April 30, 2003

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No. 4 MARYLAND (9-3) at No. 18 NOTRE DAME (9-4)
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2003 * 2:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m. CT)
Moose Krause Stadium (5.000/Grass), NOTRE DAME, IND.
No Live Broadcast Coverage

No. 4 Terps Travel To Irish For First Time; Cottle goes for Win 200

* The No. 4 Maryland men's lacrosse team finishes its 2003 regular-season schedule with its first ever trip to Notre Dame, to take on the No. 18 Fighting Irish at Moose Krause Stadium this Saturday, May 3. The game will face-off at 1 p.m. Central Time (2 p.m. ET). The game marks just the second time in school history that the lacrosse team has traveled outside of the Eastern Time Zone. The only other occasion came when Maryland opened the 2001 season at the Denver Pioneer Classic hosted by the University of Denver on Feb. 24-25, 2001, as the Terps beat Air Force and the host Pioneers to claim that title. ' * Head coach Dave Cottle enters the game with a 199-77 record as he closes in on his 200th career win as a head coach. Cottle has an 18-7 record at Maryland in two seasons after he went 181-70 in 19 years at Loyola from 1983-2001. He is currently third on the active career win percentage list, winning 72 percent of his games and ranks 10th among all active coaches in career coaching wins.

* Maryland (9-3 overall) is eyeing its 26th NCAA Tournament berth and moved closer to securing that bid with a solid 9-5 victory over No. 5 Georgetown last Monday night at Byrd Stadium. All-ACC selections Mike Mollot (Holbrook, N.Y.) and Ryan Moran (Setauket, N.Y.) along with graduate attacker Brian Hunt (West Chester, Pa.) each scored twice and each added one assist in the win. Junior defenseman Lee Zink (Rowayton, Conn.) notched his first career goal and forced five Georgetown turnovers in holding their leading goal scorer Neal Goldman pointless. Zink was named the TerpVision Player of the Game. Along with Zink, All-ACC defensemen Michael Howley (Wantagh, N.Y.) and Chris Passavia (Stony Brook, N.Y.) combined for nine caused turnovers and 12 groundballs as they held the Hoyas' attack to just one goal. Overall, Maryland defense limited Georgetown to just five goals on 43 shots (11.6 shooting percentage) as the Hoyas turned the ball over 33 times. Goalie Danny McCormick (McLean, Va.) made 14 saves in net.

* The 2003 NCAA Tournament bracket will be revealed on Sunday, May 4 at 8 p.m., and televised live on ESPNEWS (DirecTV Channel 207/Dish Network Channel 142). With a win at Notre Dame, Maryland would appear to have the inside track on a top-4 seed and receive a home game in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on the weekend of May 10-11.

No. 4 Maryland: 2003 Record: 9-3 (2-1 ACC) 2002 Record: 9-4 (1-2 ACC) 2003 Ranks: 4th (USILA), 4th (Media), 4th (Sun/WMAR) Head Coach: Dave Cottle (Salisbury '78) Coach's Record: 199-77 (.721)/21st season Coach's Record at UM: 18-7 (.720)/2nd season Ass't Coach: Dave Slafkosky (Johns Hopkins '74) Ass't Coach: Paul Cantabene (Loyola '93) Ass't Coach: Steve Gorski (UMBC '96) Leading Scorer (G-A=P): Joe Walters (29-8=37) No. 18 Notre Dame: 2003 Record: 9-4 (4-1 GWLL) 2002 Record: 5-8 (4-1 GWLL) 2003 Ranks: 18th (USILA), 19th (Media), 17th (Sun/WMAR) Head Coach: Kevin Corrigan Coach's Record: 142-88 (.617)/17th season Coach's Record at ND: 132-73 (.644)/15th season Ass't Coach: Kevin Anderson (Loyola '93) Ass't Coach: Dave Campbell (Middlebury '00) Leading Scorers (G-A=P): Patrick Walsh (20-32=52)

* Notre Dame enters the game with a 9-4 record and is riding a four-game winning streak. The Irish closed their Great Western Lacrosse League schedule with three straight wins over Butler (9-2), Air Force (13-4) and Fairfield (14-4) before beating Harvard 16-11 last Saturday at home. In that win over the Crimson, freshman attacker Patrick Walsh added to his team-high point total with a career-best eight points on four goals and four assists. Walsh leads the Irish with 20 goals and 32 assists for 52 points. He ranks tied for sixth in the nation in point per game (4.00) and fifth in assists per game (2.46). Junior attacker Dan Berger leads the goal-scoring parade with 32 and has 34 points after picking up his first two assists of the season vs. Harvard. Junior attacker Matt Howell has 33 points on 14 goals and 19 assists. Freshman defenseman D.J. Driscoll leads the squad in groundballs and junior goalie Stewart Crossland ranks eighth in the nation in goals against average (7.26) and ninth in save percentage (.619).

The Brief Series History between Maryland and Notre Dame
* The Terps and Irish have played just once before in men's lacrosse, as Maryland eliminated Notre Dame from the 1995 NCAA Tournament with a 14-11 win at Byrd Stadium on May 20, 1995. The Terps advanced to the national championship game for the first of three times in a four-year span that season. In that game, Maryland built a 10-2 lead with 5:59 left in the third quarter before the Irish mounted a furious comeback to cut the score to 11-10 Maryland with 9:48 left in the fourth quarter. But Maryland held on behind the Nation's Outstanding Goalie of the Year Brian Dougherty, who made 16 saves. Ten different Terps scored goals including two each by Pat McGuire, Peter Hilgartner and Kip Fulks. Rob Chomo had four assists and a goal in the win.

Terps Perfect Vs. Great Western Lacrosse League
* Maryland enters the Notre Dame with a perfect 12-0 record against GWLL foes. Earlier this season, Maryland topped Butler 18-9 in Boca Raton, Fla., for its 12th win vs. the league. Overall, the Terps are 4-0 vs. Air Force, 2-0 vs. Butler, 2-0 vs. Denver, 1-0 vs. Notre Dame and 3-0 vs. Ohio State.

Maryland-Notre Dame Connections
* With the start of the Maryland-Notre Dame regular-season series there are several connections on the clubs to note.

* Maryland head coach Dave Cottle has a 9-2 lifetime record against Notre Dame, all of which came while he was coaching at Loyola from 1983-2001. Against Irish coach Kevin Corrigan, he was won eight of 10 games.

* Notre Dame features one of Cottle's former players and former teammate of Terp assistant coach Paul Cantabene in Kevin Anderson, who played at Loyola from 1990-93. The Greyhounds, with Anderson and Cantabene, advanced to the NCAA championship game in 1990 under Cottle's guidance. Anderson and Cantabene were both named USILA All-Americans in their senior season of 1993.

* Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan is the nephew of former Maryland lacrosse stars from the 1950s -- Dick and George Corrigan, both of whom were All-Americans at Maryland as attackmen. Kevin Corrigan's father and the brother to Dick and George, is Gene Corrigan - - the former commissioner of the ACC and Notre Dame Athletic Director, who served as the host/emcee of the 2003 ACC Lacrosse Championships banquet three weeks ago in Charlottesville, Va.

* Maryland and Notre Dame also have many players who attended high school together. From Maryland, 16 players and from Notre Dame 15 players attended the same high schools as someone on the opposing roster. Check out the list.

HIGH SCHOOL MATES

Boys' Latin (Md.)	 Maryland:  Jamie Daue, 	Dan LaMonica, Scott Slosson
Notre Dame: Dan Berger		

Chaminade (N.Y.)	Maryland:  Ryan Moran	Notre Dame: Sean Quigley,
William Sullivan, Chris Masterson, James Severin, Dan Hickey

DeMatha (Md.)	Maryland:  Justin Smith	Notre Dame: Steve Clagett

Detroit Country Day	Maryland:  Sean Leary	Notre Dame: Nick Petcoff

Landon (Md.)		Maryland:  J.R. Bordley, 	Brendan Healy, 	Ian Healy,
Danny McCormick Notre Dame: Stewart Crossland

Loyola (Md.)	Maryland:  David Tamberrino, Matt Urlock
Notre Dame: Nick Antol, Brennan Creaney, Owen Mulford	

Ridley (Pa.)	Maryland:  Bill McGlone		Notre Dame: Matt Ryan

Upper Arlington (Ohio)	Maryland:  Brett Harper, Gavin Webb
Notre Dame:  Dan Straka

Wantagh (N.Y.)	Maryland:  Michael Howley	 Notre Dame:  Patrick Walsh

Three Terps Head "Home" To The Midwest
* With Maryland playing its first game in the Midwest, three Terps return to their home region. Senior Brett Harper (Columbus, Ohio) and sophomore Gavin Webb (Columbus, Ohio), both attended Upper Arlington High School in Ohio and will have many members of their family and friends in attendance with Columbus being about 300 miles from Notre Dame. Senior Sean Leary (Troy, Mich.) will also play his closest collegiate game to his home, with Troy being just over 200 miles from Notre Dame.

Five Terps Honored By The ACC
* Maryland features five players who were honored by the ACC this season. Seniors Michael Howley, Mike Mollot, Ryan Moran and Chris Passavia were named to the All-ACC team. It was the third time Howley earned All-ACC accolades making him the first Terp to be honored three years in a row since Mark Douglas (1989-91). Mollot and Passavia were also named to the team last season. It was the first league honor for Moran.

* Freshman attacker Joe Walters (Rochester, N.Y.) was named the league's Rookie of the Year. He is the first Terp to win the honor since Howley in 2000. Walters tallied his sixth hat trick vs. UMBC of his initial college campaign and added another goal against Georgetown to raise his team high goal total to 29. He is closing in on the school record for goals by a freshman set by Matt Hahn, who scored 36 in 1995.

Mollot Moves Up Career Charts
* Senior captain Mike Mollot now stands alone in 14th place all-time on Maryland's scoring charts in the program's storied lacrosse history after a netted two goals and added an assist against Georgetown on Monday night and now has 160 points. He passed Mark Douglas (1988-91), whom he was tied with at 157 entering the Georgetown game. Mollot currently has 69 goals and 91 assists for 160 points in three-plus seasons. He can move up to 13th with 15 more points to tie Pete Worstell (1977-81).

* Mollot moved into a tie for 9th place on the school's all-time career assist list with that assist vs. Georgetown. He currently has 91 career assists to tie Mike Hynes (1974-77). Mollot is just five assists from tying Jack Heim (1964-67) for eighth in the list.

* Mollot became the 30th player in Maryland history to surpass the 100-point plateau with the seven points against Towson on March 9, 2002.

* Junior Dan LaMonica (Parkton Md.) became the 31st Terp with 100-plus points in his career as he tallied two goals and added three assists vs. Butler on March 25. He now has 118 career points on 51 goals and 67 assists in two-plus seasons after a goal and assist vs. Georgetown.

* Graduate student Brian Hunt piled up 128 points in his three seasons at Yale and ranks 10th all-time in Bulldog history in scoring. He had 78 goals and 50 assists from 1999-2001 with Yale. With the Terps, Hunt has scored 17 goals and added 10 assists in his Maryland debut and now has 155 career points on 95 goals and 60 assists.

Mollot, Hunt: The ACC's Best
* Mike Mollot and Brian Hunt rank No. 1 and No. 2, respectively among all active ACC players in career scoring. Mollot tops the charts with 160 points on 69 goals and 91 assists. Hunt has the most goals of any ACC player with 95 along with 60 assists for 155 points. Hunt did accumulate 128 of the points at Yale.

* Just a junior, Dan LaMonica moved into a tie with Duke's Kevin Cassese for fourth on the list with two points vs. Georgetown and is the only non-senior with more than 100 career points in the ACC. He has 118 points on 51 goals and 67 assists.

Terps Top ACC Stat Charts
* When looking at the ACC statistics, the Terps rank No. 1 in six of nine team and individual categories.

* In the team stats, the Terps have the top defense, allowing just 7.10 goals game and the No. 2 scoring offense at 10.90 goals game.

* On the individual side Joe Walters tops the conference in goals per game (2.41 gpg) and is 14th nationally with that mark. He is second in points per game (3.08 ppg) behind Duke's Matt Rewkowski.

* In the assists column, Dan LaMonica and Mike Mollot are 1-2 with LaMonica at 1.4 assists per game and Mollot with 1.25 per contest.

* Goalie Danny McCormick is tied with UNC's Paul Spellman for the league lead in save percentage (61.4), which ranks ninth nationally and leads the ACC in goals against average (7.10), which is seventh nationally.

On The Offensive, Terps Scoring At High Rate
* No. 4 Maryland has continued its winning ways with a high-scoring offense that is tallying 10.9 goals per game to rank No. 10 in the nation in goals per game. The Terps have posted at least 12 goals in six of their nine victories this season with a high of 18 vs. Butler in Florida on March 25. They broke a mini scoring slump with 15 against UMBC on April 25 -- that came on the heel of consecutive games vs. Hopkins and Duke, when they combined for just 11 goals.

* Joe Walters leads the scoring parade. The ACC Rookie of the Year, Walters tops the club with 29 goals and 37 points through 12 games. With 29 goals, he is closing in on the Maryland school record for goals by a freshman set by Matt Hahn (36) in 1995. The left-handed attacker posted his sixth hat trick of the year vs. UMBC. He has posted four-goal efforts vs. Bucknell, Towson, Navy and Butler. He was named the WMAR-TV Star of the Game and Maryland Student-Athlete of the Week after the Towson game. He has at least one goal in each of the last 10 games.

* Junior Dan LaMonica has 11 goals and 17 assists for 28 points ranking second in point scoring. He became the 31st Terp to pass the 100-point plateau with two goals and three assists vs. Butler on March 25. He now has 118 career points on 51 goals and 67 assists in two-plus years of action. His six assists against Navy were a personal career high and the most by a Terp since Tim Cox also had six against Navy on April 14, 1990. He had a goal and two assists for the second game in row vs. Duke in the ACC Semifinals and now has 11 assists in his last five games.

* A Tewaaraton Trophy "Player to Watch," Brian Hunt came to Maryland after graduating from Yale last spring, has 15 career hat tricks dating back to his career with the Bulldogs after posting three this season, most recently vs. Butler on March 25. His 40-game point scoring streak came to an end at Virginia as he was held off scoring sheet for the first time since his sixth college game in 1999. He had two goals and an assist vs. Georgetown and now has 155 career points (3.03 PPG). Hunt's 155 career points are second to only Mike Mollot in career points among players in the ACC. He has scored multiple points in 38 of 51 career games.

* All-ACC midfielder and Tewaaraton Trophy candidate Mike Mollot moved into a tie for 9th place on Maryland's all-time career assist chart with an assist vs. UMBC and now has 91 for his career. He also stands 14th on the Terps' all-time career scoring chart with 160 points after three points vs. Georgetown. He has 69 goals and 91 assists in three-plus seasons. His 160 points are the most among all active players in the ACC. His 22-game point scoring streak come to an end vs. Johns Hopkins on April 12. Overall, 41 of his 57 career games have been multi-point games.

* All-ACC midfielder Ryan Moran has 19 goals to rank second on the team in goals after posting two goals vs. Georgetown. He had his fifth career hat trick vs. Duke in the ACC Semifinals -- three of which have come against Duke. Moran, set a new career-high with four goals vs. Bucknell this season on March 11. He now has all 34 of his goals in his last 23 games, dating back to last season -- after never scoring his first two years with Maryland. He surpassed his season goal, assist and point totals from last season against UMBC as he had 15 goals, four assists and 19 points last season.

* The Terps' extra-man unit was strong early in this season and is currently scoring on 31.6 percent of its opportunities. Maryland has scored 18 goals on 56 chances led by Ryan Moran, who has five EMG's. Joe Walters has four and Brian Hunt, Dan LaMonica and Mike Mollot each have two extra-man tallies as well. In comparison, last season the Terps scored just 17 extra-man goals the entire season, on 63 chances (27 percent). The defense has held opponents to just 15 EMG's on 60 chances (25.0 percent).

Defense holds Opponents Down
* The Terps' defense, the nation's best last year allowing seven goals a game, and has continued its prowess, allowing 7.10 goals per game, backstopped by preseason honorable mention goalie Danny McCormick. Preseason first-team All-Americans Michael Howley and Chris Passavia have teamed with Lee Zink and defensive middies Brett Harper and Paul Gillette to keep opponents at bay. The Terps have allowed only one team to score 10 goals against Maryland this season -- North Carolina on March 22. Gillette leads the team in groundballs with 51, while Harper tops the team in caused turnovers with 22. Howley and Zink have each forced 20 turnovers with Zink posting a career-high five vs. Georgetown.

* Overall, the Terps have outscored their opponents 131-86 (10.9-7.15) per game -- a 3.75 goal margin. Even more amazing is that opponents have just 11 goals total in the second quarter and 19 in the third quarter for a combined total of 30 for the second and third quarters. In contrast the Terps have 64goals in the middle periods (a 34 goal margin -- 24 in the second quarter alone).

* The Terps' defense has continued to be stellar as it has had several runs of holding its opponents scoreless. In eight of 12 games, the Terps have held opponents scoreless for stretches of at least 20 minutes including three of the last four games.

* Maryland had perhaps its best defensive effort vs. Georgetown in limiting the Hoyas to just five goals on 43 shots. The Hoyas committed 33 turnovers and were held off the scoreboard for 18:10 late in the game.

* Against UMBC, the Terps shutout the Retrievers in the second quarter -- marking the fifth time a foe has failed to score in the second stanza to date -- and held UMBC off the board for 20:36 from the last first quarter until the early fourth quarter.

* Despite the loss, Maryland held No. 1 Johns Hopkins to just six goals as the Jays came into the game as the nation's fourth highest scoring team at 13.14 per game. Maryland kept Hopkins off the scoreboard for a string of 27:21 from early in the third quarter until the game-winning goal 1:21 into overtime.

* Against Navy, the Maryland defense was on top of its game against as it allowed just one goal over a span of 33:42 from the second through late fourth quarter.

* Against Virginia, the Terps shutdown what was the fifth-highest scoring offense in the country and held the Cavaliers to just seven goals. Maryland limited the Virginia attack to four goals on 17 shots with Howley, Passavia and Zink pressuring the attackers. Maryland blanked Virginia for a spell of 33:06 from the mid-first quarter until 4:14 left in the third quarter. Over that time, the Terps reeled off seven consecutive goals to build a 7-2 lead.

* The Terps kept Butler scoreless for a stretch of 24:32 from late in the second quarter until early in the fourth quarter.

* Maryland kept host Stony Brook to just one goal in the first 33:11 of the game in building a 15-1 lead in the early third quarter. With the score tied 1-1, Maryland went on a 14-goal run holding Stony Brook scoreless for 27:32.

* After a high-scoring 6-6 first quarter with Bucknell, Maryland buckled down and held the Bison off the scoreboard for more than 30 minutes and nearly shut them out for the second and third quarters before a fluke Bison goal with one second left in the third quarter.

* Against Towson, Maryland held the Tigers without a goal for almost 18 minutes from the second to the third quarter and with just one goal from the late second to late fourth quarters.

* Against Duke, the Terps held the then-No. 7 Blue Devils without a goal for 38 minutes spanning the final three quarters and to just one goal for nearly 50 minutes from midway in the first quarter until late in the fourth quarter.

Howley & Mollot Up For Tewaaraton
* Sixteen of the most talented male and female collegiate varsity lacrosse players in the United States and additional "players to watch" have been selected as candidates for the third annual Tewaaraton Award, the most coveted and prestigious award a varsity lacrosse player can receive and a symbol of excellence in college lacrosse. The five finalists will be announced in May.

* From Maryland, senior defenseman Michael Howley and senior midfielder/attackman Mike Mollot has been named to the list of the Top 16 candidates in the nation. Also, graduate attackman Brian Hunt has been named to the "Players to Watch" list. In addition, former Maryland coach Dick Edell is serving as the Vice Chair of the committee which presents the award.

* The Tewaaraton Trophy is presented annually following the collegiate season to the top female and male varsity collegiate lacrosse players in the United States. Scholarship money is given to the recipient's college or university general scholarship fund. The Foundation committee honors Native American heritage with the name "Tewaaraton," the name the Mohawk nation gave to their game and the progenitor of present day lacrosse and has received approval from the Mohawk Council of Elders.

Terps' 78th Season of Lacrosse
* The Terps, now in the fourth season of the new century, have an all-time record of 637-204-4 (.756), dating back to the first varsity team in 1924 (a team was not fielded in 1944 and 1945 due to World War II). Maryland has finished every one of its previous 77 seasons with a .500 or better record, including last season when the Terps went 9-4. The program's 600th win came against Duke on April 21, 2000, 7-6 in the ACC Semifinals at Byrd Stadium.

* In the decade of the 1990s, Maryland recorded its most wins in any decade with a 95-47 record. The .669 winning percentage matched Maryland's win percentage of the 1980s when the Terps went 83-41 and also compiled a .669 win percentage. This decade, the Terps are now 41-15(.732).

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Probable Line-Up
ATTACK
2 Brian Hunt Gr., 6-0,181 17-10-27 155 career pts., 15 hat tricks
11 Dan LaMonica Jr., 5-10,170 11-17-28 118 pts., most by Jr. in ACC
15 Joe Walters Fr., 6-0,185 29-8-37 Most goals by UM Fr.since '95

FIRST MIDFIELD
1 Mike Mollot R-Sr., 5-11,190 12-15-27 160 career pts. - 14th at UM
22 Justin Smith Jr., 6-1,220 9-3-12 26 goals in last 19 games
34 Ryan Moran Sr., 5-11,180 19-7-26 34 career goals in last 23 g.

SECOND MIDFIELD
25 Sean Leary Sr., 6-5, 240 4-0-4 Scored vs. UMBC with 1st MF
27 Matt Brock R-Sr., 5-10,183 0-3-3 Career high in assists
33 Jamie Daue Sr., 6-5,195 3-4-7 Asst. vs. UMBC with 1st MF

FACE-OFF MIDFIELD
13 Brett Harper (LSM) Sr., 5-11,186 31 GB, 22 CT Team leader in CT's
34 Ryan Moran (F-O) Sr., 5-11,180 38/76, 38 GB Winning 50.0% of F-O
or 6 Drew Virk (F-O) Jr., 6-1, 200 25/66, 21 GB Starting F-O last 2 gms.
18 Paul Gillette (SSM) Jr., 5-10,165 51 GB, 13 CT Team leader in GB's

CLOSE DEFENSE
29 Lee Zink Jr., 6-4,195 26 GB, 20 CT First goal vs. GTown
44 Chris Passavia Jr., 6-1,210 36 GB, 18 CT 100th GB vs. UMBC
42 Michael Howley Sr., 6-1,205 33 GB, 20 CT 164 career groundballs

GOALIES
3 Danny McCormick R-Sr., 5-9,170 7.10 GAA, 127 sv. 18-7 rec. last 2 yrs.

2003 ACC STANDINGS
Team W-L Pct. ACC Pct.
#1 Maryland 8-3 .727 2-1 .667
#2 Virginia 10-2 .833 2-1 .667
#3 North Carolina 7-6 .538 2-1 .667
#4 Duke 8-7 .533 0-3 .000

2003 ACC Tournament at Charlottesville:
Apr. 18: ACC Semifinals - Duke 7, Maryland 6
Virginia 13, North Carolina 12 (OT)
Apr. 20: ACC Championship - Virginia 12, Duke 6

Last Week's Action:
Apr. 26: Hofstra 9, Duke 8
North Carolina 11, Air Force 5
Virginia 11, Penn State 10

This Week's Action
Apr. 28: Maryland 9, Georgetown 5
Virginia 12, Denver 3
May 3: Maryland at Notre Dame, 2 p.m.