Articles by Mark Thompson

Three minutes into the second half, Chay Shegog caught a pass at the free throw line and turned to see what the defense had allotted her.

She figured it out pretty quickly.

Instead of using her 6-foot-5 frame to get a shot off over the defense, Shegog took a step back and zipped a pass to a streaking Laura Broomfield for the easy deuce.

People love and respect a man who rises from the ashes.

Ziad Haddad first heard those words from his uncle following his freshman year. They reverberated in his head like a challenge, but one he wasn’t used to.

Less than a year later, those words are his story.

It started like most matches for Thomas Scotton.

A quick shot. An early takedown.

The junior 157-pound wrestler was left with the ankle of his fleeing opponent — and that was all he needed to yank Duke’s Chris Piccolella back into the circle to secure two points.

Late Saturday night, while North Carolina’s Cetera DeGraffenreid talked with Centhya Hart — a former teammate now playing at St. John’s — Hart told DeGraffenreid the Red Storm were going to press her.

On Sunday, DeGraffenreid picked that press apart like a Jenga tower.