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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.

No. 19 Connecticut took a 6-4 lead into halftime and never relinquished it, upsetting No. 7 Notre Dame at home, 10-7, in women's lacrosse Sunday. The Huskies (13-1, 5-1 Big East) won all their home games in a season for the first time in program history. The Fighting Irish (11-3, 5-3) scored just three goals in the second half, two by Lauren Sullivan. Morgan O'Reilly had four goals on senior day to lead UConn, Carly Palmucci added a pair of first-half goals and Lauren Kahn scored her team-leading 32nd goal of the season.

- 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)

The No. 6 Notre Dame men's lacrosse team overcame a slow start at home to defeat Big East rival Georgetown, 10-8, on Sunday afternoon. Senior attackman Sean Rogers paced the Fighting Irish offense with two goals and two assists. Notre Dame (9-2, 3-1) fell behind 4-0 by the 6:46 mark of the first quarter but responded with a 6-1 run to claim its first lead of the game early in the third quarter. The Hoyas (5-7, 2-2) became the first team to score five goals in a quarter against Notre Dame since Syracuse on May 1, 2010.

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.

Et Cetera Hoyas lax coach Urick announces retirement Georgetown men's lacrosse coach Dave Urick announced his retirement Friday and said he would stay on as a special assistant to athletic director Lee Reed . Urick spent 23 seasons with the Hoyas, amassing a 223-99 record, never finishing below .500 and making the NCAA tournament each year from 1997 to 2007, though they haven't been back since. Before arriving at Georgetown, Urick was 122-30 at Hobart, winning 10 consecutive Division III titles.

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.

Freshman defenseman Tim Dick of The Rivers School in Weston, Mass., has orally committed to Georgetown, joining a handful of players in the Class of 2016 who have have made college commitments before beginning high school competition. Dick played with the Fighting Clams' 2015 AA squad before beginning a repeat freshman year at Rivers, where he was also a starter in football last season. An All-Star at Baltimore Summer Kickoff and Hotbeds, Dick has attended Yale Bulldog Bash, UMass Midsummer's Classic, Philly Showcase and Harvard Crimson Fall Classic.

Georgetown junior attackman Jeff Fountain (St. Paul's), who is second on the team with 16 goals, left the Hoyas' 8-6 loss to Villanova on Wednesday with an injury, and his status isn't immediately known. Also, Hoyas senior attackman-midfielder Brian Casey is not expected back anytime soon after a leg injury in a 16-8 victory over Providence on March 16. A Georgetown Prep grad, Casey was the team's leading scorer at the time of his injury. The possible good news: Senior Chris Nourse , a starting defenseman, is day-to-day with a leg injury suffered in a 17-12 win over Marquette on March 29. Nourse did not dress against the Wildcats, but his injury is not as severe as was first feared.

Georgetown owns a 29-6 advantage in this series, but Loyola is enjoying a five-game winning streak. The No. 15 Greyhounds (5-2) have won three of the last four contests, including Saturday's 13-7 victory over Air Force at the Whitman Sampler Mile High Classic in Denver. Senior attackman Mike Sawyer is questionable, but freshman Zach Herreweyers scored three goals in Sawyer's place against the Falcons. The Hoyas (3-3) snapped a two-game losing skid with a 16-8 rout of previously undefeated Providence last Saturday.

For at least one half, Loyola men's lacrosse coach Charley Toomey got a good, long look at what his team's defense could be, and he liked what he saw. Buoyed by the return of senior short-stick defensive midfielder Josh Hawkins, the No. 15 Greyhounds locked down host Georgetown in a 13-8 win before an announced 808 at Multi-Sport Field on Wednesday night. The Hoyas (3-4) had scored 16 times in an eight-goal thumping of Providence on Saturday, but they got just one goal in the first half as Loyola (6-2)

For the second consecutive game, Andrew Scalley recorded six goals and four assists to lead host Mount St. Mary's past Georgetown, 14-6, on Tuesday in men's lacrosse. The win was the first for the Mount (4-4) over the Hoyas (2-3) since 1991. Scalley (Archbishop Spalding), the reigning Northeast Conference Player of the Week, tied career highs with 10 points and six goals. He became just the third player in school history to join the 200-point club with 202 for his career. Cody Lehrer (Dulaney)

Sam Jones did the honorable thing. Rather than utter some cliché or point fingers elsewhere, Navy's junior attackman shouldered the blame for the team's inability to break a 9-9 tie in the final 30.8 seconds of regulation of Sunday's contest against Georgetown at Multi-Sport Field in Washington. “At the end of regulation, we had the ball with 30 seconds left, and I couldn't can one,” the Annapolis native and Severna Park graduate said. “I get the ball with 10 seconds left, and the team expects me to do something with it and I expect myself to do something with it, and at the end of the day, I didn't even get a shot off. That one's on me.” Jones - who led the Midshipmen with three goals - did the commendable thing, but the entire offense played a role in the Hoyas' 9-8 win in overtime Sunday.

When top-ranked Loyola and No. 3 Maryland meet Saturday at Ridley Athletic Complex in Baltimore in what is being billed as a rematch of last year's national title game, one interested observer who won't be actively involved in the proceedings is Kevin Warne. Warne was the defensive coordinator responsible for aiding the Terps' back-to-back appearances in NCAA tournament finals, but on August 14, he agreed to succeed Dave Urick as the head coach at Georgetown. The move wasn't surprising - what assistant coach doesn't dream of helming his own program?

Men's college lacrosse Hoyas associate coach Kerwick out after DWI Matt Kerwick is no longer employed as associate head coach of the Georgetown men's lacrosse program after pleading guilty last month to driving while intoxicated. A university spokesman on Monday confirmed the departure of Kerwick, who starred for the Baltimore Thunder of the now-defunct Major Indoor Lacrosse League. "I have taken full responsibility for my error in judgment this past April and I have apologized to the Georgetown lacrosse family for my mistake," Kerwick said in a statement Tuesday.

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.

There was a time when Georgetown went to 11 straight NCAA tournaments, which included a run of six consecutive appearances in the quarterfinals. But the Hoyas have fallen on difficult times, going five years without a tournament berth and ushering the dismissal of former coach Dave Urick. The task of turning the program around has been entrusted to former Maryland defensive coordinator Kevin Warne, who was part of the brain trust that guided the Terps to back-to-back national title games in 2011 and 2012.

Freshman defenseman Tim Dick of The Rivers School in Weston, Mass., has orally committed to Georgetown, joining a handful of players in the Class of 2016 who have have made college commitments before beginning high school competition. Dick played with the Fighting Clams' 2015 AA squad before beginning a repeat freshman year at Rivers, where he was also a starter in football last season. An All-Star at Baltimore Summer Kickoff and Hotbeds, Dick has attended Yale Bulldog Bash, UMass Midsummer's Classic, Philly Showcase and Harvard Crimson Fall Classic.