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Aberdeen Eagles1997 record: 3-9Coach: Jim McClenahanTop players: Felicia Fields, Sr., D.; Megan Moe, Soph., M.; Sally Resau, Soph., S.; Katie Ruth, Sr., M.Outlook: The Eagles will find the going tough with their youngest and most inexperienced team in recent memory.Bel Air Bobcats1997 record: 11-6Coach: Bill ZimmermanTop players: Lindsay Bugda, Sr., G; Anne Clark, Sr., D.; Jen Chumley, Jr., D.; Nikki Hentz, Sr., D.; Adrienne Justis, Sr., S-M.; April Madden, Jr., S-M.; Lori Zimmerman, Sr., D.; Jen Wilkinson, Sr., M.Outlook: The Bobcats will need some time to develop and find their rhythm at both ends of the field after losing five three-year starters.

Standing along Route 216 near Interstate 95 early one morning last week, Sen. Martin G. Madden got a chance to put his years of campaigning in Howard County to good use.Holding a warm cup of coffee in his left hand, the Republican senator from Clarksville used his right hand to wave at motorists. He wants their votes in the election Nov. 3 against Democratic challenger Raymond N. Rankin."Good morning, thank you," Madden whispers to those who wave back."This kind of campaigning doesn't cost anything but a few hours of sleep," said the senator born and raised in Prince George's County.

When Matt Rankin took over as Edgewood's girls basketball coach last November, the outlook wasn't promising."The team we started out with this year was a lot different than I Coach of the Yearhad expected," said Rankin, an assistant coach with last year's team. "My No. 1 player had a bad knee and I lost three girls to work and one to cheerleading."But Rankin, a 24-year-old math teacher at Edgewood High, quickly turned the Rams into contenders for the county title. The Baltimore Sun's Harford County Girls Basketball Coach of the Year, Rankin turned the Rams into a team-oriented squad with a balanced offense and an ever-improving defense.

Southern Baptists will go back to the future when they begin their national convention in Houston tomorrow.Fourteen years ago in Houston, the Baptists began a "holy war" that divided the nation's largest Protestant group into fundamentalist and moderate camps.The fundamentalists stunned moderates at the 1979 gathering when the Rev. Adrian Rogers of Memphis, Tenn., won the presidency from moderate candidates, who had had a hammerlock on leadership for more than a decade.It was the beginning of a series of fundamentalist victories that have left that faction in sole control of the 15.5 million-member national convention.

Oakland Mills yesterday dealt Edgewood its second loss in three days against a Howard County foe.The Scorpions (2-2) used a 21-point fourth quarter to blitz host Edgewood for a 50-27 victory.Despite the win, Oakland Mills coach Teresa Waters said her team will have to improve considerably to crack the top half of the Howard County league."In our league, the way we played today. . . . We won by 25. In Howard County it's a whole new ballgame. But that's what these games are for, to show us our weaknesses and prepare us for league play," said Waters.

THE year of the woman began not in 1992, as we have been led to believe, but in April 1917, 76 years ago, when Jeannette Rankin walked into the House of Representatives as the first woman to enter Congress.On Nov. 7, 1916, Montana elected Rankin, 36 and unmarried, to the House by a plurality of 7,567 votes. At the time, only 12 of the 48 states granted women the right to vote.On her election, pundits raged over the new American Revolution and fanned rumors about her looks and wardrobe.It was said that "the lady from Montana" packed a .44 caliber six-shooter and trimmed her skirts with chaps fur. The press called her a "slip of a girl" and wrote that she was out of her mind to step into a body made up of 434 men. She received countless marriage proposals.

Tropical Storm Danielle cleared out of the area just in time t make Saturday a nearly perfect day for sailing.More than 200 teams of racers started the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron's annual 29-mile Oxford Race down the bay from Annapolis, up into the Choptank and on into the Tred Avon River.The race, informally known as the Fall Oxford when paired with the following day's 20.5-mile reciprocal Tred Avon Yacht Club Hammond Memorial Race from Oxford to Poplar Island, is one of the last big weekend events of the sailing season.

Services for Giustino "Gus" Valenti of White Marsh, formerly of GlenBurnie, will take place at the Glen Lutheran Church at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 16.Mr. Valenti, 47, died Jan. 13 at Mercy Hospital.A veteran of 11 years in the U.S. Navy, Mr. Valenti was employed as a clerk for the U.S Postal Service.He served as a U.S. Navy Seal and was a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he earned the Silver Star, the Navy Cross, two Purple Hearts and numerous other honors.Mr. Valenti's interests included reading, television and cooking.

CHICAGO -- When meteorologists predicted a severe winter for the Chicago area, Barry Rankin pictured cold and white.But the temperature was downright balmy yesterday for a day in mid-December, and the stuff covering Mr. Rankin's Lincolnwood home, his car and his patio wasn't white. Nor was it as pure as the driven snow.It was dark and lumpy, and it was, unfortunately, Lincolnwood's turn.Mr. Rankin and his neighbors in the north suburb apparently have become the latest victims of a rather irritating phenomenon over the past several weeks afflicting communities under O'Hare International Airport's flight paths.

Jim Lighthizer headed for the hills where the wild animals roam.Somewhere.Nobody seemed sure exactly where, though speculation around the county executive suite yesterday placed him in mountains on the northern portion of the North American continent.One thing was certain: On primary day 1990, Jim Lighthizer hunted not votes, but wild animals."He's way out in the wilderness somewhere hunting, so I don't know what kind of telephone arrangements he has," explained Denise Rankin, the executive's spokeswoman.

Man, 25, gets life sentence for killing teenager in 2007 A 25-year-old man was sentenced yesterday to life in prison in the August 2007 killing of a teenager whose burning body was found in a Baltimore County park. Prosecutors said Christopher D. Johnson, of the 4000 block of W. Garrison Ave., and several accomplices believed that Glen Michael Stewart, 17, intended to provide police with incriminating evidence about a robbery. Stewart was shot and his body set afire in a wooded area of Villa Nova Park.

Dorothy Moulton Rankin, a retired federal worker who taught sewing in Africa and owned a tailoring and fashion shop in Baltimore in the 1970s and '80s, died July 14 at her home in Reisterstown after suffering a heart attack. She was 84. Dorothy Moulton was born in Baltimore and attended St. Barnabas Catholic and Baltimore City public schools. She graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in June 1942 and married William Rankin six years later. Mrs. Rankin became interested in sewing in high school, learning from her mother and making clothes for peers and family members, according to her sister, Lillian Wainwright of Baltimore.

Delaware State Police arrested a 28-year-old man on probation for a 2004 fatal drunken driving accident and charged him yesterday with vehicular homicide in the death of a Maryland teen last weekend. Andrew R. Rankin was taken into custody immediately after he was released from the hospital yesterday afternoon. He was sent to the Delaware Corrections Center in Smyrna, with bail set at $11,000. As a condition of bail, he has been ordered not to drive. In addition to vehicular homicide, Rankin, a New Castle, Del., resident, was charged with two counts of vehicular assault and driving under the influence in the crash near Dover, Del., that claimed the life of 17-year-old Brian A. Wilson of Havre de Grace.

Less than two weeks ago, Brian A. Wilson's family proudly watched as the outstanding scholar and varsity athlete walked across the stage to receive his diploma with honors from Havre de Grace High School. Now the family is planning a funeral service for their 17-year-old son in the same school auditorium. Wilson died at Christiana Trauma Center in Newark, Del., early Sunday after an accident on Route 1 near Dover. He was riding home with a friend at the end of the traditional senior week at the beach in Ocean City when a drunken driver rear-ended their car, police said.

THE PROBLEM -- The cornice near the roof of an abandoned rowhouse was loose and threatening to fall off. THE BACKSTORY -- Nora Giles says she couldn't walk on her own street. For three decades, she has lived on Rankin Place in the Poppleton community of West Baltimore. A rowhouse on the end of the three-house group, 1228 Rankin, has sat empty for about 15 years, said Giles and her brother, James Smith. The previous owner took care of it, Giles said. But after he died, people began dumping trash in the backyard and drug dealers used it to hide their stash.

On November 16, 2007, ROBERT B., beloved father of Christina Marie Rankin, beloved son of Christina and the late Marvin J. Rankin, brother of Connie Brown and the late Cindy Rowles, uncle of Brittany and Christopher. Also survived by aunts and uncles. Friends may call at the Gonce Funeral Service P.A., 4001 Ritchie Hwy. on Monday and Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9PM. Services on Wednesday at 11:00 AM. Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

On July 24, 2007, MATTIE MAE COLEMAN RANKIN, devoted wife of Theodore Rankin. She is also survived by 7 daughters, 7 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, Inc., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Sunday after 10A.M. The family will receive friends at Brown's Memorial Baptist Church, 3215 W. Belvedere Ave, on Monday at 11:00 A.M. Funeral Services will follow at 11:30 A.M.

A Baltimore police officer rushing to a call with her emergency lights and siren activated collided with another car at a Northwest Baltimore intersection, injuring the drivers of both vehicles, city police said yesterday. Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman, said Officer Channon Rankin, 24, and the other driver, Omar Mooring, 33, suffered the same injuries - a fractured leg and a concussion. She was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center; Mooring was taken to Sinai Hospital. The officer's marked car burst into flames after the accident at Belvedere and Beaufort avenues in the Pimlico section.

Bryan Shumaker hasn't yet figured out how to take his Winters Mill girls soccer team over the edge, though the Falcons coach knows he's getting awfully close. For the third time in five games this season, Winters Mill settled for a tie last night. Despite dominating portions of their Carroll County game against host Westminster and outshooting the Owls 25-14, the Falcons time and again came up empty against a stubborn defense in a 1-1, double-overtime draw. It was the second tie between the two rivals in as many seasons.

On August 19, 2004, MARY "Cindy" (nee Rankin), beloved wife of Milton Rowles; devoted daughter of Christina Rankin and the late Marvin J. Rankin; sister of Connie and Bobby; daughter-in-law of Myrtle Rowles and the late Milton Rowles; aunt of Christina, Brittany and Christopher; and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins. Visiting at the Lassahn Funeral Home, Inc., 7401 Belair Road (Overlea) on Saturday and Sunday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Services will be held on Monday at 11 A.M. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.