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BALTIMORE -- Maryland coach Mark Turgeon is proud of the way his team has battled through injuries and successfully emerged from its nonconference schedule.The key now is for the Terrapins to get fully healthy for the Big Ten.Melo Trimble had 21 points and Maryland extended its winning streak to five games with an 88-72 victory over Charlotte on Tuesday night.Anthony Cowan scored 16 for the Terrapins, who made 10 3-pointers in the second half after going 1 for 9 before the break. Michal Cekovsky and Kevin Huerter had 10 points apiece for Maryland (12-1).The Terrapins were playing without senior forward Damonte Dodd (knee) and redshirt sophomore guard Dion Wiley (left wrist sprain), forcing Turgeon to start three freshmen.We werent very good early in the game, Turgeon said. I thought we got a little bit better as the game went on. I thought we played an excellent second half. Its hard this time of year coming off finals. I am really proud of the team to be 12-1, playing as many young guys. Weve had one game all year where weve had the whole team healthy.Jon Davis led Charlotte (6-5) with 28 points, tying his career high, while Andrien White scored 17. Benas Griciunas finished with 12 points for the 49ers, who were just 4 of 14 from beyond the arc.Maryland trailed by as many as 10 points in the first half before eventually cutting Charlottes lead to 37-36 on an over-the-head putback by Cekovsky at the halftime buzzer. That was the spark that the Terrapins needed after committing 13 turnovers in the opening half.Huerter made two quick layups, Cekovsky had a dunk and Maryland had a 42-39 lead in the opening minutes of the second half.Basketball in itself is a game of runs, Davis said. We have to come out in the second half with that same fire. And when (teams) do go on those types of runs, and its going to happen, we have to retaliate better.Maryland stayed in sync and took advantage of some poor shooting by the 49ers. Huerter made a pair of 3-pointers, Jaylen Brantley added another, and the Terrapins had a 56-49 lead midway through the half.We felt good going in halftime, but give Maryland credit, they played a terrific second half, Charlotte coach Mark Price said. They started making their 3s in the second half. Theyre a very good basketball team. I was proud of the way our guys battled all night long. It was a good challenge for us.Maryland then pulled away as it continued to stay hot from the field. Brantley and Trimble hit two more 3-pointers that extended the margin to 83-64 with just under four minutes left.Weve been through this all year, having to dig down, Trimble said. Once we went to halftime, Coach Turgeon gave us an earful and we responded the right way.Ivan Bender also finished with 10 points for the Terrapins.Maryland improved to 11-2 all-time in games played in Baltimore, which is key recruiting area for coach Mark Turgeon.THE BIG PICTURECharlotte: The 49ers put together a tough out-of-conference schedule with road games against Maryland, Florida and Wake Forest and should be battle-tested for league play.Maryland: The Terrapins finished their out-of-conference schedule 12-1 with their only loss coming against Pittsburgh in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. If some of the younger players continue to contribute, Maryland should be able stay in the top tier of the league.TRIMBLE LEADS THE WAYTrimble has now scored 20 or more points in seven games this season. 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The seaside town of Warrnambool has become something of a horse haven with a number of trainers setting up satellite stables.Entrenched in Warrnambool is Symon Wilde who is about to reverse the trend by opening a satellite stable at Ballarat.Trainers, like Darren Weir and Ciaron Mahar, have descended on Warrnambool for the beaches and the associated benefits, although work restrictions are in place over the summer months.Wilde hopes to have a stable of 10 horses in work at Ballarat next month.He said the move had been delayed because of a wet winter and a case a strangles which closed the stables of Matt Cumani and James Wardeiner.We got held up during the winter as they were stuck for room, Wilde said.They were building Matt Cumani his stable and with the wet weather it kept getting put back.I was meant to go into one of the barns he was occupying while his place was built, but with the strangles outbreak the move might now be next month.Wilde said Ballarat was a progressive training centre and was strategically placed to vut down the travel, especially with the proliferation of night racing.You can nearly access every track from there while from Warrnambool it is so difficult having to travel all the time, Wilde said.ddddddddddddWeve got a fairly big stable and I find the travelling a bit arduous on the staff and the horses.And Wilde really likes the idea of getting his horses fit using the uphill straight training track at Ballarat.He said with the number of imported European horses now in Australia it made sense to use that facility.That uphill gallop is amazing. They can work on that track 365 days a year, Wilde said.All the European horses we are getting, theyre all trained in a similar fashion.Straight-line training up an incline is the way to go.Were importing all these horse that are four and five-year-olds and theyre mature and theyve been trained in a straight line.Their knees and joints arent cooked and they do very well out here.We tend to train around a corner at speed and our horses can be cooked by the time theyre three and four.Wilde wont be abandoning his Warrnambool base and instead will interchange horses between the two stables, just as Weir does with his big team. ' ' '