Green Hornets

The Severna Park Green Hornets 8-10 basketball team upped its overall combined record to 39-1 by winning three games this past weekend.In county league play Saturday, the Severna Park Heat defeated Crofton, 23-20. Mark Teixeira led the way for the winners with 14 points (4-for-4 from the free-throw line).The other half of the Hornet squad, the Bullets, squeaked by the Annapolis All-Stars, 33-29. Point guard Dennard Melton hit 9 of 10 field goals on his way to a 22-point effort.On Sunday, the combinedHornets squad routed the Catonsville Hoops, 51-25.

With only one season left to complete her high school career, Sarah Lloyd has been part of five state championship teams - two in lacrosse and three in swimming. Last spring, the midfielder was sidelined with a stress fracture in her shin. When she returned late in the season, she took over in goal, making critical saves, including some in a 7-5 state title victory. A swimmer since she was 6, Lloyd and her twin sister, Emily, were keys to three Falcons state swimming championships in four years.

The Severna Park Green Hornets junior wrestling team captured seven individual titles at last weekend's Age-Weight Tournament at Francis Scott Key High School in Carroll County.Those claiming first place for the Green Hornets were Jake Boulay (55 pounds), Corey Bowers (45), Rob Pettit (70), Dan Fitzgerald (80), Mark Malone (85), Weaver McDaniel (90) and Trevor Needham (115).Tournament runners-up for Severna Park included Shaun Jones (65), Jeff Payne (75) and Matt Negrete (75). Tony Stallard (100)

Joseph Stras Gillespie Jr., a retired telephone company personnel executive and a sports coach, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Monday at his Severna Park home. He was 76. Born in Tazewell, Va., he earned a bachelor's degree from Hampden-Sydney College, where he ran track and cross country. He attended the University of Virginia's graduate school of economics. He served in the Navy as a seaplane aviator in anti-submarine warfare from 1954 to 1958. He joined the old Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. and became its general manager of personnel.

The Severna Park Green Hornets "A" team defeated the Anne Arundel Optimists, 31-16, in an 8-10 Danny Ferry League basketball game Saturday at Crofton Middle School.Richard Tuohey led the way for the Green Hornets with 10 points, and Jarrod Ross scored nine. Derek Dixon added five for the victors and Joe Burke, Gavin Floyd and Nick Richards chipped in two apiece.Jon Taylor added a foul shot for the Hornets, and Tuohey and Ross were the team's rebounding leaders.Earlier that day, Severna Park's "B" team defeated Maryland City, 18-8, to bring Severna Park's overall record to 36-3.

The Severna Park Green Hornets 8-10 county league team recently won two holiday basketball tournaments.In the championship game of the sixth-grade St. Jerome of Hyattsville Tournament, the Hornets trimmed St. Mark's, 43-40, with the help of four sixth-graders from last year's 8-10 Severna ,, Park squad.James Bowen led the winners with 14 points, going 7-for-7 from the field and collecting four rebounds. Derek Dixon and Richard Tuohey (five rebounds) added eight and six points, respectively.

Tom Neuberger's initial impression of the Green Hornets baseball program was less than flattering."I was disappointed," said Neuberger, who moved to Severna Park from Lake Shore eight years ago. "It wasjust too casual. The emphasis was on community play, and the attitude was, 'let's have fun.' There was no serious baseball."Not one to wait for change, Neuberger got together with other disgruntled parents and coaches and met with the Greater Severna Park Athletic Association in an effort to form a "select" baseball team for boys who wanted to take the sport more seriously.

At Severna Park, the latest version of the Sister Act is playing.Never mind Whoopi Goldberg, who played the impish, irreverent nun in the movie of that name. Severna Park's Sister Act consists of five pairs of sisters, including two sets of identical twins, on the 38-girl soccer squad.Jen Kaupa, a senior midfielder, can see similarities between what Goldberg did in bringing a choir together to sing harmoniously and the Falcons, who have won three state championships since 1988."Whoopi pulled all those people together," said Kaupa, whose sister, freshman Lisa, is a junior-varsity defenseman.

DAMASCUS -- Arundel coach Buddy Hepfer rattled off the weight classes -- 119, 130, 135, 145 -- that could have easily gone either way.Unfortunately for his No. 3 Wildcats, who were chasing after their second Class 3A-4A state dual-meet championship last night at Damascus High, they all went the other way.The tournament host school, Damascus, had the majority of third-period answers and also received a huge overtime effort from Ryan York, who upset Arundel...

DAMASCUS -- Arundel coach Buddy Hepfer rattled off the weight classes -- 119, 130, 135, 145 -- that could have easily gone either way.Unfortunately for his No. 3 Wildcats, who were chasing after their second Class 3A-4A state dual-meet championship last night at Damascus High, they all went the other way.The tournament host school, Damascus, had the majority of third-period answers and also received a huge overtime effort from Ryan York, who upset Arundel...

Sit on the deck by the Whitehurst pool and you get two things: a view that stretches to Kent Island, and a good idea of why people who live in this Anne Arundel County community describe it as living in summer camp. Whitehurst sits on the Magothy River, near where Cattail Creek enters it. The social center of the community is its outdoor waterfront pool - which couldn't be built under current waterfront protection laws - and a clubhouse with year-round parties and activities.

DAMASCUS -- Arundel coach Buddy Hepfer rattled off the weight classes -- 119, 130, 135, 145 -- that could have easily gone either way.Unfortunately for his No. 3 Wildcats, who were chasing after their second Class 3A-4A state dual-meet championship last night at Damascus High, they all went the other way.The tournament host school, Damascus, had the majority of third-period answers and also received a huge overtime effort from Ryan York, who upset Arundel...

DAMASCUS -- Arundel coach Buddy Hepfer rattled off the weight classes -- 119, 130, 135, 145 -- that could have easily gone either way.Unfortunately for his No. 3 Wildcats, who were chasing after their second Class 3A-4A state dual-meet championship last night at Damascus High, they all went the other way.The tournament host school, Damascus, had the majority of third-period answers and also received a huge overtime effort from Ryan York, who upset Arundel...

TOM CUSH, 10, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cush of Chartridge, won a gold medal and two silver medals in swimming competition at the Dwarf Athletic Association of America games this month in Los Angeles.The soccer team his father coaches won a silver medal at the games, part of the annual conference of the Little People of America (LPA).Tom's gold medal came in the butterfly races and his silver medals in freestyle and backstroke.The Cushes joined LPA shortly after Tom was born with achondroplasia, or dwarfism, in Alexandria Hospital in Virginia.

ONE OF THE SUMMER events most eagerly anticipated by Central County families -- the annual Severna Park July Fourth Parade and Festival -- takes place at 10 a.m. on, of course, July 4.Sponsored by the Greater Severna Park Chamber of Commerce, the Severna Park Pride parade will assemble, rain or shine, at 9: 15 a.m. in the parking lots of St. Martin's in the Field Episcopal and Our Shepherd Lutheran churches on Benfield Road.Participants should call for their placement and location number on July 2 or July 3. Contact Linda Zahn at 410-647-3900 or parade Chairman Lewis Heck at 410-647-2222.

For many families, the 288-acre Kinder Farm Park the county acquired in 1979 is the place where children play Green Hornets -- that is, Greater Severna Park Athletic Association sports.For mothers of young children, it's the sandy playground with swings, slides and a log-cabin playhouse.For gardeners without space at home to cultivate, it's holy ground.On Friday, ground was broken for a $12 million, three-phase project to expand facilities and services in the park by 2002.Presiding at the ceremony were County Executive John G. Gary, Tom Angelis, county director of recreation and parks; and Brian Woodward, the department's chief of environmental programs and facilities.

TOM CUSH, 10, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cush of Chartridge, won a gold medal and two silver medals in swimming competition at the Dwarf Athletic Association of America games this month in Los Angeles.The soccer team his father coaches won a silver medal at the games, part of the annual conference of the Little People of America (LPA).Tom's gold medal came in the butterfly races and his silver medals in freestyle and backstroke.The Cushes joined LPA shortly after Tom was born with achondroplasia, or dwarfism, in Alexandria Hospital in Virginia.

Football* 120-pounders -- Dominic Harris scored four touchdowns to lead the Andover Apaches to a 33-0 win over the previously unbeaten Severna Park Green Hornets in last Saturday's county championship game at Anne Arundel Community College.After a scoreless first quarter, Harris put his team on the board by returning a punt 70 yards for a touchdown. Freeing up Harris with key blocks on the return were Keith Eldridge and Toney Twitty.Dennis Emge then connected with Otis James for the extra point that gave the Apaches a 7-0 lead.

Basketball* 12-and-under boys -- The GARCI Gators kicked off their 1994-95 season by downing the Peninsula Athletic League, 54-13, in a Stacey Augmon League game last Saturday.Eric Ross led the Gators and all scorers with 17 points. He also grabbed 17 rebounds and had one assist and one steal. Gavin Floyd tossed in 11 points for GARCI, in addition to his eight boards and six assists.Brandon Wright, Danny Dolan and Matt Stover each contributed six points and Geoff Fernandez and Jeff Britton added four points apiece.

Basketball* 8-10 boys -- The Severna Park Green Hornets' 27-member county basketball team split up and won four games in the Gambrills-Odenton Recreation Council Tournament.The Hornets A team beat Shadyside, 33-13, Friday and then downed Howard Youth Program, 32-12, Saturday.In the GORC B tournament bracket, the Green Hornets B team defeated Shadyside, 55-5, Saturday and downed the Howard County Sabers, 34-11, Sunday.Todd MacMullen led the Hornets A team with 17 points and 12 rebounds and Tysheem Jones had 14 points, nine boards and seven steals.