Navy Women

The Navy women's basketball team did not have a single player score in double digits, but the Mids used tough defense and scoring from 14 players to beat Houston Baptist, 67-31, Friday in the opening round of the Navy Classic. The Huskies fell to 0-8. Alix Membreno and Audrey Bauer led the Mids (3-3) with nine points each. Houston Baptist's Shanice Steenholdt paced all scorers with 15 points. The Huskies held a 10-6 lead over Navy five minutes into the game, but the Mids scored the next 10 points to build a 16-10 advantage.

The one thing Navy could always count on from its women's lacrosse team was a high-powered offense. On Sunday, that offense seemed to run out of gas. The Midshipmen saw their season end with a thud in the NCAA tournament's second round with a resounding 10-5 loss to Duke at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. After taking a 4-2 lead, the Mids (19-2) gave up seven unanswered goals. The story, however, was the Duke defense. The Blue Devils (14-5) constantly harassed Navy's offensive quartet of Jasmine DePompeo, Aimee Gennaro, Kathy Young and Jill Coughlin, and the frustration became evident.

K.C. Gordon scored a game-high 20 points to power the host Navy women past Holy Cross, 75-60. The game was tied twice in the first six minutes, but the Midshipmen (10-9, 2-2 Patriot League) never trailed. Whitney Fremeau led the Crusaders (5-14, 1-3) with 15 points. More women's basketball: JaQuelia Conley (13 points) hit the game-winner with 35 seconds left to lift host Stevenson over Salisbury, 55-53. Janay Johnson made two free throws to tie the game at 53 with 1:02 remaining for the Sea Gulls (5-10, 2-6 Capital Athletic Conference)

Navy's women's lacrosse players made it clear that they are not in the NCAA tournament this time to enjoy the experience. After three years of first-round losses, the eighth-seeded Mids are in it to win. Monmouth, which lost in a play-in game last season, apparently had the same idea. The Hawks made 11th-ranked Navy work for everything it got Friday, especially in the first half. Monmouth scored first and was within one until the final 7.1 seconds of the first half, when Mids senior attacker Jasmine DePompeo dished out the first her five assists and sparked a five-goal run that carried Navy to a 12-6 victory at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium for its first NCAA tournament win in six years as a Division I program.

The Navy women's team, led by Jade Geif with 20 points, survived a Patriot League basketball quarterfinal by beating visiting Lafayette, 59-55 in overtime Thursday night. Both halves ended in ties, 29-all and 58-all. Geif made two free throws with 32 seconds left in regulation to force overtime. Lafayette's Maddie Peabody missed a jumper from the left corner with 3.2 seconds left. In the overtime, Alix Membreno scored four of her team's 11 points and the Mids (19-11) held the Leopards (11-19)

Three years ago as freshmen, Cassie Consedine and Angela Myers were part of a Navy squad that won just seven of the team's 30 games. This Saturday night, the two seniors will lead their Navy teammates onto the Alumni Hall court in the championship game of the Patriot League Tournament. The Mids will be playing for an NCAA Tournament berth after beating Bucknell, 55-41, Wednesday at Alumni Hall in the semifinal round. The Mids (19-11), seeded first in this year's tournament, will face third-seeded American Saturday in a 6 p.m. game that will be televised nationally by CBS College Sports.

Navy's women's lacrosse team had never come closer than within seven points of a Top 20 opponent, so they turned a few heads Monday when they came within 15-12 of No. 4 and defending national champion Northwestern. Perhaps what shows how far the No. 15 Midshipmen have come was their reaction to losing that game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. They weren't happy about coming so close. The game was tied seven times, lastly at 10 with 17 minutes to go, so the Midshipmen thought they could have won. “We were in a position to make a statement and I think it's a matter of getting over that hump,” said Navy coach Cindy Timchal, whose team had fallen to then-No.

Having grown up in the Bronx, about five miles away from the Carnesecca Arena in Jamaica, Queens, Kentucky sophomore point guard Jennifer O'Neill was looking forward to Sunday's matchup with Navy in the NCAA women's basketball tournament's opening round. 'I was excited to come home and see so many family and friends, but the game was big because it was the NCAA tournament," said O'Neill, who keyed a 13-2 run in the opening minutes of the second half that propelled Kentucky to a 61-41 victory over Navy.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Navy women's lacrosse team saw its most successful season come to an abrupt halt with an 18-5 loss to third-seeded North Carolina on Saturday. Navy ends its season with a 17-4 record, while the Tar Heels improve to 16-2 and advance to the quarterfinals, where they will face the winner of today's contest between No. 6 seed Virginia (13-5) and unseeded Towson (13-4). "All the credit goes to North Carolina. They are one of the top teams in the country and they played like it today," Navy head coach Cindy Timchal said.

Navy women's lacrosse coach Cindy Timchal has announced the team's schedule for the 2013 season, which includes a home game against two-time defending national champion Northwestern. Navy will play six Patriot League contests and 17 games overall. The Midshipmen, who have won three straight Patriot League titles and advanced to three consecutive NCAA tournaments, will open the season  Feb. 10 against Winthrop. The Navy-Winthrop contest will be one of 11 home games at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

Navy coach Cindy Timchal believes the combination of the Midshipmen's stellar season and the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium setting should be enough to earn Navy one of eight seeds in the NCAA Division I women's tournament when the bracket is announced Sunday night. The top eight seeds will play at home on the tournament's first weekend, May 10 and 12. The No. 12 Midshipmen, who won their fourth straight Patriot League tournament championship last Sunday, certainly have the record (16-1)

Several opponents have slowed Navy's high-powered offense recently by holding the ball for long possessions, but the Midshipmen made sure Holy Cross could not do that in Sunday's Patriot League women's lacrosse championship. The No. 12 Midshipmen jumped ahead early and kept rolling to an eight-goal halftime lead en route to a 14-4 victory for their fourth straight Patriot League tournament title at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The win ended a string of three-straight one-goal wins, including two in double overtime.

To Navy coach Cindy Timchal, it was only fitting that senior Jasmine DePompeo broke the all-time Patriot League scoring record on Saturday with an assist. "It just comes from Jas very genuinely being an unselfish player," Timchal said. DePompeo's feed to Aimee Gennaro 13:10 into the game -- one of five assists on the day for the attacker -- broke the 17-year-old record, helping stake the No. 12 Midshipmen to an early lead in a 12-6 win over visiting Colgate. It marked the seventh straight win for Navy, which improved to 14-1 (5-0 league)

No. 7 Notre Dame made its argument Tuesday for why it still belongs in discussions about the best men's lacrosse team in NCAA Division I. One day removed from falling out of the top spot in The Baltimore Sun's rankings, the Fighting Irish (7-2) rolled to a 17-5 neutral-site victory over a less-experienced Golden Eagles (2-5) squad at Loyola Academy's Hoerster Field in Wilmette, Ill. The Golden Eagles, who started seven underclassmen - including a half-dozen freshmen - kept things close early after a fairly pedestrian first quarter in which both sides tried to control the tempo by being selective on the attacking end. Co-captain Ben Dvorak got Marquette on the scoreboard with 40 seconds left in the opening quarter to tie the score at 1. It didn't stay even for long, however, as Notre Dame's John Scioscia ended the first quarter with the first of his six goals on the day. The score remained that way until near the midway point of the second quarter.

Having grown up in the Bronx, about five miles away from the Carnesecca Arena in Jamaica, Queens, Kentucky sophomore point guard Jennifer O'Neill was looking forward to Sunday's matchup with Navy in the NCAA women's basketball tournament's opening round. 'I was excited to come home and see so many family and friends, but the game was big because it was the NCAA tournament," said O'Neill, who keyed a 13-2 run in the opening minutes of the second half that propelled Kentucky to a 61-41 victory over Navy.

NCAA selection show Monday, 7 p.m. TV: ESPN With less than a minute to go in Saturday night's Patriot League women's basketball tournament final, Navy junior guard Kara Pollinger came out of the game and shared a long embrace with coach Stefanie Pemper. By that time, the second-seeded Mids were well on their way to a 72-53 win over fourth-seeded Holy Cross in front of an announced 1,554 at Alumni Hall, and the two were thoroughly enjoying their third consecutive conference tournament title and corresponding berth in the NCAA tournament.

The No. 20 Duke men's lacrosse team jumped all over host No. 4 North Carolina early and often Wednesday night. A strong first-half performance and finish led the Blue Devils to an 11-8 upset of the rival Tar Heels. Jordan Wolf finished with a game-high three goals for Duke, which led 8-4 at halftime. A third-quarter lull let Carolina back in as the Heels went on a 3-0 run to cut the gap to 8-7. But Duke outscored Carolina 3-1 in the fourth, with Wolf adding the final goal with 1:49 left.

Navy's women's lacrosse team had never come closer than within seven points of a Top 20 opponent, so they turned a few heads Monday when they came within 15-12 of No. 4 and defending national champion Northwestern. Perhaps what shows how far the No. 15 Midshipmen have come was their reaction to losing that game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. They weren't happy about coming so close. The game was tied seven times, lastly at 10 with 17 minutes to go, so the Midshipmen thought they could have won. “We were in a position to make a statement and I think it's a matter of getting over that hump,” said Navy coach Cindy Timchal, whose team had fallen to then-No.