FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — For the second straight season, the NCAA championship game ended in misery for the Maryland men’s lacrosse team. The second-seeded Terrapins played from behind against No. 1 seed Cornell for much of Monday afternoon and never led during a 13-10 loss 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 and its first since 1977.