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Mary Anne Kirsch scored 15 as host Loyola (8-15, 5-6) topped Siena, 64-54, in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball game yesterday.The Greyhounds moved to within one-half game of the third-place Saints (11-13, 6-6). Jina Mosley recorded her first career double-double with 11 points and a career-best 11 rebounds.Pub Date: 2/17/97

Freshman Tina Dalmau's two free throws with six seconds left lifted Navy to a 63-62 victory last night, dealing Holy Cross its first Patriot League loss.Becky Dowling scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead Navy (11-10, 7-3). Kathy Courtney led Holy Cross (13-7, 9-1) with 26 points.* Baltimore CCC 103, Cecil CC 16: Sondray Burnham scored 24 to lead visiting Baltimore City Community College (11-8) past Cecil Community College.* Frederick CC 99, Catonsville CC 42: Theresa Arnette led all scorers with 26 points, leading Frederick CC (22-1)

It is a long swim to Binghamton, N.Y., but the determined travelers are getting closer.American shad -- that slightly oily, bony fish once as popular as the blue crab -- is making a comeback in a portion of its 500 miles of historic spawning ground along the Susquehanna River.With the completion this spring of a $12 million fish lift -- the equivalent of an elevator -- at the Conowingo Dam, the number of the prized species to cross the 100-foot-tall structure doubled to 27,227 since the last spawning season.

For vacation this year, Peter Heumann is taking his family to Copper Mountain in Colorado during the jam-packed holiday period between Christmas and New Year's, when skiers can easily end up waiting in line for 20 minutes or more just to get on the lift. But Heumann, his wife and 15-year-old-daughter won't be among them. Instead, the family will swish past the masses to a separate lift line designated for Beeline Advantage pass holders - a privilege that costs $20 a day in addition to regular lift tickets.

The historic U.S. Custom House at Gay and Lombard streets is slated to undergo an $11 million face lift starting late next year, its first major renovation in more than a decade.FTC The architectural firm of D'Aleo Inc. and the Philadelphia-based preservation architect Hyman Myers have been hired to handle design work for the project, which involves upgrading spaces throughout the 1908 landmark. "The goal is to restore the building as much as possible and bring it up to code," said Trudy Wang, project manager for the Philadelphia office of the General Services Administration, which issued the contract for the work.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Depending on who's telling the story, either Kent Hrbek has been watching too much professional wrestling or Ron Gant is not telling the whole truth.Hrbek appeared to lift Gant off of first base in the third inning of last night's second game of the World Series, but umpire Drew Coble ruled that the Atlanta Braves outfielder fell off all by himself.The play turned out to be a pick-me-up for the Minnesota Twins, who escaped from a first-and-third jam and went on to score a dramatic 3-2 victory at the Metrodome.

BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's Congress approved an amendment to the Constitution late Tuesday that would permit President Alvaro Uribe, the Bush administration's most reliable ally in Latin America, to run for re-election in 2006. The main article in the five-point amendment, approved by a vote of 113-16, lifts the ban on re-election, leaving it up to the country's highest court to decide if the change is constitutional. Political analysts believe the Constitutional Court would be likely to approve the change after some debate.

Katie Warfield can barely keep the grin off her face. The 70-year-old can hardly recognize her little cinder-block home -- long suffering a leaky roof, faulty plumbing, winter drafts and a host of other ills.In an effort resembling a barn-raising, some 50 volunteers converged on the Perryman home last week and gave it a face lift -- indoors and out -- that surpassed Mrs. Warfield's wildest dreams."It's so beautiful," she said. "I didn't know it could turn out to be so beautiful, with what they had to work with."

The four-ton motorized lift Ronald Tognocchi rode to his death, the UNO-33E, was dangerous from the start, says a lawyer representing Tognocchi's family in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.Members of the victim's family "don't want sympathy," the lawyer, Daniel M. Clements, told a Baltimore Circuit Court jury in closing arguments yesterday. "They want a verdict that says you don't build machines like this and get away with it."But Robert Powell, attorney for the manufacturer, argued that Tognocchi, 45, who was investigating a previous accident on the same lift when he died, voluntarily assumed a risk when he set out to "re-create" the accident.

Baltimore's popular Lexington Market, which has sold produce and meats at the same downtown spot for more than two centuries, is set to receive a $3.5 million face lift in the coming months. Larger windows, wider entrances and new stalls, signs and lights are part of the plan, which is scheduled to receive the go-ahead from the city's Board of Estimates today. The market's orange-and-red awnings would be torn down and replaced with a lattice of iron girders and red awnings. Funding for the project would be provided by a combination of loans and state grants.