Games Tomorrow

With the Orioles and Ravens scheduled to play home games tomorrow, Mass Transit Administration officials have designated parking areas to make it easier for fans using public transportation to attend the games.Express buses to the football game at Memorial Stadium will leave park and ride lots beginning three hours before the 7: 30 p.m. kickoff. Fares range between $5 and $6 per rider, and two children may ride free when an accompanying adult pays full fare.To Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the MTA offers light rail service every 15 minutes from the Timonium and Cromwell/Glen Burnie stations.

If you wonder how the improving quality of Major League Soccer's play stacks up internationally, a hint -- but only a hint -- will be on display at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., at 7: 30 p.m. tomorrow.D.C. United will play host to Leeds United, which finished its English Premier League season last weekend, in a "friendly" (soccer-ese for "exhibition.")Whatever it's called, this game unavoidably will be seen as a measuring stick -- but don't get too carried away -- of how far D.C. United has come since practicing for the first time about 14 months ago. If you go (or watch, HTS 7: 30 p.m.)

The band without a team hasn't missed a note for eight years.Since 1984, the Baltimore Colts Band have shown the sports world that you don't need to be on the sidelines to make good music."

Suddenly, the Maryland Scholastic Association A Conference lacrosse playoff picture is not so clear. Division winners St. Paul's and Boys' Latin will definitely play host to semifinal games Tuesday at 3:45 p.m., and the championship game will be May 15 at UMBC, but that's all that is certain.Tuesday upsets by Severn (13-7 over Loyola) and St. Mary's (4-3 over Calvert Hall) have put second-place up for grabs in both divisions and left A Conference chairman Jody Martin scrambling to find solutions for several possible scenarios, depending upon the outcome of some pivotal contests the next two days.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Pucks were flying all around Baltimore Skipjacks goaltender Jim Hrivnak in the final minutes last night.But Hrivnak refused to wilt under the intense pressure applied by the Binghamton Rangers and made one big save after another, enabling the Skipjacks to live at least another two days in what has become an exciting American Hockey League Southern Division semifinal series.Hrivnak stopped at least five Binghamton shots from point-blank range in the final nine minutes of the game, leading Baltimore to a 5-3 victory in Game 5 of the best-of-seven series.

Family members have been deeply touched by the outpouring of emotion and support in the aftermath of Hall of Fame quarterback John Unitas' death, his son Chad said yesterday. "It's honestly unbelievable. I know who my father is and was as an athlete, but the absolute support and outpouring of love is just unbelievable," said Chad Unitas, 23, of Lutherville. The legendary quarterback, who played 17 seasons for the Baltimore Colts beginning in 1956, suffered a heart attack and died about 3 p.m. Wednesday while exercising at a Timonium physical therapy center.

Loyola and Towson University hadn't played each other in men's soccer since 1990, but the Greyhounds picked up where they left off by beating the Tigers yesterday in the inaugural round of the Mason-Dixon Soccer Cup, 3-0. Loyola (1-1-1), coming off a 2-2 tie against 11th-ranked Cal-State Fullerton, dominated almost every facet of the game and will meet the other semifinal winner, Mount St. Mary's, at 5 p.m. tomorrow at Towson University for the championship. The Mount (2-1-0) came from behind to tie Navy (2-1-0)

Top-ranked Mount St. Joseph has gone where no other Baltimore metro-area team has gone. After last night's 62-41 victory over Calvert Hall in the Baltimore Catholic League semifinals at Loyola College, the Gaels are 35-0. Mount St. Joseph will play No. 4 Towson Catholic for the 35th BCL tournament title at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Loyola College. Towson Catholic beat No. 6 St. Frances, 56-54, in the first semifinal yesterday. The 35th win breaks the 1981-82 Calvert Hall team's record of 34-0 for the most wins in a season and most consecutive wins in a single season.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- OK, John Byce was right. The odds were against the Skipjacks. They still are.But for the third time in the AHL Southern Division first-round playoffs, the Skipjacks defied the odds last night. They defeated the favored Binghamton Rangers, 6-2, before 3,032 at Broome County Arena to even the series at three games apiece.The seventh and final game will be played here tomorrow night.When the Skipjacks arrived here yesterday for Game 6, Byce acknowledged that the odds were against his team.

NEW YORK - Baseball's troubled labor history has turned optimism into an endangered outlook, but there were indications last night that the players and owners were closing in on a new labor agreement. Commissioner Bud Selig arrived in Manhattan yesterday afternoon to join the negotiations and the two bargaining teams moved back and forth between the offices of Major League Baseball and the players union to exchange ideas and work on contract language. There still appeared to be a gap between each side's proposals on increased revenue sharing and a luxury tax plan, but management officials seemed more confident that the remaining differences would be worked out before the union strike date threatens tomorrow's games.