Finish The Race

SAN ANTONIO -- Baltimore's Jerry Roney finished fourth last night in the 110-meter hurdles of the U.S. Olympic Festival at Alamo Stadium.Roney, 23, had a time of 13.95 seconds. Robert Reading, 26, of Buffalo, N.Y., won the race in 13.71. Glenn Terry, 22, of Bloomington, Ind., was second at 13.84 and Allen Johnson, 22, of Fairfax, Va., was third with a time of 13.86.Roney struggled early and was near last midway through the race, but made up ground and was gaining on Terry and Johnson at the finish.

His chase of Mark Spitz is done, but Michael Phelps isn't. A year out of Towson High and a stroke or two from Olympic legend status, Phelps took a bronze medal in last night's 200-meter freestyle.Phelps was beaten by a savvy Australian and a veteran from the Netherlands. The result means he won't match the seven gold medals Spitz won in Munich, Germany, in 1972, the benchmark for Summer Olympic excellence. However, Phelps is still on track to make history of his own. Spitz won four individual events in Munich.

Today's TV schedule NBC 3-5 p.m. Snowboarding, speed skating 8-11:30 p.m. Alpine skiing, snowboarding, luge, ski jumping, nordic combined 12:05- 12:35 a.m. Olympic late night CNBC 6 p.m.-12 a.m Men's hockey What to watch: Daron Rahlves is the United States' best hopes for a medal in the downhill, the fastest sport on skis. Ski jumpers will finish the K90 competition, while nearby the men's luge singles begin. Women snowboarders run the ice-covered tube known as the halfpipe, and women speed skaters try to outlast each other in the 3,000-meter race.

LANDOVER -- Welcome back, Garfield Thompson. The last time Thompson, Mervo's first-year coach, was associated with a Mervo track team was in 1997, and as an 800-meter runner he helped the Mavericks win a state indoor title. They hadn't won a state indoor title since then -- until yesterday. Third-ranked Mervo captured the Class 3A-2A championship at the Prince George's Sports & Learning Center by dominating middle distances and winning the final event, the 1,600 relay, to defeat runner-up Middletown, 59-39.

What is the marathon's top prize? The top male and female finishers will receive $3,000 each. The second through 10th place finishers will also receive cash prizes. How many people will participate in the events? Approximately 3,000 people will run the 26.2 mile course, about 3,000 will participate in the new half-marathon and 2,000 will participate in the team relay event. Approximately 1,000 runners will compete in the Fila 5K and about 500 children will take part in the Kids' Fun Run. Do any charities benefit from the event?

SOLOMONS -- New this year as a feeder between the Yachting Governor's Cup Race from Annapolis to St. Mary's City and Yachting Race Days at Solomons is the Yachting Link, a 25-mile race between the two Southern Maryland venues, which took place in pleasant 8-knot breezes yesterday."

Name: Ross BurbageHonored by The Carroll County Sun for: Winningthe John F. Kennedy 40-Miler, a foot race which started in Timonium,Baltimore County, and finished in Hanover, Pa., April 13Age: 33Residence; hometown: Westminster; Towson, Baltimore CountyOccupation: Branch manager at Farmers and Merchants Bank in HampsteadEducation: Master's degree from Western Maryland College in Westminster; bachelor's degree from Salisbury State in Wicomico County; graduate...

BARCELONA, Spain -- The son needed the father. It didn't matter that this was the 1992 Summer Olympics, that the stadium was packed, that the night was so hot and the air so thick that a haze hung over the place.Derek Redmond was trying to run and he was crying. His Olympics should have been over, but they weren't.He was down the back straightaway in this 400-meter semifinal last night, running for Great Britain, racing for his father and himself. And then the right hamstring cramped. Took him like a Lawrence Taylor tackle and whipped him to the ground.

NEW YORK -- Fred Lebow, the president of the New York Road Runners Club and the driving force behind the New York City Marathon, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan's Upper East Side. He was 62.The cause of death was brain cancer. He was admitted to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on Feb. 17 after a magnetic resonance imaging revealed a recurrence of lymphoma the brain, which first was diagnosed in 1990. He also underwent surgery in 1991 to have a malignant tumor removed from his thyroid gland.

Early Sunday morning, before the sun rises and before mos of us even think of rising from bed, the Levickas family will begin preparing for its once-a-year test of physical and mental determination.Since 1987, the Baltimore leg of the Bud Light Triathlon competition has been an annual event for Sue and Tom Levickas and their son Steve, who will again participate in the triple-threat consisting of a 1.5-kilometer swim, 25-mile bike trek and a final 10-K run, which will conclude downtown at Rash Field sometime around 9:25 a.m.But the Levickas clan from Catonsville begins its day around 5 a.m."

The self-described couch potato Kate McShane-Oeming, 43 "My joints are completely untapped," joked Kate McShane-Oeming, a West Towson resident who'll be running her first marathon Saturday. The self-described couch potato says she was living as a "complete non-athlete" - until a friend challenged her to complete the marathon. The 43-year-old mother didn't play high-school or collegiate sports but says she's ready for the race because of an "extremely healthy diet" and lots of intense training.

What is the marathon's top prize? The top male and female finishers will receive $3,000 each. The second through 10th place finishers will also receive cash prizes. How many people will participate in the events? Approximately 3,000 people will run the 26.2 mile course, about 3,000 will participate in the new half-marathon and 2,000 will participate in the team relay event. Approximately 1,000 runners will compete in the Fila 5K and about 500 children will take part in the Kids' Fun Run. Do any charities benefit from the event?

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - If anyone believes life is stranger than fiction, it is Michael Waltrip. The only previous win in Waltrip's career came here at Daytona International Speedway in the Daytona 500 after 462 futile starts. And at the very moment he was crossing the finish line in the sport's most important race, with his teammate, Dale Earnhardt Jr., finishing right behind him, his best friend and car owner Dale Earnhardt was killed in a crash a quarter-mile behind him. Last night in the Pepsi 400, Waltrip, in his 515th start, got his second career win. It came on the same track.

Today's TV schedule NBC 3-5 p.m. Snowboarding, speed skating 8-11:30 p.m. Alpine skiing, snowboarding, luge, ski jumping, nordic combined 12:05- 12:35 a.m. Olympic late night CNBC 6 p.m.-12 a.m Men's hockey What to watch: Daron Rahlves is the United States' best hopes for a medal in the downhill, the fastest sport on skis. Ski jumpers will finish the K90 competition, while nearby the men's luge singles begin. Women snowboarders run the ice-covered tube known as the halfpipe, and women speed skaters try to outlast each other in the 3,000-meter race.

NEW YORK -- Fred Lebow, the president of the New York Road Runners Club and the driving force behind the New York City Marathon, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan's Upper East Side. He was 62.The cause of death was brain cancer. He was admitted to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on Feb. 17 after a magnetic resonance imaging revealed a recurrence of lymphoma the brain, which first was diagnosed in 1990. He also underwent surgery in 1991 to have a malignant tumor removed from his thyroid gland.

MONTEREY, Calif. -- All Mario Andretti wanted from his 407th and final IndyCar race was to finish, to be running on the track when he saw the checkered flag for the last time.He came up four laps short, disappointing not only himself but also most of the estimated 75,000 who swarmed over the hills of Laguna Seca on a warm Sunday for the final race of the season.The "Last Lap of Mario," as the Bank of America 300 was advertised, came on Lap 80, with Andretti sitting on pit row, his engine having expired.

Contrary to reports in Friday's editions of The Sun, Krissy Jost of Perry Hall High School did not participate in the North County Invitational cross country meet Thursday.+ The Sun regrets the errors.Anyone who considers cross country an individual sport probably didn't witness the finish of the boys championship race at yesterday's fifth annual Knights' Invite at Baybrook Park in Brooklyn.In an act to promote team unity, Calvert Hall runners Jonathan Dietrich, Cory Smith and Doug Stewart crossed the finish line in unison for a rare 1-2-3 sweep that left onlookers wondering who had won."

When the 1993 racing season began in April, Charlie Schaffer set his sights on the late-model championship at Winchester (Va.) Speedway.Last night, the Hampstead resident was crowned the track champion at the annual awards banquet in Winchester.Schaffer not only won the spring championship race at Winchester, but also captured the track title.Schaffer made up his mind from the start that's what he was racing for. Rather than race at other tracks, he focused his efforts on Winchester.Although Schaffer has had seasons where he has won more races, consistency propelled him to this title.

Contrary to reports in Friday's editions of The Sun, Krissy Jost of Perry Hall High School did not participate in the North County Invitational cross country meet Thursday.+ The Sun regrets the errors.Anyone who considers cross country an individual sport probably didn't witness the finish of the boys championship race at yesterday's fifth annual Knights' Invite at Baybrook Park in Brooklyn.In an act to promote team unity, Calvert Hall runners Jonathan Dietrich, Cory Smith and Doug Stewart crossed the finish line in unison for a rare 1-2-3 sweep that left onlookers wondering who had won."

When the 1993 racing season began in April, Charlie Schaffer set his sights on the late-model championship at Winchester (Va.) Speedway.Last night, the Hampstead resident was crowned the track champion at the annual awards banquet in Winchester.Schaffer not only won the spring championship race at Winchester, but also captured the track title.Schaffer made up his mind from the start that's what he was racing for. Rather than race at other tracks, he focused his efforts on Winchester.Although Schaffer has had seasons where he has won more races, consistency propelled him to this title.