FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — CJ Kirst scored six targets, Ryan Goldstein added 4 and Cornell, the primary NCAA lacrosse champion, ended a 48-year drought with a 13-10 win over Maryland on Monday for the Massive Pink’s fourth nationwide championship.
Kirst scored the ultimate aim into an empty internet with 50 seconds to go. It was his 82nd of the season, permitting the NCAA’s all-time main scorer (247) to tie the one season file of 82.
“We knew if [No.] 15 bought going we have been going house with {hardware} and by god if he did not discover it and discover it in an enormous manner,” coach Connor Buczek, a former Massive Pink All-American, mentioned. “He pulls one of the best out of everybody round him.”
This was Cornell’s first championship since 1977 when the Massive Pink defeated Johns Hopkins 16-8 to win the second of back-to-back championships.
This sport, a matchup of the groups from the primary NCAA championship the Massive Pink received 12-6 in 1971, was tight all through. Second-seeded Maryland (14-4) by no means led however top-seeded Cornell (18-1) by no means led by greater than three.
Kirst, who was scoreless for the primary time in his profession within the semifinals, did not join till contained in the two-minute mark of the primary half, which ended with the Massive Pink on prime 6-5. He had had a hat trick within the third interval.
“Simply enjoying off my teammates,” Kirst mentioned. “Semifinal sport I did not have my finest efficiency, however man did my teammates step up. That is what this 12 months’s been all about. … And Ryan Goldstein did not have too unhealthy of day too, huh?”
Maryland, now 4-14 in title video games, went down 10-7 early within the fourth quarter however the Terps scored consecutive targets for the primary time. Brandon Erksa and Elijah Stobaugh made it a one-goal sport with 9:23 to play.
Two unforced turnovers at midfield led to Kirst and Goldstein targets to regain the three-goal lead at 12-9 with 4:08 left.
The Related Press contributed to this report.