No. 3 Terps Continue Homestand Against Penn Wednesday

Wednesday, March 23

College Park, MD

7:00 PM

Maryland

Penn

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No. 3 Terps Continue Homestand Against Penn Wednesday

3/22/2022 9:17:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse

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#3 Maryland (7-0) vs. Penn (3-4)
March 23, 2022
Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex
7:00 pm EDT

COLLEGE PARK, MD - The No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse team will look to continue its perfect start to the 2022 season as they host the Penn Quakers for a midweek contest on Wednesday, March 23 at 7:00 p.m. at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. The game will air for a national audience on the Big Ten Network with Dean Linke and Sheehan Stanwick Burch on the call.

PENN STORYLINES

LAST TIME OUT

The Terps are 7-0 so far in 2022, coming off a dominant 16-6 win over No. 12 Rutgers on Sunday in their first Big Ten game.
Hannah Leubecker led the way with four goals and two assists for six points while freshman Jordyn Lipkin had her best game of her young career with new highs of three goals and two assists for five points.
The Maryland defense was fantastic, led by goalie Emily Sterling, who made 10 saves and only allowed six goals, a .625 save percentage.
Maryland has now won five-straight games by double digits, including two (No. 12 Rutgers and No. 7 Florida) against top-15 teams.

RORY IS ROARING

Fifth-year transfer Aurora Cordingley is off to a record-breaking start as a Terp, currently leading the nation points per game (7.29 per game).
She also stands third in the nation in assists per game (3.00 and fifth in goals per game (4.29).
At her current pace, Cordingley is on track to break Maryland's single season points record (Jen Adams, 148, 2001).
The Canadian National Team member has at least five points in every game this season, has at least six points in five straight games and is the first Terp with two double-digit point games in a season since Alex Aust in 2013, tallying 11 (six goals, five assists) against Villanova (3/13) and 10 (four goals, six assists) against No. 7 Florida (2/26).
Cordingley has been named the IWLCA National Offensive Player twice this season (March 1 & March 15), the first Terp to win two national weekly awards since Tewaaraton winner Megan Taylor in 2019 and has won four of five Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors, the most by a Terp in a single season since Taylor Cummings in 2015.

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.

sterling saves

Goalie Emily Sterling has been a brick wall in net this season, currently standing third in the country in goals against average (7.24) and sixth in the country in save percentage (.537).
Over the last five games, Sterling is saving 60-percent of shots, tallying 39 saves to only 26 goals allowed, an incredible 6.12 goals against average. The junior has over a 50-percent save percentage in four straight games and has not allowed more than 10-goals in five straight games.

home dominance

The Terps are 155-4 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).
Maryland is 4-0 at home this season, winning each game by double digits.

SERIES HISTORY

The Terps lead the all-time series against Rutgers, 25-2. Maryland has won 12-straight against Penn dating back to 2007.
Maryland has never lost to the Quakers at home. The last time the Terps and Penn played in Maryland's 2019 national championship season, Maryland defeated the Quakers 14-9, which featured an 8-0 first half run and four goals in a row by Caroline Steele.
Terps defender Abby Bosco graduated from Penn last season and played four years there, earning All-Ivy honors in 2019.