No. 5 Maryland field hockey didn’t let the high of Friday’s double-overtime win distract it from the test at hand Sunday, beating Drexel at The Plex, 2-0.
Head coach Missy Meharg and her players were frank in addressing the team’s condition after the game. Meharg admitted that the Terps had been affected by their physically and emotionally intense opener and that they were not playing smart to start the game.
“We started off a little slower than we wanted to, but that just comes from fatigue from a 78 minute game. ... So the first half kind of took us a little bit, and then the second half we kind of built up into it,” Maryland midfielder Hope Rose said.