Pointers

Chris Duhon made the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2 minutes, 3 seconds left, Danilo Gallinari followed with two more and the Knicks pulled out a 97-93 victory Thursday that snapped the three-game win streak of the visiting Bobcats. Wilson Chandler scored a season-high 27 points to lead the Knicks, who hit six 3-pointers in the final quarter and 12 overall. David Lee had 22 points and Gallinari finished with 17 for the Knicks, who have won three straight and 11 of 16. • Rafer Alston got his wish, signing with the Heat for the remainder of the season and getting the chance to play alongside Dwyane Wade again.

Veteran midfielder Kyle Dixon (Archbishop Spalding) had seven points and tied a Major League Lacrosse record with three 2-point goals as the Chesapeake Bayhawks opened the 2013 season by beating the Rochester Rattlers, 17-14, in front of an announced 3,940 at Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg, Fla. Dixon, a seventh-year professional, increased his MLL career record for 2-pointers to 50. The perennial All-Star also had an assist as Chesapeake began...

In last weekend's regional football semifinal, Pikesville probably faced the most highly motivated team in the entire state tournament bracket: Sparrows Point. A week earlier, the Pointers had a chance to beat Pikesville on the last play of the regular-season finale, but Panthers linebacker Nolan Hart tipped the ball away from a Sparrows Point player in the end zone to seal a 35-28 Pikesville win. That brought up Part Two for the Baltimore County rivals: the Class 1A North region opener.

After Hunter Machin bowled his first 300 in late January, he celebrated in a pretty nontraditional way: He went home and took a nap. But Machin's perfect game was anything but traditional - after all, he was only 12 years old. While most of his fellow seventh graders at Dundalk Middle School are focusing on homework and playing with friends, Machin is busy at the bowling alley, winning tournaments against kids more than six years his senior and...

Men's college basketball Drummond's 3-pointers rally Loyola past Siena, 76-69 Freshman guard Justin Drummond made back-to-back 3-pointers to ignite a 12-0 run and five Greyhounds scored in double figures to carry Loyola (12-11, 8-5 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) to a 76-69 win at Siena (10-13, 7-6) on Monday night. After the Saints used a 15-2 run to take a 58-50 lead with 12:10 remaining, the Greyhounds answered with nine straight points over the next 3:22 to go up 59-58 on two free throws by junior guard J'hared Hall . Siena led responded with seven of the next nine points for a 65-61 lead with 5:13 to play when Drummond's first 3-pointer pulled the Greyhounds within one; a minute later he gave Loyola the lead for good with his third 3-pointer of the game to make the score 67-65 with 3:49 remaining.

Will Marshall was a frail freshman starter for Sparrows Point the year the Pointers went 0-20 and earned a region basketball playoff berth by defeating Catoctin in a coin toss.His physical stature hadn't changed much the next year when Marshall and his teammates scraped their way to a 3-17 record.His 6-foot-5, 170-pound frame was as slim and trim as ever last season when the Pointers turned things around and finished 15-5.But though Marshall's physique hasn't undergone any drastic changes during the past four years, his skills and contributions have, much to the delight of Sparrows Point coach Russ Lingner.

Sam Prescott and Julian Norfleet each hit clutch 3-pointers down the stretch to lead Mount St. Mary's past host George Washington, 65-56, on Monday night. Prescott paced the Mountaineers (2-3) with 15 points in the victory. Leading 55-54, Prescott made a 3-pointer from the top of the key to extend the Mount's advantage to four with 3:51 left in the game. Norfleet then converted a lay-up in the lane with 2:51 left to for a six-point lead. Rashad Whack added a free throw before George Washington's Lasan Kromah scored on a layup to cut the Mount lead to 61-56 with 1:09 left in the game.

Futurekids has formed an educational partnership with Pointers Run Elementary School in Clarksville to help students and teachers with their computer skills.The company will install programs on the school's computers and conduct workshops to show teachers how to use them.Futurekids will provide lessons for students on how to improve their computer proficiency.The partnership was signed April 29.Pub Date: 5/06/96

Owings Mills junior Jennifer Ziomek was so ready to play in last night's Class 1A, Region III semifinal volleyball game, that she beaned assistant coach Kim Glancy with a spike in warm-ups.Ziomek, who is one of the Eagles' leading hitters and is averaging 3.3 kills, led the Eagles with 12 kills and four aces, as No. 1 seed and host Owings Mills swept the No. 4 seed Sparrows Point Pointers, 15-6, 15-13, 15-12, last night at Owings Mills."We had to come in positive," Ziomek said. "We knew we had beaten them two times this season, but we knew we couldn't play them like we knew how they played.

As time wound down in yesterday's game, some Sparrows Point players wept, while others argued about the correct way to douse their coach with Gatorade.And the coach, it seemed, was in a world all his own. "Oh, baby. Oh, baby. It's over. The monkey's off our backs," screamed Russ Lingner, running up and down the Pointers sideline.For host Sparrows Point, the 20-6 win over Milford Mill was something to scream about. The victory was the team's first since Nov. 2, 1989, and broke a string of 30 consecutive losses.

NCAA selection show Monday, 7 p.m. TV: ESPN With less than a minute to go in Saturday night's Patriot League women's basketball tournament final, Navy junior guard Kara Pollinger came out of the game and shared a long embrace with coach Stefanie Pemper. By that time, the second-seeded Mids were well on their way to a 72-53 win over fourth-seeded Holy Cross in front of an announced 1,554 at Alumni Hall, and the two were thoroughly enjoying their third consecutive conference tournament title and corresponding berth in the NCAA tournament.

Leading wire-to-wire, sixth-seeded Manhattan held off a furious Loyola charge and defeated the Greyhounds, 55-52, to advance to the semifinals of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament in a game that started Saturday night and ended Sunday morning. The Jaspers (13-17) moved on to face No. 7 Fairfield, which upset No. 2 Rider before the third-seeded Greyhounds, the defending tournament champions, also went down. No. 1 Niagara and No. 4 Iona will play in the other semifinal.

The ninth-ranked Maryland women's basketball had begun to pull away in its regular season finale Sunday afternoon when the Terps backslid briefly, surrendering consecutive 3-pointers near the end of the first half that allowed Wake Forest a glimmer of hope. Then in the closing seconds before intermission, senior forward Tianna Hawkins collected a pass from Alyssa Thomas on a fast break, pulled up behind the 3-point line and swished a jumper at the buzzer to send Maryland into the locker room with momentum.

Going into Wednesday night's Class 3A North regional basketball semifinal, the Aberdeen girls figured they could run against Digital Harbor, but they still had to counter the Rams' inside game. When two of Digital's top three inside threats got into foul trouble in the second quarter and All-Metro forward A'Lexus Harrison had to sit with three fouls, No. 2 Aberdeen ran away with a 74-40 victory. "One of our main goals is to get their good people out of the game, then we can take over," Eagles senior guard Jimmia McCluskey said.

Dunbar senior guard Daxter Miles has shown a knack for the dramatics when the No. 2 Poets have played Edmondson this season. In an epic Baltimore City boys basketball championship game Tuesday at Morgan State - a well played and tightly contested battle that didn't have a defining moment until overtime, largely because neither team would budge - Miles once again stepped up at the opportune time. Trailing by two with nine seconds left in overtime, Miles sank a 3-pointer from the top of the key to give the Poets a thrilling 74-73 win over the No. 5 Red Storm for their second straight Division 1 championship.

Nicole Krusen broke the all-time program record with seven 3-pointers as the Loyola women's basketball team beat Manhattan College, 54-34, on Friday night at Reitz Arena. Krusen led all scorers with 21 points for the Greyhounds (10-14, 5-8 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference), shooting 7-for-11 from behind the arc. Her seven 3-pointers replaces Meredith Tolley's six 3-pointers at Navy in 2009 atop the program's record board. Teammate Katie Sheahin pulled down 11 rebounds and scored six points.

Not that Russ Lingner is superstitious, but the fourth-year Sparrows Point coach still believes that his football team's upset win over Milford Mill last fall and his wife's ensuing pregnancy was no coincidence.So after his basketball team upset host and 12th-ranked Milford Mill yesterday, Lingner couldn't help but think the obvious.Said Lingner: "Does this mean twins?"Maybe not, but for a Pointers team that finished 3-18 last year, Lingner hopes that a 78-71 win over the defending Class 1A state champion Millers (15-2, 13-1)

Advocates of the new three-point rule are getting their wish. Three-point goals in the National Professional Soccer League are up.In an attempt to increase scoring, the league's rules committee changed the minimum distance for a three-point goal from a 50-foot line to a 45-foot arc, making it a much easier shot from the sides in particular.NPSL teams have scored 91 three-point goals in 61 games, compared with 161 in 240 games all last season.The Spirit is prospering from the change. With 14 three-point goals in 12 games entering tonight's meeting with the Buffalo Blizzard at the Baltimore Arena, the Spirit is second in that category to the Dayton Dynamo, which has 15.The season was only a month old when, on Nov. 19, the Spirit tied the club season record of 11 set in 1992-93.

In a barn-like practice field at the Ravens training facility, 121 women pranced, pirouetted and kicked their way through Saturday morning under the watchful eye of the cheerleaders whose ranks they hope to join. For the past 10 years or so, the cheerleading team has been running clinics before the formal tryouts to help aspirants hone their skills and know what to expect. Director Tina Galdieri said there has been more interest than usual this year on the back of the Ravens' Super Bowl win. Amber Lloyd, 25, a student at Stevenson University and an army veteran, said it was her second year trying out. She expects the competition to be tough, she said, because this year there are "a lot prettier girls.

With the playoffs quickly approaching, Mount St. Joseph picked a good time to hit its stride. The No. 2 Gaels hit five 3-pointers in the first quarter and led for all but 22 seconds in their 76-65 win at No. 7 John Carroll on Wednesday night. Senior guard Kameron Williams led the Gaels (25-5) with 35 points, and senior guard Rodney Elliott scored 27 to lead host John Carroll (23-10). "We pride ourselves on our shooting," Mount St. Joseph coach Pat Clatchey said. "Some nights it's better than others, and I tell them not to fall in love with the jump shot, cause it's fool's gold.