Stony Brook

The mutual decision to postpone Wednesday night's showdown between UMBC and Maryland means that the top-ranked Terps will now have seven days between their last contest (March 2 at Duke) and their next one (March 10 vs. Stony Brook). It's the longest layoff of the regular season for Maryland, and coach John Tillman acknowledged some concern. “I think kids, you get them in a rhythm and get into a kind of systematic repetition and I think kids really flourish in that,” Tillman said Wednesday.

The host No. 11 Virginia men's lacrosse team easily got by Mount St. Mary's, 18-11, on Tuesday despite three goals and two assists from the Moutaineers' Brett Schmidt. Schmidt (St. Mary's Ryken), who opened the scoring, now has a goal in 32 consecutive games, the longest streak in the nation. The Cavaliers (4-0) answered with three goals in 55 seconds to take a 3-1 lead into the second quarter. Ryan Tucker (Gilman) scored with 3:24 left in the opening quarter, and Mark Cockerton made it 2-1 with an extra-man goal.  Cockerton struck again just seven seconds later to make it 3-1. Eric Ososki scored for the Mount (2-2)

Maryland's Katie Schwarzmann, last year's Tewaaraton Award winner, headlines the early list of contenders for this year's top prize in college women's lacrosse with the announcement Friday of the 2013 Tewaaraton Award watch list. Four of last year's five finalists are on the watch list. Schwarzmann, a Century graduate, is joined by Florida's Brittany Dashiell (John Carroll), Northwestern's Taylor Thornton and Syracuse's Michelle Tumulo. Each of their teams reached the Division I final four last season with Thornton's Wildcats emerging as champions.

The UMBC men's basketball team built an early lead against first-place Stony Brook on Tuesday but fell apart in the second half, losing to the Seawolves, 83-39. Senior guard Ryan Cook (St.Vincent Pallotti) led the Retrievers with 15 points. Stony Brook (11-2, 20-6 America East Conference) extended its winning streak in conference home games to 17. UMBC (4-9, 6-20) dropped its fourth consecutive game. UMBC made 10 of their first 19 shots, and a 3-pointer by Joey Getz gave the Retreivers a 23-14 advantage with 9:14 to play in the first half.

Junior Sarah Taylor scored a career-high five goals and classmate Taylor D'Amore dished out five assists to lead the No. 15 Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team to an 18-5 win over Mount St. Mary's in nonconference action Wednesday afternoon at Homewood Field. Hopkins (2-0) got the scoring going early as D'Amore got the ball to Jen Cook alone on the Mount crease and the sophomore faked several times before scoring the first of her three goals just 1:31 into the game. Six minutes later, D'Amore found Cook open on the right post.

Women's college lacrosse Stanwick leads BC to rout of Holy Cross Covie Stanwick (Notre Dame Prep) set career highs with six goals and three assists to lead No. 18 Boston College (1-0) to a 17-8 victory over host Holy Cross (1-1). Brooke Blue and freshman Sarah Mannelly each scored four goals. Taylor Zebrowski and Laura Ryan each scored twice for the Crusaders. More national games: Nikki Boltja scored the tying and winning goals as host Louisville (2-0)

Massachusetts Lowell will move up to Division I and join the America East Conference, representatives of both announced today at a rally at the Tsongas Center on campus. The school, which is currently in Division II, will also add men's and women's lacrosse for the 2014-15 season, the Boston Herald reported on its website . The America East Board of Presidents unanimously approved accepting UMass Lowell as a member of the conference effective July 1, 2013. The move also received the unanimous support of UMass Lowell's Faculty Senate Executive Committee and Student Government Association.

Major Indoor Soccer League Neto's goal lifts Blast over Syracuse in OT In the first of two games against the Syracuse Silver Knights in less than 24 hours, the visiting Blast needed overtime to earn a 10-8 win in the Major Indoor Soccer League on Friday night. Adauto Neto scored the winner seven minutes into the extra quarter to improve the Blast's record to 16-5 with five games left in the regular season. The Blast scored three straight first-half goals for an 8-2 halftime lead before allowing the Knights to score the last three goals of regulation to tie the game at 8 and force overtime.

Friday's entry is the third installment of a week-long series taking a look at each of the seven Division I programs in this state according to their order of finish from last season. Check back on Saturday for a preview of Mount St. Mary's, and The Sun's lacrosse preview is slated to be published on Friday, Feb. 8. This is UMBC's turn. Overview: The Retrievers' three-year drought from capturing the America East coincides with the program's three-year absence from the NCAA tournament.