Santoni

Sophomore right fielder Amanda Santoni took a couple of bad steps, but her reflexes allowed her to make a quick adjustment and a clutch catch. The result snuffed out a potential sixth-inning rally by Old Mill and preserved a 2-0 victory for Chesapeake-Anne Arundel in yesterday's Class 4A East region softball final at Randazzo Park. The victory vaulted the Cougars into next week's state semifinals. Old Mill finished its season with a 15-8 record, including an upset of Anne Arundel County champion North County Thursday, but three losses to Chesapeake.

The Road Runners Club of America's three-monthlong celebration of women's distance running made a stop Sunday at Goucher College for the Baltimore Road Runners Club's Women's Distance Festival 5K.For winner Stacey Nicholson, it was another stop in her training program for the Oct. 6 marathon in Minneapolis-St. Paul."This was my first and only one," Nicholson said of the Grand Prix series. "I came to race. I hadn't run a race since the Fourth of July."Nicholson, 28, made it to the finish line in 17 minutes, 46 seconds, beating Maureen Hall, 26, by a half-minute.

It often takes a lot of things to go right to squeeze out a 1-0 win. For the Chesapeake softball team, those things were stellar pitching from Lindsay Ettinger, good defense at third base from Brittany Owen and a close call or two going its way yesterday against visiting Old Mill. Emily Bolling beat out an infield chop at third to score Meghan Hickman with two outs in the fifth, and Ettinger took care of the rest, one-hitting the No. 9 Patriots in the 1-0 win for the top-ranked Cougars.

North St. John's The North St. John's Blue Marlins defeated Dulaney, 302-186, in the second meet of the Central Maryland Swim League season. North St. John's had 25 Straehle qualifiers and 173 improvement ribbons were given. Anika Ekanyake, Samantha Ekanyake and Deanna Parsons placed first in all three of their events. Parsons broke another pool record with her 50 breaststroke time of 37.78. Other first-place finishers included Emily Bullock, Alyssa Corb, Brendan Demek, Alex Holland, Matthew Kohler, Aaron Luther, Cassie Meyers, Brendan Rice, Tharen Rice, Jeffrey Roman, Maggie Roman, Benjamin Skopic, Kayla Snyder, Katherine Stagg, Anne Warren, Dylan Wilson, Kevin Zgorski and Kyle Zgorski.

More than 450 people attended the Restaurant Association of Maryland's 35th annual gala awards banquet at Stouffer's Monday evening. As you can imagine, this is a tough group to prepare food for, but Stouffer chefs Guy Reinbold and Walter Reaman lived up to their reputations and served guests lots of good wine to go with lobster and filet mignon.Restaurateur of the Year, the association's ultimate honor, was bestowed upon chef/owner Mimmo Cricchio of Da Mimmo's Restaurant in Little Italy.

A delivery truck stocked with Berger cookies rolled out of the Cherry Hill bakery Monday morning for the first time in more than a month. The well-known sweets are finally back in stores after Berger's closure by the Baltimore City Health Department Jan. 31; the bakery was closed for operating without a city-issued food-service license. The Health Department approved the bakery's license Wednesday, and the bakery started to gear up for production the next day. On Monday, workers in hairnets and aprons frosted cookies, packed the treats and sent them off. Corey DeBaufre, whose family has been making the cookies since 1969, said the bakery would keep its regular production schedule for the time being.

Imagine showing off your new car to friends and family only to get a call from the dealer — sometimes weeks later — saying your financing has fallen through. You're given the option of returning the car or signing a new sales agreement with terms that are likely less favorable. If you're like many buyers, consumer lawyers say, you will be too embarrassed to send the car back and opt to pay more instead. Consumer lawyers call this yo-yo financing, when dealers let buyers leave with a car and then reel them in again to say the agreement has changed.

Mildred Welsh, 94, Flower Mart chairwoman Mildred Welsh, longtime Women's Civic League member and former Flower Mart chairwoman, died Friday of congestive heart failure. She was 94 and lived in Towson. Mildred Conway was born in Cumberland in 1905. In 1928, she married Thomas Owen Carroll, a Monumental Life Insurance Co. executive. Because of her husband's job, they moved to nine cities, and settled in Baltimore in 1947. Then she became active in the Women's Civic League. She held numerous board positions in the Baltimore City Women's Civic League chapter and was president of the Wiltondale Chapter.

On March 8, 2006, RICHARD A. of Towson loving brother of Joanne Joynes. Dear cousin of Jeff Clark, Jacqueline Fry, Patricia Santoni, Robert Clark and Janet Elder. Family and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Service at THE JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME, P.A. 8521 Loch Raven Blvd. (Beltway exit 29-B) on Sunday, March 12, at 1 PM. Inurnment private.

On March 21, 2004, JANE CLARK; beloved wife of Jeff Clark; devoted mother of J. Alexander Clark; loving sister of Richard H. Russell and Robert B. and wife Nadine Russell; dear sister-in-law of Jacqueline and husband Edmund Fry, Robert and wife Joyce Clark, Paticia and husband Pete Santoni and Janet and husband Ray Elder. Friends may call at the JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 8521 Loch Raven Blvd. (beltway exit 29 B) on Wednesday and Thursday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9PM where family and friends are invited to attend funeral services Friday, 12PM.