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MIAA A Conference lacrosse championship No. 1 Boys' Latin (19-0) vs. No. 4 Loyola (12-8) When: Friday, 8 p.m. Where: Johnny Unitas Stadium, Towson University Coaches: Bob Shriver, Boys' Latin; Jack Crawford, Loyola PLAYERS TO WATCH Boys' Latin: Colin Heacock, Sr., A; Shack Stanwick, Jr., A; Mac Pons, Sr., D; Christian Knight, Sr., G Loyola: Devin McNamara, Sr., A; Alex Roesner, Soph., A;...

It's not always in the Preakness Stakes, but every year, John Carroll graduate Nicole Stall urges her husband, trainer Al Stall Jr., to find a race for one of his horses on the third Saturday in May. This year, Departing gave Al Stall his second Preakness mount, finishing sixth in the nine-horse race while his wife and her family were treated to another memorable Preakness Day. “I used to always come growing up, and we try and run horses on...

Boys lacrosse No. School  Record  Prev.  1. Loyola  12-3  2  2. St. Paul's  11-3  3  3. Boys' Latin  12-3  1  4. McDonogh  12-5  6  5. St. Mary's  9-6  5  6. Calvert Hall  7-5  7  7. Archbishop Spalding ...

MIAA A Conference lacrosse championship No. 1 Boys' Latin (19-0) vs. No. 4 Loyola (12-8) When: Friday, 8 p.m. Where: Johnny Unitas Stadium, Towson University Coaches: Bob Shriver, Boys' Latin; Jack Crawford, Loyola PLAYERS TO WATCH Boys' Latin: Colin Heacock, Sr., A; Shack Stanwick, Jr., A; Mac Pons, Sr., D; Christian Knight, Sr., G Loyola: Devin McNamara, Sr., A; Alex Roesner, Soph., A;...

Boys basketball No. School   Record   Prev.   1. Patterson  2-0  1  2. Mount St. Joseph  8-0  2  3. St. Frances  2-1  3  4. Dunbar  2-0  4  5. Milford Mill  0-0  5  6. John Carroll  9-1  6  7. Lake Clifton  2-0  7  8. City  ...

Boys lacrosse No. School  Record  Prev.  1. Boys' Latin  15-3  1  2. St. Paul's  13-4  2  3. McDonogh  16-5  3  4. St. Mary's  12-7  6  5. Loyola  13-6  4  6. Hereford  15-1  7  7. Calvert...

Gettysburg's Geoff Pickett (John Carroll) seems to save his best shots for critical soccer situations.The sophomore forward has four goals, including the game-winner in a 2-1 victory over Susquehanna and the overtime goal that beat Swarthmore, 3-2.* Sophomore Amity Torbit (John Carroll) had a career-high three assists as Barry posted its sixth straight shutout in an 8-0 romp past West Florida. In 12 games, Torbit has five goals and seven assists.VolleyballLaura Cook (Chesapeake, Baltimore County)

John Carroll scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to defeat St. Vincent Pallotti, 4-3, in an Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference tournament quarterfinal Wednesday. In the seventh, Rebekah Alban singled and Clare Puopolo walked before Kayleight Allender had an RBI bunt. Amanda Norris followed with a two-run single to left field to lift the Patriots (11-9) over the Vikings. Puopolo got the win. Pallotti's Kelly Trimble, who signed with the University of Maryland, had a season total of 12 singles, four home runs and 23 RBIs.

The John Carroll girls lacrosse team opened the season Tuesday with a 9-7 win over visiting Spalding. Kara Klages scored three goals to pace the Patriots, who also got scoring from four other players. Mackenzie Reese had the lone assist.

The John Carroll Patriots managed just six hits and didn't score any runs Tuesday in their MIAA "A" Conference baseball opener, losing 9-0 to host Calvert Hall. John Carroll starter Nick Flayhart lasted four innings, allowing two earned runs, striking out two hitters and surrendering a pair of walks.

Jake Brown and Sully Gerety each had four goals and two assists to lead the host John Carroll boys lacrosse team past Friends, 15-9, in a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference semifinal Tuesday. The Patriots (12-5, 11-1) advance to Friday's championship and face Sts. Peter & Paul, a 10-9 winner over Archbishop Curley, at 5:30 p.m. at Johnny Unitas Stadium. The Quakers finish 7-10, 7-5. John Carroll's last won the championship in 2010. Baseball St. Vincent Pallotti 5, Severn 4: The host Panthers (17-7, 10-4)

Loyola saw its season come to an end Sunday in the second round of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament, losing to No. 3 seed North Carolina, 19-9, at Chapel Hill. The Greyhounds' Taryn VanThof scored the game's first goal, but North Carolina (14-3) scored the next five, and with a 12-8 halftime lead, put the game away with seven more. Sophomore Annie Thomas (John Carroll) led Loyola (11-8) with five points on four goals and one assist, while junior Marlee Paton had four points on three goals and one assist.

Major League Lacrosse Streaking Rubeor scores 4 as Bayhawks rout Machine, 14-5 Attackman Ben Rubeor (Loyola High) had another big game as the Chesapeake Bayhawks manhandled the Ohio Machine, 14-5, in a game shortened to three quarters Saturday night because of lightning around Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Rubeor, who scored seven goals in a win over the New York Lizards last weekend, scored four goals and assisted another against the Machine. He now has at least one point in 32 consecutive games, and was named Player of the Game for the second straight time Saturday.

Molly Fernandez (McDonogh) scored her 100th career goal and Mackenzie Cyr (Winters Mill) recorded a team-high three points as the seventh-seeded Penn State women's lacrosse team edged visiting Canisius, 14-13, in an NCAA Division I tournament first-round game Friday night. The Nittany Lions (13-6), who secured their first 13-win season since 1999, advanced to the NCAA second round and will face Massachusetts Sunday at 1 p.m. Cyr recorded her sixth hat trick of the season, while Fernandez had two to reach the 100-goal plateau.

Nicole Stall boarded the first plane to Maryland she could catch when she heard of Benjamin Boniface's death last June. She was there to grieve the death of a boy she had known since his birth. But also to work. In the days after the 20-year-old's death in an early-morning car accident on the farm, she went to the barns where she had fallen in love with horses as a teenager. “I was completely out of it,” said William K. Boniface, known to most as Billy. “She just went out to the stallion barn, kept it running.

John Carroll junior Alex Kane, member of Girl Scout Troop 1382, was awarded the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting. To receive this honor, a girl must use her organizational, leadership, project management and teamwork skills to serve her community. Alex created "Bark for a Cure. " She solicited pictures, in the form of a contest, and created a canine calendar. The proceeds from the sale of this calendar went to benefit cancer research and treatment. Alex will be formally recognized by the Girl Scout organization this spring.

Last-minute heorics is nothing new when No. 3 Archbishop Spalding and No. 4 John Carroll get together in girls soccer. That was again the case Friday afternoon in Bel Air, where the host Patriots got a goal from sophomore Susie Snee with under two minutes remaining in regulation play, salvaging a 1-1 overtime tie against the defending Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference champion Cavaliers. Spalding got the game's first goal with 16 minutes to play when senior Maggie Morrison finished off a chance in front after Samantha Kirk's shot went off the top crossbar.

Led by Gilman alumnus Marcus Holman , second-seeded North Carolina won its first Atlantic Coast Conference men's lacrosse tournament since 1996 by outlasting Virginia, 16-13, on Sunday in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels held at least a two-goal lead throughout the final 32 minutes in presenting coach Joe Breschi with his 150th career win. Holman, a senior attackman who was named tournament Most Valuable Player, finished the game with five assists. His school-record 29-game goal-scoring streak ended, but his five points lifted his career total to 207, breaking the school record of 204 set by Bruce Ledwith (1970-1973)

Mike Owona was set to play basketball next year for a program transitioning to the Division I level. But after a coaching change, the John Carroll senior will instead suit up for an established DI team that has appeared in four NCAA tournaments. Owona committed Sunday to Fairleigh Dickinson, a Northeast Conference school located in Teaneck, N.J. “It feels pretty good,” Owona said. “I finally have it out of my mind. I feel good about it.” Owona had been committed to UMass-Lowell, a Division II powerhouse that will play its first season of DI competition during the 2013-14 season.