Pikesville

Lacrosse Pikesville alum Uhlfelder wins top IWLCA honor Occidental's Michele Uhlfelder (Pikesville) was named West Region Coach of the Year by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association on Tuesday after building the Tigers into a national contender in just three years. Uhlfelder led Occidental to a 13-4 overall record, its first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship game and its first NCAA Division III playoff appearance in the program's third season.

Maury Sall Pikesville, junior Pikesville never has been a track power, but junior Maury Sall helped the Panthers win their first state title this winter. Sall won the 500 and 800, and he finished second in the 300 to help coach Adam Hittner's Panthers edge Boonsboro, 110-103, for the Class 1A state championship at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex last month. Sall anchored Pikesville's 1,600 relay team that won the meet's final event and clinched the team title.

Baltimore County police were searching for at least one suspect in the assault on an 18-year-old woman that led to a barricade Wednesday around a Pikesville house owned by a suspected religious cult leader. A spokesman for the department said police were called to the 3700 block of Michelle Way about 10 p.m. Tuesday for a serious assault. They found the woman suffering from undisclosed injuries, and she was taken to an area hospital. Her condition, originally listed as critical, has been upgraded to serious, authorities said Thursday.

Michael Razumovsky had spent his first two years on the Pikesville tennis team playing doubles. He wanted to play singles and finally got his shot this year. It's fair to say that everything worked out pretty well. The junior rolled to a 17-0 record and gave Pikesville its first state champion. He beat Dukyoung Park from Blair, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) in the state final last weekend at College Park. Razumovsky also won the Baltimore County and District VI championships and came into the state tournament as the No. 2 seed.

The Century and Pikesville boys took similar paths to indoor track and field state titles Monday afternoon at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex. The two teams relied on depth and balance to score throughout the meet. That's a big reason No. 2 Century won its second state title in three years and why the Panthers scored their first in school history. Pikesville scored in 12 of the 13 events and finished with 110 points, outlasting Boonsboro (102) to earn the Class 1A state crown.

A 35-year-old Pikesville man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Tuesday for conspiring to deal drugs and to commit a string of armed robberies at fast food chains and a Dollar Tree store, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Brian Johnson, 35, and others robbed two McDonald's and a Wendy's in Baltimore County in December 2009 and a Burger King and Dollar Tree store in the city that month, netting about $1,280, according to prosecutors. Johnson also admitted conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, crack and marijuana in the city from 1996 to 2009.

The 22-year-old man whom Baltimore County police suspect of being involved in a stabbing on Saturday turned himself in to the Pikesville Precinct Tuesday afternoon, a department spokesman said. Kedric Lamont Seay, and another suspect, Mariah Morgan, 19, identified by police as Seay's girlfriend, are in custody. Morgan has been charged with attempted murder, armed carjacking and other counts. She is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center. Police spokesman Lt. Robert McCullough said Seay will be charged with assault with intent to murder and carjacking.

The live-in grandson of a slain elderly couple from Pikesville has been named a suspect after Baltimore County detectives located the 31-year-old in Oklahoma. Police said Matthew Long lived with his grandparents, Vaughn and Marjorie Pepper, who were found dead Monday in their Sudbrook Park home. Authorities in Oklahoma alerted Baltimore County homicide detectives when Long was found in need of medical treatment. Baltimore County police had issued a missing-person alert on Long, which prompted Oklahoma authorities to contact Baltimore County.

Ethel Kirschman, a homemaker and theater buff, died Saturday of emphysema at her Pikesville home. She was 95 and had lived in Pikesville for 52 years. Born and raised in Detroit, Ethel Rubiner earned her bachelor's degree in 1928 from the University of Wisconsin. Then she returned to Detroit and worked as a secretary in the Wayne County clerk's office. When asked to run for election as delegate to her county's Democratic convention in 1936, she reluctantly agreed -- and won. "What did I know about politics?"

Chesapeake snatched away Pikesville's chances for an upset win yesterday -- twice.The Bayhawks' Dave Crichard intercepted a Jay Glickson pass in the Chesapeake end zone near the end of the first half, and Jermaine Johnson repeated the task with seconds left in the game to preserve a 12-7 win in a Baltimore County 2A/1A League game."