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With 69 goals and 79 points in three years, senior attackman Adam Johnston has been a consistent scoring threat for Lehigh. Johnston, a Street native and St. Paul's graduate, has scored 27 goals in each of his last two seasons since becoming a full-time starter, and Mountain Hawks coach Kevin Cassese said the team has relied on Johnston's versatility. “Adam's been a four-year starter for us, he's played a variety of roles,” Cassese said Wednesday during a conference call organized by the Patriot League.

The toughest task No. 1 Loyola had over the weekend was holding onto all of the hardware. After the Greyhounds routed Lehigh, 16-7, on Sunday at Ridley Athletic Complex to capture the Patriot League title, goalie Jack Runkel hoisted the championship trophy to the delight of the partisan announced crowd of 1,841. And then Runkel, a team captain, collected the tournament Most Valuable Player award as Loyola attackmen Justin Ward and Brian Schultz, as well as defenseman Joe Fletcher, were named to the all-tournament team.

UMES men's basketball team gave up 45 first-half points and host Lehigh went 9-for-16 from 3-point range to win, 82-55, on Tuesday. The Patriot League leader, Lehigh (12-4) led by as many as 31 over the Hawks (3-11) in a game that featured two ties and two lead changes. UMES recovered in the second half, shooting 48.1percent from the field and outscoring Lehigh 39-37. But Lehigh's first-half lead carried it through the rest of the game. C.J. McCollum finished with 18 points for Lehigh and Akeem Anderson had 10 for UMES.

Duke senior long-stick midfielder-defenseman Luke Duprey will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, a Duke official confirmed Saturday. Multiple Major League Lacrosse sources told Inside Lacrosse that Duprey suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear. Duprey was injured late in the Blue Devils' 17-15 win over Virginia on April 11. Duprey has picked up 34 ground balls this season and caused 22 turnovers; he has 142 ground balls and 88 caused turnovers in his career.

With Friday night's 9-4 convincing victory over Patriot League rival Navy, No. 8 Lehigh extended its program-record winning streak to nine and continued to emerge as perhaps the most dangerous team an opponent from one of the power conference would like to avoid in the NCAA Tournament. The Mountain Hawks (10-2 overall and 3-0 in the Patriot League) also traded their identity as a hunter for the hunted, and it's an adjustment that the players are getting accustomed to. “It's definitely taken some time getting used to being in that situation, but it's a situation that I've always wanted to be in,” junior midfielder Brian Hess said two days before the game against the Midshipmen.

Ryan Snyder, Lehigh Junior, Reading, Pa., midfielder Snyder registered what might be the most shocking individual performance of the season so far when he outdueled faceoff specialist R.G. Keenan (Boys' Latin) in the Mountain Hawks' 9-8 upset of then-No. 4 North Carolina on Saturday night. The 5-foot-10, 210-pound Snyder won 13 of 20 faceoffs, including nine of 12 against the Tar Heels sophomore. Keenan had succeeded on 66 of 81 draws (81.5 percent) before that loss.

No. 8 Towson (9-2, 7-1 Colonial Athletic Association) vs. No. 6 Lehigh (10-1, 5-0 Patriot League) NCAA FCS Second Round Time: 3:35 p.m. Where: Johnny Unitas Stadium Television: ESPN3 Radio: 1570 AM Series: Lehigh leads series 10-1 What's at stake: Towson continues its turnaround season in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs for the first time in its 25-year history...

Kelly Peterson scored 16 points, including 11 in the second half, to help guide the Lehigh women's basketball team past visiting Loyola, 70-60, on Monday. Although the Greyhounds (3-4) shot 18-for-21 from the free-throw line, they could not overcome their struggles from the field (18-for-58). Guard Miriam McKenzie led Loyola with 15 points. Lehigh (4-6) started fast, jumping out to a 16-4 lead, and held a 35-23 lead at the half. The slow start was too much for the Greyhounds, who never led and who never got within single digits in the second half.

No. 17 Navy has won 28 of 30 contests in this series between Patriot League foes, but No. 8 Lehigh did win last year's meeting. The Mountain Hawks (9-1 overall and 2-0 in the conference) are riding an eight-game winning streak. The Midshipmen (5-3, 3-1) are seeking their first five-game run since 2008. Here are a few factors that could influence the outcome at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis on Friday night. 1) Faceoffs. Lehigh is led by junior Ryan Snyder, who has won 54.3 percent of his faceoffs (82-of-151)

B.J. Bailey scored 17 points, and Lehigh emphatically ended a three-game losing streak with a 72-43 home rout of Navy on Wednesday night. Bailey scored the first six points for the Mountain Hawks (19-8, 9-4 Patriot League), who shot 54 percent from the field (26-for-48) and made nine 3-pointers. The hosts used a 30-11 run to take a 36-17 halftime lead. The Midshipmen (8-21, 2-11) made four of their first five shots to start the second half but still trailed 48-28. Lehigh, which was never seriously threatened, extended its lead to as many as 35 points.

Junior midfielder Kurtis Kaunas scored three goals to guide host No. 20 Lehigh over Navy, 10-6, in the first round of the Patriot League Tournament on Tuesday night. Attackmen Reid Weber, Dan Taylor and Patrick Corbett added two goals each for the Mountain Hawks (12-4). After the Midshipmen (4-9) got out to an early 2-1 lead, Lehigh went on a 4-0 run over the span of 21/2 minutes in the second quarter to go up, 5-1. Navy trailed only 6-5 heading into the fourth quarter, but the Mountain Hawks went on another 4-0 run to secure the victory.

No suspense remains for Navy's hopes of qualifying for its first NCAA tournament since 2009. The team must win three games in the Patriot League tournament, beginning with Tuesday's quarterfinal at Lehigh. With a 4-8 record, the Midshipmen have no shot at an at-large bid, but coach Rick Sowell insisted that there is no talk about anything beyond Tuesday's game. “Right now, it's Lehigh,” he said Monday afternoon. “You win, you advance. You lose, you go home. At this point, any conversation about winning three games, that just hasn't come up. That's not our focus at this point in time.

It would probably be fair to say that Navy would have preferred a route other than backing into the Patriot League tournament, as it did on Saturday. The team suffered a 14-7 loss to archrival Army, but seized the sixth and final spot in the conference tournament courtesy of Bucknell's 13-1 rout of Lafayette and Colgate's 11-9 decision over Holy Cross. Still, the Midshipmen (4-7 overall and 3-5 in the league) are in the tournament and would love nothing more than to grab a little momentum heading into Tuesday's quarterfinal against Lehigh (10-4, 5-2)

Jordan Wolf's goal at the 2:34 mark of the first overtime period lifted host No. 6 Duke to a 9-8 win over No. 7 North Carolina on Saturday at Koskinen Stadium. "Christian Walsh came down and made a nice move," Wolf said. "We've been playing together for a long time and have great chemistry, and I knew he was going to throw it to me and set a pick. I attacked the ball, got to five-on-five, inside roll and stuck it, fortunately. " The Blue Devils improved to 6-2 overall and 1-1 in the Atlantic Coast Conference while the Tar Heels fell to 5-2, 0-2. "I just thought it was everything that is good about our sport," coach John Danowski said.

  Top-seeded Navy rolled to a 84-54 Patriot League quarterfinals victory over visiting No. 8 seed Lehigh on Thursday night, outscoring the Mountain Hawks 44-23 in the first half. The Mids (24-6) shot 51.7 percent from the field and 60 percent from 3-point range, while the Mountain Hawks (13-18) struggled, shooting 34.5 percent and 14.3 percent, respectively. Kara Pollinger scored a game-high 17 points and Audrey Bauer and Jade Geif added 14 each to help pace Navy's offense.

Loyola Maryland evened its record in the Patriot League with a 72-68 victory over visiting Lehigh on Saturday at Reitz Arena. The Greyhounds, who won for only the second time in their past eight games, improved to 7-8 overall and 2-2 in the Patriot League. Lehigh lost for the fourth time in its past five games, slipping to 8-9 overall and 1-3 in the conference. Loyola senior guard Dylon Cormier (Cardinal Gibbons) led all scorers with 25 points. Senior guard Mackey McKnight paced Lehigh with 17 points - all in the second half.

No. 8 Lehigh is 9-1 for the first time in program history and has reeled off a school-record eight consecutive wins, and a pair of Baltimore area players have contributed to the team's success. Senior attackman Adam Johnston, a Street native and St. Paul's graduate, has scored 11 goals. Junior midfielder Brian Hess, an Owings Mills native and McDonogh graduate, has chipped in three goals and two assists. “I think it's pretty cool,” said Johnston, who is tied for second on the team in goals despite making just three starts.

John J. Jones has become assistant plant manager of Lehigh Portland Cement Co., replacing Charles Moore, who is now production superintendent at Lehigh's white cement plant in Waco, Texas.Jones, a 22-year industry veteran, has worked for Lehigh since 1984. He comes to this plant from Lehigh's Cementon, N.Y., facility.A native of Emmaus, Pa., Jones resides in Westminster with his wife, Carolyn, and two daughters, Natalie and Emily.

Navy faced a rival Army squad with the same record and no conference losses Saturday. The host Mids won, 75-64. Kelsey Minato posted a game-high 25points for the Black Knights (11-4, 3-1 Patriot League), and Jade Geif scored a team-high 24 points for Navy (12-3, 4-0). During halftime, former Navy player Becky Dowling Calders (1994-1998) had her jersey, No. 32, retired. She is the first female Mid to be so honored. UMass-Lowell 65, UMBC 57: The visiting River Hawks (1-12, 1-2 America East)

You hear the name Belichick, you think football. But the truth is that lacrosse is just as big in the household of New England Patriots coach and Annapolis High grad Bill Belichick . On Thursday came the news that Bill's daughter Amanda Belichick has been appointed interim head coach at Wesleyan, her alma mater, for the 2014 season. Following in her father's footsteps, Belichick has coached since her four-year lacrosse career at the Middletown, Conn., school ended in 2007.