Second Goal

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.

Sophomore fullback Alexa Wilder scored two goals to lead Park (6-3-3, 5-0-2) to a 4-0 win over visiting John Carroll (2-4-2, 2-1-2) yesterday in the semifinals of the AIS B Division field hockey tournament.Park advances to tomorrow's final against St. Timothy's (6-4-3, 5-0-3) at St. Paul's.Junior Gillian Schreiber scored the only goal 15 minutes into the second half to lead St. Timothy's, 1-0, over host Oldfields (5-7-1, 5-2-1) in the other semifinal. The goal was assisted by Natasha Ampofo.

The Halifax Citadels spoiled Baltimore's chance to gain ground in the American Hockey League's Southern Division by beating the Skipjacks, 5-4, at the Baltimore Arena last night.Bruce Major and Marc Fortier each scored two goals for Halifax, which has won all three games from Baltimore this season.Edmonton Oilers goalie Grant Fuhr, recently reinstated by National Hockey League president John Ziegler from a year's drug suspension, played his first game -- in the AHL -- last night and helped the Cape Breton Oilers, Edmonton's top farm club, to a 5-3 victory over the Rochester Americans in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. -- The Baltimore Skipjacks have discovered early in the American Hockey League season that it's not how many, it's how.Baltimore had been on the better side of three straight one-goal games to open the season. The Skipjacks were involved in another one-goal game last night in front of 4,119 at the Glens Falls Civic Center, but it wasn't like the others.Sheldon Kennedy scored his second goal of the game with 6 minutes, 38 seconds remaining to give the Adirondack Red Wings a 4-3 win and hand Baltimore its first loss of the season.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The 5-4 lead the Skipjacks took into the locker room after two periods Friday night looked good -- for about a minute.They knew they would be two men down when they returned for the third period. As the first of those two offenders left the penalty box, the Rochester Americans' Peter Ciavaglia scored to start the home team on the way to a 7-5 victory."I thought we did a good job stopping Rochester on that five-on-three scoring opportunity," said Baltimore coach Barry Trotz.

Centennial girls soccer coach Rick Pizarro said he held his breath until the Eagles scored their second goal last night.Then came a deep sigh of relief. And the realization that his team was about to move another game closer to defending its state championship.Senior midfielder Natalie Rich converted a pass from freshman Michelle Clare to give Centennial its first lead with 9:36 left, and the Eagles went on to a 3-1 win over top seed Severna Park in the Class 4A-3A semifinals at Severna Park High.

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.

For the second straight year, No. 8-ranked Dulaney's road to the boys lacrosse state championship traveled right through the heart of C. Milton Wright. The defending Class 4A-3A state champion held off a game challenge from No. 9 C. Milton Wright to win, 9-7, at Annapolis last night and advance to the state title game next week. The Lions (13-3) will face the winner of today's game between Arundel and Whitman. Dulaney's high-powered attack, which averages better than 16 goals a game this season, was held to two first-half goals by a Mustangs' defense anchored by goalie Chris Petrush (15 saves)

CLEVELAND -- The Bays won for the first time in regulation play yesterday, improving to 2-2 in the USISL with a 3-0 victory over the Cleveland Caps.Tarik Walker scored two goals and Brian Geraghty had three assists, the first on a pass to Joe Koziol in the 75th minute.Geraghty broke free along the right sideline and fired a shot that deflected to Walker for the second goal at 81: 02.Walker took another pass from Geraghty and scored the third goal in the 88th minute.The Bays will travel to face Delaware on Saturday.

Senior Eric Tischer curled a left-footed corner kick into the upper far corner of the net, giving top-ranked Centennial a 2-1, come-from-behind overtime victory against Walt Whitman last night.Tischer's shot came in the fifth minute of the first sudden-death period at rain-drenched Whitman and touched off a jubilant but soggy victory celebration to the right of Whitman's net."It was the first time I've scored off a corner kick during a game," Tischer said. It was his second goal of the season.