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Ryan Young sometimes feels as if he's invisible. That's what tends to happen when you're the third attackman for the Maryland men's lacrosse team that includes a pair of physically imposing linemates in 6-foot-6, 260-pound Will Yeatman and 6-5, 240-pound Grant Catalino. And that's fine with the 6-foot, 170-pound Young. "I think with their size, they do draw a lot of attention, which ... actually helps out my game," the sophomore said. "They get so much attention that people are worried about them more, and I kind of sneak under the radar.

Cooper MacDonnell wanted to score 30 goals this season. He might need a new objective after this weekend. With three games left on Loyola's schedule, the junior attackman has scored 27 goals, tops in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. In the No. 19 Greyhounds' 8-7 win against Georgetown on Saturday, he posted a career-high six points, which included a career-best-tying five goals. "I just have a lot of confidence dodging from the left wing," said MacDonnell, who was named the ECAC Offensive Player of the Week for the second time in three weeks.

Former Terps coach L. Saban dies at 87 obituary Former Maryland football coach Lou Saban, who coached O.J. Simpson in the NFL and ran the New York Yankees for George Steinbrenner during a well-traveled career that spanned five decades, died Sunday. He was 87. Saban died at his home in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., his wife, Joyce, said. He had heart problems for years and recently suffered a fall that required hospitalization, she said. Saban played football at Indiana University and for the Cleveland Browns before embarking on an unmatched head coaching career that included stops with the Boston Patriots and Buffalo Bills of the old American Football League and the Denver Broncos and Bills after the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, along with college jobs at Miami, Army and Northwestern.

Freshman attackman Travis Reed was charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana, forcing the Maryland men's lacrosse team to suspend its leading goal scorer Friday night. As first reported by The Diamondback, the university newspaper, Reed, a Boys' Latin graduate, was driving a motorized scooter in the parking lot of a convenience store on Knox Road in College Park when he was stopped by police about 2:20 a.m. Thursday. During a search, marijuana was found in Reed's possession.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Coming into the season, the Maryland men's lacrosse team was picked to finish fourth of four teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and coach Dave Cottle said his young team deserved the ranking. But in last night's game against No. 3 North Carolina, the Terps made it known that they can compete with higher-ranked teams in the ACC. The No. 9 Terps shut down the Tar Heels' offense and built a big lead that became a 13-8 win. "It's huge, especially this year because all the teams in the ACC are playing well," Terps midfielder Jeff Reynolds said.

Maryland's Dave Cottle and Towson's Tony Seaman have each been coaching college lacrosse for 26 years, and they've started freshman goalies regularly only twice in their careers. But Saturday in the Face-Off Classic, two of the sport's most dominant teams, No. 3 Virginia and No. 10 Syracuse, started freshman goalies. No. 13 Loyola also starts a freshman in Jake Hagelin (Boys' Latin). It's such an oddity. Most coaches prefer not having to start freshmen at all, especially in goal. It certainly won't be a sweeping trend in the sport; it's unique, especially when a team keeps winning.

Wake Forest basketball coach Skip Prosser, who took Loyola to its only NCAA tournament berth, died yesterday afternoon, the university confirmed. Prosser, 56, collapsed in his office and was rushed to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Prosser had been jogging on the Kentner Stadium track adjacent to his office in the Manchester Athletic Center about noon. A staff member found him unresponsive at about 12:45 p.m. A doctor from Student Health Services was summoned and used a defibrillator to try to revive him. He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1:41 p.m., the university said.

So far, Maryland men's lacrosse coach Dave Cottle has handled a potentially explosive situation extremely well, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out down the stretch, and into the possible postseason. Down in College Park, the Terps have two outstanding goalies. One is a senior, Harry Alford, a two-time All-American who missed the first seven games of this season because of a torn labrum that required surgery last November. The other is freshman Brian Phipps, who has started all 11 games and played perhaps his best game Friday night in an 8-7 double-overtime win against Navy.

Some days, Jeremy Sieverts wakes up and thinks about walking to another men's lacrosse practice with some of his teammates at Butler University. Then, reality quickly sets in again, and Sieverts remembers he's going to school and playing ball in College Park now. Maryland's sophomore midfielder did not imagine taking this path to become a Terrapin. But the McDonogh graduate quickly found a way out after Butler informed its players in late January that the school was eliminating its men's lacrosse program.

COLLEGE PARK -- Maryland lacrosse coach Dave Cottle was in search of a scoring midfielder, and midfielder Jeremy Sieverts was in search of a home. They found each other yesterday. Cottle may have also found a go-to attackman in the 10th-ranked Terps' 11-7 win over No. 18 UMBC at Byrd Stadium. Sieverts, a sophomore, transferred from Butler in January after the school shut down its lacrosse program. He scored a hat trick in the first half yesterday, and once the Retrievers found a way to shut him down in the second half, they couldn't contain senior attackman Michael Phipps, who had two goals in the third period.