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Abigail McNair, South River SPORT FIELD HOCKEY GIRLS STATS -- McNair, a junior attack, led the Seahawks (16-3-1) in scoring with 21 goals and two assists, as they repeated as Class 4A state champions. McNair had a goal and an assist in the 3-0 win over Springbrook in the final. "Abigail is a very quiet leader, is very unselfish and has marvelous dribbling skills," first-year South River coach Katie Corcoran said. "She can definitely play at the next level." SIDELINES -- McNair has a 4.25 grade point average and is a member of the National Honor Society, the National Arts Honor Society and the Edgewater school's Success Team, which promotes diversity and multi-cultural activities.

Excuse Parkville's John Marquette for being tired this past Saturday. His game against Baltimore County rival Milford Mill had come at the end of a long 24 hours. Not only had the first-year coach been denied a victory in his final regular-season game - a 20-10 loss to the 4A-3A league rival Millers (7-3) - but the setback had come after having been denied all but "about an hour" of sleep the night before thanks to his newborn daughter, Abigail McGinnis. Marquette said he "had been watching game film and changing diapers" since his wife, Dana Marquette, gave birth to 7-pound, 15-ounce Abigail at St. Joseph's Hospital on Election Day. In the aftermath of Abigail's arrival at 1:33 p.m., neither her mother, a Democrat, nor her father, a Republican, got a chance to vote.

"After the War," by Alice Adams. Knopf. 305 pages. $24. Alice Adams' 11th and posthumous novel, "After the War," is a novel of happy endings. So many of the characters in this book find or rediscover true love that it seems their creator, who died last year of a heart ailment, knew her end was near and wished to provide for her fictional children as well as possible. "After the War" begins immediately where her 1995 novel "Southern Exposure" left off. In the earlier novel, Cynthia and Harry Baird moved with their daughter Abigail from Connecticut to Pinehill, N.C. Ostensibly they were in search of a less hectic, more genteel, and more affordable life.

On March 1, 2004 HELEN M. BARTOSZ (nee Kapinos); beloved wife of the late Adam Bartosz; devoted mother of Donald Bartosz and Joyce Reese; mother-in-law of Barbara A. Bartosz and William A. Reese; loving grandmother of Gregory Adam Bartosz, Donna Bartosz Green, William Adam Reese and Renee Reese O'Mailey, GG Mom to Abigail and Lindsey Green and Adam Bartosz. Relatives and friends are invited to call at Schimunek Funeral Home, Inc., 9705 Belair Rd (Perry Hall), on Tuesday from 7 to 9 P.M. and Wednesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. where funeral services will be held on Thursday at 11 A.M. Interment Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery.

Director Vincent Lancisi begins Everyman Theatre's production of "The Crucible" with an unscripted scene that sets the rest of the events in Arthur Miller's cautionary play in motion. At the back of designer Daniel Conway's abstract set, a small knot of young women, austerely dressed, appears - like nuns in a cloister. Then suddenly the girls are seized with a joyous, unbridled spirit that sends them dancing and shrieking with abandon. "The Crucible" is a play about fervor run amok. It's about a society whose passions are locked down so tightly that once released, they quickly spiral out of control.

The teddy bears, cards and flowers, a shrine to a girl's memory, were spattered by a light rain. A day after a devastating fire in Roland Park took the life of Abigail Young, an 11-year-old student at the Calvert School, classmates and friends left offerings of grief yesterday at the family's wrecked home as firefighters trudged along the neighborhood's icy sidewalks, knocking on doors and reminding homeowners to check their smoke detectors and fire...

History was made on several fronts at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards last night. The HBO miniseries John Adams surpassed the 2003 HBO production Angels in America to become the most honored long form program in TV history. Meanwhile, AMC's Mad Men, a stylish series about life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s, became the first basic cable program to win as best drama. And then came writer-actress Tina Fey and the series she created, NBC's 30 Rock, dominating the comedy category like no other sitcom in years as it took home awards for best writing, best actress, best actor and best comedy.

POWDERED WIGS and "Yankee Doodle" are out; body piercing and the Macarena are in.(Well, the Macarena was in.) Yet nothing really changes. Here are the opening words of a new book:"It was a special time in the history of America. The Vice President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, called it a `reign of witches.' A short, fat man who puffed at `seegars' and believed in monarchy was President of the United States. At incautious moments, he predicted the nation's conversion to a kingdom with a titled nobility to oversee Congress.

On April 24, 2004, ABIGAIL E. (nee Davis); beloved wife of the late John J. Higgins, Sr.; devoted mother of Martin J. Higgins and his wife Mary and John J. Higgins, Jr. and his wife Bonnie; loving grandmother of Valerie Pedone, Dianna and Ryan Higgins; cherished great-grandmother of Maggie, Sam, and Cora. Also survived by other relatives and friends. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated in St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church on Saturday, May 8 at 10:30 A.M. Interment private. Please omit flowers.

On February 19, 2003 SAMANTHAABIGAIL POKUSA, age 6, died in her sleep. She is the beloved granddaughter of Joyce Pokusa; daughter of Brandy Pokusa; sister of Monica and Teyonne; niece of Chrissy and Robby; goddaughter of Junior Reynolds and Donna Chamberlin. Funeral services will be held at Ambrose Funeral Home of Arbutus on Saturday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9. Services will be held on Sunday at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions are suggested to help with the funeral expenses. They may be sent in c/o Donna Chamberlin, 5531 Link Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21227.