Carver

Two teen-agers, one of them a star football player at Carver High School, have been charged with the first-degree murder and robbery of Hope Sarah Patterson, 35, the psychiatric counselor whose body was found Sept. 13 in Leakin Park, city police said.Ronald Ludd, 17, of the 1900 block of N. Forest Park Ave., and Richard Tirrell Cook, 18, of the 3600 block of Edmondson Ave., each also was charged with using a handgun in the commission of a felony, police said today. They were arrested several days ago and were being held at the City Jail.

Dan Carver is described by his Mount Hebron lacrosse coach Warren Michael as "a warrior among kids two times his size."At 5-foot-4 and 135 pounds, Carver definitely is one of the smallest players in the league. But he's not afraid of being hit, and he gets the job done.In Mount Hebron's first four games -- three of them victories -- the senior attackman scored 11 goals and had four assists. He had 19 goals and 13 assists last season."People describe me as a scrappy player," Carver said. "Opposing players try to intimidate me, but I ignore it and use my size to my advantage."

Kelly Logan scored 16 points to lead No. 16 Poly (20-3) to a 69-50 victory over visiting and fourth-seeded Carver in a Class 3A, East Region semifinal yesterday.The top-seeded Engineers will play host to the winner of tonight's game between No. 6 Mount Hebron and Howard in the region final tomorrow at 4 p.m.Angela Brice added 15 points and Kenya Holman scored 10 for the Engineers, who have won 19 of 20 after a 1-2 start.Vida Milberry scored a game-high 20 points to pace Carver.Poly built a 21-9 lead after the first quarter and extended its advantage to 41-20 at halftime.

For the third straight season, Carver clinched first place in the MSA B Conference Division II as the host and No. 10 Bears defeated No. 15 City, 76-64, yesterday.Carver (14-3, 11-1) will be host to a conference semifinal game later this month against the second-place finisher in Division I. The Bears have won the past two MSA B Conference championships.Senior forward Michael Richardson paced the Bears with a game-high 31 points and pulled down seven rebounds. Senior guard Shannon Fair added 11 and six assists.

Host Gilman's game plan to slow down Carver worked to perfection yesterday -- for about a half.In the end, Carver (4-2, 3-0) used an uptempo offense and a stingy defense to hold off the Greyhounds (11-7, 4-1) for a 64-60 victory in a Maryland Scholastic Association B Conference Division I showdown.The win leaves the Bears as the only undefeated team in Division I.Steven Hicks led Carver with 18 points, nine assists and four steals. Victor Carter-Bey, who had 16 points, 10 rebounds and three steals, led Gilman.

Mount Hebron point guard Alisha Mosley supplied the scouting report on Carver, the No. 11 Vikings' opponent for last night's regional playoff opener."I knew they were fast," said Mosley, who played summer-league ball with Carver's top scorer Vida Milberry."

At 6 feet 5 inches, Donnell Smith Jr. was hard to miss in the halls at Carver Vocational-Technical High School. He had a confidence in his stride and seemed to know everyone at the West Baltimore school.He was "Frail" to friends and teachers, a nickname given to him years ago because of his lanky stature, and his trademark was his corn-rowed hair and caps."He wouldn't go anywhere without a cap," said Stacey McDaniel, a longtime friend, "and he was crazy about his hair."Donnell, who celebrated his 19th birthday this month, died Friday of a heart attack at Good Samaritan Hospital soon after he was taken there from his home near Morgan State University after he complained of chest pains.

Rodney Black, Carver's 6-foot-5 senior center, turned the fourth quarter of yesterday's Maryland Scholastic Association B Conference Division II game into a personal showcase.With his No. 9-ranked Bears trailing No. 16 City, 69-68, after three quarters, Black rebounded his miss and hit the follow for a one-point lead. Then he worked inside for a three-point play and the Bears never looked back, rolling to a 94-82 victory.Black finished with 39 points, including Carver's first 15 points in the decisive fourth quarter.

Wiley McPherson Baxter III, a retired Baltimore businessman and wildfowl carver, died of cancer Thursday at Roland Park Place. He was 82. Mr. Baxter was born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park. He left Gilman School in 1943 to enlist in the Navy. Mr. Baxter served as a signalman aboard the destroyer USS Barton in the Pacific. After the war, Mr. Baxter earned his General Educational Development certificate and went to work for the Baxter Paper Co., a family-owned business that had been established by his grandfather.

The Baltimore school board approved a $30 million contract this week with Hess Construction Co. for an overhaul of Carver Vocational-Technical High School. It also approved a $1.1 million contract with Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. to manage the Carver project, with board Chairman Brian D. Morris and member Anirban Basu abstaining. Construction at the school is set to begin in the coming weeks. The board also approved the name change of Harford Heights Middle School to William C. March Middle School.