With 5:22 remaining in the first half of the Big Ten championship game against No. 3-seed Rutgers, No. 1-seed Maryland women’s lacrosse graduate attacker Aurora Cordingley scored the team’s sixth goal of the afternoon on an aggressive cut down the middle of Rutgers’s stingy defense.
The Terps had been struggling to this point in the game to gain consistent momentum. Their offense was stalled by sophomore goalkeeper Sophia Cardello and the tenacious Scarlet Knight backline. But little did anyone know that Cordingley’s goal would be the start of a tsunami-like wave of goals by the tournament’s top seed.