Salisbury’s Tucker named top DIII defensive player
The Salisbury men’s lacrosse team got a boost before Sunday’s NCAA Division III tournament final against Wesleyan at 1 p.m. at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., when Kyle Tucker was named the top DIII defensive player for the second year in a row by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. The senior defenseman received the William C. Stiles Memorial Award given to the outstanding defensive player and is the first player to earn that distinction in back-to-back seasons since former Sea Gulls defenseman Eric Martin (200304). Senior defenseman and Sea Gulls teammate Will Nowesnick joined Tucker on the USILA AllAmerican first team for the second straight year. Salisbury placed two more players on the second team in junior midfielder Corey Gwin and senior short-stick defensive midfielder Troy Miller. Earning honorable-mention status were seven Stevenson players in junior attackman JT Thelen and sophomore attackman Ethan Christensen, senior midfielders Harrison Faecher and Kyle Karsian, senior defenseman Austin Howard, sophomore faceoff specialist Justin Burnette (Owings Mills) and sophomore goalkeeper Sam Ross; a pair of Sea Gulls in senior midfielder Garrett Reynolds ( Archbishop Curley) and senior long-stick midfielder Cory Berry; and Frostburg State senior midfielder Adam Gross (South River). HORSE RACING: The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot carryover swelled to $261,279.44 for today’s 10-race program after going unsolved Friday at Pimlico Race Course. Today’s Rainbow 6 spans Races 5-10 and features three turf races. ... Journeyman Alex Cintron, a perennial leading rider in Maryland, earned the first win of his latest comeback guiding Establo G&G’s Maru’s Raven to a 1¼-length victory in Friday’s fourth race at Pimlico. For the 30-yearold Cintron, it was his first victory since Nov. 17, 2017 at Laurel Park, two days before he suffered serious injuries to his face and knee and a broken shoulder blade in a spill at Laurel Park. COLLEGE BASEBALL: Mount St. Mary’s fell, 3-1, to Wagner (37-17, 21-7) in a Northeast Conference tournament elimination game. Junior shortstop Patrick Causa led the Mountaineers (21-33, 15-15) offense, going 2-for-3 with a single, a home run, and an RBI. MEN’S COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD: Coppin State’s Aaron Lewis and Joseph Amoah qualified for today’s NCAA quarterfinal in the 110-meter hurdles and 200 dash, respectively, with their performances in the first round of the NCAA East Prelims. — Kevin Sutherland birdied his last two holes for a 5-under 66 and a share of the second-round lead with Scott McCarron in the Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Mich. ... Nasa Hataoka, 19, shot a 4-under 68 to lead by one stroke over Minjee Lee after the second round of the LPGA Volvik Championship in Ann Arbor, Mich. ... Rory McIlroy shot a 7-under 65 to grab a three-shot lead over Sam Horsfield after two rounds of the BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, England.
Bucks G Sterling Brown said he tried to remain calm when Milwaukee police used a stun gun to take him down during his arrest for a parking violation. In an interview aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Brown said police pinned him down and held his hands behind his back then used a taser on him outside a Walgreens on Jan. 26.
Civil rights activists protested outside league headquarters, calling on team owners to overturn their new national anthem policy and urging a boycott of the league and its sponsors. ... The Packers signed TE Marcedes Lewis, adding another veteran to back up Jimmy Graham. The 6-foot-6 Lewis, who turned 34 last week, played 12 seasons with the Jaguars where he had 375 catches and 33 touchdowns.
Prosecutors in Washington state have dropped domestic violence charges against former U.S. national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo. She was charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault in 2014 after police said she assaulted two family members at a home in Kirkland, Wash.