From The Sun's Stefen Lovelace:

The Towson boys soccer team has reached the 3A North regional final, after defeating Catonsville, 4-1, in the first round and Patterson, 5-0, in the second.

Playing in the regional final is hardly an unfamiliar setting for the Generals. This is the seventh straight time they've made it this far, winning state titles in 2003 and 2005.

"We have great history and tradition here," coach Randy Dase said. "We measure our success on states. We look at the regular season as scrimmages for the playoffs."

Towson struggled with its scoring toward the end of the season, posting a goal a game in its last four and dropping back-to-back games against Eastern Tech and Franklin. Towson will face the Indians again today at 5 p.m. in the regional final at Franklin. The teams have established a competitive history, and the regional final shouldn’t disappoint.

"It’s going to be tremendous challenge," Dase said. "This is a team that two years ago we beat in the regional finals and last year we upset them in the regional semis. The juniors and seniors on both teams have been banging heads the last couple years and the last couple seasons we’ve lost to them in the regular season and beat them in the playoffs. We’ll play that up to (our) kids a little bit."