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One word perfectly depicts what the recruiting picture for Southern High guard Bryan Harris looked like at this time last year. “Nothing,” Harris said Sunday. “I had some DIII schools call me, stuff like that.” Despite a senior season in which he averaged 20 points, four assists and four rebounds and earned a reputation as arguably the top player in Anne Arundel County, Harris graduated without a single Division I offer.   Flash forward to present day, and Harris was faced with a much different dilemma: having to choose between scholarship offers from several DI programs.

Over the past two years, Bryan Harris graduated from Southern High, completed a successful post-grad year at Massanutten (Va.) Military Academy, committed to Duquesne, parted ways with the Dukes after their coach was fired, signed with Wofford and then returned home to Maryland after the first semester of his freshman year.   “It seems like every day I'm waiting for something else to happen. It's been a crazy process the last few years,” Harris said. “Everything is finally set now. I can just focus on school and basketball.” The focus now for Harris, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound point guard, will be playing basketball and studying computer science at UMBC.

Lacrosse No. 17 Stony Brook women roll past Duquesne, 16-3 College women: Frankie Caridi made five saves and No. 17 Stony Brook (3-1) won, 16-3, against visiting Duquesne (2-3) on Thursday. The Seawolves, led by Janine Hillier and Demmianne Cook with five goals each, tied a program record for the fewest goals allowed in a single game for the second week in a row. Stony Brook beat Central Connecticut, 19-3, on Feb. 27. More colleges Terps ' Aronhalt named to ACC all-academic team Maryland guard Logan Aronhalt was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball all-academic team.

Lacrosse No. 17 Stony Brook women roll past Duquesne, 16-3 College women: Frankie Caridi made five saves and No. 17 Stony Brook (3-1) won, 16-3, against visiting Duquesne (2-3) on Thursday. The Seawolves, led by Janine Hillier and Demmianne Cook with five goals each, tied a program record for the fewest goals allowed in a single game for the second week in a row. Stony Brook beat Central Connecticut, 19-3, on Feb. 27. More colleges Terps ' Aronhalt named to ACC all-academic team Maryland guard Logan Aronhalt was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball all-academic team.

Coppin State let an 11-point second-half lead slip away and Kevin Price and Tom Pipkins came up with big plays for Duquesne down the stretch last night to defeat the Eagles, 77-76, in a nonconference game in Pittsburgh.The Dukes (2-2) went ahead for good as Price picked off a pass by Kyle Locke at half-court and streaked in for a layup to make it 75-74 with 2:08 remaining, capping a 12-minute comeback from 59-48.After a missed three-pointer by Locke, Pipkins hit a jumper. Coppin State's Allen Watson hit a pair of free throws to pull the Eagles within one at the 1:19 mark.

Forget the Atlantic 10 Conference mystique and the three-point shooting prowess of Duquesne guard Tom Pipkins.They were no match whatsoever for Coppin State's smothering defense and home-court mastery last night at the Coppin Center.The Eagles took command late in the first half and proceeded to win their 42nd in a row at home, 91-57, avenging last season's one-point defeat at Duquesne.In Coppin's only appearance on its home court until Jan. 15, the Eagles pressured the Dukes into 24 turnovers and unleashed a 25-7 run in the first eight minutes of the second half to burst ahead by 35.They harassed Pipkins -- who was shooting 48 percent from three-point range -- and his teammates into shots from unfavorable positions and used the strong defense to jump-start their offense.

When a gentleman from Duquesne called a couple weeks ago, Stacey Gilligan thought he was calling from Pittsburgh to solicit money from an alumnus for the Dukes' athletic program. Little did the former Glen Burnie All-Metro and county player of the year (1990) know he was calling to inform her that she had been chosen for induction into the school's Hall of Fame. "I said thank you, wow, didn't know what to say because I couldn't believe it and was pretty overwhelmed," said the 26-year old Gilligan, a 1995 Duquesne graduate.

With two teammates still lying in hospital beds, Duquesne University's basketball team tried to return to normal yesterday, three days after five players were shot during a terrifying outburst of gunfire that followed a school dance. The players went to class, lifted weights and were scheduled to work out later in the day. On Tuesday, police arrested Brandon Baynes, 18, of Penn Hills, Pa., on five counts of criminal attempted homicide. William Holmes, 18, also of Penn Hills, turned himself in yesterday, police said.

COLLEGE PARK -- Looking like a team ready for a change of scenery, Maryland dispatched of Duquesne, 81-47, last night, then packed its bags for Puerto Rico."

COLLEGE PARK - The Maryland Terrapins concluded the first homestand in their new basketball arena last night by slapping aside one more weakling, as the Duquesne Dukes proved to be another brand of early-season fodder for the defending national champions. Led by senior guards Drew Nicholas and Steve Blake, senior center Ryan Randle and a stifling defense that forced a staggering 35 turnovers, the 11th-ranked Terps had no trouble running the Dukes out of Comcast Center, 89-39, before an announced crowd of 17,629.

For five days last month, Bryan Harris had found everything he wanted in a college basketball program. Harris, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound combo guard, graduated from Southern in 2011 with no Division I scholarship offers. But a standout post-grad season with Massanutten Military Academy in Virginia earned him several DI offers, including one from Duquesne, which he accepted May 18 . Harris' happiness, however, proved to be fleeting. On May 23, Duquesne fired coach Ron Everhart , leaving Harris' status as a Dukes commitment utterly uncertain.

No. 7 Duke (11-3, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) used a 6-0 run in the second half to elevate itself past No. 1 Virginia (10-2, 2-1) on Friday night, 13-5, in front of an announced 7,234 at Klockner Stadium. The Blue Devils earned the top seed in the ACC tournament and will play fourth-seeded Maryland in the semifinals Friday at 5 p.m. Maryland, the defending ACC champion, took the regular-season meeting between the teams, 10-7, on March 3 in College Park. The second-seeded Cavaliers will face third-seeded North Carolina at 7:30 p.m. on ESPNU in the second semifinal.

While McDonogh alum Joe Yermal has posted a 7-0 record along with a 2.73 ERA for the University of Charlotte baseball team, it is reliever Bryan Hamilton (Mount St. Joseph) who keeps delivering out of the bullpen for the 49ers. Hamilton (3-2) got his third save of the season Tuesday in a 7-5 win over Winthrop, limiting the Eagles to one hit and no runs over the final 2 2/3 innings. It was eight days ago that the sophomore right-hander found himself as a designated hitter in the eighth inning because of an injured teammate.

The Duquesne women's basketball team - led by Kristi Little with 15 points and 11 rebounds - shot 62.1 percent from the field in the first half to spark an 80-76 victory over visiting Towson yesterday. The Dukes (3-2) have won two straight, and the loss ended the Tigers' six-game nonconference winning streak, which dated to an 83-66 victory over Norfolk State last year. Shanae Baker-Brice led five players in double figures with 20 points and 10 assists for the Tigers (2-1). Haliena Snowden (Seton Keough)

With two teammates still lying in hospital beds, Duquesne University's basketball team tried to return to normal yesterday, three days after five players were shot during a terrifying outburst of gunfire that followed a school dance. The players went to class, lifted weights and were scheduled to work out later in the day. On Tuesday, police arrested Brandon Baynes, 18, of Penn Hills, Pa., on five counts of criminal attempted homicide. William Holmes, 18, also of Penn Hills, turned himself in yesterday, police said.

PITTSBURGH -- Funds managed by Macquarie Bank Ltd., Australia's largest securities firm, and several partners agreed yesterday to buy Pittsburgh utility owner Duquesne Light Holdings Inc. for $1.59 billion. The takeover of the 120-year-old company, which sold its power plants in 2000, gives Macquarie 587,000 customers in southwestern Pennsylvania. Sydney-based Macquarie and funds it controls have spent more than A$2 billion ($1.5 billion) in the past year on purchases, including a Norwegian explosives maker and a United Kingdom ferry company.

Freshman center Kennedy Okafor had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead UMBC to an 80-64 win last night over Quinnipiac at UMBC Fieldhouse.The Retrievers (4-5) never trailed, building a 25-11 lead midway through the first half.The Braves (1-8) were led by Rich Anderson, who hit four three-pointers and scored 22 points.Okafor was 9-for-12 from the floor in his sixth double double in nine games.Retrievers freshman guard Tim Hyland hit five threes en route to a season-high 19 points. Rich Giddens was 7-for-9 and scored 18.Ivoree Stanley led Quinnipiac with 13 points.

Orion Power Holdings Inc., a joint venture between Constellation Energy Group and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said yesterday that it agreed to buy seven power plants from a Pittsburgh company for $1.71 billion in cash.Baltimore-based Orion will acquire the plants, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, from Duquesne Light Co., a subsidiary of DQE Inc.The seven plants have a total capacity of 2,614 megawatts -- enough to light 2.6 million homes -- and would double the megawatt capacity of Orion's portfolio, which includes power plants throughout New York, the company said.

COLLEGE PARK - The Maryland Terrapins concluded the first homestand in their new basketball arena last night by slapping aside one more weakling, as the Duquesne Dukes proved to be another brand of early-season fodder for the defending national champions. Led by senior guards Drew Nicholas and Steve Blake, senior center Ryan Randle and a stifling defense that forced a staggering 35 turnovers, the 11th-ranked Terps had no trouble running the Dukes out of Comcast Center, 89-39, before an announced crowd of 17,629.