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After the Central Connecticut softball team won the Northeast Conference tournament Saturday with a 4-3 championship game victory over LIU Brooklyn, the program's latest unprecedented achievement, there was a long celebration on the diamond in Moon...

— The Central Connecticut baseball team defeated Hartford 9-4 in a non-conference game Wednesday afternoon at Fiondella Field, the 500th victory of coach Charlie Hickey's career. Afterward, Hickey's mind was on the 17-year journey more than the...

Central Softball Wins1st NEC Tournament Title Behind a complete game from sophomore pitcher and NEC tournament MVP Laura Messina and the bat of junior Arielle Bruno (3-for-4, 2 RBI), the Central Connecticut softball team won its the first NEC...

Central Plays SaturdayFor NEC Softball Title Senior Nicole Springer hit two homers as the Central Connecticut softball team defeated LIU Brooklyn 5-4. Sophomore Laura Messina (26-9) was the winning pitcher. Central plays in its first NEC championship...

The college lacrosse regular season runs from mid-February to late April, a 10-week sprint that nears its end — in the Northeast, anyway — with fields having just thawed and coaches having scrambled to teach, settle on rotations and, if...

For the second time in three years, no Maryland school was among the 68 selected for the NCAA men's basketball tournament. But coaches and observers say that fact combined with a relative down period for the University of Maryland have obscured an...

|TV SPORTS|  College Men’s Basketball -- Big East Conference tournament, games at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. (ESPN); 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. (ESPN2)  Soccer -- UEFA Champions League, Porto at Malaga, 2:30 p.m. (FSN); UEFA Champions League, Arsenal at Bayern...

Roman Catholic cardinals went into a virtual news blackout Tuesday as they began to elect a new pope, but that has only heightened interest in what's happening behind the closed doors of their conclave. "I just had 'smoke cam' on my screen," said...

Mount St. Mary's certainly looked the part of a rebuilding program as it limped to a 2-6 start in Northeast Conference play this year. Coming off an 8-21 season a year ago, the slow start in NEC play this winter seemed predictable to just about everyone...

Fifth-seeded Mount St. Mary's upset top-seeded Robert Morris, 69-60, in the Northeast Conference tournament semifinals Saturday. Junior Rashad Whack scored 26 points to pace the Mount, which advances to the NEC championship game Tuesday night at LIU-...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| College Softball--Alabama-Birmingham at Central Florida, 10:30 a.m. (FXSP) Men’s College Basketball--Virginia Commonwealth at Temple, 11 a.m. (CBS); Big South Conference Tournament Championship, 11 a.m. (ESPN2);...

The Quinnipiac men's basketball team played its final Northeast Conference game Wednesday night, losing a conference tournament semifinal at LIU-Brooklyn 91-83. Quinnipiac will leave the NEC, beginning play in the MAAC next season. LIU is the two-time...