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For the Baltimore Bays' fans, last night signaled the start of March Happiness.Backed by Danny Santoro's four goal and two assists, the Bays extended their winning streak to 34 games and captured their third straight I League championship with an 11-4 victory over the Tulsa Roughnecks.After witnessing only one goal in the first quarter -- scored by the Bays -- the sellout crowd at Canton's Du Burns Arena, watched the Bays break the game open with five goals in a span of 4 minutes, 6 seconds.

Clinton E Riggs,86, a Tulsa, Okla., police officer credited with creating the "Yield" traffic sign, died Thursday in Tulsa.He was a state trooper with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, where he apparently thought of creating a sign that would control traffic at an intersection as well as assign liability in a collision, according to the Tulsa Police Department's history book.He developed the keystone-shaped, yellow-and-black sign while attending Northwestern Traffic Institute in 1939, experimenting with it for a decade.

Vincent Ciccone, 81, a candy maker who invented the "Blow Pop" lollipop and made candied throat lozenges possible, died Saturday in West Caldwell, N.J.Robert C. Dean, 94, the architect who designed the American Military Cemetery in Cambridge, England, and helped with the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, died Sunday in Natick, Mass.Jess Orval "Doc" Dockery, 88, a pilot who helped perfect the science of crop dusting, died in Holley, Fla., on Saturday of complications due to pneumonia.

Yesterday's resultsEastTexas 82, Coppin State 81Louisville 64, New Mex. 63SoutheastProvidence 98, Duke 87Chattanooga 75, Ill. 63MidwestClemson 65, Tulsa 59Minnesota 76, Temple 57WestUtah 77, N.C.-Charl. 58Stanford 72, Wake For. 66InsideEast: Louisville lands another spot in the regional semifinals, dealing New Mexico another hard-luck NCAA loss. 7cSoutheast: No. 14 seed Tennessee-Chattanooga gets more than respect against Illinois -- the Mocs also get an upset and a trip to the Sweet 16. 8cMidwest: Clemson wins by shutting down Tulsa star Shea Seals, and top seed Minnesota routs Temple.

There was no love lost between the Bays and their faithful fans last night at Du Burns Arena.Moments after capturing their second consecutive United Systems of Independent Soccer Leagues championship with a 13-10 victory over the Tulsa Roughnecks, the Bays showed their appreciation by standing in the center of the floor and applauding their fans."

MILWAUKEE - Now Maceo Baston knows how Chris Webber felt.The Michigan sophomore revisited Webber's infamous gaffe in the 1993 national championship game against North Carolina last night, calling for a timeout with 3.2 seconds remaining when the Wolverines had none.Brandy Perryman made the resultant two technical free throws for Texas (21-9), sealing the 10th-seeded Longhorns' 80-76 upset in the first round of the Midwest Regional at the Bradley Center.Seventh-seeded Michigan had pulled within 78-76 on a drive by HTC Louis Bullock (Temple Hills, Md.)

NEW YORK -- Mike Krzyzewski is blunt when talking about this year's Duke basketball team."We're a young team," Krzyzewski said last night. "We're not the Duke of 1992. Put it that way."There are no sure-fire NBA first-round draft picks, no Grant Hills or Christian Laettners filling the roster and the basket. But they are closer to being the Duke of old than at any time in the past three years.Last night's 72-67 victory over No. 22 Tulsa in the semifinals of the Preseason NIT at Madison Square Garden was a perfect example of how far back the sixth-ranked Blue Devils have come.

Opponent: Tulsa RoughnecksSite: Expo Square Pavilion, Tulsa, Okla.Time: 9Outlook: The top-seeded Bays (7-0) take on a Tulsa team that has been hot since adding Tatu to its roster. The Roughnecks (6-6) have the home-field advantage as well as USISL stars Virgil Stevens, Shane Schwab and player/coach Victor Moreland. Denison Cabral (15 goals, 12 assists) and Billy Ronson (11, 15) lead the Bays offensively, and Matt St. Jean, the league's No. 2 goalie with a 5.06 gga, anchors a stingy defense.

What: NCAA East Regional semifinalWhere: Byrne Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, N.J.When: 30 minutes after completion of 7:40 gameTV: NoneOutlook: In four years, coach Tubby Smith (79-42) has guided Tulsa to two Missouri Valley Conference regular-season titles and two straight appearances in the Sweet 16. He also landed guard Shea Seals, a 6-5 sophomore who is the key to Tulsa's chances tonight. Seals has scored 53 points in two tournament games, and gets plenty of help from guard Pooh Williamson (13.0 ppg)

TULSA, Okla. -- Eric Riedlbauer scored five goals -- two in the last two minutes of the game and inadvertently the game-winner in sudden death -- to give the Baltimore Bays a 10-9 win over the Tulsa Ambush (5-5) in a United States Interregional Soccer League game last night.Down 9-7 with two minutes to play, the Bays (11-2) went to a sixth attacker with Billy Ronson in goal. Riedlbauer scored with 1:22 to play to cut the lead to one and then sent the game to sudden death by scoring his fourth goal with 38 seconds remaining.

I was messing around in Tulsa, Okla., last week and got talking with a big burly man with a McCain-Palin pin on his blue blazer who told me he was descended from yellow-dog Democrats who thought the sun rose and set over FDR and Republicans were people who wore spats and top hats and sailed off Newport. So I told him that my Republican ancestors believed that only lazy people were unemployed in the '30s. He said, "So each of us is heading back to where the other one is coming from." He found that rather amusing.

Mrs. ROSETTA WASHINGTON of Baltimore, MD, passed away September 6 in Tulsa, OK. Survived by Gail, Milton and Mark. Her service will be held Monday, September 17 at 8:30 A.m., with services to follow. Viewing is today from 5-8 P.M., at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4905 York Road, Inquiries to (410) 433-7500.

TULSA, Okla. -- A good crowd gathered in front of the county courthouse that summer day to witness the burial of an exceptionally large time capsule: a new gold-and-white Plymouth Belvedere, containing a flag, a city directory, a case of beer, an unpaid parking ticket and the contents of a woman's purse, among other things. City dignitaries explained that exactly 50 years in the future, on June 15, 2007, this fin-tailed hardtop would be unearthed to show the world who we were and how we lived in Tulsa in 1957.

On April 21, 2007, VIVIAN J., beloved wife of George. She is also survived by 1 son, Jason Ferrone Scarborough, 2 granddaughters, Jacqueline and Alyson Scarborough of Tulsa, OK. For any information friends may call the WYLIE FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 638 N. Gilmore Street. Family will receive friends on Tuesday, for the 10:30 A.M. Wake and 11 A.M. funeral service, at Unity United Methodist Church, 1433 Edmondson Avenue. Inquiries at www.wyliefuneralhome.com.

As players and then assistant coaches, Dave Dickerson and Doug Wojcik each spent 13 seasons at Maryland and the Naval Academy, respectively. Dickerson was on the Terps' staff when the team won the 2002 NCAA title, while Wojcik recruited the core that won for North Carolina in 2005. Both are in the second season of their first head coaching jobs, in a league loaded with recognizable veterans, but they view a certain force of nature from different perspectives. At Tulsa, Wojcik sells the Golden Hurricane's rich tradition.

E.H. Dale Gallimore Jr., a former assistant Maryland attorney general, died of lymphoma complications Tuesday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Millersville resident was 63. Born in New York City and raised in Tulsa, Okla., he earned a bachelor of arts in political science and a law degree, both at the University of Tulsa. He joined the Army and served with the Judge Advocate General Corps, and was stationed in Vietnam from 1971 to 1972. He was awarded the Bronze Star. Mr. Gallimore, who moved to Millersville in 1988, was an assistant attorney general and worked in state contract litigation until 2001, when illness forced an early retirement.

If recent history is a guide, Navy should put its overtime loss to Tulsa behind it when the Midshipmen visit Connecticut on Saturday. Over the past four seasons, Navy is 10-1 after a loss. The only time the Mids (3-1) have lost back-to-back games during that period was when they opened the 2005 season by losing to Maryland and Stanford. Navy@Connecticut Saturday, noon, MASN, 1090 AM, 1430 AM, 1500 AM Line: Connecticut by 2 1/2

MARYLAND O'Malley maintains slight lead Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley is maintaining a 6 percentage-point lead over Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. in the race for Maryland governor, a new poll for The Sun shows. Ehrlich, a Republican, still remains a popular figure in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 2-to-1. pg 1a UB hopes to lure freshmen The University of Baltimore will offer every freshman who enrolls in the fall of 2007 a one-year scholarship covering all out-of-pocket tuition and fees - a bold move designed to attract students to its first freshman class in three decades.

Despite all of the breakdowns it endured, whether they were self-inflicted or caused by Tulsa or questionable officiating, Navy still had a chance to maintain its recent home-field advantage yesterday and remain undefeated. But the Midshipmen, playing in the first overtime game in school history, could not execute one of the game's basic plays, and it cost them. Navy@Connecticut Saturday, noon, MASN, 1090 AM, 1430 AM, 1500 AM

Alice K. Willard, a homemaker who was active in many civic and philanthropic organizations, died in her sleep Wednesday at Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. The former longtime Cross Keys resident was 97. She was born and raised Alice Mae Kistler in Tulsa, Okla., and graduated from National Park Seminary, a junior college, in Forest Glen, Montgomery County. She earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1929 from the University of Oklahoma, and a master's degree in the subject from the University of Tulsa.