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Maryland routed by Texas in top-10 clash as crushing injuries to key players mount
No. 8 Maryland couldn’t catch a break Monday.
The day started with the Terrapins announcing that key reserve Bri McDaniel would miss the remainder of the season with a torn ACL in her right knee.
Hours later, senior Shyanne Sellers exited the second game of the Coretta Scott Classic doubleheader at Prudential Center with a right knee injury.
After getting blown out 89-51 by No. 7 Texas, Maryland head coach Brenda Frese didn’t have an immediate update on Sellers, who will be evaluated Tuesday by doctors.
Sellers leads the Terrapins in assists (4.9 per game) and is second in scoring (14.9 points per game). She also contributes 4.3 rebounds per game.
McDaniel, who hurt her knee in last week’s win against No. 24 Minnesota, has also been a key contributor to Maryland’s success this season. She averaged 10.6 points, 2.4 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game off the bench.
Sellers and McDaniel’s absences in Monday’s game “clearly” impacted the result, Frese said.
“We’re trying to regroup as a team, losing Bri and then having Shy go down was also extremely painful to be going against the pressing team with limited guard play,” Frese said. “But obviously playing a top-10 team and losing two of your top three scorers is a tough pill to be able to swallow.”
Frese said Maryland (16-2) had only two practices without McDaniel to prepare for the Texas game, but there isn’t an easy solution to filling the void left by McDaniel.
“You’re not going to replace a player like Bri,” Frese said. “Everyone has to do a little bit more and that’s a little bit more on the defensive end and lock it in … one player doesn’t have to do it, it’s got to be by committee.”
Now, with Sellers’ future availability uncertain, the Terrapins might have to start preparing for the reality of playing without two of their most impactful players.
“We’re going to have to find ways to get on the glass and get to the free-throw line,” Frese said. “No one is going to feel sorry for us. So you just got to figure out [how] to find a way.”
Maryland opened the season 14-0, marking the program’s best start since 2011-12. But the Terrapins have gone 2-2 since Jan. 8 and are in the midst of their most challenging stretch of the season.
Maryland plays at No. 9 Ohio State on Thursday before hosting No. 1 UCLA on Sunday.
“For us, it’s just understanding we’re not going to get too high or too low in January,” Frese said. “And we’re going to figure it out. We always do.”
More than 150 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas have been infected with influenza over the past three weeks — a major outbreak less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said American troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated against the flu.
A day off at the pool — and a little sunburn — didn’t stop the Minnesota Twins’ momentum.
Brooks Lee hit a three-run homer as Minnesota scored multiple runs in the first inning for the third consecutive game, and the Twins went on to complete a series sweep of the Texas Rangers with a 9-3 win Thursday.
Minnesota has won four games in a row and scored 25 runs in the three-games series in Texas. The two teams had a rare, mid-series day off on Wednesday with the England-Croatia World Cup game being played in Arlington.
“We’re locked in every day,” Lee told Audra Martin on the team’s broadcast. “Yesterday, taking time off, lay out by the pool, get a little burnt and then right back to it. We did a good job getting focused. I feel like we do that with rain delays, too, just lock back in and we’re doing it.”
Lee’s 12th homer capped a four-run first off Jack Leiter (3-7). Trevor Larnach made it 6-0 in the fourth with a two-run shot to straightaway center that just cleared the extended glove of leaping Alejandro Osuna. Larnach’s third hit was an RBI single in the fifth, and Ryan Kriedler hit a two-run homer in the eighth.
Joe Ryan (5-3) struck out seven but needed 97 pitches to get through five scoreless innings while allowing three singles. Leiter was done after the fourth, and has given up 17 runs while losing three starts in a row.
The Twins never trailed in the sweep that extended their winning streak to four, matching their longest this season. Their 14-5 record at Globe Life Field is the best for any American League opponent since the ballpark opened in 2020.
Wyatt Langford, Ezequiel Duran and Justin Foscue hit solo homers for the Rangers, who have lost five of six games. They are 0-15 when giving up multiple runs in the first inning.
Twins DH Josh Bell, who was born in nearby Irving and grew up in the area, had an RBI single before Lee’s homer. Bell hit a three-run homer in the first inning of the series-opening 4-2 win Monday, and had an RBI single for a 2-0 lead in the first of a 12-2 win on Tuesday.
“We’re just passing the baton each time,” Lee said of the offensive output. “Our guys are hot. They feel good and they came out swinging today. It was awesome to see. We’ve done that for a while now.”
Up next
Twins rookie left-hander Connor Prielipp (2-4, 5.26 ERA) starts Friday at Arizona. The Diamondbacks are scheduled to start right-hander Michael Soroka (8-3, 3.11).
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