UNIVERSITY PARK, PA – The top-ranked Maryland men's lacrosse team outscored Johns Hopkins 6-1 in the final 28 minutes of Saturday night's Big Ten Championship game to pull out a 12-10 victory over the Blue Jays.  The win improves Maryland's record to 12-0, while the sixth-seeded Blue Jays, who beat third-seeded Penn State (15-7) and second-seeded Rutgers (12-10) to get to the title game, end the year at 4-9.
 
The Terps trailed 9-6 after a Brett Baskin laser to the top shelf just 59 seconds into the third quarter, but then held the Blue Jays to just one goal the rest of the way and did just enough offensively to pull out the win.
 
Maryland had the deficit down to 9-8 at the end of the third quarter and then pulled even just under four minutes into the fourth quarter on a Daniel Maltz goal from 10 yards out on a slick feed from tournament MVP Jared Bernhardt.
 
The tie held for nearly six minutes before Kyle Long got his hands free on a dodge down the alley and Maltz made it 11-9 with 1:57 on the clock when he scored from the doorstep.
 
The Blue Jays ended their drought 13 seconds after Maltz's goal as Matt Narewski came up with a loose ball on the ensuing faceoff and raced to the goal to make it 11-10 with 1:44 remaining.
 
Maryland won the ensuing faceoff and, in a scramble, the Blue Jays drew a one-minute penalty that Maryland salted away before Anthony DeMaio scored into an empty net with 21 seconds remaining to seal the win.
 
The 11 goals the teams combined for in the last three quarters exactly matched the first quarter combined total as the Blue Jays built a 6-5 lead after the opening 15 minutes.
 
The Blue Jays answered an early Maryland goal with a three-goal flurry that included strikes from Casey McDermott, Joey Epstein and Jacob Angelus in a span of just over two minutes to grab an early 3-1 lead.
 
As quickly as Hopkins built the three-goal lead, it was gone as DeMaio, Logan Wisnauskas and Maltz all scored in a span of 1:47 midway through the period to grab a 4-3 lead.
 
In what turned out to be a game of runs, the Blue Jays matched Maryland's three-goal spurt with a three-goal spree of their own late in the quarter.  Brendan Grimes and Garrett Degnon scored unassisted goals to make it 5-4 and McDermott fired home his second of the game with 2:35 on the first quarter clock off a nice feed from Cole Williams.
 
The teams traded four goals in the final 16 minutes of the first half with Wisnauskas and Eric Holden bookending back-to-back goals from Epstein to account for an 8-6 Blue Jay lead at the half.
 
It took just 59 seconds for Baskin to give the Blue Jays the 9-6 lead, but Bernhardt's goal less than two minutes later jump-started Maryland's game-ending run that secured the Terps' third Big Ten Tournament title.
 
Epstein (3g), Angelus (1g, 2a), McDermott (2g) and Baskin (1g, 1a) all registered multi-point games for the Blue Jays, who also got a 13-of-24 performance and seven ground balls from Narewski.
 
Maltz led Maryland with three goals, while DeMaio (2g, 2a), Bernhardt (2g, 1a) and Wisnauskas (2g, 1a) added multi-goal games for the Terrapins.

Degnon, Narewski and Jared Reinson, who collected 11 ground balls and four caused turnovers in the last two games, were named to the All-Tournament Team.