Roland Park

Sam McGee completed her hat trick by scoring the game-winning goal with 1:48 left in the second overtime to lift the No. 8 Bryn Mawr girls lacrosse team over No. 15 Roland Park, 14-13, Wednesday. The host Mawrtians (4-0) took an 8-4 halftime lead before the Reds (3-1) battled back in the second half. Caroline Seats scored the tying goal with five seconds left in regulation to force overtime. The teams traded goals in the first overtime. "It was very much based upon who won the draw," Bryn Mawr coach Wendy Kridel said.

Bond Street Social and Manchurian Rice Company opened this weekend in Fells Point and Harbor East, respectively. Drop in and say hello. There's plenty else to this weekend. Have a look. The fourth annual Federal Hill Wine Festival on Saturday features over 100 wines from around the world. The $25 ticket includes admission to the festival, 12 (12-ounce) sampling tickets and a souvenir wine glass. Additional sample tickets available at the festival, and wines will be available for purchase by the bottle at discounted pricing.

The quarterfinal game between No. 5 Roland Park and No. 12 Seton Keough in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference girls basketball playoffs was not short of heroics. Keough's Kari Zeps made a 3-pointer to tie the score at 50 with 32 seconds left. The host Reds answered when Lindsey Edwards made a baseline runner with seven seconds left to lift Roland Park to a 52-50 victory Tuesday night. Edwards finished with a game-high 15 points and Zeps had 14 for Seton Keough (11-15, 6-8)

No. 7 Roland Park's game plan to upset No. 2 McDonogh in girls basketball on Tuesday was all about defense. No. 7 Roland Park's game plan to upset No. 2 McDonogh in girls basketball on Tuesday was all about defense. And the Reds executed their plan, limiting the Eagles to three field goals in the second half, while Jaia Alexander made two free throws with seven seconds left as the Reds won, 43-40. McDonogh's top scorer, Danielle Edwards, was held to eight points. Alexander had eight rebounds and nine points, including going 5-for-6 from the line.

Mary Lou Cole, who had worked in the field of affordable housing development before becoming legislative director in Annapolis for a Baltimore County delegate, died Saturday of cancer at her Roland Park home. She was 64. Mary Lou Brennan, the daughter of a bailiff and a sales associate, was born and raised in Providence, R.I., where she graduated from high school. Mrs. Cole attended the University of Pennsylvania on a full academic scholarship and earned her bachelor's degree in 1968.

McDonogh goalie Katie Ferraro made several exceptional saves in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference title game May 14, but none more important than the last. The junior saved a free-position shot to her low left corner from Roland Park Country School's Caroline Seats with 2:19 left that secured an 18-17 victory for the Eagles, their third straight A Conference title and their 51st straight win before about 900 fans at Gerstell Academy in Finksburg.

This time of the year I often drift back to a certain Monday in December, the morning after the Mother's Club Christmas tea at my school.The old Baltimore Academy of the Visitation was a not-so-well-known institution established here by a group of spiritual, resourceful and hard-working religious women, the Visitation Nuns. Their roots go back to 1610 in France. Their first U.S. group started in Georgetown in 1799, and they sent a chapter to Baltimore in 1837.The sisters took the solemn vows and led the cloistered life.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Roland Park, the North Baltimore community listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a slate of community events has been scheduled for June 19-23.A homecoming party, called "A Taste of Roland Park," will be held June 19 at St. Mary's Seminary, Roland Avenue and Northern Parkway, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25.George Washington University professor Richard W. Longstreth will speak on the neighborhood's early years June 20 at 8 p.m. at Roland Park Place, in the 700 block W. 40th Street.

Covie Stanwick tried to carry Notre Dame Prep to a victory on Thursday afternoon, but Roland Park wouldn't let her do it. Stanwick finished with 10 points in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference game, but No. 12 Roland Park tightened its defense, became more effective on offense after early troubles and pulled out a 15-12 victory over No. 2 Notre Dame Prep. Stanwick finished with five goals and five assists, and had a hand in 10 of the team's 12 goals.

Sitting at the kitchen counter, playing a game on his mother's cellphone, Nick Brooks looked like any other 13-year-old, except for an occasional hand clap and the burbles that his brothers affectionately call "Nicky noises. " Soon, he got bored with the cellphone and motioned for the laptop on his mother's lap. Jean Brooks was willing to give it to him, but with one caveat. "I'd like a sentence from you," she said. "Mom's computer, please," Nick said. That's a long sentence for the Roland Park youth.