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BALTIMORE – Colin Briggs wasn't trusty if he would get a chance to play in the domestic title game.

The Colony midfielder stood on the sidelines Saturday watching his Cavaliers beat Denver in the semifinals. Coach Dom Starsia had suspended him preceding to the Final Four for committing a team-infraction and was incommunicative when asked Saturday daytime if the senior would be in homogenous Monday. Starsia definite to modify Briggs, and it evidenced a owlish move.

Briggs scored a career-high fivesome goals as seventh-seeded Colony unkind Maryland, 9-7, in a slow, methodical intimacy to getting its ordinal Division I domestic championship. Briggs scored threesome times on oppose shots and twice beat defenders 1-on-1, earning the most unpaid player award.

"I definitely frustrated myself and let down the team on Saturday. I wanted to come backwards today and provide everything I had," Briggs said. "I got whatever unstoppered looks and was healthy to closing whatever shots."

Game time temperature was 96 degrees and it was modify hotter at earth take on a sun-scorched afternoon. Briggs appeared a travel faster than everyone else and agreed that sitting out Saturday gave him an bounds over those that were activity for the ordinal time in threesome days.

"I definitely felt firm out there, especially in the ordinal quarter. I still had legs patch maybe whatever another guys didn't," he said.

Matt White scored threesome goals for Colony (13-5), which has captured quaternary of its NCAA titles under Starsia, the Division I all-time cheater with 329 career victories.

This one was specially satisfying for Starsia since the Cavaliers had to overcome the suspensions of All-American midfielders and match brothers Shamel and Rhamel Bratton and a season-ending trauma to crowning defenseman Matt Lovejoy. Top attackman Steele Stanwick was hobbled for much of the flavour with an trauma patch the Briggs support was the stylish setback in what Starsia termed "the most peculiar flavour I've ever been participating with."

After losing quaternary of fivesome games from March 26 to April 22, Colony reinvented itself both objectionably and defensively. Starsia switched to a regularize accumulation patch the normally run-and-gun Cavaliers installed a more dominated offense. Those changes paid dividends as Colony winking the flavour with fivesome straightforward wins.

"This time is specially gratifying when you consider every that we endured to place ourselves in this position," Starsia said. "We had to reconfigure ourselves midseason and the players had to garner themselves off the ground. We were selection to modify our personality on both ends of the earth and we got meliorate at the modify of the assemblage as a result."

Nick O'Reilly contributed a content and quaternary assists for the Cavaliers, who responded with threesome straightforward goals after the Terrapins equal the reason at six with 11:43 remaining. Adam Ghitelman prefabricated nine saves as the Cavaliers secured their ordinal crown since 2003.

Grant Catalino had digit goals and an assist for unplanted Colony (13-6), which lapse despite outshooting Virginia, 32-26 and success 12 of 19 faceoffs. Midfielder Evangelist Haus had a content and digit assists for the Terps, who sworn numerous voluntary errors on the offensive modify and finished with 13 turnovers in the slow-paced game.

"Our game-plan was to move exclusive with the two-man crease. I conceive we got a aggregation of beatific looks early, but Adam prefabricated whatever saves, we hit a whatever wind and uncomprehensible whatever shots," Catalino said. "I conceive we embattled hornlike and executed our game-plan. It just seemed like the ball didn't listing our artefact today."

Goalie Niko Amato prefabricated octad saves for Maryland, which lost in the finals for the ordinal time since capturing its terminal domestic title in 1975. The Terrapins had their possess challenges to overcome, first with a nous coaching modify in the offseason. Numerous starters uncomprehensible games with injuries patch attackman Ryan Young's care died of pancreatic cancer on April 17.

"I'm rattling frustrated for the 48 guys in our compartment room. I couldn't be more chesty of this group, both as players and as grouping because of the artefact they handled the terminal 12 months," Colony coach Evangelist Tillman said. "It's been a daylong assemblage with every the things we had to care with. The coaching transition, every the injuries, Maria Young's death through it every we played like Terps and represented our school, our state and our alumni with class."

Briggs scored threesome of his goals during a 4-0 separate that overturned a 3-2 inadequacy into a 6-3 lead for Virginia. Catalino had a content and an assist as Colony answered with a 3-0 separate to tie the reason for the ordinal time at 6-6 with 11:43 left in the ordinal quarter.

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