Game

Jonathan Brake, Staff Writer

November 6, 2017

Filed under Fall Sports, Sports Showcase

Boys varsity soccer (9a��2a��1) was defeated by the Col. Zadok A. Magruder Colonels (10a��5a��2) at home Monday, Oct. 30 with a score of 3a��2. Even though the Rams went into the playoffs as the second seed in the county and defeated the Colonels when they met during the regul...

RHS Football Suffers Devastating Loss to Rival RM

Elenna Mach, Sports Managing Editor

November 6, 2017

Filed under Fall Sports, Showcase, Sports Showcase

It was the biggest game of the year and a mass of RHS students clad in orange came out to cheer on varsity football (0-9) against longtime rivals, the Richard Montgomery Rockets (6a��3) at home Oct. 27. The Rams struggled at the outset as the Rockets scored a touchdown and earned an extra point in the ope...

Ram To Watch: Speed Racer, David Barney

Matthew DiFonzo, Staff Writer

October 30, 2017

Filed under Athlete Profiles, Sports

Senior David Barney may be one of cross country’s best kept secrets. Over his first three years at RHS, Barney has avoided the spotlight while quietly becoming one of the school’s top runners and team leaders. Running in the shadows of some of RHS’ most accomplished runners including Billy Ki...