Men’s Lacrosse: Top-ranked Terps start, finish strong for 12-6 win over No. 18 Hoos

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Posted on Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025, 7:00 pm

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By Colin Moore
JerryRatcliffe.com correspondent

Photo: UVA Athletics

No. 18 Virginia fought back from an early deficit, but No. 1 Maryland closed the contest with five unanswered goals en route to a 12-6 win at Klöckner Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

UVA started out extremely slow, allowing the Terrapins to score the first 5 goals of the match before beginning to show some fight by getting on the scoresheet with a rocket from Will Inderlied. Maryland eventually pulled away in the fourth quarter.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Maryland’s Matthew Keegan and Elijah Stobaugh each tallied two early goals within the first 10 minutes of the game. The Cavaliers were losing the faceoff battle and Maryland goalkeeper Logan McNaney made huge saves to deny the Cavaliers to get going.

With time running down in the first quarter, Inderlied scored on a great solo effort, beating McNaney and getting the Cavaliers on the board, down 5-1.

The Hoos turned it around in the second, as they came out as the aggressor and began to take it to the Terps. Virginia gained a one-man advantage from a harsh hit and capitalized with a great unassisted goal from Ryan Colsey, where he beat two defenders and rifled one past the Terps goalie.

UVA won the ensuing faceoff and quickly drew another man advantage. The Cavaliers yet again capitalized with a goal from Will Erdmann (assisted by George Fulton) to pull the Hoos within two. Again, Shea Keethler came up big for the Cavaliers, winning another faceoff to give them possession.

Then, Thomas Mencke and McCabe Millon quickly combined for Virginia’s fourth goal of the game, changing the momentum heading into halftime just down one, 5-4.

The Terps put away the first two goals in the third quarter before Griffin Schutz scored with a little over three minutes left, narrowing the margin to two entering the fourth.

Unfortunately for the Hoos, the Terps’ offensive firepower was just too much. They outscored UVA, 4-1, in the fourth quarter, sealing the victory.

The Cavaliers had six different goal scorers on the afternoon, all only tallying one a piece. They only registered two assisted goals (Millon and Fulton).

UVA out-fought Maryland in the ground-ball battle, winning 10 more than the Terps, as Noah Chizmar tallied a game high of 6. In net, Matthew Nunes and Ben Wayer did all they could, combining for 7 saves and allowing 12 goals.

ADDITIONAL NOTES
Courtesy UVA Media Relations

  • A season-high 3,618 spectators were in attendance.
  • UVA held Maryland scoreless for 26:02, which marked the second consecutive game in which the Cavaliers held their opponent to without a goal for a span of at least 25 minutes.
  • Virginia’s man-down unit held Maryland to 1-of-4 on its EMO chances. The Terrapins’ only man-up goal came when UVA had two players concurrently serving time in the penalty box. UMD’s man-up unit entered Saturday’s contest scoring on 45.5 percent of its EMOs.
  • Will Erdmann nabbed his first career goal in the second quarter on George Fulton’s first career assist.
  • With one goal, Schutz is now tied with Pete Eldredge for fifth on UVA’s career points list by a midfielder and grasped sole possession of eighth on its career goals list by a middie. For his career, Schutz has 79 goals, 37 assist and 116 points.
  • Goalie Matthew Nunes made his 50th career start.
  • With the win, Maryland improved to 52-47 in the all-time series, which began in 1926.
  • The meeting was the 99th in the series history, which is also in its 99th year.
  • For the second consecutive game in the series, Maryland defeated Virginia by a final score of 12-6. The Terps eliminated UVA in last year’s NCAA Tournament semifinal.

UP NEXT

The Hoos return home on Tuesday to face UAlbany at 4 p.m. at Klöckner Stadium.