On this night, though, the familiar backed into the distance.
Carey narrowly avoided a third consecutive loss in the state final, and Vaughters' second championship finally fell into his arms yesterday as Anne Arundel County and the Class 4A/3A East Region played a strong hand at the state tournament.
"State champ," said Carey, who edged Walt Whitman's Taylor Leighton, 5-3, for North County's first state championship since 1994....
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