#BP15: Terps pull for Billy Phillips, recruit with cancer

Terps infielder Kevin Smith wears a cap with #BP15 on the back in support of recruit Billy Phillips, who is fighting leukemia. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun)When the nurses at Christiana Hospital heard the screaming coming from Room B30, they rushed in, again and again.

Across Billy Phillips' hospital bed late Monday night at the Newark, Del., facility, they saw the glow of a television. The Maryland baseball team was playing UCLA in the NCAA Division I tournament. It was the decisive game of the Los Angeles Regional, and the score was close, and it was just excruciating.

Seeing his visitors, Phillips would have to apologize. "Oh, no, it's just the game," he would tell the nurses, a…