Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart (7-4, 5-0 Northeast Conference) scored the final three goals, including two in overtime, to win, 9-7, over visiting Mount St. Mary's (4-6, 2-2). Ashley Johnson had two goals for the Mount. Cori Horelik had three, including the tying goal with 10:59 left in regulation. Division III games: Brandy Noel scored five goals to become Hood's top career goal scorer as the visiting Blazers (3-8) won a come-from-behind 16-14 decision over Shepherd (2-8)

Last Sunday's 12-11 loss to Robert Morris saddled Mount St. Mary's with a winless record in the Northeast Conference and a spring without a berth in the league tournament. The Mountaineers (4-9 overall and 0-3 in the conference) could end the regular season with victories over Bryant (5-8, 3-0) this Saturday and Wagner (1-10, 0-3) on April 27, but they would be unable to vault over the Colonials (6-5, 2-1), Quinnipiac (5-6, 2-1) and Sacred Heart (2-9, 2-1) as all three of those teams own the head-to-head tiebreaker over Mount St. Mary's.

Renee Tirocchi scored four goals to lead host UMBC (4-5, 2-1) to an 18-2 win over Northeast Conference rival Sacred Heart (6-2, 1-1) yesterday in women's lacrosse. Mount St. Mary's 15, Quinniplac 6: Ashley Rusk scored five goals to lead the Mount (3-11, 1-2 Northeast Conference).

Mount St. Mary's offense has enjoyed better days. After averaging 11 goals in the first nine contests, the unit is averaging just 6.5 goals in befuddling losses to UMBC and Sacred Heart in back-to-back Saturdays. Fifth-year senior attackman Brett Schmidt has scored two goals each in the setbacks, but senior attackman Andrew Scalley has scored just once while assisting on four goals. Fifth-year senior attackman Cody Lehrer has scored a goal in each game, but has zero assists. “I just think they've lost their chemistry a little bit,” coach Tom Gravante said Friday morning as the Mountaineers traveled to their next game against Quinnipiac.

Mount St. Mary's got 16 points from Deanna Butters to pull away in the second half for a 67-55 win over Sacred Heart in a Northeast Conference women's basketball game last night at Knott Arena. The Mountaineers have won six straight to stay undefeated in the NEC, while Sacred Heart dropped to 3-3 in the league. The Mount (11-4, 6-0 NEC) led for most of the first half, but the Pioneers (5-9, 3-3 NEC) stayed in the game, as Heather Coonradt scored all 13 of her points before the break. Mount St. Mary's pushed a 33-27 lead at the half up to 10, but a 9-2 run by Sacred Heart brought it back down to three points, 41-38.

The ladies of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Highlandtown will tell you it takes a lot of work to make a great 60-cent coddie.Just ask them.As the season of Lent closes, they have made 14,433 codfish cakes, the tasty seafood treat known as coddies in Baltimore. The coddie -- a deep-fried fish cake made of cod and potato -- is an old-fashioned favorite during the Fridays of Lent, when Christians traditionally abstain from meat. Because codfish is much cheaper than crab, the coddie is one of Baltimore's favorite treats.

Mount St. Mary's used a balanced scoring attack to defeat Sacred Heart last night in the semifinals of the Northeast Conference tournament in Emmittsburg. Kelly Beidler led the Mount (19-12), seeded second, with 13 points and had five rebounds and three steals. Jeremy Goode, who missed much of the second half because of foul trouble, scored all 12 of his points in the first half. Shawn Atupem added 12 points and Will Holland 11. The Pioneers (17-14) were within 53-52 before the Mount went on a 10-2 run to push its advantage to 63-54 with 4:38 left.

Sophomore attackman Stephen Brundage had three goals and three assists yesterday, and Loyola scored the first 15 goals to cruise past visiting Sacred Heart, 17-7, in a Colonial Athletic Association men's lacrosse game at Curley Field. The Greyhounds (5-0, 3-0) led 15-0 before Chris Swier got Sacred Heart (2-3, 0-1) on the board 1:32 into the fourth quarter. Dickinson 7, St. Mary's 6: Senior midfielder Matt McFarland (Severn) scored the winning goal with 3:17 left to break a 6-6 tie and lift the visiting Red Devils (2-4)

Eric Boyle and Jonathan Engelke each scored three goals to help Towson earn its second straight victory, a 17-5 decision over host Sacred Heart yesterday in Fairfield, Conn. The 17 goals were a season high for the Tigers (4-6, 3-1), who scored twice in the last 30 seconds of the first quarter to start a 9-0 run. The win was Towson's seventh straight over the Pioneers (6-4, 1-3). Dan Casciano gave Sacred Heart a 1-0 lead with 4:59 left in the first quarter. Towson scored twice in the final minute of the quarter to take the lead.

Beth Fischer scored three goals to lift visiting Mount St. Mary's over Sacred Heart, 8-5, in Northeast Conference women's college lacrosse yesterday. The Pioneers (6-3) tied the score at 2 at 2: 12, but the Mountaineers (6-5) scored the final three goals of the half to take a 5-2 lead. Lara Steinbraker opened the second half by scoring her second goal to push the Mount lead to four with 16: 36 remaining. Fischer got two of her three goals down the stretch. East Stroudsburg 6, Frostburg 5, OT: Kim Niles scored with 3: 31 remaining in overtime to lift the Warriors (6-2)

After finishing the last two years without advancing to the NCAA tournament, Mount St. Mary's finally has an opportunity to play in the coveted postseason. For the first time in its three-year existence, the Northeast Conference (NEC) has an automatic qualifier that goes to the champion of the league tournament. And as the Mountaineers (4-6) prepare to dive into conference play with a home contest against Sacred Heart (0-8) this Saturday, the carrot of an automatic qualifier has added a little spice to the team's next five games.

If Tom Gravante has his way - and as the head coach, he probably will - Mount St. Mary's will go with its third different starting goalkeeper in Saturday's Northeast Conference opener against Sacred Heart. Freshman Frankie McCarthy is poised to open Saturday's home contest as the goalie. McCarthy would replace sophomore Adam Borgogelli, who made nine consecutive starts after freshman Will Rego opened the season against then-No. 3 Maryland. Borgogelli made the start in last Saturday's 10-8 loss to UMBC, but after he surrendered seven goals in the first half, McCarthy played the entire second half, allowing just three goals and making five saves.

As many as 240 AmeriCorps members will relocate to East Baltimore's Graceland Park neighborhood in the coming months, as the domestic version of the Peace Corps establishes an urban campus, the first of its kind. The classrooms at the former Sacred Heart of Mary School will be transformed into dormitories that will house the National Civilian Community Corps, an AmeriCorps unit that deploys teams of 18- to 24-year-olds to work with community groups and individuals in schools and parks as well as disaster areas.

Standing on the Morgan State sideline, running back Travis Davidson couldn't bring himself to watch Sacred Heart's Chris Rogers attempt the game-winning field goal in the third overtime of Saturday's season opener. "I'm very superstitious," Davidson said. "I feel like when I watch the game, bad stuff happens, so I had my head down. " It didn't take long for the senior to snap back to attention, as teammate Lamar Bynum broke through the line to block the low kick. Minutes later, the Bears' Ervin Gonzalez lined up on the left hash mark and nailed a 20-yarder of his own, giving host Morgan State a 30-27 win in four overtimes, marking the longest game in school history.

After a 17-14 loss to Robert Morris on April 14, Mount St. Mary's dropped to 0-3 in the Northeast Conference and was in danger of becoming the league's first tournament champion to fail to qualify the next season. But the Mountaineers secured wins of 9-8 and 16-7 against Sacred Heart and Wagner, respectively, in back-to-back Saturdays and earned the No. 4 seed in the tourney, which begins Friday at Robert Morris. “That was the team goal,” coach Tom Gravante said Wednesday.

There's no nice way to put it for Mount St. Mary's, which must defeat Sacred Heart this Saturday at home and Wagner next Saturday on the road to finish in fourth place in the Northeast Conference and qualify for the league tournament. It's a humbling scenario for the Mountaineers, who won the inaugural tournament championship last year, but it's the situation created by Saturday's 17-14 loss to Robert Morris, which dropped Mount St. Mary's to 0-3 in the Northeast Conference. Coach Tom Gravante said Tuesday morning that the players are aware of the must-win scenario facing them.

Monsignor Timothy Michael Mullen, retired pastor of the Roman Catholic Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Mount Washington, died Monday at Stella Maris Hospice after a lengthy illness. He was 91.Monsignor Mullen was appointed pastor of Sacred Heart in 1959 and retired in 1974. Three years later, he became a resident of Long Crandon at the Cardinal Shehan Center in Towson.He became a monsignor in 1972.He was known for his trademark greeting "Sure 'n' Himself" that reflected his pride in his Irish heritage.

Monsignor Richard E. Parks, pastor of Sacred Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Graceland Park for 25 years who was also a city Fire Department chaplain, died of cancer Feb. 19 at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 80. Monsignor Parks was remembered by friends for his caring personality and the lasting friendships he established wherever he went. "He never thought of himself," said the Rev. George Gannon, current pastor of Sacred Heart of Mary. "He was generous with his time and had an ability to ascertain just what people needed.

Sister Mary Lucy Yingling, a member of the Sisters of Mercy whose career as an educator spanned nearly 50 years, died March 31 of complications from Parkinson's disease at The Villa, an assisted-living facility in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County that her order shares with the Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart. Sister Mary Lucy was 87. The daughter of a postal worker and a homemaker, she was born Katherine Teresa Yingling, the fifth of nine children, in Washington and raised in Georgetown.