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Bryant Wallizer got swept up in his own version of March Madness. The West Virginia University redshirt junior stood at the line. He shot. He scored. And the Mountaineers won the NCAA national championship. No, it wasn't a dream. WVU lost in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, but Wallizer and the Mountaineers went all the way and pulled a mild upset to win the national rifle championship at Texas Christian University. Wallizer helped anchor WVU's huge second-day comeback with bull's-eyes on 51 of his 60 shots in the air rifle half of the competition on March 14 to lead the Mountaineers' climb from sixth place to the title.

McCONNELLSBURG, Pa. - A McConnellsburg man was charged with ramming his truck into a woman's car on Friday and then striking her in the head with a rifle, Pennsylvania State Police said Saturday. Benny S. Mumma, 57, of 412 Lincoln Way East, was found shortly after the 11 a.m. incident and charged with a variety of crimes, including criminal attempted homicide, police said. Debra Scott, 44, of McConnellsburg, was treated for minor injuries at Fulton County Medical Center and released, police said.

A Hagerstown man who told city police on June 1 that he was shot during a "covert military operation" in Baltimore was charged Friday with making up the story, police said Monday. Christopher Scott Lindewurth, 28, of 11402 Lakeside Drive, was served Friday with a criminal summons charging him with making a false report of a crime, police said. A conviction on the charge carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $500 fine. Lindewurth has been released from Washington County Hospital, a spokeswoman there said Tuesday.

FREDERICK, Md. - A Frederick County man who fired more than 50 rounds in the direction of police over three hours Sunday night was wounded by officers after he fired at them with his rifle, Maryland State Police said. State police said in a written release that Randy E. Thomas, 49, of the 3100 block of Green Valley Road in Ijamsville, Md., was being treated for gunshot wounds at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. Thomas was under police guard, police said.

11/15/96 By STEVEN T. DENNIS Staff Writer, Waynesboro CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Four days before his criminal homicide trial was due to begin, Norman Charles Round pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter in the bludgeoning death of his neighbor during a deer-hunting dispute last year, according to court records. The Newburg, Pa., man faces 5 to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000 pending a pre-sentence investigation, according to court records. Round, 38, of 14336 West Creek Road, Lurgan Township, Pa., had been charged with criminal homicide in the Nov. 30, 1995, death of George P. Roman, 49, of 5627 McClays Mill Road.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg woman was in critical condition this morning after her boyfriend allegedly shot her before turning a rifle on himself, according to the Martinsburg Police Department. John Wayne Batson, 49, of 307 N. Delaware Ave., was pronounced dead at Martinsburg City Hospital after the shooting, which occurred Tuesday just before midnight, police said. He was found in his home suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, police said.

A report of a suspicious vehicle and the sound of a gunshot near Interstate 81 led to a police search and the arrest of an alleged poacher Tuesday. Charles Ardinger Spigler, 37, of West Washington Street in Hagerstown, was charged with safety zone violations, hunting deer with a firearm out of season, hunting without a hunting license, hunting without the required clothing and hunting without written permission, according to Maryland State Police. Police were checking a black Ford Mustang with Washington, D.C., license plates and an open passenger door parked on the west side of Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse of Hagerstown when a gunshot was heard, police said in a release.

A Hagerstown man who allegedly pointed a rifle at his wife and their two adult children and told them he was going to burn the house down surrendered to Washington County Sheriff's deputies without incident early Monday. Michael Scott Dunahugh Sr., 43, of 11405 Rock Hill Road, was charged with three counts each of first- and second-degree assault, and one count of arson threat, deputies said. Deputies were called to the home Monday at 4:57 a.m. and upon arrival, saw a man running from the house.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- A 9-year-old boy who allegedly aimed an air rifle at his school bus Tuesday afternoon has been charged with assaulting a school official and 10 students aboard the bus, police said Wednesday. The boy was charged with one count of assault on a school official, 10 counts of assault and one count of terrorist acts, Jefferson County Sheriff's Department Deputy Cpl. D.C. Tabler said. The boy was being detained Wednesday at Vicki Douglas Juvenile Center in Martinsburg on a $15,000 bond, Tabler said.

Police testify man charged in death confessed By BOB PARTLOW / Staff Writer, Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - West Virginia State Police Trooper Jeff Phillips testified in the first day of the Roger Dale Linaburg murder trial Tuesday in Berkeley County Circuit Court that Linaberg said he shot Benjamin Leo Lowrey "to protect my family and everyone else - even you. " Lowrey was shot in the chest and the stomach with a .22-caliber...