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NCAA-MARYLAND-DUKE

Maryland returns to NCAA title game

FOXOBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) Drew Snider tied his career high with four goals and Maryland advanced to the NCAA lacrosse title game for the second straight year with a 16-10 victory over third-seeded Duke on Saturday.

Owen Blye added three goals for the Terrapins (12-5), who will play in-state rival Loyola on Monday. The Greyhounds held off Notre Dame 7-5 in the first semifinal.

Maryland put away the Blue Devils (15-5) with a run of six straight goals after Duke pulled to 10-8 early in the fourth quarter. Last year, Maryland lost to Virginia 9-7 in the title game.

NCAA-LOYOLA

Loyola beat Notre Dame 7-5 in NCAA lacrosse semis

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) Eric Lusby matched his career-high with five goals and top-seeded Loyola of Maryland beat Notre Dame 7-5 on Saturday to advance to the NCAA lacrosse championship game.

Jack Runkel made 11 of his career-high 15 saves in the second half, and the Greyhounds (17-1) held on despite failing to score in the final 26:41.

The Greyhounds will play Maryland a 16-10 winner over Duke in the second semifinal in the title game Monday. Loyola lost to Syracuse in the 1990 championship game in its only other appearance in the final.

Notre Dame finished 13-3.

ACC-FLORIDA STATE-VIRGINIA

UVa rolls past Florida State 7-0 in ACC tourney

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) Derek Fisher and Colin Harrington drove in two runs apiece and Virginia beat Florida State 7-0 on Saturday in the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament.

Artie Lewicki struck out four and allowed three hits in seven innings for the fourth-seeded Cavaliers (38-17-1). They finished pool play with a 2-1 record and sent the top-seeded Seminoles (43-15) to a surprising 0-3 finish in the tournament.

Virginia led 1-0 in the fourth inning before breaking the game open by scoring six runs in the seventh inning.

Devon Travis had two of Florida State's five hits.

NASCAR-NATIONWIDE

Keselowski starts big weekend with win for Penske

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) Brad Keselowski won the NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday, leading the final 67 laps to give Penske Racing a winning start on auto racing's biggest weekend.

Keselowski raced to his first Nationwide victory of the year. He'll try to double up in Sprint Cup's longest race of the season, the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night. In between comes the Indy 500, a race that owner Roger Penske's cars have won 15 times. Penske driver Ryan Briscoe will start from the pole there Sunday.

Keselowski led the way as Sprint Cup drivers took the top four spots. Denny Hamlin was second, followed by Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick, last year's Coca-Cola 600 champion.

Nationwide points leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr. had driveshaft problems and finished 26th.

ACC-GEORGIA TECH-CLEMSON

Ga Tech beats Clemson 5-1 to reach ACC title game

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) Pitcher Jake Davies homered and Georgia Tech claimed a berth in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game by beating Clemson 5-1.

Davies drove in two runs and allowed two hits in six innings on Saturday to help the eighth-seeded Yellow Jackets (35-24) improve to 3-0 in the round-robin tournament.

Zane Evans added three hits and an RBI, and Daniel had two hits for Georgia Tech, which never trailed.

Steve Wilkerson hit a solo home run for Clemson (33-26), which finished the tournament 1-2.

DANICA PATRICK

Patrick not looking back at what she left behind

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) With Danica Patrick in North Carolina racing stock cars, the Indianapolis 500 will go off on Sunday without an American woman in the field for the first time since 1999.

That's just one of the problems facing her former series, but it's not really her problem.

Patrick has moved on to NASCAR, and can't worry about what she left behind. She says she was ready to leave IndyCar. She's not in Indianapolis for the first time in seven years, but she's still been a topic of conversation all month.