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The Johns Hopkins University received $164.5 million last year in gifts, placing it 11th among 136 schools on an annual ranking of the nation's charities receiving the most donations.Hopkins was ranked the 32nd nonprofit overall among the top 400 charities surveyed annually since 1991 by the Washington, D.C.-based Chronicle of Philanthropy.Other Maryland schools in the ranking were the University of Maryland, College Park with $38 million (73rd among universities), and University of Maryland, Baltimore (132nd place)

There was not much of a reaction last night when the Maryland Terrapins learned where they were going and whom they were playing in the first round of this year's NCAA tournament. The silence in the lounge adjoining their locker room at Cole Field House could be viewed a couple of ways. Either they were stunned or just plain confused.Or both.Forward Rodney Elliott said that he didn't know much about the College of Charleston, except that the Cougars have the nation's longest winning streak.

Owings Mills 125-pounder Greg Kessler had been through this before.Not only was his squad taking a 52-9 pasting from St. Mark's (Del.) in the championship round of yesterday's Gilman Duals -- the same team that won last year's title, 43-12, over the Eagles -- but he also had to come from behind to win his championship bout against Don Rosas, the same guy he beat last year.Kessler, a sophomore, used a four-point reversal in the closing seconds to beat Rosas, 5-4, and win the gold medal for his weight class.

Top Male Greg Sabo North County Boys LacrosseSabo, a senior attackman had four goals and nine assists in three wins for the 11th-ranked Knights. His best game was a three-goal, five-assist effort in an 11-7 victory over Severna Park.Top Female Rachel Synowski Spalding SoftballThis junior continued her dominance, winning four of five games, including a doubleheader last week for the second-ranked Cavaliers. Synowski won a pair of five-inning games Friday over McDonogh, 3-2 and 6-0. She struck out 15 and gave up only nine hits.

Two years ago, Adam Seidman, a 119-pound freshman wrestler for Oakland Mills, sat adjacent to his father, Jerry, in the bleachers after pulling the upset of the Arundel Invitational tournament.He nearly pinned C. Milton Wright's sixth-ranked Gary Reinhart in an 8-2 semifinal victory that didn't earn him a ranking. It did, however, earn him a spanking: DeMatha's No. 2-ranked senior John Allman throttled him, 16-1, in the finals."They ought to call you Rodney [Dangerfield]," Jerry said to his son, "because you get no respect."

Mount St. Joseph had a comfortable lead over its rivals in last night's 74th annual Maryland Scholastic Association Tournament at Gilman.The Gaels (221 points) led surprise runner-up McDonogh (137) in going for their 19th crown. They have six finalists with Jake Lissau (112 pounds), fourth-ranked Russell WRESTLINGFecteau (125, 27-5), top-ranked David Inkman (130, 27-3), top-ranked Paul Scott (140, 23-3), top-ranked defending champ Danny DeVivo (160, 24-3) and fourth-ranked Kenny Hunter (heavyweight, 23-5)

Second-ranked heavyweight Don Marco -- one of five Old Mill champions -- beat Southern's Robert Burley, 2-0, to help the Patriots win their seventh Anne Arundel County wrestling tournament title yesterday at Arundel High.The top-ranked, two-time defending Class 3A/4A state champion Patriots (203.5 points) broke the meet record of 200.5 they set in 1987.Second-place Broadneck (151) and third-place Annapolis (138.5) are ranked fifth by the Maryland State Wrestling Association."We had the right frame of mind and the right training coming in," said Old Mill coach Mike Hampe, who in 16 seasons has a 160-22-3 record.

POTOMAC -- Few people in the Bullis gymnasium knew it was coming, not even Mount St. Joseph's 145-pound wrestler Tyran Dungee.Bullis' top-ranked Benny Ferro entered their title bout the prohibitive favorite with a 26-1 record, 17 pins and five technical falls.But the fourth-ranked Dungee (28-4) shocked the crowd with a seemingly routine 12-1 decision, helping the Gaels to edge DeMatha, 232.5-to-204.5, in the inaugural Maryland IndependentSchools State Tournament."I thought it would be closer because he had a reputation for being tough," said Dungee, the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler.

Owings Mills' Kenny Gendason, one of five individual champions, was the best example of his team's dominance in yesterday's Baltimore County Wrestling Tournament.In Gendason's 112-pound title bout, the fifth-ranked senior overcame a 3-0 deficit with his second-period pin of Overlea's defending Class 1A/2A state champion, Kevin Heid (21-3)."Nothing was working, so I was getting desperate to try anything," said Gendason (21-1), who defeated sixth-ranked Heid earlier in the year. "I headlocked him the last time and he got out. This time, he didn't."

Old Mill had three champions and five runners-up, as the two-time defending Class 3A-4A state champion Patriots captured their seventh Region IV title Saturday night at Meade High School."