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Navy women's basketball team reached the championship game for the first time in their seven-year Patriot League history last night by taking complete command with a 13-2 run to start the second half and trampling Lafayette, 76-59, at Alumni Hall.The Midshipmen (23-5, 10-2) also set a school record for victories. They will meet Holy Cross for the title Wednesday night in Worcester, Mass. The Crusaders (20-8, 10-2) routed Lehigh, 83-69."Getting the opportunity to win the championship has been our goal since the beginning of the season," Navy coach Joe Sanchez said.

Navy's women's basketball team improved to 8-0 and advanced to the final of the Navy Classic for the second straight year with a 68-57 win yesterday over Drexel at Alumni Hall.In tonight's championship game at 7: 30, the Mids will meet Murray State, which defeated Long Island, 55-51, in the other semifinal.Navy's Adria Schneck led all scorers with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Becky Dowling and Joanne Groth each added 11 points.Pub Date: 12/21/96

WORCESTER, Mass. -- Joanne Groth tied a career high with 25 points and grabbed seven rebounds as Navy defeated Army, 65-57, yesterday in the first round of the Patriot League women's tournament.Julie Graham added 13 points for the Midshipmen (19-8), and Kim Hanson led the Cadets (6-21) with 13. Navy's win was its third of the season over Army.The Mids held a 28-22 halftime lead and sealed the win by making 16 of 20 free throws.Navy will play second-seeded Holy Cross in the quarterfinal round today at noon.

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Lafayette women's basketball coach Pat Fisher blamed the inexperience of freshman point guard Melly Sellers for the Lady Leopards' elimination from the Patriot League tournament yesterdayBut first-year Navy coach Joe Sanchez credited his plebe backcourt starters, Joanne Groth and Jenny Thompson for turning a shaky 29-24 halftime lead into a 68-44 rout in the opening round.The Midshipmen (16-11, 10-4) will play Fordham in tomorrow afternoon's semifinals. The Rams advanced by beating Army, 63-42.

Mixed in with the 73,000 beer-swilling, chip-snacking football fans packed into Joe Robbie Stadium tomorrow, Robert Groth figures there will be about 2,000 enlightened sippers who will soothe their cheer-rasped throats with fruit shakes.And since his company, Baltimore-based Flying Fruit Fantasy, gets 60 cents for every fruit shake sold, Mr. Groth figures he'll be a big winner no matter what the football score.With the placement of three of his fruit shake machines at the Miami stadium just in time for the Super Bowl, Mr. Groth says his shakes are now being sold at 150 locations around the country -- up from less than 50 a year ago.And it's all part of his game plan to sell his icy fruit shakes in thousands of cafeterias and snack bars across the country.

There was some joy at the burned-out Sparks Elementary School yesterday.Art teacher Susan Connolly recovered the "only thing I wanted out of my entire room," a small metal file box of pictures -- the 20-year record of her students' work. A custodian brought it to her, and it was unscathed.Second-grader Kirsten Kazlauskas found her teacher, Gloria Matthews, and the hugs and the smiles she received seemed to put to rest the youngster's fears about her teacher's safety.Youngsters peering from a mini-van crawling along Sparks Road opened windows and doors, calling to a teacher -- "Mrs.

Flying Fruit Fantasy, a blended fruit concoction that got its start in Baltimore 14 years ago, is set to take a flying leap of its own with the sale of the wholesale business of Flying Fruit Fantasy, USA Inc. to Atlantic Beverage Co. Inc. of Baltimore."

Imagine Milton Berle still hopping around in a dress on his own NBC TV show, at the age of 85. Or Sundays with "The New Ed Sullivan Show," starring Regis Philbin. Or a Jack Benny-less "Jack Benny Show," with a 1993 comedian rolling his eyes and making tightwad jokes like the late comedian.Nostalgia is big on television, but not that big. Yet old newspaper strips never seem to die. Dagwood has been stuffing his face with giant sandwiches since the 1930s. Brenda Starr has been the glamorous and feisty red-headed reporter since the 1940s.

Channel 45 has pulled an ad promoting mammograms after a breast-cancer survivor protested that the spot torments cancer patients and children who have lost mothers to the disease.The advertisement, part of the state's three-year, $3 million anti-cancer campaign, portrays a boy being taunted by a bully, who shouts: "You don't have a mom.""Get a mammogram. Once a year for a lifetime. If you won't do it for yourself, do it for him," the ad says."Unbelievably callous," said Georgia Groth, 40, who was treated for breast cancer three years ago. The Baltimore woman has sons 6 and 9 years old.Mrs.

Catherine Groth remembers Ballestone Manor in better days, when she was a child and her family rented a summer house near the late-Georgian plantation home that overlooks the mouth of Back River and Chesapeake Bay."It was a farm then, and a family named Vesper lived here," she recalled. "They had four girls, and I played with them when we came down in the summer from East Baltimore. It was really nice and so beautiful right by the water."Mrs. Groth was so saddened by the manor's decline into a dilapidated shell that she has dedicated herself to its restoration as vice president of the Ballestone Preservation Society and one of the home's most committed docents.

Robert Egan Groth, an entrepreneur and retired owner of the Flying Fruit Fantasy fresh fruit shake business, died of a stroke Saturday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. The Pikesville resident was 57. Mr. Groth grew up in Wantagh, N.Y., a suburb of New York City, and attended American University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in political science. He managed two prominent restaurants in Washington in his early adulthood, the Gandy Dancer and the Biltmore Ballroom. But building the Flying Fruit Fantasy business with his wife, the former Georgia Bacas, was his true passion, according to friends and family.

A 49-year-old Joppa man was arrested early yesterday and charged with assault and possession of a deadly weapon with intent to injure in the stabbing of another man after a dispute. Stephen S. Groth is accused of stabbing Brian K. Snyder, 41, in the arm and in the lower back, according to a Harford County Sheriff's Office spokesman. The men live in separate apartments along Old Mountain Road and became involved in a dispute that began when one struck the other, police said. Groth was taken into custody and remains in the county detention center, and Snyder was treated and released from Bay View Medical Center in Baltimore yesterday, police said.

On July 17, 2004, IDA MAY LEIBIG (nee Wolf), beloved wife of the late Jerome C. Leibig; loving mother of Carolyn E. Leibig; dear sister of Lorene Murphy and the late Clara Groth, Ruth Moore and Amelia Groth; also survived by several loving nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the HUBBARD FUNERAL HOME INC., 4107 Wilkens Ave, on Wednesday and Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services will be held on Friday, 11 A.M. at the Funeral Home. Interment Lake View Cemetery.

On October 14, 2003, PAUL C. GROTH, JR.; loving brother of Shirley E. Ruth, Dorothy J. Winterbottom and her friend Lou Vesperman, Carl "Buddy" Groth; beloved nephew of Merle Smith and cherished uncle of Jackie, Melanie, Robert and Tracey. A Memorial Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Ave., on Saturday at 3:30 P.M.

On October 14, 2003, PAUL C. GROTH, JR.; loving brother of Shirley E. Groth, Dorothy G. Winterbottom, Carl "Buddy" Groth; beloved nephew of Merle Smith and cherished uncle of Jackie, Melanie, Robert and Tracey. A Memorial Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Ave., on Saturday at 3:30 P.M.

2000 Groth Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc ($16.49). This fresh, full-bodied sauvignon blanc displays excellent flavor nuances of figs, mineral, slate, pear and herbs. It's a classy wine, with no perceptible oak, that is lively on the palate. Serve it with seafood from salmon to shellfish.

Navy women's basketball team reached the championship game for the first time in their seven-year Patriot League history last night by taking complete command with a 13-2 run to start the second half and trampling Lafayette, 76-59, at Alumni Hall.The Midshipmen (23-5, 10-2) also set a school record for victories. They will meet Holy Cross for the title Wednesday night in Worcester, Mass. The Crusaders (20-8, 10-2) routed Lehigh, 83-69."Getting the opportunity to win the championship has been our goal since the beginning of the season," Navy coach Joe Sanchez said.

Navy's women's basketball team improved to 8-0 and advanced to the final of the Navy Classic for the second straight year with a 68-57 win yesterday over Drexel at Alumni Hall.In tonight's championship game at 7: 30, the Mids will meet Murray State, which defeated Long Island, 55-51, in the other semifinal.Navy's Adria Schneck led all scorers with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Becky Dowling and Joanne Groth each added 11 points.Pub Date: 12/21/96

WORCESTER, Mass. -- Joanne Groth tied a career high with 25 points and grabbed seven rebounds as Navy defeated Army, 65-57, yesterday in the first round of the Patriot League women's tournament.Julie Graham added 13 points for the Midshipmen (19-8), and Kim Hanson led the Cadets (6-21) with 13. Navy's win was its third of the season over Army.The Mids held a 28-22 halftime lead and sealed the win by making 16 of 20 free throws.Navy will play second-seeded Holy Cross in the quarterfinal round today at noon.

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Lafayette women's basketball coach Pat Fisher blamed the inexperience of freshman point guard Melly Sellers for the Lady Leopards' elimination from the Patriot League tournament yesterdayBut first-year Navy coach Joe Sanchez credited his plebe backcourt starters, Joanne Groth and Jenny Thompson for turning a shaky 29-24 halftime lead into a 68-44 rout in the opening round.The Midshipmen (16-11, 10-4) will play Fordham in tomorrow afternoon's semifinals. The Rams advanced by beating Army, 63-42.