tiffany ukUnseeded Maryland's path to the NCAA Lacrosse Championship game has not been easy.
But after a 9-4 win over defending champion Duke in the semifinals on Saturday, Maryland is just one win away from its first championship since 1975.
Grant Catalino had three goals on three shots while Joe Cummings added a pair of goals and an assist for the Terrapins (13-4), who were supported by Niko
Amato's 12 saves.
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The win sets up a Monday all-ACC championship matchup with Virginia, which beat Denver in the early semifinals game.
Not only did Maryland unravel fifth-seeded Duke's back-to-back bid, but Maryland shocked No. 1 seed Syracuse in a 6-5 overtime victory during last Saturday's
quarterfinal round. The Terps' arduous trail started with a 13-6 drubbing of eighth-seeded North Carolina in the opening round.
tiffany necklaceDuke (14-6) could never get its offense going as the team received goals from four different players and nine saves from Dan Wigrizer. The Blue Devils reached
the Final Four after topping Notre Dame, 7-5, in a 2010 championship game rematch last weekend.
After Duke opened the scoring less than a minute in, Maryland scored three straight goals to take a 3-1 lead in the second quarter.
The two teams traded goals in a five-second span during the 10 minute mark of the second for a 4-2 game in favor of the Terps.
tiffany mens necklaceCummings found the back of the net with 4:30 left in the half to hand Maryland a 5-2 lead at the break.
Zach Howell's goal with 9:46 left in the third cut it to a two-tally deficit, but five minutes later Maryland responded with Catalino's point-blank shot that
sailed past Wigrizer.
Duke couldn't find enough firepower to dig itself out of the fourth-quarter three-goal deficit.
Maryland built onto its lead during the final 15 minutes with an Owen Blye goal where he came from behind the net and wrapped it in high. Cummings and
Catalino each added goals during the final seven minutes to ice the game.
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Steele Stanwick led the way with three goals and two assists as the Virginia Cavaliers dominated the Denver Pioneers, 14-8, in the first game at M&T Bank
Stadium.
Chris Bocklet and Mark Cockerton each had hat tricks for seventh-seeded Virginia, which got 10 saves from Adam Ghitelman and will face the winner of the
second semifinal game against No. 5 Duke and unseeded Maryland in the championship game on Monday.
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The Cavaliers (16-2) made their way to their ninth championship game appearance with a 13-9 win over second-seeded Cornell in the quarterfinals last weekend
and a 13-12 defeat of Bucknell in the opening round.
Jeremy Noble had three goals and an assist for No. 6 Denver (15-3), which topped No.3 Johns Hopkins 14-9 in the quarterfinals to make it to the program's
first Final Four.
Jamie Faus allowed all 14 goals and made eight saves in the loss.
Virginia took control in the first quarter, 5-2, which included a pair goals from Stanwick.
The Cavaliers continued to put the pressure in the second and scored the period's only four goals to take a lofty 9-2 lead at halftime.
Denver got the seemingly momentum-changing first goal of the second half when Mark Matthews let go a high shot from in tight that found the back of the net 30
seconds in.
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But the momentum was short lived as Virginia scored the next three goals in a 74-second time frame. Stanwick spun off his defender and slung a shot past Faus
for the first, then Bocklet and Cockerton each tallied to make it 12-3.
Trailing, 13-4 heading into the final frame, Denver showed some life late in the game. The Pioneers reeled off three goals in 37 seconds early in the quarter
tiffany braceletto make it a 13-7 game, however, Cockerton registered his hat-trick goal to stop the hemorrhaging and let Virginia cruise to the win.