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High school golf teams from North Harford and Harford Tech opened the 2011 season Tuesday with a dual match at Geneva Farm Golf Club. North Harford won the match, 222-231. Nick Kress and Tyler Stinar each shot 9-hole rounds of 42 to lead the Hawks, while John Heaps carded a 45. Alex O'Shaughnessey, 46 and Morgan Wirtz, 47, closed out the Hawks scoring. Tech's Noah Davis shot a match best 38 to lead all scorers, while Matt Sheridan shot 43. Brandon Young added a 48, while Andrew Small shot 50 and Eric Englebach a 52.

When North Harford pitcher Kevin Mooney opened his eyes Wednesday morning, the first thing he thought was that the Hawks were going to the Class 3A state championship game. "Right away I thought of that," Mooney, the team's senior captain, said. "Then I remembered -- the perfect game. It was just starting to sink in, and I smiled and thought, 'Wow!'" The fact Mooney slept at all Tuesday night might be almost as amazing as the fact he threw his first perfect game, and it came in the 3A state semifinal against North Hagerstown , a game the No. 1 Hawks won, 4-0. Now he gets to try to do it again at 7 p.m. Saturday at Ripken Stadium in the championship game against J.

Only one series ago, the Blackhawks were able to heap such befuddlement and frustration onto their opponent that the Sharks dynamited their lineup, rearranging the scattered pieces of previously dominant lines into a wholly different formation. It didn't help prevent an emphatic series sweep. That presents an interesting dilemma entering the pivotal Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals as the Hawks reshuffled previously stalwart line combos late in their 5-3 Game 4 loss. The makeup of the pieces likely will define the direction of the series — even if it winds up failing to cauterize the wound at all, as those drowned Sharks discovered.

The North Harford Hawks closed their Chesapeake (upper) Division schedule Wednesday with a five-inning victory, 10-0, over the visiting C. Milton Wright Mustangs (9-6 overall, 8-4 Chesapeake). With the win, North Harford, which clinched the upper division title Monday with a victory over Patterson Mill, improved to 15-1 overall and 11-1 in Chesapeake play. Wednesday's game was halted after five innings by the 10-run mercy rule. Cody Brittain tossed a one-hitter for the Hawks, striking out five in the complete-game shutout.

The Magic showed they could survive with Dwight Howard in chronic foul trouble. With him on the floor, they looked dominant. Howard had 21 points and 12 rebounds in one of the most crushing wins in Magic history, a 114-71 victory over the visiting Hawks on Tuesday night in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal. Howard added five blocks and avoided the fouls and frustration that overwhelmed him in the first round, helping the Magic go ahead by as many as 46 points.

All-Star guard Joe Johnson agreed to a maximum contract to stay with the Hawks, his agent said Sunday. Arn Tellem confirmed an entry he wrote for the Huffington Post Web site, in which he said Johnson "announced his intention to re-sign with the Hawks for six more years." Tellem wrote that Johnson chose to remain in Atlanta over Chicago and New York, where he would have been reunited with Mike D'Antoni , his former coach in Phoenix. The Hawks could pay him nearly $120 million, while other teams could give Johnson, a four-time All-Star, only five years and pay him about $25 million less.

The Magic are playing like a team that will settle for nothing less than its first NBA championship. Vince Carter scored 22 points to lead another dominating performance by the Magic, who finished off their second straight playoff sweep with a 98-84 victory over the Hawks on Monday night in Atlanta. Orlando won the four games by an average of 25 points — a total blowout that few could have expected in a matchup between the teams that finished second and third in the Eastern Conference.

On November 21, 2005, ELLENMc CRACKEN HAWKS, beloved wife of the late Marshall Hawks, devoted mother of John Wells Hawks, Marshall Wiley Hawks and Anne Hawks Austin. She is also survived by six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Ruxton, on Saturday at 11 A.M. Interment private. Arrangements by Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc.

8 p.m. [TNT] Atlanta made Miami look like Dwyane Wade (left) and four other guys in a 26-point victory in Game 1. But the Hawks aren't already looking ahead to the next round. Hawks forward Marvin Williams told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Don't be a fool, man. Win or lose, it's just one game in a seven-game series. ... They're not going to just roll over and die because of one game."

Dominique Wilkins was annoyed. That was obvious to Lenny Wilkens, and everyone else in Boston Garden, from the start.He had been in a bad shooting slump. He had a sore ankle and began a game against the Celtics Wednesday night bothered by a head cold and the fact that on the Atlanta Hawks' first few possessions, he couldn't get his itchy fingers on the ball.Mookie Blaylock was dribbling out near the key. Wilkins ran toward him with his hands out. Blaylock dribbled the other way and hoisted a jumper that missed.

No. 3 North Harford played tension-free baseball Wednesday, which resulted in one of the Hawks' most dominating performances of the season. Senior Cody Brittain threw a one-hitter as North Harford rattled off 11 hits and defeated C. Milton Wright, 10-0, in five innings. "We were very relaxed," said Brittain, who improved to 4-1 and lowered his ERA to 1.20. "We were as relaxed as we've ever been. We knew what we could do. I felt if I pitched as well as I could, my teammates would be behind me the whole time.

No. 15 River Hill scored four runs with two outs in the top of the seventh inning at No. 4 Glenelg on Tuesday to win, 5-1, and take sole possession of second place in the Howard County baseball standings. Both teams were 8-2, one game behind defending county champion Reservoir, coming into the game. Richie Lancashire struck out seven, walked seven and allowed one hit for the Hawks before giving way to Karan Sinha in the fifth. Lancashire also scored the first run of the game in the top of the third on an infield single by Nick Riso.

The Bel Air Bobcats, having taken just one Chesapeake (upper) Division contest prior to Monday's home tilt with Bo Manor, scored 10 times in the final three innings to hand the visiting Eagles an 11-9 loss. Bel Air moved to 6-7 overall on the year and 2-7 in upper division play. Trailing 4-1 after the top half of the fourth, the hosts exploded for six runs in the home half of the inning to take a 7-4 advantage. Bo Manor answered in the fifth with five runs, but the Bobcats had more in the tank, plating four in the bottom of the sixth to grab the two-run lead that carried them through the end of the contest.

Women's college bowling UMES repeats as NCAA champs UMES became the first school to win back-to-back NCAA women's bowling championships since Nebraska in 2004-2005 with a 4-2 defeat of Fairleigh Dickinson University in the championship finals Saturday night at Freeway Lanes outside Cleveland. T'nia Falbo was named the Most Outstanding Performer of the tournament and an All-Tournament Team selection. "Words cannot describe the feeling of winning, it's the greatest feeling ever," she said.

With Friday night's 9-4 convincing victory over Patriot League rival Navy, No. 8 Lehigh extended its program-record winning streak to nine and continued to emerge as perhaps the most dangerous team an opponent from one of the power conference would like to avoid in the NCAA Tournament. The Mountain Hawks (10-2 overall and 3-0 in the Patriot League) also traded their identity as a hunter for the hunted, and it's an adjustment that the players are getting accustomed to. “It's definitely taken some time getting used to being in that situation, but it's a situation that I've always wanted to be in,” junior midfielder Brian Hess said two days before the game against the Midshipmen.

No. 8 Lehigh is 9-1 for the first time in program history and has reeled off a school-record eight consecutive wins, and a pair of Baltimore area players have contributed to the team's success. Senior attackman Adam Johnston, a Street native and St. Paul's graduate, has scored 11 goals. Junior midfielder Brian Hess, an Owings Mills native and McDonogh graduate, has chipped in three goals and two assists. “I think it's pretty cool,” said Johnston, who is tied for second on the team in goals despite making just three starts.

PITTSBURGH -- Too much Mario Lemieux. Not enough Jeremy Roenick and Steve Larmer.That has been the story of a Stanley Cup championship series that will end soon unless the scenario changes.Lemieux scored a pair of second-period goals and the Penguins played surprisingly strong defense the rest of the way last night to pin a 3-1 defeat on the Chicago Blackhawks before a sellout crowd of 16,164 at the Civic Arena.In stretching their win streak to nine games, the Penguins grabbed a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven final that moves to Chicago Stadium for games tomorrow and Monday.

A memorial service for Ellen M. Hawks, a retired columnist and features writer for The Evening Sun and The Sun, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Boyce and Carrollton avenues, Ruxton. After the service, a reception will be held at the nearby L'Hirondelle Club, 7611 L'Hirondelle Club Road. Mrs. Hawks, who was 83, died Sunday of a heart attack.

The Tony Hawk Foundation has given $25,000 toward the construction of a skateboard park in Roosevelt Park in Hampden. The Skatepark of Baltimore, a nonprofit group dedicated to raising enough money to build a place for area youth to skateboard safely, received one of 12 grants given by the foundation this spring, according to a news release. The group has until the end of May to raise $75,000 in order to get a matching grant from the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks.

Yannick Crowder put Florida A&M ahead with a tip-in with 27.6 seconds to play and Avery Moore added two free throws with 8.6 seconds left as the Rattlers held off Coppin State, 74-72, in the opening round of theMid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament Tuesday at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C. Coppin State (14-16) took a 71-70 lead with 46.3 seconds to play when Logan Wiens drilled a 3-pointer. Crowder put the Rattlers (9-22) ahead to stay at 72-71 with a tip-in with 27.6 seconds left.