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Jon Horrigan (119), Josh White (140) and Brian Kingsbury (152) all won titles as St. Mary's surprised then-No. 9 Boys' Latin by upsetting the host Lakers, 135-130, in their 10-team tournament over the weekend.White won a rematch of last year's final, 15-6, over Kenwood's Rick Strong, whom he pinned in 1 minute, 35 seconds the year before. Kingsbury overcame a 4-2 deficit with his third-period pin of Mervo's Bryan Cromwell.Archbishop Spalding finished a surprising fourth, with it's only titlist, Matt Gomes (171)

Top-ranked Curley crowned five champions and had two runners-up in cruising to its first Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association crown yesterday at Mount St. Joseph.Winning for the Friars (210.5 points) were Darien Kess (103 pounds), Brian Kirhagis (119), Brian Bricker (130), Shawn Calhoun (140) and Paul Boettcher (152), with Thomas Boettcher (135) and P. J. Kirhagis (145) taking second places.Kess edged third-place McDonogh's Zak Johns, 5-3, for his title, improving his school-record takedowns total to 173. Ranked No. 2 in the state, Kess had earlier defeated Johns, 3-1, in overtime.

In one of the most confusing scenarios in recent years, several college football teams are in the running for the mythical national championship. If top-ranked Colorado beats No. 5 Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day, then Colorado should take the title. But if the Buffaloes lose, it opens a Pandora's box of possibilities. Second-ranked Georgia Tech could take the title by beating Nebraska. Or fourth-ranked Miami could stake a claim if it beats third-ranked Texas. We'd like to know who you think will finish No. 1 when all is said and done.

When Northern-Calvert dethroned five-time champ Old Mill last year, it broke the Baltimore area's nine-year long stranglehold on the 3A-4A state crown.But yesterday at Western Maryland College, the fourth-ranked Patriots pulled a reversal and pinned down their sixth crown, 90.5-64, over LaPlata.Sixth-ranked Paul Hultgren (130, 29-4) and Mike DiLeonardi (145, 30-6) won titles, Mike Hines (152, 34-7) and No. 2-ranked Don Patterson (189, 32-2) were second, and Eric Donoway (171) was fourth for Old Mill.

103: Zack Fowl, Aberdeen (31-2)A staunch and powerful sophomore, Fowl is a quick-moving, muscular 15-year-old. He finished the season ranked No. 2 by the Maryland State Wrestling Association with 26 pins, including 20 in the first period. A county, regional and Class 1A-2A state champion, Fowl had a pin over Edgewood's former Harford County champ Ty Long when Long was top-ranked. Lost a decision to Long and DeMatha's top-ranked National Prep champion Mynor Herrera, 3-2. Maintains a 3.3 grade-point average.

Sixth-ranked Kit Doran (160) decked Perry Hall's previously unbeaten Austin Kim in 1:31 of their title bout to lead No. 8 Aberdeen to the team title in the weekend's 25th annual John Carroll Tournament.Doran was one of three titlist for the Eagles, who had two runners-up and six third-place finishers to eclipse runner-up and No. 9 Boys' Latin, 192 1/2 -162.Sophomore Brian Berger (119) got the first of four individual championship pins for Boys' Latin. Senior Tim Berger, his older brother (135)

With three wins last week, Mount St. Joseph, The Sun's top-ranked team, ran its mark to a school record 23-0 and moved from No. 11 to No. 9 in USA Today's Super 25 national rankings. It's the highest national ranking for a local team since Dunbar finished No. 1 in 1991-92 (28-0) under coach Pete Pompey to win the Poets' third mythical national title. Bob Wade coached the other two Poets national champions in 1982-83 (31-0) and 1984-85 (29-1), and Mark Amatucci led Calvert Hall to a mythical title in 1981-82 (34-0)

The top-ranked Southern boys basketball team, ranked No. 7 nationally by USA Today, will face second-ranked Willowridge of Sugar Land, Texas, at 9:30 Thursday night in its first game of the prestigious eight-team Slam Dunk To The Beach basketball tournament at Cape Henlopen High in Lewes, Del. The winner, on Friday, will play the victor of an earlier quarterfinal between 24th-ranked St. Jude of Alabama and 20th-ranked Dominguez of Compton, Cal. ...

Before the winter high school sports season, Baltimore athletes could be required to sign a statement indicating an understanding of their amateur status before being allowed to participate."

COLLEGE PARK -- For the first time in more than eight years, the University of Maryland men's basketball team has been nationally ranked in the Associated Press poll of writers and broadcasters.With a late charge similar to the one they made last Saturday at Wake Forest, the Terrapins climbed into the final spot in the Top 25 early this morning by knocking out one of coach Gary Williams' former employers.Maryland (10-3) slipped past Boston College to become the fourth Atlantic Coast Conference school ranked.