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DARREN HALLSouth RiverBoys basketballHall scored 55 points in two games last week, including a season-high 32 in Friday's 64-57 overtime victory againstChesapeake.South River (10-8) overcame a four-point deficit in the final minute of overtime, with Hall scoring four of his points in the extra period to bring the Hawks back against the Cougars (4-13).Hall, a 6-foot-5 sophomore center who leads the Seahawks with 20 points per game, also pulled down 12 rebounds and had three assists.Last Tuesday, Hall had 23 points, eight boards and three assists ina 63-72 loss to Broadneck (14-4)

The transition started late last season, and it continues into the winter.Northeast's girls basketball team was rolling along at 12-6 last year when it lost 5-foot-11 center Debbi Dadds to a knee injury in the second quarter of a Feb. 18 game against Arundel. She was averaging 17.1 points and 16.5 rebounds and gave the Eagles an intimidating figure in the middle.Her absence proved devastating. Northeast dropped its last five games without Dadds, ending any hopes the team had of going to the state Class 2A tournament.

Head coach: Calvin Vain (fourth season)Assistants: Bob Lemire and Dennis Snyder1989-1990 record: 19-7, lost to Mount Hebron in the state semifinals.Returnees: Seniors Stephanie Lazor (center-forward), Kristy Zulka (guard), Tammy Kuebel (guard) and Debbi Dadds (center); juniors Jenn Vickery (guard) and Stacy Reynolds (guard).Newcomers: Junior Jenelle Williams (guard); sophomores Kathleen Smith (guard) and April Hensley (forward).Coach's outlook: "With the graduation of Monica Everett, Heather Kotula and Crissy Sisk, we lost about 25 points per game and a great deal of athletic ability and strength.

The Arundel girls basketball team took a giant step toward respectability yesterday afternoon, knocking off county 2A power Northeast, 55-51, in the final of the Arundel Holiday Invitational tournament.In Wednesday's semifinal round against Bowie, Wildcat center Tiffany Clayton turned in a mediocre four-point, six-rebound performance.Yesterday, the 6-foot senior rose to the occasion, leading her team in scoring and rebounding with 14 points (11 during the first half) and 17 rebounds."I guess we were a little tired after coming back from Christmas," said Clayton.

Having lost rebounding leader Debbi Dadds for last Tuesday's loss toChesapeake, the last thing Northeast head coach Calvin Vain needed was to have his leading scorer out for the season.With 5 minutes, 35 seconds remaining in the third quarter of Friday's South River-Northeast girls basketball game, Stephanie Lazor went down in a heap after going for a layup against South River's Tracy Zettle. The 5-11 senior began writhing in pain, clutching her heavily wrapped right knee.All Vain could see at that moment was the end of Lazor's career.

William F. Dadd, who had retired as head of locomotive maintenance for the former Chessie System, died Sept. 20 of kidney failure at a hospital in Myrtle Beach, S.C. He was 72.Services for Mr. Dadd, a resident of Calabash, S.C., will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in North Myrtle Beach.Mr. Dadd is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Navratil; a son, Robert E. Dadd of Kensington; three daughters, Peggy Henry of Randallstown, Nancy Hargest of Lutherville and Sally Himmer of York, Pa.; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Services for William F. Dadd, who had retired as head of locomotive maintenance for the former Chessie System, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in North Myrtle Beach, S.C.Mr. Dadd, a resident of Calabash, S.C., died Sept. 20 of kidney failure at a hospital in Myrtle Beach. He was 72.He retired in 1978 in Huntington, W.Va. He had lived in Baltimore and other cities along the railroad line, having gone to work for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1936. He was a native of Baltimore and a graduate of the Polytechnic Institute.

Containing Northeast's high-scoring tandem was the tall and short ofthe Arundel girls basketball team's 47-37 victory over the Eagles last night. When the Wildcats beat Northeast, 57-46, back on Dec. 19, the Wildcats held the Eagles' scoring dynamos, center Debbi Dadds and guard Jen Johansen, to 15 and eight points, respectively. Going into last night's Bay Division battle with the Wildcats, Dadds, a 6-foot senior center, topped county scorers, averaging 18 points. Johansen, a 5-2 freshman, was fourth at 14.9.

On April 7, 2005, LUCILLE (nee Frazier), of Owings Mills, beloved wife of the late Woodrow Wilson Smith; devoted step-mother of Winfield Smith and Carol Dadds; loving sister of the late Dorothy Smelgus and John R. Frazier. Also survived by two nephews and numerous cousins. The family will receive friends in Loring Byers Funeral Directors, Inc., 8728 Liberty Rd. (2 miles W. of Beltway exit 18-B) on Sunday, April 10, from 11 to 12 noon, at which time private services will begin. Interment private.

New positionsMcCrone Inc., an Annapolis-based engineering, environmental consulting, land planning and surveying firm, named the following engineers: Virginia L. Dadds and Jonathan A. Blasco, development engineering department; Chee W. Ong, environmental engineering department; and Terry L. Schuman, commercial-industrial sector, development engineering department. Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, a Baltimore-based law firm, named Shale D. Stiller head of the workout and restructuring group.