Smithsburg

Wanda Rebecca Lucas, 64, of Fox Tower Road in Foxville, Md., passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at her home. Born Dec. 13, 1948, in Frederick, Md., she was the daughter of the late Leslie Leroy and Jessie Arbutus (Myers) Tobery. She was a graduate of Middletown High School. She was employed by the Maryland Unemployment Office. She was a member of Mount Pleasant Church of God in Smithsburg, Md. She is survived by her husband of 46 years, Paul E. "Pete" Lucas Sr., whom she married Dec. 16, 1966; one son, Paul E. Lucas Jr. of Foxville; grandchildren, Jennifer Ashley Lucas, Paul E. Lucas III and Rebecca Elizabeth Lucas; brothers, Leslie Tobery, Charles Tobery and Mark Tobery; and several nieces and nephews.

Dumbledore's Army, a middle school-level Destination Imagination team from Smithsburg Middle School, will represent Washington County at the Destination Imagination Global Finals competition taking place in Knoxville, Tenn., from May 21 to 25. The team will compete against more than 1,200 teams from around the world.   Destination Imagination is the world's largest creative problem-solving program. Teams solve one of seven challenges in the areas of science, technology, mechanics, engineering and theater.

The North Hagerstown baseball team rolled into Smithsburg on Friday afternoon undefeated and left without a blemish on its record. Despite the Hubs squandering a 7-0 lead, they rallied in the seventh inning to edge the Leopards 10-8 in an error-filled game to improve to 14-0 (9-0 MVAL Antietam). “We are the worst 14-0 team in the history of baseball,” said North coach Drew Crawford. “If there is a worse team, I've never seen it. We need to clean some things up in a hurry or our season is going to end a lot sooner than we want it to.” Maybe it was North's four errors or maybe it was blowing a 7-2 lead in the sixth inning to end up trailing 8-7 heading into the seventh that led Crawford to his proclamation.

It was all about the second half for the Frederick boys lacrosse team Tuesday night. After being tied with Smithsburg at halftime, the Cadets picked it up in the second half and came away with an 11-8 victory at Coach Carroll Reid Field. “We've always been a second-half team,” said Frederick coach Erik Neidinger. “As long as we can keep it close in the first half, we usually play our best in the second half.” The Cadets (6-5) could not have kept it any closer in the first half with Smithsburg as they were knotted in a 5-5 tie at the break.

Betty Lewis Smith, 85, formerly of Wolfsville, Md., died Thursday, April 18, 2013, at Heritage Hall Care Facility of Leesburg, Va. The service and burial will be private and at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are by J.L. Davis Funeral Home of Smithsburg.

Monday, April 22, 2013 PREP SOFTBALL North Hagerstown 11, Boonsboro 2 BOONSBORO - Emma Gist went 2-for-3 and North Hagerstown (5-4, 5-2) took advantage of nine Boonsboro errors to beat the Warriors in an MVAL Antietam game and snap a four-game losing streak. Leah Cadigan had two hits for the Warriors (0-10, 0-8). N. Hagerstown    211    070    0    -     11    7    1 Boonsboro    002    000    0    -     2    6    9 Thomas, Harbaugh (5)

After coming home empty in 2010, the Smithsburg High School band program brought back two first-place trophies, a second-place trophy and an individual award this year from its trip to Disney World. The marching and jazz bands brought home gold trophies for best of show among all performers at Festival Disney, a competition at Disney World open to concert bands, marching bands, jazz ensembles, orchestras, vocal ensembles, show choirs and auxiliary units. The concert band brought home a silver trophy for second place.

The Washington County Commission on Aging offers noon lunches to anyone 60 years and older at six locations - Smithsburg, Keedysville, Williamsport and three in Hagerstown. Smithsburg, Keedysville and Williamsport are open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Potomac Towers, Walnut Towers and Francis Murphy are open Monday through Friday. The hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the days they are open. The agency requires that you call by 11:30 a.m. to give them a two-working-days reservation notice.

After coming home empty in 2010, the Smithsburg High School band program brought back two first-place trophies, a second-place trophy and an individual award this year from its trip to Disney World. The marching and jazz bands brought home gold trophies for best of show among all performers at Festival Disney, a competition at Disney World open to concert bands, marching bands, jazz ensembles, orchestras, vocal ensembles, show choirs and auxiliary units. The concert band brought home a silver trophy for second place.

The Smithsburg softball team won twice on Friday. The Leopards beat the rain and Oakdale. The Leopards struggled through the early innings, but scored when it counted to pull out a 6-1 victory over Oakdale in a game that was halted by rain midway through the fifth inning. “We started slow today and I don't like to do that, but we made some adjustments and were able to break it open,” Smithsburg coach Katy Barnhart said. Smithsburg (5-5) was sluggish offensively until the third and fourth innings, when the Leopards scored all their runs.