North Carolina’s women’s lacrosse team is headed back to the national championship game after routing Maryland 16-6 in an NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Tournament semifinal Friday afternoon at Martin Stadium.
The second-seeded Tar Heels, the defending national champions, advanced to Sunday’s NCAA final in search of their fifth national title. They will make their seventh NCAA championship game appearance and face either top-seeded Northwestern or fourth-seeded Johns Hopkins on Sunday at noon on ESPNU.
UNC (19-1) dominated down the stretch, closing the game on a 13-3 run and holding Maryland to just one goal over the final 27:01. The win extended Carolina’s winning streak to 10 games, snapped the Terrapins’ six-game surge and ended Maryland’s season at 18-4.
See ya Sunday 😃
The Heels down the Terps to advance to their second consecutive national title game and seventh overall!#GoHeels x @WellsFargopic.twitter.com/M5rucLGdXt
— UNC Women’s Lacrosse (@uncwlax) May 22, 2026
Tewaaraton Award favorite Chloe Humphrey powered the Tar Heels with five goals and an assist. Addison Pattillo also scored five times, and Kate Levy added a hat trick as Carolina’s offense overwhelmed the Terps.
Humphrey now has 37 career hat tricks and 23 games with at least five goals in 42 career appearances. Pattillo recorded her fifth straight hat trick, the 16th of her career, and her eighth game with four or more goals.
UNC outshot Maryland 37-23 and held a 27-12 advantage in shots on goal, underscoring the Tar Heels’ control at both ends of the field.
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