Chris Turner

Good morning--Chris Turner--It's game day, so everyone expects to see your best against Georgia Tech.

COLLEGE PARK -- When the Salisbury State men's lacrosse team is playing, be advised that you shouldn't blink or you might miss the fireworks.The No. 3 Sea Gulls sprinted to a five-goal halftime advantage against fifth-ranked Middlebury and refused to slow down in the sweltering heat, cruising to a 13-6 victory in the finals of the Division III championship at Byrd Stadium yesterday.Senior attackman Brian Smith was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player for scoring three goals and adding an assist.

UMBC freshman goalie R. J. Degenfelder glared at the scoreboard after yesterday's 14-4 loss to Notre Dame at Navy's Rip Miller Field.Shaking his head in disgust, he tried to figure out where it all went wrong for the Retrievers."

Boys' Latin's coach Bob Shriver isn't concerned whether his team looks like "the team of the century," a phrase sarcastically applied to his team by a losing coach.It matters more that his top-ranked Lakers play well enough to win daily in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association's A Conference, which Shriver calls "the best high school league in the country."Yesterday at Boys' Latin, the Lakers (7-0, 2-0) did little to damage their credibility as the league's premier team, hammering No. 8 Mount St. Joseph, 12-5, in a Division III contest.

In Friday's editions, the college that has signed Boys' Latin senior lacrosse player Chris Turner was reported incorrectly. He will be attending University of Maryland Baltimore County on a lacrosse scholarship.The Sun regrets the errors.

In Friday's editions, the college that has signed Boys' Latin senior lacrosse player Chris Turner was reported incorrectly. He will be attending University of Maryland Baltimore County on a lacrosse scholarship.The Sun regrets the errors.A lot of questions will be answered when No. 1 Boys' Latin and No. 2 Gilman square off in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference lacrosse championship game at 7 tonight at UMBC.The biggest query is which Gilman team will show up?Will it be the one that dropped regular-season meetings with Calvert Hall, St. Paul's and McDonogh or the one that beat Loyola twice and snapped Boys' Latin's winning streak at 14 games on May 2?

Arlington Baptist Eagles1994 record: 11-7. Coach: Tim Hurlburt.Top players: Andy Booker, Sr., M; Paul Durso, Sr., F; Daniel Birx, Jr., M; Kevin Hamilton, Jr., D.Outlook: The Eagles are hoping to enjoy the same amount of success this season competing in the MIAA C Conference as they did last year as a member of the Christian Schools Athletic Association. Booker, who scored 30 goals last season, will have to have a similarly productive senior campaign to compensate for the team's defensive shortcomings.

In Friday's editions, the college that has signed Boys' Latin senior lacrosse player Chris Turner was reported incorrectly. He will be attending University of Maryland Baltimore County on a lacrosse scholarship.The Sun regrets the errors.A lot of questions will be answered when No. 1 Boys' Latin and No. 2 Gilman square off in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference lacrosse championship game at 7 tonight at UMBC.The biggest query is which Gilman team will show up?Will it be the one that dropped regular-season meetings with Calvert Hall, St. Paul's and McDonogh or the one that beat Loyola twice and snapped Boys' Latin's winning streak at 14 games on May 2?

Chris Turner, a Fallston resident, is the son of a former lacrosse all-star, and Scott Hochstadt, of Columbia, the son of a collegiate All-American.Together, driven by the legacy of their fathers, they're a potent force for top-ranked Boys' Latin (9-0, 4-0).Lakers coach Bob Shriver likens Turner to his father, Charlie "Chooch" Turner, an aggressive attackman and faceoff specialist for Severn in the late 1960s who led the Admirals to a Maryland Scholastic Association crown."He's a great feeder, and a smart, heady, intelligent player, very similar to the way his father was," said Shriver, a 1969 Boys' Latin graduate who played against "Chooch" Turner.

Wilde Lake just can't seem to catch a break.Last season, the Wildecats were the state's best losing wrestling team at 4-7-1. They dropped four dual meets by three points or less in an 0-5 start, yet still came back to finish a strong third in the county tournament.But the Wildecats enter this season without three valuable components of that team. Antoine Harris (125 pounds), who will not wrestle this season, transferred to Atholton. Chris Turner (130) moved to Virginia. And middleweight Joe Underhoffer moved to California.

COLLEGE PARK - - Jamarr Robinson didn't see Maryland quarterback Chris Turner go down. Turner, who had just suffered a knee-ligament injury, was lying on his back on the Carter-Finley Stadium field with his hands over his face in the second quarter of Maryland's 38-31 loss to North Carolina State. Robinson, Turner's backup, had little time to process that he was about to play in the game or to contemplate what his entry meant to Maryland or to his career. "It jumped on me quick," Robinson said.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen saw a rainbow at practice last week, desperately hoping it was a positive sign for a team he said has been rained on all season, both in a literal and metaphorical sense. Sure enough, the skies were bright blue over Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday. But the Terps couldn't part the dark clouds of their season, losing starting quarterback Chris Turner to a second-quarter knee injury and falling, 38-31, to a North Carolina State team that hadn't won an Atlantic Coast Conference game in four previous tries.

COLLEGE PARK - -It has come to where Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen can't bear to watch a football team turn the ball over - his team or anybody else's. Friedgen talks these days like a man a little bit haunted. "NOOOO!" the coach says he screams when he watches a critical interception, even one on television involving another team. As his Terps (2-5, 1-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) prepared for Duke (3-3, 1-1) on the road today, turnovers had become the bane of the coach's existence - and of his young Terrapins.

COLLEGE PARK -- Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen said Tuesday that he is worried senior quarterback Chris Turner misunderstood comments the coach made indicating he might play two of his younger quarterbacks this season. "I'm going to talk to Chris. I think he misconstrued some of the things I said," Friedgen said at the team's weekly media lunch. Friedgen had told reporters Sunday night that he intends to play sophomore quarterback Jamarr Robinson - and perhaps true freshman Danny O'Brien - sometime soon.

COLLEGE PARK - -It seems long ago that Maryland quarterback Chris Turner appeared at the Atlantic Coast Conference's preseason media conference and said of the Terrapins: "We're easily a 10-win team." It was late July, the weather was warm and muggy, and Turner and other top ACC players had mixed media interviews with a round of golf at a resort in Greensboro, N.C. "We're not here to just win eight games and go to an average bowl," the senior quarterback had said. Twelve weeks later, Turner's Terrapins are 2-5 (1-2 ACC)

This could end up being just another classic Maryland football tease, you know. The program is getting good at it, almost good enough for it to be its signature. There's no sane reason to believe that a team that just lost to Middle Tennessee State is now going to beat No. 23 California. Except that this is exactly what the Terps do, and have done over and over again, since the initial three-year burst of the Ralph Friedgen Era. The Terps' faithful are in a foul mood post-Middle Tennessee, but it's really more of a lingering affliction.

COLLEGE PARK - It was a savage hit, even by major college football standards. Rutgers safety Joe Lefeged flung himself at Jordan Steffy, crashing into the Maryland quarterback last season with an unnerving, helmet-to-helmet crack. Steffy, who walked haltingly up the locker-room stairs and remained forgetful and occasionally disoriented for several weeks after suffering a concussion in the Sept. 29 game, was set to graduate in the spring, and his once-promising career seemed all but over.

Offensive coordinator James Franklin said coaches relied on empirical data - performance charts, basically - to show how things tipped in favor of Jordan Steffy. "We just basically told [Chris Turner] the truth. We showed him all the data," Franklin said. "He sees it every day because it's posted in the locker room every day, so he kind of had an awareness of what was going on. The data documented everything we were saying." (For more, go to baltimoresun.com/terpsblog)

COLLEGE PARK - Two days after losing the starting quarterback job he held for the last eight games of the 2007 season, Chris Turner has decided to remain at Maryland as Jordan Steffy's backup. The decision was reached after Turner talked again yesterday with his parents in California and with Terps coach Ralph Friedgen. An athletic department spokesman confirmed a report on ESPN.com that Turner was staying. Neither Turner nor Friedgen was available for comment after afternoon practice.

COLLEGE PARK - Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen and offensive coordinator James Franklin went around and around over who should be the Terps' No. 1 quarterback, and yesterday morning, Friedgen announced that senior Jordan Steffy is the man. What it came down to was statistical performance. "I don't know if we [all] ever settled [on the choice]," Friedgen said. "We were kind of going back and forth. I was kind of listening to everybody. I gave all the coaches - even the defensive coaches - a chance to voice their opinions.