Lancers

Once Linganore's football team gets into the state final, it doesn't lose. In a showdown of undefeated teams, the Lancers won their fifth state championship in their fifth trip to the title game with a 31-14 victory over Huntingtown to cap a 14-0 season Saturday night at M&T Bank Stadium. Only two teams finished as undefeated state champions, both from Frederick County - Linganore and Class 1A winner Catoctin. In bouncing back from last season's loss in the state 4A final, the Lancers' Kevin Myers and Zach Zwinak scored two touchdowns each.

NEW MARKET - -Hereford did a good job of staying close to host Linganore in the first half of Friday's Class 3A state semifinal. Then came "the gust." The divine wind helped the Lancers (13-0) build an insurmountable lead en route to a 41-9 victory over the visiting, seventh-ranked Bulls (10-2). The victory earns the Lancers a date with Huntingtown, which beat River Hill, 10-7, in the other semifinal, in the 3A state championship at M&T Bank Stadium at 7 p.m. next Saturday. Zack Zwinak rushed for 154 yards on 13 carries to pace the Lancers.

Hereford did a good job of staying close to host Linganore in the first half of Friday's Class 3A state semifinal. Then came "the gust." The divine wind helped the Lancers (13-0) build an insurmountable lead en route to a 41-9 victory over the visiting, seventh-ranked Bulls (10-2). The victory earns the Lancers a date with Huntingtown, which beat River Hill, 10-7, in the other semifinal, in the 3A state championship at M&T Bank Stadium at 7 p.m. next Saturday. Zack Zwinak rushed for 154 yards on 13 carries to pace the Lancers.

Toni Kennedy scored a career- high 24 points to lead the UMES women to a 77-67 victory over Gardner-Webb in the consolation game of the Lancer Invitational at Longwood College yesterday. Jamila Griffith added 19 points and eight rebounds for UMES (1-1), which built an 11-point halftime lead despite early foul trouble for Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference preseason first-team selection Kristi Veltkamp. The Lady Hawks held off a late run by Gardner-Webb (0-2), which got back within 71-66 after a 6-1 run. Veltkamp finished with 14 points.

Among the many deliberate steps retired Baltimore Circuit Judge Robert I.H. Hammerman took before ending his life a year ago yesterday was to try to make sure his most treasured legacy would survive him. But a year later, the Lancers Club, the legendary 59-year-old leadership club for Baltimore youth that Hammerman founded and nurtured until his death, is no more. Its final gathering took place months ago, a somber evening attended by current and former members and parents. "Ending the Lancers was the appropriate thing to do," said 71-year-old Jerry Sachs, one of the club's founding members.

THE SPIRITUAL children of Judge Robert I.H. Hammerman gathered in the cold yesterday to bid him farewell, and found he had controlled his dying as meticulously as he controlled his courtroom, or his connection to generations of Baltimore youngsters, or his 76 years of life. On a chilly, sun-dappled morning at the Chizuk Amuno Cemetery three days after a despondent Hammerman shot himself to death, the longest-serving trial jurist in Maryland history was buried beneath a cluster of barren trees, surrounded by several hundred mourners whose lives he touched through the city's courts, and Baltimore City College, and the Lancers Club.

MONROVIA - Trisha Repsher knows how to keep a good thing going. So when the Westminster junior's decision to take a day off before the Run from the Lion's Den Invitational Wednesday led to the individual title, she decided to do the same thing for yesterday's Lancer Invitational. The formula worked again as Repsher ran away with the championship at Kemptown Park in Frederick County. The No. 2 Dulaney girls squad easily grabbed the team crown, while No. 3 Liberty took the boys title. Frederick's Morgan Sowell claimed the boys championship.

Eric Yeroshefsky scored his 10th rushing touchdown of the year, quarterback Zach Hayes threw his 20th touchdown pass and ran for a 79-yard touchdown in the third quarter and Jon Moravec made his 14th scoring reception as Linganore of Frederick County routed Lackey of Charles County, 28-0, last night for the Class 3A state title at M&T Bank Stadium. Scott Kent registered his ninth sack and Erik Noll intercepted a pass at his team's 5-yard line and disrupted two others in the end zone as the Lancers (13-1)

By all rights, it should've been a blowout. Facing Central Maryland Conference power Linganore last night, the host Westminster girls committed 35 turnovers and were out-rebounded on the offensive end 19-1. Even so, it took a 10-0 Lancers run over the final 3:36 to send the Owls to a 47-36 loss last night in their final regular-season basketball game. "You can't fault the hustle. I think we just kind of ran out of gas a little bit toward the end," Westminster coach Sue Conklin said. "It was almost as if we had worked so hard to get back into it, then we took a breath and they took [advantage]

Last night, Dundalk capped a record-setting season by playing host to its first-ever state football playoff game. Unfortunately for the Owls, it wasn't the game they wanted to play. Linganore's Jon Moravec accounted for 112 all-purpose yards, and Zack Hayes threw for three touchdowns as the Lancers (9-2) defeated the Owls, 52-14, in a Class 3A state quarterfinal at CCBC-Dundalk. Linganore running back Matt Castor also had 78 yards on 11 carries for the Lancers. Jaried Rose had 91 yards rushing on 14 carries and scored a touchdown to lead Dundalk (9-2)