Conference Title

The Roland Park tennis team came into this week's Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference tournament on a roll, and nobody was able to stop it. After going undefeated for a third consecutive regular season, the Reds finished off another perfect year Friday by edging host McDonogh and Bryn Mawr and winning their fourth straight A Conference team title. The Reds won one singles and one doubles title while earning spots in four of the five championship matches.

Pete Waskiewicz Mount de Sales In his 19th season coaching the Sailors, Waskiewicz led them to their third conference championship (and second Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference title). Mount de Sales won the Catholic League championship in 1998 and IAAM A Conference title in 2004, when Waskiewicz was honored as All-Baltimore City/County Coach of the Year. This season, the No. 2 Sailors finished 17-4 overall and 16-1 in the IAAM A Conference.

Reigning national champion Salisbury was rewarded for Saturday's 15-4 rout of St. Mary's with the program's 17th Capital Athletic Conference regular-season title. The Seahawks (1993-94) and Stevenson (2009 and 2011) are the only other teams that have captured league championships, and the Sea Gulls (13-3 overall and 6-0 in the conference) assured themselves of the top seed and home-field advantage throughout the tournament. But Salisbury will not know its semifinal opponent until the upcoming weekend.

The Chapelgate Christian Academy baseball team scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning to beat St. John's-Catholic Prep, 7-4, on Thursday in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association C Conference playoffs at Calvert Hall. The two teams will meet in a winner-take-all game 5 p.m. Monday at McDonogh. Wednesday' softball No. 13 C. Milton Wright 10, Patapsco 0: Winning pitcher Kyralee Comeaux threw a one-hit shutout for the host Mustangs (19-3) in a Class 3A North regional semifinal.

Western entered yesterday's City-Wide A Conference softball championship series vs. Southern of Baltimore with a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series, a 2-0 record against the Bulldogs this season and ace pitcher Tracy Gruzs on the mound.The Doves (12-1) seemed to be in a perfect position to sweep the series, and that's exactly what they did, defeating Southern, 8-2, at Riverside Park and capturing the conference title.Gruzs, who was the winner in Western's 4-1 playoff victory over Poly on Monday and in the Doves' 8-4 victory in Game 1 of the series Wednesday, pitched another outstanding game, allowing three hits and striking out three.

With a team that had just two seniors and seven underclassmen among its starters, Park figured to be in no position to challenge for the championship in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference.That didn't stop the Bruins from making it a competitive regular season, and it didn't stop them from surging through the playoffs to earn a chance at their first conference title.Riding the arm of starter Shawn Baron, the Bruins twice stared down elimination and defeated Mount Carmel, 3-1, yesterday for the second time in five days.

Edgewood High School - Thursday's UCBAC field hockey title matchup between Fallston and Rising Sun turned out to be a tale of two halves. After a lackluster opening period, both teams exploded for a combined four goals in the second half, and when the final whistle sounded, it was the Chesapeake (upper) Division champion Cougars that came out on top of their Cecil County opponents with a 3-1 victory. With the win, Fallston secured its fifth UCBAC field hockey crown. The Cougars won the conference title back to back in 2005 and 2006, then, after narrowly losing the upper division race to Rising Sun in 2007, came back with two more championship game victories in 2008 and 2009.

The perfect season -- one like no other in Maryland high school baseball history -- is complete. No. 1 Calvert Hall completed an unbeaten season, believed to be the first in the storied program's history, by beating Mount St. Joseph, 4-0, last night at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen to finish 33-0 and 75-0 as a program. The victory gave the varsity its third consecutive Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference title and its 15th since 1976, including the old Maryland Scholastic Association that became the MIAA.

After falling short by penalty kicks in last year's Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland's A Conference title game, Archbishop Spalding's top-ranked girls soccer team had lofty expectations that left no margin for error. The high stakes brought a big reward. Senior forward Molly Schaefer scored with 10 minutes left and the defense did the rest, securing a 1-0 win over Pallotti to give the Cavaliers their first IAAM A Conference championship yesterday at Calvert Hall. Spalding finished the season with a 19-0-2 mark, getting nine saves from junior goalie Karen Blocker and nothing new from Schaefer, who had seven of her 10 goals prove to be game-winners this season.

The second-ranked McDonogh wrestling team has been scratching at the door for some time. Yesterday afternoon, the Eagles finally burst through. After taking second place the past three seasons, McDonogh won its first Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association title in 41 years, as six Eagles claimed individual titles to lead the Owings Mills school past top-ranked Archbishop Curley, 207-191.5. Tournament host Mount St. Joseph finished in third place with 179 points. "I'd say we were due," said McDonogh coach Pete Welch, whose team won the school's first conference wrestling championship since 1961 and avenged two losses to Curley this season.

The Loyola lacrosse team barely made the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference playoffs, able to sneak in on the season's final day and then following up with an improbable run to Friday's championship game against undefeated and No. 1 Boys' Latin. But the No. 4 Dons saved their best and most astonishing feat for the title game. Overcoming a six-goal deficit early and then down two goals late in the fourth quarter, the Dons scored the game's last three goals - with senior attackman Devin McNamara providing the game-winner with 1:56 remaining - to come away with a stunning 10-9 upset win over the No. 1 Lakers in front of an announced 6,271 at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium.

MIAA A Conference lacrosse championship No. 1 Boys' Latin (19-0) vs. No. 4 Loyola (12-8) When: Friday, 8 p.m. Where: Johnny Unitas Stadium, Towson University Coaches: Bob Shriver, Boys' Latin; Jack Crawford, Loyola PLAYERS TO WATCH Boys' Latin: Colin Heacock, Sr., A; Shack Stanwick, Jr., A; Mac Pons, Sr., D; Christian Knight, Sr., G Loyola: Devin McNamara, Sr., A; Alex Roesner, Soph., A;...

Junior midfielder Sara Lessans scored six goals and added an assist to lead Park past Friends, 15-12, in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland B Conference championship game Saturday at Gerstell Academy in Finksburg. Senior midfielder Rachel Hettelman chipped in with four goals and an assist for the top-seeded Bruins (13-2), who earned a conference-best fifth title for coach Robin Cardin Lowe. Sophomore midfielders Sabina Diaz-Rimal (three goals) and Natalie Rudin (two)

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No women's college lacrosse team has dominated its conference recently the way Salisbury has. The Sea Gulls have won 93 straight games over their Capital Athletic Conference opponents and are looking for their 11th straight conference title when they host York (Pa.) in Saturday's final. Coach Jim Nestor's Sea Gulls (17-0) have not lost to a CAC opponent since March 19, 2003. The Sea Gulls swept CAC postseason honors with Katie Bollhorst (St. Mary's) named CAC Player of the Year for the second straight year and Nestor picking up his ninth Coach of the Year honor.

When Stevenson was a member of the Capital Athletic Conference, the program took home regular-season crowns in 2009 and 2011. The No. 4 Mustangs have an opportunity for another league championship, but as members of the Middle Atlantic Conference. Stevenson (13-2 overall and 6-0 in the league) only have to defeat No. 16 Widener (9-4, 5-1) on Saturday night to capture the regular-season title, and coach Paul Cantabene said the accomplishment is a coveted honor. “Any time you can win a conference title, it's good for the program,” he said Thursday.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun will publish a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player to get you more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Loyola senior Ana Heneberry , the Big East Conference Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. A Dulaney graduate who followed her sister Mary to Loyola, Heneberry has played every game since her freshman year and is one of the team leaders in caused turnovers and ground balls. Have you always played defense? Not really.

They spent their weekend at college lacrosse games, each rooting on an idol who led his team to victory. At M&T Bank Stadium, Poly sophomore Adam Steele cheered on goalie Harry Alford, who anchored Maryland in its upset of No. 2 Duke for the Atlantic Coast Conference title. Junior teammate Trevor Laja was at Towson University, watching midfielder and Friends graduate Kyle Harrison help No. 1 Johns Hopkins remain the nation's only unbeaten college team. "Alford was the MVP of the whole ACC tournament.

Reigning national champion Salisbury was rewarded for Saturday's 15-4 rout of St. Mary's with the program's 17th Capital Athletic Conference regular-season title. The Seahawks (1993-94) and Stevenson (2009 and 2011) are the only other teams that have captured league championships, and the Sea Gulls (13-3 overall and 6-0 in the conference) assured themselves of the top seed and home-field advantage throughout the tournament. But Salisbury will not know its semifinal opponent until the upcoming weekend.

Reigning national champion Salisbury has captured 17 league titles in the 20-year history of the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC), but this season's campaign may be the most critical to the program. Wednesday night's 10-8 loss to No. 3 Stevenson dropped the No. 6 Sea Gulls to 10-3 and may have endangered the team's bid for an at-large berth in the South Region of the NCAA tournament. Coach Jim Berkman also pointed out another side effect of the setback. “We might have lost the opportunity to host some playoff games,” he said.