Football
Ambrose is regional Coach of Year winner
Towson football coach Rob Ambrose has been selected as one of five regional Coach of the Year award winners by the American Football Coaches Association. The AFCA recognizes five regional Coach of the Year winners in each of its five divisions: Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision, Division II, DivisionIII and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The 2011 regional winners will be recognized at the AFCA Coach of the Year Dinner at the AFCA Convention in San Antonio on Jan. 10. The AFCA will announce its five 2011 National Coach of the Year winners at the convention. In his third season at Towson, Ambrose led the Tigers to a 9-3 record and their first Colonial Athletic Association championship a year after they finished 1-10.
More college football: Navy junior linebacker Matt Warrick was named the Defensive Player of the Week for independent schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Mids senior kicker Jon Teague received Special Teams Player of the Week honors. … Salisbury guard Alex Smith was selected to the Division III All-America first team by the AFCA.
Varsity football: Annapolis Area Christian School head coach Ken Lucas will serve as secondary coach for the U.S. under-19 national team in the third annual International Bowl on Feb. 1 in Austin, Texas.
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Hopkins men's lacrosse to open vs. Towson on Feb. 17
Johns Hopkins will open the 2012 season at home against Towson on Feb. 17 — the earliest season opener in school history — and will also host Delaware (Feb. 21) and Siena (Feb. 25) to begin its schedule, which was released Tuesday. Among the other highlights are the Blue Jays' sixth straight appearance in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium, where they will take on UMBC on March 10, a home game against Syracuse on March 17, a trip to Virginia on March 24 and a game against North Carolina in the Konica Minolta Big City Classic at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on April 1. Maryland visits Homewood Field for the first time since 2008 on April 14. Consecutive road games at Navy (April21) and Loyola (April 28) will precede a meeting with Army (May 5) to end the regular season.
Women's college basketball: Twelve of 13 Tigers scored, led by Jessica Long with 11 points, and host Towson (8-2) won, 58-45, over UMES (2-6). The Tigers have four straight victories and are 5-0 at home.
Men's college basketball: UMES junior guard Percy Woods of Hyattsville was selected as the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Week. … Washington College senior forward Chris Olsen (Mount St. Joseph) was named PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week. … Hood senior guard Ramon Smith and Frostburg State junior guard DeSean Antoine (Glen Burnie) were named the Capital Athletic Conference Co-Players of the Week.
D.C. United Women: The W-League soccer club was nominated for five honors by the United Soccer Leagues: Rookie Franchise of the Year, Marketing Award, Media Award, Executive of the Year (Tim Schweitzer), and the Betsy McAdams Key Grip Award (Remy DuCote), which recognizes an oustanding member of a club's staff who is not a team executive.
—From Sun staff and news services
Redskins: The team placed nose tackle Chris Baker on injured reserve with a quadriceps injury and also signed tight end Richard Quinn to the 53-man roster.
—Mike Jones, The Washington Post