March 11, 2000

Recap

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."