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College baseball Towson eliminated with 14-9 loss to VCU Junior first baseman Brent Mikionis had three hits and drove in five runs as fifth-seeded Virginia Commonwealth (34-24) overcame an early 3-0 deficit to post a 14-9 victory over sixth-seeded Towson (27-31) in an elimination game at the Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament in Harrisonburg, Va. Playing their third CAA tournament game in 25 hours, the Tigers fell to the Rams in a game that ended well after midnight Thursday.

Maryland fans will learn in two days whether or not the Terps will have an addition to their backcourt. Antonio Barton , the Lake Clifton graduate and Memphis transfer, will announce his decision after church Sunday. The 6-foot-2 guard is down to Kansas State, Maryland, Tennessee and Texas A&M . It appeared Barton might be headed to Maryland after visiting College Park on May 10. Barton said then that the visit “went tremendous” with Terps coach Mark Turgeon, his players (including godbrother Nick Faust)

Colleges Report: Mount to hire VCU assistant as men's basketball coach Jamion Christian , an assistant to Shaka Smart at Virginia Commonwealth, will take over as men's basketball coach at Mount St. Mary's, CBSSports.com reported Saturday. Sources told the website that Christian, who played at the school from 2000 to 2004, has agreed to a deal to replace Robert Burke . Christian joined Smart's staff at VCU this season after spending three years at William & Mary.

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Jacquil Taylor's been absent from the court since breaking every bone is his left foot back in January. It's not been the best timing for Taylor's recruitment, as this is the time of year when rising seniors often boost their profiles. But the 6-foot-9 power forward from Beaver Country Day School is Chestnut Hill, Mass., continues to hear from a handful of schools.

Bradford Burgess scored 22 points and the host Virginia Commonwealth men's basketball team took advantage of every Towson turnover Wednesday night, beating the Tigers, 66-43. The Rams (21-5, 12-2 Colonial Athletic Association) have won 10 in a row and 18 of their past 20. The Tigers (1-25, 1-13) committed 28 turnovers. Burgess had been quiet in the previous four games, scoring eight, eight, nine and six points. He was 8-for-15 from the field, including 6-for-11 from behind the arc. D.J. Haley added career highs in points (10)

Virginia Commonwealth will add women's lacrosse to its athletics lineup beginning with the 2015-16 season in order to maintain compliance with Title IX, the school has announced. The VCU Board of Visitors on Thursday approved adding the sport to its intercollegiate athletics program, which currently sponsors 16 intercollegiate sports programs -- eight men's teams and eight women's teams. Over the past four years, the number of student-athletes per academic year has consistently been between 265 and 279, and student-athlete composition has generally been equal between men and women.

After just nine games, former South Carroll field hockey standout Patti Duffy has made a name for herself at Virginia Commonwealth University."She's a big-time player," VCU spokesman Mark Halstead said yesterday. "Whenever you can get a freshman to come in and play like Patti has for us, you're very fortunate."Duffy gained attention when she became only the second freshman to start a season opener for coach Pat Stauffer.Duffy has played all but 13 minutes in nine games for the Division I school in Richmond.

WASHINGTON -- In Virginia Commonwealth, Maryland faced just the sort of "mid-major" that - like Butler or George Mason - can send shivers through the souls of major-conference opponents. The Atlantic Coast Conference will long remember VCU for its upset of Duke in last season's NCAA tournament. So Maryland had a sense of what was coming last night - a competitive game (it was) likely to come down to the finish (it did). Morgan State@Maryland Thursday, 8 p.m., Comcast SportsNet, 1300 AM, 88.9 FM

RICHMOND, Va. -- An early lead vanished and a late comeback fell short, a double dose of disappointment that ended the Towson men's basketball team's season in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament quarterfinals yesterday. Virginia Commonwealth, playing several blocks from campus and urged on by a partisan crowd, played defense most effectively late in the first half and early in the second and prevailed, 57-46, at the Richmond Coliseum. The defending CAA champion and top-seeded Rams (24-6)

St. Frances' Shawn Hampton will sign a national letter of intent for a full scholarship with Virginia Commonwealth University today.The national letter of intent signing period for high school seniors or junior college players who plan to accept scholarships to play basketball at Division I schools begins today and runs through May 15.Hampton, 6 feet 8, earned All-Metro honors the past two seasons. Last season he averaged 20.5 points, 10.0 rebounds and 5.0 blocks, earning Catholic League Player of the Year honors and leading the Panthers to their fourth consecutive regular-season title.

Disregard Nate Silver David Teel Daily Press Nate Silver likes Louisville, Florida, Indiana and Gonzaga, and given his Obama-Romney projections, disagreeing is perilous. But let's anyway. Ohio State has won eight straight, including a road conquest of Indiana and Big Ten tournament wins over Michigan State and Wisconsin. Miami won the ACC regular season outright, and the league tournament, and six of the last eight teams with that double have reached the Final Four.

Virginia Commonwealth will add women's lacrosse to its athletics lineup beginning with the 2015-16 season in order to maintain compliance with Title IX, the school has announced. The VCU Board of Visitors on Thursday approved adding the sport to its intercollegiate athletics program, which currently sponsors 16 intercollegiate sports programs -- eight men's teams and eight women's teams. Over the past four years, the number of student-athletes per academic year has consistently been between 265 and 279, and student-athlete composition has generally been equal between men and women.

Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena will host the Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball tournament for three years, starting in 2014, officials from the city and league confirmed Wednesday. The city now offers a centralized location for the conference, CAA commissioner Tom Yeager said, and more amenities than long-time host Richmond. "It's closer for many of our fans," Yeager said after a news conference at Visit Baltimore's offices downtown. "And while we hope they're there to watch basketball, we realize that they're focused on having a good weekend.

With the combined strength of Selina Mann, Sydney Henderson and Jacqueline Brewer, Mount St. Mary's claimed a 62-58 victory over visiting UMES (1-4) in women's basketball Wednesday. Mann finished with 20 points and nine rebounds, while Henderson posted 13 points and 12 rebounds in the win. The Mount (2-4) held a lead throughout the second half but lost it in the last minute as the Hawks (1-4) tied the game at 58. With 38 seconds remaining, Brewer, a transfer from Virginia Commonwealth making her first start for the Mountaineers, gave them the lead on two free throws.

More colleges Terps ' Bosdosh gets first college win at VCU Shootout Maryland golfer Sean Bosdosh shot a final-round 71 on Tuesday to finish with a 4-under-par 212 and capture the individual title at the VCU Shootout. Bosdosh, who held a two-shot lead heading into the final round after shooting 141 (70-71) in 36 holes Monday, beat Iowa State's Scott Fernandez and Long Beach State's Raymond Ho by two strokes. The win marks the first college victory for Bosdosh and the first individual title for a Terp since John Popeck captured the Firestone Invitational on Oct.12, 2010.

It took just eight years and four jobs for Jamion Christian to get back to where he wanted to be. The first-year Mount St. Mary's men's basketball coach was a three-year captain at the Mount who graduated in 2004 and immediately started his climb up the coaching ladder with stops at Division III Emory & Henry, Bucknell, William & Mary and VCU. But now Christian is back at his alma mater, where he has replaced Robert Burke and is tasked...

Towson had gone more than two years without an overtime game, and it squirmed through the experience last night. The Tigers had a four-point lead in the final minute of both regulation and the first overtime against Virginia Commonwealth, and acquiesced each time, as the Rams came back for an 84-80 double-overtime victory at the Towson Center. Lack of stability at the point guard position contributed to a crushing defeat for coach Pat Kennedy's team, as Towson (6-6, 1-1) and VCU (10-3, 2-0)

RICHMOND, Va. -- A year ago, Virginia Commonwealth resided at the bottom of the Metro Conference, and transfer Bernard Hopkins was introduced to Division I against the likes of Louisville, Tulane and Virginia Tech.VCU since has moved to the Colonial Athletic Association, and power forward Hopkins is the leading candidate for CAA Player of the Year. The obvious assumption is that Hopkins is repeating the big-fish-in-a-little-pond act he perfected at Overlea High and Hagerstown Junior College.

Tom Yeager is old enough to remember when there was a Pac-8 rather than a Pac-12, when the Big Ten actually had the number of schools its name implied and when the college football landscape wasn't seemingly changing by the day, if not the hour. Which is why Yeager, the lone commissioner of the Colonial Athletic Association it its 26-year history, does not seem vexed by the defection of Virginia Commonwealth to the Atlantic 10 or the impending departures of Old Dominion to Conference USA and Georgia State to the Sun Belt Conference.

College baseball Towson eliminated with 14-9 loss to VCU Junior first baseman Brent Mikionis had three hits and drove in five runs as fifth-seeded Virginia Commonwealth (34-24) overcame an early 3-0 deficit to post a 14-9 victory over sixth-seeded Towson (27-31) in an elimination game at the Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament in Harrisonburg, Va. Playing their third CAA tournament game in 25 hours, the Tigers fell to the Rams in a game that ended well after midnight Thursday.