Midfielder Taylor Cummings powers past a Tar Heel opponent during the No. 1 Terps’ 13-11 win over No. 2 North Carolina at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex on Feb. 22, 2015.

As snow fell and conditions worsened at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex on Saturday afternoon, the top-ranked Terrapins women’s lacrosse team stormed out to a three-goal lead against No. 2 North Carolina.

But less than 10 minutes into the game, officials made the decision to postpone the contest to Sunday afternoon, when the game would restart with the Terps holding a 4-1 lead.

“A lot of people probably put their heads down,” midfielder Kelly McPartland said. “Then [coach] Cathy [Reese] came in and gave us a speech, and we were like, ‘All right, we just got to do it again. There’s no way to get around it.’”

So the Terps returned to the turf Sunday hoping to re-enact their offensive outburst from the day before. And after scoring five of the first seven goals of the contest, Reese’s squad held on for a 13-11 win over their former ACC rival.

The win served as revenge for the Terps, whose loss to the Tar Heels last season was the team’s only defeat in an otherwise perfect season. The year before, North Carolina topped the Terps in a triple-overtime thriller in the national championship game.

“It’s been something we’ve been looking forward to over the past month,” Reese said. “This is a good learning experience for us to kind of see the things that we need to work on against a team that I think is strong [on] all ends of the field.”

McPartland, midfielder Taylor Cummings and attacker Megan Whittle paced the Terps (2-0) with three goals each. In all, six different Terps put shots into the back of the net.

Meanwhile, the defense did an adequate job containing the Tar Heels attack, which entered the contest averaging 16.3 goals per game. The Tar Heels’ 11 goals came on 16 shots.

“My defense was awesome today,” Reese said. “We were able to come up with a lot of loose balls on the defensive end. We started to get tired towards the end … but again, our defenders pulled through.”

Unlike Saturday’s portion of the game, which the Terps dominated, the part of the first half played Sunday afternoon featured several scoring runs.

After midfielder Zoe Stukenberg opened the scoring for the Terps less than four minutes into the match, the Tar Heels (3-1) responded with two goals of their own, both courtesy of midfielder Brittney Coppa.

Faced with their first deficit of the season, the Terps strung together four straight goals to regain control of the game. Whittle, the nation’s top recruit out of high school, netted two goals during that span.

“It was awesome to be a part of my first Carolina game,” Whittle said. “Second game of the season, too, so getting used to playing with our attack, playing with our team and everything, and just kind of learning how to fit in and learning how to play with all the awesome players we have.”

The Terps entered halftime with a 7-4 advantage, but the Tar Heels netted three of the first four goals of the second half to cut the lead to one.

North Carolina failed to inch any closer as the Terps claimed the next three scores to regain the comfortable advantage they’d held throughout the contest.

Though their momentum was stunted Saturday, the Terps returned with the same attitude Sunday to cement its place atop the national polls.

“It was kind of like Groundhog Day,” Reese said. “We just reset and tried to get everyone home safely.”