First Round

After 41 consecutive appearances in the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament, No. 13 Johns Hopkins was left out of the 16-team field when it was announced Sunday night. The program's run had been the longest active streak in Division I in all sports - just ahead of Miami baseball (40 straight) and Virginia men's soccer (32). "We're very disappointed," Blue Jays coach Dave Pietramala said. "It was not how we set out to have this thing finish. I'm certainly disappointed for our team and our seniors.

ESPN analyst Paul Carcaterra provided color commentary for fifth-seeded North Carolina's 16-7 rout of Lehigh and Cornell's 16-8 upset of sixth-seeded Maryland in a pair of NCAA tournament first-round contests this past weekend. The former Syracuse All-American midfielder, who can be followed on Twitter via @paulcarcaterra, will be part of the crew covering Saturday's quarterfinals in College Park and Sunday's quarterfinals in Indianapolis. Carcaterra offered his perspective on results that impressed and surprised him, concerns for the top two seeded teams and the most interesting quarterfinal.

Johns Hopkins will play at undefeated Hampden-Sydney at noon Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Division III playoffs. Hopkins (8-2) sealed its second outright Centennial Conference championship with a 38-14 win at McDaniel in the regular-season finale Saturday. This will be the Blue Jays' (8-2) second appearance in the playoffs and the 22nd meeting between the schools. The Tigers (10-0) are making their third appearance in the playoffs.

Visiting Loyola trails, 15-10, in its series with Duke, which has won six of the last seven meetings. The teams have faced each other just once in the NCAA tournament with the Blue Devils cruising to a 12-7 victory in the first round of the 2008 postseason. The Greyhounds (11-4) have won seven of their past nine contests, but are trying to rebound from an 18-11 thumping by Ohio State in an Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament semifinal on May 2. With 126 career goals, senior attackman Mike Sawyer is seven goals away from tying Pat Lamon for the most in that department in school history.

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The Maryland GreenHawks of the Premier Basketball League acquired guard Randy Gill from the Rochester RazorSharks in exchange for the team's 2010 first-round draft pick. Gill averaged 8.3 points, 1.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists in seven games with Rochester this season. Gill last played for the GreenHawks during the 2007-08 season, when he averaged 16.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists. During the 2008-09 season, when he split time between Montreal and Detroit, he averaged 21.9 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists.

Representing Dunbar High with a maroon suit and maroon tie, Tavon Austin strolled into Radio City Music Hall around 7 p.m. Thursday night to see his lifelong dream fulfilled. At 7:34 p.m., he and 22 other top prospects were introduced to the crowd. Each towered over him. Austin then retreated to the green room, downed a bag of potato chips and watched the draft unfold, his legs shaking the whole time, with a group of family and friends, including his mother, Cathy Green, and grandmother, Louann Green.

TOKYO -- Debbie Graham, firing 11 aces, upset sixth-seed American compatriot Pam Shriver, 7-5, 6-4, yesterday in the first round of the Nichirei International Ladies Tennis Championships.Shriver became the second seeded player to lose in the first round. Japan's women's singles champion Kimiko Date, the eighth seed, was eliminated Monday.Fifth-seeded Laura Gildemeister of Peru, the highest seed competing today, beat Indonesian Yayuk Basuki, 7-5, 7-5, on the hard court of Ariake Colosseum.

Loyola should savor Saturday's NCAA tournament first-round game against North Carolina, because it probably will be the last men's postseason game at Curley Field.Spurred by large crowds at the Final Four, the men's lacrosse committee approved a proposal that, starting in 1996, would schedule doubleheaders for the first round and quarterfinals. According to committee chairman Willie Scroggs, northern and southern sites will be predetermined for the first two weekends.Beyond Byrd Stadium in College Park holding the Final Four, nothing has been decided about next year's sites, but here's what the committee likely will consider for the south: a first-round doubleheader at Johns Hopkins, Towson State or UMBC, with Navy and Delaware leading contenders for the quarterfinals.

Coppin State's domination of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference served the team well during the selection process for the NCAA women's tournament. A collective whoop arose last night when a No. 15 flashed beside Coppin's name during the ESPN telecast of the brackets, indicating that the team is gaining ground in its world. Coppin State women vs. Connecticut NCAA tournament, first round, Sunday, 9:30 p.m., ESPN2

Earlier in the week, the defensive players ofthe Maryland men's lacrosse team declined to shed much light on how they intended to contain Cornell star Rob Pannell. After 60 minutes, the sixth-seeded Terps still did not have many answers for Pannell as the fifth-year senior attackman recorded a game-high seven points on four goals and three assists to power the Big Red to a convincing 16-8 victory in an NCAA tournament first-round contest before an announced 2,739 at Byrd Stadium on Sunday.

The Maryland men's lacrosse team spent the week poring over film of Cornell's whirling dervish of an attackman Rob Pannell, but defensemen Goran Murray and Michael Ehrhardt and goalkeeper Niko Amato have something celluloid cannot match: firsthand experience. Amato and Pannell were teammates at a tournament in Vail, Colo., last summer, and Murray played on an opposing team at the same tournament. Ehrhardt played against Pannell in Long Island, N.Y., last summer. "I know he likes to [isolate]

No. 11 Washington College's 10-7 victory over Colorado College in the first round of the NCAA tournament Wednesday propelled the team to a second-round matchup with No. 4 Stevenson Saturday night. The outcome also gave the program its first win in the postseason since 2008. “It's big,” coach Jeff Shirk said Friday morning. “I think it helped the guys gain some confidence. Last year, we experienced the tournament, but this year, we experienced a win. I think it's a pretty big steppingstone in trying to get where we're headed.” Last season, the Shoremen dropped a 5-4 decision to Goucher in the NCAA tournament first round.

COLLEGE PARK - Even when Stony Brook's Demmianne Cook edged to the sideline to confer with her coach during a stoppage of Friday night's NCAA tournament first round game, Towson defender Alexa Demski made sure she was never more than a few yards away. One of the keys for the Tigers was to never lose site of Cook, who entered as the nation's leading goal scorer. While Cook finished with two goals, Stony Brook goalie Frankie Caridi was the biggest difference-maker by making seven saves with several from point-blank range.

Denver coach Bill Tierney jokes that it took only four years for college coaches, including himself, to put Eric Law in the best position to succeed. Law has gone from being a backup at Salisbury as a freshman to - after transferring to the Pioneers - a sophomore midfielder to a junior wing attackman to the quarterback of the offense in 2013. And Law has thrived in his latest role, setting both team and personal bests in assists (31) and points (64). “So finally, after three years of playing - one at Division III, one at midfield and one at not his most comfortable position - in his fourth year of college, he gets to do what he does best, and you've seen the results,” Tierney said with a chuckle.

Navy's women's lacrosse players made it clear that they are not in the NCAA tournament this time to enjoy the experience. After three years of first-round losses, the eighth-seeded Mids are in it to win. Monmouth, which lost in a play-in game last season, apparently had the same idea. The Hawks made 11th-ranked Navy work for everything it got Friday, especially in the first half. Monmouth scored first and was within one until the final 7.1 seconds of the first half, when Mids senior attacker Jasmine DePompeo dished out the first her five assists and sparked a five-goal run that carried Navy to a 12-6 victory at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium for its first NCAA tournament win in six years as a Division I program.

Safeties used to provide run support. Tight ends used to block. Guards and centers used to sit out the first three hours of the big show, waiting for their second-round cues. Times and opinions have changed in the NFL draft the past 10 years, though. When Saturday's annual lottery unfolds, there could be a record four safeties drafted in the first round, ostensibly to cover some of those athletic tight ends who are finding their way down field more and more. In a year in which several teams are shopping for left tackles, there is a surplus of promising interior offensive linemen.

Even though he had posted respectable numbers in his two years as a starter for the Maryland Terrapins, one of the last things on Evers Burns' mind after finishing his college career was that he would be watching the first round of the NBA draft with keen interest."

Four Division III teams from the area will open the first round of the NCAA tournament this Wednesday. Stevenson (17-2) will play host to Christopher Newport (8-8), Washington College (12-4) welcomes Colorado College (13-4), St. Mary's (12-6) visits Lynchburg (12-5), and Salisbury (14-5) hosts Susquehanna (12-6). Here is what each coach had to say about his team's respective first-round opponent. Salisbury coach Jim Berkman on Susquehanna: “Not much, other than their coach is a former Sea Gull.