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Ronnie Zeberlein C. Milton Wright, baseball The senior second baseman went 6-for-9 with a home run, two doubles and four RBIs this week in helping lead his Mustangs to three wins, one a 4-1 victory over then-No. 1 Calvert Hall. He drove in three of his team's four runs against the Cardinals and knocked in the winning run in the last inning of the Mustangs' 5-4 victory over North Harford. His coach, Tony Blackburn, says Zeberlein is "a tireless worker. He would take ground balls all day if we let him."

It looked like a rebuilding season for the Archbishop Spalding volleyball team after the graduation of setter and All-Metro Player of the Year Brittany Born and second-team All-Metro hitter Colleen Seeba. Instead, the No. 5 Cavaliers have reloaded and are making a run to repeat as Interscholastc Athletic Association A Conference champions. Under coach Scott Rombach, the Cavaliers served notice on Friday with a surprising 3-1 triumph over then-No. 1 St. Paul's by scores of 25-15, 25-15, 19-25 and 25-19.

Yesterday's wet and windy conditions wreaked havoc throughout the area, but the Boys' Latin and Archbishop Curley baseball teams still took the field - albeit a soggy one. Mike Trimmer hit a two-run RBI double in the bottom of the first inning to help the host Lakers (8-0) take an early six-run lead on their way to beating the Friars, 12-9. "The field was muddy and the wind was awful," Boys' Latin coach Mike Bordick said. "Luck might have been on our side offensively. A couple of balls got caught by the wind and looped in for hits."

In a solemn and symbolically rich ceremony, Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien was installed yesterday as leader of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, vowing to draw men to the priesthood, intensify the fight against abortion and help the vulnerable who live in the city. And he began humbly. "I come to you no genius, and with limited talents and abilities ... but I pledge to you before God and his people: Whatever I am, and all that I have, I give to you," he said in his homily. O'Brien became the 15th archbishop of the nation's first archdiocese in the two-hour Mass of installation at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore, taking over for Cardinal William H. Keeler, who held the post for 18 years.

Three years ago, when members of the Greek Orthodox church in North America heard about the cleric who would be their next archbishop, U.S.-born Metropolitan Spyridon seemed like the ideal man for the job.Spyridon , whose baptismal name is George Papageorgiou, is a native of Warren, Ohio. He seemed perfectly suited to lead a church whose members are no longer mostly immigrants, but are U.S.-born, well-educated and prosperous."He was an all-American boy," said Evan Alevizatos Chriss, a Baltimore lawyer and founding member of Greek Orthodox American Leaders, an independent lay group that is Spyridon's most vocal opponent.

McKinley Wooden, 103, the last known surviving member of Harry S. Truman's World War I Army unit, died Sunday at a retirement community in Lee's Summit, Mo.Rolando Alphonso, 67, the tenor saxophonist for the Skatalites and a major figure in Jamaican music, died Nov. 20 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The cause of death was a brain hemorrhage, said his daughter.George D. Crothers, 89, a producer of the long-running CBS television program "Lamp Unto My Feet" and a director of religious broadcasting at the network, died Nov. 27 in Sarasota, Fla.Cardinal Carlos Oviedo, 71, a former archbishop of Santiago, Chile, died there Monday of a heart attack.

Social CalendarJune 3: "Sinai Hope," gala premiere of Sinai Health System's new emergency facility. Black tie. Hyatt Regency Hotel. 6:30 p.m. Stars Mary Wilson of the Supremes. Tickets $250 and up. Call 410-653-6212.June 3: Howard County Women's Bar Association honors Patricia Rouse, co-founder with her late husband, James, of the Enterprise Foundation. Pepper Room at the Columbia Inn. $25. Call 410-997-2835.June 5: FutureStars '98 benefits Chesapeake Human Resources Association. B&O Railroad Museum, 901 W. Pratt St. Music by Junior Cline & the Recliners.

In perhaps the most hotly-contested Baltimore area private schools tournament in history, top-ranked Archbishop Curley advanced nine wrestlers into today's semifinals.Right behind Curley, No. 2-ranked Calvert Hall moved eight alongPub Date: 2/14/98

In November 1938, the Nazi terror of European Jews swelled and exploded with a night of killings, vandalism and lootings. Nov. 9 became known as Crystal Night because of all the broken glass on the streets from attacks on synagogues, Jewish businesses and homes. Berlin's largest synagogue was burned, scores of Jews were killed, thousands more brutalized, arrested and sent on fatal journeys to concentration camps. The Holocaust had begun.While too many leaders of the Western world (including those in the Vatican)

Host Pallotti scored four unearned runs with two outs in the last of the sixth inning yesterday to beat top-ranked Archbishop Spalding and Crystal Ray, 4-3.For the Cavaliers (12-1), the loss ended a 19-game winning streak and visions of a second unbeaten season in three years.Pub Date: 4/21/96

Ronnie Zeberlein C. Milton Wright, baseball The senior second baseman went 6-for-9 with a home run, two doubles and four RBIs this week in helping lead his Mustangs to three wins, one a 4-1 victory over then-No. 1 Calvert Hall. He drove in three of his team's four runs against the Cardinals and knocked in the winning run in the last inning of the Mustangs' 5-4 victory over North Harford. His coach, Tony Blackburn, says Zeberlein is "a tireless worker. He would take ground balls all day if we let him."

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien will receive his pallium at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican tomorrow, a capstone event marking his connection to the Catholic hierarchy and to the church worldwide. More than 100 Marylanders have traveled to Rome to attend the Mass tomorrow, where Pope Benedict XVI will confer the woolen stole to O'Brien and 42 other archbishops who were appointed after June 2007. "It's a great symbol, a reminder for any Catholic of the part we all share in this historic church of ours, and the continuity of the church," O'Brien, 69, said in a telephone interview from Italy.

What do a former legal counsel for Ronald Reagan and a Democratic governor have in common? As you might expect, it's not the same politics. Douglas W. Kmiec, an esteemed constitutional law professor at Pepperdine University, is a pro-life Republican. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is a moderate known for consensus-building. But these prominent Catholics are both the most recent targets of clergy who use Communion as a political weapon and effectively blacklist respected Catholic leaders.

Coach of the year Zack Burke Archbishop Spalding In Burke's first year as varsity head coach, he had bold aspirations. He believed his Archbishop Spalding team, which won just one Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference game last year, could be a playoff contender. He was right. The Cavaliers earned their first playoff berth since joining the A Conference in 2003. "The reason I got into this is because I saw a lot of guys that had potential that just needed a little bit of help," Burke said.

Archbishop Spalding forward Jordan Clinton "is having a breakout season," Cavaliers coach Deb Taylor said. Clinton's success on the basketball court is not surprising considering that her father, Tim Clinton, played at Glen Burnie and that her mother, Debbie Garrison Clinton, played for Brooklyn Park, where she scored 1,630 career points and was a member of state championship teams in 1985, 1986 and 1987. Jordan's younger brother, Trey Clinton, is on the Mount St. Joseph junior varsity team.

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien will be spending Christmas a little differently this year. But it's not just that this is his first Noel as archbishop of Baltimore. Every year for the past decade, he's marked the holiday overseas. "This is the first Christmas I've been in the states in 10 years," he said. Formerly the archbishop of military services, O'Brien would travel to celebrate Mass with the troops at different bases on Christmas. Last year he was in Kuwait, and the year before that he went to Bosnia and Kosovo.

It looked like a rebuilding season for the Archbishop Spalding volleyball team after the graduation of setter and All-Metro Player of the Year Brittany Born and second-team All-Metro hitter Colleen Seeba. Instead, the No. 5 Cavaliers have reloaded and are making a run to repeat as Interscholastc Athletic Association A Conference champions. Under coach Scott Rombach, the Cavaliers served notice on Friday with a surprising 3-1 triumph over then-No. 1 St. Paul's by scores of 25-15, 25-15, 19-25 and 25-19.

In a solemn and symbolically rich ceremony, Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien was installed yesterday as leader of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, vowing to draw men to the priesthood, intensify the fight against abortion and help the vulnerable who live in the city. And he began humbly. "I come to you no genius, and with limited talents and abilities ... but I pledge to you before God and his people: Whatever I am, and all that I have, I give to you," he said in his homily. O'Brien became the 15th archbishop of the nation's first archdiocese in the two-hour Mass of installation at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore, taking over for Cardinal William H. Keeler, who held the post for 18 years.

Cardinal William H. Keeler celebrates his last public Mass as archbishop of Baltimore today -- but no one should expect him to say goodbye for long. Stepping down after 18 years as head of the Baltimore area's more than 500,000 Catholics and 151 parishes, Keeler already foresees an ambitious schedule pursuing his passions and the religious agenda that has marked his career. He plans to immerse himself further in the history of the archdiocese and its centerpiece, the restored Basilica of the Assumption.

In last season's march to the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association championship, No. 2 Archbishop Curley relied on three key elements to put away opponents - a rugged defense, an opportunistic offense that did not squander scoring chances, and the desire to win every loose ball. Although the Friars were under pressure for much of yesterday's conference opener at Loyola, they showed much of the same tenacity and scoring prowess for a 3-1 victory. Sophomore forward Mikias Teketele led Curley with two goals and Bash Kamara tallied the other, as the Friars withstood a furious second-half rally by the Dons.