Courtesy: Matt Riley / UVa Media Relations Jenny Hauser

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 3 Maryland Terrapins visited Klöckner Stadium Friday evening and handed the No. 2 Virginia women’s lacrosse team its first loss of the season, 17-11. The win marks the fourth-straight for Maryland (4-0, 2-0 ACC) this season and its second-consecutive upset win in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Cavaliers fall to 4-1 on the season and 1-1 in the league.

Sarah Mollison led Maryland’s attack with six goals, the most the Cavaliers have allowed a single player to give up all season, while Karri Ellen Johnson added four.

For Virginia, senior All-American Jenny Hauser converted all five of her shots into goals, three of which were free position, and added an assist, tying a career high six points. Senior All-American Blair Weymouth and junior Kaitlin Duff contributed two goals each, while junior Brittany Kalkstein and freshman Julie Gardner added one each. Freshman Josie Owen rounded out the scoring with an assist.

For the first time this season, the Cavaliers gave up the first goal of the contest, with Maryland’s Mollison firing a shot into the back of the net just 3:10 into play. Gardner responded for Virginia at 24:21 before Duff won the ensuing draw control and raced down the right side of the field and slipped a shot into the cage to give the Cavaliers their first lead at 24:10.

Maryland answered with three straight scores before Hauser converted a free position shot at 10:47 to make the score 3-4, in favor of the Terrapins. Maryland tallied another goal, but Weymouth kept the Terps’ lead under control with her first score at 6:43.

From there, it’d be all Maryland for the next three minutes, as the Terrapins rallied off four straight goals to take their largest lead of the contest, at 9-4, with 51.1 seconds in the opening half.

The Cavaliers would cut Maryland’s lead to three by the intermission though, with Kalkstein firing a free position goal into the net with 30.3 ticks remaining. Hauser then made it two straight, converting a free position shot with no time remaining on the clock, giving Maryland a 9-6 halftime edge.

The two squads came out shooting in the beginning of the second half, but the Cavaliers were unable to get anything going, as Maryland had an immediate answer for everything the Cavaliers put up.

Weymouth opened the scoring with a free position goal at 24:32, but McFadden answered for the Terrapins at 24:15. Hauser then tried to spark a run at 21:04, slinging a shot into the cage, but Maryland’s Karri Ellen Johnson answered with a score at 20:43. Duff tallied her second of the afternoon at 17:16, before Amanda Spinnenweber’s goal at 16:20.

Hauser converted another free position shot at 14:55, but Johnson’s goal 40 seconds later sparked a 5-1 run for Maryland, allowing the Terrapins to close out the contest with three unanswered scores and a 17-11 victory.

Johnson sparked Maryland’s attack, winning seven draw controls, while Duff and senior Katie Shannon each won four for Virginia. Shannon also had three ground balls, while Duff and sophomore Liz Downs caused two turnovers.

The Cavaliers will look to rebound on Sunday as they host Penn State in a non-conference tilt at noon in Klöckner Stadium.