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Westminster (15-8), a boys basketball team on a four-game winning streak and the last remaining Carroll County unit in regional play, will be home at 7 o'clock tonight against Glen Burnie (10-14) in a Class 4A West semifinal matchup.Annapolis (19-4) and Meade (17-5), the top two teams in Anne Arundel County, will meet in tonight's other semifinal. The regional championship game will be Saturday night.Double-figure scorers Aaron Krug, Sean Davis, and Desmond Esteves, all seniors, are the Westminster leaders.

LEONARDTOWN -- JUST when you think you have tasted every possible oyster dish, new ones come along and blow you away.That happened to me last weekend while I was serving on a panel of judges at the National Oyster Cook-Off in Leonardtown. The winning dish combined oyster stew and mashed potatoes. When I first saw oyster stew swimming in a bowl of mashed TC potatoes, I told myself, "This is either going to be horrible or wonderful." It was the latter.The curried stew had rich, warm flavors and the mashed potatoes thickened the mixture and gave it a pleasing texture.

Francis Scott Key Eagles1994-95 record: 12-1.Coach: Bill Hyson (16th year).Top wrestlers: Jason Hooper, Sr., 125; Ryan Etzler, Sr., 130; Tony Cahoon, Sr., 152; Jordan Chiaruttini, Sr., 145; Bobby Bollinger, Jr., 189; Matt Yinger, Soph., 119.Outlook: Hyson said the Eagles may have lost two-time state champs Zac Yinger and Randy Owings, but make up for their absence with more consistency throughout the lineup. Hooper and Etzler, both in their fourth year on varsity, lead a strong group of seniors and there's plenty of talented underclassmen.

He's big enough to be a mountain man, intense enough to make teen-agers sit up and listen, and talented enough to take a small group of wrestlers from 1A Francis Scott Key to the No. 2 ranking in the Baltimore metro area.This man, all 6 feet, 250 pounds of him, is Bill Hyson, who is on the verge of realizing a dream that began 15 years ago when he was named head wrestling coach at Key.Hyson could take the Eagles that final step to the top of the high school wrestling pack in Carroll County on Feb. 11, with the Carroll County tournament at North Carroll.

LEONARDTOWN -- It was a nation-wide cooking contest, the 16th annual National Oyster Cook-Off. But at times it seemed like family rivalry.On hand for Saturday's cooking contest at the St. Mary's County Fairgrounds in southern Maryland were members of the DeSantis family of East Windsor, N.J., and the Hyson clan of Glen Burnie. By the time all the chopping and stirring had stopped, members of the DeSantis and Hyson kitchen crews had walked away with prizes.Alex DeSantis Sr. won the contest's top prize of $1,000 for his White Oyster Chili.

Francis Scott Key 16-year coach Bill Hyson calmly sat in the North Carroll gym waiting as the junior varsity finals were coming to an end at yesterday's 25th annual Carroll County Wrestling Tournament.Shortly after, his Eagles would grow closer to their first county title since 1978.Matt Yinger surprised top-seed Joe Smith of Liberty with a decision win at 112. Ryan Etzler followed with a 6-3 win over Dameon Davis at 119, increasing the Eagles' team lead over runner-up North Carroll.At that point, it was clear it was the Eagles night.

COACH OF THE YEAR* Bill Hyson, Francis Scott Key -- When Hyson reflects back on a season in which he won his first county tournament championship in his 15 seasons at Key, he prefers to talk about the wrestlers themselves. "What's more satisfying than anything else is how well the kids got along and supported one another. It's very rewarding," he said. Hyson's group finished the season 13-2 overall and ranked fifth in the metro area. After a number of successful seasons only to finish second behind traditional county power North Carroll, this season belonged to the Eagles.

Storm clouds rolled overhead and thunder rumbled, but it was nothing the players in yesterday's Crown High School All-Star baseball game, Part II hadn't seen or heard before.In fact, it was almost expected that the day the all-stars from around the state gathered at Camden Yards to resume a game that was suspended by rain on June 19, gray clouds would appear.But Mother Nature only threatened, she never produced, and the all-stars were able to complete their game, with the South winning, 5-3.The fact that the game had to be played in two parts didn't seem to bother the players.

Bill Hyson has lived in the shadow of North Carroll wrestling coach Dick Bauerlein for 13 years.The Francis Scott Key wrestling coach certainly has dreamed a time or two about being in Bauerlein's shoes at the top of the heap in Carroll County wrestling.Hyson admits it would be nice just once to have everybody in the county and most teams in the state shooting for his team.Slowly, Hyson has built a wrestling team that has been closing in on the Panthers.But suddenly he finds himself most likely with only one more chance to beat Bauerlein and North Carroll in a dual match.

This event is no longer a friendly little neighborhood wrestling rivalry.This is North Carroll vs. Francis Scott Key.This has become one of the single most important and attended sports events in Carroll County every year. Six hundred tickets already have been sold, leaving only a few left.A woman from Baltimore called Francis Scott Key Monday and asked if she could have some tickets set aside.Sorry, said Key coach Bill Hyson, the tickets are only sold on a first-come, first-served basis at the Francis Scott Key main office.

Dr. John Miller Hyson Jr., a retired dentist and former director of archives and history at the National Museum of Dentistry at the University of Maryland Dental School and an author who wrote widely on the history of dentistry, died Saturday of a stroke at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The longtime Timonium resident was 81. Dr. Hyson, the son of a dentist and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on Ellerslie Avenue. After graduating from Loyola High School in 1945, he attended Loyola College for a year before transferring to the University of Maryland Dental School, from which he graduated in 1950.

Seton Keough sophomore pitcher Megan Hyson was asked what pitches were working for her best after Saturday's Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference title game against defending champion Archbishop Spalding. Her answer said it all: "Pretty much everything." The No. 2 Gators scratched across two first-inning runs and Hyson handled the rest, pitching her sixth no-hitter this spring for a 2-0 win that gave the program its third conference crown and completed a 16-0 season.

Shortly after earning a 1-0 win over Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference champion Archbishop Spalding on Friday, Seton Keough sophomore Megan Hyson was asked to sum up the Gators' impressive 3-0 week. She gave a quick "Great," then added, "Absolutely great!" Hyson held the No. 3 Cavaliers (2-1, 1-1 league) to three hits while striking out 13. The Gators (4-0, 3-0) got a single from left fielder Taylor Kairos with two outs in the bottom of the sixth to drive in Carly Read for the only run. On Monday, Hyson no-hit two-time defending Class 4A state champion Chesapeake-AA in a 2-0 win over two-time All-Metro Player of the Year Lauren Gibson.

On September 29, 2007, ANNA MARIE HYSON (nee Koch); wife of the late Charles F. Hyson, Sr.; mother of Donald V. and wife Debby and the late Charles F. Hyson, Jr. and his late wife Marie; grandmother of Donna, David, Dorothy, Denise, Daniel, Charles and Paul; great-grandmother of 14. Services private.

After nearly three decades as an assistant under five head coaches, Bill Hyson took over Francis Scott Key's football program this fall with an eye toward maintaining continuity. He's off to a good start. With his team in pursuit of its county-record seventh straight winning season, Hyson was named Ravens High School Coach of the Week last week, after his team's 49-42 upset over then-No. 12 Westminster. "I was very surprised," Hyson said. "I look at it as more a reflection on our entire coaching staff and the kids in our program over the past six or seven years."

4.0 Grade point average for Winters Mill's highly recruited guard John Hopkins, a 6-foot-2, 270-pound player whose sights are set on the Naval Academy. 7 Consecutive games won by Edgewood last season after an 0-3 start to capture the Chesapeake Division title of the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference, only to barely miss the playoffs. 9 Field goals converted in 10 attempts by Boys' Latin's second-team All-Metro selection Brett Weiss, whose longest was 42 yards. Weiss was good on 41 of 45 extra points.

On April 11, 2006, MARY E. (nee Selway); beloved wife of the late Donald T. Hyson and devoted mother of Mary E. Dyson and her husband Donald, Ann Marie Suit and her husband Richard and Kathleen M. Catterton and her husband Barry; devoted grandmother of Samantha Suit, Sarah and Emily Catterton. Family will receive friends at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 130 E. Fort Avenue (South Baltimore) on Thursday and Friday from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. A Catholic Prayer Service will be held on Saturday at 10 A.M. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.

While Francis Scott Key may not be considered one of the favorites to win this weekend's Carroll County wrestling tournament, the Eagles will enter the competition with no lack of confidence after a torrid finish to the regular season. After starting the season 2-6, Key closed with six straight victories, including a 36-26 upset of defending county champion South Carroll. "One of the things we talked about was just wanting to regain some respect within the county," said Eagles coach Bill Hyson.

North Carroll athletic director Troy Warehime is interviewing candidates to be the school's fifth football coach in five years, hoping to hire someone early next month and bring the program consistency. The Panthers went 3-7 this season under Scott Currey, who won't be returning as the varsity coach. Warehime is considering applicants who work at the school first, as they can maintain daily contact with the players. Warehime wants the new hire to stay a while and end the frustrating coach-per-year cycle.

With its large, arched murals of Eastern European folk-life and faint odors of brat-and-kraut-style food, the dimly lit basement lounge of the Lithuanian Hall on Hollins Street, doesn't immediately suggest a place of transformative experience. But Friday night, for the hundreds of faithful gathered at Baltimore's annual Night of 100 Elvises, it became just that, thanks to the sort of alchemy achieved by true Elvis believers like Sterling Riggs and Jeania Hyson. In one of the hall's three performance areas, swirling specks of light from a disco ball picked up the tassels of his white jumpsuit as Riggs, as Elvis, sang a few gospel numbers and then bopped in place to Presley's 1957 hit, "Teddy Bear."