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Scoring goals behind his back or behind his head comes naturally for Maryland's Jay Carlson. He was taught to shoot every way possible by his father Chip, who played at Johns Hopkins. “When I was younger, my dad told me to score however you can,” the sophomore attackman recalled Tuesday afternoon. “I remember playing in the backyard and my dad just fed me and I was just kind of having fun with it and it ended up working pretty well for me. So I just kept it going. It can be risky, but I just try to get it in the goal when I can.” As the No. 9 and sixth-seeded Terps (10-3)

Gettysburg's Geoff Pickett (John Carroll) seems to save his best shots for critical soccer situations.The sophomore forward has four goals, including the game-winner in a 2-1 victory over Susquehanna and the overtime goal that beat Swarthmore, 3-2.* Sophomore Amity Torbit (John Carroll) had a career-high three assists as Barry posted its sixth straight shutout in an 8-0 romp past West Florida. In 12 games, Torbit has five goals and seven assists.VolleyballLaura Cook (Chesapeake, Baltimore County)

Friday's editions included a Q&A with Johns Hopkins sophomore attackman Wells Stanwick. Due to space constraints, here are some more answers from the Baltimore native and Boys' Latin graduate that did not make the cut. How does it feel to be the quarterback of the offense from behind the net? It's definitely something that I've always wanted to do. It's just kind of the position that I play. You always want to control the game from there, and I'm trying to get better at it. I'm probably not exactly there yet, and I'm working on it and trying to be more of a leader on the offensive end as the year goes on and into next year.

Et cetera Terps men land two sophomore lax recruits Two rising high school sophomores, St. Mary's defenseman Hunter Smith and Winston Churchill attackman Louis Dubick , have committed to play lacrosse at Maryland, the national runner-up the past two seasons. Smith, an All-Star at the Baltimore Summer Kickoff, plays club ball for the Annapolis Hawks and Looney's Lacrosse Club. He also considered North Carolina and Duke. Dubick totaled 50 goals and 47 assists last season, helping his team to the state semifinals and becoming the first freshman to be named first-team All-Montgomery County.

When I was a high school sophomore, all I did was drink Mountain Dew, hang out in American Online chat rooms and play on my old-school Playstation. Keonta Vernon? He breaks backboards. Check out this video of Vernon, a sophomore at Tulare Union High School in California, who shattered a backboard at a recent high school basketball game (in the backboard's defense, it looked a decade or so past its prime). It's become an Internet sensation. I found it on The Big Lead , so allow me to give a hit tip to them.

Rising sophomore midfielder Drew Supinski of Haverford School in Havertown, Pa., has orally committed to Johns Hopkins, according to PhillyLacrosse.com. Supinski played varsity for Haverford as a freshman and was also a member of Mesa Fresh, Dukes LC and Fever Lacrosse. He attended Jake Reed's Nike Blue Chip Camp, among others, and also considered Penn, North Carolina, Duke Maryland, Princeton and Notre Dame. More oral commitments Rising junior midfielder Ryan Hursey (Westminster)

Richie Easterly , a sophomore attackman from Westhill High in Onandaga, N.Y., has orally committed to play men's lacrosse at Loyola. The 5-foot-11, 177-pound Easterly enters his third year of varsity lacrosse, starting on extra-man opportunities his eighth-grade year (8 goals, 5 assists) and leading the team in assists his freshman year (15G, 24A). Easterly is also a two-year starter on the varsity football team, earning first-team all-league honors his sophomore year. Easterly also considered Albany, Bucknell, Colgate and Fairfield.

Gilman rising sophomore long-stick midfielder-defenseman Jack Halpert has orally committed to North Carolina. Halpert helped spearhead the Greyhounds' junior varsity championship squad this spring on both ends of the field also plays varsity football and basketball for the Greyhounds. A member of Maryland Lacrosse Club, he made stops at Baltimore Summer Kickoff, Jake Reed's Blue Chip, King of the Hill, Champ Camp and both Princeton and Maryland Team Camps. Halpert also considered Johns Hopkins, Maryland and Ohio State.

Lacrosse Towson High sophomore Hicklen orally commits to Florida Towson High sophomore goalie Haley Hicklen has orally committed to Florida, which is coming off its first appearance in the NCAA tournament semifinals in only its third year of existence. As a freshman, Hicklen was a member of the Under Armour All-America Underclass Team, the Women's Division National Tournament team and the National Schoolgirls Baltimore Metro Team. She won a national championship with the US Lacrosse under-15 team and received two varsity letters as a freshman (volleyball and lacrosse)

Cory Dobyns has sat out Towson's past two contests, and the sophomore attackman's status could remain the same for Saturday night's regular-season finale against St. Joseph's at Johnny Unitas Stadium in Towson. Tigers coach Shawn Nadelen said Dobyns remains a game-time decision as he continues to deal with an unspecified injury suffered in a 9-5 victory over Massachusetts on April 6. The team has already clinched the No. 3 seed in the upcoming Colonial Athletic Association tournament and could elect to rest Dobyns for another weekend, but Nadelen said if Dobyns is available, he will play.

For most of the 2013 campaign, Maryland has relied on sophomore Charlie Raffa to take the vast majority of the faceoffs. And despite the team's recent struggles in that department, not much is expected to change as the No. 4 Terps (9-2) prepare to meet Virginia (6-7) in Friday's semifinal of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. The team has not won more than 50 percent of its draws in five of its last six contests, and Raffa has taken 109 of the 115 faceoffs over that span, winning 54 of them.

Towson sophomore attackman Cory Dobyns sat out the Saturday's 10-8 loss to No. 12 Penn State, and a timetable for his return is unclear. Coach Shawn Nadelen said Dobyns, who ranks second on the Tigers (7-6 overall and 3-1 in the Colonial Athletic Association) in goals with 18 and third in points with 20, suffered an injury in a 9-5 victory over Massachusetts on April 6. Nadelen said he has not heard anything indicating that Dobyns sustained a season-ending injury, but he also said he is not certain whether Dobyns will play in Saturday's road contest against No. 20 Drexel (9-3, 4-1)

The Mount St. Mary's carousel at goalkeeper has spun back to Adam Borgogelli. The sophomore is expected to start Sunday's Northeast Conference game at Robert Morris, coach Tom Gravante announced Friday. Freshman Frankie McCarthy had started the last two contests, but he was pulled after surrendering seven goals and making just one save in 10 minutes, 34 seconds of play in the team's 12-8 loss to Quinnipiac last Saturday. Borgogelli  - who has made nine starts this season - replaced McCarthy and allowed five goals while making nine stops in the last 49:26.

As notable as Towson's 9-5 victory over Massachusetts last Saturday was for junior attackman Devin Grimaldi's first career hat trick and first four-point display, the win also showcased the ability of JoJo Ostrander. The 6-foot, 175-pound sophomore defenseman limited Minutemen senior attackman Will Manny to just one goal on four shots and zero assists. Manny, a Tewaaraton Award finalist last season, may not be at full strength after sitting out five games because of a broken thumb, but Ostrander's performance earned the praise of Tigers coach Shawn Nadelen.

When Stevenson lost a starting defenseman in senior Kyle Fendlay for personal reasons prior to the beginning of the current season, the thought was that the unit might suffer a little bit. But that hasn't been the case thanks to the emergence of sophomore Callum Robinson. As the No. 3 Mustangs prepare to meet Tuesday night a Roanoke squad that upended No. 7 Lynchburg, 9-8, last Saturday, Robinson, 21, leads the No. 3 Mustangs (11-1) in caused turnovers with 17, ranks third in ground balls with 36, and has scored two goals.

Perry Jones, a Francis Scott Key High School sophomore, recently attended the Hugh O'Brian Youth (HOBY) Foundation annual leadership seminar in Columbia.Seminar topics included leadership, motivation, free enterprise, entrepreneurship, ethics, voluntarism, the Information Superhighway, medicine, education, media and the arts.Perry is involved in 4-H and the Boy Scouts, and plays football, basketball and track at FSK. He is on the Sophomore Executive Board and Multicultural Club.HOBY is an international organization committed to recognizing and developing the leadership potential of high school sophomores.

When attackman Stephen Banick broke his left leg in Stevenson's loss to Salisbury in an NCAA tournament semifinal on May 20 and then sustained an unrelated, undisclosed injury in the preseason that will likely force him to miss the current campaign, the door appeared to be open for sophomore Pat Candon to assert himself as a starter. But Candon has started just twice as junior Chris Dashiell has moved from the midfield and sophomore Mark Pannenton has transferred from SUNY-Cortland to join senior Tyler Reid as the starting attackmen.

Stephen Banick has yet to play in a game this season for Stevenson, and it appears that his absence will extend for the remainder of the year. The sophomore attackman suffered an injury in the preseason unrelated to the left leg that he broke in the Mustangs' loss to Salisbury in the semifinal round of the 2012 NCAA tournament on May 20. Coach Paul Cantabene said Thursday morning that sitting the rest of the season and applying for a medical redshirt...