The Final Score - FNP Podcasts

Building on an annual tradition, Kevin Kendro, the supervisor of athletics and extracurricular activities for Frederick County Public Schools, stops by The Final Score podcast to deliver what's affectionately been dubbed The State of FCPS Athletics Address. Kendro and host Greg Swatek review the school year it was for Frederick County sports as 10 teams and more than 30 individuals won state champ...

After Urbana High School to became the first Frederick County team to win a state championship in girls lacrosse, the coach of the Hawks, Ryan Hines, his daughter, Josey, a senior attack, and Colby Johnson, a senior attack, are this week's guests on The Final Score podcast. The trio chats with host Greg Swatek about the significance of the achievement and the significance of the breakthrough, fina...

After advancing to a state final for the third time in the last four years, coach Mike Frownfelter, senior pitcher Evan Zarroli and senior catcher D.J. Staub are this week's guests on The Final Score podcast. Host Greg Swatek asks Frownfelter and the players if this is the season the Hawks finally get the monkey off their backs and overcome that final hurdle and claim their first state title in ba...

After Middletown High's baseball team won its third consecutive regional championship, coach Andy Baker and senior center fielder Cory Godlove are this week's guests on The Final Score podcast. Baker and Godlove chat with host Greg Swatek about the Knights' momentous and memorable 5-4, come-from-behind victory over Century in the Class 2A West Region I championship game. It marked the third straig...

After the Walkersville High boys lacrosse team won the Central Maryland Conference small school championship, continuing one of its best seasons in school history, star face-off man Angelo Torres and standout goalie Gavyn Dodson are this week's guests on The Final Score podcast. Torres tells host Greg Swatek how he became a face-off man and the key to becoming a good one, while Dodson explains why...

After being honored last weekend in Ocean City as the Athletic Director of the Year by the Maryland State Athletic Directors Association, Frederick High athletic director Keivette Hammond is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Hammond chats with host Greg Swatek about the honor and how it fittingly coincided with the state's athletic directors voting to make a sport she championed from t...

After his team produced a momentous and unusual victory over arch rival Urbana last week, Linganore High girls lacrosse coach Dean Coccia is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Coccia talks with host Greg Swatek about the Lancers' 9-7 victory over Urbana, the two-time reigning Class 4A runner-up. Both Coccia and Urbana coach Ryan Hines agreed to end the game with 8 minutes and 35 seconds...

Following the Frederick Keys' home opener this week and their big return to affiliated baseball, Steve Melewski, a familiar voice who has covered the Baltimore Orioles and their minor-league system for more than two decades, is the latest guest on The Final Score podcast. Melewski chats with host Greg Swatek about the overall significance of the Keys being the High Class A minor league affiliate f...

During a week in which he faced his former team and his former player, Walkersville High boys lacrosse coach JM Sienkowski is the guest on The Final Score podcast. Sienkowski chats with host Greg Swatek about facing Middletown, the Lions' arch rival and a place where he coached for many years prior to taking the Walkersville job. He talks about the awkwardness of jumping to the other side of the r...

With Frederick's professional basketball team, the Frederick Flying Cows, in the early stages of its third season, the team's general manager, Chris Jenkins, is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Jenkins chats with Greg Swatek about the new eight-team league the Flying Cows are playing in. After playing their first two seasons in The Basketball League and reaching the TBL semifinals las...

The Final Score podcast continues its state-championship series this week with sophomore standout Ryker Keeney of the Middletown High School wrestling team. Keeney chats with host Greg Swatek about his 43-6 season, which included placing third in the Frederick County tournament at 144 pounds, winning the Class 2A-1A West regional title in that weight class and then placing fifth at the state tourn...

After winning championships at the state wrestling tournament in Upper Marlboro, Brunswick High's Kate Virgilio and Seth Crawford are this week's guests on The Final Score podcast. With a 12-8 victory over Smithburg's Rileigh Romberger in the girls championship match at 120 pounds, Virgilio became a back-to-back state champion for Brunswick. Last season, she won the title at 115 pounds. Meanwhile,...

After winning state wrestling titles last Saturday in Upper Marlboro, Linganore High wrestlers Cash Wheat and Alex Tortolani, as well as their coach, Jeff Wheat, Cash's father, are this week's guests on The Final Score podcast. The trio chats with host Greg Swatek about its big weekend at the state wrestling championships at The Show Place Arena. Cash Wheat pinned Walt Whitman's Matthew Hobbs in 5...

After winning the Class 2A high jump at the state indoor track and field meet with a personal-best leap of 6 feet, 10 inches, Walkersville High junior Masiah Martin and his coach, Amy Pezenoski, are this week's guests on The Final Score podcast. Martin tells host Greg Swatek what it meant to win a state title in the high jump and how it felt to clear such a lofty standard, and Pezenoski talks abou...

After claiming the Class 3A boys indoor track and field team championship with just eight athletes, two of them, senior Ricky Johnson and junior Jake Brown, and the coach of the Lancers, Bill Eckard, are this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. The trio chats with host Greg Swatek about how the Linganore boys were able to pull off such an improbable championship with such a small team. The La...

As his team prepares for the upcoming playoffs, Urbana High girls basketball coach J.R. Rawlins is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Rawlins talks with host Greg Swatek about the very competitive and tightly packed girls basketball landscape in Frederick County and how his talented team at Urbana fits into the mix. He talks about how he got his start in coaching and his time spent as a...

After saying goodbye to the NFL after 11 seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, Linganore High graduate Rob Havenstein is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Havenstein, who has been the stalwart right tackle on the Rams' offensive line for more than a decade now, explains to host Greg Swatek why he decided to retire after making 161 starts for the Rams over the last decade-plus. When did he...

With his resilient team finding ways to rally and win, Linganore High boys basketball coach Tim Abercrombie is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Abercrombie talks with Greg Swatek about what he appreciates most about his team of 10 players, who often lack the size and athleticism of their opponents. Linganore also has the tendency to get off to slow starts and fall behind by double dig...

After winning three individual races and anchoring a winning relay last week in the Frederick County Public Schools Indoor Track and Field Championships, Urbana High senior Korey Kauflin is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Kauflin chats with host Greg Swatek about his season and how a race two week ago in Virginia Beach changed his overall outlook on it and set the stage for him to wi...

After signing with the Frederick Flying Cows last weekend, former Oakdale High basketball star and Frederick County's all-time leading scorer Zach Thomas is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. The Flying Cows are Frederick's professional basketball team set to begin play in March in the United States Basketball League after two very successful seasons in The Basketball League {TBL). Last...

After declaring his intention to enter the NFL Draft last week, former Oakdale High football and basketball star Cam Dorner is this week’s guest on The Final Score podcast. Dorner chats with host Greg Swatek about his decision to declare for the draft. What led up to it? Who helped it make it? What were the deciding factors? And what was going through his head right after the announcement? He talk...

For the first podcast of 2026, former three-time state champion and first-year Urbana High wrestling coach Earl Blake is this week's guest on The Final Score. Blake, who wrestled for Linganore, chats with host Greg Swatek and FNP sports writer Alexander Dacy about his recent foray into coaching and how it feels to now be working for the arch rival school of his alma mater. During the discussion, h...

For the last Final Score podcast of 2025, FNP sports writer Alexander Dacy and host Greg Swatek offer up their lists for the top 10 Frederick County sports stories in 2025. How similar or different are their lists? Is there any consensus on what they felt were the county's biggest stories of the past year? Then, Urbana High boys basketball coach Dave Crawmer joins Greg to talk about his young team...

After hosting a coed duals tournament and an individual girls tournament last weekend, Tuscarora High wrestling coach Trey Coates is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Coates chats with host Greg Swatek about Tuscarora's Clash at the Creek tournament, which is in its third season for the boys and its second season for the girls. After being one of the leading champions for girls wrestli...

With the Middletown boys looking like the county's top basketball team and poised to make a run at a potential state championship, Knights coach John Keimig is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast. Keimig chats with host Greg Swatek about how the Knights are handling the lofty expectations with most of their team back from a season ago when they took eventual Class 2A runner-up New Town to...