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Brown used a 16-2 run in the first half on the way to a 74-63 win over Loyola yesterday in the consolation game of the Dead River Classic.Brown's Vita Redding led all scorers with 23 points, and teammate Liz Turner added 22.Mary Anne Kirsch paced Loyola with 23 points.The Greyhounds (0-3) drew within three points twice in the second half, once after a three-point play by Kirsch with 9: 51 left, but were outscored 7-1 over the next five minutes.Brown is 2-2.Lehigh 70, UMBC 53: Forward Jen Hendrix scored 18 points to lead five Engineers in double figures in an opening-round win in the UMBC Invitational.

Mike Giuffrida scored twice and added an assist as host Salisbury State (12-7) rolled into the Capital Athletic Conference men's soccer final with a 6-0 win over Gallaudet.Salisbury will play Mary Washington in the final, with the site and time to be determined.Radford 3, UMBC 2, OT: Kevin Kelly scored 10 minutes into the first overtime to lift the Highlanders over the Retrievers in the first round of the Big South tournament at Coastal Carolina.Ryan Lampton scored both of UMBC's goals.Pub Date: 11/07/97

Carrying out the cryptic last wishes of a reclusive multimillionaire, a Baltimore County court ended a battle of wills yesterday and awarded nearly $1 million of the fortune to the Daughters of the American Revolution.The will of Olive Swindells -- a Lochearn resident who died in squalor last March despite having amassed a $4.4 million stock portfolio -- had pitted the DAR and Gallaudet University in a legal struggle for part of the riches.Mrs. Swindells' will left 80 percent of her estate to Gallaudet, .....

Eunice French recorded game-highs of 23 points and eight rebounds as host UMBC defeated Liberty, 57-48, yesterday in a Big South Conference game.French has scored 20 or more points in her past three games. The win was the fourth straight and 10th in the past 13 for UMBC (10-7, 6-2).The Retrievers led for almost the entire game, as they held the Flames (4-12, 2-4) scoreless for over eight minutes late in the first half en route to a 20-16 halftime lead.Jan Jacob scored 10 points for UMBC. Liberty was led by Angie Johnson, who had 17 points and four rebounds.

WASHINGTON -- They cannot hear. He is physically disabled. But that tie that binds likely Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole and the graduating class at Gallaudet University was only loosely knotted yesterday.In a commencement speech delivered to 380 graduates of the nation's only four-year liberal arts university for the deaf, Dole didn't mention his disabilities and said very little about theirs.Aides had said that Dole would talk about disabilities, theirs and his. But minutes before the ceremonies began, Dole was still working on his speech, rewriting a draft he had been given.

COPPIN STATE (0-5)2 Fast breaks: The Tigers were idle on Saturday.UMBC (0-5)This week: Vs. Washington College, Friday, 7 p.m.Fast breaks: The Retrievers, off to their worst start in their 27-year basketball history, lost to Loyola, 67-60, in overtime on Saturday. In the overtime, UMBC took its first lead since the opening minutes of the game on a baseline jumper by junior G Tony Thompson (19 points). But Loyola scored six straight to take a four-point lead. With 8:11 remaining, Loyola led 48-31, but UMBC scored 20 of the next 23 points to tie the game at 51 with 1:25 left.

On a scorching day, Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke and the president of Gallaudet University stood on a hill high above Frederick Avenue in Southwest Baltimore and broke ground for a first-of-its-kind project: a large, gated community exclusively for elderly deaf and hard-of-hearing people from all over the world.Eight months later, construction is stalled, and the future of Wyndholme Village is in doubt, according to employees and a letter posted on the project's Web site.Developers have received deposits from fewer than 35 people for the 180 units in the first phase of a $150 million project that could include 928 luxury condominiums.

Actions speak louder than words for Sandra Moore Gerhardt.Tapping her toes and wiggling her hips, the 53-year-old can belt out a songwithout so much as lifting a vocal cord. It's her fingers that do the singing when she takes her place at the side of the stage during concerts at Lake Kittamaqundi.Gerhardt, a Columbia resident for 17 years, is a certified interpreter for the deaf."When interpreting, facial expressions and body language play a very important role in the meaning of a word. It's one of those things that cannot be taught by books," Gerhardt said, who is not deaf herself.

Byer, Foreman pace Salisbury, 108-89SALISBURY -- David Byer scored 26 and Andre Foreman added 24, leading Salisbury State (4-2) over Mary Washington (2-6), 108-89, last night.MARY WASHINGTON (89) -- Johnson 8-14 0-3 16, Pearson 1-4 0-0 2, Treger 4-9 0-0 10, Fields 6-12 4-8 18, White 0-3 0-0 0, Winningham 4-5 1-2 9, Hallock 1-6 0-0 2, Gallagher 0-0 2-2 2, Pote 0-0 0-0 0, Posey 5-9 6-6 16, Brookes 0-1 0-0 0, Seward 5-10 2-2 14. Totals 34-73 15-23 89.SALISBURY STATE (108) -- Butler 3-3 1-2 7, Evans 1-2 0-0 2, Adamson 1-5 2-2 4, Byer 9-14 4-5 26, Lewit 5=7 0-0 12, Ross 1-4 2-2 5, Cromer 4-8 5-8 13, Williams 1-5 1-1 3, Foreman 10-15 3-4 24, Gosweiler 6-8 0-5 12. Totals 41-71 18-29 108.Halftime--SS, 49-36.

WASHINGTON - The murder of a Gallaudet University student last week has shaken this campus, a community knitted tightly together by the traits few outside its borders share - deafness and fluency in sign language. Student body president Chris Soukup said yesterday that it is certainly possible that a fellow student was responsible for the death of Eric Franklin Plunkett, a 19-year-old freshman from Minnesota whose body was found last Thursday night in his single room in the Cogswell Hall dormitory.