Women S Lacrosse

While I was speaking to a group of high school journalists last year, an eager hand shot up from the back of the room.L "Can you get rich doing journalism?" the young man wondered."Only in friendships," I said, leaving the group somewhat bewildered.I hopped on a desk and explained. You can make a good living in the newspaper business, I said, but the most valuable assets you'll take with you at the end of your career can't be entered in a bank book.I measure my fortune in the friends I've made in 24 years of working for newspapers large and small.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Sophomore Michele Meyer paced Loyola with three goals as the second-ranked Greyhounds (7-0) edged host William & Mary (4-3), 7-6, in women's lacrosse yesterday.2 Michele Mohlmann had three of Goucher's goals.

When Janine Tucker took over as coach of Johns Hopkins' women's lacrosse team, outgoing coach Sally Anderson gave her some advice about All-America attack player Rebecca Savage."

The score and the streak.That's the two-tier question the Maryland women's lacrosse team runs into the day after a game. Students stop the Terps around campus and ask only for the score of the game and the updated total of consecutive wins.There's never a doubt about the outcome. A victory always is assumed since Maryland has reeled off 29 in a row and hasn't lost in the regular season since March 23, 1993, a span of 49 games.Top-ranked Maryland (12-0) shoots to break the national record of 29 straight first set by Temple 11 years ago when the Terps play at No. 2 Loyola (13-0)

Call it the Maryland state invitational.For the first time in the history of the NCAA women's lacrosse Division I tournament, the top two seeds are from this state -- Maryland and Loyola. The top-seeded Terps (17-0) and No. 2 Greyhounds (14-1) will make up half of the national semifinals, receiving byes into the Final Four at Lehigh University on May 18.The Terps, who are attempting to become the first back-to-back national champions in Division I women's lacrosse, play the winner of Penn State (11-4)

COLLEGE PARK -- Late last week, Maryland women's lacrosse coach Cindy Timchal worried that she probably should not have scheduled an exhibition with the U.S. national team the night before an afternoon game with No. 4 James Madison.She needn't have worried. The No. 1 Terrapins (10-0) scored two goals in the first minute and never trailed en route to a 15-9 victory over the Dukes (7-3) yesterday at Byrd Stadium.The two-time defending national champs boosted their winning streak to 46 games -- an NCAA Division I lacrosse record.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- No. 50 could be the hardest to get.The women's lacrosse team from Maryland ran its historic win streak to 49 games yesterday with a 13-4 victory over Duke in the inaugural Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. The Terps will have to be on top of their game for today's championship, because Virginia surely is.The Cavaliers beat upstart North Carolina, 9-6, yesterday in the first semifinal, and coach Julie Myers' team is in a pretty good mood.Last Wednesday, Virginia (12-3)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- No. 50 could be the hardest to get.The women's lacrosse team from Maryland ran its historic win streak to 49 games yesterday with a 13-4 victory over Duke in the inaugural Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. The Terps will have to be on top of their game for today's championship, because Virginia surely is.The Cavaliers beat upstart North Carolina, 9-6, yesterday in the first semifinal, and coach Julie Myers' team is in a pretty good mood.Last Wednesday, Virginia (12-3)

BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Middlebury College stunned six-time defending champion College of New Jersey, 14-9, to win its first NCAA Division III women's lacrosse championship yesterday at Lehigh University's Goodman Stadium.The top-seeded Panthers, who had been ranked No. 1 for most of the season, ended a 102-game New Jersey winning streak. New Jersey (formerly Trenton State) had last lost on April 13, 1991. The Lions (14-1) had won 20 consecutive NCAA tournament games.The victory avenged three straight NCAA tournament losses to the Lions, including last year's 15-8 setback in the title game.