Wootton

On January 10, 2004, HENRY Z. WOOTTON, JR.; loving son of the late Henry Z. Wootton Sr. and Mrs. Helen M. Wootton; dear brother of Gilbert Wootton; loving nephew of John Goeller and Mrs. Gertrude Dvorak. Friends may call at the Leonard J. Ruck Inc., Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Rd (at Echodale) on Tuesday and Wednesday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Dominic Church on Thursday, 10 am followed by interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.

A future lacrosse goalie for Towson University gave No. 6 Severna Park all it could handle on the soccer field in Friday night's Class 4A state championship game at UMBC. Wootton's Matt Hoy had a goal and an assist in the first half, leading the Patriots to a title in their first trip to the finals with a 3-1 victory. Severna Park suffered just its second loss of the season and fell short in its bid to win a state championship for the first time since 2001. "Wootton is a very well-coached, organized team that has 11 technical players," said Severna Park's first-year coach Ryan Parisi.

Delays in earlier games forced seventh-ranked Severna Park to wait nearly an extra hour Wednesday night to begin the quest for its latest state boys lacrosse title against Wootton. Once play began, however, the Falcons wasted little time putting an exclamation point on their first perfect season. Severna Park scored on eight of its first 10 shots, building a commanding early lead before surviving a late rally in a 13-7 win over their outmanned Rockville opponent in the Class 4A-3A state title game at UMBC.

In each of the past three years, the Marriotts Ridge golf team took the first-day lead in the Class 2A-1A state championship only to slip back on the second day. Again this year, an impressive opening round put the Mustangs at the top of the leader board going into Wednesday's final round at the University of Maryland Golf Course. This time, however, they had freshman Bennett Buch. With his second straight under-par round, Buch captured the individual boys title and led Marriotts Ridge to the elusive team title, the program's first.

Harry D. Wootton Sr., president of an automobile dealership in Pasadena, died Sunday at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a stroke. He was 68 and had lived in Chestertown for the past eight years.Services for Mr. Wootton were being held today at the Loring Byers funeral establishment, 8728 Liberty Road in Randallstown.In 1969, he started Volvo Land Inc. in Pasadena, which did business under that name until it added other lines of cars and became known as Wootton Motor Cars.Earlier, he was a partner in Michaelson Motors, a northwest Baltimore dealership with which he had been associated since 1948.

Services for Harry D. Wootton Sr., president of an automobile dealership in Pasadena, will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Loring Byers Funeral Directors, 8728 Liberty Road in Randallstown.Mr. Wootton, who was 68 and had lived in Chestertown for thepast eight years, died Sunday at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a stroke.In 1969, he started Volvo Land Inc. in Pasadena, which did business under that name until it added other lines of cars and became known as Wootton Motor Cars.Earlier, he was a partner in Michaelson Motors, a Northwest Baltimore dealership with which he had been associated since 1948.

SILVER SPRING - Marlon Evans returned the opening kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown, and visiting Wootton High (12-0) went on to a 20-7 upset of top-seeded Springbrook (11-1) in a state Class 4A semifinal matchup of two Montgomery County teams yesterday.Wootton will make its first-state title game appearance Saturday, when it meets Randallstown at Westminster High at 2 p.m.Springbrook tied the game on a 9-yard touchdown run by Leonard Green, and the game was tied at the half.But in the third period, Messay Hailemariam scooped up a fumble and returned it 35 yards for a touchdown to give Wootton the lead at 14-7, and Geoff Pearce added a 31-yard field goal to make it 17-7.

Stephan Triandafilou scored the winning goal with 56 seconds remaining in the first sudden-death overtime, as Wootton defeated Dulaney, 1-0, in the state Class 4A, Region I soccer final at Catonsville Community College last night.Triandafilou's shot deflected off a Lions defender and went past the outstretched hand of goalkeeper Mason Ray."It wasn't the prettiest goal I ever scored," Triandafilou said, "but it ranks as one of the best."Said Ray: "I moved left, and it hit off [Dulaney defender Mark]

When Broadneck boys soccer coach Kevin McMullen said the Bruins' offense would take care of itself during yesterday's state 4A semifinal, he didn't necessarily have Brad Reinhart in mind.Nonetheless, Reinhart would provide all the scoring, recording a hat trick to lead second-seeded and host Broadneck past third-seeded Thomas Wootton of Montgomery County, 3-0.The Bruins (9-2-4) meet the winner of last night's Bowie-Walt Whitman semifinal, which ended past the Anne Arundel County Sun deadline, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Old Mill.

Wootton coach Bob Hampton sees the flashing red lights and hears the warning whistle. Even so, in today's Class 4A state title game against Randallstown, he'll send the Patriots' defense into the path of the Larry Washington Express.Washington, the Rams' senior tailback who has run for 2,022 yards and 31 touchdowns this season, is looking to lead Randallstown (12-0) to its first state title since 1984. Hampton, whose team stunned Springbrook last week, 20-7, is wary of the task."We'd like to play 14 guys against him if we could," he said.

The numbers truly tell the story of how dominant No. 8 Hereford was in its 16-5 victory over No. 12 Marriotts Ridge in a Class 3A-2A boys lacrosse state semifinal Friday night at Annapolis. The Bulls (18-1), who are going to try for a fourth consecutive state championship next week against the winner of Saturday's Kent Island-Middletown game, scored seven goals in the first quarter. Four of those goals came in the final 1:47, with Hereford getting three in a 12-second stretch to take a 7-2 lead.

Delays in earlier games forced seventh-ranked Severna Park to wait nearly an extra hour Wednesday night to begin the quest for its latest state boys lacrosse title against Wootton. Once play began, however, the Falcons wasted little time putting an exclamation point on their first perfect season. Severna Park scored on eight of its first 10 shots, building a commanding early lead before surviving a late rally in a 13-7 win over their outmanned Rockville opponent in the Class 4A-3A state title game at UMBC.

With his team trailing by a goal in the final seconds in Friday night's Class 4A-3A state semifinals at Arundel, C. Milton Wright's Scott Showalter picked up a loose ball and fired a shot past Wootton goalie Bobby Riso as the final horn sounded. The referee, however, waved off the goal, saying the shot did not beat the clock, and the Patriots held on for an 11-10 victory. The scrappy play of C.Milton Wright helped pave the way for the strong playoff run, but the Mustangs fell just short of reaching the state finals for the first time in program history.

COLLEGE PARK -- Broadneck's motto this season has been "You gotta swing to win." In the end, the Bruins just kept swinging. Third-ranked Broadneck (20-1) crawled out of a 2-1 hole to defeat Dulaney, 24-26, 25-18, 22-25, 25-10, 15-10, in the Class 4A state semifinals at the University of Maryland's Ritchie Coliseum last night. "I looked in their eyes and I could see the intensity," Broadneck coach Ramanzo Beans said. "They really proved to me what they were made of tonight." The Bruins will face Montgomery County's Wootton in the 4A state championship at Ritchie Coliseum tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. "I always tell them we need to terminate," Beans said, referring to the kills by his team's front line.

While coach Larry Kramer called Severna Park's senior attack of Eric Lusby, Colby Rhodes and Randy Waugh "the best I've ever coached," a rival called the trio "the best I've ever seen" out of the Falcons. Their talents were on full display in last night's 15-6 rout of Wootton (18-1), in which they combined for 10 goals and three assists to earn the program's second consecutive Class 4A-3A state title and its fourth overall, including crowns in 1999 and 2004. Tied at 3-3 at 10:25 of the second quarter, the 10th-ranked Falcons (18-2)

On January 10, 2004, HENRY Z. WOOTTON, JR.; loving son of the late Henry Z. Wootton Sr. and Mrs. Helen M. Wootton; dear brother of Gilbert Wootton; loving nephew of John Goeller and Mrs. Gertrude Dvorak. Friends may call at the Leonard J. Ruck Inc., Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Rd (at Echodale) on Tuesday and Wednesday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Dominic Church on Thursday, 10 am followed by interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.

The best season in Old Mill history was ended last night by Wootton, which built a two-touchdown halftime lead and held off the host Patriots, 17-7, in a state 4A quarterfinal.Fifth-seeded Wootton (11-0) dodged a major bullet when normally reliable Old Mill kicker Steve Oliver missed a 26-yard field goal attempt in the first quarter.The Patriots then needed just two plays to score on their fourth possession, with Ed Reilly snaring a 19-yard pass from quarterback Mike Mehok before Messay Hailemariam burst 34 yards down the left sideline to score.

WESTMINSTER -- Little kids wanted his autograph. Cameramen and reporters needed his time. His coach wanted him to pose for a team picture under the scoreboard.Everybody wanted to jump aboard the Larry Washington Express, Randallstown's ride to the Class 4A state title yesterday.Washington, a 5-foot-10, 205-pound senior, rushed for 254 yards and three touchdowns on 25 carries, as Randallstown (13-0) defeated Wootton (12-1), 21-12, in the state championship before a crowd of nearly 5,000 at Westminster High.

Westminster won't reach its 40-goal plateau this season, but a trip to the state championship game for the first time in school history should make up for it.The 10th-ranked Owls got an early first-half goal from senior midfielder Mandy Komar in the eighth minute and then shut down defending state champion Wootton for the remaining 72 minutes to earn a 1-0 victory in a Class 4A state semifinal in Severna Park last night.Extending a nine-game winning streak, Westminster improved to 13-2-1 and will meet Parkville -- which defeated Bowie, 2-0, in the other semifinal last night -- in the state final at UMBC next week.