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Youth served the Georgetown men's lacrosse team well. Five freshmen had a hand in 11 goals and junior midfielder Max Seligmann's second goal of the game 52 seconds into overtime propelled the No. 13 Hoyas to a 13-12 victory over No. 20 Navy on Friday night before an announced 6,250 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. After Georgetown won the opening faceoff in the extra period, Seligmann raced down the right alley and tucked a shot inside the left post past Midshipmen sophomore goalkeeper R.J. Wickham.

In many ways, yesterday's Class 3A North regional semifinal game between Bel Air and Franklin was a matchup of similar teams.Both teams have only one proven scorer -- Todd Tabor for Bel Air and Gene Balbir for Franklin -- and thus have relied all season, on their defenses to keep them in games. Each also has been a part of several one-goal games. More important however, if either team hoped to continue on in the playoffs, someone else would have to step up and score.Mike Steinen, Chris Chumley and Billy Nelson, all juniors, made sure the host Bobcats (9-4-1)

Before this season, most of St. Mary's players didn't know much about Garrison Forest's legendary program. They had heard the lore, of course: two straight Association of Independent Schools A Division titles; two years, no losses.But from the moment they saw the Grizzlies on their schedule, the Saints had one objective in mind. Said senior Rebecca Kuehn: "We just really wanted to go out and beat them."Yesterday, Kuehn helped make that wish come true, scoring the game's only goal as No. 13 St. Mary's -- in its first year of AIS competition -- defeated host No. 6 Garrison Forest, 1-0, ending the Grizzlies' area-best unbeaten streak at 33 games.

The Baltimore Bays Chelsea under-17/18 boys soccer club went 3-0 this week in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy playoffs in Frisco, Texas, clinching Group 8 with a 2-1 win over New Jersey-based Players Development Academy on Thursday to advance to USSDA's Finals Week. The winner of each of the eight groups advance to the Finals Week from July 16-23 in Houston. The U-17/18 championships will be held July 22 at the newly built BBVA Compass Stadium, the home of Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo.

The Archbishop Curley boys soccer team passed an early season test at River Hill on Tuesday, but the young Hawks didn't make things easy. More efficient with slightly fewer scoring chances, the No. 3 Friars scored goals in each half while senior goalkeeper Jake Ossie shined at the other end with 10 saves for a 2-0 win over No. 7 River Hill. Freshman Tre Pulliam scored in the 22nd minute and junior Eric Spalt provided an insurance goal five minutes into the second half. Junior Dino Gizzi assisted on both of the goals.

An early statement was made last night at Old Mill, and it took visiting Glen Burnie only a few minutes worth of offense and a nerve-racking last stand on defense to make it. Striker Sean Ajifowobaje provided the tying goal in the 69th minute, defender Aaron Wright supplied a lead in the 73rd minute and goalkeeper Andrew Evans helped ensure the Gophers' soccer team would leave Millersville with a surprising 2-1 win over the defending county champion Old...

Liberty knew the Carroll County championship wouldn't come easy with rival South Carroll in its way last night in Eldersburg, so the No. 8-ranked Lions went about their usual business, coming up with a hard-working effort to churn out a 2-1 win.The Lions closed out their regular season with a 9-1-2 mark and finished unbeaten in the county at 4-0-1 to provide coach Ed DeVincent with a championship in his first year of coaching varsity."

McDonogh simply had too much of too many things, as the team ranked regionally No. 2 and nationally No. 21 put away Liberty, rated No. 13 in the metro area, 4-0, in Eldersburg last night.Four players scored for the Eagles (14-2), two in each half, with two of the goals coming on free kicks.The back-breaker as far as Liberty coach Ed DeVincent was concerned came from senior Brian Levin, in his second year at McDonogh after spending his first two high school seasons playing on the Liberty JV.Liberty (8-4)

Hereford girls soccer team has two seniors. Last night, both showed that there's no substitute for experience and leadership.Senior Jen Cox scored on a first-half penalty kick, and senior Paige Nichol added another goal in overtime as visiting Hereford (10-1-2) defeated Loch Raven, 2-1, to win the Baltimore County championship.The victory avenged a 2-0 loss to Loch Raven in last season's title match."They have been our captains and our leaders all year," said Hereford coach Steve Power of Cox and Nichol.