Kaila Charles scored 22 points, freshman Taylor Mikesell added 15 and No. 9 Maryland won for the second time in three days, beating Dayton, 82-71, on Sunday.
The soon-to-be senior attackman for the Greyhounds is playing in a summer basketball league for the fourth consecutive year with an eye toward playing for an NCAA Division I program in 2019-20.
Isaiah Pasteur, a Winters Mill graduate and former Times Baseball Player of the Year, is thriving at George Washington. Pasteur earned Atlantic 10 Conference Player of the Week honors last week.
Maryland's women's lacrosse team, the only undefeated team in Division I, earned the No. 1-seeded spot in the NCAA tournament for the fifth straight year when
Terry Nolan Jr. will play basketball for Maurice Joseph and the George Washington Colonials. The Mount Carmel guard had previously signed with Chattanooga.
In the days after he announced on Twitter his plans to leave Duquesne following graduation last summer, then-junior forward L.G. Gill became one of the most highly sought transfers in the country.
Johns Hopkins scored twice in a 60-second span late in the fourth quarter and then the game-winner 1:58 into overtime to lift the Blue Jays past the Nittany Lions, 12-11.
Loyola Maryland scored the game's first three goals and allowed one goal in each quarter to earn a 12-4 men's lacrosse win over host Colgate (3-7, 1-4) on Sunday.
In the late summer of 2005, the George Mason University men¿s basketball was scheduled to do conditioning drills when a member of the team didn¿t show up for a physical, according to Laurel High graduate John Vaughn.
Imani Bailey certainly saved the best for last as a basketball player at Howard University. The Laurel resident has played for three different head coaches with the Bison and overcame a hip injury as a sophomore to become one of the top scorers this season as a senior for Howard, a Division I program in the nation's capital.
Coached by Jen O'Brien, a South Carroll graduate (she was Jen Kasper back then), VCU boasts four former county players — freshman attacker Molly Barcikowski (Liberty), freshman defenders Caroline Debnam (South Carroll) and Morgan Hoff (Manchester Valley), and redshirt freshman midfielder Sky Hyatt (Century).
Isaiah Miles, who played at Glenelg County for three years, is now one of the top players in the competitive Atlantic 10 Conference with Saint Joseph's in Philadelphia.
Since the terms of his scholarship release stated that he couldn¿t transfer to George Washington or an America East school, McGlynn headed to Towson, close to his home in York, Pa. Though his role expanded in his two years with the Tigers, the 6-foot-2 guard thought he could play at a higher level. He signed with Rhode Island, which seemed loaded with guards including star E.C. Matthews.
One of the common threads that ties together the 17 seasons Mark Turgeon has been a Division I college basketball coach are the transfers who have helped transform his respective teams, particularly those at Wichita State and Maryland.
Maryland, picked to win the Big Ten by conference media and coaches, was ranked No. 9 in the preseason poll. The Terps return four starters from last year's 34-3 squad that went undefeated in the Big Ten and advanced to its second straight Final Four.
At 17-1, the Terps clearly emerged ahead of second seed North Carolina (15-3), third seed Duke (14-4) and fourth seed Syracuse (14-7) after the Tar Heels lost to Syracuse in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, the Blue Devils lost to Johns Hopkins Sunday and Syracuse lost to Loyola Maryland Saturday.