Terps Women's Soccer Ends Four-Match Road Trip At No. 3 Virginia On Thursday
10/24/2007 8:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Oct. 24, 2007
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland women's soccer hits the road for the final match in a four-match road trip on Thursday, October 25, when it travels to Charlottesville, Va., to take on the No. 3 Virginia Cavaliers. The match is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start at Klöckner Stadium. The Terps then return home for a 6 p.m. match against Virginia Tech on Sunday, October 28 at Ludwig Field.
Event Multimedia
• WMUC will be broadcasting both games live on wmucsports.com. Virginia will be providing Live Stats for the match in Charlottesville on virginiasports.com. Gametracker will be available on umterps.com for the match against the Hokies.
• The Maryland-Virginia match will also be broacast live on ACC Select. There is no television coverage for the Terps-Hokies match.
A Quick Look At The Terps
• Maryland enters this weekend's matches with a 5-6-3 overall record, 0-5-1 in conference play.
• The Terps are coming off of a come-from-behind 2-2 tie at Duke last Sunday. Kelly Rozumalski scored a goal and added an assist for the Terps, while Nataly Arias scored her team-leading fourth goal.
Scouting The Cavaliers
• Virginia, ranked third in this week's Soccer America poll, is 10-1-4 (4-0-3 ACC) on the season, is coming off a 2-0 win over Virginia Tech last Thursday. The Cavaliers will have been off for seven days prior to playing the Terps.
• Offensively, three Cavaliers have more than 10 points on the season, led by senior midfielder Shannon Foley who has eight goals and seven assists for 23 points.
• Defensively, the Wahoos has given up only four goals this season and have only allowed 45 shots on goal. All 10 of Virginia's wins have come via shutout.
• Head Coach Steve Swanson is in his eighth season at the helm of the UVa program, compiling a record of 110-40-18 (.692). Overall he has a career record as a head coach of 214-105-29 (.657) in 18 seasons.
The Virginia Series
• Virginia leads the all-time series with the Terps 19-3-3 and Maryland is looking for its first-ever win in Charlottesville.
• The Terps have only defeated the Wahoos three times, with the last coming last year as the Terps knocked off the No. 11 Cavaliers 2-0 at Ludwig Field. Emily Maynard tallied three points in the Maryland win, scoring the game-winner and assisting on the insurance goal.
• Maryland's only other victories over Virginia came in a 3-2 double overtime thriller in 1998 and a 2-0 win in 2002.
• Seven of the last eight games between the two programs has ended in a shutout, including a memorable 0-0 double overtime thriller in 2004 at Ludwig Field. Terrapin goalkeeper Nikki Resnick stopped seven Cavalier shots in that match.
Scouting The Hokies
• Virginia Tech is 5-7-3 (1-5-2 ACC) this season after losing a pair of games last week 2-0 at No. 3Virginia and 4-1 vs. No. 8 North Carolina in Blacksburg. The Hokies do not play again before heading to College Park, Md., to play the Terps - a seven-day layoff.
• The Hokies are led by freshman forward Marika Gray and junior forward Laurie Beth Puglisi. Gray has eight goals on the season, while Puglisi has five scores.
• Head Coach Kelly Cagle is in her fifth season at the helm of the VT program and has compiled a 37-43-10 (.467) overall record.
The Virginia Tech Series
• The Maryland-Virginia Tech series is in its infancy with the two teams meeting just four times previously, all in the regular season. The Terps have not scored a goal vs. the Hokies since putting up six in the first-ever meeting in 1995. But in the four games combined, Maryland still leads 6-2 in scoring.
• Last season the two squads fought to a 0-0 tie in Blacksburg. Terps' goalkeeper Nikki Resnick made nine saves in the match to earn her 18th career shutout.
• The 2005 meeting also saw the two team battle to a 0-0 tie in College Park. Maryland dominated the game, outshooting the Hokies 19-7, but the Terps could not finish a goal to pick up the win.
• In 2004, the Hokies won their first-ever ACC game vs. Maryland, 2-0 at Ludwig Field.
• The first meeting between the two programs came in 1995, a 6-0 romp for the 15th-ranked Terrapins. That game marked the first-ever soccer game at Ludwig Field.
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 26 overtime games (nearly 40% of its total games) with a record of 4-8-14 in those games. So far this season, the Terps have played seven overtime matches, going 1-3-3.
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.
Impact Freshmen
• Through its first 14 games, Maryland has played seven freshmen, including six who have started matches.
• Goalkeeper Yewande Balogun logged all 1360 minutes for the Terps in their first 14 games and has a 0.86 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 seven teams ranked in this weeks NSCAA poll. The Terps play No. 3 Virginia (Oct. 25), No. 7 North Carolina (L, 2-1 OT), No. 9 USC (L, 2-1 OT), No. 10 Florida State (L, 2-0), No. 14 Boston College (Nov. 1), No. 22 Wake Forest (L, 1-0) and No. 20 Clemson (L, 0-1 OT). Maryland also plays Miami (L, 1-0) and Duke (T, 2-2), 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.
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