Kyle Dixon

Laurel Park Famed jockeys to sign during Md. Million Legendary jockeys Laffit Pincay , Pat Day , Angel Cordero , Steve Cauthen and Jean Cruguet will be at Laurel Park to sign autographs during the 26th annual Jim McKay Maryland Million festivities Saturday afternoon. The retired riders will be signing outside the Horse Wizard Room from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. after attending Schulte Sports' Charm City Heroes 2 Autograph and Collectibles Show at the Pikesville Hilton in Baltimore County.

After a roller-coaster season that featured a five-game losing streak and after failing to even make the playoffs four straight years, the joy and emotion that poured out of the Bayhawks was to be expected. Rookie attackman Brian Carr oll and second-year midfielder Peet Poillon (UMBC) scored three goals apiece to lead a balanced offense, while second-year defenseman Michael Evans (Johns Hopkins) anchored a suffocating defense as a youthful Chesapeake Bayhawks squad knocked off the veteran Long Island Lizards, 13-9, in the Major League Lacrosse championship game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Player of the Year Chase Gompers, Arundel: Gompers led the Wildcats to the Anne Arundel County regular season and Class 4A-3A East Regional championships before losing to Dulaney in the 4A-3A state final, 11-10. "Chase is a fierce competitor whose play inspired his teammates," said coach Clint Gosnell. A four-year starter for the Wildcats, the 5-foot-6 Gompers scored 32 goals and handed out 19 assists. Gompers, the team's best short-stick defensive midfielder, also had 144 ground balls and controlled 67.4 percent of his faceoffs.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Goalie Tillman Johnson made the brilliant look routine, midfielder Billy Glading finished a career weekend and the men's lacrosse team from Virginia looked very much like a potential NCAA champion yesterday, as it routed Duke, 12-6, in the final of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. The Cavaliers, co-No. 2 in The Sun/Channel 2 rankings, won their first ACC tournament since 2000. In front of 3,355 at Klockner Stadium, Virginia (9-2) had a decisive five-goal run in the second half.

Scoring Player GP-GS GB SH G A Pts Joe Yevoli 16-14 36 88 23 26 49 John Christmas 16-16 29 114 34 11 45 Matt Ward 16-16 40 82 25 20 45 Chris Rotelli 16-0 39 107 25 19 44 A.J. Shannon 16-1 21 113 30 8 38 Billy Glading 16-0 44 68 23 1 24 Kyle Dixon 16-0 22 42 9 8 17 Trey Whitty 16-16 73 13 4 5 9 Foster Gilbert 15-0 9 10 1 8 9 Matt Poskay 16-0 7 23 7 1 8 Nathan Kenney 16-1 21 15 4 2 6 Justin Mullen 15-0 4 9 3 1 4 Brendan Gill 7-0 2 5 2 2...

No. 4 Maryland (5-1) Schedule -- at North Carolina, Saturday, 1 p.m. Skinny -- Defense has carried the Terps through the season's first month, especially junior defenseman Steve Whittenberg and junior goalie Harry Alford. It's time for the offense to start getting into double figures, and it's time for someone other than Xander Ritz and Joe Walters to score. That should happen against another disappointing Tar Heels team, which already is fighting for its playoff life. No. 7 Navy (5-1)

Matt Ward, playing with a broken hand, scored four goals to lead top-ranked Virginia past visiting and No. 15 Notre Dame, 14-10, in the first round of the NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament yesterday. Virginia (14-0) opened a 3-0 lead by the 6:40 mark of the first quarter on two goals by Ward and one by Steve Giannone. Virginia's Kyle Dixon scored three goals to become only the fourth midfielder in Atlantic Coast Conference history to score 50 career goals and record 50 career assists.

No. 4 Maryland (11-4) vs. No. 9 Princeton (11-4) Time -- Noon Site -- Johnny Unitas Stadium, Towson University Outlook -- For second-seeded Maryland to get past seventh-seeded Princeton and make its third final four in the past four seasons, the Terps will have to beat an opponent they have lost to five straight times in the postseason, since last beating the Tigers in 1977. Princeton, which has won six NCAA titles since 1992 under 19-year coach Bill Tierney and missed the tournament for the first time since 1989 last year, is the last of four Ivy League teams still standing among the original 16-team field.

PHILADELPHIA -- In the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Virginia's leading scorer, Matt Ward, took a blow to his right hand and suffered a fracture. "I got a broken third metacarpal in my right hand," Ward said yesterday after scoring four goals to lead the Cavaliers into the NCAA Division I championship. "But I wasn't going to let a hand injury keep me out of the NCAAs." He ran into another health problem in the third quarter yesterday against Syracuse - cramps. But that didn't hinder his style, either.

Wizards Hinrich officially acquired from Bulls for rights to draft pick Washington Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld announced Thursday that the team has officially acquired 6-foot-3 guard Kirk Hinrich , the draft rights of first-round pick Kevin Seraphin — a 6-9, 240-pound forward — and cash considerations from the Chicago Bulls in exchange for the rights to Vladimir Veremeenko , a second-round draft pick...