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.

Once again the Gibson Island Yacht Squadron played host to the annual J/22 Mid-Atlantic Championship Regatta last weekend, when a fleet of 17 teams met on the bay near Baltimore Light for two days of hot competition.Topping out some tough competition was Annapolitan Jim Hayes and his Lounge Act crew, including Doug Frazee, Laura Quarles and Kathy Duffy.This team was already off to an impressive start at the end of the first day's competition, having taken bullets on Saturday in the first two races of the four-race series.

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.

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."

Light air and sweltering temperatures made this year's back-to-back Annapolis-to-Miles River Race on Saturday and Miles River Race Back on Sunday difficult to the point of impossibility for the bulk of the 15-class fleet of more than 150 boats.Only a handful of competitors could complete either event.None of the competitors in the seven classes using Saturday's Miles River Yacht Club 24-mile course from Annapolis to the Miles River could complete the race within the 10-hour time limit.Only 28 of the 39 starters in five of the eight classes using the more direct 17-mile course were able to finish in time.

This year's total of 225 boats registered made CBYRA's annual Annapolis Race Week for 1991, held over the Labor Day weekend, the biggest ever in the 25-year history of the event.The record number of competitors and the large numbers of sailors from both ends of the bay and just about everywhere in between offered a chance for exciting competition against new and old rivals and helped encourage heavy participation through the regatta.Frustratingly light and shifty winds coupled with a foul current in Saturday's first contest of the three-race series confounded many sailors in both fleets.

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."

It was a smaller turnout than expected, but the Severn Sailing Association's annual Colonial Cup Regatta for Snipes was filled with rock-'em, sock-'em racing.Thirty-five entries, including top-level competition from New England and the best from this region, was about half what organizers had hoped for.But it was a textbook example of quality over quantity.Winners in the four-race series were defending Colonial Cup champion Ed Adams of Newport, R.I., and crew Carol Neuman, landing a solid one-two punch (2-1, 2-1, actually)

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...

An early April warm spell produced a lot of enthusiasm for being outon the water over the weekend, but the glorious weather meant that hot air over still-cold water combined with a weak prevailing westerlyto make racing conditions challenging on the bay.Sunday, a fleetof 20 boats turned out for a new single-handed race from Triton Light at the Naval Academy out to Thomas Point and back.Ranging in size from three J/22s to a CSY 50, the fleet was predominantly made up of boats 30 feet and under, and was divided into a 13-boat spinnaker division and a seven-boat non-spinnaker class.