Comeback

One year ago, Chad Tracy tried to keep his career alive in Japan, halfway out of baseball and halfway around the world. Saturday afternoon, after another crucial hit keyed another delirious rally that led to another Washington Nationals victory, Tracy became, briefly, the No. 2 Twitter trending topic in the United States. Two games in, the Nationals' season has already reached this level of absurdity? They already believe they can win without offense from innings from one through seven?

The Towson men's lacrosse team is beginning to make a habit out of rallying from fourth-quarter deficits. For the second straight game, the Tigers dug themselves out of a hole with four unanswered goals in the final eight minutes to outlast visiting UMBC, 12-11, before an announced 1,362 at Johnny Unitas Stadium in Towson on Wednesday night. Sophomore midfielder Thomas DeNapoli had a team-high four points on three goals and one assist, senior midfielder Carl Iacona added three goals and junior goalkeeper Andrew Wascavage turned aside a career-best 17 shots to help Towson (7-3)

Towson forged the program's largest fourth-quarter rally when it turned a 9-3 deficit into a 10-9 win in double overtime against Colonial Athletic Association rival Hofstra Saturday night. It was the Tigers' largest comeback in the second half. The previous mark was a four-goal hole in the third quarter to Loyola in 2001 before that squad notched a 19-14 victory. How that victory will impact the program is undetermined, but coach Shawn Nadelen said he was pleased to see his players' willpower.

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The Maryland women's basketball team was forced to come back twice from double-digit deficits Sunday in its NCAA tournament Sweet 16 game against defending national champion Texas A&M at PNC Arena. The first comeback, after being down 18 points with 6:40 left in the first half, fell a little short, when a two-handed halfcourt heave by freshman guard Brene Moseley hit the backboard and then bounced off the front rim. It left the second-seeded Terps trailing the third-seeded Aggies by three points.

FORT MYERS, Fla. - After rallying from an early four-run deficit, the Orioles dropped a 5-4 decision to the Red Sox on Tuesday afternoon at JetBlue Park. Orioles right-hander Oliver Drake allowed a two-out double by shortstop Pedro Ciriaco in the seventh inning to score Nate Spears from third for the winning run. Trailing 4-0, Orioles nonroster invitee Xavier Avery hit a two-run single to right in the fifth inning. Wilson Betemit's two-run double off JetBlue Park's mock Green Monster in left field tied the game in the sixth.

A number of years ago a serious chef, baker and food writer named Beth Hensperger got an assignment from her publisher: A slow-cooker cookbook. She declined. More than once. Vehemently. "I was like, 'Oh my God … It doesn't fit in with my style of living,'" says the woman with her James Beard award and California cooking pedigree. "It was not an easy match for me. " But Hensperger eventually did it, releasing, "Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook," followed with five sequels.

After erasing a 12-point deficit, Maryland had the ball at the end of regulation with its Senior Day crowd in a frenzy and a chance for a feel-good outcome that would allow the Terps to forget - if only briefly - all the losses that preceded this promising Sunday afternoon. With the score tied, Terrell Stoglin raced up the floor, but his last-second, 3-point attempt bounded off the front of the rim. Maryland's final regular-season game headed into an overtime period that was controlled by senior forward Mike Scott (career-high 35 points)

ATLANTA -- It was evident by the way Mark Turgeon spoke - with his head lowered and in an almost disbelieving tone - that the Maryland coach considered it far too late in the season to still be harping on the same issues that have plagued his young team for weeks. Lack of inside toughness, selfishness on offense, missed layups - Turgeon recited all the usual culprits following Maryland's 63-61 loss at Philips Arena on Saturday to a last-place Georgia Tech team that had lost 10 of its previous 11 games.

The North Carolina men's lacrosse team rallied from a three-goal deficit in the second half to nip host Navy, 9-8, on Saturday, but there was no convincing R.J. Wickham about which team was the real victor. "I was disappointed we lost because as hard as we played, I don't feel like they deserve it," the senior goalkeeper said . "I don't feel like they deserved to win. I know they won, but that's basically how I feel. " Wickham's post-game comments were likely rooted in frustration after he and the Midshipmen (1-2)