Junior Varsity

At Brunswick Columbia the first half of the 1994-95 Young American Bowling Alliance season is finished.Brad Fox, a coach with the Saturday morning youth league, reports that the young tenpin bowlers have set some impressive marks.Junior Varsity Team 1 -- Derek Fox, Jason Turnbull, Chris Miller, Chrystal Sutherland and Brandon Fox -- is in first place by seven games.Sutherland led the girls with a 127 average.Sutherland, 12, lives in Columbia. The seventh-grader at Bethel Christian Academy began throwing a tenpin ball when she was 4; she has a career-high game and set of 205 and 499, respectively.

Otis B. Read III, a Boys' Latin School teacher and coach and former head of its middle school, died of cancer Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 75 and lived in Mays Chapel in Timonium. Born in Ipswich, Mass., he was the son of a Baptist minister who founded Open Bible Tabernacle in Hamilton and a homemaker. He came to Boys' Latin as a 10th-grader and graduated from the school in 1955. While there, he learned to play lacrosse. He then earned a degree at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was a member of the 1957 national championship lacrosse team.

Whether it be swimming, sailing, boating or water polo, one thing isfor certain -- Hampstead's Tim Beatty loves to make a splash."I've been around water all my life," said Beatty, a 15-year-old sophomore junior varsity swimmer at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, Baltimore County. "I first started swimming for the Carroll County Y Piranhas team when I was 5 years old."Beatty apparently loves to swim, based on the the daily regimen he must maintain to swim for Calvert Hall. An ordinary weekday for himduring the winter swim season goes something like this:He wakes up around 5:15 a.m. and leaves the house around 6.After a 35-minute car pool ride to school, swim practice begins at 7 and lasts for an hour.

A promising boys basketball season is upon us, so let's take a closer look at some of the finest teams in the area and what we can expect from each. Our detailed daily roll of the area's top five teams concludes today with No. 1. Here is a look at our No. 5 team, the Edmondson Red Storm . Here is a look at our No. 4 team, the John Carroll Patriots . Here is a look at our No. 3 team, the St. Frances Panthers . Here is a look at our No. 2 team, the Dunbar Poets . 1. Mount St. Joseph Coach: Pat Clatchey Last season: 28-8, ranked No. 3 Postseason:  BCL champion; MIAA A finalist Outlook:  With plenty of talented boys basketball teams in the area, arguments could be made for some others to stake claim to the top spot at the start of the season.  But no team has a more settled situation than Mount St. Joseph, which captured the Baltimore Catholic League title and reached the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference title game last season, and brings most of their players back.   It starts in the backcourt with the All-Metro tandem of Kameron Williams (also the BCL Player of the Year)

Nancy Shea, a former Baltimore Sun All-Metro coach of the Year, will be Atholton's varsity girls soccer coach next fall. Shea, 48, coached the Raiders junior varsity team last season and replaces Chuck Teal as the varsity coach. She was the Oakland Mills girls varsity coach for two years, and her Scorpions team won a state title in 1992. Atholton posted a 7-5-3 record last season, and is considered an up-and-coming program. The Raiders lost in the region semifinals to Hammond on penalty kicks, after upsetting Glenelg in the playoffs.

Want your daughters to play for the best field hockey team in the state?Move them to Severna Park at an early age, enroll them in as many camps as possible and start showing up at all the Severna Park High games to get indoctrinated into a program that thrives on a seemingly endless succession of talented sister acts.Everything else should fall into place. It usually does for the No. 1 Falcons, who have won 47 straight games, three consecutive state titles and have not lost since the last regular-season game of 1992.

The phone call that came three years ago wasn't a surprise to Glenelg boys lacrosse coach Josh Hatmaker. He was the Gladiators' junior varsity coach at the time, and his prized freshman defender, Kyle Cottrell, was in demand. "It was midway through the season and I'm driving to practice when [former varsity coach] Mike Williams calls: `Hat, somebody got hurt - I gotta pull Kyle up,' " Hatmaker recalled. Cottrell soon found himself in the starting lineup and never left, enjoying a solid four-year career that was highlighted by the Gladiators' county championship season this spring.

Chuck Struhar, the Long Reach athletic director since the school opened in 1996, is taking over the Lightning's varsity softball team again this spring after a one-year hiatus. "I'm not really coming back beause I coached the junior varsity last season after four years of coaching the varsity," Struhar said. The varsity opening was created because Dale Harriman, last year's coach, took a job in the central office at the board of education. Struhar had coached the varsity at Long Reach for four seasons before stepping back.

Preparing to take on his opponent from visiting McDonogh, Nikos Daley was unaware he was about to face Cory Haugh, the same wrestler who had pinned him in less than a minute during a previous match. Loyola High School's junior varsity coach, Steve Thompson, escorted Daley to the center of the mat for the neutral, standing start. The referee motioned the McDonogh wrestler forward and instructed both boys to touch palms, leaning closer to Daley so he was sure to understand what was said.

The play happened so quickly, it could easily have been missed. But it showed why Bel Air sophomore guard Vernon Joines has become so valuable this season. Bel Air was trailing by two points late in a recent game with C. Milton Wright when Joines reached out and intercepted an inbounds pass. He then drove to the basket, made a layup and got fouled. Joines made the free throw, and the three-point play gave the Bobcats the lead for good. That play was Joines' season in microcosm. He is constantly diving for loose balls, deflecting passes, poking away dribbles - doing something that's bothering other teams.

A buzz spread among the North Carroll field hockey players as they gathered just inside the gate to their playing field and looked toward the parking lot. "Is she here? Is she coming?" They're all dressed in black shirts with the words "Team Heinle" printed across their backs. Each letter in "Heinle" has a word descending from it - Hope. Enthusiastic. Inspiring. Noble. Love. Extraordinary. All words that apply to Laura Heinle, the North Carroll varsity assistant coach who has coached most of them since they reached the school's junior varsity squad and who is now recovering from bone cancer.

UPDATE (10:30 p.m.): The player was discharged from Shock Trauma and Old Mill athletic director Craig White saw him and his father as they arrived at school to get the family car. An Old Mill junior varsity football player was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center by Maryland State Police helicopter Friday afternoon after an accident during warmups for the Patriots' first junior varsity game of the season in Millersville. Old Mill athletic director Craig White said the player sustained a neck or head injury during a “freak accident” in warmups.

The John Carroll boys basketball team is teaming up with St. Margaret School to raise money for the American Heart Association.  When the Patriots take on Calvert Hall Friday - junior varsity is set for 5:15 p.m. with the varsity to follow at 7 - admission will be waived in lieu of a donation with all proceeds going to the AHA.  During halftime of the varsity game, the St. Margaret cheerleaders will perform and there will be a contest for...

A packed gym is a definite Friday at Dunbar when the No. 2 Poets boys basketball team plays host to No. 1 Patterson.  Game time is set for 5:15 p.m., and anyone interested in attending should buy tickets in advance and plan to arrive much earlier. Dunbar coach Cyrus Jones said 1,000 tickets will be sold to reach the gym's capacity and people will be turned away after that. Tickets are on sale now at both Dunbar and Patterson.  The junior varsity game is set for 3:45 p.m., so it's likely the line will begin to form before that game.

A sexual encounter involving a girl and several members of a Baltimore County junior varsity boys football team has led to the cancellation of the team's Friday game and concern among parents, a school district official said Thursday. The incident — involving players and a female student at Essex's Kenwood High School — took place on school property and was consensual, according to district officials. School officials decided that, because of the encounter, the Kenwood Bluebirds junior varsity team should forfeit its game against Baltimore's Eastern Technical High School, said Phyllis Reese, spokeswoman for Baltimore County schools.

In his first season as a starter on varsity, Old Mill's 119-pound junior Felipe Aleman will tell you there's pressure that comes with wrestling for such a storied, successful program. He quickly adds that it's a fun kind of pressure that provides him with a great challenge. During his freshman year, when he wrestled on junior varsity, the Patriots captured their most recent state title. With the Patriots ranked fifth in the area and boasting a 13-1 record, this could be the year Aleman shares a varsity title.

St. Paul's School for Boys has canceled its varsity lacrosse season and expelled a player who videotaped himself having sex with a girl and showed the tape to his teammates, the school's headmaster announced yesterday. In addition, eight players were removed from the junior varsity lacrosse team for the remainder of the season, according to a written statement from the headmaster, Robert W. Hallett. Disciplinary action for three other students has been delayed pending investigation, he said.

North County High School's junior varsity cheerleading squad attended the National Cheerleaders Association's Camp earlier this month at UMBC.The camp was attended by 380 cheerleaders from more than 30 squads. North County brought home two "Superior" ribbons, one "Excellent" ribbon, the NCA "Game Day Award," and an NCA "Spirit Stick," which goes to teams that show outstanding sportsmanship, spirit and enthusiasm.Chris Moseley, captain of North County's varsity cheerleading squad, attended the camp with the junior varsity team and was among eight campers chosen as an NCA All-American Cheerleader.

The Severna Park wrestling team put an exclamation point on its strong start with an impressive tri-match sweep over county rivals South River and Broadneck last week. A big key to the Falcons' 6-0 record: Four seniors that stuck with wrestling. Tony Seidel (7-2 at 285 pounds), Tyler Ferris (6-1, 189), Nick Wadsworth (6-2, 152) and Eric DiBlasi (4-2, 145) all paid their dues on junior varsity last year and are making the most of their first taste of varsity. "All of those kids have been with the program three or four years and now they're getting their chance," Severna Park coach Paul Joyce said.

Talk about learning on the job: South River senior Kelly Chapman - who was born in Alaska and has lived in Hawaii, Kansas and Korea among other places as part of a military family - had never even heard of field hockey until she moved to the area in the eighth grade. So after a two-year introduction on the junior varsity and then her junior season on varsity, Chapman is a team captain this fall and the only returning starter on defense. Chapman has enjoyed the challenge of leading the Seahawks to another promising season, but that's not all she does at South River.