The Game: Seventh-ranked Johns Hopkins (4-1) hits the road this week as the Blue Jays head to Long Island to take on 10th-ranked Hofstra (1-1).

Last Time Out: Johns Hopkins bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 16-10 win over UMBC on Tuesday night. Hofstra rebounded from a season-opening 17-14 loss to Princeton with a 15-12 win over Brown last Saturday.

#10 UNCW UPSETS #7 TIGERS IN CAA FIRST ROUND ACTION

HARRISONBURG, Va. – #10 UNC Wilmington earned an upset win over the #7 Tigers by a 50-30 score in the first round of the 2010 Virginia 529 College Savings Plan CAA Women’s Basketball Championship. Towson (15-15) got 11 points from Shanae Baker-Brice in her final game.

“My congratulations to UNC Wilmington, they played well and deserve to move on,” said Coach Joe Mathews. “I thought we looked tight and did not play well defensively and not taking care of the basketball ihurt.”

COLLEGE PARK, MD. - The sixth-ranked Maryland men's lacrosse team returns to Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium for the first time since the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament when it hosts in-state rival Towson on Saturday March 13. The Terps and the Tigers are scheduled for an 11 a.m. face-off.

• The game will be broadcast live locally on WMAR Channel 2 in Baltimore as well as nationally on ESPNU. Handling the play-by-play will be Scott Garceau, while Mark Dixon will provide the analysis.

Game No. 5
#9 Loyola Greyhounds (3-1) vs. #10 Duke Blue Devils (2-3)
Saturday, March 13, 2010 • 3 p.m.
Baltimore, Maryland • Ridley Athletic Complex

Game Data

BAKER-BRICE AND SNOWDEN EARN ALL-CAA HONORS

HARRISONBURG, Va. – For the second straight season, Shanae Baker-Brice earned a spot on the first team All-Colonial Athletic Association squad. Baker-Brice becomes the first Tiger to earn first team honors two years in a row since Danielle Barry was a first team selection in the Big South during the 1992-93 and 1993-94 seasons.

Haliena Snowden earned CAA honorable mention all-academic honors to join Baker-Brice as the Tigers who were honored.

Braerman’s Seven Points Propel Retrievers to 11-6 Victory Over Monmouth

For Immediate Release
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Box Score Attached

BALTIMORE—Junior attack Erika Braerman (Fallston, Md./Fallston) scored a career-best seven points to lead the UMBC women’s lacrosse team (4-3) to an 11-6 victory over former Northeast Conference rival Monmouth (0-4) Wednesday afternoon at UMBC Stadium.

Braerman’s seven points came on five goals and two assists, giving her career highs in goals (16) and points (27) through just seven games this season.

ARLINGTON, Va.—The UMBC baseball team rallied down three in the eighth inning, but a two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth allowed George Washington to down the Retrievers, 9-7, in Arlington, Va. on Tuesday afternoon.

Down 7-4 going into the eighth, UMBC (0-4) sophomore Justin Lamborn (Glen Mills, Pa./Garnett Valley) walked before a fellow sophomore Michael Pesci (Parsippany, N.J./DePaul Catholic) single. Freshman Aaron Brill (Palm Beach, Fla./John I. Leonard) walked to load the bases and junior Casey Medairy (Elkridge, Md./Howard) walked to score Lamborn.

Morton carries UMES past Delaware State
By Keith Henry

WINSTON-SALEM- It wasn’t surprising in the fact that the game was an absolute meat grinder. It was Casey Morton that stepped up early and often to help lead UMES past Delaware State 52-45 in the first round of the MEAC Basketball Tournament at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Coppin State turns game over to Lady Bulldogs
By Keith Henry

March 9, 2010

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Greivis Vasquez earned the 2010 Player of the Year and Gary Williams was voted the 2010 Coach of the Year as the Atlantic Coast Conference announced its top individual awards on Tuesday.

The voting was done by members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.

Vasquez, a senior from Caracas, Venezeula, is the fifth University of Maryland player to earn ACC Player of the Year honors and the first since Juan Dixon earned the award in 2002. Len Bias won twice (1985, 1986), Albert King won in 1980 and Joe Smith won the award in 1995.