Buzzer Beater Sends B-CC Basketball To State Title Game — Senior Yannick Alexis picked up his teammate’s blocked shot and threw up the winning jumper just before the buzzer in B-CC’s 58-57 overtime win against DuVal in Thursday night’s Class 4A state semifinal. The B-CC boys team will play Anne Arundel County’s Meade High School in Saturday night’s state championship game, also at the Xfinity Center in College Park. [Washington Post] [Instagram]
Whitman Loses In State Semifinal — Without one of their key players because of an injury suffered the game before, the Whitman girls basketball team lost, 48-30, to Eleanor Roosevelt in the Class 4A semifinal in Towson. It was the team’s only loss of the season. [The Gazette]
EMTs Hurt In Beltway Crash Finish Rehab — Tom Schryver and Sydney Marshall, the two volunteer ambulance medics hit by a truck while attending to an earlier crash on the Beltway, have finished their inpatient rehabilitation. Both could respond to calls again in the future. [Glen Echo Fire Department via Facebook]
B-CC Student Could Have Full School Board Voting Rights — Sophomore Eric Guerci is one of two candidates left for next year’s Student Member of the Board of Education, a position that could hold more prominence if a bill in Annapolis works its way through as expected. The bill would repeal voting rights exceptions for the student member of the BOE and go into effect July 1. Guerci, or challenger Rachit Agarwal from Richard Montgomery High School, would be the first student member to be allowed to vote on the school system’s budget and collective bargaining agreements. [Montgomery Community Media]
In Arlington, Single Family Homes Also Generate Most Students — Echoing a recent event about school overcrowding in Montgomery County, public school officials in Arlington County say most of their enrollment growth comes from single-family neighborhoods, as opposed to new apartment and condo complexes. But school officials there also said that trend could change, potentially putting the school system in a tough spot. [ARL Now]
