Glen Burnie wins first unified bocce title: ‘An incredible accomplishment’

Wait, the Glen Burnie athletes said. We already won?

“You exceeded everyone’s expectations,” Gophers coach Marissa Neumann said. “It’s an incredible accomplishment — either way, we got first or second place. They’re already winners.”

No one wearing Gophers red at Washington College on Wednesday — either the Glen Burnie students or the joint team members from Ruth Parker Eason School — expected to qualify for states. They’d never done it before. But they did. Then, no one expected them to move past an experienced Crofton team...