March 2, 2001: Maryland's Jen Adams scores four goals and adds six assists as the No. 1 Terps defeat No. 4 Duke, 18-11, in women's lacrosse in College Park. Adams, two-time national Player of the Year, has scored in 57 consecutive games for the six-time defending national champions.

March 3, 1988: “I'd like to be here 10 to 15 years,” Jim Simpson says upon being named the Orioles' TV play-by-play announcer, replacing the retired Chuck Thompson. A longtime NBC broadcaster, Simpson lasts one season as Baltimore starts 0-21 and finishes with a major league-high 107 losses.

March 4, 1974: “It is a great step toward the future for everybody,” coach John Bates says of the UMES men's basketball team's entry in the National Invitation Tournament. UMES (26-1) becomes the first predominantly black college to play in the NIT, and the Hawks defeat Manhattan before losing to Jacksonville by two points.

March 3, 1965: The Bullets set a team scoring record in a 151-108 rout of the Cincinnati Royals at the Civic Center. Seven Baltimore players hit double figures, led by 6-foot-11 Walt Bellamy (32 points) and guard Don “Waxie” Ohl, who scores 27 on 13-for-16 shooting, mostly from long range.

March 2, 1958: Al Kermisch, an Army major from Baltimore, flies 5,500 miles from his military post in Orleans, France, to attend the Orioles' first intrasquad game in Scottsdale, Ariz. Called after 51/2 innings, the game ends in a 4-4 tie.

March 1, 1947: Navy wins its 38th consecutive wrestling dual meet, 27-3 at Penn State. The Midshipmen are led by captain John Fletcher (145 pounds), who'll make the 1948 and 1952 U.S. Olympic teams.

March 1, 1937: St. John's College (Annapolis) finishes its basketball season on a high note, winning three games in five days against Maryland, Mount St. Mary's and Western Maryland (now McDaniel).

Feb. 28, 1921:“Little Jeff” Smith, a hard-punching flyweight from Baltimore, scores a decisive 10-round boxing victory over Philadelphia's Eddie Lenny before a packed house at Bob Wright's Coliseum in Highlandtown. Lenny's “midsection resembled a piece of round steak when hostilities ceased,” The Sun reports.

Birthday

March 5, 1964: Reggie Williams, 6-foot-7 basketball forward who led Dunbar to successive undefeated seasons and Georgetown to the 1984 NCAA championship. A first-round NBA draft pick, Williams played for six teams in 10 years, averaging 12.5 points a game.

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