FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — For a second straight season, the NCAA championship game ended in misery for the Maryland men’s lacrosse team. This time, the second-seeded Terrapins played from behind for most of the afternoon and never led during a 13-10 loss to No. 1 seed Cornell on Monday at Gillette Stadium.
The Terps’ typically unforgiving defense that helped them to an 18th appearance in the NCAA final, including their ninth under Coach John Tillman, proved less sturdy in the second half, when Big Red senior CJ Kirst scored five of his game-high six goals to secure Cornell’s fourth national title but its first since 1977.