Lacrosse Team

Virginia coach Dom Starsia has always hedged a little over talk of parity in college lacrosse, but he is slowly crossing over. Lacrosse is becoming more like the NFL. There are consistent winners every year, but the team that gets hot at the end has a good shot at winning the title. No. 3 Duke is on the comeback trail after a slow start. No. 12 Johns Hopkins had a strong rebound performance against Virginia a week ago. And the No. 13 Cavaliers (5-4) don't have a signature win all season.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun publishes a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player to help you become more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Navy defender Emily Mellin , who played in high school at nearby St. Mary's in Annapolis. A team captain, she leads a defense allowing just 7.22 goals per game for the No. 14 and three-time defending Patriot League champion Midshipmen (11-1). In the fall, Mellin served as commander of the 5th Company, one of 30 company commanders in the brigade overseeing 150 midshipmen.

(Reuters) - A bus carrying a university women's lacrosse team crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, killing the driver and one of the passengers, turnpike and hospital officials said. In addition to the driver, the bus was carrying 23 students and three coaches from Seton Hill University, a Catholic school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, turnpike spokesman Bill Capone said. Head Coach Kristie Quigley and Assistant Coach Cristen Sanfilippoi, are both from Baltimore, according to the team's website.

A college lacrosse coach from Baltimore County died after the team's bus crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, also killing the driver and injuring 20 others Saturday morning, authorities said. Kristina Quigley, 30, the head coach for the Seton Hill University women's lacrosse team, died in the crash near Carlisle, Pa. Quigley, now of Greensburg, Pa., was six months pregnant. She died after being flown by helicopter to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, said turnpike spokesman Bill Capone.

Colleges Washington College men's, women's lacrosse teams remain undefeated Jim Cusick (Calvert Hall) scored the game-winning goal with 2:31 left off a pass from Bennett Cord to lift host Washington College (6-0) to an 8-7 victory over Ohio Wesleyan (4-3). … Mount St. Mary's senior attackman Andrew Scalley (Archbishop Spalding), who has 24 goals and 23 assists in eight games, has been added to the Tewaaraton Award watch list. Princeton senior midfielder Jeff Froccaro and Notre Dame freshman attackman Matt Kavanagh also were added.

Off to a 5-0 start, Maryland is the unanimous top-ranked team in Division I, leads the nation in offense with an average of 16 goals, and trails only Hofstra as the stingiest defense in the country after allowing just 6.8 goals per game . But this season's success - which includes a 12-10 defeat of reigning national champion Loyola, which knocked off the Terps in last year's NCAA tournament final - could worm its way into the players' egos,...

In a weekend littered with upsets, the top-ranked Maryland men's lacrosse team made sure it was not the biggest name on that list. Scoring the game's first five goals, the Terps overwhelmed visiting Stony Brook, 13-7, before an announced crowd of 2,381 at Byrd Stadium on Sunday. Over the weekend, No. 3 Notre Dame was upended, 8-7, by No. 20 Hofstra on Saturday, No. 4 Loyola was stunned, 9-8, by unranked Duke on Friday night, No. 5 Princeton fell, 16-15, to No. 9 North Carolina, and No. 6 Ohio State was edged, 10-9, by No. 8 Denver.

Every year in college lacrosse there seems to be a Delaware, Lehigh or Loyola, a team no one figured to be one of the nation's top contenders. Could Penn State be that team in 2013? There wasn't anything unusual about the Nittany Lions' 11-6 season-opening win against Michigan, but Penn State drew some attention with a 15-12 upset of No. 10 Denver on Feb.17. Then when Penn State took No. 3 Notre Dame to overtime in a 10-9 loss Sunday - a game that featured four lead changes and seven ties - the lacrosse world took notice.

NO. 1 MARYLAND (3-0) Coming up: At Duke, Saturday, 11 a.m.; Vs. UMBC, Wednesday, 5 p.m., Byrd Stadium. Comment: The Terps are 60-19 against the Atlantic Coast Conference rival Blue Devils, winning six of the past eight games. Senior midfielder John Haus, a Lutherville native, has eight goals and four assists in seven career meetings against Duke. NO. 4 LOYOLA (3-1) Coming up: Vs. Bellarmine, Saturday, 1 p.m., Ridley Athletic Complex Comment: The Greyhounds have won all three meetings in this series, but they should remember that the Knights owned a 4-2 lead at halftime in last year's contest in Louisville, Ky. Junior Brendan Donovan set a career high in faceoff wins with a 19-for-31 effort in Tuesday night's 21-9 rout of UMBC.

One-score decisions continue to be unkind to the Navy men's lacrosse team. For the second time in as many contests, the Midshipmen squandered an opportunity to cement a victory in the final 30 seconds. On Sunday, that missed chance opened the door for host Georgetown to emerge with a 9-8 win in overtime before an announced attendance of 2,613 at Multi-Sport Field in Washington. Junior attackman Jeff Fountain , a Lutherville native and St. Paul's graduate, took a feed from redshirt junior midfielder Zac Guy, curled around the left post and deposited the ball behind senior goalkeeper Nolan Hickey to even the Hoyas' record at 1-1. Navy (2-2)