More trouble for Brown

Virginia football player Mike Brown is facing more criminal charges.

Brown, a cornerback who was charged Feb. 29 with three felonies and a misdemeanor, was arrested again April 24. This time Brown, 21, was charged with DWI and refusing to take a blood/breath test. Both are misdemeanors.

A resident of Newark, N.J., Brown is due back in Charlottesville General District Court on the latest charges June 26. He's scheduled to appear May 22 for his felony charges: one count each of grand larceny, possession of stolen property with intent to sell, and altering serial numbers. Brown also faces a misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession.

Brown, who has two seasons of athletic eligibility remaining, was a third-year student at U.Va. in 2007-08. He was held out of spring practice, and his status with the team hasn't changed, a U.Va. spokesman said yesterday. Virginia coach Al Groh is out of town at an ACC football meeting.

In April 2006, Brown pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor trespassing after a brawl at a U.Va. fraternity. He originally faced a felony charge in that incident.

Brown started three games for U.Va. as a true freshman in 2005. He started one game in 2006. Brown missed last season while recovering from a knee injury.

Draw tough for U.Va.

The selection committee for the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament did neither Virginia nor Maryland-Baltimore County any favors. U.Va., seeded No. 2 in the 16-team tourney, drew UMBC in the first round.

The Retrievers are considered one of the nation's top 10 teams, and Virginia barely beat them, 10-9, Sunday night at Klockner Stadium.

That America East champion UMBC proved formidable was no shock. In the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association coaches' poll released last week, the Retrievers were ranked No. 6, ahead of such teams as Cornell (No. 7), Maryland (No. 8), and North Carolina (No. 9). UMBC beat Denver, Maryland and Ohio State (which ousted No. 8 seed Cornell on Saturday) during the regular season and entered the NCAAs on an 11-game winning streak.

Meanwhile, teams seeded worse than Virginia -- such as No. 3 Syracuse, No. 5 Johns Hopkins and No. 7 Maryland -- drew more favorable first-round matchups. Syracuse faced Canisius (unranked in last week's USILA poll), Hopkins played 16th-ranked Hofstra and Maryland met 17th-ranked Denver. It didn't hurt the Terrapins that their coach, Dave Cottle, was on the NCAA selection committee.

U.Va. to face Maryland

The NCAA quarterfinal doubleheader Saturday in Annapolis, Md., matches Virginia (13-3) and Maryland (10-5) at noon, and Hopkins (9-5) and Navy (10-5) at 3 p.m. ESPNU will televise both games.

Expect at least one record to fall Saturday. The NCAA record for paid attendance at a men's lacrosse quarterfinal is 12,289, set at Hofstra in 1999. Given the strong followings U.Va., Maryland, Hopkins and Navy have in the Baltimore and Washington areas, a crowd of 25,000 or more is realistic Saturday.

Duo staying at U.Va.

Graduation at U.Va. is Sunday, and lacrosse star Ben Rubeor, a fan of Flannery O'Connor's short stories, will receive a degree in English. Rubeor is almost out of athletic eligibility, but he'll be back at U.Va. in 2008-09 to pursue a master's in finance through the McIntire School of Commerce.

So will Mike Timms, the Cavaliers' starting long-stick midfielder, who'll graduate Sunday with a bachelor's in economics. Timms redshirted in 2005, however, so he'll be eligible to play for U.Va. again in 2009.

Cavs lure linebacker

The U.Va. football program has picked up its seventh commitment for 2009, and it's from a legacy: linebacker Tucker Windle, a 6-2, 225-pound junior at Charlotte (N.C.) Catholic High School.

His father, Al Windle, played for the Cavaliers in the '70s. The elder Windle, an attorney in Charlotte, received his law degree from Wake Forest.

Tucker Windle also had scholarship offers from Wake, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin, N.C. State and Duke. -- Jeff White