With 16 goals and 19 assists senior Kyle Wimer led the Retrievers in points and extended his scoring streak to 31 straight games. Wimer moved into 15th place in UMBC history with 133 career points. He was one of just four unanimous selections for the All-AEC team.

Joining Wimer on the first team were three other seniors. Matt Latham earned his first first-team selection after being a second team pick the last two years. This year he led UMBC with 25 goals, 16 of which came in conference play. He has 86 career goals, and was second in the nation in shooting percentage, scoring 25 times in 47 shots (53.2%).

After struggling as a junior, Maxx Davis reinvented himself as a defensive midfielder and earned first team honors as a short stick midfielder. His 31 ground balls is second on the team but excelled on both sides of the ball with six goals and 7 assists. He scored three, including a game-winning overtime goal, against University of Vermont.

Matt Kresse has been an overshadowed defender for the majority of his career but has been one of the most consistent ones in the conference four four years. He has started 49 of 60 in his career and picked up 12 ground balls and caused six turnovers this year. Against University of Hartford he scored his first career goal off his first career shot.

On the second team was senior long-stick midfielder Mike Camardo, who was second in the nation with 2.91 per game. His totals of 47 ground balls and 35 caused turnovers both led the team. He also scored one goal and two assists as the defensive long-stick midfielders.

Midway through the season freshman Nick Doub was moved into the first midfield unit, replacing Bobby Stockton, who led the team with 12 goals after six games. His polished game and good passing ability kept him on the unit and he scored four goals and two assists as a freshman. Because of his efforts he was named to the AEC All-rookie team.

Finally, while on the field accomplishment are very impressive, Chris Jones earned his third straight selection to the AEC All-Academic team after maintaining a 3.45 GPA as an economics major. His four goals and one assist this year put him over the 50-point plateau for his career.

Wimer leads UMBC with 30 points off 12 goals and a team high 18 assists. He was a pre-season first team All-American by Inside Lacrosse and currently leads the nation with a 29 straight game scoring streak.

Camardo has had another outstanding season with 38 ground balls and 3.2 caused turnovers per game, which ranks second in the nation. Last season he was the AEC Championship Most Outstanding Player and a Second-Team All-AEC selection.

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On the women’s side of lacrosse, Erika Braerman and Kate Quick have been nominated for the Women’s Lacrosse Fan’s Choice Player of the Year award.

Braerman leads UMBC with 29 goals and 21 assists for 50 points. She is second in the AEC in points per game and third in assists. She currently ranks fifth all-time for most assists in a season.

Quick, the First-Team All-Conference goalie, leads the stingiest defense in the AEC, which ranks 14th in the nation with just an 8.79 goals-against average. So far this season she has recorded 106 saves, 34 ground balls, and 15 caused turnovers.

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Atwell was a preseason third-team All-American despite missing all of the 2009 season with a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament, and said he felt 100 percent on the field in an interview with Alexander Pyles of examiner.com

Atwell played in the team’s first eight games, stayed home for the team’s trip to Binghamton, and officially left the team mid-week after that.

Coach Don Zimmerman declined to comment on Atwell’s decision to leave the team.

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“I love playing at UMBC but it’s just a business decision and I’m looking out for the best opportunity for my career,” Gilliam said.

This season Gilliam led the team with 13.3 points per game while also averaging 3.7 rebounds, 1.5 steals, and 1.3 assists in 29.3 minutes per game and was named to the All-America East Conference third team.

Further coverage of this will be in the April 6 issue of The Retriever Weekly.

The weather was beautiful even though the UMBC baseball team suffered an unfortunate loss to their local rival: The Maryland Terrapins. The Retrievers fought hard until the end of the game when the score was left at 7-5, this past Wednesday evening in College Park, Maryland.

The Retrievers had several players who played well during the game. Sophomore Max Himmelstein led UMBC with three hits, and one of Himmelstein’s hits also batted in a UMBC player.

Following Himmelstein, Junior Bryan Russo hit an RBI to score Himmelstein in. After Russo’s RBI, Sophmore Curtis Schickner hit two balls which led to two more runs for UMBC.

Defensively, Junior Marty Zawacki started for the Retrievers by striking out two Maryland opponents. David Davita also pitched well and struck out two Maryland players as well. Finally, Ed Bach and Sean Swetnam each contributed their own single strikeout.

The Retrievers showed quite an effort despite their loss. UMBC will play again this Friday when they will host Navy at 5 p.m. The two teams will also play again in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday and Sunday.

With UMBC being one of the most diverse schools in the country is it any surprise that there is a club cricket team on campus? While the sport may be a bit of an unknown to most, the club team has quietly been one of the most consistent club teams at UMBC since its founding just six years ago. They have one Division I championship and multiple other trips to the finals.

But over spring break the team, known as 22 Yards, was selected to compete in a 20 team All-American College Cricket Tournament and finished in the final four.

The trip did start off a bit rocky however as the team lost by five runs to George Mason University. In the game UMBC was trailing by 21 runs with just six balls left. Beenish Bhatia and Chirag Vani were able to put up 16 runs, but fell short.

But that near comeback sparked a six wicket victory over the defending champion Montgomery College in which the team got a bonus point for getting the entire team out.

Later that day the team set out for a second game, this time against Auburn University. Once again it was a six wicket victory for 22 Yards. The team came out hot as the team’s opening batsman, Eraj Raza Abidi, got 50 off 27 balls.

The next day the team got two much needed bonus points in a two wicket victory over George Washington University. First the team got a bonus point for getting all 10 wickets and later Rikin Parikh got the final bonus point for taking two wickets in the final over.

That 3-1 record after the first three days was enough to get 22 Yards into the semi-final round of the tournament, after the opening round-robin pool.

22 Yards was matched up against York College and played in the only International cricket stadium in the United States of America, Central Broward Regional Park.

Team captain Sumeet Chordiya had 60 runs in the game while Anantha Ranga had 32 runs to make the game close but the team came up just seven runs short of the victory.

While 22 Yards is still only a six year old club, they have certainly brought UMBC to the national stage quickly and will be starting their Washington Metropolitan Cricket Board competition In April.

For more information on 22 Yards you can visit their website or facebook page.

With the loss UMBC has fallen to 1-4, their worst start since 2005 when they started with the same record, and may have lost any chance of an at large big for the N.C.A.A. tournament.

Princeton was able to scored three goals in the first nine minutes of the game and UMBC was unable to recover. Chris McBride, Paul Barnes, and Scott MacKenzie each got a ball past sophomore Brian McCullough, who was making his second career start.

Sophomore Shane Ryzner was able to get UMBC on the board when he put in a pass from Maxx Davis with 5:29 remaining in the first quarter, but Princeton had two more goals added to their score but Jack McBride and Rob Engelke.

With the 5-1 deficit after the first quarter Coach Don Zimmerman decided to once again make a change in goal, replacing McCullough with senior Kevin Kohri, who started the season but was replaced at halftime by highly touted freshman Adam Cohen. McCullough recorded just one save against the Tigers.

Kohri did not fair much better though. He allowed two quick goals by Tony Moni and Engelke before UMBC could put together back-to-back goals for the first time in the game.

Sophomore attack Rob Grimm capitalized on a man-up situation one minute prior to long stick midfielder Mike Camardo scoring his first goal of the season.

Jack McBride was able to put one more goal away before the half with just five seconds remaining, sending UMBC into the break down 8-3.

The weather took it’s tole on both teams in the second half as only four goals were scored. MacKenzie scored his second goal of the game with 5:05 remaining in the third quarter to open the scoring in the second half prior to UMBC attack Matt Latham scoring his seventh goal of year off a pass from Kyle Wimer, who extended his consecutive game with a point streak to 24.

Mike Chanenchuk put one final goal on the board for Princeton with 15 seconds remaining in the third quarter to put UMBC down six with 15 minutes left in regulation.

UMBC was able to hold Princeton scoreless in the fourth quarter but only Wimer was able to net a goal as the team lost 10-5.

The Retrievers will have a week off before their next game, but they will once again have their hands fill playing their fourth straight nationally ranked team, #5 Maryland at 12:00 at UMBC Stadium. The game will be televised on ESPNU and WMAR.

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The UMBC women’s lacrosse team defeated the University of Monmouth 11-6 with the support from the home fans at UMBC Stadium. The Retrievers put an offensive onslaught as different players putting up points.  Erika Braerman dominated contributing five goals, Amanda Gable and Meagan Linkous scored two goals, while Alicia Krause and Ashley Stodter scored one goal apiece.  UMBC also played unselfish this evening as four different players had assists.  Brerman, had two assists,  Stodter with one assist, Emily Cody with one assist, and Linkous with one assist as well.

 Also, one of the key aspects of the game that the Retrievers were able to control was the ground ball situation.  Through hustle and determination UMBC was able to win twenty-eight ground balls.  Thirteen different players from UMBC had ground balls. Sarah Willis and senior goalie Kate Quick each had six.  Kate Quick also played well in the cage, saving nine goals.  

The Retriever’s were able to take advantage on offense as they continued to win the ground balls throughout the game. The Retrievers continue their home stand as they take on American University on March 17^th.

Prior to the game McCullough had played just fewer than four minutes, all of which were last season. Against JHU he made eight saves but costly penalties and breakdowns from the senior laden defense left him vulnerable, as the Blue Jays slipped 16 goals past him.

But the goals allowed was a stat that Coach Don Zimmerman was interested in when assessing his performance.

“I thought he played very well,” Zimmerman said. “First start on Homewood field, he made some saves for us and cleared the ball well.

“What he’s been doing is practicing well; it’s not all what happens in a game. I want to see what Brian does in practice.”

For the first three games of the season the historically high powered offense struggled to get things going, but against JHU it was a different story, the offense played their best offense of the season for the first three and a half quarters of play before penalties and defensive breakdowns limited their opportunities.

“We started out strong,” said junior midfielder Bobby Stockton who recorded his third hat trick of the season. “We were sticking with them and everybody was playing hard and did their role.”

After falling behind by a quick goal by JHU, Stockton tied the game up less than two minutes later when he came around the goal for a quick shot on a man up situation.

JHU was able to get another goal just 14 seconds later after a break away after the face-off, but once again UMBC capitalized on their extra man opportunity when senior Matt Latham made a quick cut in from of the goal and put the shot in the upper right corner of the goal.

Kyle Wharton and Steven Boyle, who each recorded hat tricks in the game, as did Michael Kimmel who scored the opening goal for the Blue Jays, scored back-to-back goals for JHU to break the back and fourth scoring.

With just 48 seconds left in the first quarter Kyle Wimer made a dodge past a long stick defender right in front of the goal and made the over the top shot past the goalie to cut the UMBC deficit to just one after 15 minutes.

After more back to back scoring, UMBC final put together a three goal run in the third quarter, which started with a dropped save by Mike Gvozden while sophomore Shane Ryzner was there to clean it up and put it in the goal, followed by a shot by Stockton and a long pass up the field to Rob Grimm who scored on the one-on-one situation to get UMBC within just one goal of the Blue Jays.

But UMBC would score just one more goal after that point, while JHU found a way to score six times.

UMBC committed eight penalties in the game as JHU took advantage five times on extra man opportunities.

“It’s never good to get a penalty,” Stockton said. “We could have bounced back but it was unfortunate for us.”

After scoring just eight goals over the last two years while being stuck behind a bevy of talented midfielders, Stockton has stepped in with easy and has provided UMBC with a very powerful shot that has scored 11 times this season.

“I got to do my part as being a dodger too and me an Kyle sometimes dodge the long pole so we just have to find a way to work around and dodge shorties and get our match ups,” Stockton said.

Despite the poor fourth quarter, Zimmerman still saw this game as an improvement over his last three games.

“A loss is a loss and there are no moral victories but overall, looking at the big picture, our team made a nice step forward tonight.” Zimmerman said. “I was pleased we did a good job facing off, we did a good job with ground balls, clearing the ball, our man up got a lot better.”

Along with Stockton’s hat trick Jamie Kimbles and Rob Grimm each scored two goals. Kimbles has scored five goals in the last two games for UMBC.

On Saturday the Retrievers will have another big challenge as they will play No. 7 Princeton (3-0), who beat Johns Hopkins this season, in New Jersey.