COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse team heads back to the road as it travels to Virginia's capital to take on No. 13 Richmond in a non-conference matchup at First Market Stadium on March 7. Both teams are coming off one-goal wins as Maryland beat Duke, 19-18, while Richmond defeated William & Mary, 10-9, in double overtime.

Terps Travel To Richmond Take On Spiders
• The No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse team travels to Virginia's capital to take on No. 13 Richmond for a 3:00 p.m. contest at First Market Stadium on March 7.
• Maryland and Richmond have met 13 times with the Terrapins taking every meeting.
• Last season, the Terps won 12-9 on the strength of hat tricks from Delia Cox, junior Kelly Kasper, and senior Krista Pellizzi, who also added a pair of assists.

Terps Take Wild One Against Duke
• Maryland and No. 2 Duke took part in a shootout on March 3 and it was the Terps who came away with a 19-18 victory.
• The Terrapins' offensive explosion is the most goals ever allowed by Duke in a game. The previous high was 18 which had been done three times. Most recently, Virginia scored 18 on the Blue Devils in 2002.
• Maryland also scored 18 goals against Duke in 2001.
• Junior Lauren Cohen had a career game as she set new personal bests with four goals and six points while her two assists matched her career high.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi continued her solid play with four goals and an assist while junior Dana Dobbie added a hat trick and eight draw controls.
• Junior Kelly Kasper was a force in all aspects of the game as she recorded two goals, an assist, five caused turnovers, three ground balls, and two draw controls.
• In all, seven Terps finished the game with multiple goals.

Reese Tabbed US Lacrosse Coach of the Week
• Head coach Cathy Reese was named the US Lacrosse Coach of the Week for the Terps' triumph against Duke on March 3.
• The Terrapins' 19-18 win was the first win against the Blue Devils since 2003 and it also snapped Duke's 12-game road winning streak that dated back to 2005. The 19 goals allowed by Duke are the most in the program's history.

Record Setting Start
• Nobody has been able to stop the Maryland offense so far this season as the Terps have scored 18 or more goals in every game this season.
• The Terrapins have accumulated 60 goals in three games, a 20-per-game average. Both of those numbers are the best offensive start to any season in program history through three games.
• The previous record was 55 goals in 1986 under head coach Sue Tyler. • Maryland is 3-0 for the first time since 2003.

Scouting The Spiders
• Richmond comes into Wednesday's contest with a 3-2 record. The Spiders posted easy wins against Longwood and Virginia Tech before losing to ACC foes Duke and Virginia. Richmond gave the Blue Devils a scare as the score was 10-7 in Durham.
• In their most recent outing, the Spiders came away with a 10-9 double overtime victory at William & Mary.
• Richmond had its most successful season in school history last year and won its second-straight Atlantic 10 championship. Head coach Sue Murphy was named the A-10 Coach of the Year for her efforts.
• Mandy Friend leads the Spiders with 15 goals while Allison Furstenburg has 11 goals and a team-best five assists.
• Ashley Friend is the other Spider in double-digit goals with 10 while Morghan Vahue has nine.
• Richmond has only recorded 16 assists on 54 goals.
• Jackie Swansburg is the starter in goal with a 8.76 goals against average and a .542 save percentage.

Series History
• Maryland and Richmond have met 13 times previously with the Terrapins taking every meeting.
• The closest meeting between the programs came in 1988 when Maryland escaped with an 8-7 victory.

Last 10 Meetings:
March 4, 2006: Maryland 12, Richmond 9 (College Park)
March 3, 2005: Maryland 14, Richmond 6 (Richmond)
February 21, 2004: Maryland 16, Richmond 6 (College Park)
April 14, 1992: Maryland 17, Richmond 0 (College Park)
March 8, 1991: Maryland 15, Richmond 4 (Richmond)
March 28, 1990: Maryland 17, Richmond 5 (College Park)
1989: Maryland 10, Richmond, 7
March 31, 1988: Maryland 7, Richmond 6 (College Park)
April 2, 1987: Maryland 24, Richmond 3
April 6, 1986: Maryland 16, Richmond 3 (College Park)

Reese's Success at Maryland
• Head coach Cathy Reese is not 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 172-19.

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.

First Half Dominance
• The Terps own a 60-34 advantage in scoring through the first three games of the season, but the first half has been something special.
• Maryland owns a 33-12 advantage in goals in the first half this season.

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.

Terp Ranks In The ACC
• Maryland is etched all over the season leaderboard in the conference in the early going of the season as six Terps are ranked in either goals, assists, or points per game.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi finds herself on all three ledgers as she leads the league in points per game (5.67) while her goals (3.67) and assists (2.00) per game marks are third.
• Junior Dana Dobbie is fourth in the ACC in goals per game (3.33) while senior Katie Doolittle (2.00) and freshman Caitlyn McFadden (2.00) are tied for ninth. McFadden is also fifth in ground balls per game at 2.67.
• Junior Katie Princiotto leads the conference in assists at 2.67 per game while her 4.33 points per game is third.
• As a team, Maryland is easily the best offense so far this season. Maryland averages 20 goals per game and assists on 10 of them a game. Their 46.33 shots per game is also the best in the ACC as are their 30 points per game.
• Duke is second in the three main categories as they score 15.20 goals per game, average 6.60 assists, and have recorded 21.80 points.

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.
• Dobbie is second on the team lead with 10 goals and leads with 22 draw controls.
• McFadden leads all freshmen with six goals and eight points and leads the entire team with eight caused turnovers.
• Spinnenweber is tied for sixth on the team in points with five goals and two assists.

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 has 22 draw controls this season with eight more coming in the win against Duke. She is averaging 7.33 a game so far this season.
• 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 sported four teams in the top 20 of the IWLCA preseason Coaches Poll.
• Duke was ranked No. 2 and North Carolina comes in at No. 4. The ACC and the BIG EAST both had two teams in the top five as Georgetown and Notre Dame were ranked No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.
• Maryland was ranked No. 8 and Virginia was 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 28 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.