Terps Women's Soccer Travels To Duke For Critical ACC Match On Sunday
10/19/2007 8:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Oct. 19, 2007
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland women's soccer hits the road for the third straight match on Sunday, October 21, when it travels to Durham, N.C., to take on the Duke Blue Devils. The match is scheduled for a 2 p.m. start at Koskinen Stadium.
Event Multimedia
• WMUC will be broadcasting the game live on wmucsports.com, while Duke will be providing Live Stats for the match. There is no ACC Select broadcast for the Terps-Bule Devils game.
A Quick Look At The Terps
• Maryland enters this weekend's matches with a 5-6-2 overall record, 0-5-0 in conference play.
• The Terps are coming off of two tough shutout losses in Flordia last week. Maryland struggled in a 2-0 loss at No. 15 Florida State on Oct. 11. Bad luck then struck the Terps in their 1-0 loss at Miami on Oct. 14. Maryland had a chance for the go-ahead goal early in the second half. Kaila Sciascia struck a solid header toward the Hurricane goal, which was wide-open as Cane goalkeeper was out of position following a collision on a free kick, but another Miami defender stepped in the way of the shot and headed it away before it could cross the goal line.
Scouting The Blue Devils
• Duke is 7-3-3 (2-2-1 ACC) on the season, and is coming off of a 2-1 loss at No. 12 North Carolina on Oct. 11 in Chapel Hill. The Blue Devils travel to No. 24 Wake Forest on Thursday before facing the Terps on Sunday. The match against the Terps will be Duke's first home game since Sept. 30 when it defeated Virginia Tech 1-0.
• Offensively, the Blue Devils are led by sophomore forward Elizabeth Redmond, who has five goals and seven assists for 17 points. Junior defender/midfielder Kelly Hathorn is also in double-digits in points with 13 on four goals and five assists.
• Defensively, Duke goalie Allison Lipsher has allowed just eight goals on the season and boasts a goals against average of 0.63.
• Head Coach Robbie Church is in his seventh season at the helm of the Duke program, compiling a record of 76-51-12 (.590). Overall he has a career record as a head coach of 163-100-23 (.610) in 14 seasons.
The Duke Series
• Duke holds a 12-10-3 edge in the all-time matchups with Maryland. The series is one of the longest in the history of Terrapin women's soccer, spanning 20 of 21 seasons. The only season in which the Terps and Blue Devils did not play was 1988, Maryland's first season.
• Sunday's meeting will be the 26th between the two schools. The only school Maryland has played more is North Carolina (27 times). The Terps have played Virginia 25 times, with No. 26 scheduled for Oct. 25.
• The last time the two teams met in Durham, the Blue Devils pulled out a 1-0 win over the Terps. Nikki Resnick made nine saves, but could not stop a header by Christie McDonald that came after the ball deflected off of the left post following a corner kick by Carolyn Ford.
The Last Time ...
• With both goals in Maryland's 2-0 win over Lehigh on Sept. 30 Kaila Sciascia became the first Terrapin to score multiple goals in a game since teammate Melissa Hornfeck scored twice in a 6-0 rout of UMBC on Sept. 4, 2006. Sciascia's four points vs. the Mountain Hawks is also the most by a Terp since that UMBC game as Hornfeck added an assist to total five points.
• Freshman goalkeeper Yewande Balogun joined former Terp netminders Riki-Ann Serrins and Ali Wolff as Maryland keepers to tally points in a game. Balogun assisted Sciascia's second goal in a 2-0 win over Lehigh, clearing the ball past the Mountain Hawk defense, allowing Sciascia to run onto the ball and finish the play past the diving Lehigh goalkeeper. Serrins was the last Maryland keeper to earn an assist, helping on Emily Janss' goal against Wake Forest on Oct. 25, 1998. Wolff is still the only Terrapin keeper to score a goal when she scored on Duke on Oct. 17, 1997. Offensive defense
• Maryland's starting defenders - Mary Casey, Ashly Kennedy and Mallory Baker - have all tallied points for the Terps this season. Casey and Kennedy are tied for second on the team with four points. Kennedy has two goals, while Casey has a goal and two assists. Baker has picked up one assist. Freshman goalkeeper Yewande Balogun added her name to Maryland's list of defensive players with points in the 2-0 win over Lehigh on Sept. 30. She became the first Terrapin goalkeeper since 1998 to assist on a goal. That quartet has accounted for 27% of Maryland's points this season.
Playing Overtime
• The 0-0 tie with Eastern Kentucky marked the third-straight home opener that has ended in a scoreless tie. In 2005 and 2006 the Terps played to a 0-0 draw against Towson.
• Maryland played five overtime games last season, going 0-1-4 in those matches. All four ties ended in 0-0 finishes, tying the 2006 Michigan Wolverines for the most 0-0 ties in a season in NCAA history.
• During the past four seasons, Maryland has played 25 overtime games (nearly 40% of its total games) with a record of 4-8-13 in those games. So far this season, the Terps have played six overtime matches, going 1-3-2.
Impact Freshmen
• Through its first 13 games, Maryland has played seven freshmen, including six who have started matches.
• Goalkeeper Yewande Balogun logged all 1251 minutes for the Terps in their first 13 games and has a 0.79 GAA with five shutouts to her credit.
• Mallory Baker and Caitlin McDowell each picked up their first collegiate assists in the 2-1 win over Fairleigh Dickinson. Baker has started every game this season for Maryland, while McDowell has made 10 of 11 starts.
• Kylie Ricker earned her first collegiate start against Loyola Marymount at the Hoosier Classic on Sept. 9, and responded with the first goal of her career.
• Annesia Faulkner has been a spark off the bench for the Terps, but earned her first collegiate start in the team's ACC opener at No. 14 Clemson.
• Olivia Onyeador made her first career start against No. 12 North Carolina. She played a tremendous match at the right back spot, filling in for the injured Mary Casey.
Take A Shot
• The 2007 season opener was one for the record books for the Terps. In the 0-0 tie with Eastern Kentucky, Maryland took a school record 55 shots. Nataly Arias led the Terps with 11 shots, while sophomore Emily Maynard took eight.
Terps' Streaks Stopped
• The 1-0 double-overtime loss at No. 14 Clemson snapped the Terps' four-game unbeaten streak.
• Prior to this season's streak, the last time Maryland had positive results in four consecutive games was 2004 from Oct. 2-13 (1-0 d. at Clemson 10/2; 0-0 t. #6 Virginia 10/5; 2-1 d. NC State 10/8; 1-1 t. #14 Florida State 10/13).
• Maryland snapped a three-game shutout streak in its 1-1 tie with Kent State on Sept. 22. Prior to that streak, the last time a Maryland won three matches in a row by shutout was 1999. Maryland won 1-0 at George Mason (10/6), and 2-0 over Rutgers (10/8) and Navy (10/10), respectively, at home. That was the beginning of a five-game winning streak with wins over No. 9 Clemson (10/17), 2-1, and No. 11 Wake Forest (10/22), 1-0.
Playing The Best
• Once again in 2007, Maryland will play a challenging schedule. The Terps take on six teams ranked in this weeks NSCAA poll. The Terps play No. 4 Virginia (Oct. 25), No. 9 North Carolina (L, 2-1 OT), No. 10 USC (L, 2-1 OT), No. 12 Florida State (L, 2-0), No. 14 Boston College (Nov. 1) and No. 20 Clemson (L, 0-1 OT). Maryland also plays Wake Forest (L, 1-0), Miami (L, 1-0) and Duke (Oct. 21), which received votes this week.
Beating The Best
• During seven of the past nine seasons, including 2007, Maryland has at least one upset win or tie of a top-10 ranked team: 4-3 win at No. 9 Duke on Sept. 19, 1999 and a 2-1 victory over Clemson on Oct. 17, 1999; a 3-1 win over No. 4 Penn State on Aug. 29, 2000; a 1-0 overtime over No. 8 Clemson on Oct. 13, 2001 and a 1-1 tie at No. 2 North Carolina on Nov. 1, 2002. The Terps stunned No. 3 UCLA 2-1 at the Virginia Soccer Classic on Sept. 12, 2004. A month and a half later, Maryland beat No. 10 Duke 1-0 in overtime at Ludwig Field. The Terps topped all of those victories with a 1-0 shutout of No. 2 seed Penn State in the 2004 NCAA Tournament. The win also snapped the Nittany Lions 39-game home winning streak and was head coach Paula Wilkins' first-ever loss at Jeffrey Field. The Terps extended that streak in 2005 with a 2-1 upset of No. 8 Boston College on Oct. 29 at Ludwig Field. Jeffrey Field proved lucky for the Terps again in the 2006 season opener as they knocked off No. 10 Tennessee 1-0 at the Penn State Classic on Aug. 25.
Dreska & MacCormack To Miss 2007 Season
• Sophomore midfielder Molly Dreska will miss the entire 2007 season after suffering a knee injury during the summer. She missed the Terps' final five games of the 2006 season due to injury as well.
• Junior defender/forward Stephanie MacCormack will miss the remainder of the 2007 season due to a knee injury.
Media Information
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