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On May 17, 2007, EILEEN WESTERVELT, of Glen Arm; beloved wife of the late Charles Richard Westervelt; loving mother of Stephen John Westervelt and wife Donna, Warren Richard Westervelt and wife Darlene, James Robert Westervelt and wife Charlene, Lucinda Louise Harris and husband Rob, Rus VanWestervelt and wife Amy; her dear life partner, Charles Weinreich; cherished grandmother of ten grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Family and friends will honor Eileen's life at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services - Parkville, 8800 Harford Road, on Sunday, May 20, 2007, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held 10 A.M. Monday at St. John's Lutheran Church - Parkville.

Forward John Grant Jr. finished with three goals and two assists as the visiting Colorado Mammoth defeated the Minnesota Swarm, 16-14, on Saturday night before a season-high announced 12,243 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. The Mammoth (7-9), which led 8-7 at the half, clinched a National Lacrosse League playoff berth earlier in the evening when the Rochester Knighthawks defeated the Bandits in Buffalo. As the No. 4 seed, Colorado will visit the top-seeded Calgary Roughnecks in a semifinal next Saturday at Scotiabank Saddledome.

Bill Glover, who bowls in the Tuesday Men's Metropolitan League at Bowl America Glen Burnie, says that 89-year-old Frank Westervelt is "the best league secretary I've ever seen.""He always has the score sheets ready on time. He's always on top of everything. He's just great."Westervelt said: "I've been involved with tenpins here ever since I moved here. That was in 1961, but I bowled in Columbus [Ohio], of course. I've been around bowling for a while, and so has Mary [his wife]."Mary doesn't bowl anymore, but Frank just dropped the weight of his bowling ball to 14 pounds and tries to ignore the arthritis in his hands.

National Lacrosse League Westervelt helps Wings beat Swarm to end skid Drew Westervelt (UMBC, John Carroll) tied for the game high with four goals and four assists as the host Philadelphia Wings rallied past the Minnesota Swarm, 15-13, before an announced 6,861 at Wells Fargo Center on Sunday afternoon. Paul Rabil (Johns Hopkins) added two goals and three assists for the Wings (6-8), who ended a five-game losing streak. Brendan Mundorf (UMBC, Mount St. Joseph)

Coach Keith Hinderer Sr. called him "one of the best players I've ever coached." Teammate Owen Jordan simply called him "a superstar." Attackman Drew Westervelt was huge in yesterday's come-from-behind 8-7 victory by John Carroll over host Park in a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference game. He scored five times and assisted on another goal as the Patriots defeated last year's league runner-up by the same score for the second time in five days, although the earlier game went to overtime.

UMBC's Drew Westervelt scored in the second overtime to lift the Retrievers to a 9-8 victory against homestanding Loyola on Tuesday afternoon. Loyola sophomore Dan Bauers scores twice in the final 1:43 of regulation to force overtime. The Greyhounds battled back from an early 3-0 deficit and an 8-5 hole in the fourth quarter. Brendan Mundorf and James Hyland had two goals apiece for UMBC (6-6). Matt Monfett scored two goals and added an assist for Loyola (4-6). The Greyhounds head to Pennsylvania this Saturday for a 1 p.m. contest.

Drew Westervelt, a goalie for No. 13 John Carroll, aspires to be like Zack Thornton, a professional player who led the Patriots to their only soccer title in 1989. But in shutting out fourth-ranked Calvert Hall for the second time in a week, 1-0, yesterday, Westervelt did something Thornton never did - beat Calvert Hall twice in a season. Alex Pyzik scored with seven minutes left, floating a pass from Matt Cooper over the outstretched hands of Calvert Hall's Phil Phillips. And Westervelt (14 saves)

Loyola College needed only two minutes to make a stunning comeback yesterday, but UMBC sophomore attackman Drew Westervelt required one shot to ruin the Greyhounds' day and most likely their season. One minute into the second overtime period at Geppi-Aikens Field, after the visiting Retrievers had blown a three-goal lead late in regulation, Westervelt saved the day. Working with his back to the goal on the right side of the crease and Loyola defenseman Dan Gross covering him, he faked left, turned and hit a low, right-handed shot from four yards out to give the Retrievers a dramatic 9-8 victory.

The UMBC men's lacrosse season has been a seesaw affair devoid of a major streak. The team has never won or lost more than two straight games en route to a 5-6 record. But through the ups and downs of impressive victories (Ohio State, Loyola) and discouraging losses (Delaware, Binghamton, Stony Brook) and a season-ending injury to its top offensive threat, one beacon has shone through the inconsistency - freshman Drew Westervelt. When the Retrievers visit local rival Towson tonight, the former Harford County co-Player of the Year will take the field as an integral member of the team's attack and its second-leading scorer.

UMBC freshman Drew Westervelt delivered three of his game-high four goals when it counted the most yesterday, sending the Retrievers to a 10-4 victory over Vermont and earning them a spot in this week's America East men's lacrosse tournament. Westervelt (John Carroll) sparked a 6-0 second-half run that finished the host Catamounts (6-9, 2-4). Brendan Mundorf had three goals and two assists for the Retrievers (6-7, 4-2), who needed to win to extend their season. UMBC, seeded second, will play host to Albany on Wednesday in the semifinals.

Drew Westervelt's path to pro lacrosse was slicked with sweat and puke and blood and spit. "You know how it is when you're playing sports," he said. "You leave a lot out there. " So when the 27-year-old Bel Air native and UMBC graduate felt an entrepreneurial tug in 2009, he immediately thought about developing a business cleaning sports facilities. When he went to an uncle seeking financing, he was given one condition: Go see Doug Bradford and Doug McGettigan. The two had been running a cleaning business in Maryland for 25 years.

Major League Lacrosse Five points give Bayhawks' Westervelt offensive honor Chesapeake Bayhawks attackman Drew Westervelt was named Major League Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week after recording a season-high five points with four goals and one assist in the Bayhawks' 15-7 victory over the visiting Charlotte Hounds on Saturday night at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The former UMBC standout is third on the team in points (17), is tied for second in goals (10)

Editor: The Al Cesky Scholarship Fund Inc. celebrated the 26th anniversary of the Al Cesky Scholarship Awards Banquet May 18 at the Richlin Ballroom. At the banquet, the fund awarded $54,000 in scholarships to 24 outstanding Harford County student-athletes. Those scholarship winners embody the purpose of the Al Cesky Scholarship Fund Inc., namely to preserve and keep visible the values reflected in the life and work of Al Cesky, with special reference to his contributions to spiritual, emotional and intellectual development of youth and his role in fostering community life.

Et cetera Jockey Garcia could reach 1,000 career victories today Journeyman rider Luis Garcia won three of his four mounts Thursday at Laurel Park and is two wins away from his 1,000th career victory. He'll be aboard five horses on today's nine-race card. "I am not trying to think about the number," Garcia said. "It would be amazing. Not many riders win that many races, and this is just my seventh year. I am getting excited, and hopefully it happens soon." Garcia, 25, has won 645 races at Laurel and Pimlico Race Course and has been a top 10 rider in the colony since arriving in 2003.

On May 17, 2007, EILEEN WESTERVELT, of Glen Arm; beloved wife of the late Charles Richard Westervelt; loving mother of Stephen John Westervelt and wife Donna, Warren Richard Westervelt and wife Darlene, James Robert Westervelt and wife Charlene, Lucinda Louise Harris and husband Rob, Rus VanWestervelt and wife Amy; her dear life partner, Charles Weinreich; cherished grandmother of ten grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Family and friends will honor Eileen's life at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services - Parkville, 8800 Harford Road, on Sunday, May 20, 2007, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held 10 A.M. Monday at St. John's Lutheran Church - Parkville.

Last Sunday, UMBC seniors Andy Gallagher and Drew Westervelt were hoping, and praying, that the lords of lacrosse would allow them to play at least one more game together in the NCAA Division I tournament. "It was not a good time, not a good time at all," said Gallagher, still shaking his head in disbelief. "I was just hoping that the committee saw we were playing well, 6-1 in the last seven games. We took Albany, a very good team, to a one-goal game. I was hoping they knew we were playing very good lacrosse, and we could continue to play that way in the tournament."

Minutes after completing the most productive game of his collegiate career, and leading his team to its first NCAA men's lacrosse tournament appearance of the millennium in the process, UMBC junior attackman Drew Westervelt offered an understatement. "We were moving the ball well, and I was getting the ball in good spots." he said. That partly explains how Westervelt dissected unranked Albany in yesterday's America East Conference championship game at UMBC Stadium, before 1,227 . It partly explains how he scored a career-high six goals , and added three assists for a career-high nine points, to lead No. 14 UMBC to a 19-10 rout over the Great Danes, giving the Retrievers their first America East Conference title.

Senior Drew Westervelt scored five goals and freshman Cayle Ratcliffe added four as second-seeded UMBC beat third-seeded Binghamton, 11-7, in Albany, N.Y., yesterday in an America East tournament semifinal. The Retrievers (10-4) won for the sixth straight time to register their second consecutive 10-plus-win season. They advanced to take on top seed and host Albany in the championship game tomorrow at 1 p.m. Albany (13-2) routed fourth-seeded Stony Brook, 17-5, as Merrick Thomson scored a season-high seven goals and had two assists.

No. 5 Georgetown (8-2, 4-0 East Coast Athletic Conference) scored three third-quarter goals to come back from a one-goal deficit en route to a 10-8 win over No. 12 Loyola (5-4, 3-2) in front of 1,784 fans at Georgetown's Multi-Sport Field. Andrew Brancaccio scored all three of his goals in the second half, including two in the fourth quarter, to break a 7-7 tie. No. 15 UMBC 11, Binghamton 10 -- Drew Westervelt scored with one second remaining in the second overtime period to give the host Retrievers (7-4, 2-1 America East)