Shootout

Lawmakers oppose United stadium soccer A Prince George's County Council committee recommended Tuesday that the county oppose legislation that would launch planning for a new stadium for D.C. United. In a 5-0 vote, with two abstentions, the council's General Assembly committee recommended withholding support for a bill that would authorize the Maryland Stadium Authority to study the site and financing methods for the project, slated to cost $180 million to $195 million. Though all nine council members also are members of the committee, Council Chairman Marilynn Bland said that the action does not reflect the council's final position on the legislation.

Baltimore police identified yesterday the man who died in a shootout with officers Thursday night as a 21-year-old who was on parole after having served less than half his prison sentence for illegally possessing a handgun. Ronald Herbert Jones, 21, was shot after police said he ran from a car that officers had stopped in the 600 block of N. Bouldin St. in Southeast Baltimore. Police said Jones hid under a van and, when found, fired several shots with a semiautomatic handgun. Officer Krzysztof Gesla, an 11-year-veteran and a member of the SWAT team, was shot in the leg during the shootout.

The Wilde Lake girls soccer team could not have given Dave Procida any more effort in his final game as its coach. The No. 5 Wildecats came back and came back until they could come back no more in last night's state Class 3A championship. After battling Urbana to a 2-2 tie through two overtimes, the Wildecats finally fell, 4-2, in a penalty-kick shootout at Broadneck. In regulation, the Wildecats (15-4) rallied from 1-0 down to take a 2-1 lead in the 77th minute. In the shootout, they came from 3-0 down to pull within 3-2 before Urbana's fifth shooter, Kelly Mohns, scored the game-winner.

Yesterday morning, on what was to have been his second day of his trial in Baltimore Circuit Court, Richard Keith Hardy III pleaded guilty to a convenience store robbery that turned into a bloody shootout. The plea deal announced in court means that Hardy, 19, will be sentenced to life in prison, with all but 25 to 40 years suspended. He is to be sentenced in July. Hardy was one of three men accused of holding up Keeper's Market in Belair-Edison on the afternoon of Jan. 4, 2006. When the store manager emerged with a gun of his own, Hardy opened fire, said Assistant State's Attorney William F. Cecil.

The Maryland Mania finally broke into the scoring column last night at UMBC Stadium, but still lost its fourth consecutive A-League game, 2-1, falling short in a shootout against the Atlanta Silverbacks.Atlanta trailed for much of the game but after tying the score at 1 in the 81st minute, controlled the rest of play, including a scoreless, 15-minute sudden-death overtime, and took the shootout, 3-1.The first goal in Mania history -- breaking the team's 303-minute scoring drought -- came in the 23rd minute from its first signee, Columbia's Todd Haskins, a midfielder who banged a deflected pass from forward Lloyd Barker into the lower-right corner from 8 yards.

CBS color commentator Buddy Baker, 58, won the 1980 Daytona 500 and holds the record for the fastest race in the event's history, at 177.602 mph. Here, in his own inimitable way, he handicaps this year's race, speaking to Sun reporter Sandra McKee.Jeff Gordon is everybody's pick and he's certainly fast. But I think there are a couple other guys who could win.Mark Martin is in the best position he's ever been in and he keeps a good, clean car and doesn't make mistakes. He's got a fast pit crew that showed what it can do in the Bud Shootout [which Martin won]

Jessica Schmidt was right."We played our hearts out," said the Glenelg junior defender.For 80 scoreless minutes, including two 10-minute overtime periods, Glenelg and Washington waged a battle of attrition in a Class 1A state semifinal field hockey game yesterday at Goucher College. Neither team blinked."It was the best game I've played in all year," said Glenelg junior Elizabeth Narron.Finally, as sun began to settle, the game was decided in a shootout. And there, Washington was just a little better.

The answers to why Blast midfielder Denison Cabral and goalkeeper Scott Hileman have been so successful in shootouts this season lies in practice.They have to face each other.Cabral leads the league in shootout goals (nine) and Hileman is tied for the league lead in stopping them (eight).Having two of the best specialists in the league on the same team is a major reason the Blast is having a decent year on special teams."Denison has a couple of different things that he does on the shootout that makes him successful," coach Kevin Healey said.

A shootout goal by Denison Cabral, his third of the evening, gave the Blast an 11-10 overtime victory over the Edmonton Drillers last night and ended a two-game losing streak.On its first foray in the extra session at the Baltimore Arena, Edmondson defender Chris Handsor was called for tripping Franklin McIntosh, the penalty setting up Cabral's shootout attempt.As usual, he moved straight in before starting his fancy footwork and drawing Drillers goalie Pat Onstad off his feet before moving right and angling the ball into the net."

FREDERICK -- The North Carroll scoring express derailed last night as Thomas Johnson defeated the visiting Panthers in a sudden-death, penalty-kick shootout, 7-6, in the Class 3A West Regional girls soccer final.Each team scored a goal in regulation, but went scoreless in two 10-minute overtime periods. With the shootout tied at 5, Thomas Johnson junior striker Mollie Merkel kicked a shot into the right corner to give the Patriots a 6-5 lead in the shootout.After Panthers freshman midfielder Heather Tomko and Patriots senior back Karen Hamilton both missed, junior goalie Liz Hammel blocked away a shot by North Carroll senior goalie Beth Reeb.

The No. 3 Mount St. Joseph soccer team scratched and clawed and defended with everything it had in Monday's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship against No. 1 and two-time defending league champion McDonogh. All the hard work - 100 scoreless minutes' worth - got the Gaels to a familiar place, penalty kicks. And once again, senior forward David Arnold - tall, athletic and with a knack for guessing right - turned temporary goalie and ended up the hero.

WASHINGTON - -Alex Ovechkin scored twice in regulation and notched the only goal in the shootout to lift the Washington Capitals to a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night. After Ovechkin's pretty tally in the shootout, rookie goaltender Semyon Varlamov redeemed himself from a soft second-period goal by stopping all three Nashville attempts, including a brilliant pad save on Martin Erat's deke to clinch the Capitals' second straight win. The game probably never should have come down to a shootout.

Baltimore prosecutors have dropped attempted murder charges against a 28-year-old man accused of initiating a movie-worthy shootout and car chase with three detectives in August in East Baltimore. Prosecutors never sought an indictment. Instead, on May 5, they offered Wayne Brown of the 4100 block of Chatford Ave. a plea to time served for stealing a car, a misdemeanor, after homicide detectives and prosecutors uncovered a host of problems, according to Brown's attorney. According to charging documents, three undercover detectives in the Violent Crimes Impact Division noticed a 1991 Lincoln Town Car in the 1700 block of Bradford St. that "appeared to get their attention."

Lawmakers oppose United stadium soccer A Prince George's County Council committee recommended Tuesday that the county oppose legislation that would launch planning for a new stadium for D.C. United. In a 5-0 vote, with two abstentions, the council's General Assembly committee recommended withholding support for a bill that would authorize the Maryland Stadium Authority to study the site and financing methods for the project, slated to cost $180 million to $195 million. Though all nine council members also are members of the committee, Council Chairman Marilynn Bland said that the action does not reflect the council's final position on the legislation.

MEXICO CITY - Seven Mexican federal agents looking for an arms cache died early yesterday in a shootout with gunmen in the northern state of Sinaloa, officials said. The agents came under fire when they went to search a home in Culiacan, the state capital. Four other agents were wounded. At least one gunman was killed in the confrontation, which came as a wave of drug-related violence has washed over Mexico. Two suspects were arrested, the federal Public Security Ministry said. The state has registered more than 200 killings this year, mainly as a result of a power struggle in one of Mexico's biggest drug gangs, the so-called Sinaloa cartel.

Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg and Jiri Hudler scored in a shootout to lift the host Detroit Red Wings to a 4-3 win over the Washington Capitals last night. Tomas Holmstrom had two goals, Zetterberg added a goal and an assist, and Datsyuk had three assists for NHL-leading Detroit in regulation. Dominik Hasek made 27 saves. Alexander Ovechkin, Jeff Schultz and Semin scored for Washington. Olie Kolzig stopped 27 shots, and Alexander Semin had a shootout goal. Islanders -- Chris Simon left the team, saying he needed time away after his latest penalty for attempting to injure an opponent.

Baltimore police identified yesterday the man who died in a shootout with officers Thursday night as a 21-year-old who was on parole after having served less than half his prison sentence for illegally possessing a handgun. Ronald Herbert Jones, 21, was shot after police said he ran from a car that officers had stopped in the 600 block of N. Bouldin St. in Southeast Baltimore. Police said Jones hid under a van and, when found, fired several shots with a semiautomatic handgun. Officer Krzysztof Gesla, an 11-year-veteran and a member of the SWAT team, was shot in the leg during the shootout.

The Wilde Lake girls soccer team could not have given Dave Procida any more effort in his final game as its coach. The No. 5 Wildecats came back and came back until they could come back no more in last night's state Class 3A championship. After battling Urbana to a 2-2 tie through two overtimes, the Wildecats finally fell, 4-2, in a penalty-kick shootout at Broadneck. In regulation, the Wildecats (15-4) rallied from 1-0 down to take a 2-1 lead in the 77th minute. In the shootout, they came from 3-0 down to pull within 3-2 before Urbana's fifth shooter, Kelly Mohns, scored the game-winner.

Ashley Dalisera had never been more nervous in her life. When last night's Class 4A East regional field hockey championship went to a shootout, Severna Park's sophomore goaltender faced more pressure than she had all season, but Dalisera also had a lot of confidence - in herself and in her teammates. That confidence was rewarded. Dalisera made two saves in the shootout, and veterans Julie Gardner, Allison Behringer and Kaylee Pohlmeyer converted their penalty strokes to give the No. 5 Falcons a 3-2 shootout victory over No. 2 South River that broke a 1-1 tie through overtime.

Loch Raven goalie Kirsten Kyne had a pretty good idea where Catonsville's Jackie Reymann was going to place her penalty stroke in last night's field hockey shootout. The keeper reached out to her right and deflected Reymann's stroke with her stick, securing a 2-1 edge in the shootout and a victory for the No. 13 Raiders in a game that was tied 1-1 after two overtime periods. "I felt she was going to go stick side," Kyne said, "so I just tried as hard as I could and reached my stick out there.