All Star

SEATTLE -- The Safeco Field crowd stood at 6:19 p.m., almost too late to force Cal Ripken from the batter's box to acknowledge its welcome as he led off the third inning of a scoreless All-Star Game. A tip of his helmet, a wave of the bat. Then a swing. On the first All-Star pitch by Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Chan Ho Park a fastball that drifted toward the middle of the plate 40-year-old Ripken turned on the mistake with a 22-year-old's hands. And suddenly a balding man who slipped into the game with the least impressive numbers of any All-Star was running and watching while his line drive hooked toward the spectacularly improbable.

The Century girls' lacrosse team added to its trophy case again on Tuesday, earning its sixth state championship with a 12-9 victory over Queen Anne's in the Class 3A/2A title game at UMBC Stadium. Century used a familiar formula to win its sixth state title. Haley Bordner, Alice Mercer, and Angela Flister provided the bulk of the scoring in the Knights' 12-9 Class 3A/2A championship win over Queen Anne's, which was playing in its first title game. Bordner scored five goals and added an assist for the Knights, who tallied five unanswered goals in the final 5:09 of the first half to turn a 5-3 deficit into an 8-5 halftime lead.

Three Baltimore natives have been selected to play in the Jordan Brand Classic all-star basketball game. Lake Clifton point guard Josh Selby, Brewster (N.H.) Academy small forward Will Barton and Oak Hill (Va.) Academy forward Roscoe Smith were all chosen to participate, Jordan Brand -- a division of Nike -- announced Thursday. The game is scheduled for April 17 at 8 p.m. at Madison Square Garden in New York. It will be televised live on ESPN2. Selby, the No. 7 senior in the country according to ESPN.

The 30 best high school baseball players as selected by the Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches will be playing in the 31st annual Brooks Robinson All-Star game on Sunday, June 10. Chesapeake-Anne Arundel County coach Ken King, chairman of the event that will be held at Camden Yards after the Orioles game that afternoon, said the lineup will be a "Who's Who" of players in the state. A year ago, fans got to see the Baltimore Sun's baseball Player of the Year T.J. Pipik from Reservoir combine with Ryan Redinger of Mountain Ridge for a four-hit, 5-0 shutout for the North Stars.

Because of a computer error made by the company tabulating ballots for Major League Baseball, American League All-Star balloting results will not be announced until today.

TODAY11 a.m.-9 p.m.: Upper Deck All-Star FanFest, a baseball theme park. Baltimore Convention Center and Festival Hall. Admission is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors 62 and older, children 12 and younger and military.11 a.m.-9 p.m.: Baltimore's All-Star StreetFest Workout Day, Camden Street, south of Festival Hall. Features exercise and aerobic activities. (410) 837-4636.4 p.m.: StreetFest Step Competition, Camden Street. African-American fraternities and sororities perform rhythmic steps and cheers.

July 13, 1993 Oriole Park at Camden Yards In 1959, at the request of the players to raise money for the players' pension fund, the owners agreed to an arrangement of two All-Star Games a year to speed payment of pension fund indebtedness. However, after playing two games each in 1959 to 1962, the players approved a return to one game in December 1962.

Players who received bonuses for their election to Tuesday's All-Star Game:AMERICAN LEAGUE $100,000 Kirby Puckett, Minn.Cal Ripken, OriolesRick Aguilera, Minn.Roberto Alomar, Tor.Wade Boggs, N.Y.Joe Carter, Tor.Ken Griffey, Sea.Jimmy Key, N.Y.J. Montgomery, K.C.John Olerud, Tor.Greg Vaughn, Milw.Duane Ward, Tor.$25,000 M. Mussina, OriolesCarlos Baerga, Cleve.Albert Belle, Cleve.Cecil Fielder, Det.Travis Fryman, Det.Paul Molitor, Tor.Devon White, Tor.$10,000 Ivan Rodriguez, Tex.NATIONAL LEAGUE $50,000 Darren Daulton, Phi.Tom Glavine, Atl.Bryan Harvey, Fla.David Justice, Atl.John Kruk, Phil.

The Chesapeake Bayhawks received All-Star defenseman Nicky Polanco , a two-time Major League Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Year, from the Long Island Lizards for the rights to their 2012 first-round college draft pick CJ Costabile , a Duke long-stick midfielder. In addition, the Bayhawks obtained 2013 and 2014 second-round selections while the Lizards got a 2013 fifth-round pick. Fishing: Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., leads the Walmart-FLW Tour event on the Potomac River with a five-bass limit weighing 22 pounds, 10 ounces.

• On a Notre Dame men's lacrosse team where everyone contributes, Clarksville's Jim Marlatt has grabbed the spotlight. The River Hill grad had a career-high five-point day in the NCAA first-round win over Yale. But it's depth that has been the key: 19 different players have hit the back of the net for the Irish, who play Virginia on Sunday in the NCAA quarterfinals. "We're just looking for the opening guy and whoever that guys is at the end of the play is going to get the goal," said Marlatt, a 2012 Big East Conference first-team honoree.

Perry Hills turned in a near-flawless performance Sunday in his final high school football game. The Maryland-bound quarterback completed 8 of 9 passes for 273 yards and four touchdowns , leading the West all-star team to a 45-24 win over the East in the 11th  Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association All-Star Game . If any Maryland Terrapin fans were watching, Hills certainly gave them plenty of reason to...

When the second annual President's Cup baseball tournament came to an end Saturday -- with Mount St. Joseph beating last year's champion, Gilman, 12-11 -- the event's creator was already looking ahead to next year's tournament. Baltimore City Council president Bernard C. "Jack" Young, whose idea it was to bring city public school teams and private teams together in a city-wide tournament, said he'd like to see a clinic as part of the event, as well as an All-Star game featuring some of the best players from the other teams participating.

Before the Capital Classic's fourth and final all-star game tipped Saturday night, before the bands of fans hoping to catch a glimpse of Maryland's future crossed state lines to the high school best known for its “Remember the Titans” lineage, it was obvious one recruiting class' meet-and-greet would become a welcome party. Sam Cassell Jr., after all, had committed to the Terps once before. The guard had been shacked up in a hotel with four other players who'd done the same in writing.

Led by Atholton forward Gavin Stephenson and Centennial point guard Keonte Potts, the Maryland All-Stars came away with a 102-94 win over their Pennsylvania counterparts in the Mid-State Roundball Showcase Saturday in Harrisburg, Pa. The Maryland team has won four of the past give games in the longstanding senior game. Stephenson sored 19 points and added seven assists and six rebounds, while Potts finished with 17 points, five assists and five rebounds. Maryland fell behind 15-6 early before going on a 27-5 run to take control for good.

Patterson boys basketball coach Harry Martin has had his own standout player to work with the past three years in two-time All-Metro Player of the Year Aquille Carr. On April 21, he'll get the chance to coach a handful of national standouts. Martin and his Patterson two assistants -- Theodoric Bell and Edward Lewis -- will coach the U.S. All Stars in the 39th annual Capital Classic as they take on the Capital All Stars at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.

After feeling snubbed last season when the Atlantic Coast Professional Basketball League's All-Star rosters were announced, Beltway Bombers guard Rogers Barnes was determined not to be overlooked again. Barnes, who starred at River Hill and Morgan State, has followed through, averaging 18 points, four rebounds and four steals this season, and he has been rewarded by being named to the South team for Sunday's ACPBL Bank of Glen Burnie All-Star Game. What's more, it will be played at Archbishop Spalding in Severn in front of his home-state fans.