Chesapeake grad Lines ready for senior season

Brittany Lines, a graduate of Chesapeake High, is exactly the type of player Muffie Bliss wants on her women's lacrosse team at Division III McDaniel College in Carroll County.

"She has bought into what we teach: a team will be better than the individual. She emulates that," said Bliss, a 2002 Goucher graduate who is in her seventh season as the head coach at McDaniel. "She is all about scoring but she will set up another player if she has to."

Last year as a junior Lines had 24 goals and four assists while playing in 16 games (all starts). She had three goals in a game four times for a team that was 10-6 overall and 4-5 in the Centennial Conference.

"She plans to graduate in the spring and plans to apply for graduate school for physical therapy," Bliss said of Lines, who is studying Spanish and exercise science. Lines is a senior captain this season and was also a captain last year.

McDaniel plays March 2 at Messiah, March 5 at St. Mary's and March 8 at Stevenson before hosting its first game on March 12 against Bryn Mawr.

"We have a lot of young talent coming in. We have a big freshmen class," Lines said. "We had good leadership with our senior class. I think it will be a good season for us. Now that I am a senior captain I think I am more direct."

Lines also played field hockey and ran track in high school. Coming out of high school she looked at Washington College, St. Mary's, Delaware, Salisbury and Loyola. "I decided I didn't want to do Division I," she said. Among her high school teammates was Katie Mansell, who nows plays for York (Pa.) College.

Lines has applied for graduate school in physical therapy and is on the waiting list at Shenandoah in Winchester, Va. She has also applied to schools in Maryland. Lines said she is one of four seniors on the active roster at McDaniel who has been with the program for four years.

High school hoops

The Chesapeake boys basketball team lost on Feb. 18 to Meade, 63-32.  The losers fell to 1-20 overall this season and had no player with more than five points. Meade, which improved to 10-12 overall, led by 17 at halftime. Meade beat the Chesapeake girls, 63-34. Meade is ranked No. 16 in The Washington Post this week.

The Northeast girls beat Glen Burnie, 66-37, on Feb. 18 while the Northeast boys lost to Glen Burnie, 63-42.

Local grad with Towson softball

Erika Stasch (Chesapeake) of Pasadena is a junior outfielder for the Division I softball team at Towson University. She started all 56 games as a freshman and all 56 as a sophomore.  The Tigers won two of five games to begin the season last weekend in Charleston, S.C. Stasch hit .250 in her first 12 at bats this season.