Caggiano

To get his 10,000-seat County Coliseum off the drawing board, Baltimore Bandits hockey owner Michael A. Caggiano is banking on a public contribution that could reach $20 million.A day after he stood atop the mostly barren 33 acres in southwestern Baltimore County that would serve as the Bandits' home, Caggiano confirmed yesterday that he is counting on an infusion of public cash to make his $42 million project go."At least 51 percent is going to be privately financed -- that's a minimum," said Caggiano, 39, a Baltimore businessman.

The latest edition of The Hockey News says Anaheim has the 26th-best minor-league talent among NHL clubs, which should come as no surprise to Bandits fans. Pssst, there are only 26 teams in the NHL. The Mighty Ducks don't have a farmhand listed among the top 50 prospects.The Syracuse Crunch, in the throes of an 0-5-2 slide last week, had its best player, Lonny Bohonos, hauled off the ice during pre-game warm-ups and told to report to Vancouver immediately. The winless streak continued (0-5-3)

There were so many things conspiring against the Bandits yesterday that a third straight loss and fifth in six games on supposedly advantageous home ice didn't bring the team down."

The Bandits have not clinched a spot in the Calder Cup playoffs, and, if and when they do, it's all but certain their first-round home games against the Philadelphia Phantoms will be played in Hershey, Pa."As opposed to previous years," explained team owner Mike Caggiano, "the American Hockey League has set a deadline of [tomorrow] for teams to provide dates and times for first-round games."We couldn't get confirmed dates for April 23 and April 25 at the Baltimore Arena because the [NPSL Baltimore]

Bandits owner Michael A. Caggiano will announce plans at a news conference Monday for the site and design of a new arena to house his team.The site, as reported in Thursday editions of The Sun, will presumably be a 32.5-acre tract near the Beltway and Washington Boulevard in Baltimore County.Bandits officials have neither confirmed nor denied that site has been selected, but a team press release directing media to a news conference at the construction site listed directions for Washington Boulevard in Catonsville.

The Spirit denied Bandits owner Mike Caggiano's claim that he couldn't get confirmed playoff dates for April 23 and 25 because the soccer team "has first consideration."The Spirit says its only confirmed dates for the National Professional Soccer League playoffs are Saturday and a week from today for its first round series against the Philadelphia Kixx."The dates [April 23 and 25] are indeed available for potential playoff dates for both the Spirit and the Bandits," said Baltimore Arena general manager Donna Julian.

With 11 seconds left in the first sudden-death overtime period, Jamie Larrimore of Chestertown netted the game-winner and completed her hat trick to lift No. 17 Johns Hopkins over host Brown, 12-11, in women's college lacrosse in Providence, R.I. yesterday. Larrimore scored the second goal of each half. She tied the score at 1 with 26:56 left in the first half and extended the Blue Jays' lead 8-5 with 19:13 left in the game. Meghan Burnett and Erin Wellner each scored twice in the opening half as Johns Hopkins (5-2)

On January 7, 2004, JENNIE D. (nee Testa) REDA; beloved wife of the late Anthony J. Reda; loving mother of James A. Reda and Ronald J. Reda; dear mother-in-law of Deborah J. Reda and Jay Reda; devoted grandmother of Jason, Arckangelo and Gina Reda; loving great-grandmother of Anthony and Drew Reda; dear sister of Carmella Caggiano, Josephine Sorge, Mary Miles and the late Bennie Testa and Elizabeth Nardone. Funeral Services will be held at the family owned JOSEPH N. ZANNINO, JR., FUNERAL HOME, 263 S. Conkling St., (at Gough)

Katherine Davenport Wheeler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rexford Lee Wheeler, III of Baltimore, was wed to Kevin Michael Brunelle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Joseph Brunelle of Augusta, Maine on June 24th. The bride is a graduate of Calvert School, Garrison Forest School and Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John T. King, III and the late Mr. and Mrs. Rexford Lee Wheeler, Jr. The groom is a graduate of Cony High School in Augusta, Maine and Colby College.

Don Beaupre, over the course of 16 seasons of goaltending in the NHL, has 268 victories. Yesterday, he picked up win No. 24 this season for the St. John's Maple Leafs as they were pounding the Bandits, 5-2, in an American Hockey League game.During those 292 wins plus 16 more here in Baltimore in the early '90s, Beaupre probably never had it easier than he did in this one. "There wasn't much doing out there," he said. "And when there was, I gave them a goal."One shot is all the Bandits put on the Leafs goal in the first period and the "action" didn't pick up much in the second 20 minutes.