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SwimmingFreedom Swim Club's Amy Hancock, 10, won five events and set five South Carroll Swim Club pool records to highlight Sunday's seventh annual Carroll County Invitational.South Carroll's Shannon Jones and Jason Kay each took four firsts, with Kay setting three South Carroll club marks.The 201 swimmers in the event represented the Freedom Swim Club (FR), South Carroll Swim Club (SC), Taneytown Community Swim (TT), West Howard Swim Club (WH), Westminster Riding Club (WRC) and Westminster Swim Team (WST)

BaseballThe 7-8 Bel Air travel team, after winning the AABC Northern Regional Championships in New York with a 13-1 victory over Amity, N.Y., took its high-powered offense and solid defense south to Jonesboro, Ga., to compete in the AABC Roberto Clemente World Series.Bel Air finished 2-2 and tied for third with the Old National White Sox of Georgia.Puerto Rico scored 13 runs in the first inning of Bel Air's first national showing. But Bel Air regrouped for a seven-run third inning, sparked by a two-run homer by Kyle Minnichbach and singles from Jeff Reynolds, Jamie Ryan, Nick Kiss and Tony Ullmann.

Loyola swimming coach Keith Schertle doesn't try to dance around the truth when asked how good his team will be this winter. "This is probably the most talented team I've had," Schertle said. Schertle knows talent because he has had plenty of it with Loyola. The Dons have a good shot at winning their 11th straight Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association championship. Loyola is loaded with experienced seniors who've competed in many tough meets, but Schertle likes the fact that they're not breezing through practices.

Michael Phelps' bid at Olympic history will begin with six individual events at the U.S. Olympic swim trials. With no relays on the program, an ambitious swimmer can take chances at that high-stakes meet, which runs from Monday to July 14 in Long Beach, Calif. The top two finishers in each event will earn a spot on the American team that goes to the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, where Phelps could become the first American to try five individual events in the Olympics. Phelps figures to race 17 times in seven days in Long Beach.

It was like 1984 all over again. It was like Theresa Andrews revisited.Same event. Same coach. Same seeding for the final. Same nationality of the top two seeds -- both Americans. Same upset.In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Andrews, coached by Murray Stephens of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, won the 100-meter backstroke after qualifying second for the final behind Betsy Mitchell.Twelve years later, NBAC's Beth Botsford, coached by Stephens, won the 100 backstroke last night in Atlanta after qualifying second behind Whitney Hedgepeth.

Nora Grannell (St. Mary's) has done nothing to diminish the praise Virginia swimming coach Mark Bernardino showered on her when she returned to school last fall."

Sixty swimmers from the Naval Academy Junior Swim Club competed at the 1993 Maryland Swimming All-Star Meet last weekend at Towson State University.The meet, sponsored by Maryland Swimming, Inc. attracted more than 400 of the state's top junior swimmers. More than 30 of Navy's swimmers made it to the finals during the three-day competition.Leading the way for Navy was Maggie Phillips of Millersville, who won the girls 15-18 100-yard freestyle with a Junior National time of 52.85 seconds. Phillips placed second in the 200 freestyle (1 minute, 55.45 seconds)

College gymnasticsFour members of the Towson State women's team (14-4) each won an event, as the Tigers defeated Temple University in Philadelphia, 187.55 to 182.00. Wendy Weaver was first on the beam for the third straight meet after missing the first half of the season with a shoulder injury, Janine Spezio won the vault, Gabby Linarducci won the floor exercise, Kim O'Keefe and Anne Sugden tied for first on the uneven bars. Sugden tied for second in the all-around.College swimmingMegan Malchak won the 200-yard breast stroke in 2 minutes, 22.72 seconds, and Mike Stambaugh placed third in the 100-yard backstroke to highlight performances by the University Maryland Baltimore County's women's and men's swimming teams in the Eastern Intercollegiate championships at Cleveland State University.

Kim Shettle Keller and Ellen Feldmann Roberts were inducted into the Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame yesterday in a ceremony at the Timonium Holiday Inn.They join, among others, Olympians Theresa Andrews, Pat Kennedy and Wendy Weinberg, and Bonnie Glasgow, a 1976 Olympic alternate. They are the 12th and 13th members of the 8-year-old shrine.Keller swam for Knights of Columbus-Orchards as an age-grouper and then for Stanford. She set an American record in the 400-meter individual medley in 1974, competed in the 1972 and 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials and made five trips abroad as a member of U.S. teams.

Central Maryland Swim League ChampionshipsWestminster Riding Club swimmers placing in its divisional championships were:Girls 9-10 100-meter individual medley -- 7. Meghan Malehorn (1 minute, 44.02 seconds), 8. Melissa Linard (1:46.33); boys 9-10 100 individual medley -- 2. Kyle Brumfitt (1:38.63), 4. Doug Dietz (1:40.59); girls 11-12 100 individual medley -- 2. Jamie Ludwig (1:22.14), 6. Heather Whitman (1:27.84), 7. Sarah Brumfitt (1:28.49); boys 11-12 100 individual medley -- 1. John Evans (1:25.