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Seventeen days ago, Adam Pomper seemed to have it all. His lacrosse team, Loyola University, had just defeated Maryland for its first NCAA Division I championship. And though Pomper, a freshman attackman, didn't see action, his entire family had driven to Foxborough, Mass., to root for the Greyhounds and cheer on the youngest son of a lacrosse-playing clan from Long Island. “We all tailgated, after the game, and Adam was in the spotlight,” said Max Pomper, 24, his brother and captain of Virginia's 2009 lacrosse team.

The visiting Loyola Greyhounds put a 13-12 overtime loss against Denver on April 13 behind them, using runs of six and seven unanswered goals to defeat Hobart, 19-11, on Saturday. Loyola's starting attack of Mike Sawyer (four goals, two assists), Zach Herreweyers (three, two) and Justin Ward (three, one) accounted for 10 goals and 15 points. The Greyhounds (10-3, 6-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) scored the game's first six goals, but the Statesmen (6-7, 2-4) answered with five.

Junior attackman Stephen Keogh scored with 43 seconds left in overtime off a feed from Chris Daniello to give visiting No. 2 Syracuse (5-1) a 9-8 victory over Hobart (2-4) on Tuesday. Daniello and freshman JoJo Marasco paced the Orange with two goals and one assist each. Syracuse trailed 5-2 at halftime. More men's games: Christian Hain 's goal with 4:03 left broke a 9-all tie as Massachusetts upset No. 13 Brown, 11-10. Art Kell added a goal for the Minutemen (5-2)

Speculation persists that in order for Loyola to repeat as national champion, the team must defeat No. 13 Johns Hopkins on April 27 or win the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament (May 3-5) to qualify for the NCAA tournament. Charley Toomey is refreshingly candid in admitting that he has begun thinking about the No. 8 Greyhounds' tournament profile. “I try not to, but it's kind of hard not to look at your own resume and look at resumes that are out there,” he said Wednesday morning.

On September 25, 2003, HOBART L. REESEY; beloved husband of Sarah Reesey (nee Shaw); devoted father of Dave L. Reesey and his wife Denise and the late Sharon I. Reesey; brother to Paul, Dean, and Donald "Buddy" Reesey, Alene Litcheson and Karen Staley. Also survived by grandchildren, Jennifer and Ryan Reesey. Funeral services at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Avenue, on Monday, at 11 A.M. Interment Holly Hills Memorial Gardens. Visiting hours on Sunday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

Bill Miller scored six goals to lead 11-time defending champion Hobart (6-6) to a 19-11 victory over Clarkson (10-4) yesterday in Geneva, N.Y., in the quarterfinals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III lacrosse tournament.The Statesmen will play host to Nazareth (12-1), a 17-10 winner over Gettysburg (13-2) in another quarterfinal, Sunday at 2 p.m. in the semifinals.In another quarterfinal, host Ohio Wesleyan (13-3) posted a 19-10 victory over Washington & Lee (11-4)

Alex Love scored the game-winning goal with 2:13 left to play as visiting Hobart stunned fifth-ranked Syracuse, 13-12, in men's lacrosse Tuesday at the Carrier Dome. The Statesmen (6-6) got the final four goals, including a pair from Derek Akner , in a span of 5:04. Hobart was led by six goals from Love, who added an assist, in beating their in-state rival for the first time since 2006 and the second time since 1986. Dylan Donohue had three goals and Derek Maltz and JoJo Marasco scored two apiece for the Orange (9-3)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Matt Riter scored five goals last night to lead No. 3 Syracuse (4-2) over Hobart (2-2), 22-8.John Barr, Casey Donegan, Mark Fietta, Roy Golsey, Steve Bettinger, Paul Sullivan and Dom Finn each added two goals for the Orangemen.Hobart ..1 1 4 2 -- 8Syracuse 5 7 4 6 -- 22

GENEVA, N.Y. -- Tom Zaccagnino scored four goals to lead Hobart (10-3) to a 20-16 victory over visiting Nazareth (10-3) yesterday in the semifinals of the NCAA Division III tournament.Hobart will play Ohio Wesleyan, a 14-8 winner over Washington College on Saturday, in the championship game Sunday at 3 p.m. in College Park.Nazareth, the defending champion, ended Hobart's 12-year streak of Division III titles with a 13-12 overtime victory against the Statesmen in the semifinals last year.Hobart had won every tournament since 1980, the year Division III lacrosse was formed.

GENEVA, N.Y. -- Cabell Maddux scored five goals and had four assists yesterday as Hobart topped Nazareth, 18-14, to advance to next week's NCAA Division III men's lacrosse championship game against Salisbury State.The Statesmen, who have won 13 of the 14 Division III titles, will play the Sea Gulls at 2 p.m. Sunday at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Md. Salisbury advanced by beating Gettysburg, 20-11, on Saturday.Maddux scored three straight goals to open the third quarter as Hobart went on a 5-0 run to open a 14-9 lead.

College basketball Booth named Loyola men's assistant coach Former Maryland basketball star and assistant coach Keith Booth , who has spent the past two years as an assistant women's coach at Loyola, was added Tuesday to the men's staff by newly named men's head coach G.G. Smith . Booth, 38, left College Park after Gary Williams retired in 2011 and Mark Turgeon retained only one member of the previous staff, Bino Ranson...

Alex Love scored the game-winning goal with 2:13 left to play as visiting Hobart stunned fifth-ranked Syracuse, 13-12, in men's lacrosse Tuesday at the Carrier Dome. The Statesmen (6-6) got the final four goals, including a pair from Derek Akner , in a span of 5:04. Hobart was led by six goals from Love, who added an assist, in beating their in-state rival for the first time since 2006 and the second time since 1986. Dylan Donohue had three goals and Derek Maltz and JoJo Marasco scored two apiece for the Orange (9-3)

Shawn Carter , a sophomore attackman-midfielder from Mount St. Joseph, has orally committed to Mercer. The 5-foot-11, 170-pound recruit plays for Chesapeake Rock, attending Summer Sizzle, Rider MVP, Baltimore Summer Kickoff, Tri-State, UPLax and Loyola Shootout camps, where he was an All-Star. He also plays basketball. Carter also considered UMBC, Towson, Villanova and Lehigh. Junior commitment Attackman Alex Lacaze of Sts. Peter and Paul in Easton has orally committed to Hobart.

In November, more than 700 high school boys and girls lacrosse players on 46 teams - and over 400 adult volunteers, supporters, active military, alumni and spectators - came together to raise more than $65,000 for two severely wounded Connecticut soldiers, including U.S. Army Capt. Gregory Galeazzi , a 2007 graduate of Loyola's Army ROTC program, at the seventh annual Sticks for Soldiers Thanksgiving Lacrosse Tournament in Fairfield, Conn. Both soldiers were seriously wounded with bilateral leg amputations and other injuries in separate IED explosions in Afghanistan in 2011 A video website called HooplaHa , which calls itself a "good news" site, created an original video about the event, which you can watch below.

Seventeen days ago, Adam Pomper seemed to have it all. His lacrosse team, Loyola University, had just defeated Maryland for its first NCAA Division I championship. And though Pomper, a freshman attackman, didn't see action, his entire family had driven to Foxborough, Mass., to root for the Greyhounds and cheer on the youngest son of a lacrosse-playing clan from Long Island. “We all tailgated, after the game, and Adam was in the spotlight,” said Max Pomper, 24, his brother and captain of Virginia's 2009 lacrosse team.

Alex Aust had seven points on four assists and three goals to lead No. 3 seed Maryland past No. 2 Duke, 12-3, in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference women's lacrosse championship Saturday. The Terrapins (15-3) held the Blue Devils (10-6) to a tournament-record-low three goals. Katie Schwarzmann single-handedly outscored the Duke attack with four goals. Kim Wenger scored for the Blue Devils at 28:03, but Duke did not score its second goal until the 27:07 mark of the second period.

Salisbury State coach Jim Berkman appreciates more than most what Hobart has accomplished in Division III lacrosse.In 1979, Berkman was a freshman attackman at St. Lawrence University, which beat Hobart in the first round of the last combined NCAA tournament for Division II and III teams. Division III got its own show the following year, and Hobart has hogged the spotlight since, taking a 35-game win streak in the NCAA playoffs and 11 straight titles into tomorrow's championship game at Salisbury State.

The NCAA Division III lacrosse tournament that starts Wednesday is historic in several respects.For once, Hobart, is not the favorite. Winner of 11 straight Division III championships, Hobart has a 5-6 record and is ranked No. 5 in the current poll.Washington College is not even in the eight-team field. The Shoremen finished 3-7 and failed to make the playoffs for the first time in 12 years.And now, look who's the favorite. Salisbury State, with its 13-0 record and No. 1 ranking in the poll the last four weeks, will entertain No. 7 Ithaca (9-2)

Thanks to Saturday night's 12-9 victory over No. 10 and two-time reigning Eastern College Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament champion Denver, Loyola (11-0) vaulted to the No. 2 spot in The Sun's rankings and have a chance to match the program's best start in school history with a win at Hobart this Saturday. The Greyhounds were the recipients of a lot of love sent in their direction, but coach Charley Toomey did his best to keep his players grounded by downplaying the significance of the team's first victory over the Pioneers in three attempts.

Junior attackman Stephen Keogh scored with 43 seconds left in overtime off a feed from Chris Daniello to give visiting No. 2 Syracuse (5-1) a 9-8 victory over Hobart (2-4) on Tuesday. Daniello and freshman JoJo Marasco paced the Orange with two goals and one assist each. Syracuse trailed 5-2 at halftime. More men's games: Christian Hain 's goal with 4:03 left broke a 9-all tie as Massachusetts upset No. 13 Brown, 11-10. Art Kell added a goal for the Minutemen (5-2)