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With their double-digit lead down to 1 in the final minute, Northwestern showed poise at both ends to secure the Baltimore City Division II championship Saturday at Morgan State. -
- Maryland's women's lacrosse team is ranked No. 2 in Inside Lacrosse preseason Brine Media Poll top 20
- No. 14 New Town fights past Aberdeen in boys basketball, 50-35
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ABOUT THE BLOGGERS
Katherine Dunn joined The Baltimore Sun in 1990 and has been covering high school sports ever since. She also handles the women's lacrosse beat, covering college national championships and the World Cup when it came to Annapolis in 2005.
Glenn Graham has covered high school sports since 1990 for The Baltimore Sun. Graham is a Pennsylvania native and a 1989 graduate of Slippery Rock University. In addition to high schools, he is also the beat reporter for the Baltimore Blast.
Alexander Pyles has overseen The Baltimore Sun's high school sports coverage since 2013. Pyles graduated from UMBC in 2009 and in 2011 earned a master’s degree from Maryland, where he teaches online journalism.
Matt Bracken, The Sun's Director of Audience Engagement & Development, has covered local basketball recruiting since coming to Baltimore in 2007. Bracken graduated from Michigan in 2005 and earned a master's degree in new media journalism from Northwestern in 2006.
No. 9 City easily tops Southern in girls basketball Mark Turgeon believes this year's Maryland team is much better equipped to play on the road than it was a year ago. But Ohio State's defense is still a "concern." Mark Turgeon was on the road recruiting this summer when the schedule for this season's ACC-Big Ten Challenge was announced. He remembers his initial reaction when he learned that the Terps were going on the road for the second straight year. Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon and women's basketball coach Brenda Frese initally opposed the Terps' move from the ACC to the Big Ten. Under Armour's flag-inspired uniforms for Northwestern University, designed to support veterans, appear blood splattered, drawing fire from critics. Boys' Latin junior defenseman Dylan Gaines has committed orally to play lacrosse at Denver. Towson coach Rob Ambrose said he never considered pulling junior running back Terrance West after second fumble vs. New Hampshire The Terrance West of old would have reacted to a pair of fumbles with a few choice words directed at anyone who happened to be nearby. Watching Towson's Terrance West vs. New Hampshire is like watching "Groundhog Day" to Sean McDonnell Trailing 20-3 after the first quarter, the No. 3 Tigers scored 41 unanswered points to cruise to a 44-28 win over No. 19 New Hampshire before an announced 9,511 at Johnny Unitas Stadium in Towson. Ryan Delaire, a junior defensive end, can expect a lot of attention, especially from No. 19 New Hampshire (1-2 overall, 0-0 Colonial Athletic Association), which will visit No. 3 Towson (5-0, 1-0) on Saturday at noon at Johnny Unitas Stadium. New Hampshire worried about Towson RB Terrance West While it may be unusual for high school players to get red cards in a scrimmage, when the intensity would figure to be less severe than a regular-season match, Laurel High School head boys soccer Eric Ferguson wasn't apologizing for the behavior of his players. Baltimore Sun reporter Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. Frederick native Brad Barber has been promoted to head coach of the Hood men¿s lacrosse program, making the 23-year-old the youngest head lacrosse coach in NCAA Division III. Pennsylvania native talks about his past experiences with the high school all-star game as the state prepares to play in the event for the first time since 1992 Johns Hopkins announce that the men's lacrosse program will join the Big Ten. Maryland's decision to join the Big Ten last year prompted plenty of speculation about how the school¿s most popular sports, football and men¿s basketball, would fare in a new conference. Womens' lacrosse final presents all the cliches for Terps, UNC North Carolina is headed to the NCAA women¿s lacrosse national championship game for the second time in program history after a dominant defensive performance sparked an 11-4 victory over two-time defending champion Northwestern in Friday night¿s semifinals. Men's lax: Duke vs. Cornell, Syracuse vs. Denver, and Stevenson vs. RIT. Women's lax: Maryland vs. Syracuse and Northwestern vs. North Carolina. Class 1A-2A defending state boys lacrosse champion Fallston put itself into position Friday to repeat, next week at UMBC with a 22-5 state semifinal win over Northwestern of Baltimore City. The game was played at Bel Air High School.The Syracuse women's lacrosse team advanced to the NCAA Division I tournament final four with a 13-9 win over visiting Florida on Saturday. The Atlantic Coast Conference boasts more teams in the NCAA women's quarterfinals than any other conference — No. 1 seed Maryland, No. 3 North Carolina, Duke and Virginia.Loyola saw its season come to an end Sunday in the second round of the NCAA tournament, losing to No. 3 seed North Carolina, 19-9, at Chapel Hill. In the 2013 ACC-Big Ten Challenge, the Maryland Terps basketball team will play at the Ohio State Buckeyes.No. 14 Yale broke a 6-6 tie with five straight goals in the third quarter to defeat No. 12 Princeton, 12-8, in the Ivy League men's lacrosse tournament championship Sunday afternoon at Cornell.The Towson men's lacrosse team withstands a rally from No. 9 host Penn State to win, 11-10, and claim its first CAA title since 2005 and an NCAA berth. Joe Lustgarten scored the final two goals, including the game-winner with 55seconds left and an insurance goal 21 seconds later, to cap a 6-0 run as the third-seeded UMBC men's lacrosse team upset second-seeded Hartford, 15-13, in an America East Conference semifinal at Stony Brook's LaValle Stadium. While the University of Maryland won't be able to reap the rewards of joining the Big Ten athletic conference until July 2014, when it becomes official, it will start benefiting from its academic counterpart — the Committee on Institutional Cooperation — a full year earlier.Severn alum Caroline Franke makes 13 saves to lead host No. 13 Princeton to a 14-8 victory over No. 6 Penn State in women's lacrosseNo. 19 Connecticut took a 6-4 lead into halftime and never relinquished it, upsetting No. 7 Notre Dame at home, 10-7, in women's lacrosse Sunday. The Huskies (13-1, 5-1 Big East) won all their home games in a season for the first time in program history. The Fighting Irish (11-3, 5-3) scored just three goals in the second half, two by Lauren Sullivan.No. 4 Florida women's lacrosse team routs No. 2 Northwestern, 22-4, clinches share of ALC regular-season crown The No. 6 Notre Dame men's lacrosse team overcame a slow start at home to defeat Big East rival Georgetown, 10-8, on Sunday afternoon.Hannah Schmitt's sudden-death goal lifts Loyola women over Notre Dame in women's lacrosse, 14-13 Senior Eric Law scored in the second overtime period as No. 1 Denver defeated visiting Bellarmine, 11-10, in men's lacrosse Sunday afternoon.No. 10 Massachusetts women rally in women's lacrosse, defeat Richmond, 12-11, in OT Joey Sankey had his third straight game with four goals to lead the host No. 4 North Carolina men's lacrosse team past No.14 Brown, 18-12, on Wednesday night.
