COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 8 Maryland women's lacrosse team hosts ACC rival No. 2 Duke on Saturday March 3 at Ludwig Field at 12:00 p.m. The Blue Devils have won four straight games including two last season. The game will be available to watch on demand via ACC Select following the conclusion of the game.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 8 Maryland women's lacrosse team hosts ACC rival No. 2 Duke on Saturday March 3 at Ludwig Field at 12:00 p.m. The Blue Devils have won four straight games including two last season. The game will be available to watch live online via ACC Select.

Terps Take On Duke In Crucial Early Match Up
• The No. 8 Maryland women's lacrosse team hosts a crucial early season ACC contest against No. 2 Duke on Saturday, March 3 at Ludwig Field.
• The Blue Devils have won four straight games against the Terrapins including a pair of triumphs last season.
• In the last 10 meetings, the series is split 5-5. Duke has won five of the last six contests.
• Maryland holds an 8-6 all-time advantage in the series.

• Maryland opened the 2007 campaign with a pair of impressive wins against UMBC and Boston College last week.
• The Terps beat the Retrievers, 23-8, in the season opener on February 19 in Baltimore and then won again, 18-8, against BC on February 24 at the Lacrosse & Field Hockey Complex.
• The Maryland offense averaged 20.5 goals in the wins while the defense allowed just eight.
• It is the first time since 2003 that the Terps have opened a season 2-0.

Pellizzi Named ACC Player of the Week
• Senior Krista Pellizzi had quite a day against Boston College on February 24 in College Park as she tied her career highs in goals, assists, and points.
• Pellizzi lit up the Eagles' defense for five goals, three assists, and eight points in the 18-8 win and was tabbed the conference's first player of the week this season.
• In Maryland's season-opening win at UMBC, Pellizzi recorded two goals and two assists.

First Half Dominance
• The Terps won by 10 or more goals in their first two games of the season with a 41-16 goal differential, but the first half has been something special.
• Maryland owns a 25-6 advantage in goals in the first half this season.

Reese's Success at Maryland
• Head coach Cathy Reese isn't new to the Maryland lacrosse world. In fact, she has been a vital part of the program's legacy. As a player and assistant coach from 1995-2003, Reese helped the Terps win seven national championships.
• Reese and the Terps did not lose a game in her freshman and sophomore seasons.
• In her eighth year on campus, Reese's record with Maryland is a staggering 171-19.

Reese Turns Denver Program Around
• Reese will look to do in College Park what she achieved in the Mile High City as Denver's head coach for three seasons. The Pioneers saw limited success prior to her arrival in 2004, but that all changed.
• Denver had one winning season since the program's inception in 1999 and in her third year at the helm, the Pioneers soared to new heights. Denver went 15-5 and won the regular season Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) title and advanced to the finals of the conference tournament.
• For her success, Reese was tabbed MPSF Coach of the Year. She also mentored the first Pioneer women's lacrosse student-athlete to All-America status.

Scouting The Blue Devils
• Head coach Kerstin Kimel, a 1993 graduate of Maryland, brings the 4-0 Duke Blue Devils to College Park. Duke is currently ranked No. 2 in the country.
• The Blue Devils already have a pair of wins against ranked opponents on the road as they beat No. 19 Denver, 19-6, in the season-opener and then defeated No. 18 Stanford on February 18. The Devils won a close game in their home opener against Richmond, 10-7, on February 23.
• Duke was 8-0 on the road last season and is off to a 2-0 start in 2007.
• Duke lost the services of two-time ACC Player of the Year and winner of the Tewaaraton Trophy in Katie Chrest, but return four other All-ACC performers from a year ago in Leigh Jester, Michelle Menser, Rachel Sanford, and Kristen Waagbo.
• Caroline Cryer is averaging four goals a game with 16 total while adding three assists. Carolyn Davis has scored 10 goals and dished out four assists while Waagbo leads the team with nine helpers. Sanford has also reached double digits in goals with 10.
• Kim Imbesi is Duke's starter in goal and has been stellar so far, allowing just 6.09 goals per game while saving 56 percent of the shots she faces.

Series History
• The Terps hold a slight 8-6 advantage in the all-time series against the Blue Devils, but Duke has won four straight dating back to 2004.
• Maryland hasn't reached the 10 goal mark against Duke since an 18-11 win in College Park in 2001.
• Seven of the last 10 match ups have been decided by three goals or less.

Last 10 Meetings:
April 28, 2006: Duke 19, Maryland 9 (M&T Bank Stadium/ACC semifinals)
February 25, 2006: Duke 9, Maryland 7 (Durham, N.C.)
February 26, 2005: Duke 10, Maryland 7 (College Park, Md.)
February 29, 2004: Duke 9, Maryland 7 (Durham, N.C.)
March 18, 2003: Maryland 9, Duke 8 (OT) (College Park, Md.)
March 1, 2002: Duke 9, Maryland 8 (Durham, N.C.)
April 22, 2001: Maryland 7, Duke 6 (Orlando, Fla./ACC Tournament)
March 2, 2001: Maryland 18, Duke 11 (College Park, Md.)
March 3, 2000: Maryland 14, Duke 10 (Durham, N.C.)
March 20, 1999: Maryland 8, Duke 5 (College Park, Md.)

Terps' Offense Explodes In Season Opener
• The Maryland attack could not be stopped on February 19 in its 23-8 rout of UMBC. The Terps notched 23 goals, which is the most in nearly three years.
• The Terrapins scored 23 times on just 48 shots with 48 percent of their shots finding the back of the net.

Notice: Newcomers Have Arrived
• With the absence of Maryland's top returning scorer in junior Kelly Kasper, the Terps found other ways to score as their newcomers made an immediate impact at UMBC.
• Junior Dana Dobbie scored the first goal of the Cathy Reese era at the 27:39 point of the first half. It was also her first goal as a Terp. She finished the day with a game-high six goals.
• A trio of freshmen also got in on the act as Amanda Spinnenweber recorded four goals and two assists, Caitlyn McFadden notched a hat trick, and Ali Perkins notched a goal and dished out three assists. • After the first week of play, Dobbie is tied for the team lead with seven goals and leads with 14 draw controls.
• Spinnenweber is tied for third on the team in points with five goals and two assists while McFadden is tied for fifth with four goals and two assists. Her six caused turnovers leads the team.

The Way It Was Drawn Up
• Junior Dana Dobbie excelled at draws against the Retrievers on February 19 as she racked up 10 in all. That total matched the entire UMBC team.
• Maryland owned a 22-10 advantage in draw controls for the game.
• Dobbie was the NCAA leader in draw controls as a sophomore in 2005 at Ohio. She averaged 5.14 draws a game and compiled 72 in just 14 games.

Preseason Honors Handed Out
• Seniors Becky Clipp and Katie Doolittle and junior Kelly Kasper earned a pair of preseason accolades last week. All three were placed on the 2007 Preseason Tewaaraton Watch List. The Tewaaraton is given annually to the nation's top lacrosse student-athlete.
• Current associate head coach Jen Adams was the first-ever winner of the Tewaaraton back in 2001.
• Clipp and Kasper were also honored as second-team preseason All-Americans by Inside Lacrosse.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi and junior Dana Dobbie were the other Terrapins recognized by Inside Lacrosse as they were both put on the third team.

ACC Shows Its Power Again
• The Atlantic Coast Conference continues to be one of the premier conferences in women's lacrosse. The ACC sports four teams in the top 20 of the IWLCA preseason Coaches Poll.
• Duke is ranked No. 2 and North Carolina comes in at No. 4. The ACC and the BIG EAST both have two teams in the top five as Georgetown and Notre Dame are ranked No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.
• Maryland is ranked No. 8 and Virginia is right behind the Terps at No. 9.
• North Carolina started its season off with a bang by knocking off No. 1 and two-time defending national champion Northwestern on Saturday, February 17. The Tar Heels beat the Wildcats, 9-8, in double overtime.

To Be The Best...
• Maryland will have to beat the best as 11 of its 17 regular season contests will be against teams ranked in the IWLCA preseason Coaches Poll.
• Eight of those 11 teams are ranked in the top 10 and three are in the top five.
• The Terrapins will go through its toughest stretch from March 13 to April 3 when it plays six-straight ranked opponents. The slate begins at No. 9 Virginia and then is followed up by No. 6 Dartmouth, No. 10 Johns Hopkins, No. 4 North Carolina, No. 18 Stanford, and No. 3 Georgetown.

Scoring Streaks
• Junior Kelly Kasper had an impressive scoring streak heading into the season as she notched a goal in all 20 games last season. She also caused a turnover in every contest in 2006. She has found the back of the cage in 27 straight games going back to her freshman year in 2005. The last time she didn't score a goal was against Johns Hopkins on April 9, 2005.
• Kasper, who didn't cause a turnover against BC, had caused a turnover in 24 straight games dating back to April 29, 2005.

Loaded With Experience
• Maryland returns eight student-athletes who started all 20 games last season. Junior Allie Buote returns to the cage and will anchor the defense. The back line is familiar with each other as Becky Clipp started every game last season along with Martha Raver. Megan Cassara also appeared in all 20 contests with four starts.
• The Terps' are experienced in every area on the field as the midfield returns Kelly Kasper, Katie Doolittle, and Lauren Cohen who all started every game last year as well. At attack, Casey Magor and Krista Pellizzi all notched 20 starts as well.