Relay

phelps' schedule Today --200-meter butterfly final Tomorrow --200-meter individual medley final Friday --4 x 200-meter freestyle relay final Saturday --100-meter butterfly final Sunday --400-meter individual medley final; 4 x 100-meter medley relay

LANDOVER -- The fourth-ranked North Carroll girls made school history last night. Katie Hursey won the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs and played a large role in the Panthers winning the Class 3A-2A state championship at the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex. This was the school's first indoor track state title. North Carroll won the state title after capturing the Carroll County, Monocacy Valley Athletic League Chesapeake Conference and the Class 3A-2A West regional crowns. The Panthers got Hursey's two victories plus Jess Huber's win in the pole vault and a relay victory to help compile 50 points, beating Annapolis and Largo, which were tied for second with 34. North Carroll coach Jim MacDonald said his team had a good mix of first-place efforts and points from other events.

Fun -- The Centennial Fun Run, a family-oriented, one-mile run through the Centennial neighborhood, will conclude its summer series with a Partners' Relay at 7 p.m. Tuesday, followed by an awards ceremony and party. Medals will be awarded to runners ages 5 or younger; trophies will be awarded to the top two males and females in other age categories. Runners should arrive by 6:45 p.m. to sign up and find a partner, if necessary. The cost is 50 cents. The run begins and ends at 10114 Colonial Drive, Ellicott City.

PHILADELPHIA -- Don't count out Bernard Williams. A solid second-leg performance on the USA Blue team that placed a close third in the "USA vs. the World" 400-meter relay yesterday at the 113th Penn Relays indicated there's plenty of zip left in the legs that have carried this 29-year-old ex-Carver Vo-Tech and University of Florida sprint star to the heights of track and field. In a slam-bang 1-2-3 finish before 46,363 fans at Franklin Field, 2004 Olympic 200-meter champion Shawn Crawford anchored the USA Red team to a 38.35 verdict over Team Jamaica (38.89)

Coming off a series of fine performances at the Eastern States Invitational Track Meet in Gaithersburg last weekend, 42 local youngsters, including some top high school competitors, will journey to Cleveland Saturday to compete in the AAU national age-group championships next week.Sponsored by the City Department of Recreation and Parks and the Ed Waters Track Club, the Baltimore contingent will be led by All-Metro selections Tia Burley (Western), Alan McDavid (Calvert Hall), Kevin Merrick (Mervo)

A year ago at the Ivan Walker Indoor Track championships, Long Reach's girls and Wilde Lake's boys earned their first county indoor titles. Long Reach won by 37 points and Wilde Lake by 41.Don't expect those types of winning margins at this season's championship next Tuesday at the 5th Regiment Armory.River Hill's boys team won Tuesday's fifth and final regular-season meet by 40 1/2 points over second-place Oakland Mills. But Hawks coach Norm Belden expects a closer score when the county title is on the line.

Woodlawn's boys and River Hill's girls each finished second behind Prince George's County teams last night in the Class 2A-3A state indoor track meet at the 5th Regiment Armory.That's where the similarities ended.No. 1-ranked Woodlawn was disappointed, because it had a chance to defend its state title with a victory in the 1,600-meter relay, the meet's final event. But the Warriors finished second to DuVal in the race (3: 34.6 to 3: 35.5) and in the final standings (60-58 1/4)."I'm very disappointed," said Woodlawn senior Joel Brown.

Boys Top PerformerJoel Brown, Woodlawn, senior: The Baltimore County champ in the hurdles (7.4 seconds vs. his best of 7.3), he consistently was a high point scorer in the 55-meter hurdles, the 300 and as a leg on Woodlawn's excellent 1,600 relay team (3 minutes, 36.6 seconds). He won the hurdles at the Pangaea Invitational and was second in the National Guard meet. Woodlawn, defending Class 3A-4A state champions, lost out by 1 3/4 points on the last event this season. But Brown did more than his part, winning the hurdles (7.4)

Calvert Hall sprinter Alan McDavid's performance in the 400-meter relay summed up the Cardinals' effort yesterday at the Maryland Private School State Championships at McDonogh.Trailing by 7 meters when he took the baton, McDavid blazed home as the anchor and edged runner-up McDonogh at the wire to win in 44.2 seconds.In much the same way, the Cardinals overcame an early deficit -- created in part by McDavid's disqualification in the 100 -- to win the boys championship.The top-ranked Cardinals won five individual events and one relay en route to 106.5 points.

About the only thing the Dulaney girls didn't win on the track at the Baltimore County Indoor Track Championships at the 5th Regiment Armory last night was the 55-meter dash.Lori Twardzik, Ida Bernstein and the new kid on the block, freshman Tenke Zoltani, led Dulaney's girls to six first places, a second and three thirds as the team reversed its loss to Perry Hall in the County Relays by piling up 100 points.Perry Hall was second yesterday with 75 1/2 points, Woodlawn third with 51.Just as dominant were Woodlawn's boys, who rolled up 110 points -- 50 better than the runner-up Dulaney boys.

ANGLEINE OHLIN passed away May 1, 2009. Memorial service Saturday, August 15th at the Relay Town Hall, 1710 Arlington Avenue, Relay, MD. at 1 P.M.

ROME - -This all started with an equipment malfunction in the morning relay and ended with the favored French sprinters wilting again, giving Michael Phelps and friends another riveting victory in the 400-meter freestyle relay. In between, there were world records tumbling on Day 1. Six fell Sunday night, including Ian Thorpe's 400-meter freestyle, as well as the oldest women's mark on the books, the 100 butterfly. "All the athletes in the back are saying it's crazy. Unfortunately, you have to wear these suits to keep up with everyone, but it'll be great when they go back and you'll really see who the swimmers are," said Dara Torres, who was on the U.S. women's 400 freestyle relay, which took fourth.

Recently I started talking to my wife while covering my mouth with my old Rawlings glove, a practice she finds disturbing. "The neighbors might be lip-reading," I said. "Who knows what they'll pick up?" "You're watching too much baseball," she said. "Dial it back a little." She might have a point. Watch a major league game now and every pitcher-catcher conference on the mound involves both players talking with their gloves in front of their faces. The first time I saw this, I thought: What, someone had onions for lunch?

Top-ranked McDonogh turned the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland's championship meet into a display of how much talent and depth the team has - and it became quite a show. The Eagles dominated in every way possible to repeat as team champion. McDonogh's girls finished with 238 points on Saturday at Calvert Hall, beating runner-up Seton Keough (64) by an astonishing 174 points. The second- through seventh-place teams would have to combine their scores to match what the Eagles did by themselves.

Just a year ago, Mount Hebron's Josh "Jay" Bair couldn't so much as qualify for the finals of his best event, the triple-jump, at the Howard County championships. With his other event, the 300 hurdles, taking place just before his first jump, he was simply too spent to be effective. What a difference a year of intensive training has made. At this year's Howard County meet, the senior scored victories in both, also running the leadoff leg on his team's third-place 4 x 100 relay, to help lead the Vikings to a lopsided team victory.

Craig Morgan River Hill, indoor track Morgan, a senior, set state and school records at last weekend's indoor track state championships and propelled the Hawks to a fourth-place finish overall. Morgan scored 20 of his team's 26 points by winning the 1,600 meters in a state Class 2A record time of 4 minutes, 21.96 seconds and then won the 3,200 meters in a school-record 9:44.05. Besides excelling at indoor track, Morgan was a state cross country champion in the fall and carries a 3.67 grade-point average, 4.2 weighted.

LANDOVER -After shattering her own state records in the 200-yard individual medley and 100 butterfly yesterday, Sarah Lloyd of Severna Park took a few moments to soak it all in as she casually swam a few laps to cool down at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Emily Lloyd, was breaking state records in the 100 freestyle and the 500 freestyle events. The record-setting day by the juniors helped the Falcons win the Class 4A-3A state championship with 334 points, ahead of second-place Urbana (275.

Western Howard County's Relay For Life, the overnight fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, will hold a team meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Glenwood Community Center, 2400 Route 97, Cooksville. The theme for the meeting is "You Are the Heart of Relay," and information about Relay for Life will be provided. Everyone is welcome. Friends and relatives of cancer survivors, religious organizations, service clubs, schools and the public are invited to form teams, which raise money during the year for the event.

C. Milton Wright ended Fallston's recent dominance in the Harford County swimming championships last night. The Mustangs easily won the girls meet at Magnolia Middle School, and their big victory helped C.M. Wright also come away with the combined (boys and girls) team championship. Fallston had won its sixth straight boys crown in Tuesday's meet, edging the Mustangs, but two Cougars streaks ended in this two-day event. Their girls had won the team title four straight times, and the Cougars also had taken the combined team title for five consecutive seasons.

LANDOVER - Another year, another sweep for Meade. The Mustangs pulled off a third consecutive sweep at the Anne Arundel County indoor track and field championships last night at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Center. Meade's girls finished with 137 points, taking a big early lead and never looking back, beating Chesapeake (100). The Mustangs have won three straight county titles. The Mustangs boys (114) won three late events to pull away from No. 7 Chesapeake (84). Meade lost its top four scorers from last year, but coach Nigel Holder's team again found points from all over the place and won a fourth straight crown.