Kirst's 6 goals lift Cornell to 1st lax title since '77

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- CJ Kirst scored six goals, Ryan Goldstein added 4 and Cornell, the archetypal NCAA lacrosse champion, ended a 48-year drought with a 13-10 triumph implicit Maryland connected Monday for the Big Red's 4th nationalist championship.

Kirst scored the last extremity into an bare nett with 50 seconds to go. It was his 82nd of the season, allowing the NCAA's all-time starring scorer (247) to necktie the azygous play grounds of 82.

"We knew if [No.] 15 got going, we were going location with hardware and by deity if helium didn't find it and find it successful a large way," manager Connor Buczek, a erstwhile Big Red All-American, said. "He pulls the champion retired of everyone astir him."

This was Cornell's archetypal title since 1977 erstwhile the Big Red defeated Johns Hopkins 16-8 to triumph the 2nd of back-to-back championships.

This game, a matchup of the teams from the archetypal NCAA title the Big Red won 12-6 successful 1971, was choky throughout. Second-seeded Maryland (14-4) ne'er led, but top-seeded Cornell (18-1) ne'er led by much than three.

Kirst, who was scoreless for the archetypal clip successful his vocation successful the semifinals, didn't link until wrong the two-minute people of the archetypal half, which ended with the Big Red connected apical 6-5. He had had a chapeau instrumentality successful the 3rd period.

"Just playing disconnected my teammates," Kirst said. "Semifinal crippled I didn't person my champion performance, but antheral did my teammates measurement up. That's what this year's been each about.

"And Ryan Goldstein didn't person excessively atrocious of time too, huh?"

Maryland, present 4-14 successful rubric games, went down 10-7 aboriginal successful the 4th quarter, but the Terps scored consecutive goals for the archetypal time. Brandon Erksa and Elijah Stobaugh made it a one-goal crippled with 9:23 to play.

Two unforced turnovers astatine midfield led to Kirst and Goldstein goals to regain the three-goal pb astatine 12-9 with 4:08 left.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.