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At the beginning of the season, Adam McQuigg was a second-team defenseman. Yesterday, in Glenelg's first trip to the state semifinals, the 6-foot-5 converted attackman scored four goals in a 13-4 Class 1A-2A victory over Kent at UMBC. It was Glenelg's sixth straight win.The Gladiators will play Towson, a 6-5 winner over Southern-AA last night, for the state championshp at 6 p.m. Wednesday at UMBCConner Pett, who is headed to Notre Dame and leads the team with 55 goals, scored three goals and had four assists in the role of Glenelg's other dominant offensive player against Kent (13-3)

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A year later, Mike Davis is safe, Indiana is back, and Kent State is still getting intimate with the big boys in the NCAA tournament. Under a theme of rematch and possible revenge, Indiana and Kent State will renew hostilities in the South Regional championship game tonight at Rupp Arena. And since when is a matchup between the Big Ten and the Mid-American Conference - a fifth seed and a 10th seed, respectively, at that - met with this kind of hoopla? Well, since the winner advances to Atlanta for the NCAA's Holy Grail of basketball, the Final Four.

After an eight-minute feeling-out period, Navy and Kent got down to the task of playing football last night and defense turned out to be a minute part of the process.Behind the rushes of quarterback Steve Holley and fullbacks Irv Dingle and Matt Harden, Navy picked up 467 yards on the ground while thumping the Golden Flashes, 38-24, and squaring its record at 1-1.Kent, in no way a match for the Mids moving the ball overland, was nonetheless a worthy opponent with its passing. The visitors moved the ball 359 yards through the air as quarterback Jose Davis hit 26 of 43 throws.

They're just boys -- freshmen Jason Jacovsky and Mike Kessler of Owings Mills. But yesterday they showed the poise of men in key bouts at Lansdowne, helping the Eagles earn the Class 2A-1A state dual-meet title with a 36-25 victory over defending champion Kent County High. Kessler (125 pounds) raised his record to 32-0 with a 9-7 victory over former state champion Brian Fox, and Jacovsky (103) put the finishing touches on the first dual-meet state title for fourth-ranked Owings Mills (23-1)

Eastern Tech's Trent Dixon edged Lansdowne's Shawn Sims, 6-4, to become his school's first two-time state wrestling champion, and teammate James Davis won his first state title to lead the Mavericks to a surprise runner-up finish to repeat Class 2A-1A tournament champion Kent yesterday at Western Maryland College in Westminster. The Mavericks also got a runner-up effort from Chris Clark (103) and a fourth-place finish from John Delair (189), but Kent crowned repeat champion Brian Fox (119)

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Giants might have preferred winning the World Series with a four-game sweep, but the fact the series will go at least six games could actually help them retain free-agent second baseman Jeff Kent. Giants owner Peter Magowan said yesterday that the team's playoff revenue would have been about $3 million had the World Series ended after four games. If it goes seven games, that amount will be closer to $9 million, he said, describing a scale that escalates as television ratings increase toward the end of a long series.

The Baltimore contracting firm tied to a federal investigation of former state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell installed the plumbing and ventilation systems in the former senator's half-million-dollar Baltimore County home, records show. Poole and Kent Co. received a plumbing and ventilation permit for Bromwell's residence in the 9300 block of Ravenridge Road a little more than three years ago, according to county building permits. The home has an assessed value of $566,250. But records filed with the State Ethics Commission show that Bromwell disclosed in May for the first time that he owed the firm money for its services.

KENT, Ohio -- It's a brilliant day on campus: the sky is bright, the landscape green, the air a little chillier than you'd like. As you head for the memorial on the hill, you zip your jacket to the top. Here in northeastern Ohio, spring just can't make up its mind to settle in. But you're here to remember, not take leisure. And as anyone at Kent State University can tell you, remembering brings anything but comfort. Thirty years ago today, 28 members of the Ohio National Guard, called to this campus by Gov. James Rhodes, opened fire on a crowd of unarmed students, killing four and wounding nine.

The FBI is investigating former Baltimore County state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell, head of the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund, in an inquiry that law enforcement sources say centers on Bromwell's relationship with a construction company that has participated in high-profile state projects. Federal investigators asked the Maryland General Assembly last month for a list of staff members who worked for the Democratic senator between 1998 and 2002, the most visible step to date in a case that has been quietly proceeding for months.

SAN DIEGO - Just when it looked as if No. 4 seed Indiana would end its string of early disappointments in the NCAA tournament, Trevor Huffman stepped in. The junior guard scored 19 of his team-high 23 points in the second half, helping No. 13 seed Kent overcome a 12-point deficit in the second half for a 77-73 victory last night in an NCAA West Regional first-round game. Kent State will face Cincinnati tomorrow in the second round. In the final five minutes, Huffman - whose uncle, Shoes Huffman, played on the 1979 NCAA championship team at Michigan State - made a pair of critical and unlikely shots as the Golden Flashes (24-9)