08.02.06
Four players come home with medals
Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland-
From Gazette.net (click to see full article)
Only one U.S. Youth Soccer National Championship trophy has come home to Maryland this year, and it will reside in Baltimore. But four players from that team will return to Montgomery County with championship medals around their necks.
Keith Cowdrey (Silver Spring), Mark Jaskolski (Gaithersburg), Brendan Klebanoff (Bethesda) and Michael Lansing (Gaithersburg) were all part of the Casa Mia Bays (Baltimore) team that, after less than a year playing together, won the U-16 boys championship last weekend at the James W. Cownie Soccer Park in Des Moines, Iowa.
‘‘It hasn’t exactly sunken in yet,� said Cowdrey, a rising junior at DeMatha High in Hyattsville. ‘‘A couple of times, I’ve just been sitting around the house and I’ll start laughing to myself, like, ‘I just won a national championship.’�
