ANNAPOLIS, MD -- The University of Delaware men’s lacrosse will be looking to make history this Sunday afternoon as the Blue Hens head to the U.S. Naval Academy to take on UMBC in an NCAA Tournament quarterfinal game at 12 noon at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium.

The No. 15 ranked Blue Hens (12-5), who advanced thanks to a 14-8 upset win over No. 2 seed and defending national champion University of Virginia last Sunday, will bring a six-game win streak into the game as they take on the No. 13 ranked UMBC Retrievers (11-5). UMBC advanced with a 13-9 win over No. 7 seed Maryland last Sunday.

The game will be televised live on ESPNU with Dave Ryan and Quint Kessenich calling the action. The game will be shown on tape delay at 6 p.m. on MASN in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Delaware’s student radio station, WVUD 91.3 FM, will also broadcast the game live with Bill Panuski and Andrew Gerbosi providing analysis.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and can be purchased on-line at www.navysports.com, by calling 1-800-US4-NAVY, or on Sunday at the Navy Box Office at the North End Zone of the stadium. There is a $5 charge for parking as well.

In the second game of the doubleheader Sunday at Navy, No. 1 seed and No. 2 ranked Duke (15-2) will take on No. 8 seed North Carolina (10-5) at 3 p.m. The other two quarterfinal games will be played Saturday, May 19 at Princeton University with No. 3 seed Johns Hopkins taking on No. 6 Georgetown and No. 4 Cornell playing No. 5 Albany.

Delaware, which has also won five straight road games, will face UMBC for the first time since an 11-10 comeback win in 2004 in Baltimore. The all-time series is deadlocked at 9-9, including a 12-11 win in overtime by Delaware in a 1999 NCAA Tournament first round game. Half of the 18 games in the series have been decided by two goals or less.

The Blue Hens, who are making only their second NCAA quarterfinal appearance and first since a 1999 loss to Virginia, will advance to the NCAA semifinals for the first time in school history with a win and would take on the Georgetown-Johns Hopkins winner. The NCAA semifinals and finals will be held at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore May 26 and 28. Over 40,000 tickets have already been sold for the championships.

Delaware, led by 29th year head coach Bob Shillinglaw, enters the game as one of the nation’s hottest teams with the six-game win streak and the win over the defending champion Cavaliers. A senior-dominated lineup is led by NCAA all-time faceoff leader Alex Smith, high-scoring midfielders Jordan Hall and Dan Deckelbaum, leading scorer Adam-Zuder Havens, top defenseman Rob Smith (at right), and red-hot goalkeeper Tommy Scherr. All but Scherr are seniors.

Alex Smith, a two-time All-American and the 2007 Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year, has led the NCAA in faceoff winning percentage each of the last three seasons and enters the game having won 73.7 percent of his 396 faceoffs this season. The NCAA all-time leader for faceoff wins in a season (292) and career (1,008), Smith also leads the nation in groundballs with 160 and holds the NCAA record in that category as well with 544 for his career.

Zuder-Havens is Delaware’s leading scorer with 33 goals and 11 assists and gets solid support from 2005 CAA Player of the Year Hall (23 goals), two-time first team All-CAA selection Deckelbaum (23 goals), and freshman attack Curtis Dickson (18 goals). Delaware ranks No. 4 in the nation in scoring offense at 12.12 goals per game.

Rob Smith, a graduate student and a first-year transfer from Georgetown where he played in three NCAA Tournaments with the Hoyas, leads the UD defense and has a team-high 20 caused turnovers while Scherr has recorded a 7.92 goals against average and .587 save percentage. He has recorded 47 saves in the last three games, including a season-high 18 in the win over Virginia.

UMBC, the runner-up in the America East conference behind Albany, has won seven of its last eight games and also features a potent offense that ranks No. 7 in the nation with 11.56 goals per game. Drew Westervelt is the nation’s fifth leading scorer with 33 goals and 34 assists while Andy Gallagher has contributed 34 goals and 15 assists and Cayle Ratcliffe has netted a team-high 41 goals. Goalkeeper Jeremy Blevins has allowed 9.79 goals per game while posting a .556 save percentage.