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Women's hoops roundup (March 12): Loyola falls to Army in Patriot final; Coppin drops MEAC final
Tournament Most Valuable Player Kelsey Minato scored 25 points to help top-seeded Army West Point beat Loyola Maryland, 69-51, on Saturday night in West Point, N.Y., and win the Patriot League women's basketball tournament, earning the conference's NCAA tournament berth.
Aimee Oertner added 14 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks for the Black Knights (29-2), who are making their second trip to the NCAA tournament in the past three seasons. The victory was their 19th straight and matched Lehigh's team from 2009-10 for most wins in a season by a Patriot League school.
Loyola (16-16) pulled off an upset of No.2 seed Bucknell on Friday night in the semifinals to advance to the...
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Women's hoops roundup (March 12): Loyola falls to Army in Patriot final; Coppin drops MEAC final
Tournament Most Valuable Player Kelsey Minato scored 25 points to help top-seeded Army West Point beat Loyola Maryland, 69-51, on Saturday night in West Point, N.Y., and win the Patriot League women's basketball tournament, earning the conference's NCAA...
Women's hoops roundup (March 11): Loyola tops Bucknell to reach Patriot League final; Coppin St. to MEAC final
Loyola Maryland outscored second-seeded Bucknell 36-16 in the second and third quarters to build a lead of as many as 20 points Friday night in West Point, N.Y., and the third-seeded Greyhounds advanced to their first-ever Patriot League championship game...
State hoops roundup (Feb. 22): Morgan State men top N.C. A&T, 72-51, to end five-game slide
Cedric Blossom scored 20 points, eclipsing the 1,000-point mark in his career, and host Morgan State earned a 72-51 win over North Carolina A&T (8-20, 5-8 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) on Monday night.
Blossom opened the second half with a jump...
State roundup (Jan. 28): Hawkins scores 23 to lead Towson over Drexel, 77-70
Byron Hawkins scored 23 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer late in the game, to lift Towson past host Drexel, 77-70, on Thursday night.
Trailing by three, Towson (15-7, 6-3 Colonial Athletic Association) got a pair of free throws from Mike Morsell,...
State men (Jan. 27): Loyola Maryland shoots down Holy Cross, UMBC falls
Hot shooting helped Loyola Maryland notch a road Patriot League win on Wednesday as the Greyhounds beat Holy Cross, 71-54.
Jarred Jones (John Carroll) and Andre Walker combined to score 21 straight points in the second half, and the Greyhounds (5-13, 4-4...
Area teams scramble to reschedule games postponed because of snowstorm
The deluge of snow produced by the snowstorm last weekend has sent area college basketball teams scrambling to find open dates to reschedule games.
Coppin State had home games at the Physical Education Complex against Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference...
State basketball roundup (Dec. 7): Navy men lose to No. 24 Oregon, 67-47, in Honolulu
With Tyler Dorsey, Oregon's leading scorer, out against Navy on Monday night, Dillon Brooks followed coach Dana Altman's orders.
Brooks, a 6-foot-7 senior forward, scored 19 points to lead four Oregon players in double figures and the No. 24 Ducks...
Laurel boys basketball follows lead of point guard
Before last season Laurel High boys basketball Torrence Oxendine said he expected Kirk Hawkins to average about 12 to 15 points per contest.
But the Spartans point guard did much better than that.
He averaged about 20 points per game,” said Oxendine,...
UMES basketball coach Bobby Collins not discouraged by 1-5 start
The UMES men's basketball team scored one fewer point than Georgetown in the second half, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the team from tumbling to a 68-49 loss Tuesday night.
The Hawks are 1-5 so far, but those five losses came against opponents from...
State college basketball roundup: Towson beats Bradley in Charleston Classic, 62-60
Byron Hawkins had 24 points and the Towson men's basketball team (2-3) held off a late charge by Bradley (1-4) to win, 62-60, and take seventh place at the Charleston Classic in South Carolina. Towson led by 16 in the second half before Bradley rallied to...
Morgan State football comes out of bye trying to slow Bethune-Cookman
MORGAN STATE (3-4) @ BETHUNE-COOKMAN (7-2)
When: Saturday, 4 p.m.
Site: Municipal Stadium, Daytona Beach, Fla.
Radio: 88.9 FM
Series: Bethune-Cookman leads 19-8
What's at stake: A bye gave the Bears a free weekend, but with a 3-2 record in the...
MEAC title hopes for Morgan State football rest on defeating Bethune-Cookman
Morgan State may have enjoyed its bye week, but the program did not get much good news in the race for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title.
All four teams at the top of the standings – No. 19 North Carolina A&T, Bethune-Cookman, North...
With two losses in MEAC, Morgan State football can't afford any more setbacks
Saturday’s 20-17 loss at North Carolina Central saddled Morgan State with a two-game losing streak in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a 3-4 overall record and a 3-2 mark in the league.
With four teams with one MEAC loss or fewer and just three games...
Morgan State football aims to keep pace in MEAC at North Carolina Central
MORGAN STATE (3-3) @ NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL (3-3)
When: Saturday, 2 p.m.
Site: O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium, Durham, N.C.
Radio: 88.9 FM
Series: Morgan State leads 24-13-2
What's at stake: The Bears’ 20-10...
Coach Lee Hull said Morgan State football bought into its own hype
After earning a share of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title with four other teams and representing the league in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, Morgan State won its first three league games this fall and appeared to be...
Lee Hull admits he didn't know where Morgan State football would be after five weeks
After Morgan State graduated eight starters from last season’s team that captured a share of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title and lost five more in September due to a certification snafu, there were plenty of questions about how the team would...
Moses Skillon not taking Morgan State starting QB job for granted
Moses Skillon knows all about job security in football.
Even though he's atop Morgan State's depth chart at quarterback heading into this season, it hasn't always been that way. Skillon served as the backup to Robert Council to start last season, but...
Morgan State football picked to finish fifth in MEAC
Morgan State was predicted to finish fifth in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, according to a preseason poll of conference head coaches and sports information directors released Friday. Preseason favorite North Carolina A&T, South Carolina...
With heavy heart, Richaud Pack seeks early-season form for Terps
In an age when athletes dye their hair to change their luck or enhance their image, Maryland guard Richaud Pack went blonde this week to support his team.
Not the Terps, who left for Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday in advance of the program's first NCAA...
After long delay in Antarctica, Kim Pursley finishes seventh marathon
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Although poor weather conditions kept her from the seven-day goal of her Triple 7 Quest series, Kim Pursley has returned home after successfully running seven marathons on seven continents. Pursley, 44, of Forest Hill was 20 minutes from...