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A large, boisterous crowd, a big late-game opposing presence inside and some inability to make plays down the stretch was too much for UMBC to overcome as the University at Albany knocked off the Retrievers, 69-61, in the championship game of the America East Conference tournament Saturday night. The outcome sends the 23-9 Great Danes, making their first appearance in the conference championship game, to the NCAA tournament for the first time. Albany finds out its seeding position and opponent Monday night when the brackets are revealed.

Jamie Lincoln scored five goals and had three assists to lead No. 10 Hofstra past visiting No. 7 Johns Hopkins, 14-6. The Pride (2-1) never trailed in a game that was delayed for 14 minutes in the first quarter after the wind and rain knocked out the stadium lights. Hofstra led 6-2 at the half as the Blue Jays never managed to find any rhythm within any of their units. The Pride scored four unanswered goals to increase its lead to five goals by the end of the third quarter.

Description: The University of Maryland Baltimore County's Center for Aging Studies won a $1.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to explore the experiences of elderly, urban diabetes patients. The research will focus largely on how the patients care for themselves in their diet, exercise and treatment. Researchers: J. Kevin Eck ert, professor and chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Sarah Chard, an assistant professor, are joint principal investigators.

American scored more than 40 points in each half Tuesday to beat visiting UMBC, 85-57, in women's basketball. The Retrievers (3-4) took the lead 18 seconds into the game on a 3-pointer by Raven Harris. Thirty-five seconds later, Ashley Lambert made two free throws for a 5-3 lead, the last for UMBC. American's Alexis Dobbs made a 3-pointer to start a 7-0 run with 15:51 left in the half. The Eagles (2-3) led 44-32 at the half. In the second half, American took a 20-point lead with 16:44 left and led by as many as 34. Bria White had 13 points for UMBC, and American's Jen Dumiak led all scorers with 21. Washington College 53, Johns Hopkins 51: Freshman Ashley Espinosa had a game-high 14 points to power the visiting Shorewomen (4-0, 2-0 Centennial Conference)

Each week, The Baltimore Sun will publish a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player or coach to get you more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is UMBC junior attacker and Mount Hebron graduate Alicia Krause , who has scored 14 of her team-leading 34 goals in the past four games to put the Retrievers women in position to bring the America East tournament to UMBC May 5-7 if they win at undefeated No. 7 Albany on Saturday. After playing your freshman year at Duquesne, what attracted you to UMBC?

Each week, The Sun will publish a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player to get you more acquainted with the player and his or her team. Today's guest is Dave Brown, a sophomore midfielder for UMBC. Question: You registered four goals and three assists in the team's season-opening 16-10 win against Presbyterian on Saturday. Is that what you anticipated doing? Answer: No, I had no idea that was going to happen. I really just went out and played and let the game kind of come to me. It just so happened that I was in the right place at the right time, and I was just lucky enough to put my shots in the back of the net and make the right plays.

Five Albany players scored at least 10 points Wednesday night in an 85-41 win over UMBC, which shot just 28 percent from the field. Raven Harris won America East Player of the Game for the Retrievers (7-16, 3-7), finishing with seven points, five rebounds and three assists. Shereesha Richards went 10-for-13 for a game-high 22 points for the Great Danes (19-3, 10-0). St. Mary's 94, Frostburg State 85, OT: The Seahawks scored 16 points in overtime to beat the Bobcats after St.Mary's Sophie Pruden scored with four seconds remaining to tie the game at 78. Frostburg State (6-16, 2-7 Capital Athletic Conference)

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County will remain without power until Sunday evening, according to the school's website. University officials have encouraged people to stay off campus during the outage that began Thursday evening. Students living on campus were encouraged to stay with family or friends off-campus on Friday, according to the school's website. Students who stayed were assigned temporary emergency housing. The school's transit system is suspended service until power is restored.

Three consecutive seasons of single-digit wins might damper a coach's enthusiasm. But heading into the 2012-13 campaign, UMBC coach Randy Monroe is "confident and optimistic" about this Retrievers squad. Monroe returns the top three scorers off last season's 4-26 team in junior forward Chase Plummer , senior guard Ryan Cook (Pallotti) and senior guard Brian Neller . Other returning Retrievers are sophomore guard Joey Getz , junior guard Quentin Jones (Mount St. Joseph)

Mount St. Mary's lost to Wagner, 74-65, on Wednesday night at the Spiro Sports Center.  Rashad Whack paced the Mountaineers with 19 points. The Mount was able to cut its deficit to 70-65 with 14.1 seconds left after a steal and deep 3-pointer by Kelvin Parker, but Wagner went 4-for-4 at the line to close out the win. Parker added 15 points off the bench while Wiggins chipped in 11 points and four assists for the Mountaineers.  Julian Norfleet...