Patriot League

College baseball Navy rallies past Army, 5-3, reaches NCAA regionals Top-seeded and host Navy overcame a three-run deficit to defeat second-seeded Army, 5-3, and win the winner-take-all third game of the Patriot League championship series Tuesday. Navy (33-23-1) won its sixth Patriot League title and its first since 2002, moving one ahead of the Black Knights and Bucknell for the most in league history. The Mids earned the Patriot League's automatic bid to the NCAA regionals and will find out their opponents and destination when selections are announced Monday at 12:30 p.m. on ESPN.

No. 7 Maryland's defensive approach to Saturday's road contest against No. 12 Colgate sounds like a simple task: pay a lot of attention to Peter Baum. That's easier said than done. The junior attackman leads Division I in points per game (5.7) and goals per game (3.9) and was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year last week. The Terps are still debating whether to assign sophomore Michael Ehrhardt or freshman Goran Murray to Baum, but Ehrhardt - who has shadowed Johns Hopkins senior atatckman Chris Boland and Navy sophomore attackman Tucker Hull this season - said Baum is unlike any other player the defense and defensive coordinator Kevin Warne has faced thus far. “He can do everything,” Ehrhardt said.

Towson football Patriot League honors Hollingsworth Former Towson University defensive end Andrew Hollingsworth was selected to the Patriot League's 25th anniversary team. In 2000, Hollingsworth was selected as the Patriot League Player of the Year and Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year. He was also a consensus first team All-American first-team selection. He finished his career as the conference's all-time leader with 43 sacks, which remains a Towson record.

Monmouth scored 10 unanswered goals to defeat Mount St. Mary's, 11-3, in the Northeast Conference women's lacrosse championship game on Sunday in Fairfield, Conn. Lindsay Diaz (Dulaney), Hannah Gutcher (Mount de Sales) and Gabe Little (North Carroll) scored for the Mountaineers (9-10). Brigid McTavish (South Carroll) made 10 saves in the loss. Little, McTavish, and Meaghan Conlon (Liberty) were named to the All-Tournament team. Sam Lillo scored four goals for the Hawks, who won their fourth NEC championship.

Navy junior point guard Angela Myers , who averages 5.9 rebounds and 2.0 steals, was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season and made the all-conference first team. Midshipmen freshman guard Chey Arvin was named to the all-rookie team. ... Maryland forward Diandra Tchatchouang , who averages 12.3 points, was named to the Atlantic Coast Conference All-Freshman team. ... St. Mary's senior guard Steph Saint-Aubin was named to the All-CAC second team.

Men's college lacrosse Navy, Army to play Sunday for Patriot League crown Anchored by junior attackman Andy Warner 's (Corning, N.Y.) career-high four goals, second-seeded Navy (7-7) used a nine-goal second half to score an 11-9 come-from-behind win over No.3 seed Lafayette (8-6) on Friday night in the Patriot League semifinals in West Point, N.Y. "We just didn't come out mentally prepared," Warner said about falling behind 6-2 in the first half. "We have this thing about starting out slow.

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.

RJ Wickham was Navy's lone representative on the All-Patriot League first team, the conference announced Tuesday. The senior goalkeeper ranked first in the league in saves per game (11.3) and 11th in Division I in save percentage (.570). Wickham was a first-team selection in 2010. Sophomore attackman Tucker Hull and sophomore long-stick midfielder Pat Kiernan were selected to the second team. Hull, the Rookie of the Year last spring, finished with 23 goals and 24 assists and ranked third in the Patriot League in points per game (3.9)

The Navy women's lacrosse team spent the bulk of this season tearing through the overmatched and underwhelming Patriot League. On Sunday, the host Midshipmen put an exclamation point on perhaps their best season in school history, scoring the game's first five goals and cruising to an 18-11 win over Holy Cross to claim their third straight Patriot League tournament title. "We really put a punctuation on this season," Navy coach Cindy Timchal said. "It was a total team effort, and the credit [went to]

Division I soccer Navy women fall, 2-0, in Patriot title game The Navy women's soccer team lost, 2-0, to host Army (12-3-5), 2-0, in the Patriot League championship game Sunday afternoon. The Midshipmen close their season at 13-6-3. "I'm proud of our team," Mids coach Carin Gabarra said. "But when you get to the final, you expect to win. We could have played better and we could have defended better. We created some good chances today, and we got in their box a lot and got numbers forward, but we didn't convert.

The Navy women's lacrosse team spent the bulk of this season tearing through the overmatched and underwhelming Patriot League. On Sunday, the host Midshipmen put an exclamation point on perhaps their best season in school history, scoring the game's first five goals and cruising to an 18-11 win over Holy Cross to claim their third straight Patriot League tournament title. "We really put a punctuation on this season," Navy coach Cindy Timchal said. "It was a total team effort, and the credit [went to]

Steele Stanwick (Loyola) set a career-high at Mile High Friday night, scoring six goals to power No. 6 Virginia past Penn, 10-8, at the Mile High Classic in Denver. Stanwick moved up to No. 22 on the all-time career points list in men's lacrosse with 260. Virginia has won four straight against the Quakers (3-10). No. 2 Massachusetts 17, Delaware 6: Will Manny had six goals to power the visiting Minutemen (13-0, 6-0 Colonial Athletic Association) past the Blue Hens (6-9, 1-5)

RJ Wickham was Navy's lone representative on the All-Patriot League first team, the conference announced Tuesday. The senior goalkeeper ranked first in the league in saves per game (11.3) and 11th in Division I in save percentage (.570). Wickham was a first-team selection in 2010. Sophomore attackman Tucker Hull and sophomore long-stick midfielder Pat Kiernan were selected to the second team. Hull, the Rookie of the Year last spring, finished with 23 goals and 24 assists and ranked third in the Patriot League in points per game (3.9)

Loren Generi, Navy Freshman, Bayport, N.Y., attacker Generi scored a career-high seven goals last Friday to help Navy clinch the Patriot League regular-season title with a 19-6 win over second-place American. The seven goals - which came on just nine shots - tied the school's single-game scoring record for freshmen and were one shy of Danielle Vivonetto's single-game school mark. Generi scored five straight goals during a 15-1 run and added eight draw controls and three ground balls.

For the second straight year, Navy will meet Johns Hopkins with little to play for. That's because the Midshipmen have been eliminated from Patriot League tournament and therefore the NCAA tournament. So Saturday's noon contest against the No. 9 Blue Jays at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium will be Navy's last until 2013. The upcoming finality of the season was a sobering reality for coach Rick Sowell. “I wish we were playing another couple weeks,” he said Tuesday.

Loyola remained one of two unbeaten teams in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse, as the No. 8 Greyhounds (11-0, 5-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) scored five of the last six goals to defeat No. 7 Denver, 12-8, Saturday night at Peter Barton Stadium. With the win, Loyola clinched at least a share of the ECAC Lacrosse League regular-season crown. The Greyhounds also clinched the No. 1 seed in the May 2-4 ECAC championships that will be held at the same venue in Denver. The host Pioneers (7-4, 3-2)

EASTON, Pa. -- Lafayette pounded Navy so badly in the Patriot League tournament final yesterday that the Midshipmen can't blame the loss on the home-court controversy that shadowed the tournament and worked against them. "They beat us in every possible way," Navy coach Don DeVoe said after the 87-61 loss at Lafayette's Allan P. Kirby Center. "They pounded us into oblivion." Still, the Mids will spend the summer wondering what might have happened if they had played the game on their home floor, where they put a 28-point beating on Lafayette last month.

Navy's Don DeVoe, whose team has improved its conference mark for four consecutive years, was named Patriot League co-Coach of the Year along with Bucknell's Pat Flannery.Three of the Midshipmen, who finished 10-2 in conference play, gained all-Patriot League honors. Junior guard Michael Heary, who led Navy in scoring (17.8 ppg), joined junior power forward Hassan Booker (12.0 ppg, 8.3 rpg) on the first team.Point guard Brian Walker earned a second-team berth. The 5-8 senior co-captain led the Patriot League in assists for the third straight year, averaging 5.1 per game.

After missing the Patriot League tournament for the first time since joining the league for the 2004 season, Navy's mission was simple and straightforward: begin a new tradition of qualifying for the tournament. The Midshipmen are one win away from accomplishing that goal. With a win over longtime rival and No. 17 Army on Saturday, No. 20 Navy (5-5 overall and 3-2 in the conference) will ensure itself of finishing in the top four and earning a spot in the tournament. It's a prize that the players are fully aware of, coach Rick Sowell said.

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.