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With nearly every eye at Pimlico fixated on either the uncatchable leader, Oxbow, or the Kentucky Derby winner and heavy betting favorite, Orb, Itsmyluckyday cruised under the radar to earn a little bit of redemption in Saturday's Preakness. After failing to challenge Orb on the muddy track at Churchill Downs two weeks ago and finishing near the back of the pack, Itsmyluckyday finished in second place in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown. "We did run our race, but we just weren't lucky enough to win," trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. said.

With nearly every eye at Pimlico fixated on either the uncatchable leader, Oxbow, or the Kentucky Derby winner and heavy betting favorite, Orb, Itsmyluckyday cruised under the radar to earn a little bit of redemption in Saturday's Preakness. After failing to challenge Orb on the muddy track at Churchill Downs two weeks ago and finishing near the back of the pack, Itsmyluckyday finished in second place in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown. "We did run our race, but we just weren't lucky enough to win," trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. said.

Baltimore area schools didn't win team titles at yesterday's Class 3A State Indoor Track and Field Meet, but several individual performances at the Fifth Regiment Armory were outstanding.DuVal of Prince George's County won the boys title with 56 points, ahead of runner-up Howard (38) and third-place Centennial (33). Watkins Mill edged Linganore, 49-46, on the girls side.Jamie Davies of Catonsville won the boys 3,200-meter run in 10 minutes, 1.9 seconds. Davies' nearest opponent -- John Cornwell of Walt Whitman -- was nearly 10 seconds behind.

Racking up a high score of 176.5 points, a team average of 605 and a total pins-plus-handicap for the season of 41,153, the team from Harford Tech won the Forest Hill Lanes 2012-2013 High School Bowling championship. The team was comprised of Chris Marshall, Ben Marshall, Alex Sorlin and Flavio Reyes. Second place, for the second year in a row, were Ben Smith, Aaron Simpers and Matt Wassin from Aberdeen.   Other significant winners were Wassin from Aberdeen, who for the second straight year racked up the individual boys' highest average.

Manchester Town Councilman Robert C. Kolodziejski has resigned, saying he does not have enough time to devote to council business.He tendered his resignation in an Aug. 19 letter to Mayor Earl A. J. "Tim" Warehime Jr."It's a part-time position, but it takes a full-time effort. I can't give it that full-time effort right now," Mr. Kolodziejski said yesterday."I tried to talk him out of it," Mr. Warehime said. "I just wish he would reconsider. He's done a good job, and we're kind of in the middle of a lot of things."

As unusual as it sounds, Trisha Repsher was not looking for a repeat of last year's runner-up effort at the Run from the Lion's Den Invitational yesterday. That's because Repsher let first place slip from her grasp last season when she took a wrong turn on the 3.1-mile course at Liberty in Eldersburg and ended up finishing second. This time, the Westminster junior stayed on the right path and captured the individual title in a course-record time of 19 minutes, 14 seconds. Repsher's performance powered the Owls past No. 8 Winters Mill and No. 10 Mount Hebron to the team crown.

"I was this close," said Andrew Winfield, squeezing the thumb on his right hand within millimeters of his pointer finger. "Close enough to where it's been the only thing I think about at any given time or place." The South Carroll wrestler was referring to last year's 160-pound Class 4A-3A state runner-up finish to Richard Montgomery's Scott Church. Winfield is favored to redeem himself as The Sun's top-ranked 171-pounder with a 25-0 record entering this year's two-day event that begins Friday at the University of Maryland's Cole Field House.

Mary Ellen Seraydian of Taneytown and Rebecca Reinhardt of Mount Airy were awarded seats in the Farm Queen's court during the annual competition at the Maryland State Fair Sunday night.Rebecca, who represented Howard County, won the third runner-up position and Mary Ellen, Carroll County's Farm Queen, was fourth runner-up.Maryland's 1994 Farm Queen is Jami Todd of Caroline County. The rest of her court consists of Kimberly Stup of Frederick County, who was first runner-up, and April Hall of Queen Anne's County, second runner-up.

HOLLYWOOD -- Hollywood's annual film awards marathon got under way last weekend as the Los Angeles Film Critics Association chose Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" as the best movie of 1992.As the first of the major awards competitions, the selection by the Los Angeles critics instantly elevates the movie's chances for nominations in the Golden Globe Awards, to be presented in January by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and in the film industry's own Academy Awards, to be announced in March.

"For me, 'The Apprentice' was the beginning. It's not a ceiling, it's a floor." -- Kwame Jackson, runner-up on the first season of the NBC reality show

Even-money favorite Paynter, who took second in last month's Belmont Stakes, ran away down the stretch to win Sunday's $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. The victory, in 1 minute, 48.87 seconds, is the third in a row for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert and sixth overall in the 1 1/8-mile, Grade I stakes. Ridden by Rafael Bejarano for the first time, Paynter stumbled at the start and was forced to follow 2-1 second pick Gemologist around the first turn and into the backstretch before taking the lead around the final turn for a 3 3/4-length win over Nonios, followed by Stealcase, Handsome Mike, Dullahan and Gemologist.

Mike Smith appeared dazed in the moments after his horse, Bodemeister, was again beaten by Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another - this time by a neck in Saturday's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course . The veteran jockey wore the frozen smile of a man hardly able to fathom what had just transpired. "I swear I don't know how he ran me down, man," Smith said after trainer Bob Baffert approached in the fading sunlight. "You did a good job," the 59-year-old trainer told the 46-year-old jockey, a fellow Hall of Famer and former Preakness winner who recently passed 5,000 career victories.

Left-hander Dontrelle Willis has dropped his grievance against the Orioles, and will return to the organization tomorrow, his agent confirmed. Willis, the 2003 NL Rookie of the Year and 2005 NL Cy Young Award runner-up, was signed by the Orioles to a minor-league deal during spring training to be a situational left-handed reliever. Two weeks ago, he left Triple-A Norfolk saying he was told he was getting his release , but the Orioles contended that was never the case and he left without the club's permission.

Mount St. Mary's is well aware that a win against Northeast Conference rival Wagner this Saturday propels the team into the league tournament as the No. 4 seed. But before the Mountaineers can focus on the Seahawks, they will get a visit from No. 8 Maryland, last year's national runner-up that will travel to Emmittsburg for a Wednesday night meeting. Mount St. Mary's coach Tom Gravante said the players should expect a very motivated Terps squad after falling to No. 4 Duke, 6-5, in Friday evening's semifinal of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.

Lauren Alaina, the 2011 "American Idol" runner-up, heard about the Easter Sunday suicide of Glenelg High School sophomore Grace McComas, 15, from a Twitter message. Alaina, 17, of Georgia, said Sunday that she was saddened to hear about Grace, whose parents said she took her life after being cyber-bullied. Alaina helped the hashtag "blue4grace" trend online when the singer sent a personal message to her nearly 300,000 followers. Blue was Grace's favorite color. "It is horrible," Alaina said of Grace's death.

Watching Monday's General George Handicap from New York, trainer Rick Dutrow had one word to sum up the results: "Beautiful. " "I loved it," Dutrow said by cell phone after his two runners - favorite Yawanna Twist and fourth choice This Ones for Phil - came home first and second in the $200,000 Grade II race at Laurel Park. Toby's Corner, last year's pre-Kentucky Derby favorite, took third and Eighttofasttocatch was fourth. Ridden by former Maryland-based jockey Mike Luzzi, Yawanna Twist, a 5-year-old bay who finished fourth in the 2010 Preakness Stakes, broke well and found his way into position behind This Ones for Phil, who sprinted to a clear, early lead.

Gone: Kelly Amonte, the two-time national Player of the Year and possibly the best player in women's lacrosse history.2The Terps' record under coach Cindy Timchal:Year .. .Finish .. .. .. .. .. ..Final record1991 ....National runner-up .. .. .. .. .14-3.. .National champion .. .. .. .. ..14-11993 .. .Third place .. .. .. .. .. .. ..12-21994 .. .National runner-up .. .. .. .. .12-11995 .. .National champion .. .. .. .. ..17-01996 .. .National champion .. .. .. .. ..19-0Total .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..88-7Pub Date: 3/04/97

Northeast's 152-pound wrestler Al Grunder emerged as a champion in the Class 2A-1A Region III tournament's toughest weight class Saturdayat Howard County's Hammond High.The Eagles' other champion, No. 2-ranked Marty Kusick (103, 25-0-1), cruised to a 10-0 victory over Chopticon's defending regional champion Phillip Gainey. Kusick reachedthe title bout by pinning his 10th and 11th victims of the year.Grunder and Kusick were two of five state qualifiers for the Eagles, who finished third in the 15-team field, behind champion Oakland Mills (120 points)

Before finishing second on "The Voice," 24-year-old Dia Frampton was struggling for money and relevancy as a member of the emo-folk group Meg & Dia. Last April, Frampton, along with her sister Meg, released the band's fourth album, "Cocoon," without a label and to little fanfare. On a whim, Frampton tried out for NBC's new reality singing competition as a way to get the word out for "Cocoon" … except Frampton won over the ears and hearts of the audience and her coach, country star Blake Shelton.

Aberdeen - Though his team came up one win short of a state baseball title, losing 4-0 to St. Michael's Saturday in the Class 1A championship game, Patterson Mill head coach Matt Roseland said he considered the Huskies' 2011 campaign a success, and that their appearance in this year's final was a sign of good things to come for the four-year-old program. "I told the guys before Saturday's game, 'we said at the beginning of the season that our goals were to win the [UCBAC's] Susquehanna Division, and to win the [1A North]