Terps and Tar Heels Square-Off Sunday In ACC Match
10/5/2001 8:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Oct. 5, 2001
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GAME 9 MARYLAND (4-3-1, 0-1-1 ACC) vs. NO. 12 NORTH CAROLINA (7-2, 1-1 ACC) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2001 * 2 p.m. Fetzer Field (5,025/Grass), CHAPEL HILL, N.C.
* Maryland has a 34-19-2 advantage in the all-time series with Carolina entering Sunday's ACC match-up. The 12th-ranked Heels won last year's battle at Ludwig Field 5-1.
* The Terps have not lost in Chapel Hill since Oct. 10, 1993, head coach Sasho Cirovski's first meeting with the Heels.
* The last four regular season games between Maryland and Carolina have been won by the visiting team. Two of those games have gone into overtime, and three have been decided by one goal.
* Three current Terps have scored against the Tar Heels in their careers- Scott Buete (Bowie, Md.), Philip Salyer (Dallas, Texas) and Abe Thompson (Fairfax Station, Va.). Buete notched an assist in 1998's 1-0 win at Carolina on a Taylor Twellman (1998-99) game-winner, while Salyer netted the Terps' lone goal last year off an assist from Thompson, who is redshirting this season. The Terps lost that game, 5-1, at Ludwig Field.
NORTH CAROLINA SERIES HISTORY All-Time Series: 34-19-2 (.636) UM vs. UNC Under Cirovski 6-4 (.600)Maryland/UNC in the Cirovski Era: Oct. 7, 2000 North Carolina 5, Maryland 1 Oct. 9, 1999 Maryland 1, North Carolina 0 Nov. 12, 1998 Maryland 2, North Carolina 0 1 Oct. 10, 1998 North Carolina 2, Maryland 1 OT Oct. 12, 1997 Maryland 2, North Carolina 1 OT Nov. 9, 1996 North Carolina 1, Maryland 3 Nov. 9, 1995 Maryland 3, North Carolina 4 1 Nov. 4, 1995 Maryland 2, North Carolina 1 Nov. 6, 1994 North Carolina 1, Maryland 2 Oct. 10, 1993 Maryland 0, North Carolina 1 Winner in Bold, Home Team Listed Last, 1- ACC Tourn. at Wake Forest, 2- ACC Tourn. at Duke
LOOKING AT THE HEELS
* North Carolina is 7-2 with losses to Saint Louis (2-1) and Virginia (2-0), both when they were ranked sixth in the nation. The Tar Heels have beaten East Carolina (8-1), Appalachian State (3-0), Cincinnati (2-1), UNC-Greensboro (2-1), UNC-Asheville (3-0), Duke (1-0), and William & Mary (4-1).
* Shawn McGinty (4g-1a-9p) and Marcus Story (3g-3a-9p) are tops for the Heels in points. David Testo and Matt Crawford each have seven points (3g, 1a each).
* Michael Ueltschey has started all nine games for the Heels in goal and has a 0.90 gaa and a 0.95 save percentage.
SUMMING UP THE PRINETON WIN
* Five different Terps scored in Maryland's 5-2 rout of Princeton Wednesday. Both Robert Sjolund (Borlang, Sweden) and Michael Dello-Russo (Columbia, Md.) scored their first collegiate goals in the second half. Redshirt-sophomore Siba Mohammed (Tamale, Ghana) scored his first goal of the season, with classmate Sumed Ibrahim (Tamale, Ghana) netting his first game-winner in 2001 despite leading the Terps in scoring with four goals and six assists. Wes Kirk (Bloomfield, N.J.) was the only first-half goal scorer, getting his second career goal.
* An unbelievable 10 Terrapins notched points in the game, Including Jason Arnold (Fairfax Station, Va.) who recorded his first career assist.
Sumed Heats Up
Redshirt-sophomore Sumed Ibrahim has been hot all season for the Terps, scoring goals and setting them up with great frequency. The Ghana-native is averaging 1.75 ppg and leads the team in goals (4) with A.J Herrera and assists (6). Eight games in, Sumed has scored four-times as much as his freshman year totals when a nagging groin injury held the midfidler back. That year, he scored one goal and had two assists in 20 games.
