Around West County:Music in the air at Arundel High

A soggy Saturday start gave way to afternoon sunshine at Carroll Field as Arundel High School hosted its Third Annual Wildcat Spectacular Tournament of Bands.

You would think is was a school day with all the buses parked at the high school, but something was up with moving vans, tractor-trailers, golf carts, riding mowers and four-wheelers.

When you hear the words "pit-crew," one thinks of car races, but the pit-crews from 16 high schools were of a different kind. These were the mobile units that carried drum sets, xylophones, chimes and gongs on and off the parade field in precision movement and record times.

A spectral...