Forest Park

His given name -- Allen Harper Wise III -- sounds vaguely familiar. And his style on the basketball court -- smooth and under control, with a feathery shooting touch -- starts a Baltimore basketball fan wondering, trying to make an association. Then someone calls him "Dip," and a light bulb clicks on.Skip Wise -- the man who almost single-handedly put Baltimore high school basketball on the map in a memorable 1973 Dunbar win over DeMatha, who went on to first-team All-ACC honors as a Clemson freshman in his only year of college ball -- has a son playing basketball.

With the game tied at 61 with nine seconds left, Koron Ford brought the ball up 80 feet and hit Ceontay Coit with a bounce pass. Coit made the game-winning layup with 1.7seconds left as host Owings Mills upset No. 6 Randallstown, 63-61, Friday night. The Eagles (14-7) led for most of the game, attacking the basket and using a zone defense to frustrate the Rams (17-4). Coit finished with 14 points for Owings Mills, and Tommy Heard had a game-high 27points for Randallstown. No. 10 Poly 58, Forest Park 53: The Engineers (15-5, 5-2 City)

Tailback Donnie Neal made school history last week by rushing for six touchdowns in Reginald Lewis' 48-0 win over Ben Franklin-Masonville Cove. The Falcons were at it again Friday when they beat host Forest Park, 48-8, for the first time in Baltimore City Division II football action. Neal had 125 yards on 13 carries and two touchdowns. Quarterback Tayvon Queen was 8-for-9 passing for 147 yards and a touchdown along with two rushing touchdowns, one a 47-yard scamper in the second quarter.

The Lake Clifton boys basketball team had one of those special quarters when almost everything went right on Friday. It came against visiting Forest Park in the second quarter when the No. 11 Lakers were making the extra pass, converting the easy shots, causing turnovers and controlling the boards. They used a 15-0 run that covered most of the 8 minutes to comfortably separate themselves from the No. 14 Foresters, and the Lakers stayed on course in the second half to come away with a 58-35 win. Lake Clifton, which got a game-high 14 points from senior forward Cortell Henson, improved to 4-1 overall with the win. Forest Park (7-1)

While his friends and former AAU teammates embarked on their college basketball careers, Antoine Myers toughed it out at prep school and then junior college, wondering if he'd one day join the ranks of Baltimore natives playing Division I ball. “To see what they were doing and see where I was at, knowing that I could be there, it kind of hurt my feelings at first. I was down on myself,” said Myers, a 2009 Forest Park graduate who did a fifth year at Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, Mass., before heading to Pensacola (Fla.)

Wayne Hill left Walbrook two years ago as a 5-foot-7 freshman. When Hill returned to Baltimore last fall after a year in North Carolina, Forest Park coach Greate White  was struck by a fairly obvious change in the combo guard's appearance. “He was 5-7 when he left and he came back 6-4,” said White, who coached Hill on Walbrook's junior varsity during the 2009-10 season. “I recognized him, but I was like, 'Wow, he has grown.' Once he got on the court, you could tell his game had grown and matured also.

The Aquille Carr-led Patterson boys basketball team is fast, skilled and simply daring opponents to try to keep up this season. Forest Park was the latest team that proved no match in the championship game of the Bill Miller Christmas Classic at Patterson. With Carr scoring a career-high 57 points, the No. 2 Clippers ran away with the tournament title, coming away with a convincing 103-71 win over the No. 11 Foresters. Patterson improves to 8-0 on the season and, in typical fashion, it was a dominating performance from the 5-foot-8 Carr — a first-team All-Metro sophomore guard — that shined in the most recent win. "To score 57 points is an incredible effort at this level," said Patterson coach Harry Martin.

As No. 7 Lake Clifton whittled away host Forest Park's 10-point lead, freshman point guard Teion James was sent back in to protect the ball and the Forresters held on Tuesday to upset the Lakers, 83-80. James (14 points) had left the game because of a bloody jersey. During his absence, Lake Clifton double-teamed the ball, forcing turnovers and cutting the lead. Rysheed Corbin had 32 points for the Forresters, and the Lakers' Aaron Parks led all scorers with 33. Forest Park led 19-15 after the first quarter before Lake Clifton took a 41-36 lead at the half.

After taking a year off from school, former Forest Park shooting guard Quentin Judd has finalized his plans for a return to the classroom and the basketball court. Last week Judd, who averaged a team-high 19 points for the Foresters during the 2010-11 season, signed a letter of intent to attend Pensacola (Fla.) State College on a full basketball scholarship. “I'm proud to be a part of this moment. This sets the precedent for all of you to get through the door," Forest Park coach Greate White said to his team after Judd's signing.

The Dunbar boys basketball team was in unfamiliar territory midway through the fourth quarter of Saturday's Class 1A South region title game against visiting Forest Park, trailing by three points with another trip to the state tournament in the balance. That's when the No. 3 Poets leaned on a couple of constants that have played big in the team's consistent success — experience and defense — to pull out a 62-54 win over the No. 13 Foresters. Dunbar, two-time defending state champions, closed out the final 5:20 with a 19-8 run to seal the program's 18th state tournament appearance.

Edmondson guard Isaiah Tripp knew his team was in for a tough, physical game against Woodrow Wilson (D.C.) at the Spark at the Park event Friday night at Forest Park. Both teams like to play tenacious defense and aggressively attack the basket on each possession. The rivalry between Baltimore and Washington only added to the intensity. In a back-and-forth game, Tripp managed to get off the potential game-tying 3-pointer despite facing double-coverage in the closing seconds. But his shot fell just short of the rim and Wilson escaped with a 65-62 victory.

A 36-year-old man was fatally shot in Northwest Baltimore on Thursday afternoon, according to city police. Police responded to the 3200 block of Lyndhurst Avenue about 3 p.m. to find the man suffering from at least one gunshot wound, said Sgt. Eric Kowalczyk, a police spokesman. Police on Friday morning identified the victim as Todd Duffie of the 6700 block of Ransome Drive in Baltimore. A preliminary investigation showed the Duffie was standing outside a vehicle at the location, in the city's West Forest Park neighborhood, when he was shot, Kowalczyk said.

Top-ranked Mount St. Joseph basketball faced a determined Bullis School in the semifinals of the Gonzaga D.C. Classic on Saturday night. The Gaels and the Bulldogs traded leads throughout the first three quarters until St. Joe pulled away in the fourth quarter, winning, 78-66. The Gaels (7-1) will face Sidwell Friends (6-0), an 82-71 winner over the host Eagles, in tonight's championship game at George Washington at 6:45. Ohio State-bound Kameron Williams came up big again, scoring 28 points.

One man was killed and two were injured in three separate shootings in Baltimore on Sunday, according to city police. Officers responded about 3:38 p.m. to the 3000 block of Wolcott Avenue for a report of a shooting and found a man with at least one gunshot wound to the upper body, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman. The man was transported to an area hospital, where he died, Silbert said. Police had not released the man's name as of late Sunday. An investigation led police to believe the shooting occurred in the 3900 block of Woodhaven Avenue, on the edge of the Forest Park neighborhood in Northwest Baltimore.

Tailback Donnie Neal made school history last week by rushing for six touchdowns in Reginald Lewis' 48-0 win over Ben Franklin-Masonville Cove. The Falcons were at it again Friday when they beat host Forest Park, 48-8, for the first time in Baltimore City Division II football action. Neal had 125 yards on 13 carries and two touchdowns. Quarterback Tayvon Queen was 8-for-9 passing for 147 yards and a touchdown along with two rushing touchdowns, one a 47-yard scamper in the second quarter.

Ann McAllister Hughes, an artist who taught art in Baltimore's public schools and had chaired the art department at Forest Park High School, died July 27 of pulmonary failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. The longtime Randallstown resident was 83. The daughter of Dr. Singleton Bernard Hughes Sr., a physician, and Blanche Hughes, an educator, Ms. Hughes was born in Baltimore. She was raised on Druid Hill Avenue and graduated in 1946 from Frederick Douglass High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1950 from Howard University and did graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University and what is now Towson University.

FOREST PARK brings to mind big rambling homes adorned with stained-glass windows and wide, wrap-around porches that look out onto hedge-covered lawns and tree-shaded streets crisscrossed with foot paths named Towanda and Mohawk.One might also think of a high school whose alumni include Spiro Agnew ('37), Judge Hillary Caplan ('53), movie director and producer Barry Levinson ('60) and developer Victor Frenkil, whose construction company built the new Forest Park High School in 1980.My father grew up in Forest Park on Main Avenue.

The Lake Clifton boys basketball team had one of those special quarters when almost everything went right on Friday. It came against visiting Forest Park in the second quarter when the No. 11 Lakers were making the extra pass, converting the easy shots, causing turnovers and controlling the boards. They used a 15-0 run that covered most of the 8 minutes to comfortably separate themselves from the No. 14 Foresters, and the Lakers stayed on course in the second half to come away with a 58-35 win. Lake Clifton, which got a game-high 14 points from senior forward Cortell Henson, improved to 4-1 overall with the win. Forest Park (7-1)

A man was shot and killed Tuesday night in Baltimore's West Forest Park neighborhood, as killings in the city's Northwest District approached the total for all of last year. While the Park Heights area in the northern portion has long been a troubled area, half the killings in the district this year have occurred in the southern area, where there is lower crime and neighborhoods consist mainly of single-family homes with well-kept lawns. Maj. Johnny Delgado, the district commander, said he thinks police enforcement efforts in the northern part of the district have led criminals to venture southward.

Wayne Hill left Walbrook two years ago as a 5-foot-7 freshman. When Hill returned to Baltimore last fall after a year in North Carolina, Forest Park coach Greate White  was struck by a fairly obvious change in the combo guard's appearance. “He was 5-7 when he left and he came back 6-4,” said White, who coached Hill on Walbrook's junior varsity during the 2009-10 season. “I recognized him, but I was like, 'Wow, he has grown.' Once he got on the court, you could tell his game had grown and matured also.