Attackman

Each week, The Baltimore Sun publishes a Q&A with a college lacrosse player or coach to get you more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Loyola senior attackman Mike Sawyer, who recorded 52 goals and 10 assists en route to being named the university's first Tewaaraton Award finalist in 2012. The team captured the university's first Division I national championship of any kind. What drives you and your teammates now? Everyone's gunning for us. Everyone's going to give us their best shots.

With the departure of last year's entire starting attack, Hood senior Joey O'Hara has a prime opportunity to insert himself as a starter. And he's trying to do it on one leg. O'Hara tore the anterior cruciate ligament in one knee last summer, and it's the same ligament that he strained as a sophomore. He returned last March and finished the season tied for third on the team in goals with 11. Coach Jeremy Mattoon said he would love to slow O'Hara's return and ease him back onto the field, but this is the last year of O'Hara's eligibility.

Syracuse sophomore Mike Daniello, who spent last season with Johns Hopkins before transferring, is reportedly recovering from serious head injuries suffered last week. Daniello was involved in an incident that left him with a fractured skull and a brain contusion, according to multiple sources. The nature of the incident is still unknown. Syracuse officials confirmed that Daniello was still being hospitalized as of Sunday but had no update on his condition at that point. The younger brother of Chris, a third-team All-American who helped the Orange to national titles in 2008 and 2009, and Nick, who played defense and long-stick midfielder at Stevens Tech, Mike Daniello played for the Blue Jays in 2012, appearing in eight games with three shots and one ground ball.

Boys' Latin senior attackman-midfielder Colin Heacock, ranked the No. 20 recruit in the nation according to Inside Lacrosse, has orally committed to Maryland. Heacock was a longtime Penn State recruit before decommitting in early November. He visited and was in discussions with multiple schools before deciding on the Terps. Heacock's addition to Maryland's Class of 2013 gives it another player ranked in the Top 50, including four Top 50 attackmen in Matt Rambo (No. 1), Tim Rotanz (No. 3)

With oral commitments from sophomores growing from a trickle to a deluge the past couple of years, it was only a matter of time before the first freshman commitment arrived. That time is now. According to Inside Lacrosse, the history makers are attackman Forry Smith of the Haverford School in Havertown, Pa., and Johns Hopkins, which should come as no surprise given remarks that coach Dave Pietramala made to Baltimore Sun reporter Childs Walker in a story on the sophomore trend that ran this month: "There's no question I'm talking out both sides of my mouth on this," Pietramala said.

  Attackman Wilkins Dismuke of Rock Canyon High in Littleton, Colo., signed a national letter of intent Wednesday to play lacrosse for Johns Hopkins. Dismuke led the state in points and goals as a junior and scored the most goals in the state as a sophomore. He was named first-team all-conference and first-team all-state as well as the Warrior 40 West Regional MVP and Warrior 40 Offensive MVP. Other commitments Attackman Lucas Gradinger of Torrey Pines High in Del Mar, Calif., has signed to play at Maryland, Gradinger was a Nike Blue Chip selection as a rising junior and an Under Armour All-American.

The fourth annual Will Barrow Memorial Flag Football Tournament will be held Saturday at Virginia's historic Lambeth Field with proceeds going to the UVa HELP Line, a nonprofit, student-run crisis hotline. Play is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Established in memory of Barrow, a former Cavaliers defensive midfielder who was found dead of an apparent suicide in November 2008, the UVa HELP Line is an anonymous, confidential telephone service for residents of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia.

Sophomore defenseman Kai Storrs of Blake School in Minneapolis has orally committed to Maryland. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound recruit has played varsity since eighth grade and will be attending Jake Reed's Nike Blue Chip and Maverik Showtime camps next summer. A member of MN Elite, Storrs was an All-Star at Adrenaline Challenge, UNC Team Camp and Hotbeds. He also considered North Carolina, Princeton and High Point. Junior commitments Arundel faceoff specialist-midfielder Brett Malamphy  has orally committed to   UMBC.

Junior attackman Jay Drapeau of Westford (Mass.) Academy has orally committed to Loyola. Over two seasons, Drapeau has posted 197 points with 145 goals and 52 assists, including 95 goals and 27 assists as a sophomore.  He earned multiple first-team all-star accolades, including first-team DCL All-Star, first-team Lowell Sun All-Star and first-team Boston Herald All-Scholastic. He plays for Team Central Red and attended the Baltimore Summer Kickoff (All-Star). Drapeau also considered Massachusetts, Hofstra, Denver and Vermont.

James McCormick "Mickey" Webster Jr., an outstanding lacrosse attackman who was co-captain of the 1959 Johns Hopkins University national championship team and later became an insurance and financial planning executive, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 75. "Mickey was an exalted figure in the game. There are All-Americans every year who deserve it, but he was more than just an All-American, he was one of lacrosse's greats," said Bill Tanton, former longtime sports editor of The Evening Sun. "When it comes to feeding, his name is synonymous with the great Hopkins teams of the late 1950s.