Madison Michaud and Aaliyah Wilson-Falcone each scored a goal as St. Joseph’s won its third straight, 2-1 over Colby-Sawyer in a regular-season women’s soccer finale at New London, New Hampshire.
Carly Downey turned away seven shots in goal for St. Joseph’s (8-8-1, 8-3-1 GNAC).
Hannah Marquis scored for Colby-Sawyer (7-9-4, 5-5-3). Alexis LeBreton made seven saves.
MEN’S SOCCER
ST. JOSEPH’S 5, DEAN 0: Austin Ward had a pair of unassisted goals, one in each half, as the Monks (12-4-1, 11-1 GNAC) blanked the Bulldogs (4-8-4, 2-7-3) in a regular-season finale at Franklin, Massachusetts.
Gus Ford and Nate Sottak had second-half goals for St. Joseph’s, which also scored on an own goal.
FIELD HOCKEY
WPI 3, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND 1: Lauren Dishong took a pass from Eliza Dutson and knocked in her shot 10:12 into the fourth quarter to break a 1-1 tie and then set up Arie Lang for an insurance goal in the final minutes as the Engineers (11-6) downed the Nor’easters in a nonconference match at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Madi Robito scored an unassisted goal early in the first quarter for UNE, but Lang answered for WPI in the second.
Lindsay Pych had four saves for the Nor’easters.
LASELL 2, ST. JOSEPH’S 1: Lily Stark stormed down the left side and sent a nifty cross to Sheridan Blaha who put it home for the winner 2:45 into overtime as the Lasers (8-11, 7-5 GNAC) knocked off the Monks (11-8, 8-3) at Newton, Massachusetts.
Madison Raymond scored for Lasell with 3 seconds to play in the third quarter, before Maya Waryas answered on a feed from Aimee Adams early in the fourth to pull UNE even.
Courtney Tello stopped four shots for the Lasers and Kassidy Collins had seven saves for the Nor’easters.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
NORTH CAROLINA: Coach Hubert Davis has a new six-year contract and a raise after his first-year run to the NCAA championship game.
Signed in late August, the deal runs through the 2027-28 season and is worth about $16.7 million. That includes base and supplemental pay, as well as compensation tied to the school’s multimedia and sports-apparel agreements with Learfield and Nike, and an annual expense allowance.
It will pay an average of nearly $2.8 million per year, starting with $2.3 million for the upcoming season and increasing to $3.1 million for the final year.
Performance bonuses could add another nearly $1.1 million per season.
Davis received a five-year deal after succeeding retiring Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams in April 2021. It was worth about $10 million in base salary, supplemental pay, Learfield/Nike compensation and the expense allowance. It also featured a similar performance-bonus structure.
Davis made $1.8 million last year before picking up another $575,000 in bonuses for the Final Four run. He was originally due to make at least $2.9 million in 2025-26.
Davis, 52, played for UNC under late Hall of Famer Dean Smith and coached under Williams for nine seasons.
FOOTBALL
IOWA: Coach Kirk Ferentz apologized for publicly criticizing a reporter who asked him about his decision to keep son,Brian Ferentz, as offensive coordinator with the Hawkeyes’ offense performing so poorly this season.
Ferentz, unprompted, had said at his weekly news conference Tuesday that he had experienced an “interrogation” when Cleveland.com columnist Doug Lesmerises asked him about his son. That exchange occurred at the news conference following the 54-10 loss at No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday.
“The one good thing about it that dawned on me coming home … I said, man, as bad as today was, it could have been worse because I could have been that guy,” Ferentz, a former UMaine coach, told reporters Tuesday without naming Lesmerises. “I could have been that guy, had his job and had to act like he did. Yeah, it could be … a lot worse. All things aren’t that bad.”
In his emailed apology to the media, Ferentz said he should not have been dismissive “of one of your colleagues” and that his questions were fair.
“I have a high respect for the work that you do, and I am appreciative of how you cover our team,” Ferentz said in the statement. “You ask tough and pointed questions but do so with a high degree of professionalism. I tell our players to take the high road and yesterday, I did not do the same thing.”
Iowa (3-4, 1-3 Big Ten) had just 158 total yards and committed six turnovers against the Buckeyes. The Hawkeyes’ average of 227.3 yards per game ranks last in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and the offense has scored just seven touchdowns in seven games.
Brian Ferentz has been offensive coordinator since 2017 and long a target for criticism because of nepotism.
Lesmerises asked Ferentz three questions at the end of the Ohio State news conference and, in prefacing one, pointed out that the Hawkeyes have one of the least productive offenses in the country.
“I’ve noticed that, yeah,” the elder Ferentz interjected.
“Everybody’s noticed it,” Lesmerises said. “Do you believe you’re putting the Iowa football program in a bad spot by having that kind of production on one side of the ball and it’s run by one of your family members?”
In response to the questions, Ferentz said it’s his preference to play out the season before making a decision on an assistant; the fact the offensive coordinator is his son is not an issue to him and that his assistants have demonstrated success and are good people; and the manner in which Brian will be evaluated after the season will be the same as with other assistants.
Lesmerises, who wrote a column critical of the Ferentz dynamic at Iowa, said in a text to The Associated Press that he had no problem with how Ferentz answered his questions or what he said Tuesday.
“I criticized him and he certainly has the right to respond however he see fits,” Lesmerises said. “The issue remains how Kirk Ferentz and Iowa have handled the employment of Brian Ferentz.”
NOTES
NCAA: The NCAA’s Division I Board of Directors approved new guidance to members on name, image and likeness activities, clarifying how schools, coaches and staffers can be involved with athletes’ endorsement and sponsorship deals.
The latest clarifications to the NCAA’s interim NIL policy creates no new rules, but are intended to give athletic departments a better idea of what types of support fall outside existing bylaws.
The NCAA spelled out numerous activities that were permissible and impermissible.
The last time the NCAA provided guidance to members it was to clarify rules related to booster-funded collectives, their roles in providing NIL deals to athletes and recruiting.
The latest guidance said school personnel, including coaches, can be part of fundraising for collectives, booster-funded organizations that provide opportunities for athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses. But coaches and school staff members cannot donate directly to collectives.
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