No. 8 TRIPS Travel to Ohio on Sunday

College Park, Maryland – Maryland’s #8 women’s lacrosse team will try to be unbeatable on the road as they travel to Columbus to face the Ohio State Bucks. The game will be broadcast on the Big Ten Network at noon with Dean Linke and Maryland legend, three-time Tewaaraton winner Taylor Cummings on call.

Oyo State Stories

The last time

• The TRIPS are 12-1 so far in 2022, after a massive 19-9 win at No. 12 Princeton.
• Terps fell 3-0 before scoring 19 of their last 25 goals to claim their sixth win on the road and fourth among the top 15 goals of the season.
• Aurora Cordingly And Hannah Lubecker He led the way with five goals while Emily Sterling She continued to play strong in goals with 10 saves. Eloise Clevenger And Libyan May It also totaled five points.
• Terps are on the road 6-0 this season, winning matches like this with an average of 10.5 goals. Maryland has won four consecutive games with double-digit goals.

Rory roar

• Moving on to the fifth year Aurora Cordingly He made a record-breaking start as Terp, currently leading the nation’s points per game (6.38 per game).
• It also ranks fifth in the country with 33 assists. The Canadian national team member has at least five points in 11 of 13 games, has at least six points in nine of his last 12 games and is the first Tarp with two double-digit games in a season since Alex Ost in 2013, 11 (six goals, five assists). ) against Villanova (3/13) and 10 (four goals, six assists) against Florida No. 7 (2/26).
• This season she has twice been named IWLCA National Player of the Week and four times Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, both bigger since three-time Tewaaraton winner Taylor Cummings in 2015.
• Cordingley has scored at least one point in 45 consecutive games dating back to April 25, 2018.
• Her first 32 of those games were at Johns Hopkins, where she played 13 games in Maryland, and she has 25 career games with at least five points.

Five tips for middle season for all Americans

• Five Terps were named to the Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-American on Thursday afternoon.
• defender Abby Bosco Chosen as the first attacking team Aurora Cordingly And the goalkeeper Emily Sterling The second team and a midfielder were selected Shaylan Ahern and the attacker Hannah Lubecker The distinction was recognized with an honorable mention.
• The Terps family has the largest number of American students on the list of any Big Ten school.

Save the pound

• Goal Emily Sterling He’s been a brick wall in goal this season, and he currently leads the country with a save ratio of 0.557 and 7.39 goal-to-average.
• The junior has a save rate of more than 50 percent in eight out of 13 games this season and has saved 0.631 percent over the past four games.
• Stirling was named the IWLCA’s Top Ten Defensive Player of the Week last week, was named Top Ten Defensive Player of the Week three times this season, including the past two weeks, and was named the All-American’s mid-season second team by Inside Lacrosse.

Victory 750

• The Maryland women’s lacrosse program took a 750 win last week, the first athletic program to reach that milestone.
• Coach Cathy Reese He was part of the program for 463 out of 750 wins, 75 as a player, 94 as assistant coach and 295 as head coach.
• Currently in the 49th year of the program, Maryland has won 15 national championships. The program’s all-time record is 753-149-3.

Series History

• Maryland State leads the all-time series with Ohio State, 15-2 and has won six consecutive goals against the Buckeyes dating back to 2015.
• Terps defeated Ohio State twice last year, including eight performance points Grace Griffin In the first match and then the highest level 12 saves from Emily Sterling In the second game.
• Terps never lost to Ohio State in Columbus, standing 4-0 the entire time.

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