Attack

The No. 1 Maryland women have a wealth of players who can finish, and Alex Aust knows how to set them up perfectly. The senior attacker has dished out 17 assists to seven different players in the last three games. In Tuesday's 17-10 win over UMBC, she set a Terps single-game record with seven assists, breaking the mark held by seven different players including herself. Terps coach Cathy Reese said Aust became especially adept at feeding from behind the cage last season when she dished out 52 assists, third on Maryland's all-time single-season chart behind Jen Adams' 60 in 2001 and 55 in 2000.

Senior attacker Alex Aust set a Maryland single-game assist record with seven and finished with 11 points as the No. 1 Terps dispatched visiting UMBC, 17-10, on Tuesday night. The Retrievers (3-2) came within three of the Terps early in the second half, but Maryland scored five unanswered goals over the next 3:21 to shut the door. Maryland (6-0) held a 21-8 advantage on draw controls in the contest, including a game-high seven draws from freshman midfielder Taylor Cummings (McDonogh)

Bernice Troy, a geriatric nursing assistant in Baltimore for the past 20 years, has been spat on and cursed, scratched and punched on the job. A patient once slammed Jo Samrow, a nurse in Southern Maryland, into a wall so violently that she developed a large hematoma on the back of her head. In recent weeks, these nurses and other health care workers have shared their stories before lawmakers in Annapolis with one goal in mind — reducing assaults in Maryland health care facilities.

Mount St. Mary's has averaged 11 goals in four contests this season, but a closer look reveals that the offensive production is quite lopsided. The starting attack of seniors Andrew Scalley, Brett Schmidt and Cody Lehrer has combined for 30 goals and 26 assists. The total of 56 points accounts for 73.7 percent of the team's output so far. By comparison, the starting midfield of seniors Bryant Schmidt, Daniel Stranix and Eric Osoki has combined for 11 goals and four assists. It's a jarring discrepancy between the two units, but coach Tom Gravante said he is not alarmed by the imbalance in points.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun will publish a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player to help you become more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Salisbury senior Katie Bollhorst, last season's Division III Attacker of the Year and Capital Athletic Conference Player of the Year, who was named to the 2013 Tewaaraton Award watch list. The St. Mary's graduate scored three goals and had an assist in the Sea Gulls' season-opening 19-5 win over Stevenson and stands seventh on school career points list with 121. She's fourth in assists with 72. More than all the individual accolades, Bollhorst would prefer to finish her career with a national championship after the Sea Gulls lost to Trinity, 8-7, in last year's final.

A Morgan State University student who was partially blinded with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire alleges in a recently filed lawsuit that the school ignored warning signs of Alexander Kinyua's potential for violence. Joshua Ceasar of New Jersey was struck by Kinyua, who is accused of killing a family friend before eating some of his body parts in Harford County. Kinyua pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible in December in the attack on Ceasar. "There were numerous warning signs that Kinyua was a danger to the community, and Morgan State failed to act to protect anyone on campus," said Ceasar's attorney, Steven D. Silverman.

The host No. 11 Virginia men's lacrosse team easily got by Mount St. Mary's, 18-11, on Tuesday despite three goals and two assists from the Moutaineers' Brett Schmidt. Schmidt (St. Mary's Ryken), who opened the scoring, now has a goal in 32 consecutive games, the longest streak in the nation. The Cavaliers (4-0) answered with three goals in 55 seconds to take a 3-1 lead into the second quarter. Ryan Tucker (Gilman) scored with 3:24 left in the opening quarter, and Mark Cockerton made it 2-1 with an extra-man goal.  Cockerton struck again just seven seconds later to make it 3-1. Eric Ososki scored for the Mount (2-2)

Ralph K. "Ken" Barnes, a retired Koppers Co. manager who was a prisoner of war during the twilight months of World War II, died Saturday from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Cockeysville resident was 89. The son of farmers, Ralph Kenneth Barnes was born in Gist, in Carroll County, and after his family lost their farm during the Depression, they moved to Waverly. He was a 1941 graduate of Polytechnic Institute, where he was an outstanding baseball pitcher, and later earned a degree from the Johns Hopkins University.

UMBC's 11-7 victory over Rutgers on Saturday to even the team's record at 1-1 was highlighted by an impressive performance from the attack unit. Senior Matt Gregoire led the team with three goals, and senior Scott Jones chipped in two goals and one assist. Freshman Nate Lewnes scored a goal, and senior Joe Lustgarten came off the bench to record one goal and three assists. The trio of Jones, Lustgarten and Lewnes combined for four goals and three assists in a12-9 loss to Robert Morris in a season opener that Gregoire missed for undisclosed reasons.

An Edgemere woman was attacked by at least one of her two pit bulls and seriously injured Friday afternoon, Baltimore County police said. The dogs, one white and the other brown, were loose for several hours after the attack, which occurred shortly before 2:45 p.m. in the 7600 block of North Point Road, police said. The white dog was located in the 8200 block of North Point Road about five hours after the attack and, because it was behaving aggressively, police said officers shot and killed it. A short time later, the brown dog was found and taken into custody by Baltimore County Animal Care and Control, which is holding it pending further investigation.