SEEKONK -- Cristina Nardozzi, 21, of Seekonk, now known nationally as Miss Massachusetts-USA, is in Baltimore, preparing with 50 other contestants, for Monday's 2005 Miss USA Competition.

The pageant will be broadcast live from the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore at 9 p.m. Monday on N Whether Nardozzi will be on the `` Fear Factor'' special will remain to be seen, according to her mother, Tonia Nardozzi.