Lacrosse Team

The No. 4 McDonogh boys lacrosse team and host No. 2 Calvert Hall were only able to get in 3:42 of play Friday before the game was suspended because of rain. When play resumed Saturday, the Eagles (9-3, 3-1 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference) got off to a sluggish start, but they played lockdown defense in the second half to win, 9-6. "Calvert Hall outplayed us in the second quarter," McDonogh coach Andy Hilgartner said. "But our defense stepped it up in the second half and only gave up one goal.

April 22, 2001: In a stunning upset, Baltimore's Hasim Rahman knocks out world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis to take the title. A right cross to Lewis' chin floors the 1988 Olympic gold medalist in the fifth round in South Africa. Seven months later, Lewis will KO Rahman to regain the crown. April 24, 1997: "I love crabs. I never miss a meal. I like to play the game hard, and I don't like to lose," says Tony Siragusa, 29, a 330-pound tackle after signing with the Ravens as a free agent.

Rodgers Forge Elementary School Principal Missy Fanshaw has seen her fair share of triumph this summer. Her son, Patrick, is a junior attackman on Loyola University's national champion lacrosse team. Andrew, her middle son, helped Calvert Hall to an MIAA lacrosse championship this spring, and youngest son Michael won the MYLA championship with his Kelly Post youth lacrosse team. Now Fanshaw, who took over as principal at Rodgers Forge in January after Susan Deise retired late last year, can add a sterling achievement of her own to the mantel.

Chesapeake Bayhawks attackman Ben Rubeor was named Major League Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week after scoring a career-high seven goals in a 9-3 win over the New York Lizards on Saturday night at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The sixth-year veteran from Loyola High connected on 64 percent of his shots and extended his point streak to 31 games. College women's honors: Florida senior defender Sam Farrell (Severna Park) and senior midfielder Brittany Dashiell (John Carroll)

McDonogh's girls lacrosse team remained No. 1 in this week's Nike/US Lacrosse High School Girls' Lacrosse National Top 25 poll as the Eagles increased their winning streak to 85 games with Monday's 22-5 win over Mount de Sales. The Eagles, who have been the national No. 1 every week this season, are 16-0. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes, from Alexandria, Va., is No. 2 and is 17-0. As for other Baltimore-area teams, St. Paul's ranks No. 7 with Maryvale, No. 9; C. Milton Wright, No. 10; Mount Hebron, No. 11; Bryn Mawr, No. 12; and Century, No. 13. Undefeated Marriotts Ridge is among the teams receiving votes.

For some of us, the pain of the dual tragedies of Yeardley Love and George Huguely is intensified by the fact that both children are so familiar to us. Raise your hand if you have spent any part of your child's life caught in the lacrosse whirlwind that sweeps through Maryland each spring. And summer. And fall ball. And the winter indoor league. It is something that ordinary civilians might not comprehend (though ballet parents or horse show parents might sympathize). Lacrosse can be a toxic mix of parental ambition and peer pressure.

It's time for the adults who lead the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference to do the grown-up thing and end the David vs. Goliath farces to determine conference champions. Here's a quick recap of last week's action: Officials stripped the Harford Tech girls lacrosse team of its Susquehanna Division championship and suspended its coach after they decided last week to not play C. Milton Wright, the Chesapeake Division champions, in the UCBAC conference championship game. The UCBAC, as the conference is most commonly known, consists of all the public high schools in Harford and Cecil counties divided into two divisions to compete for championships in almost all sports; football is a notable exception.

Bryant's men's lacrosse team is one step closer to winning the Northeast Conference's first automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament after knocking off Sacred Heart, 11-9, on Thursday in Providence, R.I. For the Bulldogs, one of the more impressive turnarounds is nearly complete after the preseason NEC favorite started 0-7, losing six of those games by one or two goals, including two near misses vs. likely tournament teams Bucknell and Albany....

To raise scholarship money for its women's lacrosse program, Anne Arundel Community College will play host Sunday to the school's first 3-on-3 Women's Lacrosse Tournament on the Arnold campus.Modeled after a three-on-three format designed by the University of Maryland women's lacrosse coaching staff and team members, the round-robin tournament will begin at 8:45 a.m. with a demonstration by members of the Baltimore Club Lacrosse team."We want to have something to give to players who choose to attend Anne Arundel Community College," said James Shuck, coach of the Pioneers women's lacrosse team, who added that he "fell in love with theidea" after observing play on the College Park campus last November.

WESTMINSTER - The Carroll County Chapter of the NAACP will be hosting its ninth annual Freedom Fund banquet Oct. 14 at Martin's Caterers of Westminster, 140 West Shopping Center, at 6:30 p.m. A cash bar will precede the dinner at 7 p.m. The guest speaker will be Dr. Miles Harrison Jr. He is a practicing surgeon and co-author of the book, "Ten Bears," recounting the story of the Morgan State College lacrosse team of the 1970s. The emcee for the evening will be Gigi Barnett, a reporter for Baltimore'sWJZ-TV.