Crime doesn't pay, and that's exactly what Villanova men's lacrosse defender Chris Ficke is learning during a six-month forensic accounting co-op with the Delaware County District Attorney's Office.

The NCAA Men's Lacrosse Rules Committee is proposing a single 30-second count once teams gain possession to advance the ball into the attack area.

Tewaaraton Trophy winner and 2010 national champion Ned Crotty scored two goals to help send the U.S. back to the apex of international lacrosse with a 12-10 win over Canada on Saturday. The title was the Americans' seventh.

John Tillman has been hired as the University of Maryland's head men's lacrosse coach, Director of Athletics Deborah A. Yow announced today, becoming the ninth coach in the 85-year history of the program. Tillman comes to College Park after three years returning Harvard lacrosse to national prominence and twelve seasons as the top assistant at Navy, during which the Midshipmen experienced some of the best years in their storied history. He has signed a seven-year contract.

Duke won its first NCAA men's lacrosse championship in dramatic fashion, defeating Notre Dame 6-5 Monday on a goal by C.J. Costabile with five seconds gone in sudden-death overtime.

Eddie Plompen scored four goals and C.W. Post used a dominant second half to defeat LeMoyne 14-9 and repeat as Division II lacrosse national champion Sunday.

-Caitlyn McFadden of NCAA champion Maryland has won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top college women's lacrosse player. McFadden becomes automatically eligible to win Collegiate Female Athlete of the Year. The senior midfielder from Phoenix, Md., was voted the outstanding player of the NCAA tournament. She is tied for third in assists on the career list at Maryland. The other lacrosse finalists were Northwestern's Katrina Dowd, Virginia's Brittany Kalkstein and North Carolina's Jenn...

Maryland trailed 6-0 against the five-time defending NCAA Division I lacrosse champions Northwestern, but chipped away. By the final horn, the Terrapins were champions for 2010 with a 13-11 decision.

The game many in the world of women's lacrosse wanted to see last year has finally arrived - this year. Maryland will meet Northwestern for the NCAA Division I championship at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium. The Wildcats have won the last five national titles, and the Terrapins are seeking their first in nine years.

In Friday night's rematch in the NCAA Division I women's lacrosse semifinals, Northwestern made sure the Tar Heels did not end its reign as the five-time national champions. The Wildcats had too much firepower and went on a late run for a 15-10 victory before an announced 8,762 at Towson University - believed the largest crowd ever to watch a women's lacrosse game in the U.S.

After Syracuse pulled within three goals of top-seeded Maryland midway through the second half of Friday's NCAA Division I women's lacrosse semifinal, the Terrapins' offense exploded for six consecutive goals in a span of 4 minutes and 15 seconds and coasted to the national championship game for the 15th time.

The Maryland women's lacrosse team never made any secret of its goals for the 2010 season. The Terrapins were upset by North Carolina in the national semifinals last year after winning their first 21 games. Maryland had beaten the Tar Heels earlier, which added to the sting of that loss and fueled its fire to finish the job from last year.