Coach John Tillman yells out a play during the Terps’ 11-4 win over Princeton at Byrd Stadium on March 7, 2015.

The Terrapins men’s lacrosse team ended a historic streak Saturday against Princeton.

Tigers midfielder Kip Orban, a senior drafted 19th overall in the 2015 MLL draft by the Charlotte Hounds, entered the game having scored a goal in a Division I-leading 29 straight contests spanning back to his sophomore campaign. 

But with defenders Casey Ikeda and Matt Dunn forcing Orban and the rest of the high-powered Princeton attack into poor shooting positions, Orban’s streak ended, and the Terps shut down the Tigers in an 11-4 win at Byrd Stadium. 

Behind the stout defensive performance, the Terps lowered their goals-against average from 5.25, which led the nation, to 5.00.

“The glue down there, Matt Dunn and Casey Ikeda, do such a great job of keeping everything together,” coach John Tillman said. “Those seven guys, including the goalie, those guys have done a really good job. And if we can get those guys in those situations, we feel very confident that we can have a lot of success.”

Orban wasn’t the only potent offensive player the Terps held scoreless Saturday. 

Attackman Mike MacDonald, who came into the game with 10 goals and a .417 shooting percentage, failed to find the back of the net. Meanwhile, midfielder Zach Currier, who earned USILA Offensive Player of the Week and NCAA.com Offensive Player of the Week honors after totaling five points in the Tigers’ 16-15 win over Johns Hopkins on Feb. 28, was held without a shot and committed three turnovers.

Tillman said the first-half play built his team’s confidence early in Saturday’s game. The Terps failed to clear and were forced to defend Princeton with four short-stick defenders.

“We got it done,” Tillman said. “We saw that as a really good victory for us, just emotionally. Hey, we didn’t have all of our poles on, and we still found a way to get it done.”

For Tillman, Ikeda and Dunn keyed the defensive dominance. The two marked Princeton’s high-profile players and set the tone for the Terps’ effort in their own half.

Last season, the Terps often turned to defender Goran Murray, a preseason first-team All-American, to mark their opponent’s best player. On Saturday, the Terps proved they can lock down good opponents without him.

Tillman attributed part of the Terps’ success to preventing Princeton from earning extra-man opportunities. The Tigers had scored nine goals on man-up situations entering the game but didn’t convert on either of their opportunities against the Terps.

“Having a guy like Matt Dunn being able to play on ball,” Ikeda said. “And then also, when the ball is up top, being able to direct everything with myself and [defender] Mac Pons and [goalkeeper] Kyle [Bernlohr].”

Princeton entered the game with five players who had scored at least seven goals, and they expected another offensive boost Saturday with midfielder Jake Froccaro, the team’s second-leading scorer in 2014, playing his second game of the season.

Froccaro opened scoring for the Tigers on an unassisted goal with 3:14 left in the first quarter. But it was the only one of his five shots that got past Bernlohr (12 saves).

Orban, though, didn’t find the same success. 

The last time Orban failed to score was March 1, 2013, when the Tigers beat Johns Hopkins, 11-8. Since then, Orban has established himself as one of college lacrosse’s premier scorers, and his streak marked the fourth-longest in program history.

But the Terps halted Orban and the rest of Princeton’s offense Saturday en route to picking up a decisive win.

“When we needed to dig in,” Tillman said, “the guys really dug in.”