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CBS News
26-05-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
Maryland falls to Cornell, 13-10, in NCAA lacrosse championship game
The Maryland Terrapins' spectacular season ended with a 13-10 loss to Cornell in the NCAA lacrosse championship game on Monday in Foxborough, Mass. Maryland (14-4), the No. 2 seed, fell short of winning its first national title since 2022. The Terps have also played for the national championship four out of the past five seasons. Eric Spanos, Braden Erksa and Zach Whittier each netted two goals for the Terps, while Bryce Ford, Daniel Kelly, Jack Schultz, and Elijah Stobaugh all chipped in a goal. CJ Kirst scored six goals, Ryan Goldstein added four, and Cornell ended a 48-year drought and claimed its fourth national championship. Kirst scored the final goal into an empty net with 50 seconds to go. It was his 82nd of the season, allowing the NCAA's all-time leading scorer (247) to tie the single-season record of 82. "We knew if (No.) 15 got going we were going home with hardware and by god if he didn't find it and find it in a big way," Cornell coach Connor Buczek said. "He pulls the best out of everyone around him." A game, a matchup of the teams from the first NCAA championship, the Big Red won 12-6 in 1971, was tight throughout. Second-seeded Maryland (14-4) never led, but top-seeded Cornell (18-1) never led by more than three. Kirst, who was scoreless for the first time in his career in the semifinals, didn't connect until inside the two-minute mark of the first half, which ended with the Big Red on top 6-5. "Just playing off my teammates," Kirst said. "Semifinal game game I didn't have my best performance but man did my teammates step up. That's what this year's been all about. ... And Ryan Goldstein didn't have too bad of day too, huh?" Maryland, now 4-14 in title games, went down 10-7 early in the fourth quarter, but the Terps scored consecutive goals for the first time. Erksa and Stobaugh made it a one-goal game with 9:23 to play. Two unforced turnovers at midfield led to Kirst and Goldstein goals to regain the three-goal lead at 12-9 with 4:08 left.
Reuters
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Cornell men's lacrosse beats Maryland for 1st title since '77
May 26 - Three years after falling one step short of claiming the NCAA men's lacrosse national championship, Cornell has finally reached the peak. With CJ Kirst recording six goals -- upping his season total to 82 to equal the Division I single-season record -- plus an assist, the Big Red avenged their 2022 loss to Maryland by defeating the Terrapins 13-10 on Monday in Foxborough, Mass. The win gave Cornell its first team championship in any sport since the lacrosse team won in 1977 while handing Maryland its third title game loss in five years. What's more, Kirst reset the Division I career scoring mark with his six goals to finish with 247. Ryan Goldstein had four goals for Cornell, while Andrew Dalton and Ryan Waldman also netted a score apiece. Wyatt Knust finished with 12 saves for the Big Red. Maryland's Zach Whittier, Eric Spanos and Braden Erksa each had two goals, while Bryce Ford, Daniel Kelly, Jack Schultz and Elijah Stobaugh all scored once. Logan McNaney totaled 11 saves in goal. "Credit to these guys, credit to these players, credit to this tradition, credit to my staff," Cornell coach Connor Buczek, a former Big Red midfielder himself, told ESPN during a postgame interview. "I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I'm surrounded by incredible people who just work their tails off day in, day out. I'm so happy for the university. I'm so happy for our tradition. This feels incredible." --Field Level Media
Associated Press
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Kirst scores 6 goals, Cornell wins first NCAA lacrosse title since 1977 13-10 over Maryland
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — CJ Kirst scored six goals, Ryan Goldstein added four and Cornell, the first NCAA lacrosse champion, ended a 48-year drought with a 13-10 win over Maryland on Sunday for the Big Red's fourth national championship. Kirst scored the final goal into an empty net with 50 seconds to go. It was his 82nd of the season, allowing the NCAA's all-time leading scorer (247) to tie the single season record of 82. 'We knew if (No.) 15 got going we were going home with hardware and by god if he didn't find it and find it in a big way,' coach Connor Buczek, a former Big Red All-American said. 'He pulls the best out of everyone around him.' A game, a matchup of the teams from the first NCAA championship the Big Red won 12-6 in 1971, was tight throughout. Second-seeded Maryland (14-4) never led but top seeded Cornell (18-1) never led by more than three. Kirst, who was scoreless for the first time in his career in the semifinals, didn't connect until inside the two minute mark of the first half, which ended with the Big Red on top 6-5. He had had a hat trick in the third period. 'Just playing off my teammates,' Kirst said. 'Semifinal game game I didn't have my best performance but man did my teammates step up. That's what this year's been all about. ... And Ryan Goldstein didn't have too bad of day too, huh?' Maryland, now 4-14 in title games, went down 10-7 early in the fourth quarter but the Terps scored consecutive goals for the first time. Brandon Erksa and Elijah Stobaugh made it a one-goal game with 9:23 to play. Two unforced turnovers at midfield led to Kirst and Goldstein goals to regain the three-goal lead at 12-9 with 4:08 left. ___ AP college sports:
National Post
08-05-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Meet Pat Spencer, the NBA's most unlikely player who went from lacrosse legend to the League
Article content The Golden State Warriors have a new cult hero with a backstory that reads like fiction. Article content Article content Spencer sports a moustache that looks straight out of the 1970s (think Starsky and Hutch) and during Game 1 of Golden State's playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves earlier this week, dropped a running hook shot off the glass, adding to his throwback feel. Article content Article content Spencer sporting No. 61 on his jersey doesn't help much to make him appear like a modern player, either. Article content When the play started making the rounds on social media, some wondered whether Spencer was a real player or if AI had simply improved to the point where created players out of video games could be inserted into NBA clips. Article content Spencer is in fact real, though how he got here seems out of a movie. Article content He was only a few months shy of his 28th birthday when he made his NBA debut last season. That doesn't happen very often. He played six games for the Warriors and a total of 26 minutes, taking only four shots. Article content In 2024-25, Spencer got into 39 regular-season games for Golden State (and threw down a huge dunk over gigantic Utah centre Walker Kessler), but now surprisingly has been called on by head coach Steve Kerr for five playoff contests. Article content NCAA LACROSSE RECORD HOLDER-TURNED NBA PLAYER PAT SPENCER PUT WALKER KESSLER ON A POSTER! 😳📸 — Courtside Buzz (@CourtsideBuzzX) February 6, 2025 Article content Article content A bigger surprise has been Spencer shooting 15-for-21 (71.4%) in those games considering he has hit only 41% of his regular-season attempts. Article content Article content One of the most staggering parts of Spencer's story is the fact that basketball isn't even his best sport. Spencer hails from North Wales, Penn., a suburb just north of Philadelphia, and went to prep school in Maryland where he was a lacrosse sensation (while also playing basketball). Article content Spencer is the NCAA's all-time lacrosse leader in assists (231) and the Patriot League's career points leader. He has won all kinds of awards, including national player of the year and the Tewaaraton Award, which is considered the Heisman Trophy for lacrosse.
