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COLLEGE PARK -- The Maryland Terrapins have been taking much more than they've been giving this holiday season. Last night -- against overwhelmed Chicago State -- was no exception. To say the No. 18 Terps started quickly simply wouldn't do it justice. They scored the game's first 22 points and needed only 4:30 to do it, getting a game-high 24 points from junior guard Juan Dixon and plenty of balance from the rest on their way to a feel-good, 117-55 win over the visiting Cougars before 13,506 at Cole Field House.

Jim Larranaga's team is not on national television much, and after its last showing, that won't change. Larranaga led George Mason into the Colonial Athletic Association title game against UNC-Wilmington, where 68 points were scored - total. The final score of 35-33 is the second-lowest scoring NCAA men's basketball game since the shot clock was implemented in 1986. It was ugly, but enough to earn the Patriots an invitation to the NCAA tournament, where they will face Maryland on Thursday at the BSU Pavilion in Boise, Idaho.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - If the Orioles can get solid starting pitching, they have a chance to be in the American League pennant race until the end. Or so the conventional thinking behind most baseball midseason prognostications went. As the Orioles' front office continues its quest to find a front-line starter, the Orioles' offense is trying to find its way out of a confounding slump at the worst possible time - when the Orioles badly need a clutch hit and while trying to stay afloat in the AL East race.

Some 25 years ago, Jim MacDonald honed his soccer skills under coach George Wagner at Franklin High. Last night, MacDonald, now the North Carroll girls coach, continued to show his former mentor that he picked up a trick or two. Forward Carly Rihard scored two goals, helping the host Panthers earn a 3-3 tie with No. 8 Franklin, a Class 3A state finalist a year ago, in a stiff early season test for both teams. North Carroll (0-0-1) led 3-2 before the Indians" Ashley Harris won a ball about 10 yards in front of the goal and beat keeper Jenna Trumpower to her left to tie the game with 16:32 left.

The UMBC women's lacrosse team ended its scoring slump in a big way, overwhelming visiting Central Connecticut State, 22-2, in a Northeast Conference league matchup yesterday. The Retrievers (1-3, 0-3) opened the scoring just 17 seconds into the game and scored the game's first eight goals. UMBC, which had scored 20 goals in losing its first three games, extended its lead to 12-1 at the half. Jamie Gerhart scored six goals to lead UMBC, and Stephanie Crouch, Jen Dragoni and Lauren Traber all scored three times.

Five players scored in double figures, led by Clement Sorgho with 20 points, to lead the Salisbury men's basketball team to an 86-71 victory over host Washington College last night. Jim Todd added 17 for the Sea Gulls (2-1). Aaron Goode scored 16 to lead the Shoremen (1-2). Goucher 74, Johns Hopkins 66: Issac Brooks scored 20 and Thabo Letsebe added 18 to lead the Gophers (2-1) over the Blue Jays (1-2). Matthew Eisley led Hopkins with 17 points. Western Maryland 65, Valley Forge 57: Starting slowly, the Green Terror (2-3)

Mary Key scored five goals on seven shots and had three assists to lead the 12th-ranked Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team over visiting UMBC, 16-6, yesterday at Homewood Field. The Retrievers (2-5) took their only lead in the first two minutes on Kate Worthington's unassisted goal. The Blue Jays (7-2) had ten different scorers. No. 2 Virginia 20, Old Dominion 1: Kate Breslin led all scorers with four goals as the visiting Cavaliers cruised past the Lady Monarchs (3-6). Amy Appelt scored two goals and added three assists, and Megan Havrilla had a hat trick for Virginia (8-2)

Junior Shea Conway's second goal of the night with 57 seconds remaining proved to be the game winner as Glenelg outlasted Liberty, 8-6, in the Class 2A/1A boys lacrosse state semifinal played at Southern in Harwood last night. Liberty had tied the score at 6 on Peyton Zeher's goal with 3:28 remaining. "It was basically a one-on-one, and I threw it up there and didn't know where it was going - but it went in," Conway said of his game-winner. After he scored, the defense of Glenelg (15-1)

Trish Snyder scored 18 points, leading six players in double figures, as visiting Johns Hopkins set a school record for points in a game, routing Goucher, 104-38, last night in a nonconference game. The 104 points eclipsed the record of 97 set against Widener in the 1990-91 season and tied against Roger Williams in the 1993-94 season. Kathy Darling scored 13 and Heidi Sumser and Jennifer Butterwei each had 12 for the Blue Jays (3-0). The Gophers fell to 1-2. American 69, Towson 60: Jackie Richardson scored a career-high 13 points but the Tigers dropped their second in a row, falling to the Eagles (3-0)

Richard Jefferson scored 32 points and rookie Luc Richard Mbah a Moute added 17, making up for a missed chance in regulation and rallying the Milwaukee Bucks to a 112-104 overtime victory over the visiting Washington Wizards last night. Mbah a Moute, a second-round draft pick, missed a shot that would have won it at the buzzer after Milwaukee overcame a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit. But in overtime, Mbah a Moute drove for a layup, then grabbed a rebound when Antawn Jamison missed a short shot and hit a 12-footer with 37 seconds left to give Milwaukee a 108-102 lead.