Scene from today’s championship (Julia Nikhinson/The Diamondback)

One team only has played in each of the last three NCAA women’s lacrosse championship games and, sadly for Boston College team members and fans, the Eagles have been defeated in each one. Today, #1 Maryland beat #2 BC, 12-10, to take the national crown.

The Eagles finished 22-2 this season, with their only losses coming in the ACC and national championships.

Maryland led at halftime, 8-4. The Eagles came within two of the Terps at 12-10 with 3:50 remaining in the game on Kenzie Kent’s fifth goal of the game, but the Maryland defense kept the lead through the end of the game.

Kent added an assist for six points for the game. Sam Apuzzo had three goals and four points, while Dempsey Arsenault and Cara Urbank each scored a goal.

The women’s lacrosse’s team performances over the last few years brings to mind the three consecutive appearances by the BC men’s hockey team in the national tournament Frozen Four, 1998-2000, and failing to win a championship. It was the next year that the Eagles broke through to win their first national title since 1949.

Maryland and BC have met in each of the last three final fours. The Terps beat BC in the 2017 national title game, 16-13, and the Eagles defeated Maryland, 15-13, in last year’s semifinals.