Adams Breaks All-Time Scoring Mark in NCAA Win
May 10, 2001
The University of Maryland women's lacrosse team advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals with today's 23-9 win over 16th-seeded Monmouth at Ludwig Field. The top-seeded and top-ranked Terrapins have now won 17 straight NCAA Tournament games and scored a team tournament best 23 goals in doing so, but the story of the day was standout Jen Adams.
Adams, a senior native of Brighton, So. Australia, became the most prolific scorer in the history of collegiate women's lacrosse today as her second point of the game -- an assist to Allison Comito just over four minutes in -- put her one point ahead of Karen Emas, Delaware's star from 1981-84. Emas' record was 420 and Adams began distancing herself from the mark early as she finished the game with four goals and a career-high seven assists to lead all scorers with 11 points. Her 11 points is her most in a postseason game and gives her a total of 430 heading into the next round.
In today's action, Monmouth came out and proved tougher than its seeding indicated. The Hawks took a 2-0 lead early and after the Terps ran off six straight, Monmouth battled back to knot the score at six apiece. As the half came to an end, the Hawks found themselves trailing the six-time defending NCAA champions by just a goal (8-7).
The second half began with the Terrapins on fire. Maryland ran off five goals in the frame's first eight minutes led by a pair from Allison Comito. After two Monmouth goals, the Terrapins held the Hawks scoreless the rest of the game while scoring 10 goals of their own to run away with it. Maryland's success in the second half was all about defense as it held the Hawks to a total of four shots and just one in the final 19 minutes.
Aside from Adams, the Terrapins were led by Comito (5 goals, 1 assist) and Quinn Carney (4 goals, 2 assists), but a pair of Maryland players may have given the most impressive performance's aside from Adams'. Meredith Egan scored a career-high five goals (nearly half of her season total of 12) and Virginia Solomon came off the bench to post eight saves in goal in just over 32 minutes of work. For Solomon, the game marked the second in a row that she has been strong in relief as she had six saves versus zero goals at Harvard.
Maryland -- 20-0 and winners of 40 straight games -- will now await ninth-seeded James Madison, an upset winner over Virginia today in Charlottesville. The Terps and Dukes met on April 8 of this year with Maryland coming away with a 16-6 win. The Terrapins and JMU will square off on Sunday at Ludwig Field at 1:00 p.m.
GAME SCORING #16 MONMOUTH 7 2 -- 9 #1 MARYLAND 8 15 -- 23Half-Time Team, Goal (Assist) MU-UM 1-28:44 Monmouth, Jess Salvesen (Sydlo) 1-0 1-27:57 Monmouth, Heather Bryan (unassisted) 2-0 1-27:32 Maryland, Jen Adams (unassisted) 2-1 1-25:53 Maryland, Allison Comito (Adams) 2-2 1-25:37 Maryland, Kelly Coppedge (Adams) 2-3 1-25:20 Maryland, Courtney Hobbs (Carney) 2-4 1-24:52 Maryland, Meredith Egan (unassisted) 2-5 1-24:19 Maryland, Allison Comito (Adams) 2-6 1-18:33 Monmouth, Lisa Cherill (unassisted) 3-6 1-17:25 Monmouth, Meg Brown (unassisted) 4-6 1-14:31 Monmouth, Meg Brown (FPS) 5-6 1-9:10 Monmouth, Heather Bryan (Salveson) 6-6 1-6:58 Maryland, Quinn Carney (unassisted) 6-7 1-2:33 Monmouth, Heather Bryan (FPS) 7-7 1-1:02 Maryland, Jen Adams (Carney) 7-8
2-29:41 Maryland, Kelly Coppedge (Adams) 7-9 2-28:30 Maryland, Allison Comito (Hobbs) 7-10 2-24:11 Maryland, Jen Adams (unassisted) 7-11 2-22:33 Maryland, Meredith Egan (Hobbs) 7-12 2-22:03 Maryland, Allison Comito (Adams) 7-13 2-21:28 Monmouth, Heather Bryan (unassisted) 8-13 2-19:34 Monmouth, Meg Brown (unassisted) 9-13 2-14:48 Maryland, Quinn Carney (Lambert) 9-14 2-14:36 Maryland, Allison Comito (Adams) 9-15 2-13:11 Maryland, Meredith Egan (Coopedge) 9-16 2-12:14 Maryland, Quinn Carney (Comito) 9-17 2-10:07 Maryland, Courtney Hobbs (unassisted) 9-18 2-9:19 Maryland, Jen Adams (unassisted) 9-19 2-8:51 Maryland, Courtney Hobbs (Coppedge) 9-20 2-7:58 Maryland, Meredith Egan (unassisted) 9-21 2-0:14 Maryland, Quinn Carney (Hobbs) 9-22 2-0:01 Maryland, Meredith Egan (Adams) 9-23 TEAM STATS Category Monmouth Maryland Shots 15-4--19 12-22--34 Saves 2-4--6 4-5--9 Draw Controls 10-3--13 6-15--21 Groundballs 16-12--28 16-17--3 Turnovers 9-12--21 3-10--13 Caused Turnovers 3-5--8 5-9--14 Free Position Shots 4-0--4 1-0--1 Fouls 5-6--11 10-10--20
INDIVIDUAL SCORING Maryland Scorers Goals-Asst.-Pts. Jen Adams 4-7--11 Allison Comito 5-1--6 Quinn Carney 4-2--6 Courtney Hobbs 3-3--6 Meredith Egan 5-0--5 Kelly Coppedge 2-2--4 Molly Lambert 0-1--1
Monmouth Scorers Goals-Asst.-Pts. Heather Bryan 4-0--4 Meg Brown 3-0--3 Jess Salveson 1-1--2 Lisa Cherill 1-0--1 Stacy Sydlo 0-1--1
GOALIES Maryland Goalies Saves GA Min. Alexis Venechanos 1 4 27:13 Virginia Solomon 8 5 32:47
Monmouth Goalies Saves GA Min. Stacy Makris 6 22 60:00
ATTENDANCE: 337
