Knights Notes-8/22: Golf takes on South Carroll

By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight

                         

Welcome back to another season of Middletown High School Athletics coverage on Winning After Midknight. It’s been a little while since we’ve had high school sports action on tap but today the Golf team have their 2^nd match (more on the 1^st one below) of the season against South Carroll. Plus, a good number of former Middletown athletes have been in action with their respective college and professional teams. We will cover all that and more below as the 2016-2017 athletics season starts here and it starts now.

- First, a look back at the only Middletown High School Athletics event in action, the Golf team’s match on August 17^th against Catoctin and Liberty. The Knights split with Catoctin and Liberty finishing at a 166, 15 shots ahead of Catoctin’s 181, but 4 shots behind Liberty. (Link)

- Now, we’ll move to former Middletown athletes in college, starting with Ali Williams (’16) who’s pre-season with Appalachian State Field Hockey is under way. The Mountaineers had three contests losing the 1^st match to Liberty 11-3 but then taking down Newberry and Limestone, 9-0 and 4-0 respectively. Williams would tally her first career collegiate goal, albeit unofficially in the 9-0 Newberry win. (Link)

- Middletown alumni and current Maryland field Hockey Volunteer Assistant Coach Joann Engestrom saw her Terrapins’ squad take down Temple easily in a 9-1 exhibition win over Temple.

- Former Middletown Girl’s Soccer midfielder Emma Nehausan (’14) saw her Grace College Lancers’ team get their season underway with two exhibition matches against against Ancilla and Cedarville. No scores were reported.

- In one of two Middletown athletes to see game action Alizah Johns-Boehme (’15) and her Villanova Women’s Soccer squad split a weekend set with Delaware and Drexel. The Wildcats would take down Delaware 3-2 on Friday but then fall to Drexel 3-0 on Sunday. Johns-Boehme would register 28 minutes and 2 shot on goal against Delaware and play 15 minutes against the Blue Hens. (Link) (Link)

- The other former Middletown athlete to record game time was Sarah Kovalchick (’15) who walked on to the Maryland Women’s Soccer team this summer and saw her first two games as a Terp this weekend. Maryland would lose to TCU 2-1 in overtime and then tie with Gardner-Webb. (Link)

- Former Middletown Volleyball head coach Aubrey Pfau (now Director of Volleyball Operations at UMD) and former Volleyball starter Sam Higgenbothem (junior at UMD) both had their first action of this season as Maryland Volleyball held their annual Red-White Scrimmage. (Link)

- Earlier this summer, former Middletown Baseball player Connor Myers was drafted in the 27^th round of the 2016 MLB Amateur Draft by the Chicago Cubs and since that point he’s been steadily climbing his way up the Cubs minor league ranks. Myers would spend 5 games in the Arizona League, then get called up to the Eugene Emeralds for 10 games, with the next and present destination being the South Bend Cubs of the A-Level Midwest League. (Link)

- There are three events on the docket tonight for Middletown Athletics tonight. In pre-season action the Junior Varsity and Varsity Boy’s Soccer team will take on Williamsport in a scrimmage with JV starting at 5:15 and Varsity at 6:45.

- In regular season action, the Golf team will take on South Carroll at the Links at Challedon Golf Course at 4:00 p.m. today. We previewed it earlier. (Link)


- Connor Myers (’13) and his playoff bound South Bend Cubs will take on Tigers’ affiliate the Western Michigan Whitecaps in the opener of a 4-game set from South Bend. (Link)