Services planned for former Perry Hall coach Al Miller
A memorial service will be held for Al Miller, a former football and wrestling coach at Perry Hall for more than 25 years. The service for Miller will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, 9534 Belair Road in Baltimore. Miller, 82, retired in 1997 after spending more than 42 years in the Baltimore County school system. He was Perry Hall’s first athletic director. GOLF: Matt Bassler, from Catonsville and the Country Club of Maryland, holed a 40-yard bunker shot for an eagle-3 at the eighth hole that “turned everything around,” as he closed with a 1-under-par 71 for a 36-hole total of 142 to claim one of five available places in a U.S. Amateur sectional qualifier at the CC at Woodmore. Logan Lowe, a George Washington senior, won the medal with 139, and they were joined by Connor Messick, Herndon, Va., 142; Toks Pedro, Bowie, 143; and Kevin Scherr, Nazareth, Pa., 144. Mac Webster, from Baltimore CC, also was in a three-way tie at 144 and became first alternate. — acquiring him for first- and sixth-round picks in the 2018 draft from the Patriots. He has 280 receptions for 3,943 yards and 27 touchdowns for the Saints and Patriots. ... The league reinstated Cowboys DE Randy Gregory, who was suspended all of last season over multiple violations of the NFL’s substance-abuse policy. ... Former TE/DB Tom Stephens, a original member of the Patriots, died last week at 82. No cause was given. ... The Cardinals suspended GM Steve Keim for five weeks after he pleaded guilty to extreme DUI after a Fourth of July arrest in a Phoenix suburb.
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