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South River manager Ken Dunn tells his players that "the road to success is always under construction. " Fortunately for him, his team laid down some quality miles Thursday, while all visiting Arundel found were potholes in an 11-1 loss in an Anne Arundel County league game that ended after six innings because of the ten-run rule. The No. 4 Seahawks (1-0, 1-0) rode the arm and the bat of pitcher Scott Mitchell. The senior threw a three-hitter, striking out eight and keeping No. 5 Arundel (0-1, 0-1)

Marcus Holman (Gilman) scored his 100th career goal and Joey Sankey had career highs for goals and points in a game as No. 10 North Carolina rolled to a 13-5 win over visiting Dartmouth (2-3) on Monday afternoon. Holman had four goals and an assist for the Tar Heels (4-3), while Sankey had four goals and three assists. Freshman attackman Patrick Kelly (Calvert Hall) scored his first career goal for North Carolina. Next up for the Tar Heels is a matchup at top-ranked Maryland at noon Saturday.

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.

Bowie State ran into the top-scoring men's basketball team in the country as host West Liberty of West Virginia won, 114-82, in the first round of the Atlantic Regional of the NCAA Division II tournament on Saturday night. Bryon Westmorland (Mervo) scored a team-high 18 points and Najee White added 13 points for the Bulldogs (16-14). The Hilltoppers (31-1), who average about 106 points a game, shot 66.7percent from the field and took a 66-41 lead at halftime. St. Mary's 84, Morrisville State 66: Donn Hill (Bel Air)

Dunbar could do just about anything it wanted against Washington in Friday's Class 1A state semifinal. The Poets had a large advantage in size, speed and strength. In other words, they were just too much. The Jaguars, from Somerset County, scored the game's first basket, but the rest of the evening belonged to No. 1 Dunbar. The Poets needed only four minutes to increase their lead to 10 points, and they didn't have much trouble in a 70-41 victory over Washington at the University of Maryland's Comcast Center.

The flowers left in condolence are a kind but painful reminder that De'ontae Smith is gone, as is the funeral program his mother carries around to remember the boy stabbed to death downtown just hours after the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl victory parade. Chevita Bumbrey and her husband, Donae Wright, have struggled with De'ontae's conspicuous absence. He could usually be found slouching on the couch playing video games or dancing the "mump" to rap music - shuffling wide-legged on the wood floor.

Fueled by a career-high 10 points from Alex Aust, the No. 1 Maryland women's lacrosse team defeated host No. 8 Virginia, 18-10, Friday night. Aust had five goals and five assists, tying the third-highest point total in Terps single-game history, as Maryland (4-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) beat its third straight top-10 foe. Kristen Lamon (St. Mary's) added a career-best four goals. Freshman Halle Majorana scored just over a minute into the game off Aust's first assist.

Maryland and Duke are no strangers on the lacrosse field. The Terrapins and Blue Devils, who have been the Atlantic Coast Conference's two most dominant lacrosse programs in the past decade, have met during the regular season, ACC tournament and NCAA tournament's championship weekend in each of the past two years, with Maryland winning four of the six games. In the seventh matchup between the two teams in the past three seasons, No. 1 Maryland routed the Blue Devils, 16-7, in a lopsided game from start to finish at Koskinen Stadium.

Defending state champion Aberdeen found itself in unfamiliar playoff territory Friday night, trailing City at halftime of the Class 3A North girls basketball final. Still, it wasn't anything a defensive tweak and small scoring spurt couldn't fix. Fortunately for the No. 2 Eagles, the defensive tweak helped spark a big scoring spurt with 24 straight points, setting them on course for a 73-45 victory and their third straight regional title. Freshman Stephanie Jones scored 11 of her 33 points and had 10 of her 21 rebounds as host Aberdeen took off in the third quarter.

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.