COLLEGE PARK — Quarterfinal appearances in the NCAA Tournament are no longer a given for Maryland women’s lacrosse.

Having advanced to 13 consecutive quarterfinals from 2007 to 2019, the Terps have now failed to get out of the second round in three of the past five years. Penn was the latest opponent to add to that misery when sophomore attacker Catherine Berkery converted a pass from senior attacker Erika Chung with 1:41 left in double overtime to cement an 11-10 victory Sunday afternoon before an announced 723 at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.

Maryland, which owns an NCAA-leading 14 national championships, has not played for a title since 2019 when that squad outlasted Boston College, 12-10, for the crown. The program has been bounced from the second round in 2021, 2023 and now 2025.

“It’s disappointing,” coach Cathy Reese said. “For us here at Maryland, we want to be competing in a Final Four every year. We want to be competing in the Big Ten championship, and yeah, we were fortunate to be in that situation, and we fell short of that goal this season. But this has been a tough year. We’ve learned a lot. We have a lot of new faces and a lot of new people on the field. We said all along that we were going to be a team that just keeps getting better and keeps battling all season long. “Now we’ve just got to take a deep breath, take a few days, and get back to work for next year.”

Both teams went through empty possessions in the first and second overtimes before Chung drew a Terps defender away from the cage, allowing Berkery to begin a curl around the left post unimpeded.

Chung passed the ball to Berkery, who needed just a couple of steps to dunk her shot over sophomore goalkeeper JJ Suriano and into the top right corner of the net for the game-winner.

Quakers coach Karin Brower Corbett sounded pleased that the ball was in the stick of Berkery, who racked up seven goals and four assists in victories over Army West Point and Maryland in three days.

“On that last play, we were moving the ball a lot. What we had tried to get into didn’t work,” Corbett said. “So we were just playing on the fly, and Catherine is really good at that. She saw her kid not coming with her. And she was able to get that step on the crease, and that’s all that she really needs with her height and her finishing ability.”

Added Reese: “It’s a heartbreaker. I don’t know if there’s any other words for it.”

When junior midfielder Kori Edmondson scored her second free-position goal of the game, the Terps (15-6) owned a 10-8 advantage with 5:07 left in the fourth quarter.

The Quakers halved the deficit when senior midfielder Anna Brandt scored her third goal with 3:44 remaining.

With the clock slipping under 15 seconds, senior Keeley Block began a dodge against Maryland junior defender Neve O’Ferrall. But Block slipped and coughed up the ball, which was scooped up by O’Ferrall, a Catonsville resident and Glenelg Country graduate.

Then O’Ferrall lost her footing and threw the ball forward to Penn senior midfielder Gracie Smith, who had the presence of mind to find Chung behind the Terps defense, and Chung bounced a shot under Suriano to tie the score at 10 with two seconds to go.

Reese could only marvel at the Quakers’ good fortune in the waning seconds.

“For Penn to even capitalize on a caused turnover in the last couple seconds of the game to score and send it to overtime shows the kind of battle this game was,” she said. “In overtime, we each had chances. This just kind of went down to the wire, and Penn ended up making one more play than we did at the end of the game.”

Brandt, a White Hall resident and Hereford graduate, said she and her teammates did not panic despite trailing by two goals late in regulation.

“Never say die,” she said of the team’s attitude. “With lacrosse, especially on this field, it’s so fast, and things can change in a matter of seconds. It’s 0-0 in our books every time; we always talk about that. It’s the next play, you’re never truly out of it unless you let yourself believe that. So it’s really a mental game. I honestly think sometimes the mentally tougher team wins those overtimes — who can stick it out to the end, who can walk it and say, ‘This is our game.’”

Block amassed three goals and one assist, and Chung racked up two goals and two assists for the Quakers (12-6). Senior defender Natasha Gorriaran caused six turnovers, scooped up five ground balls, and controlled three draws, and senior defender Grace Lillis added four ground balls and three caused turnovers.

Penn advances to the quarterfinal round and will face either No. 3 seed Northwestern or Michigan on Thursday.

Sophomore attacker Lauren LaPointe, a Glenelg resident and graduate, led Maryland with three goals and one assist. Edmondson, a Severn resident and McDonogh graduate, totaled two goals and one assist, and freshman midfielder Emma Abbazia dished out three assists.

Suriano, a Baltimore resident and Bryn Mawr graduate, had game highs in saves (15) and ground balls (six), and freshman midfielder Kayla Gilmore controlled nine draws.

But the Terps committed a season-worst 24 turnovers, including seven each in the third and fourth quarters and one in each extra session. Edmondson turned the ball over five times, Abbazia four, and graduate student attackers Chrissy Thomas and Kate Sites three times each.

The inability to protect the ball chafed at Reese.

“Our [defense] played really well,” she said. “I think we got into the offensive end, and I think most of our turnovers came from offensive players. Penn’s [defense] is athletic. They’re fast, they’re aggressive, and they stepped out their pressure on us. If you showed your stick at all, they were coming up with caused turnovers and checking the ball out. We gave them the ball back to them too many times today.”

Johns Hopkins falls to Princeton: A 9-1 scoring run by Princeton spanning the second and third quarters broke a 4-4 tie and lifted the visiting Tigers to a commanding 18-12 victory in an NCAA second-round contest at Homewood Field.

Princeton advances to face No. 1 seed North Carolina on Thursday.

The Blue Jays (13-7) scored the first two goals of the game on strikes by Ava Angello and Ashley Mackin before Princeton (16-3) answered with three straight to take a one-goal lead into the second quarter. But after Angello’s second goal tied the score, the Tigers scored the final three goals before halftime and then six in a row in the third to pull away.

Three straight goals by Mackin, who finished with five in the game and 66 for the season, cut Princeton’s lead to 17-12 in the fourth quarter, but it was too little, too late for the Blue Jays. McKenzie Blake led the Tigers with eight goals on as many shots on goal, while Meg Morrisroe added four tallies and an assist. Jami MacDonald had a goal and five helpers.

For Johns Hopkins, Lacey Downey had a hat trick and Morgan Giardina made eight saves in the loss.

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