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With three returning first-team All-County players, the Westminster girls basketball team is out to prove that it can elevate its play this season. That ascension began in earnest last night. The Owls used their inside height advantage to control the tempo and the game against visiting Urbana, a Class 3A state semifinalist last season, emerging from a difficult early-season test with a 65-53 victory. "This was a game that was circled on our calendar," said Westminster coach Dick Ebersole, whose team lost to Glen Burnie in the 4A East semifinals last season.

That the New York Jets' offense, missing its top two quarterbacks, performed miserably against the Ravens was hardly startling. What was a surprise, though, is who is likely to catch the heat for it when New York goes over the game tapes. Not third-string quarterback Brooks Bollinger, making his first start ever, according to New York coach Herman Edwards. "Brooks for the most part did a good job. But he can't catch the ball for them. We have to find a way to move the ball," Edwards said after the Ravens' 13-3 win at M&T Bank Stadium.

PHILADELPHIA -- When times are tight, former coal miner Russell "Bud" Bollinger takes a walk through the forest, digging up wild ginseng plants and selling them to make ends meet. The untamed plant has been central Pennsylvania's secret aphrodisiac windfall for generations, bringing in as much as $500 for a pound of roots. But now, Pennsylvania State University, with the help of Bollinger and his buddy Dave Thompson, want "sanging" -- the art of finding and harvesting ginseng plants -- to become a big business.

Services for Emmett Francis Blake Wilson of Glen Burnie are scheduled for 10 a.m. today at Singleton Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.Mr. Wilson, 78, died Sept. 18 at North Arundel Hospital after a short illness.The Maryland native served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War and was employed as a truck mechanic with Flex-Van for 10 years.Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife of 56 years, Nettie M. Wilson; a son, Emmett N. Wilson Sr. of Glen Burnie; five daughters, Juanita A. Appel of Glen Burnie, Barbara Forsythe of Brooklyn, Shirley M. Wain of North Linthicum, Patricia Dixson of Fairfield, and Janet Walsh of Pasadena; 20 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren andone great-great-grandchild.

A judge yesterday denied bail to a Baltimore County judge's son charged with stalking a former girlfriend.Scott Edward Bollinger, 19, son of Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger, was arrested last week on trespassing charges after he allegedly disregarded a court order to stay away from her home.Scott Bollinger was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center in lieu of $75,000 bail.Pub Date: 6/12/96

FIRE* Louisville: Gamber responded to a fire alarm on Bollinger Mill Road at 4:18 p.m. Sunday.HTC

Scott Edward Bollinger, 19, the son of Baltimore County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger, entered a mental hospital yesterdayafter pleading guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court to telephone misuse, trespassing and harassment of a former girlfriend.Carroll County Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr., who heard the case in lieu of a Baltimore County judge, sentenced Bollinger, 19, to three years and 360 days in prison, but suspended the sentence and put him on probation for five years. He also ordered him to become an inpatient at Spring Grove Hospital Center, a mental hospital in Catonsville.

The state's second-highest court vacated the attempted second-degree murder conviction of a Taneytown carpenter serving 20 years in prison for trying to kill his former girlfriend when he sneaked into her house with a loaded gun.The Court of Special Appeals, in an opinion released yesterday, left intact the conviction for assault with intent to murder against William Richard Bollinger. The decision leaves Bollinger's sentence unchanged because he was serving simultaneous 20-year sentences, one for each crime.

FIRE* Sykesville: Engines from the Sykesville and Gamber stations responded for fire in the woods on Bollinger Mill Road at 5:29 p.m. Monday. Units were out for an hour and 21 minutes.

FireGamber: Gamber, Sykesville and Reese firefighters responded to a chimney fire on Bollinger Mill Road at 8:28 p.m. Tuesday. Units were out an hour.