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Johns Hopkins opened with a 4-0 run and never trailed as the visiting Blue Jays (5-2) upset No. 13 Georgetown, 16-12, in women's lacrosse Wednesday. Taylor D'Amore finished with a game-high five goals and Sammy Cermack added four for Hopkins, which has won two straight. The Hoyas (2-3) scored just four goals in the first half. Georgetown has lost three straight. No. 13 Loyola 14, Delaware 5: Marlee Paton scored a game-high five goals to lead a season-high 10 Greyhounds in scoring at the Ridley Athletic Complex.

Host No. 3 Notre Dame stayed perfect in Big East play when the Fighting Irish held No. 17 Syracuse scoreless in the first half and won, 8-6, Saturday. Ryan Foley paced Notre Dame (11-1, 6-0) with two goals and an assist. JoJo Marasco and Tim Desko each scored twice for the Orange (7-7, 3-3). No. 14 Princeton 14, No. 7 Cornell 9: Alex Capretta scored a career-high five goals and the host Tigers (10-3, 6-0) beat the Big Red (9-3, 4-2) to claim the Ivy League title and earn the right to host the league tournament Friday.

- Once Maryland's women's lacrosse team gets going in transition, it is hard to slow down. Georgetown's players knew that, and Wednesday night they stopped the No. 3 Terrapins - for a little while. After the No. 8 Hoyas took an early three-goal lead, Maryland kicked in that transition game and scored five straight goals to take the lead for good en route to a 20-11 victory at Maryland's Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. The Hoyas (2-3) won most of the early draws and scored three goals before the Terps (7-0)

•Denver will try to salvage a spot in the NCAA tournament with its game tonight against Duke in the Whitman's Sampler Mile High Classic. But it will also be a showcase for the city and the state on a big stage in a big stadium. NCAA championship officials will be in attendance, and Denver has made it no secret that the city thinks it is ready to host a final four. Officials will be evaluating the city for potential NCAA hosting duties. "We certainly feel like this could send a message to the NCAA," Denver coach Bill Tierney said.

The fifth-seeded Georgetown women's basketball team was plenty vocal in the days leading up to its second-round NCAA tournament game against Maryland. The Hoyas brashly dismissed their opponent's tradition as inconsequential and proclaimed a shift was at hand in area women's basketball supremacy. On Tuesday night, Georgetown presented a most convincing case on the home court of the 2006 national champions, rattling the fourth-seeded Terrapins with relentless pressure and getting another dazzling performance from Sugar Rodgers in a 79-57 dismantling before an announced 4,493 at Comcast Center.

Trailing by four goals after a listless first half, the Maryland men's lacrosse team needed a spark against Georgetown. The Terps got one from a player who had been frustrated by the Hoyas. Senior Will Yeatman scored all three of his goals in the second half to key a 7-0 run that propelled No. 7 Maryland to a 15-13 win against No. 9 Georgetown at Multi-Sport Field here on Saturday. Yeatman, who had been shut out by the Hoyas in last year's 13-10 Georgetown victory, estimated that he did not take a single shot against the Hoyas in the first half.

Junior midfielder Max Pfeifer scored with 2:33 remaining to give the second-ranked Notre Dame men's lacrosse team a 7-6 victory over visiting Georgetown on Sunday in a game that neither team led by more than a goal. Pfeifer's game-winner came off a pass from sophomore midfielder Quinn Cully on the Irish's only man-up opportunity of the game. The Irish (8-0 overall, 3-0 Big East) got two goals each from junior attackman Sean Rogers and senior midfielder David Earl and stymied a Hoyas offense that had been averaging nearly 12 goals.

Georgetown knows all about Maya Moore and Connecticut's rich postseason history, and the Hoyas were determined to rock the bracket with one of the NCAA tournament's biggest upsets ever. Backed into a corner, Moore got some help from fellow senior Lorin Dixon and the Huskies responded. Moore had 23 points and 14 rebounds, leading Connecticut (35-1) to a 68-63 victory in Philadelphia after the Hoyas (24-11) led by seven in the second half of their regional semifinal Sunday. "Me and Maya decided we didn't want our careers to end here today," Dixon said.

LANDOVER -- Parity has come to the Big East and it isn't pretty.Not unless you're Paul Evans of Pittsburgh, it isn't, anyway. In that case, it's nothing less than breathtaking."

LANDOVER -- The last time Maryland and Georgetown played, ESPN was a fledgling sports cable network with a rookie college basketball analyst named Dick Vitale, Gary Williams was in his second year as a Division I coach at American University and many of the current players were barely out of kindergarten.The last time Maryland and Georgetown played, in the Sweet 16 of the 1980 NCAA tournament, the more established Terrapins lost to the up-and-coming Hoyas at The Spectrum in Philadelphia. It was Maryland's second defeat that season to Georgetown, and the rivalry ended amid angry words between the two head coaches, John Thompson and Lefty Driesell.

Just two days after claiming their fourth straight Atlantic Coast Conference women's lacrosse title, Maryland returned home Wednesday to close out the regular season with yet another resounding statement: They're not finished just yet. Playing for the fourth time in six days, No. 5 Maryland overcame an early deficit with seven straight goals over a span of 15 minutes, quickly pulling away from No. 16 Georgetown before surviving the Hoyas'...

Sam Hurster got open in front of the net with 4.7 seconds left and finished off the upset as Brown beat top-ranked host Cornell, 10-9, at Schoellkopf Field. The Bears improved to 6-7, 2-3 Ivy League, while the Big Red dropped to 9-2, 4-1. The loss ruined Cornell's Senior Day celebration and ended its national-best 15-game winning streak. It also dropped the Big Red a game behind Princeton in the standings heading into next weekend's showdown in New Jersey. The winner of that game will host the Ivy League tournament.

Marcus Holman (Gilman) scored a game-high five goals, including two during a late rally, as No. 4 North Carolina won a come-from-behind victory over Hofstra, 12-9, at the ESPNU Warrior Classic on Saturday in Charlotte, N.C. Trailing by one goal at the end of the third quarter, the Tar Heels (9-4) outscored the Pride (6-6) by 5-1 in the fourth. The third-seeded Tar Heels will travel to second-seeded Virginia to play an Atlantic Coast Conference tournament semifinal Friday at 7:30p.m.

Sixth-ranked Notre Dame overcame a four-goal halftime deficit Sunday to beat host Georgetown, 9-7, in men's lacrosse. The victory extended the Fighting Irish's winning streak to eight games. Notre Dame (9-1, 4-0 Big East Conference) trailed 5-1 at halftime, but outscored the host Hoyas 8-2 in the second half, including six straight goals to open the half. The Irish defense allowed the Hoyas (5-6, 1-3) just two goals in the final 36:47 of the game. Junior goalie John Kemp made 13 saves for the Irish.

Steele Stanwick (Loyola) came up big again with three goals and four assists to lead nine Cavaliers in scoring as top-ranked Virginia beat host No. 4 North Carolina, 15-10, on Saturday. With the win, the Cavaliers (10-1, 2-0) clinched at least the second seed in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, which they'll host April 20 and 22. Friday's home game against No. 10 Duke will determine the league tournament's No. 1 seed. Stanwick has 243 career points, moving past Kevin Pehlke (239)

Gordie Koerber finished his hat trick in the second overtime Tuesday as No. 2 Gilman beat host Georgetown Prep, 7-6, in lacrosse. Both teams had several chances to win in the first overtime, but the Hoyas (6-1) committed a penalty in the closing seconds of the first overtime that created a man-up opportunity for the Greyhounds (2-0) in the second extra session. Georgetown Prep led 7-6 with a minute left in regulation when Gilman's Jake Matthai scored the game-tying goal to force overtime.

For nearly 30 years, the Maryland and Georgetown men's basketball teams have done their best to avoid each other. Without nearly as much attention, the women's teams have met just about as infrequently. Tuesday's game at McDonough Arena between No. 13 Georgetown and No. 21 Maryland didn't need any extra enlivening, given that it involves two teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 and the proximity of the schools. But the rareness of the Terps' playing the Hoyas — this is the first meeting between the teams since December 2003 and just the third since 1985 — adds an extra bit of spice.

No. 15 Georgetown shot 78 percent from the field in the first half to beat visiting Loyola, 99-75, on Saturday, renewing the series after a 36-year drought. The Hoyas (10-1) led by 15 points 10 minutes into the game, and the Greyhounds (4-6) trailed by 23 at halftime. Georgetown had three players score in double figures and was led by Austin Freeman with 14 points. Pittsburgh 97, UMES 64 : The Panthers (10-1) continued their dominance against Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference teams, winning their 19th in a row with a home win against the Hawks (2-10)

Penn launched itself to a 7-2 lead early in the second quarter, but No. 3 Cornell outscored the Quakers (1-5, 0-2 Ivy League) 8-0 in the final period to win, 16-11, Saturday at Franklin Field. After entering the fourth trailing 11-8, the Big Red (6-1, 2-0) evened the game four minutes in and took the lead for good when Steve Mock scored with 8:10 to play. No. 6 Denver 11, Air Force 8: Freshman goalie Ryan LaPlante had 12 saves for the visiting Pioneers (5-3, 1-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference)

No. 5 Notre Dame defeated host Ohio State, 8-7, on Wednesday. Senior midfielder Max Pfeifer scored two goals for the Fighting Irish, and goalie John Kemp made 17 saves. Notre Dame (5-1) never trailed in the contest en route to its fourth straight victory. After the Buckeyes trimmed the Irish lead to 7-6 with 2:22 remaining in regulation, Notre Dame's Liam O'Connor won the faceoff and scored to push the Irish lead back to two. Ohio State (3-5) made it a one-goal game with 19 seconds remaining on a goal from Reegan Comeault.