The Daily Orange

WASHINGTON - Jim Boeheim and John Thompson II, rival coaches many years, saw each other in the bowels of the MCI Center on Saturday when Boeheim was leaving. They put their arms around each other, shared a few words and, like the stoic coaches they are, continued on their ways.

WASHINGTON - Like something straight out of Dickens, the Syracuse frontcourt provided a tale of the starkest contrast when the Orange took on Georgetown on Saturday at the MCI Center. For one player, it was the best of times. The other, it was the worst of times.

WASHINGTON - After opening Saturday's game at Georgetown with a quick bucket, the Syracuse men's basketball team had the score and the crowd in its favor. When Georgetown had the ball, that quickly turned around.

WASHINGTON - Georgetown's historically been successful with towering front lines. As Syracuse learned in Saturday's 68-53 loss to Georgetown, this season's Hoyas frontcourt is no exception. Sophomores Jeff Green and Roy Hibbert are two of the top post players in the Big East.

The Syracuse men's lacrosse season started in an unexpected fashion on Saturday at the Carrier Dome. The No. 5 Orange found itself behind No. 15 Army by two goals before three minutes had run off the clock. SU stormed back, but the shots finding the back of the net were not fired by familiar faces.

The hints have been there since the fall. He started all three games at the Lacrosse for Leukemia Tournament in Baltimore. He played against the toughest team at the Pumpkin Stick Out on Coyne Field. And this spring, they only continued.

No matter how devastating the loss, Syracuse women's basketball head coach Keith Cieplicki finds something positive out of every game. After Syracuse's 72-53 loss to St. John's on Saturday, Cieplicki's opening statement in his press conference highlighted the reality that the Orange has regressed throughout the season.

It wasn't the prettiest of games, with the Syracuse women's basketball team losing to St. John's, 72-53, in a matchup that was never close. That didn't matter for Jill Norton, though, who was honored as the team's lone senior at Manley Field House on Saturday.

It did not take long for freshmen Syracuse women's lacrosse players Katie Rowan and Meg Mosenson to adjust to the college game. Contributing to each of the Orange's first four goals in the opening 19 minutes of the first half and eight of the team's 15 for the game, Mosenson and Rowan quickly washed away the opening day jitters.

While there wasn't much to complain about in the Syracuse women's lacrosse season-opening 15-9 win over Harvard, Orange head coach Lisa Miller said one problem she saw was her own substituting habits. After a dominating first half in which the Orange allowed only three shots while taking 23 of its own, Miller looked to incorporate as many players as possible.

In each of the matches this weekend for the Syracuse tennis team, Katie Bramante was playing in the last match left that mattered. While she lost on Friday and the team still won, it prepared her for Sunday when the team needed her to win. Although the Orange had already sealed the victory against Army, leading 5-1 at that point, there was no pressure on Bramante.

Senior Alexis Switenko hit two home runs on Sunday to become the Orange's all-time leader in home runs as the Syracuse softball team defeated Lipscomb, 7-3, in Mufreesboro, Tenn., in the Breast Cancer Strikeout Classic. She now has 25 home runs. SU also beat Tennessee-Martin, 6-3.