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All it took was five minutes for Mount St. Mary's to demonstrate why it had settled into last place in the Northeast Conference and threatened to become only the eighth team under coach Jim Phelan to post a losing record.There were turnovers and bad shots, failures to box out and secure rebounds. The points were slow in coming, and the issue looked as if it would be decided quickly.But with many of their fans heading for the exits in the second half, the Mountaineers staged a furious comeback against the team picked to win the league title, using their defensive intensity and clutch shooting to rally from 16 down and defeat Monmouth, 61-59, before 2,250 at Knott Arena.

EMMITSBURG -- Beating a team three times in the same season is always difficult, especially when that team is on a roll entering the final meeting.But Mount St. Mary's accomplished the feat last night with an 84-79 victory over Marist that thrust the Mountaineers into their first Northeast Conference title game.Mount St. Mary's (16-12 and the No. 2 seed) will visit top seed and defending NEC champion Rider tomorrow at noon for the nationally televised (ESPN) final.The victory wasn't easily gained.

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- Mount St. Mary's got seven blocked shots from Gerben Van Dorpe in the first half and limited Rider to 18 points in the period en route to a 78-56 victory last night.The Mountaineers (6-4, 2-0), dealt Rider (5-6, 0-2) its fifth home loss since joining the Northeast Conference in 1992-93.The Mount led at halftime, 35-18. Riley Inge led Mount St. Mary's with 23 points.MOUNT ST. MARY'S -- Hayden 1-2 0-0 3, Balistrere 4-9 4-4 13, Van Dorpe 3-7 0-1 6, Inge 9-14 2-3 23, McGuthrie 6-15 4-6 18, Cheung 4-6 2-3 11, Brown 1-1 0-0 2, Bethel 0-1 0-0 0, Paige 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 29-56 12-17 78.RIDER -- Charles 5-9 0-1 10, Smith 5-11 3-5 13, McPeek 2-9 0-0 4, Hames 3-8 3-4 9, Fisicaro 1-5 0-0 3, Tovomov 2-7 2-3 7, Finefrock 0-2 0-0 0, Burston 4-5 0-0 9. Totals 22-56 8-13 56.Halftime--MSM 35-18.

Sentences were handed down Monday to the last two of 11 defendants who pleaded guilty to violating federal income tax laws related to cash-skimming schemes at three Chinese restaurants, including one in Laurel, federal Justice Department officials said yesterday.Tuck Onn Wong, 38, of Beltsville, and Pin Sing Cheung, 42, of Potomac, admitted skimming cash from the Hunan House -- at U.S. 29 and Route 216 -- and the Hunan Inn and Mandarin Gourmet restaurants, both in Silver Spring.In federal court in Greenbelt, Wong was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment and fined $10,000, and Cheung was sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment and fined $30,000.

Congratulations to the Class of 2011at Dulaney High School. The school hosted its 50th commencement on June 2 at the Towson Center on Towson University's campus. The graduating students are: Emily Abell Yasir Abidi Samira Aghdami Yong Ahn Meghan Albert Fabio Albornoz Julia Alexieva Brittney Allums Joseph Ames Ji An Alarico Auturo-Tubaya Anderson Stephanie Andrews Edward Applegate Justin Armstrong Cristina Askew Samim Athari Dale Atkins Amir Aziminia Sean Bailey Jr. Sydney Baker Edward Bamberger IV Chimwemwe Banda Megan Batlas Caitlin Battey April Beall Austin Beall Cheyenne Beall Bernard Beasley Jr. Alexandra Beaudet Kelly Becker Caitlyn Behnke Danielle Berger Elisabeth Bernstein Kaize Bey-Keys Lane Bielski Julia Bindon Jasmine Blakley Carly Blatt Broderick Bond Joshua Bond James Bopst Kelsey Bowman Kelsey Bray Gabrielle Brazeau Keegan Bremer Alexander Brooks Matthew Bruno Andrew Brzuchalski Quintin Bullock Kara Burke Anita Buscemi Misty Campbell Christopher Canneti Tyrone Cannie II Kaitlyn Carbaugh Francesca Carlozzi Santos Castillo Olivia Cawley Joseph Cecil Timothy Chellis Katherine Chen Siyuan Chen Nathaniel Chenowith Aaron Cheung Wesley...

"In the Mood for Love" is all about mood, and not one bit about action - which explains why it's at once both the most passionate film of the year so far, and the most determinedly inert. Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) are two unremarkable characters in the overpopulated maelstrom that is 1962 Hong Kong. He's a journalist who's rapidly losing interest in his job; she's secretary to the head of a shipping company. Other than being married to workaholics who are never home, the only thing they share is a common address: a cramped apartment building run by the grandmotherly Mrs. Suen (Rebecca Pan)

Clean Maggie Cheung stars as a drug addict struggling to get her life together, in hopes of both realizing her dream of becoming famous and her desire to be a better mother. Nick Nolte also stars. R. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Lucas Black is the successor to Paul Walker as the center of this high-octane franchise. In this third installment, Black's Sean Boswell finds himself part of Tokyo's underground racing culture. PG-13. Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties This sequel brings back the world's fattest, laziest cat (voiced by Bill Murray)

Executives of the newly formed Monument Funds Group Inc. said yesterday that they expect the Baltimore-Washington region "outperform" most other areas of the country in the next three to five years."

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- At halftime yesterday, the situation couldn't have looked much grimmer for Mount St. Mary's.Rider's defense had been overwhelming, the Mountaineers had scored 16 points on 6-for-27 shooting to trail by 13 and their bench was depleted by injuries.Moreover, the Mount was playing a team that never had lost in eight Northeast Conference tournament games, was considered the most talented in the league and had the 1,650 fans in Alumni Gymnasium in a frenzy.L But the metamorphosis of the Mountaineers had not yet begun.

Set in a mythic time and place, filled with glory and daring and action aplenty, Hero is a grand and exhilarating epic, a moviegoing experience of the first order. That its central figures are Chinese and that they speak Mandarin may keep some people away, but that's their loss. Set in pre-China China, when the seven warring states had yet to unite under a common leader, Hero glorifies a warrior who thinks equally with his head and his heart, and asks us to consider the benefits of such a balance, how rare and wonderful it is. It's also a rousing battle flick, filled with flaming arrows and martial arts mastery and swordsmen who can cut with the best of them.