Spalding's Fochtman commits to Navy

Spalding's Evan Fochtman carries the ball against Good Counsel.Citing a similar offense to the one he ran at Archbishop Spalding, a quality education and the close proximity of the campus to his home, Cavaliers senior Evan Fochtman, a co-winner of the 2016 Rhodes Trophy, committed to the United States Naval Academy Thursday night, choosing the Annapolis school over the United States Military Academy and the University of Pennsylvania.

"It was just the opportunity that it gives me later in life, the opportunity to play a such a high level and a great education," said Fochtman, who will report directly to Annapolis this summer instead of heading to the Naval Academy Prep School in Rhode…