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Brett Lockley's latest adventure has all the makings of an updating of those old Busby Berkeley musicals in which someone bursts out, "Hey kids, let's put on a show!" Instead of the 19-year-old Mickey Rooney, a born performer and irrepressible force of nature, we have 16-year-old Brett Lockley, who is tackling a project that would tax the savvy and know-how of older teens. Embracing a Gift: A Showcase of Choreography by Brett Michael Lockley will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Towson University Center for the Arts, Osler Drive at Towsontown Boulevard.

Johns Hopkins won its 11th straight last night, tying a school record set last season, when it beat Washington College, 72-63, at Homewood.The Blue Jays led by 17 points at halftime and threatened to turn the game into a rout.But when the second half began, after a long ceremony honoring seniors Danny Knee, John Allegretti and Chris Russell, Hopkins was cold and Washington College heated up.Peter Basel, the game's high scorer with 18 points, hit two three-pointers for the Shoremen, and the visitors began to close the gap.Washington College closed to 61-58 with 1:54 to play, but then Hopkins' Brian Markey, Lou Sabad and Luke Busby hit clutch foul shots to put the game away.

CLEVELAND -- Ed Saxon scored a game-high 30 points yesterday, as Case Reserve edged visiting Johns Hopkins, 76-73.The Spartans (4-0) were led by Saxon and Leighton McCoy, who scored 15 points and pulled down 18 rebounds.Hopkins (3-4) had a good performance from Andy Enfield, who scored 20 points, including four three-pointers.The Blue Jays, who trailed by nine at the half, cut Case Reserve's lead to three late in the game, but the Spartans held to the slim margin for the win.JOHNS HOPKINS (73)

Lily-Bell Posley had been thinking about going home to Florida this weekend to be among family. She will be there, but not under circumstances anyone wanted. Posley, 53, and three of her grandchildren were killed in a rowhouse fire Saturday on Amity Street in Baltimore. Their bodies are to be taken to Apopka, Fla., near Orlando, this evening. A bigger memorial service will be held there, and the ceremonies of burial. Yesterday, the Maryland and Pennsylvania branches of the devastated family had a small service in at the Maryland Church of God in Christ in Pimlico.

MIAMI -- Maryland started the season picked to finish sixth in the Atlantic Coast Conference. That's where the Terps finished, tied with North Carolina State with a 3-5 record, but a squad that included 22 seniors, including 12 starters and a specialist, expected more."

CHESTERTOWN -- Leading scorer Jay Gangemi didn't have a point in the first 33 minutes and Johns Hopkins missed nine free throws in the last three, but the Blue Jays still managed to bang out a 73-59 victory over host Washington College last night.Score one for the defense.Hopkins, ranked No. 16 among the nation's Division III teams, has struggled offensively at times this month. The Blue Jays are always tenacious at the defensive end, however, and that has them atop the Middle Atlantic Conference Southeast Section and headed to their third straight NCAA tournament.

With the release of Bell Biv DeVoe's "Hootie Mack" late last month, there's a good chance MCA Records, specifically its black-music division, will have another hit. The company has shipped 500,000 copies of the album, betting that young record buyers around the country will have fond memories of the group's 1990 debut, "Poison."In that album, which helped establish new jack swing as mainstream pop, the group mixed soul music's vocal prowess and rap's harder beats. "Poison" sold more than 3 million copies, a number that would be unreachable without the help of white fans.

Two Orioles broadcasters are among 41 still in the running for the 2013 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Radio voice Joe Angel and MASN studio host and play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter are in the group that advance to the final round of fan voting, which will run until Oct. 5 at 5 p.m. on www.facebook.com/baseballhall . The fans' top three vote-getters will be placed on the final ballot along with seven other broadcasters determined by a Hall of Fame committee.

Unbeaten Johns Hopkins was ripe for an upset last night.Jay Gangemi, averaging a team-high 18.4 points, didn't score in the first half and wound up with only 10 in the game. The problems mounted for Gangemi when he turned his ankle running down the court with 7 minutes, 55 seconds left in the first half.But fortunately for the Blue Jays, Ursinus College didn't take advantage of the situation.That enabled Johns Hopkins (11-0) to walk away with a 73-62 victory in a Middle Atlantic Conference-Southeast game at Hopkins.

Hot-shooting Johns Hopkins didn't back into postseason play, and as a result, the Blue Jays' hopes for a third straight berth in the NCAA Division III tournament are quite strong.Hopkins, already assured of a home game in the Middle Atantic Conference Southern Division semifinals next Thursday, played one of its best games of the second half of the season, putting away Washington, 85-76, before an overflow Alumni Night crowd of 1,311 at the White Center last night.Hopkins clinched the MAC Southeast Section crown, finishing the regular season 19-6 overall and 7-2 in the section.