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Steven Hicks was a unanimous choice as MVP in yesterday's 67-53 Carver win over Edmondson for the MSA B Conference championship. But no shot he has taken in a basketball game has been as critical as the one he took in the back on May 28, 1989, over a pickup basketball game.That one was a .32-caliber. It entered his lower back just to the right of his spine, collapsed his lungs and damaged his kidney and liver. Eight days later he went home from the hospital with a 14-inch scar up his midsection and a month later the bullet was removed from his right chest.

In a battle of unbeaten 3A city league baseball teams, Carver (4-0) visits City (3-0) today at 3:45 p.m.Sophomore Mike Scarcella (1-0) pitched an 18-0 perfect game last weekend against Forest Park -- a team Carver trounced, 30-4, Tuesday.The Knights also have been a consistently high-scoring team, hammering Douglass, 18-0, Tuesday.Foresters back?Just when it looked as if Lake Clifton's boys lacrosse team was the city league's new power, an old warrior, Forest Park, upended the Lakers, 8-6.Lake Clifton (4-1 league)

Baltimore's metro-area teams were shut out in the team competition at yesterday's Class 3A state championships but Carver's Bernard Williams helped the locals earn some respect by winning two individual state titles at the Fifth Regiment Armory.Williams, a junior, emerged as state champion in both the 55 and 300 dashes. Dundalk's Dushun Nick was second to Williams in the 55 dash and Jared Howard of Atholton was runner-up in the 300.Williams ran the second leg of Carver's 800 relay and picked up a second-place medal with teammates Andre Falcon, Jeffrey Blair and Nikemo Arrington.

Cardinal Gibbons may lack size but it has plenty of speed. Yesterday, the No. 5 Crusaders raced to their fourth consecutive victory, 78-54 over visiting Carver.Four players scored in double figures for Cardinal Gibbons, led by 21 from Quintin Moody. Casey Musick added 20 and Ross Peacock 13. All three played on last year's 18-17 squad.Chucky Lee, a 6-foot-2 starter at forward, was lost for the season when he damaged the interior cruciate ligament during a scrimmage with Prospect Hall last month.

Stephen Kimes Carver The Carver boys track and field team hadn't won much in its history. But Stephen Kimes quickly changed that, turning the Bears into a championship team. In just his second indoor season, Kimes led Carver to an impressive sweep of the Baltimore City, regional and Class 1A state championships. These were the team's first city and state crowns, and what's believed to be the first regional title as well. All-Metro pick Jawan Parker was solid in the sprints and relay, but Carver scored points all across the board.

The Carver A&T and Chesapeake boys basketball teams will each forfeit two games this week as punishment for a fight involving numerous players during a game at Carver A&T last Friday, Baltimore County coordinator of athletics Ron Belinko confirmed yesterday. Carver A&T (3-4) will forfeit home games against Towson today and Pikesville on Friday. Chesapeake (5-1) will forfeit its home game today against Dundalk and its away game at Sparrows Point on Friday.

It was billed as a showdown between two of the Maryland Scholastic Association B Conference's best guards, but Carver center Rodney Black stole the show yesterday, as the Bears held off Mervo, 64-61, in a non-division matchup of division leaders.Black, a 6-foot-4 junior, scored 21 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and had six blocks for No. 20 Carver (8-3). Mervo dropped to 7-3.Carver and Edmondson lead Division I, and Mervo and Forest Park lead Division II."I told the boys before the game that this might be a preview of what will happen at the Civic Center [site of the B Conference championship game in March]

Michael McKoy's jumper at the buzzer gave No. 17 Carver (12-3, 8-1) a 75-73 victory over visiting Edmondson, clinching first place in the Maryland Scholastic Association B Conference Division I yesterday.After Edmondson (12-5, 7-3) had turned the ball over with 30 seconds remaining in regulation, the Bears worked the clock down to six seconds. McKoy attempted a jumper that caromed off the rim to the right, but he quickly picked up the rebound and hit a five-footer for the victory.Elsewhere, Forest Park (12-5, 8-2)

Baltimore got its first taste of Howard County volleyball yesterday, and it was not pleasant.Until last night, Carver had enjoyed a fine season. The Bears went 11-3 during the regular season. And in the first year of Baltimore's athletic merger with the state, that was good enough for fourth seed in the Class 3A, Region III playoffs.Then the Bears came to Centennial to play the top-ranked, top-seeded, undefeated, defending state champion Eagles.The Bears, outclassed from the start, could not manage a point, or even an offensive rally.