COLLEGE PARK, MD – Playing its first-ever indoor home game, the No. 4 Maryland women's lacrosse team continued its winning ways with a 19-7 victory over Villanova on Sunday afternoon inside Jones-Hill House. The Terps are now 6-0 overall.

Aurora Cordingley racked up career-high tying totals of six goals, and five assists and set a career-high with 11 points. The 11 points are the most by a Terp since Alex Aust had 11 in a game in 2013 against UMBC. It is one shy of the school record of 12 set by Jen Adams in 2001 against Johns Hopkins. Cordingley is only the sixth Terp ever to have an 11 point game.

"It was great to have the opportunity to play inside of JHH today," said head coach Cathy Reese. "It's an amazing facility. Our team was really excited to play here. Our grounds crew, facilities guys and administration all did an amazing job in making this happen and working on the fly to give our team an opportunity to compete. Great team win, but more importantly impressed with the teamwork that we're capable of here at Maryland." 

Cordingley has at least three goals in every game this season and at least five points in every contest as she leads the country in scoring (7.0 points per game entering the game). 

Grace Griffin had a season-best four goals, one shy of her career-high of five. It was her 16th career game with three of more goals. 

Maryland took control of the game midway through the first quarter, ripping off five goals in a row to take a 7-2 lead and the Terps never looked back, leading by at least four for the remainder of the game. 

Villanova (2-6) was led by Caroline Curnal, who had three goals. 

This was the first-ever meeting between the teams. 

Multi-Goal Scorers

• Hannah Leubecker scored three goals and added two assists for five points. She has recorded multi-goal games in each of her last five games. In her career, she has 19 multi-goal games. 
• Eloise Clevenger tied her career-high with two goals, added three assists, and set a career-high with five total points. She now has three career multi-goal games this season and six multi-point games in her college career. 
• Libby May netted a pair in the third quarter giving her multi-goal games in five of six games this season. In her career, May has 17 multi-goal games. 

Defense On Display

• The Terps held the Wildcats to just seven goals as the Terps have held five of six opponents this season to single-digit goals. 
• Emily Sterling made eight saves in goal for the Terps, with over a 50-percent save percentage for the third straight game.. 
• On defense, Abby Bosco had three caused turnovers and four groundballs. 
• Maddie Sanchez had four groundballs and had two caused turnovers. 
• Torie Barretta corralled three groundballs and had two caused turnovers. 

Breaking Down The Action

• Maryland led 5-2 after the first quarter as Clevenger and Griffin each scored twice in the first 15 minutes. Griffin and Clevenger's second goals of the quarter started a five-goal run to put the Terps ahead 7-2 early in the second quarter.
• The Terps outscored Villanova 5-1 in the second quarter to lead 10-3 at halftime. Both Cordingley and Griffin had first-half hat tricks. 
• The teams traded six goals in the third quarter as Maryland held a 13-6 lead after three. May scored two goals in the period. 
• Cordingley notched  two more goals in the fourth quarter as the Terps piled it up to win by double-figures. The Terps scored the final six goals of the game with Victoria Hensh and Shannon Smith closing the scoring. 

Up Next

• Maryland opens Big Ten conference play next Sunday, March 20. as Rutgers comes to College Park to play the Terps at Noon. That game will air on ESPNU.