Lacrosse Coach

NBA Wizards lose Yi for two to four weeks with knee injury Yi Jianlian will stay behind as the Washington Wizards attempt to end a 12-game road losing streak against the New Jersey Nets tonight. A magnetic resonance imaging revealed the forward has a sprained right medial collateral ligament. Yi, who said he would likely miss the next two to four weeks, was injured in the first quarter of the Wizards' 103-89 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday when Ron Artest fell on the same knee that he hyperextended Nov.13.

Thomas Kenny Carey, a retired teacher and lacrosse coach, died of injuries sustained in a fall and complications of cancer Feb. 26 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 82. Born in Baltimore, he attended Windsor Hills Elementary and Garrison Junior High schools. He was a 1946 graduate of Polytechnic Institute, where he played ice hockey. While a student at Loyola College, he married Mary Esther Carroll, whom he met at the Cahill Recreation Center near his boyhood home in Walbrook. Family members said that after working briefly in the insurance industry, he began teaching and coaching.

Maryland men's lacrosse coach John Tillman has told athletic director Kevin Anderson he is staying at the school despite overtures from Navy about its coaching vacancy. Anderson said in an interview that he spoke with Tillman on Tuesday. "John has assured me that he's been very clear to them that he's not interested in their job," Anderson said. "He likes it here and he's going to stay here. " Navy asked Maryland for permission last weekend to speak to Tillman about the opening.

Walter Cornelius "Neil" Pohlhaus Jr., a retired Realtor and lacrosse coach who had been a member of the fabled 1950 Johns Hopkins champion lacrosse team, died Monday of Parkinson's disease at his North Baltimore home. He was 83. Mr. Pohlhaus, the son of an Alex. Brown & Sons stockbroker and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on Wickford Road in Roland Park. After graduating in 1945 from St. Paul's School, Mr. Pohlhaus was drafted into the Navy and was in basic training at the Bainbridge naval training center in Cecil County when the war ended.

Several weeks after Navy's Cindy Timchal became the first college lacrosse coach - men's or women's - to reach 400 wins, Salisbury's Jim Berkman could join her if the top-ranked and reigning national champion Sea Gulls defeat Capital Athletic Conference rival Mary Washington Wednesday afternoon. Berkman is 399-42 in 25 years of coaching and 390-37 in 24 seasons at Salisbury, which has captured nine NCAA titles under Berkman. Berkman, who was traveling Wednesday morning with the team to Fredericksburg, Va., acknowledged the potential achievement, but that's about it. “I really haven't thought about that a whole lot,” he said.

Glenelg athletic director Mike Williams said he will be the new boys lacrosse coach this spring, even though county regulations prohibit athletic directors from coaching more than one sport. Williams currently coaches the girls soccer team. Williams said he expects to be granted a waiver for the spring season and will then decide whether to coach girls soccer again next fall or to give up the athletic director's job. "I enjoy the coaching," he said. "I'm excited about the lacrosse job. It's a surprise.

The strain on Loyola coach Charley Toomey and Maryland coach John Tillman isn't limited to determining a winner and loser in Saturday's showdown between the top-ranked Greyhounds and the No. 3 Terps . For the past week, the close friends have mutually agreed to refrain from contacting each other. "The one thing that I do miss when you play against your friend is that we don't talk that week," said Toomey, who has coached Loyola (2-0) since 2007. "We don't talk X's and O's, we don't wish each other luck, we don't do things midweek.

COLLEGE PARK - On his second day as head men's lacrosse coach at the University of Maryland, Dave Cottle smiled like a man who felt the storm subsiding. One day after he took over for the recently retired Dick Edell and was confronted by an entire team protesting his hiring, Cottle met individually with nearly two thirds of his new players and sounded like a coach scoring his first victory. With the exception of his chat with one player, Cottle termed all of his meetings as "good" or "terrific."

McDonogh's Jake Reed will lead his top-ranked Eagles onto Johns Hopkins' Homewood Field for tonight's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference title showdown with No. 2 Boys' Latin as perhaps the most successful lacrosse coach in the school's history. Led by Reed's son, high-scoring sophomore attackman Travis Reed, McDonogh (21-1) has established a single-season record for wins. And with a victory tonight, the Eagles could finish as The Sun's No. 1-ranked team for only the second time in school history; the other occasion was in 1999.

UMBC women's lacrosse coach Kelly Berger has resigned after three years as Retrievers coach for unspecified reasons. The university's athletics website announced Berger's departure in a three-sentence new release that said she leaves with a 30-23 record and that her assistant coaches will remain. Berger was one of the youngest coaches in Division I when she took over the Retrievers. In her first season, they finished 11-7, a school record for a rookie head coach. After that, Berger was given a three-year contract extension, but this spring, she was not on the sideline from late April through the end of the season for unspecified reasons.