Crusaders

The senior attackman led the No. 2 Crusaders (3-1) to three wins last week, contributing seven goals and six assists. He opened the week on March 15 with a two-goal, one-assist effort in a 15-1 win over Norfolk (Va.) Academy; added two goals and four assists in a 11-4 win over Ohio's Western Reserve on Thursday; and provided three goals and an assist as the Crusaders beat Avon Old Farms from Connecticut, 14-5, on Saturday. A four-year letterman who runs the offense, Michel came into the season with 77 goals and 22 assists following a 29-goal, 15-assist junior season.

•Holy Cross men's lacrosse coach Adam Pascal has resigned, effective immediately, the team confirmed Wednesday. The Crusaders are winless in 2011. Assistant coach Jim Morrissey will take over as the Crusaders' interim head coach for the remainder of the 2011 season. Holy Cross will commence a national search for Pascal's replacement after the conclusion of the 2011 season. •Princeton attackman Jack McBride , who has missed the Tigers' past three games, remains questionable for Saturday's game against Penn.

St. Paul's coach Jay Braunstein knows a B Conference team has never won the team title at the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association championships. His wrestlers know it, too. But junior Brad Mutchnik, the defending champ at 152 pounds, said he and his teammates need to ignore the facts and aim for the heavens. "We should focus on winning the tournament anyway," said Mutchnik, whose quarterfinal victory was one of seven for St. Paul's. "If you don't aim for the top, you'll only fall shorter from your goal.

St. Paul's coach Jay Braunstein has not shied away from putting his wrestlers in some of the most competitive tournaments in the nation. The Crusaders have been tested at the Beast of the East Wrestling Tournament, POWERade Christmas Wrestling Tournament, Pittsburgh Central Catholic Wrestling Invitational and Cedar Cliff Duals, among others. Host St. Paul's used that experience to win the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference regular-season championship Friday night in dual meets that featured St. Mary's, Mount Carmel and St. Vincent Pallotti, the three-time defending champion.

Like hungry predators contemplating a particularly appetizing prey, House Republicans arrive in Washington this week with drool practically dripping from their chins. For most, the question is not whether they will try to repeal federal health care reform once Congress convenes Wednesday but how quickly, savagely and completely they can thwart President Barack Obama's signature program. But if they can wrest themselves from public denunciations of socialism, Medicaid recipients and "death panels" — or from partisan strategy sessions where the merits of repeal versus investigative attack hearings are no doubt being explored exhaustively — they may want to consider their biggest obstacle: the American people.

Four decades ago, Baltimoreans first got to know Barbara A. Mikulski as the community activist who crusaded against the city's plan to build a highway through Fells Point. For decades now, this one-time social worker from East Baltimore's Highlandtown has been standing up for average working people and establishing herself as arguably the most beloved elected official in the state. In her four terms in the U.S. Senate, Ms. Mikulski has continued to put the interests of her constituents first, and that is why she merits a return for a fifth (and the title of longest-serving female senator in the nation's history)

President Barack Obama doesn't strike one as an angry man; rather, he seems professorial, at home on a podium delivering a lecture from on high with the aid of teleprompters. That he has a cool persona might be a good way of putting it. Apparently, that image is a false front, if one is to believe the contents of a new book titled "The Roots of Obama's Rage," written by conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza. A summary of his argument appeared as a cover story in Forbes earlier this month.

Like many college basketball stars whose professional careers don't immediately click in the NBA, Kenny Hasbrouck fell off the radar after he graduated from Siena last year. A rib injury in minicamp with the Miami Heat last summer and a broken foot suffered while playing a pickup game with some of his former teammates last fall left the former Cardinal Gibbons standout waiting for another chance. It almost came in March, when the Heat signed Hasbrouck to a couple of 10-day contracts off the roster of an NBA Development League team.

Boys' Latin and McDonogh played on even terms for most of Tuesday night's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference semifinal game at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium. There was one glaring exception: faceoffs. It's an area that Boys' Latin senior R.G. Keenan has dominated all season, and nothing changed on Tuesday. Winning 17 of 21 faceoffs, Keegan led the No. 1 Lakers to a 10-7 victory over No. 3 McDonogh as they seek their ninth title (including the Maryland Scholastic Association)

Cardinal Gibbons bowed out of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference forever at Carlo Crispino Stadium in Towson on a summerlike Friday afternoon. The 5-0 playoff loss to five-time defending champion Calvert Hall marked a sad ending for the Crusaders — and a bittersweet one for Calvert Hall coach Lou Eckerl, who graduated from Gibbons in 1970. Gibbons is closing at the end of the school year. "I feel their anguish and sorrow," said Eckerl, a former Gibbons player, athletic director and baseball coach who guided the Crusaders to the 1982 Maryland Scholastic Association AConference crown.