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Washington Spirit captain Ali Krieger, a U.S. national team player, was taken off the field on a stretcher Friday night in Houston after suffering a head injury.

Hofstra attacker Brittain Altomare is the Player of the Week.

Joey Sankey had four goals for the Tar Heels (11-1, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). The host Cavaliers fell to 8-3, 0-3.

Taryn Van Thof had a hat trick and No. 17 Loyola Maryland won its fifth straight women's lacrosse game, beating visiting Georgetown, 12-8, Wednesday night.

In the first Big Ten Conference lacrosse game -- men's or women's -- the No. 1 Terps will play No. 4 Northwestern on Thursday at 7 p.m.

Megan Whittle (McDonogh) and Brooke Griffin (South River) each scored four goals to power the No. 1 Maryland women to a 12-7 victory over No. 11 Penn on Wednesday.

Mikey Wynne scored a game-high five goals to help No. 4 Notre Dame beat No. 7 Virginia, 11-9, in men's lacrosse Saturday.

The eighth-seeded UMES Hawks will play Savannah State today for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference women's basketball championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament.

Hannah Schmitt had a hat trick in overtime as No. 20 Loyola Maryland upset No. 9 host Virginia, 13-12, in women's lacrosse Wednesday night.

Fifth-seeded Hofstra used four players in double-figures and a relentless pressure defense to coast to a 74-57 quarterfinal win over No. 4 James Madison Saturday at Baltimore¿s Royal Farms Arena.

Strapped with expectations as the top seed seeking its schools' first ever NCAA tournament berth, William & Mary took a comfortable first step in that direction with a 72-59 win over No. 8 Elon in Saturday¿s first Colonial Athletic Association quarterfinal game at Royal Farms Arena.

Four teams had the opportunity to break their first-place deadlock entering the final week of the Colonial Athletic Association's regular season. Each eventually stumbled, which led to a four-way split of the regular season championship between William & Mary, UNC Wilmington, Northeastern, and James Madison.

Barely a week ahead of the Colonial Athletic Association's second men's basketball championship at Royal Farms Arena, commissioner Tom Yeager stressed that this year's event will tell both the league and the city a lot about the viability of a contract extension beyond 2016.

With Maryland moving to the Big Ten, members of ACC aren't rushing to schedule the No. 1 Terps

De'von Barnett scored 17 points to help lift Sacred Heart to a 62-55 win over host Mount St. Mary's on Thursday night.

Taariq Cephas scored 18 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer in the final seconds, and the Coppin State men's basketball team edged South Carolina State, 77-74, on Saturday.

As the 2015 women's lacrosse season begins, a glance at the top teams in the country and the other Division I teams in the state.

Cam Atkinson and Fedor Tyutin each had a goal and an assist to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 4-3 win over the Washington Capitals in the NHL on Tuesday night.

The Tigers played visiting William & Mary, one of three teams leading the Colonial Athletic Association, to a 35-35 tie at halftime. But the Tribe opened the second half with a 11-4 run that Towson could not recover from en route to an 85-72 loss before an announced 1,889 at SECU Arena Saturday afternoon.

Dylan Smith kicked a pair of field goals as host Rhode Island ended a school-record-tying 15-game losing streak by beating Towson, 13-7, Saturday in the final game of the season for both teams.

Sophomore guard A.J. Astroth scored a career-high 14 points to lead Towson to a 58-49 win over Central Connecticut State in the CBE Hall of Fame Classic in West Long Branch, N.J., on Friday.

Third-seeded Northwestern claimed its first Big Ten Conference tournament championship in field hockey at Phyllis Ocker Field in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Sunday with a 3-1 upset of top-seeded Maryland.

Elon may be tied for last place in the Colonial Athletic Association and still in search of its first conference win, but the team¿s lackluster season has produced an effective quarterback in Mike Quinn.

After the Towson men's basketball team lost two-time Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year Jerrelle Benimon, two other starters and last year's top four scorers, one might expect coach Pat Skerry to lower the bar on his current squad.

Darius Victor's 17-yard scoring run with 49 seconds left capped a comeback and gave Towson a 24-17 victory at Delaware on Saturday.

With three losses in the Colonial Athletic Association, even Tigers coach Rob Ambrose acknowledged that barring some unlikely scenarios, the team is probably out of contention for the league championship.

Connor Frazier or Joe Brennan to be named Towson's starting quarterback later this week

Towson's 62-7 loss to James Madison was the Tigers' worst in program history.

Owner-trainer King Leatherbury said Saturday that he is leaning toward entering Ben's Cat in the $100,000 Sprint at next Saturday's Jim McKay Maryland Million.

Vad Lee threw for 255 yards and three touchdowns as host James Madison cruised past Towson, 62-7, on Saturday in a Colonial Athletic Association game.

Owner-trainer King Leatherbury said Saturday that he is leaning toward entering Ben's Cat in the $100,000 Sprint at next Saturday's Jim McKay Maryland Million.

Back-to-back losses to Maine and Stony Brook have put Towson football on the brink of elimination from the race for the Colonial Athletic Association title.

Right guard Jake Schunke's injury forces Towson football to shuffle offensive line again

Towson is already facing rock-and-a-hard-place situation just one-quarter through the Colonial Athletic Association portion of the Tigers' schedule.

C.J. Brown's best throw was his last one, a 41-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Deon Long that pushed Maryland's lead to 38-0 midway through the third quarter. As a whole, though, the senior quarterback called his play during the Terps' 52-7 win over James Madison on Saturday "unacceptable."

James Madison is led by a transfer at quarterback in former Georgia Tech starter Vad Lee. Here are three nontransfers who could be factors for James Madison during Saturday¿s game against Maryland.

Tthe James Madison football team Maryland faces in Saturday's season-opener does have talent and is not necessarily the pushover its Football Championship Subdivision label may suggest.

Towson's football team is picked to finish fifth in the Colonial Athletic Association a year after the Tigers advanced to the Football Championship Subdivision title game.

With 35 seconds left in overtime, Towson midfielder Michelle Gildea scored to lift the Tigers over James Madison, 12-11, on Sunday at William & Mary for the Colonial Athletic Association title.

Andi Raymond scored with 8 seconds left to propel Towson (10-7) past Hofstra (8-10) in a Colonial Athletic Association semifinal Friday in Williamsburg, Va.

Midfielder Beth Glaros led Maryland with four goals as the second-ranked Terps defeated visiting James Madison, 13-10, on Saturday.

The No. 2 Maryland women's lacrosse team used a strong first half to pick up its 10th win, beating No. 11 Penn, 15-5, on Wednesday night.

Freshman attacker Taylor Poplawski led No. 3 Syracuse (7-1) with a career-high four goals in a 17-12 win over visiting No. 4 Florida (8-2) on Saturday.

Midfielder Cian Dabrowski scored the decisive overtime goal Sunday to put host Ohio State ahead of No. 4 Northwestern in a hard-fought, 11-10 upset win.

Blue Hens advance to conference's title game for the first time in school history

The CAA tournament field gets cut from four to two Sunday, as No. 1 Delaware faces No. 5 Northeastern at 2:30 p.m. and No. 2 Towson plays No. 3 William and Mary at 5 p.m.

Towson's story was neatly summarized on the black T-shirts players wore during warm-ups. "Started from the bottom," the shirts said in block lettering.