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While the Redskins’ season has turned into a disaster and Maryland is close to an all-time low point on the gridiron, the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Barons are giving local football fans something to cheer for on the high school level this season.
In one of the biggest upsets of the Montgomery County high school season, B-CC's varsity football team stunned 10th-ranked Clarksburg High School, 30-12, last Friday night to put the Battlin’ Barons in a position to capture their first playoff spot in 16 years—if they can win this Friday evening at Walter Johnson High School.
In the Clarksburg victory, quarterback Cory Applequist rushed for 170 yards and scored a key touchdown on a play out of the triple option late in the first half, dragging two potential tacklers four yards and into the end zone, according to the account in The Washington Post.
Applequist is a transfer from St. John’s College High School in Upper Northwest Washington, DC, and was not even listed as a quarterback on the team’s pre-season roster, which had the 5-foot, 10-inch, 190-pounder listed as a running back and linebacker.
The win marked the third straight win for B-CC, bringing its record to 5-4, and it puts them in great shape to clinch a coveted playoff spot later this week. In the previous two weeks, the Barons blanked Rockville High School 35-0 and walloped Wootton High School, 28-7.
Powerhouse Quince Orchard High School (9-0) and Winston Churchill High School (8-1) already have locked up 4A West regional playoff spots.
But, it’s a mad scramble for the final two spots, with B-CC, Clarksburg, Whitman and Richard Montgomery High School all with 5-4 records.
And three other schools—Gaithersburg High School, Northwest High School and Wootton—are all 4-5 and still alive for the playoffs as well.
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
4301 E West Hwy, Bethesda, MD -
Walter Johnson High School
6400 Rock Spring Dr, Bethesda, MD -
Rockville High School
2100 Baltimore Rd, Rockville, MD -
Thomas S. Wootton High School
2100 Wootton Pkwy, Rockville, MD -
Quince Orchard High School
15800 Quince Orchard Rd, North Potomac, MD -
Winston Churchill High School
11300 Gainsborough Rd, Potomac, MD
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Richard Montgomery High School
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Gaithersburg High School
314 S Frederick Ave, Gaithersburg, MD -
Northwest High School
13591 Richter Farm Rd, Germantown, MD
Matt Cruz
10:31 pm on Thursday, November 3, 2011
Typo: Wootton is spelled wrong in the 5th graph.
Matt Cruz
10:40 pm on Thursday, November 3, 2011
The MPSSAA football point system always makes the final regular season games exciting. If my math is right, B-CC has to win to finish the season with 60 points. Then they have to hope that either Clarksburg or Whitman or both loses so they can get into one of the top four spots. However if Clarksburg wins, Whitman loses and Gaithersburg wins, then B-CC will finish the season in the fifth spot because Gaithersburg will have 61 points (one ahead of B-CC)
Marty Chase
7:45 pm on Saturday, November 5, 2011
Yes, it's a very complicated system, as you note Matt. But it all worked out in the end for the Barons. Guess you could say our first story involved some 'fearless forecasting."
Laura L Thornton
10:31 pm on Saturday, November 5, 2011
Thanks for the typo catch, Matt!
Matt Cruz
9:53 am on Sunday, November 6, 2011
Typo: Same error in the last graph