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COLLEGE PARK -- By the time last night's game reached sudden-death overtime, Maryland goalie Alex Kahoe had a pretty good idea how Princeton's women's lacrosse team would try to score.All night long, Princeton's Tice Burke looked to feed her teammates from behind the crease, but on the critical play of the game, Kahoe picked off Burke's pass intended for Julie Shaner. Terrapins teammate Quinn Carney turned Kahoe's interception into a transition goal 2: 31 into sudden death to give the No. 1 Terps an 8-7 win over No. 6 Princeton at Ludwig Field.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The Maryland women's lacrosse team seemed vulnerable for almost a day.Less than 24 hours after the Terrapins had their worst second-half performance of the season, top-ranked Maryland reverted to form, saving its best for last to run away with a 13-5 victory over No. 2 Virginia and capture the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship yesterday.The Terrapins (15-0), winners of 23 straight, put together another patented second-half run, overwhelming the Cavaliers with an 8-2 spurt in the final 28: 10. It was only Saturday that Maryland received its biggest scare of the season when it allowed North Carolina to score the final seven goals in regulation before edging the Tar Heels, 19-17, in overtime.

COLLEGE PARK -- In the first six minutes yesterday, Maryland goalie Alex Kahoe showed No. 15 William and Mary just how tough it would be to get past the No. 1 Terrapins.Kahoe made four saves, including a split-second deflection of a back-handed shot, to set the tone for a 14-4 victory over the Tribe at Ludwig Field. The junior All-American finished with 13 saves, none of them easy, as the Terps improved to 14-0."Alex is always a huge difference," said Terps defensive midfielder Courtney Martinez.

University of Maryland goalie Alex Kahoe won the mental and physical games early yesterday, and then led her teammates to a fourth straight national championship as Maryland defeated Virginia, 11-5, in the Division I finals at UMBC Stadium.Kahoe, a sophomore from Villanova, Pa., finished with 21 saves, but set the tone early when Virginia dominated the tempo with a relentless attack that fired most of the Cavaliers' 14 first-half shots in the first 10 minutes of the game.In contrast, Maryland's offense was erratic for most of the first half, and the Terps didn't get a second shot off until there were 20 minutes, 29 seconds left in the first half.

As time ran out on yesterday's NCAA Division I women's lacrosse championship, Maryland fans began to chant, "Num-ber Four! Num-ber Four!""Num-ber Four" meant that the Terps were No. 1.Maryland won its fourth straight Division I title with an impressive, 11-5 victory over top-ranked Virginia at UMBC Stadium before 3,109, the second-largest crowd to see an NCAA women's lacrosse final.Cathy Nelson scored four goals and was named the Division I tournament's Most Outstanding Player, but every Maryland player was critical to the victory -- the Terps' fifth national title in seven years and their seventh overall.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Barely into her first final four, Maryland goalie Alex Kahoe began writing her own page in the Terps women's lacrosse record book.Kahoe's sensational first-half performance offset a slow start yesterday for the Terrapins' attack and put Maryland in position to beat Temple, 9-6, in an NCAA Division I semifinal.In the first 14 minutes, the redshirt freshman made three point-blank saves among her first six stops. The sixth, her second snuff within 22 seconds left, was the 213th save of her young career, breaking a Maryland record for saves in a single season.

The view from Alex Kahoe's crease is clear.There is no past here. No Maryland women's lacrosse tradition. No national championship. No record-breaking winning streak.Only the moment. One goalie vs. one ball.Eight meters away, the Virginia player sets up for a free-position shot. With 25 seconds remaining in the game, Maryland leads 6-5. Kahoe, a redshirt freshman from Villanova, Pa., faces the biggest play of her first college season."Afterward, people were saying, 'Oh, my God, Alex, what were you thinking?

WASHINGTON -- A senior FBI executive pleaded guilty yesterday to destroying an internal report critical of the agency's performance in a 1992 standoff with a white separatist at his remote Idaho cabin.The official, E. Michael Kahoe, who was chief of the violent crime and major offenders' section at the bureau's headquarters, admitted to a single felony count of obstruction of justice, an offense punishable by a maximum term of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of U.S. District Court postponed sentencing pending Kahoe's cooperation with prosecutors, who are investigating whether Kahoe's superiors at the agency sought to conceal their actions after the Idaho confrontation.

The People's Counsel Citizen's Advisory Board is one of those government-bred entities with a name that makes the eyes glaze over and thespirit yawn.Despite its dull name and relative obscurity, the seven-member all-volunteer board is enormously important. It decides whether citizens will get free legal representation to fight proposed projects in their neighborhoods -- be they communications towers or a shelter for abused children.The problem is that the board operates without any written guidelines to help determine which cases should be fought and which should be passed up by People's Counsel Robert F. Kahoe Jr. This has led to some recent decisions in which seemingly similar cases were treated differently.

In July 1989, a group of Churchville residents began rallying efforts to fight a 500-foot communications tower proposed near the Harford County Airpark.A year later, a second group of residents near Monkton began organizing an offensive to defeat plans by Bell Atlantic Mobile Corp. to build a 280-foot communications tower near the historic My Ladys Manor.As both cases proceeded through the county zoning review process,residents argued that the towers would conflict with the historic character of their communities, lower property values, and create health and safety hazards.