College Sports

Starting center and senior captain Lirion Murtezi will miss the rest of the Navy football season due to a debilitating and potentially dangerous back injury.

Navy volleyball travels to defending Patriot League champion Colgate on Friday. A win would be the Mids' ninth in a row and set a program record.

Cornerback Tarheeb Still isn’t regretting his decision to bypass entry into last April’s NFL draft to return for his senior year at Maryland, which is 3-0 for the third consecutive season and where he is tied for the team lead in interceptions with two.

Jahn Tihansky had to be cajoled into accepting the job as head coach of the Naval Academy varsity offshore sailing team in 2005. Nearly two decades later, Tihansky is leaving the program in much better shape than he found it.

Thursday’s women’s soccer game at 7 p.m. between Iona and UMBC at Retriever Soccer Park in Catonsville will have a family tinge to it as Rian Stainton and her Gaels teammates will try to defeat her father, Rick, and his Retrievers players.

Nathan Kent, the Carroll County Times Football Player of the Year in 2018 and 2019, is hoping he and Towson can springboard off of Saturday’s 20-10 win at Morgan State — the team’s first of the season and his first as the starting quarterback.

The Midshipmen played a solid brand of football on both sides of the line of scrimmage in pushing heavily favored Memphis to the limit, Bill Wagner writes.

Towson scored the game’s first 20 points to cruise to a 20-10 triumph against host Morgan State Saturday night before an announced 9,867 at Hughes Stadium.