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Match one of the nation's top three-point shooting teams against "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" and the result is fairly predictable.That was the case at UMBC Fieldhouse, where Radford rolled to a 79-66 victory over the Retrievers in a Big South Conference game yesterday.The Highlanders (7-7, 1-1), who had lost four of their past five games, got healthy quickly against the Retrievers, who are 1-12 and off to their worst start since the 1990-1991 season when they dropped 15 of their first 16.Radford, co-favorite in the conference with Liberty, ranks sixth in the country in three-point accuracy (.424)

COLLEGE PARK -- For two years, the book on beating the Maryland women's basketball team started with a chapter on making the Terps shoot from the outside.And because Maryland's ability to hit from long range was suspect at best, the Terps languished through the worst two back-to-back seasons in the program's history.So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that Maryland's return to prominence, which continued in last night's 83-44 drubbing of Radford in the opening game of the Dial Soap Classic, has some root in the Terps' improved ability to shoot from the perimeter.

Despite 36 points from Myriam Baccouche, Mount St. Mary's dropped its season opener, 69-62, to visiting Radford yesterday. Radford (1-0) dominated the boards, 46-28, and had three players score in double figures. Junior Taryn Causey scored 17. Freshman Chelsy Sikes scored 15 and freshman Robin Kantin added 13 for the Highlanders, who hit 17 of 22 free throws. Baccouche accounted for more than half of Mount St. Mary's offense, hitting 11 of 24 field-goal attempts and 10 of 12 from the free-throw line.

Radford University clawed back from a 13-point, first-half deficit to beat Mount St. Mary's, 56-52, in a women's game yesterday at Knott Arena. Kylie Williamson scored 21 points as the Highlanders won their third straight game. Radford used an 11-2 run in the second half to tie the game at 36 and took the lead on Amanda Neby's layup with 10:43 remaining. Kia Williams led Mount St. Mary's with 17 points, while senior Deanna Butters scored 11, with a career-high 14 rebounds. Catrice Horton scored 11 for the Highlanders, all of them from the line in an 11-for-12 performance.

Courtney Davidson scored a game-high 21 points, making four of six three-point tries, and Adrienne Roseti added 20 points and 11 rebounds to lead Navy (10-12) to a 74-68 victory over host Radford (8-11) last night. The Midshipmen (10-12) took a 46-44 lead in the second half, then scored the next 10 to go up by 12 with 11:53 left to play. Frostburg State 60, Villa Julie 44: Tracey Little had game highs of 18 points and 16 rebounds as the visiting Bobcats (13-7) cruised past the Mustangs (3-13)

Wayne Ellington had 25 points for North Carolina, which led the entire way and had no trouble beating 16th seed Radford, 101-58, in Greensboro, N.C., even without point guard Ty Lawson, who missed his third straight game with a toe injury. North Carolina improved to 26-1 in NCAA games played in its home state and advanced to face LSU tomorrow. It was a game in which senior Tyler Hansbrough set the Atlantic Coast Conference career scoring mark of 2,767 points in the opening minutes and finished with 22 points.

An 18-year-old Monkton resident who recently graduated from Dulaney Valley High School died early Saturday after the vehicle in which he was a passenger crashed near his home, police and family friends said. Officer Teresa Lockwood of the Baltimore County traffic investigation team, said Steven Radford of the 4100 block of Stansbury Mill Road was a passenger in an Infiniti sport utility vehicle driven by his friend Derek Campbell, also 18, of the 4000 block of Stansbury Mill Road when Campbell lost control of the vehicle shortly after 2 a.m. while eastbound on Stansbury Mill Road near Jarrettsville Pike.

DOVER, Del. -- Jackie Campbell led Delaware State (6-10, 8-18) with 23 points and 14 rebounds as it topped Coppin State, 62-52, in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game yesterday.Towson State 78, Radford 60RADFORD, Va. -- Senior guard Megan Gebbian scored a career-high 24 and grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds to lead Towson State (16-10, 11-7) past four-time defending conference champion Radford (15-11, 12-6) in the Big South regular-season finale for both teams.

Radford (0-0) at Towson (0-1) Time: 2 p.m. Site: Minnegan Stadium Outlook: The Tigers opened with a 12-8 loss at powerful Virginia, but they'll take a step down in class today. Last year, Radford hired Dave Klarmann, who coached North Carolina to an NCAA title in 1991 and 100 total victories, but not before the university declared it would shut down the program after this season.

Radford's Doug Day recently set the NCAA Division I record for three-point shots made and attempted. But last night at UMBC, it was Retrievers guard Skip Saunders who put on a three-point shooting exhibition.For the second game in a row, Saunders tied a school record with seven three-pointers -- the third time he's done it in his career -- and scored a team-high 26 points, as UMBC held off Radford, 102-98, at the UMBC Fieldhouse.It was the first win over Radford for UMBC, which had lost to the Highlanders in five previous meetings.