Good Counsel junior Troy Gloster picked up his second official offer this week. The 5-foot-11, 210-pound Gloster has an offer from Stanford to go along with his current Boston College offer.

Former Bishop Ireton Cardinal and current Riverdale Baptist senior Javorn Farrell officially signed on with UMass basketball:

Derek Kellogg announced today the signing of talented Javorn Farrell, a 6-5, 180-pound swingman out of Upper Marlboro, Md.

"We are excited to get a player and a person with the character of Javorn Farrell to join our program," said Kellogg. "Not only is he an unbelievable student and a great kid, he is going to be a great asset to our basketball program. I love his versatility as a player as he can play the four through the one position. He's a tough, physical hard-nosed player and will be physically ready to come in and help us right away. It is going to be a learning process for him like any young kid as he will have to learn how hard you have to play with the level of practice and the level of the games.

"I'm thrilled to have him coming to UMass. He comes here after playing for a great high school coach in Lou Wilson and a tremendous program at Riverdale Baptist. Javorn played for an outstanding nationally-renown AAU program, the DC Assault run by Curtis Malone. To get Javorn to sign early here with UMass and join our program is a great testament to the coaching staff and the University."

Read more through the following link: Highly-Recruited Javorn Farrell Signs NLI With UMass Basketball

DCSportsFan's Anthony Guy passed along the following news about Good Counsel senior basketball player Julius Omoniurhie:

Julius Omoniurhie decided last Wednesday to end his recruiting process early and verbally commit to the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX). The 6-foot-11 Omoniurhie held offers from other schools such as Texas Christian, Binghamton Univ. and South Florida, but something about the Texas school caught his attention.

“When I visited the school, I looked in on a couple of classes and liked the size and structure of the classes," Omoniurhie told Guy. "I also liked the weather. It's not too cold, and things just reminded me of Good Counsel. It just felt like home."

SMU Head Coach Matt Doherty had the following to say after Omoniurhie signed.

"Julius is a big post player that runs the floor well and plays with a toughness that I like," stated Doherty." "With Bamba [Fall] being a senior, we felt we needed to bring in a post man. We are excited that he will be a Mustang."

The Nigerian native is in his third year of basketball in the United States. Francis earned All-Conference Honorable Mention and the team's most improved player as a junior after helping his team to a 21-8 record with an 11-7 league mark. He was also named to the All-Tournament Team at the Merv Lopes Classic in Honolulu in December 2007. He finished his junior season averaging 5.4 rebounds and 4.6 points while hitting 46.2 percent from the floor.

"Over the past three years Julius's improvement has been dramatic," says Hibbs. "In his junior year he helped the team win 21 games, the most in 10 years. Julius has great enthusiasm and desire, and is a great young man. He can run the floor better than any big man I have seen in some time, and he continues to develop. He will be a great fit with SMU."

Good Counsel senior cornerback and wide receiver Mike Wallace was interviewed by Rivals recently and had the following to say about his current recruiting status:

"I have offers from Stanford, Army, Monmouth, Towson and Bryant," he said. "Connecticut actually has been in touch and they want to recruit me as a wide receiver. That is fine with me, I'm looking for whatever gets me on the field. I've also heard Rutgers and West Virginia have inquired."

"When Connecticut told me I could play wide receiver that really intrigued me," he said. "They haven't offered yet, though. I'd say I don't have a specific favorite. If more offers come I'll have to look at everything closer."

The entire article can be read here: Wallace Updates His Recruitment

Bishop Ireton High School Athletic Director Bill Simmons announced the signings of seven members of the Varsity Girls Lacrosse team to college commitments Friday. Joined by Principal Tim Hamer, Athletic Director Bill Simmons, Coaches Cara Hurrin and Steve Tela as well as the teammates and family members, the seniors signed National Letters of Intent and commitment letters to compete at Division I and Division II programs starting in the fall of 2009.

Players formally making official collegiate commitments are Claire Banta, Alexandria, VA (University of Virginia), Brittany Barnwell, Mason Neck, VA (Queens University), Maria Bowman, Alexandria, VA (Villanova University), Allie Fife, Alexandria, VA (Mount Saint Mary’s University), Lauren Gray, Alexandria, VA (Georgetown University), Ashton Hellmuth, Alexandria, VA (Lehigh University) and Heather Olson, Alexandria, VA (St. Joseph’s University).

Bishop Ireton finished the 2008 season with a 17-5 overall record, advancing to the finals of the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and Virginia Independent School state semifinals and finished the season ranked 89th out of over 2400 high school lacrosse programs nationally for the first time. Last season’s team also posted an impressive collection of awards and accolades including two All-Americans, four Academic All-Americans, three All-Met selections, four All-Area, one first team All-State, three first team All-WCAC and five second team All-WCAC. Bishop Ireton also sent five players to the US Lacrosse Women’s Division National Tournament.

The Cardinals return 18 varsity players in 2009, including 11 seniors and open the season at home against Robinson High School on March 14th.

DeMatha's Lacrosse Program announced yesterday three DeMatha seniors signed National Letters of Intent to play for Division I schools in the coming seasons. Head Coach Scott Morrison introduced the three players before a gathering of family, friends, teammates, and faculty on Thursday, November 13, 2008.

Ryan Bryant, TJ Harris and Mike Williams will play for Ohio State University, Loyola College and Jacksonville University, respectively, beginning fall 2009.

Coach Morrison will be enterting his first season as the head coach of the lacrosse program.

DeMatha shortstop Chris Cook and outfielder Daniel Dragos signed letters of intent to play college baseball. Cook will be attending George Mason and Dragos will be attending Temple.

DeMatha is coached by Sean O'Connor, who led the Stags to the WCAC title in his first year as the team's head coach.

H.D. Woodson safety Don Hursey was interviewed by Rivals.com recently, and the junior safety had the following to say about his status:

"I'm hearing from a lot of schools, like Maryland, Rutgers, Pitt, Virginia, NC State, UCLA, Georgia, West Virginia, Nebraska, Boston College, Stanford, Notre Dame, Oregon and Duke.

"A lot of the schools are telling me once I send in my highlights they're going to offer me when the season is over."

The entire article can be read here: Smooth Transition for Hursey

High school standouts Given Kalipinde and Edgar Garibay (Compton High School, Calif.) have signed National Letters of Intent to attend and play collegiate basketball for Loyola Marymount, Head Coach Bill Bayno announced on Friday. The pair completes the Lions commitments during the early signing period, joining Terrell Vinson (St. Frances Academy, Baltimore, Mary.) who signed on Wednesday.

"We are very excited with the three young men who will be joining our program," said Bayno. "All three are very athletic and have the potential to be great basketball players at LMU. With the young players we have heading into our current season, our two redshirts and with Terrell, Edgar and Given joining us next year, LMU basketball has the building blocks in place to do special things."

Kalipinde, a native of Zambia, Africa, came to Virginia in the fall of 2007 and made an instant impact. He became one of the IAC's best players as a junior on the court by averaging 19 points, 10 rebounds, four assists, 3.5 steals and two blocks for the Maroon. In a four-game winning streak that lifted the school to its best season in more than a decade, he averaged over 23 points. He was named Virginia All-State for his effort.

For Kalipinde, the formal commitment to LMU caps a whirlwind week the 6-3 guard will not soon forget. On Nov. 7 he scored two goals and had an assist to lead Episcopal boys' soccer to the Virginia State Championship. He was then named MVP of the state tournament and then a week later was named the Virginia State Co-Player of the Year. And he has done all of this being more than 8,000 miles from home.

"Given is an extremely gifted athlete who has really excelled despite only being in the United States for less than two years," said Bayno. "Given has been impressive in his ability to learn and gets better everyday. He will bring a lot to this program."

Kalipinde, who turned down scholarship offers by high NCAA Division I schools in soccer to play basketball, showed his athleticism in leading the Episcopal High School basketball team to the state playoffs in the winter of 2008 and then just a week ago leading the boys? soccer team to the state championship with a 4-0 win over Norfolk Academy. In less than eight months he was named to the Virginia All-State basketball team and was the Player of the Year in soccer.

The following players have taken advantage of the early signing period:

• Georgetown Prep senior guard Robert Olson signed on to play for Loyola College in Baltimore Thursday.
• Chad Morgan, a baseball player from Paul VI, signed a National Letter of Intent Wednesday to play baseball at Virgnia Tech.