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COLLEGE PARK -- Ludwig Field has been a virtual house of horrors for most opposing teams, but No. 5 Indiana marched in last night and didn't flinch, scoring three second-half goals to salvage a 3-3 tie with No. 3 Maryland. Despite playing with a dislocated shoulder, Jason Garey scored two first-half goals, one on a spectacular bicycle kick, but the Terps could not hold the lead and gave up the tying goal with just five seconds left in front of 6,203 - the largest crowd to ever watch a men's soccer game in College Park.

Ademola Okulaja's three-pointer with 1.4 seconds remaining gave No. 14 North Carolina a 67-66 victory over Virginia yesterday in Charlottesville, Va.The Tar Heels, who swapped leads with the Cavaliers 10 times in the half, had fallen behind 65-64 on Adam Hall's three-pointer with 49 seconds left. A free throw by Chezley Watson gave the Cavaliers a two-point edge, but when he missed the second with 14.3 seconds left, it left the door open.Okulaja spotted up in the right corner, took a pass from Ed Cota and nailed the shot to clinch third place in the Atlantic Coast Conference for the Tar Heels (21-7, 9-5)

Eddie Henry's 54-yard scoring reception from Timmy Frazier with 35 seconds left lifted Poly to a come-from-behind 13-12 victory over City yesterday in the 110th meeting of the two programs before an estimated crowd of 6,000 at Ravens stadium.Henry's 10th scoring reception of the year was only his second catch of the game, the other being a 41-yarder, thanks to fine defensive effort by City's Todd Galloway.Marcus Smith, who had missed an earlier field-goal attempt from 27 yards along with the previous extra-point try, kicked the extra point to provide the winning margin in a game the Engineers (8-2)

Staring bleakly at a potential second home loss in as many nights - this time to the last-place Harrisburg Heat - the Blast found an escape route with some good fortune in the closing seconds last night. Denison Cabral's three-point shot from in front deflected off the wrist of Heat defender Wendell Regis and found the goal with five seconds left, saving the day for the Blast in a 13-11 win. Cabral's three-pointer completed a dramatic, seven-point surge for the Blast in the final four minutes of play, turning halftime boos into a post-game celebration for the season-high crowd of 9,368 at Baltimore Arena.

FOXBOROUGH, MASS. -- Cody Jamieson's timing has been impeccable. A transfer who wasn't cleared by the NCAA until days before Syracuse's penultimate game of the regular season, Jamieson scored both of his goals in the last 4 minutes, 6 seconds - including the game-winner just 1:20 into overtime - to lift the Orange to a 10-9 victory over Cornell in the NCAA Division I tournament final Monday at Gillette Stadium. No. 2 seed Syracuse (16-2) won its ninth straight contest and captured its NCAA-record 11th national title thanks to the 5-foot-9, 200-pound junior attackman, who played in just six games, made one start and can shoot only with his left hand.

Severn shut down Roland Park's high-powered offense with a simple strategy. The patient Admirals controlled the ball by playing keep-away for much of the game. But the girls lacrosse game went on five seconds too long for host Severn. Alex Nolan used a quick move to score from right in front with five seconds left to give No. 3 Roland Park a come-from-behind, 6-6 tie with No. 5 Severn in an Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference game yesterday. Severn (11-0-3, 8-0-3)

Bryn Mawr's Allie Emala had one job yesterday with 36 seconds left and her team tied with No. 9 St. Paul's - win the draw. The senior midfielder did that and went one better, scoring a goal with 1.6 seconds left to cap a four-goal rally that gave the No. 6 Mawrtians an 8-7 victory in an Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference game. The host Mawrtians (8-0, 5-0 conference) almost took too much time before attacking the goal, but when the Gators' defense collapsed on Annie Thomas, she fed Emala in the middle of the arc for a low shot that slipped by goalie Isabel Harvey.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The play is called "Special", and it now owns a place in LSU basketball lore. pointer at the end of the Tigers' set play with 3.9 seconds left to give No. 4 seed LSU a 58-57 victory over No. 12 seed Texas A&M in an Atlanta Regional second-round game at Veterans Memorial Arena last night. The Tigers (25-8) advanced to meet No. 1 seed Duke Thursday night at the Georgia Dome. With his team out of timeouts, Mitchell looked toward center Glen Davis in the low post, then decided to shoot over the Aggies' 6-foot-10 Antanas Kavaliauskas.

South Carroll coach Erin Soulen had the perfect motivational tactic to inspire her No. 11 Cavaliers heading into yesterday's Class 3A state field hockey final. She made sure they knew all about how her Cavaliers team had won the state title back in 1991. "She always rubs it in our faces how she won," said Cavaliers midfielder Liz Fries. "Now we can rub it back in her face because we won. We're getting the jackets. We're going to be No. 1." The Cavaliers could not have capped off their unbeaten season in more sensational style, upsetting No. 1 and defending champion Fallston, 2-1, in double overtime at Goucher College.

ATLANTA -- The M&M Kids messed up Georgia Tech, and then senior guard Sarunas Jasikevicius made the clutch play that rescued a road win in the Atlantic Coast Conference for Maryland.The Terps never trailed after the first minute, thanks to more heroics off the bench by freshmen Mike Mardesich and Terence Morris, but last night's 70-67 win over the Yellow Jackets at Alexander Memorial Coliseum wasn't secured until Jasikevicius drained three free throws with 1.1 seconds left.It was another hairy ending for Maryland.