No. 4 Maryland Welcomes Delaware Tuesday

Tuesday, March 1

College Park, MD

5:00 PM

Maryland

Delaware

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#4 Maryland (3-0) vs. Delaware (1-2)
March 1, 2021
Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex
5:00 pm EDT

COLLEGE PARK, MD - The No. 4 Maryland women's lacrosse team looks to continue its hot start to the 2022 season as it welcomes the Delaware Blue Hens to the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex for a midweek game on Tuesday, March 1. The game is slated to begin at 5:00 p.m. and will air on Big Ten Plus.

DELAWARE STORYLINES

LAST TIME OUT

The Terps are 3-0 so far in 2022, and are coming off two top-10 wins, a 17-13 win at No. 10 Virginia, and most recently a dominant 18-8 win over No. 7 Florida.
Aurora Cordingley led the Terps to the win with four goals and six assists, the most points (10) and assists (six) by a Terp in a game since Alex Aust had 11 (four goals, seven assists) vs. UMBC on March 5, 2013
Her 10 points are the third most by any player in the NCAA so far this season and her six assists are the second-most in a since game thus far.
Cordingley leads the Big Ten in goals per game (4.33) and earned Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors in back-to-back weeks, becoming the first Terp to accomplish that since three-time Tewaaraton winner Taylor Cummings on March 23 & 30 in 2015.
The Johns Hopkins transfer also reached the 200-point plateau last week and now has 203 in her career.

home dominance

Maryland is 152-4 at home under head coach Cathy Reese, with eight undefeated home campaigns in the last nine seasons (2013, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19 & 21).
Last season the Terps went 6-0 at home. Maryland has won nine in a row at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex dating back to 2020.

TEWAARATON TERPS

A trio of fifth-years: Abby Bosco, Aurora Cordingley and Grace Griffin, and junior Hannah Leubecker were all named to the Tewaaraton Watch List last week, which features the top 51 players in the sport of women's lacrosse.
This is the third-straight year that Griffin has been named to the watch list and last year was one of the final 25 nominees for the most prestigious award in lacrosse. Leubecker and Cordingley (Johns Hopkins) were also on the watch list last season. This is Bosco's (Penn) first ever watch list selection.
Maryland has won eight of the last 11 Tewaaraton awards, with Megan Taylor becoming the first goalie in lacrosse history to win the award in 2019.
The Terps have had a finalist for the award in 14 straight seasons in which the Tewaaraton has been been awarded and every season under head coachCathy Reese. Last season, Lizzie Colsonearned finalist honors after a season in which she was named the IWLCA National Defender of the Year.

dominate the draw

Maryland has dominated the draw circle through three games, leading the nation with 21.67 draw controls per game.
The Terps have won 65-of-92 draw controls so far, a 70.7% win percentage, the second-best in the country.
The draw effort is led by reigning Big Ten Midfielder of the Week Shaylan Ahearn, who leads the Big Ten and stands 10th in the nation with 10 draw controls per game. Against #7 Florida last week, Ahearn secured a career-best 14 draw controls as Maryland won the draw battle by a staggering 24-6 margin.

MEET THE CAPTAINS

Fifth-years Torie Barretta and Grace Griffin were selected as Maryland's 2022 Captains.
With her selection, Griffin becomes the first ever Terp to be a three-year captain, also being chosen in 2020 & 2021.
An IWLCA Third Team All-American last year, Griffin was second on the team with 48 points, scoring 29 goals and recording 19 assists, second with 19 caused turnovers and third with 30 groundballs.
An IWLCA Second Team All-Region and All-Big Ten Tournament Team selection in 2021, Barretta stood second on the team with 19 caused turnovers and fourth on the team with 25 groundballs.

SERIES HISTORY

This will be the first meeting between Maryland and Delaware since 2012. The Terps and Blue Hens have met 22 times all-time, with the Terps leading the series 17-4-1
Maryland has won 10-straight meetings with Delaware's last win coming in 1989, a 12-11 defeat in the season opener.
The last time the Terps and Blue Hens played, Maryland defeated Delaware 21-4. It marked head coach Cathy Reese's 100th-win as the Terps head coach. Reese is currently 286-32 as Maryland's leader.