B Division

Oldfields goalie Ceili Betsch never played field hockey until two months ago. But the native of the Netherlands must have been a quick study.Yesterday, Betsch made 10 saves and shut out top-seeded Park to help give Oldfields a share of the Association of Independent Schools B Division Tournament title. After playing to a 0-0 double-overtime tie at St. Paul's School for Girls, Park and Oldfields were declared co-champs.The Bruins (8-2-1) outshot Oldfields, 24-5, with a 15-1 advantage on penalty corners.

Glenelg Country School field hockey coaches Barbara Wolf and Patti Ordonez know winning is a state of mind. Now, if they could just convince their players.Early in the season, Wolf and Ordonez thought they had enough talent to boost last year's one-win season and move up in the Association of Independent Schools B Division.Instead, after Wednesday's heart-breaking 3-2 loss to Lutheran, Glenelg's record stood at 1-5-2 overall and 0-4-1 in the B Division.That does not mean the talent is not there, say the coaches.

At Glenelg Country School, a strong middle-school feeder system for field hockey is a mixed blessing for coaches Patti Ordonez and Barbara Wolf.Unlike the county public schools, Glenelg Country, which plays in the Association of Independent Schools B Division, has a feeder system.Its eighth-grade team was so strong last year it beat Roland Park, whose varsity has won or shared the last three AIS A Division championships and has been to the title game six straight years. That should bode well for the Dragons' future.

Oldfields girls lacrosse coach Beth Franks knows how to turn a program around.In the past five years, she has taken her team from winless to peerless in the Association of Independent Schools B Division.Oldfields rebounded from an 0-11 record in 1989 to 11-2 in 1993. Franks' team capped the turnaround this spring by winning the B Division Tournament championship, 9-8, over Institute of Notre Dame.Winning a title, even in the B Division, is a tougher task for Franks and her players than most in the AIS, because Oldfields, in northern Baltimore County, is a boarding school.

Dozens of high school sailors from the Eastern Seaboard converged at the Naval Academy last weekend for the double-handed Mallory and single-handed Cressy eliminations.Breezes were brisk northwesterlies both days, creating challenging conditions for the sailors using 420s for the Mallory competition on Saturday and Lasers for the Cressy racing on Sunday.And when the six races for each of the A and B divisions in Saturday's Mallory fleet were over, first place overall in the 12-school competition went to Severn School's team with 32 points.

Maybe Severn just needed a vacation.Last night, the 11th-ranked Admirals appeared well-rested and up to the task as they returned after a 10-day absence and eliminated St. Mary's, 77-47, in the Armstrong Conference B Division semifinals at Goucher College.Severn (24-2) will face Friends, which advanced by defeating Archbishop Spalding, 75-68, in overtime, in today's championship game at 1 p.m. at Goucher."We were anxious to play a game because we haven't played in so long," said Severn coach Jim Doyle, whose team hadn't played a game since losing to Spalding, 52-46, in the Independent Schools Tournament Feb. 17 at Gilman.

Reserve Joe Greenlee, who had gone scoreless in seven previous quarters against John Carroll this season, unloaded on the Patriots with a 10-point barrage in the last 6 1/2 minutes, leading St. Mary's to a 66-61 victory at Bel Air last night.It was a first-round game in the B Division of the Armstrong Conference. St. Mary's (11-14) now will meet Severn in a semifinal at 6 p.m. Friday at Goucher. The other semifinal at 8 p.m. at Goucher will send Friends against Spalding, a 68-61 winner over Boys' Latin.

Junior forward Doug Little scored 24 points and for the first time in more than six years Archbishop Spalding advanced to the semifinals of the conference playoffs, as the Cavaliers defeated visiting Boys' Latin, 68-61, in an Armstrong Conference B Division first-round game.Spalding (13-8) will meet Friends (14-6) in a semifinal game Friday at 8 p.m. at Goucher College. St. Mary's, a 66-61 winner over John Carroll in yesterday's other first-round contest, will meet Severn in the other semifinal Friday at Goucher at 6 p.m.The winners will meet in the championship game Sunday at 1 p.m. at Goucher.

It's that time of the year again for the Park School girls basketball team.With the Association of Independent Schools tournament starting tomorrow, the Bruins (15-1) will enter as the No. 1 seed and favorite to win the B Division championship.Park finished with an overall record of 14-4 last year and lost in the AIS B Division championship game to rival Garrison Forest by one point. Bruins coach Robin Willard and his squad are looking forward to the probable rematch."We're going to have to play good defense and run our offense successfully," Willard said.