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Members of Maryland's offense were getting plenty of verbal confirmation about their skills from their teammates and coaches. But hearing the accolades is very different from actually demonstrating that talent. The much-beleaguered unit exploded in the No. 11 Terps' 18-6 demolition of visiting Colgate at Byrd Stadium in College Park Saturday. Eleven different players scored a goal as the team matched its output from the three previous contests. Players on the offensive side of the ball credited the coaching staff with simplifying the game plan against the Raiders.

After dropping two of its previous three contests, No. 11 Maryland needed to boost its morale and the team got that by walloping visiting Colgate, 18-6, in the regular-season finale for both teams at Byrd Stadium in College Park Saturday. The victory is expected to cement one of the NCAA tournament's eight seeds and a home game in the first round for the Terps (10-3). Just as important is that the team gets some momentum as it heads into the postseason. “It's huge,” senior long-stick midfielder Jesse Bernhardt said.

Peter Baum, Colgate Junior, Portland, Ore., midfielder Baum racked up 11 points in two victories as the Raiders improved to 7-1 and moved to No. 12. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound midfielder recorded three goals and two assists in a 17-8 rout of Binghamton on March 13 and added four goals and two assists in a 12-6 win against then-No. 15 Fairfield on Saturday. Baum, who earned his second Offensive Player of the Week award from the Patriot League this season, leads Division I in points per game (5.8)

Maryland has piled up a 6-2 record in this series, but Colgate has won the last two meetings - both of which have occurred in the regular-season finales for both sides. The Raiders (8-6) are limping into their last game of the year, having lost four of their past five contests. Senior attackman and 2012 Tewaaraton Award winner Peter Baum leads the offense in assists (15) and points (48), but sophomore attackman Ryan Walsh paces the team in goals (35). The No. 11 Terps (9-3) have dropped two of their last three games, and although a lock to qualify for the NCAA tournament, they are in danger of losing out on one of the eight seeds and opening the first round on the road.

Maryland has piled up a 6-2 record in this series, but Colgate has won the last two meetings - both of which have occurred in the regular-season finales for both sides. The Raiders (8-6) are limping into their last game of the year, having lost four of their past five contests. Senior attackman and 2012 Tewaaraton Award winner Peter Baum leads the offense in assists (15) and points (48), but sophomore attackman Ryan Walsh paces the team in goals (35). The No. 11 Terps (9-3) have dropped two of their last three games, and although a lock to qualify for the NCAA tournament, they are in danger of losing out on one of the eight seeds and opening the first round on the road.

Colgate (1-2, 0-1 Patriot)@Towson (2-0, 1-0 CAA) Time: Saturday, 7 p.m. Site: Johnny Unitas Stadium Radio: 1570 AM Series: Colgate leads 9-0. What's at stake: After defeating Villanova, then No. 20 in the Football Championship Subdivision, two weeks ago, Towson is 2-0 for the first time since 1997 and has a chance to keep its early-season winning streak alive against a Colgate program...

A Navy defensive effort that limited host Colgate to 12 field goals coupled with a balanced offense led the Mids to a 59-43 victory Saturday night in women's basketball. The win is Navy's second in a row and fourth in five games in the Patriot League.  The Mids (11-9, 4-1) moved into a first-place tie with American, Army and Bucknell with one week remaining in the first half of the league season. The Raiders fell to 6-13, 0-5. "I thought this was a really intense game," Navy coach Stefanie Pemper said.  "I think Colgate competed really well, and so did we.  They forced us into 18 turnovers, and they got to the foul line.  They played hard, and we had a hard time at times with that.

Navy coach Rick Sowell had yet to meet his players for their first practice of the week, but he could guess at how they were feeling after Saturday's upset of No. 12 Colgate. “I think there's some hop in their giddy-up, that's for sure,” Sowell said Monday afternoon. “I think the players are excited and hopefully, that means we've got a good week of practice in store for us because it's like going from the frying pan to the fire with Lehigh up next. It certainly doesn't get any easier.

Navy has cobbled together a three-game winning streak to help reduce the disappointment of a three-game losing skid earlier in the season. But victories over Lafayette, Towson and Holy Cross would pale in comparison to a triumph over Patriot League rival and No. 12 Colgate (7-1 overall and 1-0 in the conference), which plays host to the Midshipmen (4-3, 2-1) this Saturday. “We've done a good job of taking a lead into the fourth quarter and losing the games out, and hopefully, we'll find ourselves in that situation on Saturday and can get the job done,” Navy coach Rick Sowell said Thursday.

This one was Maryland's final tuneup -- a chance to iron out the wrinkles of a somewhat underwhelming monthlong homestand against mainly nonconference opponents. To their credit, the Terps could easily have overlooked Colgate on Tuesday night, a team with only one win this season, with a showdown with No. 1 Duke looming Sunday. Instead, Maryland did exactly what it was supposed to do, engineering a thorough dismantling of the Raiders, 95-40, before an announced 12,814 at Comcast Center.

Members of Maryland's offense were getting plenty of verbal confirmation about their skills from their teammates and coaches. But hearing the accolades is very different from actually demonstrating that talent. The much-beleaguered unit exploded in the No. 11 Terps' 18-6 demolition of visiting Colgate at Byrd Stadium in College Park Saturday. Eleven different players scored a goal as the team matched its output from the three previous contests. Players on the offensive side of the ball credited the coaching staff with simplifying the game plan against the Raiders.

The Maryland men's lacrosse team didn't doubt that it belonged in the NCAA tournament. What was in question was whether the Terps had done enough to warrant one of the tournament's eight seeds and a home game in the first round next weekend. No. 11 Maryland responded with a convincing affirmative, beating Colgate, 18-6, before an announced crowd of 1,949 at Byrd Stadium here Saturday. The Terps wrapped up the regular season with a 10-3 record and snapped a two-game skid to the Raiders.

After Saturday's contest at No. 11 Maryland, Colgate will retire to the offseason, and senior attackman Peter Baum will graduate and begin the next stage of his life. One of his pursuits would be to help continue the growth of lacrosse in his native state of Oregon. The Portland native refined his talent at Lincoln High School and with the West Coast Starz. The first player west of the Mississippi River to win the Tewaaraton Award, Baum is one of several Division I players from Oregon, including Drexel senior midfielder Aaron Prosser and Syracuse redshirt sophomore midfielder Henry Schoonmaker.

No. 11 Maryland will not skate through Saturday's regular-season finale against visiting Colgate — the Terps must win to cement a seed and a home game in the first round of the NCAA tournament. They will also have another motivation: history. The Raiders have ended Maryland's regular season with losses in 2011 and 2012, forcing the Terps to open the NCAA tournament on the road. It did not terribly damage them as they advanced to the national title game in both years, but coach John Tillman said he has not had to remind Maryland (9-3)

For Peter Baum, winning the Tewaaraton Award last year was a life-changer - both good and bad. When the Colgate attackman was named the top college player in June after an impressive junior season in which he racked up 67 goals and 30 assists, he called the honor "one of the proudest moments of my life. " Amid his struggles a season later, it would dawn on Baum why only one player has won the Tewaaraton twice since it was first awarded in 2001. "It's funny the way you look at it because this is an award that only one person has won twice.

With an 8-6 record and one final regular-season contest at No. 11 Maryland, Colgate has not been mathematically eliminated from consideration for an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament. But unlike last year when the team went 13-3 in the regular season and garnered only the program's second tournament appearance, coach Mike Murphy is not holding out for another at-large spot when the 16-team bracket is unveiled Sunday night. “I'm sure there's probably some sort of mathematical substance to that, but we're 29th in the RPI, and I don't know that a team outside of the top 17 or 18 in the RPI has ever made it to the NCAA tournament that wasn't an automatic qualifier,” he said Tuesday.

HAMILTON, N.Y. -- Colgate held Mount St. Mary's scoreless for the final 56 minutes yesterday, as the Red Raiders rolled to a 19-2 rout of the Mountaineers in the semifinals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association tournament.The Mountaineers (7-9) had the first two goals of the game, as Tim Walsh and Tim Polinsky scored 21 seconds apart. But Jason Griswold scored twice and Joby Fowler scored with 8: 06 left in the quarter to send Colgate (8-5) on its way.Pub Date: 5/12/96

When Lehigh and Colgate qualified for last year's NCAA tournament, they became the first Patriot League duo to play in the postseason since 2005 when Navy and Army did. The Mountain Hawks, who knocked off Colgate for the conference tournament crown, and the Raiders, who advanced to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals, are ranked Nos. 1 and 2 in the Patriot League preseason poll and in many publications' national top 10 polls. With those rankings, however, come high expectations, which haven't escaped the attention of Lehigh coach Kevin Cassese, who spoke during the league's conference call Wednesday.

After Maryland's 11-8 win against Navy on April 5, the team improved to 8-1 and was an early favorite to earn the top seed in the NCAA tournament. Since then, the team has dropped two of its last three contests - including a 13-6 loss to Virginia as the No. 1 seed in a semifinal of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. But as analysts suggest that the No. 11 Terps are beginning to lose their grip on one of the tournament's eight seeds and a home game in the first round, coach John Tillman said he's not concerned about his team's position.

To Navy coach Cindy Timchal, it was only fitting that senior Jasmine DePompeo broke the all-time Patriot League scoring record on Saturday with an assist. "It just comes from Jas very genuinely being an unselfish player," Timchal said. DePompeo's feed to Aimee Gennaro 13:10 into the game -- one of five assists on the day for the attacker -- broke the 17-year-old record, helping stake the No. 12 Midshipmen to an early lead in a 12-6 win over visiting Colgate. It marked the seventh straight win for Navy, which improved to 14-1 (5-0 league)