Camden

So it's way past midnight and I still haven't packed for my 7:30 a.m. flight to Tampa Bay. Heck, I can sleep in the offseason. The Orioles sealed their first postseason bid in 15 years tonight, capping a bizarre and surreal day, one that most long-suffering O's fans will remember for years. The image that will last in my mind is one of the Orioles players giving high fives on the field after their 6-3 win over Boston, then staying on the field to watch the final inning of the Angels-Rangers afternoon game.

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Nicole Mamula (Laurel) scored 25 and Ashanta Sellers (Largo) added 18 to help Frederick Community College defeat Camden County CC, 97-52, yesterday in women's college basketball.Frederick (5-1) built a 50-27 halftime lead en route to the win.Krista Przybylski led Camden (5-3) with 12. Frederick's Carmen George had 13. Frederick plays host to Union today.

The state of Maryland is planning to spend up to $18.5 million to add a 128,000-square-foot office building to the south end of the B&O warehouse in Camden Yards to keep its prospective projected tenant, the State Highway Administration, from moving outside the city.Bruce Hoffman, Maryland Stadium Authority executive director, showed Baltimore's Architectural Review Board preliminary plans yesterday that call for an eight-story addition to be constructed on the western side of the warehouse, which serves as a backdrop for the $104 million baseball stadium that is scheduled to open in the spring of 1992.

Seeing the new downtown baseball park in operation brings elation to Bill Boucher, who turns back the pages to another time frame, when Baltimore had two major-league sports franchises and the team owners, Jerry Hoffberger and Carroll Rosenbloom, were talking to each other -- before their friendship became past-tense.How the scenario began: It was 1970 and Hoffberger and Rosenbloom met with Boucher, then executive director of the Greater Baltimore Committee, about building an all-purpose stadium at the Camden Railroad Yards . . . on the same property selected almost two decades later for the location of a baseball-only facility.

Most Marylanders are familiar with the Camden Yards sports complex, historic Camden train station, and the Camden Club restaurant.Soon they'll be hearing about Camden Crossing, an $18 million community that will put 144 townhouses within walking distance of Baltimore's downtown stadiums.The city of Baltimore selected MetroVentures/USA of Columbia last year to develop Camden Crossing on the former Koppers Co. property, an 8-acre parcel near the B & O Railroad Museum.MetroVentures has since refined its designs and will launch its marketing campaign this month when it takes part in the city's Homebuying Fair and Trolley Tour of southwest Baltimore neighborhoods.

Bobby Bonilla, New York Mets: "It's a beautiful park. It's like playing in a country club."

CAMDEN, N.J. - For the crimes he committed against the 79,000 residents of this impoverished city, former Camden Mayor Milton Milan, who was convicted in December on 14 counts of corruption, was sentenced yesterday to seven years and three months in federal prison. Just before he was sentenced, Milan, for the first time, acknowledged his guilt and apologized to the citizens of Camden and to his family. "Though I might have started something good in the community to get to a position where people believed in me and trusted me, I let them down," he said, his voice cracking.