Talk Terps

With an Opening Day win for the Maryland Terrapins, they could see themselves for the good and bad from this past Saturday and see where they must improve. With no true warm-up games, the early non-conference schedule proves vital to get this team ready for the tough Big Ten schedule ahead. Today’s non-conference game takes the young Terps on the road to Charlotte, North Carolina to face the Charlotte 49ers.

The No. 1 Maryland Terrapins proved that they are the best, completing a perfect season 18-0 season, winning the 2022 National Championship with a 9-7 victory over No. 7 Cornell. 

Maryland has set an NCAA record for the most wins in a season and has become the first undefeated team with since Virginia in 2006.

This is Maryland’s fourth NCAA title previously winning in 1973, 1975, and 2017 and the 13th overall appearance in the men’s lacrosse national championship. 

The Terps had a slow offensive start to the game as Cornell dominated the beginning half of the first quarter. Cornell scored the first goal of the game with 7:28 left in the quarter. 

Maryland tied up the game as Jack Brennan put one in the net with 5:47 left in the first quarter. 

Fifth-year Anthony Demaio came out on fire, recording a hat trick in the span of 2:09 putting the Terps at 4-1 at the end of the first. 

In the second quarter, graduate student Owen Prybylski scored his first goal of the season to give the Terps a 5-1 lead. 

Cornell clapped back with a goal at 11:49 followed by DeMaio’s fourth goal of the game and a goal from fifth-year Logan Wisnauskas, making putting the Terps up 7-2 at the half. 

Wisnauskas opened up the scoring in the second half at two minutes. A minute later, Jonathan Donville scored the last goal for the Terps against his previous school for the last goal of the game.

Between the second and third quarters, Maryland held Cornell scoreless for 22:15 before Cornell put one in with 4:34 left in the third. 

In the fourth quarter, Cornell tightened the gap to 2, scoring four goals in the last quarter, concluding the game with a score of 9-7 Maryland.

Cornell held Maryland to its lowest-scoring game of the season, however, the Terps’ unselfishness showed as they only put up 9 goals against the Big Red.

The Terps were scoreless for the remaining 27 minutes of regulation, but the strong defense held the Big Red and made Maryland victorious. Wisnauskas continued his legacy as a Terp in his final game putting up four points on two goals and two assists. He became the first Terp to ever record 100 points in a single season. 

Junior goalie Logan McManey made 17 saves for the Terps and was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player.  

DeMaio, Luke Wierman, Wisnauskas, and Ajax Zappitello were named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team. 

The Maryland Terrapins “finished the job” and proved once again why they are the number one team in the nation.

On Friday, May 27th, the No. 2 Maryland Terrapins lost a tough fight to the No.3 Boston College Eagles in the NCAA semifinals in Baltimore. 

The Terps battled to the end, but the Eagles’ four unanswered goals led them to victory. 

The Eagles set the tone early scoring in the first seven minutes. Sophomore Libby May answers quickly, to tie the game at one. Both teams traded another goal in the first quarter with another goal by May advancing the score to 2-2 at the end of the first.

Midway through the second, the Eagles took the lead scoring back-to-back goals, but the Terps clapped back adding 4 points to the board taking the 7-6 lead going into the half. 

Sophomore Eloise Clevenger scored a backhand scoop to finish the four-goal run that put the Terps on top at the end of the second. 

Graduate student Aurora Cordingley scored her-team best 67th goal of the season early into the second half for the Terps. 

Freshman Jordyn Lipkin scores the tenth goal for the Terps diving into the crease, with 7:09 left in the third. 95

At 2:51 left in the third, May puts up her third goal of the evening for a hattrick.

Both teams exchanged eight goals in the third with a score of 11-10 for Maryland at the end of the quarter. 

Early in the fourth, junior Hannah Leubecker and Clevenger advanced the lead to 13-10. 

The Terps took the 16-13 lead with seven minutes left. But the Eagles weren’t finished, putting up three consecutive goals with just over three minutes left tying the game 16-16.

With 18 seconds remaining, Cassidy Weeks scored the game-winner for Boston College advancing the Eagles to the National Championship. 

The Terps’ season concludes at 19-2, earning both the Big Ten Regular Season and Tournament Championships.

COLLEGE PARK, MD — Official news broke Friday afternoon that long-time head coach of the Maryland Terrapins men’s basketball, Mark Turgeon, and the team had mutually agreed to part ways.