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Maryland baseball downs Princeton and No. 12 Wake Forest in doubleheader
When watching Maryland baseball, you should never expect a typical ending to a game.
In the Terps’ Saturday doubleheader in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this was exactly the case. Both games saw ninth-inning rallies, but Maryland ended up on top in both matchups, first against Princeton, 10-7, and then No. 12 Wake Forest, 9-8.
Maryland takes down Princeton
Maryland baseball continued its strong start to the weekend with a 10-7 victory over Princeton, powered by a well-rounded offensive performance and solid pitching from starter Omar Melendez and relievers Jack Wren, Andrew Johnson and Ryan Bailey.
The Terps wasted little time responding after Princeton took an early lead in the first inning. The Tigers’ Dylan Zdunek doubled down the right field line, followed by an RBI single by Jake Bold. But Maryland answered quickly in the second inning, when Elijah Lambros reached on a walk and later scored on a single by Colin Gibbs, tying the game at 1-1.
Maryland’s offense erupted in the third and fourth innings, plating five runs to reclaim control. In the third, singles from Lambros and Aden Hill helped the Terps take a 3-2 lead.
The Terps continued to apply pressure in the fourth inning, capitalizing on Princeton’s defensive struggles. Alex Calarco drove in two runs with a single, scoring Eddie Hacopian and Brayden Martin, and Hill added another RBI to extend Maryland’s lead to 6-2.
Princeton chipped away at the Terps’ lead with a run in the fifth inning on an RBI single from Bold, but Melendez settled in to keep the Tigers at bay. The left-handed pitcher threw six innings and allowed three earned runs on eight hits, while striking out five batters. Wren delivered a dominant seventh inning with two strikeouts.
Maryland broke the game open in the eighth inning, scoring four runs. Eddie Hacopian led off with a solo homer to left field. The Terps then loaded the bases with walks, leading to a hit-by-pitch RBI for Lambros. Liam Willson added another run on a fielder’s choice before Gibbs capped it off with an RBI single through the right side, giving Maryland a commanding 10-3 lead.
Princeton responded with a run in the bottom of the eighth, but Wren minimized the damage, finishing with three strikeouts over two innings.
Despite entering the ninth inning with a comfortable lead, Maryland faced some late pressure. The Tigers scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth, highlighted by a solo homer by Tommy Googins. But Maryland turned to Johnson, who secured the final out to seal the victory.
The Terps’ lineup saw key contributions from multiple hitters, with Eddie Hacopian, Gibbs and Hill each driving in runs. Maryland finished with 10 hits as a team, led by Gibbs’ three.
Defensively, Maryland played clean, committing zero errors, while Princeton struggled with four.
Melendez earned the win, improving his season record to 1-1, while Princeton’s pitching staff struggled, surrendering 10 runs and 10 walks. Princeton starter Andre D’Alessio took the loss after giving up six runs in four innings.
Maryland upsets No. 12 Wake Forest
The roller coaster of emotions for Maryland was in full effect once again in the back half of the doubleheader.
The Terps jumped out to a 5-0 lead, but bad news struck in the bottom of the third inning. Starting pitcher Joey McMannis seemed to tweak something while warming up, forcing him to come out of the game after pitching a strong first two innings. Redshirt sophomore Brayden Ryan replaced him, walking his first three batters to load the bases as the momentum turned the Demon Deacons’ way. Wake Forest scored six runs on four hits to take the lead.
Trailing by two runs in the top of the ninth, Maryland was down to their final strike when it hit three straight RBI singles to take the lead and win, 9-8.
Maryland wasted no time showing its offensive firepower against the Demon Deacons. Martin singled and Calarco ripped a double down the left field line. Left fielder Jacob Orr drove in two runners on his hit to right field. Hill then smacked an RBI double the opposite way to put the Terps up 3-0.
Maryland continued to get to Wake Forest starter Matthew Dallas, as a blooper off center fielder Lambros’ bat landed to score another run. The nightmare inning continued, as former Demon Deacon Liam Wilson reached on an error. However, freshman shortstop Gibbs’ bunt was unsuccessful, as he was thrown out at first, ending Maryland’s solid opening inning.
Maryland’s offense continued to trouble Dallas, as the first three batters reached base in the third inning, ending his day. Orr started the action with a double down the third-base line. Hill followed with an RBI double off first base to extend the lead to 5-0.
Griffin Green replaced Dallas from the bullpen, striking out the first two batters he faced. Still, he walked Martin to load the bases. Maryland couldn’t capitalize, though, as Hacopian flew out to center field to end the inning.
Meanwhile, the Terps’ disastrous third inning gave Wake Forest life. The Demon Deacons put five runs on the board before the Terps recorded an out.
Designated hitter Jack Winnay singled to center field, driving in two runs with no outs. After that, first baseman Kade Lewis blasted a home run off to tie the game. Maryland’s five-run lead had evaporated.
Former Wake Forest pitcher Andrew Koshy entered the game for the Terps, looking to ease the blow. After struggling in his first two outings, Koshy retired his first two batters of the day. However, the nightmare inning stretched on, as catcher Jimmy Keenan homered to left field to give Wake Forest its first lead of the game.
Just when the Terps’ outlook appeared grim, Porter answered with a moonshot home run to tie the game.
After putting runners on the corners with two outs, Koshy was two strikes away from leaving the inning unscathed, but Lewis struck again, crushing a single over Hacopian at third base to give the lead back to Wake Forest.
Maryland stranded runners on second and third in the fifth inning, while Keenan delivered for Wake Forest after the Terps couldn’t finish a double play. He lined up a double and scored the speedy Morales from first to extend the lead to 8-6.
After Maryland’s 4-5-6 hitters all struck out in the sixth, the bottom of the order threatened in the top of the seventh. Back-to-back singles by Wilson and Gibbs put runners on first and second with one out, and Wake Forest made a pitching change. Junior Zach Johnston got out of the jam to keep it a two-run game.
For the second straight inning, the Terps hit back-to-back singles to put runners on. With a chance to take the lead, Orr hit a deep fly ball that looked like it would give the Terps the lead, but it stayed in the park. Hill and Lambros struck out to end the inning, and the number of runners the Terps left on base extended to 13.
Despite struggling mightily in his first three outings, senior right-hander Ryan Van Buren pitched four innings, allowing just three hits and no earned runs to keep the Terps alive.
Then the ‘Cardiac Terps’ delivered again. Maryland rallied with two outs, blasting three straight RBI singles to take a 9-8 lead.
Johnson came in to close for the Terps, but nothing came easily. Wake Forest’s first two batters reached base, while an infield ground out advanced the runners to second and third with one out.
Morales hit a fly ball to left field, but it was not deep enough to send in the runner at third base. Junior Marek Houston followed with a pop-up, and Maryland made the catch to seal its best win of the season thus far.
Three things to know
1. The offense delivers again. Maryland scored 19 runs an totaled 30 hits between the two games.
2. The Terps make it interesting. In the first game, Maryland shut down Princeton’s three-run ninth inning rally before flipping the script against Wake Forest. Maryland scored three runs in the top of the ninth to take the lead, then closed it out in the bottom half despite two runners being in scoring position.
3. Another big day for Calarco. The senior catcher continued his blazing start to the season, going 6 for 10 on the day and driving in six runners.
BALTIMORE (WBFF) — As Baltimore leaders celebrated a new law limiting city cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday, they also shared new accounts alleging federal agents have gone too far.
At a news conference the same day the mayor signed legislation restricting the city’s cooperation with ICE, City Councilman Zeke Cohen described what he said was a troubling incident outside his children’s school.
“ICE was behaving in ways that were unsafe, that caused stress, and trauma, and harm to our communities, so as a result we asked for increase school police presence,” Cohen said.
He added, “I think it’s incredibly ironic we need our own local school police to protect our kids and our families from the federal government.”
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From the floor of the council chambers last month, Councilwoman Odette Ramos described what she said was fear in the community and accused ICE of targeting people based on race.
“Let us call it what it is it’s racism and white supremacy,” Ramos said.
She added, “They wait in parking lots for anyone who is brown. They do not care if you’re a citizen or not, so I’m waiting for my turn obviously.”
Critics have questioned the stories from politicians.
Dr. Richard Vatz, a retired professor of rhetoric, called the city’s approach “utterly irresponsible leadership,” saying, “They ought to think, ‘Who am I helping, who am I hurting?’”
When FOX45 News pressed council members last month on whether they’d witnessed ICE breaking the law in Baltimore, Ramos said, “I have not personally, however, I know that we are now seeing an escalation.”
After Cohen’s account about what happened outside his children’s school, an email was sent to the council president seeking clarification, including: “Did you see the ICE activity yourself and, if so, what was taking place?”
Clarification had not yet been provided.
Sgt. Betsy Branford-Smith, with the National Police Association, said stories of fear put officers at risk too.
“These agents have now been additionally endangered. It’s already dangerous enough,” Smith said.
An online learning management system is back online after a cyberattack created chaos for local school districts and colleges in Maryland.
Canvas, an online portal used by students and teachers, and parent company Infrastructure were attacked by hacking group ShinyHunters. The group is tied to several other notable attacks, including the Live Nation hack.
In a statement to CBS News on Friday, Instructure said the company took Canvas offline after learning that hackers had “made changes to the pages that appeared when some students and teachers were logged in.”
The hackers exploited an issue linked to its Free-For-Teacher accounts, the company said.
“As a result, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily shut down our Free-For-Teacher accounts,” the company said. “This gives us the confidence to restore access to Canvas, which is now fully back online and available for use. We regret the inconvenience and concern this may have caused.”
Canvas was also removed from a dark web leak site created by the ransomware group to publish stolen data.
Several school districts in Maryland avoided using Canvas altogether on Friday, including Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Harford County Public Schools, and Howard County Public School System. Baltimore City Public Schools uses the site, but said it had minimal impacts and does not believe the district’s data was stolen.
Baltimore County Public Schools does not use Canvas, and it was not impacted.
Local colleges and universities halted to a standstill in the middle of finals because of the breach. The University of Maryland urged faculty and students not to access the site on Friday morning. By midday, Canvas was fully restored.
Student reaction
Students at Johns Hopkins University say the website was down for about four hours Thursday night. This breach occurred during the middle of finals at the university, and students say that without the site, they didn’t have access to study materials.
“I don’t think I can manage without Canvas,” Aseel Adam, a first-year student at Hopkins, said. “I had a final today, so I was like, ‘Oh no’. I had to email my teacher about the slides final practice. It was bad.”
Students called it a major inconvenience and said they had a late-night studying after Canvas came back online.
“5 pm hits, Canvas is shut down,” Alveena Nasir, a first-year student at Hopkins, said. “I am screwed. I have a final tomorrow. I have no access to any my files. I have no downloads…For that to shut down, I feel like the whole school shuts down.”
Canvas is used by students to review materials, submit assignments, and view their grades. Teachers are also able to communicate with students on the platform.
Students say they also don’t know what data may have been leaked and if it’s their personal information.
“They can get a lot of my information, fake it for someone else, or some bad, heinous crime. It did kind of worry me,” Adam explained.
Preventing future attacks
The Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute has been testing websites and platforms like Canvas, trying to find vulnerabilities to help prevent these types of attacks. Now, AI is making it easier than ever to take down this kind of system.
“In the old days, usually [it would] take an expert maybe a month to really come up with those complicated attacks. Recently, with the help of AI, [it takes] sometimes maybe one or two days, they can really come up with those complicated attacks,” Yinzhi Cao, technical director of the institute and associate professor of computer science, tells WJZ.
Cao says everyone needs to be more cyber-aware. To protect yourself, don’t give out deeply personal information to online platforms, use two-factor authentication, and even watch out for phishing emails.
Now, students are questioning the school’s reliance on Canvas and how they can be more prepared if there’s an attack in the future.
“The idea that we depend so much on Canvas for a lot of things is also an issue. I think there should be a balance,” Adam said.
“For having a website so fundamental to our education and not being able to protect it, I think there should be some considerations on improving it,” Nasir concluded.
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As paleontologist Stephen Godfrey walked into the Calvert Marine Museum one morning in April, staff members congratulated him. In a way, he brought an extinct species back to life.
Two days earlier, in the final hours of Maryland’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill that made megalodon — the largest shark that ever lived — the state shark.
Godfrey, the marine museum’s curator of paleontology, helped come up with the idea and testified at the State House in support of it. Now, Maryland is the first to have a state shark, he said.
“As long as people have been here in Maryland, they have been noticing and collecting megalodon teeth,” he said.
Fossils of the prehistoric shark can be found throughout the Chesapeake Bay region.
“It was a prime place for early paleontologists in American history to come to collect fossils, to document the succession of life,” said Godfrey, who grew up in Quebec, Canada. He has been interested in natural history since he was young and turned his childhood bedroom into a museum.
“Hey, why don’t we try to make it the state shark?” Godfrey recalled asking.
Students join in effort to honor the mighty megalodon
He checked whether any other state had beat them to the idea. He found that North Carolina designated the megalodon tooth as its state fossil — but not its state shark.
“It was like, ‘Wow, this is like a golden opportunity,’ ” he said. “I’m surprised that nobody has thought of this.”
So he reached out to Marianne Harms, a former member of the marine museum’s board who had helped get it recognized as the state’s paleontology center. She connected him with Sen. Jack Bailey, R-Calvert and St. Mary’s.
“We just started working on it last summer when I took Stephen in to meet Sen. Bailey, and it is a difficult process to have something named as a state entity,” Harms said.
Bailey introduced the bill in the Senate, and Del. Todd Morgan, R-Calvert and St. Mary’s, introduced it in the House.
Godfrey testified in support of the bill twice, bringing along his daughter, Zoey, who is in third grade.
Calvert County officials and members of the public also wrote letters of support. Representatives of the Natural History Society of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation sent in written testimony favoring the bill.
Fourth-grade teacher Anna Shay also shared letters and pictures from her students.
“The megalodon shark is strong and brave so people will think we are also strong and brave,” one student wrote.
Megalodon encounters resistence in Maryland legislature
It faced some pushback from AMndy Ellis, a Green Party candidate for governor, who wanted to designate megalodon as the state historic shark to leave room for a living one to have that designation.
At one point, the bill stalled in the General Assembly. But on the last day of the session, it was tacked on as an amendment to a bill recognizing a state natural sciences museum and Oct. 1 as a day to honor victims and survivors of domestic violence. It passed through both chambers and is on its way to the governor’s desk.
“I can’t believe this actually happened,” said Godfrey, adding that he thought the bill had died.
“To me, it’s like, just one of the super fun things that I’ve been a part of.”
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