Maryland 16, Duke 10

Drew Snider tied his career high with four goals and Maryland advanced to the NCAA title game for the second straight year with a 16-10 victory over third-seeded Duke on Saturday on Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

Owen Blye added three goals for the Terrapins (12-5), who will play in-state rival Loyola for the national title Monday. The Greyhounds held off Notre Dame 7-5 in the first semifinal.

Maryland put away the Blue Devils (15-5) with a run of six straight goals after Duke pulled to 10-8 early in the fourth quarter.

The Atlantic Coast Conference rivals split the regular-season series with both winning at home, but the Terps dominated in the most important matchup, scoring the first three goals and getting more than half their shots into the net.

Maryland, which lost to Virginia 9-7 last year in the title game, finished with 29 shots and scored the most goals Duke has allowed this season.

Niko Amato made 10 saves for the Terps, who advanced to their 11th championship game.

Duke's Dan Wigrizer allowed 13 goals before being pulled in the fourth quarter as Maryland put the game out of reach.

The Blue Devils unraveled quickly.

Robert Rotanz pulled Duke to 10-8 with an unassisted goal 2:16 into the fourth quarter. It was his second of the game and 40th of the season, but Maryland answered quickly on Snider's goal with 12:17 left.

Blye bounced a shot past Wigrizer for his second goal of the game, putting the Terps up 12-8 with 10:09 left, then Joe Cummings added another for Maryland just 59 seconds later. It was the 31st goal of the season for Cummings, who also had three assists and leads the Terps in scoring.

Now down 13-8 minutes after pulling within two, Duke called a timeout after Cummings' goal with 9:10 left.

It didn't help.

Duke also replaced Wigrizer in goal with Kyle Turri, who charged way out to try an intercept a pass, leaving a wide-open net for Blye's third goal of the game, putting Maryland up 14-8 with 6:01 remaining. Turri got caught out of position again with 5:02 to go and Kevin Forster took advantage with his second goal of the game.

Sean McGuire made it 16-8 with his first goal of the season with only 2:57 remaining.

Duke finally ended the Terps' scoring run when he scored with 1:27 left as both teams sent in the reserves to finish out the game.

Loyola 7, Notre Dame 5

Loyola of Maryland took a much slower route to the NCAA title game than the Greyhounds are accustomed to.

The top-seeded Greyhounds struggled against Notre Dame's tight defense, breaking through just often enough to pull ahead by four goals and hold off the Fighting Irish.

It was the fewest goals the Greyhounds (17-1) scored in a game this season. Eric Lusby matched a career high with five goals, and Jack Runkel made up with 11 of his career-best 15 saves in the second half as Loyola held on despite failing to score in the final 26:41.

"They didn't want to let us run," Loyola coach Charley Toomey said. "They took us out of what we like to do and they made it a battle out there."

Loyola's previous low was eight goals. Seven suited the Greyhounds just fine Saturday as they extended their winning streak to five and advanced to the title game for the second time.

"That shows the character of this team," Toomey said. "They'll recognize the situation and play to it."

Notre Dame finished 13-3.

The Irish dominated the faceoffs 13-1, but couldn't convert enough into points.

"I think the biggest problem was we didn't shoot well," said Sean Rogers, who scored in the fourth quarter for the Irish. "We've been playing really good offense thus far through the tournament and our shooting was the main reason for that. Today we didn't shoot in the right spots."

The Irish ended a scoring drought of 24:46 with goals in a 50-second span to pull to 7-5 with 6:28 left. Rogers had the first goal, and Westy Hopkins added his second of the game.

But Runkel was there to stop everything else that came his way and the Greyhounds held off several late pushes by the Irish

"He was big. He was as big as he's ever been in there for us," said Toomey, a member of Loyola's national runner-up team in 1990. "When there was a breakdown, Runk was right there to pick up the pieces."

Lusby scored three goals in the first half to help Loyola take a 5-3 lead, then added two more quick goals early in the second half.

Lusby put Loyola up 6-3 26 seconds into the third quarter, and made it 7-3 with 11:40 left in the period.

"I thought we were going to get a couple more," said Lusby, who scored five goals for the second straight game and reached 50 for the season. "I'm playing pretty confident. I see net and I shoot for net. I don't really try to pick the corners. When you try to aim for the exact spot, then you start to mess with your head."