No. 4 Terps Host Villanova Saturday Inside Jones-Hill House

Sunday, March 13

College Park, MD

1:00 PM

Maryland

Villanova

No. 4 Terps Host Villanova Saturday Inside Jones-Hill House

3/10/2022 10:41:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse

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#4 Maryland (5-0) vs. Villanova (2-5)
March 13, 2022
Jones-Hill House, College Park, Md.
1:00 pm EDT

COLLEGE PARK, MD - The No. 4 Maryland women's lacrosse team will begin a four game homestand against the Villanova Wildcats on Sunday, March 13 inside Jones-Hill House on Maryland's campus. The game will air on Maryland's YouTube channel, with Brendan Hartlove and three-time Tewaaraton winner Taylor Cummings on the call. The game will start at 1:00 p.m. The game was moved inside due to the wether in the area. It will be the first home indoor game in Maryland women's lacrosse history.

It will be Olivia Rodrigo Day at The Plex, with the first 100 fans in attendance getting an Olivia Rodrigo themed t-shirt and the first 300 fans receiving a Testudo SOUR album cover sticker.

VILLANOVA STORYLINES

LAST TIME OUT

The Terps are 5-0 so far in 2022, coming off a two-win week, with a 15-2 victory against Delaware and a 19-7 win at William & Mary.
Abby Bosco was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week after holding the Terps opponents to only nine combined goals and totaling seven groundballs, 10 draw controls and five caused turnovers, leading Maryland in all three categories.
Jordyn Lipkin earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week recognition after fter totaling three points (two goals and one assist) in each game, while tallying four groundballs, four draw controls and three caused turnovers, shooting 57.1-percent on the week.

RORY IS ROARING

Fifth-year transfer Aurora Cordingley is off to a record-breaking start as a Terp, currently leading the nation in points per game (seven), with 21 goals and 14 assists.
After a 10-point performance against No. 7 Florida (4G, 6A), Cordingley swept all the national honors, being named the Inside Lacrosse Player of the Week, USA Lacrosse Player of the Week, IWLCA Offensive Player of the Week and Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week.
Cordingley's 10 points were the most 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 has at least six points in four straight games and last week totaled 14 (eight goals, six assists) in the Terps two wins over Delaware and William & Mary.
The Canadian National team member leads the Big Ten in points per game (7), assists per game (2.80), shooting percentage (65.6) and stands second in goals per game (4.20).
Cordingley has been named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week in three of four weeks so far this season.

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 coach Cathy Reese. Last season, Lizzie Colson earned finalist honors after a season in which she was named the IWLCA National Defender of the Year.

draw dominance

Maryland has dominated the draw circle through five games, standing third in the nation with 19.20 draw controls per game.
The Terps have won 96-of-142 draw controls so far, a 67.6% win percentage, also the third-best in the country.
The draw effort is led by two-time Big Ten Midfielder of the Week Shaylan Ahearn, who leads the Big Ten and stands eighth in the nation with 7.80 draw controls per game.
Against #7 Florida, 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.