Salisbury

Salisbury's run to Sunday's 14-10 victory over SUNY-Cortland in the NCAA tournament final at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., and the program's 10th national championship was fueled by senior midfielder Sam Bradman's six-goal, one-assist display and senior attackman Matt Cannone's two-goal, three-assist effort. The Sea Gulls' next leading scorer was their fourth attackman. Senior Lantz Carter scored three goals on four shots and added one assist, and each goal came at critical junctures.

Dickinson, the top seed in the South region, will make only its second appearance in a NCAA tournament quarterfinal when Salisbury visits Carlisle, Pa., on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Sea Gulls, a 10-time national champion, will play in their 16th consecutive quarterfinal. Advantage, Salisbury? Coach Jim Berkman declined to declare that, but he did agree that the tension and pressure is turned up as a team advances deeper into the postseason. “Being at this point, there is more at stake, there is more tension, there is more urgency into the game,” Berkman said Monday.

On July 31, 2004, CHARLES W. SALISBURY, beloved brother of Anna Kutz, Franklin Salisbury, Elizabeth Reichelt, Thomas Salisbury, May Thornton and the late George L. Salisbury, Jr. and Patricia Raab. Also survived by many nieces and nephews Friends are invited to call at the Burgee Henss Seitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Road on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

When Salisbury opened the 2013 season in defense of the national championship it had captured last May, the team limped to a 1-2 start and the thought of advancing to the NCAA tournament semifinals appeared to be remote. At least that was the way coach Jim Berkman saw it. “It was definitely a distant possibility at that time,” he said Thursday after recalling a 13-12 setback to Lynchburg on Feb. 16 and a 7-6 double-overtime decision to Washington and Lee four days later. “But by the same token, they were both one-goal losses and in both games, we had a one-on-one to win the game.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun will publish a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player to help you become more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Salisbury senior Katie Bollhorst, last season's Division III Attacker of the Year and Capital Athletic Conference Player of the Year, who was named to the 2013 Tewaaraton Award watch list. The St. Mary's graduate scored three goals and had an assist in the Sea Gulls' season-opening 19-5 win over Stevenson and stands seventh on school career points list with 121. She's fourth in assists with 72. More than all the individual accolades, Bollhorst would prefer to finish her career with a national championship after the Sea Gulls lost to Trinity, 8-7, in last year's final.

The state Board of Physicians Tuesday suspended the license of a Salisbury pain doctor, who the board said had not been using proper safeguards in prescribing opiates. Separately, state health officials had suspended Dr. Brent R. Fox's authority to write prescriptions for opiates and other controlled dangerous substances last week after their own investigation showed he was prescribing drugs in amounts outside of standards and was not conducting thorough exams of patients. The new action means the doctor can't practice medicine in Maryland for now. The doctor had been referred to the state by a managed-care organization with which Fox was affiliated, and the state has become more aggressive in tackling abuse of highly addictive painkillers.

Colleges Salisbury picks alum Merkel to be men's basketball coach Salisbury named 2001 graduate Josh Merkel men's basketball coach Tuesday. Merkel, who helped Randolph-Macon to a 25-5 record this past season as an assistant coach, played for the Sea Gulls from 1997 until 2001, averaging 9.3 points, 2.5rebounds and 1.8 assists. Before his stint with the Yellow Jackets, Merkel spent five seasons as an assistant at Eastern Kentucky, which won the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in 2007.