Second Goal

PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania scored five unanswered goals to begin the second half and held on for a 9-7 win over Maryland yesterday in an NCAA tournament quarterfinal at Franklin Field. Penn (16-1) will play Northwestern in the semifinals Friday at Franklin Field. Maryland finished its season at 16-4. Terps junior Allie Buote made 10 saves, Lauren Cohen had two goals and an assist while Casey Magor added a pair of goals. Buote and the defense ignited the Terps' offense to a quick 4-0 lead to open the game.

FREDERICK -- Wilde Lake forward Faryn Watts was the smallest player in front of the Catonsville goal before a corner kick in the second half of yesterday's Class 3A state semifinal game. That the 5-foot-1 senior headed in the free kick sent toward the near post by Caitlin Duff couldn't have come as a surprise to the No. 9 Wildecats, who have overcome a tough early schedule and key injuries. Watts scored with 28:59 left in the second half, and the Wildecats' defense handled the rest to come away with a 2-1 win over the No. 10 Comets in steady rain at Tuscarora.

A two-game losing streak. The loss of their second-leading scorer for the season.The Liberty girls soccer team seemed to have all the elements for losing to neighborhood rival South Carroll last night, but the Lions notched the game's first four goals to surprise the visiting Cavaliers, 4-2.Liberty junior midfielder Becky Podobnik led the way with two goals, and junior defender Crystal Rivas and sophomore midfielder Meagan Voight added a goal apiece.A...

For a couple minutes after Westminster tied Liberty, 1-1, in the 47th minute in Eldersburg last night, players for both teams must have recalled the Owls' second-half comeback for a 2-1 win in last fall's game between the two.Forget deja vu.Liberty, which saw one of its few defensive errors turn into that tying goal, scarcely blinked. The Lions (2-2-0 overall, 2-0-0 county) immediately took play back from the Owls, controlled the next 10 minutes and then, within two minutes, put away their second Carroll County victory in as many days, 3-1."

Hereford defender Rob Bateman dropped to his knees on UMBC Stadium's synthetic turf as time ticked off the clock yesterday.The 6-foot-4, 190-pound high school All-American was stunned at how Towson's extended scoring spree had just erased the Bulls' run at a second Class 1A-2A state title since 1996.Down by four goals with 5: 18 left in the first half, Towson (13-3) scored seven of the game's final eight goals for a 9-7 victory.The loss snapped a 13-game winning streak for Hereford (14-3)

Since April 3, No. 1-ranked Mount Hebron had not faced a team able to stay within 10 goals of it -- until last night.Ninth-ranked South River came within two goals several times in the second half, before the Vikings finished off a 9-6 victory in a Class 1A-2A state semifinal game last night at UMBC.The Vikings (19-0), who have won two straight titles and six in eight years, advanced to the championship game for the eighth straight time.They will meet the winner of this afternoon's other semifinal between No. 12 Towson and Edgewood at 8 p.m. Wednesday at UMBC.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When it was over, the tears began to come from Lindsay Basalyga.With the Maryland women's soccer forward facing a chilly breeze, her face became as red as her jersey. So she hid her eyes in her shin pads, trying not to think of what had happened.What had happened was the end of Basalyga's collegiate career, the result of an emotional, 3-2 loss at the hands of No. 6 Penn State yesterday in the second round of the NCAA tournament.Basalyga had scored two goals for the Terrapins, giving her team 1-0 and 2-1 advantages.

To many Severna Park girls lacrosse players, Annapolis represents not only a physical opponent, but a psychological one as well.Beth Davis helped shatter that barrier as the senior midfielder scored a goal with 12 seconds left in the second overtime period to seal a 6-5 Falcons victory and the school's second Anne Arundel County championship in three years last night in Annapolis.Davis's free-position shot from the left wing broke No. 6 Severna Park's three-game losing streak to the fifth-ranked Panthers, who handed the Falcons their only loss of the season on April 27."

Greg White's diving header off Greg Wallace's cross provided the game's highlight as well as the clinching second goal during Centennial's dominating 3-0 upset of No. 10-ranked Bel Air yesterday.A cold, torrential, windswept rain that lasted the entire game eventually submerged parts of the field at Bel Air, made the footing treacherous and was favorable for Centennial's long-ball style of play."It was trap, turn, hit [for Centennial] while we short-passed," said coach Bill Jefferson, whose Bobcats dropped to 3-2-1.

First-year Towson coach Jill Altshuler said she had heard about the intense rivalry that existed between the Generals and Loch Raven but, growing up in Catonsville, she never got a chance to witness it first-hand.Yesterday afternoon, Altshuler finally got a chance to see it -- and she liked what she saw. The visiting, ninth-ranked Generals jumped out front of the No. 13 Raiders early and never looked back en route to a 14-7 victory.With the win, the Generals improved to 7-0 overall and 5-0 in Baltimore County Division I play.

WASHINGTON - -For the better part of two weeks, the Washington Capitals had been eking out wins over opponents they should have beaten convincingly. On Friday night, it caught up to them on home ice against one of the NHL's worst clubs. The Capitals surrendered a one-goal lead late in the second period, then defenseman Mark Streit of the New York Islanders hammered a shot past goaltender Jos? Theodore 53 seconds into overtime to hand the Capitals a humbling, miscue-riddled 4-3 defeat. The victory was only the Islanders' third of the season and it halted Washington's six-game wining streak, stunning a capacity crowd at Verizon Center.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - - Facing an opponent saddled with the second-lowest payroll in the NHL and one win in its first eight games, there was every reason to believe Alex Ovechkin and the star-laden Washington Capitals would put Saturday night's game away early. Instead, they had to work overtime. The Capitals needed a goal from minor league call-up Keith Aucoin in the final minutes of regulation and another goal from Brooks Laich one minute into extra time to beat the New York Islanders, 3-2, and headed home from a two-game road trip with four points.

Senior midfielder Mitchell Rosensweig won 12 of 17 faceoffs and collected a game-high nine ground balls, but top-ranked Virginia (9-0) used a 7-0 run over the final 44 minutes to defeat Towson, 11-2, in a nonconference game at rainy Klockner Stadium yesterday. After the Tigers (1-4) narrowed its deficit to 4-2 early in the second quarter, the Cavaliers' defense held Towson without a goal for the rest of the game to secure the victory. Led by two goals from Steele Stanwick, the Cavaliers opened a 4-0 lead in the first 12 minutes.

Fallston and Bethesda-Chevy Chase went into last night's state field hockey semifinal with 23 titles between them, but only Fallston will have a chance to add to its coffers. Krissy Fusco and Caitlin Dempsey scored on penalty corners as the No. 2 Cougars dominated the Barons en route to a 2-0 victory in a Class 3A semifinal at Broadneck. The Cougars (18-1) go for their 11th state title and their second straight when they meet Atholton at 4 p.m. Saturday at Washington College in Chestertown.

MILWAUKEE -- David Bascome wasn't afraid to say the "D" word. The veteran Blast midfielder said it after his team beat Monterrey La Raza, 14-11, to win its fourth Major Indoor Soccer League title in the past six seasons. "This is a dynasty. We have four championships in six years, and it says a lot," he said. Forward Denison Cabral got a hat trick and was named the Most Valuable Player of the game, and Carlos Garcia added two goals for the Blast, which rallied from an early four-point deficit.

Maryland's senior class shined in its regular-season home finale, scoring 19 of the team's 32 points as the third-ranked Terps beat Virginia Tech, 20-3, to earn their 12th straight win and clinch the top seed in next weekend's Atlantic Coast Conference women's lacrosse tournament. Maryland (14-1, 4-1 ACC) will face the winner of Thursday's game between North Carolina and Boston College in the semifinals Friday night in Charlottesville, Va. Senior Kelly Kasper (Century) led all scorers with a goal and four assists.

No. 2 Maryland used runs in both halves to defeat Johns Hopkins, 16-8, yesterday afternoon at Homewood Field. The Terps improved to 7-1 overall, while the Blue Jays fell to 2-4. Hopkins senior Lauren Schwarzmann (Century) scored two goals. Katie Princiotto scored twice during a game-opening 4-0 run by Maryland before senior Kirby Houck (Garrison Forest) scored a free-position goal to put Hopkins on the board. The Terps answered with another 4-0 run as Ali Perkins assisted on three of the four for Maryland.

Freshman Jay Card scored his fourth goal of the game off a failed Johns Hopkins clear with a little less than two minutes remaining in overtime to lift host Hofstra, 8-7, over the top-ranked Blue Jays yesterday. Card, who scored three goals in the first half as the Pride built a three-goal lead, entered the game with no goals in his first two career games. The loss ends a 12-game winning streak for the Blue Jays (3-1). Hofstra controlled the faceoff to start overtime, but the Blue Jays came up with a loose ball with just over two minutes remaining in the extra session.

FREDERICK -- Wilde Lake forward Faryn Watts was the smallest player in front of the Catonsville goal before a corner kick in the second half of yesterday's Class 3A state semifinal game. That the 5-foot-1 senior headed in the free kick sent toward the near post by Caitlin Duff couldn't have come as a surprise to the No. 9 Wildecats, who have overcome a tough early schedule and key injuries. Watts scored with 28:59 left in the second half, and the Wildecats' defense handled the rest to come away with a 2-1 win over the No. 10 Comets in steady rain at Tuscarora.

PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania scored five unanswered goals to begin the second half and held on for a 9-7 win over Maryland yesterday in an NCAA tournament quarterfinal at Franklin Field. Penn (16-1) will play Northwestern in the semifinals Friday at Franklin Field. Maryland finished its season at 16-4. Terps junior Allie Buote made 10 saves, Lauren Cohen had two goals and an assist while Casey Magor added a pair of goals. Buote and the defense ignited the Terps' offense to a quick 4-0 lead to open the game.