Langhorne

COLLEGE PARK - If the Maryland women's basketball team was looking for a carefree tuneup before the start of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Northern Colorado proved to be quite unaccommodating. The Bears, who average eight three-pointers a game, connected on a season-best 16 shots from behind the three-point line, but the No. 25 Terps relied on freshman center Crystal Langhorne to escape with an 87-79 victory before 2,437 at Comcast Center last night. Northern Colorado (10-15)

Freshman Crystal Langhorne joined the Maryland women's basketball team as the top-ranked power forward in the nation and a first-team McDonald's, Parade, and Street & Smith's selection. Those accolades, however, didn't mean much during the Terps' second game of the season. Langhorne, a 6-foot-3 center from Willingboro, N.J., was starting her first home game against Siena at Comcast Center . But she was faring badly on the defensive end of the court. Maryland coach Brenda Frese, displeased with what she would later call Langhorne's "matador defense," pulled the freshman and played her for just 20 minutes in the Terps' 73-52 win. "I wasn't playing defense, and she took me out," recalled Langhorne, who posted six points, three rebounds and three turnovers in one of her shortest outings of the year.

COLLEGE PARK - The Maryland women's basketball team didn't breathe easy until the final buzzer sounded. Virginia freshman guard Takisha Granberry couldn't corral a loose ball to take a potential game-tying three-point attempt with 1.5 seconds left, and the No. 16 Terps managed to give 4,742 fans a 63-60 win at the Comcast Center last night. Maryland (13-3 overall, 3-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) improved to 9-0 at home and followed a road loss with a victory at home for the second time this season.

COLLEGE PARK - Maryland freshman center Crystal Langhorne put on a dominating performance last night against Massachusetts. Langhorne nearly outscored the Minutewomen by herself in the first half and finished with 26 points and 10 rebounds. But No. 17 Maryland needed some key last-minute free throws from Shay Doron and Anesia Smith to hold off a late UMass run and escape with a 67-63 victory in the first round of the Terrapin Classic at Comcast Center. Maryland (9-1) ended UMass' six-game winning streak, stretching its run to seven.

MARYLAND Coach: Brenda Frese, third season at Maryland (28-31) Affiliation: Atlantic Coast Conference 2003-04 record: 18-13 (8-8 ACC) Arena: Comcast Center (17,950) Consensus ACC favorite: North Carolina Consensus Maryland prediction: Third Starters lost: Two Outlook: Expectations have not been this high in College Park for nearly a decade, and with good reason. Maryland has one of the youngest squads in the league and should have one of its most talented groups, thanks largely to an all-star four-player recruiting class, led by 6-3 forward/center Crystal Langhorne, widely considered to be the top post player entering the collegiate ranks.

More than four years after an aspiring Johns Hopkins graduate student was fatally shot, his family confronted his killer in a Baltimore courtroom yesterday -- and neither side held back their hate."

A mother's relentless hunt for justice moved into a Baltimore courtroom yesterday, where a Maine woman finally got her chance to see the man accused of killing her son in a 1993 mugging."

Cryhten Langhorne led all scorers with 30 points as UMES cruised to a 96-76 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference win yesterday over North Carolina A&T.Langhorne made 14 of 22 shots -- including two of four three-pointers -- as the host Retrievers shot well over 64 percent (35-for-54) for the game. UMES made 17 of 25 baskets in the opening half to take a 51-33 lead at halftime.Jeremy Jones chipped in 16 points for the Retrievers and Williams Wright had 15 points, 12 rebounds and six assists.Florida A&M 74, Morgan State 73: Jerome James tipped in his own miss at the buzzer to lift the host Rattlers in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game.

ST. LOUIS -- Cryhten Langhorne scored a game-high 23 points and had nine rebounds but Maryland-Eastern Shore lost its season opener, 84-68, to Saint Louis last night.Langhorne shot 8-for-17, including two three-pointers.Pub Date: 11/16/97

Dr. Justinus Gould, 95, counsel to House committeeDr. Justinus Gould, who was chief counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Small Business, died of heart failure Tuesday at his Mount Washington home. He was 95.Mr. Gould, whose legal career lasted nearly 50 years, joined the House panel in 1953 and retired in 1976.Previously, he had a private practice in Baltimore and was a police magistrate at large, then was named a special assistant in the U.S. Department of Justice criminal division in 1948.