Retrievers

UMBC @Mount St. Mary's Saturday, 2p.m. Visiting UMBC forced 18 turnovers, including a season-high 14steals, but lost to DePaul, 69-61, in men's basketball at Allstate Arena on Saturday. Freshman Aaron Morgan led the Retrievers (2-10) with a season-high 15 points in 40 minutes of play. Ryan Cook (St. Vincent Pallotti) scored 13points, and Brian Neller added 12. Cleveland Melvin led all scorers with 24points for the Blue Demons (9-3), who have won seven straight. "I looked at this like any other game - come out, play well and get the win," said Melvin who attended Lake Clifton.

Coppin State coach Fang Mitchell often can be difficult to please, but even he wore a big smile after Wednesday night's game against UMBC. The Eagles quickly eliminated any suspense, scoring the game's first eight points and making their first eight shots from the field in an 80-61 victory at RAC Arena. Michael Murray had 19 points and 13 rebounds to lead Coppin State (2-8), which snapped a four-game losing streak in the midst of a tough early-season schedule in which 12 of the team's first 15 games are on the road.

College football Navy to face Arizona State in Kraft Bowl Navy and Arizona State will meet for the first time at the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on Dec. 29 at AT&T Park in San Francisco, it was announced Sunday. The game will begin at 4 p.m. and be televised on ESPN2. The Sun Devils finished the regular season 7-5 with a 5-4 record in the Pacific-12. "Based on our visit in 2004, we have seen firsthand that the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is a magnificent overall environment and event," said Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said.

UMBC's Brett Roseboro and Ryan Cook proved to be a combination that was too much for Towson to overcome Saturday night. Roseboro finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds and helped control play inside in the second half, while Cook scored a game-high 22 points to help the Retrievers hold off a few rallies from the Tigers for a 66-62 victory before 1,627 at RAC Arena. The play of Cook, a guard, and Roseboro, a 6-foot-10 center, helped UMBC (2-5) snap a four-game losing streak. Both came up big in the second half as Cook scored 18 of his points after the break, and Roseboro got 11 of his in the final 20 minutes.

Sam Prescott and Julian Norfleet each hit clutch 3-pointers down the stretch to lead Mount St. Mary's past host George Washington, 65-56, on Monday night. Prescott paced the Mountaineers (2-3) with 15 points in the victory. Leading 55-54, Prescott made a 3-pointer from the top of the key to extend the Mount's advantage to four with 3:51 left in the game. Norfleet then converted a lay-up in the lane with 2:51 left to for a six-point lead. Rashad Whack added a free throw before George Washington's Lasan Kromah scored on a layup to cut the Mount lead to 61-56 with 1:09 left in the game.

In what could be described as a severe case of déjà vu, the UMBC men's soccer team again won in dramatic fashion Thursday night, advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament with a 4-2 win in penalty kicks after a scoreless game at Old Dominion. Five days earlier, UMBC clinched the America East title in a 4-2 PK shootout after blanking New Hampshire for 90 minutes of regulation play and two overtime periods. "It's very eerie how we won," coach Pete Caringi with laugh.

To accommodate television, Wednesday's early season matchup of cross-town rivals Loyola and UMBC tipped off at the unusually late time of 9 p.m. Luckily for the host Greyhounds, redshirt freshman Tyler Hubbard made his presence felt early and often. Hubbard, a 6-foot-1 guard from Montrose Christian, scored a career-high 17 points, including 11 straight for his team midway through the first half as Loyola built a 15-point lead by halftime on its way to an 86-70 win. "Tyler Hubbard saved us in the first half," Loyola coach Jimmy Patsos said.

The first time UMBC coach Pete Caringi saw Phil Saunders, the 12-year-old soccer player was losing. The coach was watching his son, whose team was in the process of dominating Saunders' squad. Caringi also remembers a recruiting pitch that day. "His dad comes up and [starts] telling me how good his son is, and I'm like, 'Yeah, yeah.' Meanwhile, as I was watching the game [Phil] was playing really, really well," Caringi said with a smile. "I kind of kept a mental note about it. " Last Saturday, nearly a decade after that first encounter, Saunders blocked two penalty kicks to help UMBC win the America East championship, 4-2 in a shootout.

The UMBC men's soccer team will face Old Dominion on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA tournament. “We are all very excited to see our name on the screen,” UMBC coach Pete Caringi Jr. said in a news release. “This is something that we worked hard all year long for. We have a lot of respect for ODU, but we are going to prepare to go down there and play well.” The Retrievers, whose game against the Monarchs will be played in Norfolk, Va., earned their tournament bid with a win over New Hampshire in the America East championship game Saturday.

Colleges Caringi equals UMBC mark with four goals in 7-1 rout Junior forward Pete Caringi III (Calvert Hall) tied a school record with four goals as UMBC (9-4-4, 3-2-1 America East) clinched a spot in the conference tournament with a 7-1 victory over visiting Hartford (7-8-1, 1-4-1). Caringi equaled the mark of Ted Lawler , who had four in a 1995 game against UMES. Caringi also became the third player in the country to score four goals in a game this season. "He has scored goals his entire life and is very confident right now," coach Pete Caringi Jr. said of his son. "It just seems like everything he hits is going in. The seven goals scored by the Retrievers are the most since they found the net seven times vs. St. Francis (Pa.)