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27-509: The Arsenal played at Thomas Run Park , on the campus of Harford Community College . The Arsenal are the subject of NPR broadcaster Neal Conan 's book, Play By Play: Baseball, Radio, and Life in the Last Chance League . This article about a baseball team in Maryland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thomas Run Park Harford Community College is

54-565: A public community college in Bel Air, Maryland . It was established as Harford Junior College in September 1957 with 116 students in the buildings and on the campus of the Bel Air High School in the county seat . The Bel Air campus of 1964 occupies 332 acres (1.34 km ) and now has 21 buildings totaling over 287,000 square feet (26,700 m ). HCC was founded in September 1957 as

81-492: A capacity of about 2,000, which has since been dismantled back down to the original bleachers and walkways. Harford Stadium is a 1,000 seat soccer and lacrosse stadium. Constructed in 1968, a 2007 renovation eliminated a track, and now features an artificial turf field, lights, and press pavilion. The HCC Library is located in the center of campus. Also in the center of the campus is the Chesapeake Center which hosts

108-575: A concession pavilion, stadium, basketball courts, and lit tennis courts. The complex is also occasionally used by Harford Technical High School as well as other area high schools, and by community adult baseball and softball teams. The baseball complex was home to the Atlantic League Aberdeen Arsenal baseball team in 2000, before the Aberdeen IronBirds moved to the completed Ripken Stadium in 2002. The expanded field had

135-425: A given season, then the school that wins will receive the point. If it is a tie, each team receives a one-half point. All regular season head-to-head games count toward the season series tally with the school that wins more games receiving the point. If the teams split the regular season matchups, then each team receives a one-half point. In the event of an overall tie, the school that won the previous year will retain

162-492: A maximum of tuition, fees, room and board, course-related books, up to $ 250 in course-required supplies, and transportation costs one time per academic year to and from the college by direct route. Division II colleges are limited to awarding tuition, fees, course related books, and up to $ 250 in course required supplies. Division III institutions may provide no athletically related financial assistance. However, NJCAA colleges that do not offer athletic aid may choose to participate at

189-590: A successful scholastic football program. The program went to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) football championship in 1984, where it lost to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College . The following year, Harford was forced to close the program due to lack of funding. The discontinuation of the football program was met with heavy opposition by students, who signed many petitions to bring

216-499: A women's division following the enactment of Title IX . Based out of Hutchinson, Kansas since 1968, the national office relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1985. Headquarters moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2018. Each institution belonging to the NJCAA chooses to compete on the Division I, II or III level. Division I colleges may offer full athletic scholarships, totaling

243-466: Is "Screech," the "Fighting Owl." National Junior College Athletic Association The National Junior College Athletic Association ( NJCAA ), founded in 1938, is the governing association of community college , state college and junior college athletics throughout the United States. Currently the NJCAA holds 24 separate regions across 24 states and is divided into 3 divisions. The idea for

270-491: Is also expected with the ties and influence of Harfordians being very close. HCC has seven academic divisions that offer 61 associates degrees and 21 certificate degrees. The academic divisions are: Harford Community College is a member of the Maryland Association of Community Colleges. HCC is represented by the mascot of the "Fighting Owls." This nickname was chosen during the institution's early years, when it

297-470: The "Chesapeake Gallery", a collection of artwork from emerging and established artists as well as students and faculty, as well the "Chesapeake Theater", a theater venue utilized by the "Phoenix Festival Theater Company". To the north is the Joppa Hall, which houses the "Joppa Recital Hall", used for musical recitals, and the "Blackbox Theatre", an additional theater venue utilized by the "HCC Actors Guild" and

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324-562: The "Harford Dance Theater Company". Darlington Hall, opened in 2014, is HCC's central hub for students pursuing nursing and allied health degrees and certificates. More students transfer to Towson University , a state public university to the southwest in Towson, Maryland of neighboring Baltimore County than any other college. T.U. is the second largest university in the state after the University of Maryland at College Park . The mascot for HCC

351-448: The "Harford Junior College" on the campus and in the basement of the building for Bel Air High School with 116 original students. By four years later in September 1961, enrollment had risen to 354. In 1964, it moved to its current location east of Bel Air on Thomas Run Road in Bel Air , where it continued to grow and eventually was renamed "Harford Community College" in 1971, using the title of "community" which had become more popular in

378-544: The 1960s, 70s, and 80s). Occasionally some Harford County residents currently avail themselves of the opportunities at the neighboring three campuses of the Community College of Baltimore County system at Catonsville , Essex or Dundalk . In the mid-1990s, the HCC began expanding, adding a new library, along with Fallston Hall, Edgewood Hall, new parking lots, and an expanded baseball sports facility. Continued future expansion

405-551: The Athletic Department, locations for fitness classes, such as martial arts and yoga , as well as a swimming pool are located here. The original Susquehanna Center was a 49,150 ft² indoor athletic complex featuring a multi-purpose gymnasium, fitness center, dance studio, 25-yard swimming pool with grandstand, locker rooms, and offices for Harford sports. It was gutted in Summer 2011 to make way for extensive renovations and

432-503: The Division I or II level if they so desire. The NJCAA is divided into 24 different regions: Due to the relatively small number of schools fielding teams, some football-only conferences exist. They may be home to teams from multiple regions. There are also independent schools in regions 2 (Arkansas Baptist), 3 (upstate New York), 8 (ASA-Miami), 10 (Louisburg, N.C.), 12 (Hocking College), and 17 (Georgia Military). Onondaga Community College 's football program does not compete in

459-498: The NJCAA was conceived in 1937, in Fresno, California . A handful of junior college representatives met to organize an association that would promote and supervise a national program of junior college sports and activities consistent with the educational objectives of junior colleges. A constitution was presented and adopted at the charter meeting in Fresno on May 14, 1938. In 1949, the NJCAA

486-514: The Susquehanna Center, is an indoor arena at Harford Community College in Bel Air , Maryland . It hosts indoor sports for HCC's Fighting Owls programs, community and regional events, commencements, concerts, special events, student services, fundraising activities, meetings, conferences and trade shows. Capacity for sports events has been listed at 2,552, with up to 3,400 seats for indoor floor events such as concerts. Administration offices for

513-472: The athletic rivalry between the HCC "Fighting Owls" and the Hagerstown Community College "Hawks" of western Maryland's Washington County . It is an all-sports based rivalry. For a school to be the winner of the competition, it must accumulate at least 5.5 points. The point is awarded to the team that wins the season series in the head-to-head competition. If the team plays head-to-head once in

540-677: The city to avail themselves of the educational opportunities in the state's major city. Montgomery College in Montgomery County of the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. , was the first established in the state in 1946 of the modern concept of "junior college", followed by the Baltimore Junior College (again located first at the Baltimore City College) in 1947, (B.J.C. later renamed "Community College of Baltimore" during

567-663: The construction of the new arena. Total size of the finished facility with arena will be 86,610 ft²; a groundbreaking ceremony for the new facility was held on August 23, 2011. On February 27, 2012, it was announced that APG Federal Credit Union had bought the naming rights for the facility for $ 50,000 annually over 15 years. Harford Sports Complex, formerly Thomas Run Park, is a multi-purpose sports park in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland , owned and operated by Harford Community College. It consists of one lit all-grass regulation baseball field , one turf infield/grass outfield regulation baseball field, two lit 'skin' softball fields,

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594-410: The field hockey program alive. In 2000, after 3 years of strain, the program was forced to shut down. Lacrosse Harford's women's lacrosse team, led by head coach Nikki Murphy, won its first NJCAA Division I National Championship in program history on May 19, 2019. Harford Men's Lacrosse won their first NJCAA title in 2023 with a win over Nassau to cap a 12-0 season. "Flight Night" is the name of

621-591: The former nationwide " junior college movement". Dating back into the 1920s with some public and a few private colleges at the lower level conceived and founded, with some earlier antecedents and similar schools appearing in Baltimore at the turn of the 20th Century (with The Baltimore City College - high school (1839) and lower college (1866), and later the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (1883), that some old-time citizens of Harford County traveled into

648-538: The program back. However, proper funding never came in later, and the sports program still has had to remain closed for 29 years. Field Hockey Harford ran an extremely successful field hockey program for women from 1975 to 2000. The program won the national championship in 1995, Harford's only national championship. NJCAA field hockey was discontinued in 1997. Harford started playing National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II and Division III schools, even some Division I Junior Varsity teams to try to keep

675-435: The trophy. The school's newspaper is "The Owl" magazine, which is published twice during the fall and spring semesters. HCC hosts WHFC , an FM radio station that serves the metro Baltimore area to the southwest, as well as southern Pennsylvania to the north. It is set in the variety format, with shows ranging from jazz , to alternative music , to talk show . APG Federal Credit Union Arena, originally known as

702-668: Was largely an evening college and the nocturnal nature of the Owl represented that fact. Harford has traditionally had a successful athletics program, with over 70 students being named All-Americans on the junior college level of interscholastic sports. The "Fighting Owls" compete in the Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference (MD JUCO) of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). Harford offers fourteen varsity sports, seven men's and seven women's teams. Football From 1964 to 1985, Harford ran

729-518: Was reorganized by dividing the nation into sixteen regions. The officers of the association were the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, public relations director, and the sixteen regional vice presidents. Although the NJCAA was founded in California, it no longer operates there, having been supplanted by the unaffiliated California Community College Athletic Association . The NJCAA only allowed male competitors until 1975, when it established

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