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Bethune-Cookman @Morgan State Saturday, 1p.m. Radio: 88.9FM Frostburg finished the day with 184 yards on the ground, its second-highest total of the season. Chucky Iweh (Eastern Tech) led the way with 19 carries for 68 yards.

Bethune-Cookman @Morgan State Saturday, 1p.m. Radio: 88.9FM Frostburg finished the day with 184 yards on the ground, its second-highest total of the season. Chucky Iweh (Eastern Tech) led the way with 19 carries for 68 yards.

SALISBURY -- Salisbury State's high-powered offense couldn't get out of neutral in yesterday's quarterfinal round of rTC the NCAA Division III men's lacrosse championship.The same Sea Gulls scoring attack that averaged 18.6 points a game during the regular season sputtered scoreless for more than 25 minutes, allowing No. 7 seed Ithaca College to claim a 21-9 victory and a berth in next Sunday's semifinal.The same guys who set a Salisbury State record for goals in a game in last week's 33-3 rout of West Chester were shut out in the third quarter and similarly humiliated in front of 1,010 at Sea Gull Stadium.

Ithaca College bestowed a Peggy R. Williams Award for Academic and Community Leadership upon Arbutus resident DeAsia Gilmer. A junior majoring in biochemistry, she is enrolled in the School of Humanities and Sciences.

Ithaca College senior Rachael Greener found herself in a new role for the 1991 season.The 1988 North Carroll graduate found herself switched from forward to right link on the Ithaca field hockey team.The transition from a purely offensive position to an offensive and defensive spot -- similar to a midfielder in soccer or lacrosse --might cause one to cringe, particularly since Greener was the top scorer for the Bombers in 1990. But for Greener the switch has been more of a challenge."I'm involved a lot more in the transitional play.

In each of the past two years under head coach Jim Berkman, Salisbury State's lacrosse team has made progress in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III tournament. Two years ago, the Sea Gulls made it to the quarterfinals. Last year, they advanced to the semifinals.The Sea Gulls would like nothing better than to play in the 1991 championship game, but they aren't taking anything for granted.Salisbury (13-0), ranked No. 1, will begin its quest for its first national championship today at 4 p.m. against No. 7 Ithaca (9-2)

SALISBURY -- An inexperienced Ithaca College lacrosse team used a deliberate offense to stay within two goals of Salisbury State at the half yesterday, and the Bombers probably started thinking upset.Salisbury State midfielder Art Morley, though, said he knew a spurt was coming."We've seen that style all year where teams try to take the air out of the ball," said Morley. "I wasn't concerned. Usually, when other teams do that to us, we come back and push it in their face."No. 1-ranked Salisbury's big push came in the third period, when the Sea Gulls scored six consecutive goals to open up a tight game and defeat No. 7 Ithaca, 16-10, before a crowd of 1,200 at Sea Gulls Stadium in a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III quarterfinal.

Melissa Cathryn Peverly, a 1990 graduate of Dulaney High School in Baltimore County who was involved in numerous school activities, died Feb. 16 in a Syracuse, N.Y., hospital after a brief illness. She was 18.At the time of her death, she was a freshman in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.At Dulaney High, Miss Peverly was a member of the National Honor Society, the Gifted and Talented Art Program and the literary magazine staff. She was also active in lacrosse, soccer and basketball at the school.

Services for Virginia Curtis Devilbiss will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Mitchell-Wiedefeld Home, 6500 York Road.Mrs. Devilbiss, who was 86 and lived in Pinehurst, died yesterday at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center after a heart attack Saturday.Her husband, William O. Devilbiss, a retired civil engineer, died in 1977.Born in Baltimore, the former Virginia Curtis was a graduate of Western High School and of Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y.She is survived by two sons, William O. Devilbiss Jr. of Glenarm and Robert C. Devilbiss of Baltimore; a sister, Mildred Curtis Hedeman of Baltimore; and two grandchildren.

Arthur Paskin, 70, a pioneer in the development of computer graphics used in the courtroom to analyze accidents, died Sept. 26 at Tompkins Community Hospital in Ithaca, N.Y., of complications from lymphoma. At his death, he was emeritus professor of physics at the City University of New York and was senior partner in Forensic Sciences, a company directed from his home in Belle Terre, N.Y.

Morgan State (3-3, 1-1 MEAC) @Howard (1-4, 0-2 MEAC) Time: 1 p.m. Site: Greene Stadium, Washington Radio: 88.9 FM Outlook: The Bears gained a season-high 450 yards in last week's win over North Carolina A&T. Howard is coming off a loss to previously winless Winston-Salem State. Backup QB Mario Melton relieved Carlton Jackson in the second quarter of the Bears' win last week, and both players could play today. Howard has no such predicament, as QB Floyd Haiger enters the game as the top-rated passer in the MEAC, having thrown for 1,476 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Ithaca College soccer goalkeeper Andy Wilhelm (Centennial) is building quite a resume in the net with 20 career shutouts through his junior season at the upstate New York school. Wilhelm ranks fourth on the school's all-time shutout list. But the three-time All-Howard County selection and Sun All-Metro honorable mention hasn't come close to realizing all of his goals. There have been no NCAA tournament bids for the Division III school or league championships. Just a lot of nice individual awards.

Imade a cake with oranges. Why? Because the cake was a "twofer" delivering both a dose of vitamin C and a pleasing dessert. Because the recipe was a snap: Mixing the cake batter simply required hitting the pulse button on the food processor. And I made it because my citrus clock was ticking. A box of navel oranges sitting in the kitchen was starting to sour. It was getting to be "use them or lose them" time. Making the cake was one small step toward depleting the stockpile. Being up-to-your-eyeballs in citrus seems to be common around here at this time of year.

In Baltimore City City College principal hired to run school in N.Y. Longtime City College Principal Joseph M. Wilson has been hired to run a high school in Ithaca, N.Y. Wilson, who was credited with improving one of Baltimore's premier high schools by introducing more rigorous academic courses and attracting more highly qualified students, will start his new job in Ithaca during the summer, said Craig Evans, assistant to the superintendent of the...

Gary N. Fostel, 49, resident of 2730 Circle Dr., died Monday morning in Durham Regional Hospital. He was born in Baltimore, MD, the son of the late Henry Fostel. Mr. Fostel graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic and went on to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as a software engineer at Intermetrics, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. He then taught Computer Science at N.C. State University in Raleigh.

One of the best-kept secrets about New York is that, about an hour north of the Big Apple, the state is a mostly rural and often unsophisticated place. Case in point: I live near an upstate village where, shopping in our only supermarket, I once asked a clerk where the artichoke hearts were hiding. She looked puzzled for a moment before her face brightened and she asked, "Have you checked the meat department?" So in 1997, it might have come as a surprise when the leading "alternative" magazine, Utne Reader, put upstate Ithaca at the top of its list of the 10 most enlightened towns in the United States.

Gregg Kellett did not have a burning desire to play football at Marshall University. But the Marshall recruiters said the magic word, "fullback," to the former Oakland Mills standout, and no other Division 1-A school was interested. So it was off to Huntington, W.Va., and an outstanding collegiate football career with the Thundering Herd of the Mid-American Conference. Now, the 6-foot-3, 260-pound Kellett, who was converted to a tight end by Marshall, waits on that doorstep to see which NFL team invites him in next April.

Chrissi Czajkowski scored a goal and had one assist to lead Goucher College to a 3-0 field hockey win over host Widener yesterday.* Susquehanna 1, Western Maryland 0: Tracey Corrigan scored the only goal as Susquehanna (6-1) defeated Western Maryland (1-4) in a non-conference game.* Ithaca 4, Salisbury 0: Ithaca outshot Salisbury 32-9 as the Sea Gulls were defeated for only the second time this year.Cross country* Retriever Invitational: The UMBC women and Drexel men won the team championships at yesterday's Retriever Invitational at UMBC.

A box of old photographs, a file of crumpled papers and a sense of time running out sometimes converge in a man's life. Then there is no option. An advertising executive gives up golf to study history; a retired mechanic goes to inspect gravestones; a graying car dealer disappears into a library. It happened to Silas Ayer about 15 years ago. Sometime on the passage through middle age, Silas realized he had no one left -- no father, no mother, no sibling -- to remind him of his family's past.

Thanks in great part to Mike Styczynski, Ithaca College has established itself as one of the top NCAA Division III cross country programs in the nation these days. Styczynski, a junior from River Hill in Howard County, has been the top finisher for the Bombers in nine consecutive races since the start of his sophomore year at the upstate New York school. To accent his success even more, Styczynski has led all Ithaca runners across the finish line in 14 of the 17 meets he has participated in since he walked on campus.