The fifth-ranked Maryland field hockey team beat top-ranked and unbeaten Connecticut, 2-1, Sunday with a strong defensive performance at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. After the Terps (13-3) took the lead just before halftime, their defense battled the Huskies (16-1) all second half to hand Connecticut its first loss of the year.
The Terrapins held the nation’s top scoring team to well under its average of 5.41 goals per game and the nation’s top goal scorer, UConn’s Charlotte Veitner, scoreless.
“What a fantastic outcome,” head coach Missy Meharg said. “UConn is a team that has been to the Final Four the last few years. They won the national championship on this very field a few years ago. For us, it was an incredible amount of energy to find a way to win the game. Welma Luus and Lein Holsboer are such magnificent leaders.”
Connecticut got on the board first when Anna Middendorf scored off a penalty corner five minutes in.
Grace Balsdon answered for Maryland when she sent one into the net off a penalty corner set up by Anouk van Asbeck and Lein Holsboer in the 23rd minute.
With just over four minutes left in the half, Welma Luus gave the Terps a 2-1 lead when she scored off her own rebounded shot. She cracked a shot from the right side that hit the post, then collected the rebound and banged it in for the goal
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