March 13, 2000

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 9 Maryland men's lacrosse team goes for its third win a row as its hosts No. 16 Delaware on Wednesday afternoon at Byrd Stadium. Face-off is set for 4 p.m. The Terps are coming off a pair of home victories last week, defeating Bucknell 9-3 on March 7 and Towson, 13-12 on March 11 as Mike Morsell (Hungtingdon Valley, Pa.) scored the game-winning goal with 28 seconds left in regulation. Following the Delaware game, Maryland will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to battle the No. 13 Cornell Big Red on Saturday, March 18.

Edell Reaches One Milestone, Eyes Another With the win over his alma mater, Towson, last Saturday, Maryland head coach Dick Edell became the first coach in ACC history to reach the 150-win plateau at a conference school. In 17 years with the Terps, Edell has a record of 150-69 (.685).

Edell could reach another milestone against Delaware. A win against the Blue Hens would be Edell's 262nd overall in 28 years as a college head coach. That would tie him with former Towson coach Carl Runk (262-161) for fourth on the all-time collegiate coaching win chart. Edell enters the Delaware game with a lifetime mark of 261-116.

Game Facts and Coverage
Game 5: No. 16 Delaware at No. 9 Maryland
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000
Time: 4 p.m. (ET)
Site: Byrd Stadium (48,055), College Park, Md.

2000 Records:
Maryland: 3-1 (0-1 ACC), Delaware: 2-2 (0-0 America East)
Series History: Maryland leads 5-1
Last Meeting: May 4, 1988: Maryland 17, Delaware 7

The Coaches:
Maryland: Dick Edell (261-116 overall/28th yr., 150-69 at Maryland/17th yr.)
Delaware: Bob Shillinglaw (196-175 overall/24th yr., 172-158 at Delaware/22nd yr.)

Records & Rankings
Maryland enters Wednesday's game against Delaware with a 3-1 record (0-1 in the ACC) coming off a thrilling 13-12 win over Towson on Saturday. The Terps have also defeated Mount St. Mary's, 19-3 and Bucknell 9-3. Maryland's lone loss came against then-ranked No.5 Duke, 9-8 on March 4.

In the polls, Maryland was ranked No. 9 in the STX/USILA Coaches Poll of March 6 and the Baltimore Sun poll of March 6. In the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll of March 13, Maryland has maintained its No. 9 ranking for the second consecutive week. The Terps were ranked No. 8 in the preseason coaches poll released by Face-Off Magazine and No. 9 in the preseason Baltimore Sun poll. Maryland went 9-5 in 1999 and finished the season ranked No. 9 in the USILA Coaches' Poll.

Delaware is 2-2, coming off a tough 8-7 loss to No. 8 North Carolina last Saturday. The Blue Hens have defeated Mount St. Mary's 10-4 on March 1 and Rutgers 15-5 on March 4. Their other loss came to Loyola, 14-3 in their season opener on Feb. 26.

The Blue Hens were ranked No. 16 in the STX/USILA Coaches Poll of March 6 and are No. 19 in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll of March 13. The Blue Hens were ranked No. 17 in the preseason coaches poll released by Face-Off Magazine. Last year, Delaware went 14-3 overall behind National Player of the Year John Grant and won their first-ever NCAA Tournament game.

Series History With Delaware
Maryland holds a 5-1 lead in the series history with Delaware, but the teams have not played in more than 12 years. The Terps have won the last three meetings on May 4, 1988 (17-7), April 29, 1987 (20-3), April 30, 1986 (11-6). Delaware's lone win came on May 1, 1985, 9-5 in Newark, Del. Maryland won the first two meetings in 1978 (21-10) and 1979 (21-5).

Interestingly, the last Maryland-Delaware game on May 4, 1988, was the first-ever night lacrosse game played at Byrd Stadium, the Terps won 17-7 behind four goals from the school's 14th all-time leading scorer Mark Douglas.

Mollot Among The National Leaders In Assists And Points
Redshirt freshman Mike Mollot (Holbrook, N.Y.) has asserted himself as one of the nation's top feeders less than a month into his first collegiate lacrosse season. In just four games, Mollot ranks second in the nation in assists with 13. He had a career-high five against Towson -- all of which came in the first half. Only Bert Whitelock of St. Joseph's has more assists with 16.

Overall, Mollot's 17 points (four goals and 13 assists), ranks tied for fourth in the nation in scoring. Only Whitelock and Drew Scott of St. Joseph's, both with 21, and North Carolina's Jeff Sonke (18 points) rank ahead of Mollot.

MARYLAND (3-1, 0-1 ACC)

F27   MOUNT ST. MARY'S (8/-)                   W, 19-3
 M4 * at Duke (8/5)                            L, 8-9
 M7   BUCKNELL (9/-)                           W, 9-3
M11   TOWSON (9/-)                             W, 13-12
M15   DELAWARE                                 4:00 p.m.
M18   at Cornell                               2:00 p.m.
M21   VERMONT                                  4:00 p.m.
M25 * at North Carolina                        1:00 p.m.
M31 * VIRGINIA (WMAR)                          8:00 p.m.
A8    NAVY                                     1:00 p.m.
A15   at Johns Hopkins (WMAR)                  8:00 p.m.
A21   ACC SEMIFINALS                           6/8:00 p.m.
A23   ACC CHAMPIONSHIP (HTS)                   3:30 p.m.
A28   YALE                                     8:00 p.m.
M6    at UMBC                                  2:00 p.m.
M13   NCAA First Round at Geneva, N.Y.
M14   NCAA First Round at Catonsville, Md.
M20   NCAA Quarterfinals at N. Brunswick, N.J.
M21   NCAA Quarterfinals at Baltimore, Md.
M27   NCAA SEMIFINALS (ESPN2)                  Noon
M29   NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP (ESPN)                 10:55 a.m.

* - ACC game, home games bolded, all times Eastern
USILA Rankings in parentheses (Md./Opponent)

2000 ACC STANDINGS

Teams         Overall   Pct. ACC   Pct.
Duke            3-1    .750  1-0  1.000
North Carolina  4-0   1.000  0-0   .000
Virginia        1-1    .500  0-0   .000
Maryland        3-1    .750  0-1   .000

Last Week's Action:
Mar. 7: Maryland 9, Bucknell 3

Mar. 11: Maryland 13, Towson 12
Loyola 11, Duke 10
Virginia 15, Princeton 9
North Carolina 8, Delaware 7

This Week's Action:
Mar. 14: Virginia at Rutgers, 4 p.m.
Pennsylvania at North Carolina, 7 p.m.

Mar. 15: Delaware at Maryland, 4 p.m.

Mar. 18: Virginia at Stony Brook, 1 p.m.
Duke at Brown, 1 p.m.
Maryland at Cornell, 2 p.m.
Ohio State at North Carolina, 2 p.m.

Head Coach Dick Edell
Maryland's Dick Edell (Towson '67), is in his 28th season of coaching and 17th season at Maryland as one of the all-time coaching greats of the game.

After compiling a 9-5 record in 1999, Edell has the best career ACC record with a 150-69 (.685), all at Maryland.

With a lifetime record of 261-116 (.692) over 28 years following stints at the University of Baltimore, Army and Maryland, Edell is the nation's second-winningest active coach. Ironically, the only coach Edell trails on the active list is Jack Emmer (275-147), who succeeded Edell at Army in 1984.

With 261 career wins, Edell is the fifth all-time winningest coach in men's lacrosse annals. He passed former Cornell coach Richie Moran and Syracuse legend Roy Simmons, Sr. last season. The next coach on the list is former Towson coach Carl Runk (262). The all-time leader is former UMass coach Dick Garber (300 wins).

"Big Man," as he is affectionately known, has led his teams to 19 NCAA Tournament appearances (15 in Division I), including 11 at Maryland. He has also led the Terps to three ACC championships and three NCAA championship game appearances. He was named the National Coach of the Year by the USILA in 1978 and 1995. He was also selected as the ACC Coach of the Year in 1989, 1992 and 1998.

Winningest Active Coaches (By Wins)
1. Jack Emmer, Army          275-147
2. Dick Edell, Maryland      261-116
3. Glenn Thiel, Penn State   240-151
4. Tom Hayes, Rutgers        236-173

Winningest All-Time Coaches (By Wins)
1. Dick Garber, Massachusetts     300
2. Roy Simmons, Jr., Syracuse     290
3. Jack Emmer, Army               274
4. Carl Runk, Towson              262
5. Dick Edell, Maryland           261

Winningest Active Coaches (By Win Percentage)
1. Bill Tierney, Princeton       76.5% 169-52
2. Dave Urick, Georgetown        75.2% 218-72
3. Mike Pressler, Duke           71.9% 166-65
4. Dave Cottle, Loyola           72.1% 163-63
5. Dom Starsia, Virginia         71.0% 181-74
6. Dick Edell, Maryland          69.2% 261-116
7. Don Zimmerman, UMBC           68.4% 117-54
8. Tony Seaman, Towson           67.1% 169-83
9. Dave Klarmann, No. Carolina   67.6% 96-46
10. Jack Emmer, Army             65.2% 275-147

* Minimum 100 games coached, through March 13

TERPS IN THE POLLS

2000 STX/USILA Coaches' Poll (3/6/00)

No.  Team                Rec. Points
 1.  Syracuse (10)       2-0  200
 2.  Princeton           1-0  184
 3.  Virginia            0-1  182
 4.  Duke                3-0  166
 5.  Georgetown          2-0  159
 6.  Loyola              2-0  156
 7.  Johns Hopkins       0-1  133
 8.  North Carolina      3-0  131
 9.  Maryland            1-1  119
10.  Hofstra             1-1  105
11.  Navy                1-1  103
12.  Pennsylvania        1-0  93
13.  Cornell             1-0  68
14.  Massachusetts       1-1  62
15.  Notre Dame          1-1  59
16.  Delaware            2-1  31
17.  UMBC                1-1  29
18.  Lehigh              2-0  25
19.  Hobart              0-0  24
20.  Penn State          1-1  22

Others Rec. votes: Denver, Ohio State, Butler, Towson, Army, Harvard, Bucknell

2000 Inside Lacrosse Media Poll (3/13/00)

No. Team                Pts.     LW
 1. Syracuse            220 (11) 1
 2. Virginia            207      3
 3. Princeton           187      2
 4. Loyola              186      7
 5. Georgetown          182      5
 6. Johns Hopkins       165      6
 7. Duke                160      4
 8. North Carolina      135      8
 9. Maryland            133      9
10. Navy                120      11
11. Hofstra             105      10
12. Cornell             103      12
13. Notre Dame           73      16t
14. Pennsylvania         62      15
15. Massachusetts        52      13
16. Penn State           43      14
17. UMBC                 38      16t
18. Army                 28      --
19. Delaware             27      19
20. Hobart               21      18

Others receiving votes: Butler 20, Denver 19, Towson 12, Harvard 6, Lehigh 4, Fairfield 1, Ohio State 1.
Maryland's 2000 Opponents in bold.

Terps' Last Game:
No. 9 Maryland 13, Towson 12

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Sophomore attackman Mike Morsell (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.) scored the game-winning goal off a pass from senior Brian Zeller (Forest Hill, Md.) with 28 seconds left in regulation to give No. 9 Maryland a thrilling 13-12 win over interstate rival Towson on Saturday at a wet Byrd Stadium. Morsell's first career game-winning goal capped a back-and-forth game that featured seven ties including four in the second half at 8-8, 9-9, 10-10 and 12-12.

Maryland's Mike LaMonica (Lutherville, Md.) had a career game scoring four goals, including the first two to put the Terps up 2-0. Towson's Todd Paradise then scored four of Towson's next six goals to give the Tigers a 6-3 lead with 9:00 left in the second quarter. That three- goal margin was the largest differential of the game.

The Terps (3-1) rallied five straight goals in the final 8:32 of the first half on LaMonica's third and fourth goals of the game and single goals from Mike Mollot, Craig Hochstadt (Columbia, Md.) and Chris Malone (Timonium, Md.), to give Maryland an 8-6 halftime edge.

Towson (0-2) tied the game at 8-8 on goals by Brad Reppert and Paradise -- his fifth of the game -- with 9:22 left in the third. Mike Haertel and Marcus LaChapelle (Severna Park, Md.) traded goals to make the score 9-9 with 0:57 left in the third. Morsell then scored his first of two last-minute goals as time expired in the third to put Maryland up 10-9 heading to a hotly contested fourth.

The Tigers quickly tied the game at 10-10 just 56 seconds into the fourth as Brad Monaco scored off a pass from J.D. Jones. The Terps took a two goal advantage, 12-10, as Malone and LaChapelle each scored his second goal of the game midway through the fourth. Towson then came back to tie the game on goals by Haertel, with 4:52 left in regulation and Monaco with 2:20 left in the game. That set the stage for Morsell's heroics with 28 seconds left.

Mollot set a career-high with six points on one goal and five assists, all in the first half. His five assists were the most since Andrew Whipple had five in the Terps' 1998 NCAA Semifinal upset over Loyola. Malone moved his consecutive point-scoring streak to eight games and LaChapelle has now scored in seven straight dating to last season.

In nets, Maryland's Pat McGinnis (Ellicott City, Md.) made 13 saves to earn his third career win and Towson's John Horrigan recorded 14 saves for the Tigers, who were outshot 40-36.

Box Score

Towson (0-2)          3  3  3  3 -- 12
No. 9 Maryland (3-1)  2  6  2  3 -- 13

Scoring: Maryland - Mike Mollot 1-5-6, Mike LaMonica 4-0-4, Chris Malone 2-2-4, Marcus LaChapelle 2-1-3, Mike Morsell 2-0-2, Brian Zeller 1-1-2, Craig Hochstadt 1-0-1. Towson - Todd Paradise 5-1-6, Mike Haertel 2-2-4, Brad Reppert 2-1-3, Brad Monaco 2-0-2, Josh Cornett 1-0-1, J.D. Jones 0-1-1, Ryan Obloj 0-1-1.

Goalies:
Maryland - Pat McGinnis (13 saves, 12 GA, 60:00).
Towson - John Horrigan (14 saves, 13 GA, 60:00).

Team Stats:

Category        Maryland       Towson
Shots           8-12-14-6=40   8-11-7-10=36
Saves           4-3-3-3=13     3-4-6-1=14
Face-Offs       12/27          15/27
Groundballs     9-13-10-8=40   9-8-8-11=36
Clears          25/27          10/16
Extra-Man Opp.  3/8            2/5
Penalties       5/4:30         8/6:00

McGinnis Making Many Saves
Junior Pat McGinnis (Ellicott City, Md.) has been outstanding in his first season as the Terps' starting goalie. In four games, McGinnis has a sensational 6.67 goals against average and a .684 save percentage. He has allowed just 25 goals, including none in the second half against Bucknell. He allowed just one goal in 45 minutes in his career-starting debut against Mount St. Mary's.

Mollot Makes Mark
Redshirt freshman Mike Mollot stands atop the Maryland scoring chart after four college games. The preseason honorable mention All-American attackman leads the Terps in points with 17 and assists with 13. He has recorded at least three points in each game with the Terps after posting a career-high six points (one goal and five assists) against Towson.

He had one goal and three assists against Bucknell, three assists against Duke and two goals and two assists in the opener against Mount St. Mary's.

At his current rate, Mollot will surpass last season's leader in assists (Marcus LaChapelle with 18) in the next two games.

Mollot's Assists Most In Two Yrs.
Mike Mollot's single-game assist total of five against Towson was the most by a Maryland player since Andrew Whipple had five against Loyola on May 25, 1998 in the NCAA Semifinals.

Last season, the most assists in a game was four, accomplished by Marcus LaChapelle against Duke on March 7, 1999

LaChapelle Leads In Goals
Marcus LaChapelle stands atop the Terps' goal scoring chart with nine after netting a pair of goals against Towson.

He has three straight multi-goal games, recording hat tricks against Duke and Bucknell. Those three-goal performances tie his single-game career high which was established against North Carolina on March 27, 1999.

LaMonica Sets Career Highs
Mike LaMonica set his single-game career highs of our goals and four points against Towson. All four goals came in the first half.

The star performance was especially sweet for LaMonica, who's mother Lynda Filbert is a gymnastics coach for the Tigers.

Scoring In All Three Games
Three different Terps have scored goals in all four Maryland games thus far in the season. Marcus LaChapelle leads with nine goals.

Chris Malone scored a pair of goals in the Terps' first two games against Mount St. Mary's and Duke and posted two against vs. Towson. He added a goal in the third game against Bucknell.

Mike LaMonica, who had four against Towson, had scored one goal in each of the Terps' first three contests.

Updating Scoring Streaks

Dating back to last season, three players have scoring streaks spanning at least four games led by Chris Malone, who has scored in eight straight games (9 goals, 8 assists, 17 points).

Marcus LaChapelle has scored in seven straight (11-6-17) and Mike LaMonica has scored at least one goal in each of his last six games (11-0-11) dating to the 1999 season.

Zeller Leads Active Career Chart
Senior captain Brian Zeller, who had one goal and one assist vs. Towson leads all active Terps in career scoring with 83 points on 59 goals and 24 assists.

He is 46 points from cracking the all-time Top 20 in career scoring. Pat O'Meally (1971-74) stands 20th with 129 points.

Man-Up & Man-Down Units Click
Maryland's extra-man unit has scored at least one goal in each game this season. The unit scored a season-high three goals against Towson on tallies by Brian Zeller, Mike LaMonica and Chris Malone.

Overall, Maryland has eight extra-man goals on 21 opportunities, a 38.1 percentage.

On the defensive side, Maryland has allowed just two extra-man goals this season. They have killed off 14 of 17 penalties without allowing a goal. Opponents have scored on just 17.6 percent of their extra-man chances.

Shirk On Face-Offs
In his first season as a primary face-off man, Jeff Shirk (Boonton Township, N.J.) has been strong on face-offs all season. He has won 50 percent or more his face-offs in every game, following a 10 for 20 showing against Towson.

Overall, Shirk has won 20 of 34 face-offs, 58.8 percent of his draws.

Morsell Passes Career Marks
Mike Morsell has emerged as a weapon for the Terps, scoring the game-winner against Towson. With six goals for six points this season, the sophomore has already passed last season's totals of two goals and three points.

Morsell is also the Terps most accurate shooting, scoring in 54.5 percent (6/11) of his shots. He is followed by Marcus LaChapelle, who has scored on 52.9 percent of his shots.

Hochstadt Scores Again
Sophomore Craig Hochstadt scored his second goal of the season against Towson to tie the game at 6-6 in the second quarter. He had scored his first goal of the season against Duke to bring the Terps to within 8-7 late in the third quarter.

Hochstadt, who had three assists against Mount St. Mary's, scored one goal in his freshman campaign with the Terps, when he scored against Dartmouth on March 23, 1999.

Career-Highs Set
In the romp over Mount St. Mary's on Feb. 27, several Terps set career highs in offensive statistics, led by Andrew Combs, who broke his career high for total points with five (previously three vs. Towson on March 7, 1998) and assists with three (previously one set on seven occasions).

Mike Morsell recorded his first multi-goal game with a natural hat trick in the fourth quarter. He surpassed his entire career-goal total of two, set in his freshman year of 1999.

Craig Hochstadt recorded his first career assists with three against the Mountaineers. That also set his high for points in a game.

Scoring Initiation
Six different Terp freshman scored their first collegiate goals against Mount St. Mary's led by Mike Mollot, who tallied twice. Willy Passavia, Chris Edwards (Baltimore, Md.), Brett Harper (Upper Arlington, Ohio), Sean Leary (Troy, Mich.) and Ricky Sears (Chevy Chase, Md.) also scored in their initial college games.

Freshman Jamie Daue (Lutherville, Md.) recorded his first point on an assist to Leary in the fourth.

Terps By The Numbers

1
The last Maryland-Delaware game on May 4, 1988 was the first-ever night lacrosse game play at Byrd Stadium.

2
Mike Mollot ranks No. 2 in the nation in assists with 13. Only Bert Whitelock of St. Joseph's has more with 16.

3
Maryland has played in the national championship game in three of the last five years.

3
Three different Terps have scored goals in all four games this season.

4
Mike LaMonica scored his career-high, four goals against Towson on Saturday.

4
With two more wins, Dick Edell will move past former Towson coach Carl Runk as the fourth all-time winningest coach in collegiate lacrosse history.

5
Mike Mollot recorded five assists -- all in the first half -- against Towson, the most by a Terp since Andrew Whipple had five against Loyola on May 25, 1998.

5
Maryland has won five of the six meetings with Delaware, all-time.

6.67
Pat McGinnis has a super 6.67 goals against average through three games.

9
Marcus LaChapelle leads the Terps in goals with nine.

17
Mike Mollot leads the Terps in points with 17 (four goals and 13 assists).

22
Pat McGinnis made a career-high 22 saves against Bucknell on March 7.

38.1
Maryland has scored on 38.1 percent of its extra-man opportunities this season (8-for-21).

75
This is the 75th season of varsity men's lacrosse at Maryland.

83
Brian Zeller leads all active players in career scoring with 59 goals and 24 assists for 83 points.

150
Dick Edell is the ACC's all-time leader in victories with a 150-69 record in 17 years at Maryland.

261
Dick Edell ranks fifth all-time in career-coaching wins with a 261-116 lifetime record.

WMAR Broadcast Information
WMAR-TV (Channel 2) in Baltimore will continue its bold concept in telecasting college lacrosse in the state of Maryland by presenting the Lacrosse Game of the Week. Starting March 4 and continuing through Saturday, May 6, WMAR will broadcast 13 games live. Included in the package are two Maryland games both in prime time. The Terps will host defending national champion Virginia on March 31. Maryland's other game on WMAR comes on April 15, as part of a men's-women's doubleheader at Johns Hopkins. The five-time defending Terp women face the Blue Jays at 5:30 p.m. Former All-America goalie Quint Kessenich joins WMAR's broadcast team of Scott Garceau and Keith Mills to bring the Baltimore area the greatest lacrosse television coverage ever.

Remaining WMAR Schedule

Fri. Mar. 17  Hopkins    @ Syracuse     8:00 p.m.
Sun. Mar. 26  Penn State @ UMBC         1:00 p.m.
Fri. Mar. 31  Virginia   @ Maryland     8:00 p.m.
Sun. Apr. 2   Loyola     @ Towson       1:00 p.m.
Fri. Apr. 7   Loyola     @ Syracuse     8:00 p.m.
Sat. Apr. 8   Delaware   @ Towson       1:00 p.m.
Sat. Apr. 15  Maryland   @ JHU(Women)   5:30 p.m.
Sat. Apr. 15  Maryland   @ Hopkins      8:00 p.m.
Sat. Apr. 22  Hopkins    @ Navy         1:00 p.m.
Sat. Apr. 29  Towson     @ Hopkins      3:00 p.m.
Sat. May 6    Hopkins    @ Loyola       1:00 p.m.

WMUC Broadcast Information
Maryland's student radio station WMUC (88.1 FM) will broadcast at least eight games this season. Steve Tischo and Rob Jemella anchor the coverage.

Remaining WMUC Schedule

Fri. Mar. 31  Virginia         @ Maryland       8:00 p.m.
Sat. Apr. 8   Navy             @ Maryland       1:00 p.m.
Sat. Apr. 15  Maryland         @ Johns Hopkins  8:00 p.m.
Fri. Apr. 21  ACC Semifinals                    6/8:00 p.m.
Sun. Apr. 23  ACC Championship                  3:30 p.m.
Fri. Apr. 28  Yale             @ Maryland       8:00 p.m.
Sat. May 6    Maryland         @ UMBC           2:00 p.m.

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ACCs, NCAAs At Byrd In 2000
Byrd Stadium will host the ACC Tournament for the third time, and first time since 1993 on the weekend of April 21-23.

The semifinals will be played on Friday, April 21 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The final will take place on Sunday, April 23 at 3:30 p.m. and be broadcast live on HTS.

The ACC women's lacrosse tournament will also take place at Ludwig Field on the Maryland campus that weekend.

Maryland was home to the conference tournament in 1992. North Carolina captured both the '92 and '93 titles.

The 2000 men's lacrosse NCAA semifinals and championship game return to Byrd Stadium for a record 10th time this May.

The semifinals take place on Saturday, May 27, with action getting underway at noon. The championship game will be played Monday, May 29 at 10:55 a.m. The semifinals will be broadcast on ESPN2 and the final on ESPN.

College Park has been the site of nine NCAA championship games (1972, '79, '89, '93, '94, '95, '96, '97, '99), the most of any site.

Seven Signed For 2001 Season
University of Maryland men's lacrosse coach Dick Edell announced the signing of seven high school seniors to national letters of intent to begin play with the nationally-ranked team for the 2001 season.

J.R. Bordley (Vienna, Va./Landon School), Paul Gillette (Millersville, Md./Severna Park), Dan LaMonica (Lutherville, Md./Boys' Latin), Chris Passavia (Stony Brook, N.Y./Ward Melville), Jeremy Pastula (Yorktown, N.Y./Yorktown), Dave Wagner (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) and Lee Zink (Rowayton, Conn./Darien) have all signed on to wear the red, gold, black and white of Maryland.

Preseason Polls & Schedule Strength
Maryland entered the 2000 season ranked No. 8 in the preseason coaches poll conducted by Face-Off Magazine. The Terps face one of the toughest schedules in 2000, taking on six teams ranked in the top 12 of the preseason coaches' poll. Maryland faces defending national champion and No. 1-ranked Virginia, No. 3 Johns Hopkins, No. 5 Duke, No. 10 North Carolina, No. 11 UMBC and No. 12 Navy. The Terps also face three other teams ranked in the top 20: No. 17 Delaware, No. 18 Cornell and No. 19 Towson.

In playing nine teams ranked in the preseason coaches poll, Maryland enters the 2000 season with the seventh-toughest schedule according to Face-Off Magazine. The Terps' schedule rates 11.00 in degree of difficulty. Johns Hopkins plays the toughest schedule according to the system (15.00), followed by Virginia (13.55), North Carolina (12.29), Syracuse (12.00), Duke (11.36) and Rutgers (11.07).

QUOTING THE TERPS
Following the Towson win, here are some postgame comments.

Maryland Head Coach Dick Edell:
"I always refer to my age because in 33 years, I've expected that anything can happen and over that period of time I've seen many things happen. I just felt that particularly when we were down three at 6-3 and we got five goals to go into the half. I really honestly felt that was the end of the ballgame. We'd come out and dominate, of course, they come back and tie it a couple of times in the second half and we're called upon to play under pressure and we did that. The kids are working hard and we're a goal away from 4-0.

"Honestly, the Maryland game on Towson's schedule is a hell of a lot more important to their kids than the Towson game is on Maryland's schedule. Now I can talk and tell them stories from 1965 and 1966 and 1967 before these guys were ever born. But the bottom line is I can talk until I'm blue in the face. It's a more important game to them. I think it became triple more important when you lose the opener at home to Lehigh. We don't coach machines. We coach kids. We coach kids with honest emotions."

Sophomore Attack Mike Morsell:

On the game-winning goal:
"Coach just told us to go with the short sticks behind and to move around up top. We'd been hitting the goalie in the feet the whole game and he was saving all the low shots and he told us to go low to high. Once I caught the ball, I just dropped my stick low and shot high and changed the plane of it. We were told earlier to go low stick, but in the first two quarters he was saving that the whole time. Low to high and as soon as he drops, just shoot right over his shoulder.

On the win:
"Like coach said in the pre-game talk, the game on their schedule is a lot bigger than it is for us on ours. I think we were completely mentally prepared. They had a good run in the first half, they were up 6-3, but that was early, there were only eight minutes left in the second. It's a 60 minute game. If it was a half a game, they would have won it, but that's why it's 60 minutes.

"I think we're one of the best teams around. Like last year's team, any guy can have a big game. That's what makes us a better team. There are 42 guys in practice every day. We got nine guys that can score. Someone is having a bad day, you just go to somebody else. They play a different kind of defense every year. They're very unpredictable. So we just had to react. We moved the ball well and found the open man."

Sophomore Midfielder Mike LaMonica:
"When we had the opportunity to get the ball on offense, I know we can do what we need to do. It's just a question of getting it at the defensive end. We did that. Once we got it down there, we took care of business. Our morale is high especially after a win like that.

On playing against Towson:
"I think they always play up for us. Being like in-state rivals. My mom (Towson's gymnastics coach) will take me out. She wore her Towson sweatpants with her Maryland jacket so she could stay indifferent."