Ivy League

No. 3 Loyola used a desperation goal with one second left in the first quarter to start a three-goal rally and pull away from No. 18 Fairfield, winning, 14-7, in the Eastern College Athletic Conference championship Friday in Denver. Reid Acton scored from 80 yards out with one second left in the first quarter for a 5-3 Greyhounds lead. Loyola (14-1) scored twice in the opening 2:20 of the second quarter to go up 7-3. The Stags (12-4) added a goal before the break but were held scoreless in the third.

PHILADELPHIA - When Brian Eveleth began wrestling at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, coach Roger Reina recalls "this little kid who came with his family to watch his older brother. He was always playing around on the mats." That kid, Jeff Eveleth, now 19, is wrestling for the Quakers as a freshman this season. A two-time Maryland state champ who helped Chesapeake-Anne Arundel win last winter's 4A-3A tournament crown, Eveleth is 14-10 at Penn at 133 pounds. He is ranked No. 3 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, and should be one of the top contenders in the six-team Ivy League.

The last of those '80s types -- Yuppies, Dinkies, Buppies and so on -- had evaporated like the steam around a junk bond deal.Enter Jason Liebman.A picture-perfect model of the Privileged Prepster, from his cheery striped button-down shirt to his subtle, stone-colored pants, this lanky 16-year-old East Sider is editor in chief of the Ivy League Journal, a new paper targeted at New York City's 12- to 18-year-old prep school kids.Put together by a team of 10 teens, with no adult supervision, the ILJ's first issue, which appeared a few weeks ago, was distributed to several dozen schools -- circulation 5,000, the editor reports -- and dealt with prepster topics perhaps not fully addressed by conventional school newspapers.

PHILADELPHIA -- In the polite halls of America's most prestigious universities, tempers were flaring.Stanford wasn't toeing the mark on student aid, grumbled an MIT administrator. Stanford, a private university in Palo Alto, Calif., needed to "get enough on our wavelength" and "look like one of the Ivies, meaning not off the reservation too often."Meanwhile, Dartmouth accused Harvard of breaking ranks by sweetening the pot for a young soccer star's family. "Either we have an agreement we all stick to," fumed Dartmouth's Anthony Quimby, "or we do not have any agreement!"

COLLEGE PARK -- In the end, Princeton lacrosse players were publicly gracious. They didn't talk much about revenge for the Ivy League championship. Hardly any backhanded remarks about which team really had the best goalie. No real snide remarks. Nothing.But privately . . ."Oh, we don't have time to really celebrate now because the championship game is Monday," said one Princeton player. "But we're all relieved inside. Believe me, if we had lost this game, there would have been some serious consequences to pay for losing to Brown twice."

The Towson Tigers knew that navigating through the first half of their schedule would be a treacherous task. They had lost two of the most prolific attackmen in the country in Spencer Ford and Kevin Sturm. Only 16 letter winners returned from last year's 5-8 squad. Twenty-one freshmen, the largest class ever at Towson, graced this year's roster. Now that the Tigers have dropped to 1-4 with Saturday's 13-8 loss to Loyola -- the second top-three team to beat Towson in consecutive weeks -- all coach Tony Seaman wants to focus on is the next season.

Tom Daniels had four goals and two assists and Andrew Goldstein recorded 17 saves as Dartmouth pulled off one of the biggest upsets in school history by stunning No. 3 Princeton, 13-6, yesterday at the Class of 1952 Field in Princeton, N.J. The win, coupled with Cornell's 14-3 victory at Brown, set up the potential for a three-way tie atop the Ivy League standings among Dartmouth (10-2, 4-1), Princeton and Cornell. Cornell, which finished its Ivy League season at 5-1, has clinched at least a share of the title.

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.

Yale's recent success - an 8-2 record and the No. 14 spot in The Sun's rankings - should not be that shocking considering that the program earned a share of the Ivy League regular-season championship in 2010 and captured the conference tournament last year to advance to the NCAA tournament. The Bulldogs' emergence is certainly not a surprise to Maryland coach John Tillman, who occupied the same position at Harvard - an Ivy League rival of Yale's - from 2008 to 2010. Tillman, whose No. 6 Terps (8-2)

Ivy League rolls to win over Japan in footballThe smaller Japanese college all-stars looked as if they were going to make a battle out of their annual football game with a team of Ivy League stars, countering the Ivy League's initial, 12-play, 80-yard touchdown drive by moving to within 1 foot of the Ivy goal line.But the Japanese fumbled, John Sparks of Harvard recovered and the Ivy stars were on their way to a 47-10 victory before an estimated 28,000 fans in Yokohama, Japan.Asked whether a Japanese touchdown could have turned the momentum around, Ivy coach Carm Cozza of Yale replied: "You bet. I don't think physically they could have beaten us, but it certainly would have been a lot tougher."