April 17, 2008
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
The seventh-ranked University of Maryland men's lacrosse team returns to Ludwig Field for a 1 p.m. game on Saturday, April 19 against the Ivy League's Penn Quakers. The game will be televised regionally on CN8 and will feature Mike Corey on play-by-play and Leif Elsmo providing the analysis.
• The game between the Terps and the Quakers can also be heard on the Terrapin Sports Radio Network's flagship station, ESPN Radio 1300 AM (WJFK) in Baltimore and surrounding areas. Steve Stofberg (Maryland '94) is in his third season as the vioce of Terrapin lacrosse. He will be joined in the booth by analyst Tim McGinnis. who was an All-American goalie for the Terps in 2004.
• Both teams come into the game having lost their last two contests. Maryland (7-4, 2-1 ACC) is looking to rebound after a 10-4 loss at then-No. 15 Johns Hopkins last Saturday. The Quakers (5-5, 3-3 Ivy) dropped a 8-5 decision at home to No. 14 Brown last weekend. Junior attackman Craig Andrzeiewski leads the Penn offense with 32 points on 19 goals and 13 assists. At the face-off X, sophomore Justin Lynch has been tremendous for the Quakers, winning 57.8 percent of his attempts this year.
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| Tale
of the Tape |
Maryland |
Category |
Penn |
10.5 |
Goals/Game |
8.4 |
7.4 |
Opp. Goals/Game |
9.7 |
36.8 |
Shots/Game |
40.0 |
29.1 |
Shot Pct. |
21.0 |
22.9 |
Shots on Goal/Game |
20.7 |
62.2 |
Shots on Goal Pct. |
51.7 |
10.2 |
Saves/Game |
8.0 |
57.4 |
Save Pct. |
45.2 |
35.6 |
Groundballs/Game |
23.8 |
30.3 |
Opp. Groundballs/Game |
21.3 |
17.5 |
Turnovers/Game |
14.5 |
12.0 |
Caused Turnovers/Game |
3.4 |
50.6 |
Face-Off Pct. |
57.4 |
85.2 |
Clear Pct. |
81.5 |
79.7 |
Opp. Clear Pct. |
80.0 |
2.9 |
Penalties/Game |
4.5 |
2.5 |
Penalty Minutes/Game |
3.7 |
41.2 |
Man-Up Conversion Pct. |
21.6 |
23.3 |
Opp. Man-Up Conversion Pct. |
32.6 |
Coaching Match-Up
• Now in his 26th season as a head coach, Dave Cottle enters today's game with a 255-102 career record for a 71.4 win percentage, sixth-highest among active coaches with at least 100 career wins. His win total is fourth among active coaches. He is 74-32 (69.8) in his seven seasons at Maryland.
• Penn's Brian Voelker is 36-41 (46.8) in his sixth college head coaching season. Voelker spent nine seasons at his alma mater Johns Hopkins, including his playing career. He also served as head coach of the Baltimore Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse in 2001, leading the Bayhawks to the very first MLL championship game.
• Cottle has a 6-4 lifetime record against Penn, with six games coming while he was at Loyola from 1983-2001. Voelker is 0-4 against Maryland as a head coach, but faced them many times while at Hopkins.
Series History vs. Penn
• Saturday's game will be just the ninth meeting between Maryland and Penn -- two of the oldest lacrosse programs in the nation. Maryland has won all eight previous meetings. While the two teams have played just eight times previously, this is the fifth-straight season the two will have played.
• Last season saw the Terps in a 6-6 tie at the half, thanks to three first half goals by Max Ritz, at historic Franklin Field, but the Terrapin defense limited the Quakers to just four second-half goals en route to a 14-10 Maryland win. Ritz finished the game with a career-best six points, while Dan Groot had a pair of goals, including the eventual game-winner.
• Senior All-Americans Joe Walters, Bill McGlone, Brendan Healy and Xander Ritz account for 10 of the Terps' 12 goals in a 12-4 victory on May 6, 2006.
• In 2005 10 Terps scored goals en route to a 21-6 Maryland victory at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field.
• The 2004 meeting, a 13-5 Terp victory, was Senior Day at Byrd Stadium, but it was sophomores Bill McGlone and Joe Walters that stole the show. McGlone totaled a career-best seven points on two goals and a career-high five assists, while Walters scored a hat trick and added another three assists for a six-point effort. Ian Healy also had a banner day against the Quakers, tying his career-high with two goals.
• Prior to the 2004 game, the two team's last met in the 1987 NCAA Quarterfinals. In that game Maryland beat the Quakers, 12-8, at Byrd Stadium. In the win four Maryland All-Americans had multi-goal games: Brendan Hanley (4), Tom Worstell (3), Kirk Thuston (2) and Phil Willard (2).
• Before the '87 NCAA meeting, the Terps and Quakers played three times prior to 1930. The Terps won the first game, 4-3 in 1924 -- in the first-ever varsity recognized lacrosse game at Maryland. Maryland also won 9-1 in 1926 and 15-2 in 1930.
Maryland-Penn Connections
• Penn features three players who played high school lacrosse with three current Terrapins.
• McDonogh School alums Bryn Holmes and Jeremy Sieverts will reunite with former teammate Brian Weiss. But the real reunion for Weiss will be with younger brother, Brett, who is a freshman attackman with the Terps.
• Loyola Blakefield will have sophomores Casey Creaney of Maryland and Penn's Joe Kelly in the game.
• Freshman long pole Brett Schmidt could find himself guarding Penn midfielder Todd Tewksbury. The two were teammates at Upper Dublin High School.
• Even though they were never teammates, Maryland freshman Ryan Young and Penn sophomore Tommy Dodge are both graduates of Manhasset High School.
• Maryland's roster has five Keystone State natives, while the Quakers boast 10 Maryland natives.
Shooting Tells The Story
• The difference between winning and losing for Maryland this season is simple - when the Terps shoot well they win. Coach Dave Cottle is on record saying that good teams will shoot at least 30%. As it turns out 30% is the magic number for the Terps this season.
• In Maryland's seven victories this season the Terrapins are shooting above 30% (33.0%, 95 goals/288 shots). In their four losses the Terps' shooting percentage is cut to 19.7% (23 goals/117 shots).
• Another standout statistic from Terp wins and losses is man-up conversion percentage. Maryland has converted 11-of-23 opportunities (.478) in its seven wins, but is 3-of-11 (.273) in four defeats.
Home vs. Away
• A lot is made in sports about the home-field advantage, but for the Maryland men's lacrosse team it has been better away from home than it has been in College Park. The Terps have played only five games at home (4-1) and six on the road (3-3) and the numbers are mixed through 11 games.
• Maryland is averaging 11.6 goals per game in its home games, which is nearly two goals more than the 9.7 goals the Terps average on the road.
• The Maryland defense has been very good whether it is playing at home or on the road, but the numbers favor the Terps when they are at home so far in 2008. Maryland is allowing opponents just 5.6 goals per game at home, but that inflates by to a still-respectable 8.9 gpg on the road.
• Freshmen lead the Terps in scoring both at home and on the road. Ryan Young is the team's leading scorer overall, and is also tops in home scoring with three goals and 12 assists for 15 points. Another freshman attackman, Grant Catalino, leads the squad in scoring on the road with 10 goals and four assists for 14 points.
Home Cooking
• A lot is made in sports about the home-field advantage, and for the Maryland men's lacrosse team that advantage has held true since Coach Cottle arrived in College Park. Since 2002, the Terps are 39-14 (.736) when playing on the Maryland campus. At Chevy Chase Bank Field at Byrd Stadium Maryland is 25-11 (.694) under Cottle, while the Terps have gone 8-3 (.727) at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex and 6-0 at Ludwig Field.
Defense Ready To Meet Expectations
• On paper this year's Maryland defense may appear to have some holes, but the 2008 Terrapin defense is looking to uphold the Terps' tradition of great defenses. Sure, the unit lost two second team All-Americans in seniors Ray Megill and Steve Whittenberg and also three-year starting long pole Ryan Clarke, but one look at the talent this year's "D" and you'll see it's more than capable. Three-year starter Joe Cinosky returns for his senior season along with a trio of experienced seniors in Ryne Adolph, Jacob Baxter and Zach Hinton. Talented freshman Max Schmidt is expected to see plenty of playing time as well at close defense. At long pole sophomore Brian Farrell is one of the best in the NCAA and the Terps have depth behind him in senior Matt Rankin, junior Chris Rhine and sophomore Dan Halayko. Redshirt junior Jeff Reynolds is back after missing 14 games in 2007 with a torn ACL. This season he's set to pair up with sophomore Bryn Holmes to give Maryland one of the best short-stick tandems in the country.
• During the last four seasons, Maryland held its' opponents scoreless for long stretches of game time. The 2004 Terps kept opponents scoreless for stretches of 20 or more minutes eight times. In 2005 Maryland did it on seven occasions, and was just seconds away from keeping the high-powered Duke (1st meeting) and Navy offenses off the board for more than 20 minutes. The 2006 season saw the Terrapin defense do it 10 times in 17 games. In 2007 Terp "D" had 11 20+ minute scoring droughts to its credit in 16 contests. So far in 2008, Maryland has held opponents scoreless for more than 20 minutes four times.
• The emphasis on team defense was evident in the Terps' 2008 opener at No. 4 Georgetown. Maryland held the lauded Hoya offense to just six goals and two of those came when Georgetown converted on man-up opportunities. The Terrapin defense held Georgetown's starting attack and first midfield, which combined for 95 goals (6.3 per game) in 2007, to just three scores.
• The defense was solid in allowing just seven goals at Mount St. Mary's on a rainy, foggy afternoon. The fog was the most difficult on the defense as it made the ball very hard for the goalies to see shots clearly. Even so, the Terrapins came up with a good defensive effort, holding the Mount to just one goal over a 22-minute span covering parts of the first, second and third quarters. Junior Mike Griswold led the Terps with three caused turnovers on the afternoon. Overall, 12 Terps combined to force 19 of the Mount's 25 turnovers.
• The defense turned in its first shutout quarter of the season in the 13-5 win over Providence. The Terps held the Friars scoreless in the first quarter, allowing the offense to jump out to a 5-0 lead. Overall, Providence was held off the board for the first 23:30 of the game. Maryland forced 20 of the Friars' 21 turnovers. Leading the way was sophomore long pole Brian Farrell who had three caused turnovers to go along with four groundballs.
• In the Terps' 12-7 win over No. 18 Towson, Maryland's "D" proved to be a physically dominant unit. The Terrapins forced 16 of the Tigers' 23 turnovers. Even more impressive was Maryland's plus-22 advantage in groundballs (53-31). Senior defender Ryne Adolph had a career-best six pick-ups off the turf and led a contingent of nine Terps who had at least four groundballs apiece. In addition to playing great on its side of the field, the defense also contributed on the offensive side of things vs. Towson as Brian Farrell scored two of Maryland's 12 goals.
• The Maryland defense had its finest showing of the season to date against Air Force, holding the Falcons to just four goals. After surrendering three scores in the first quarter, the Terrapin defense tightened down and did not allow another goal for 44:03; the longest scoreless stretch for the season by the Terp "D". Maryland's defenders also got into the scoring act against Air Force. Five Terrapin defenders combined for a pair of goals and three assists.
• At fifth-ranked North Carolina, the Terps bottled up the Tar Heels offense, holding them to just eight goals. Senior All-America candidate Joe Cinosky continued his dominant play with four groundballs and a pair of caused turnovers. In total, the Maryland defense held Carolina's starting attack to two goals and one assist. The "D" held the Tar Heels without a goal for 20:13, spanning the third and fourth quarters. That allowed the Maryland offense to go on a 5-0 scoring run and put the game out of reach.
• A masterful performance by the Terrapin defense helped the Terps knock off then-No. 1 Virginia, 13-7. The Cavaliers were held to their lowest scoring output of the season and were held to just three goals in the first half. Virginia had entered the game averaging more than eight goals per game in the first half alone. Redshirt junior goalie Jason Carter was brilliant in the cage, stopping a career-best 15 saves in the victory.
• The Terps held Navy to just five goals - more than four lower than its season average - and shutout the Midshipmen for the final 30:44 of the game. Joe Cinosky tied his career-high with five groundballs and also caused three of Navy's 24 turnovers. The Mids turned the ball over on 14 of their 16 second-half possessions against a tenacious Maryland defense.
Offensive Defenders
• Through 11 games Terrapin defensive players have been surprisingly offensive. So far in 2008, seven Maryland defenders (close, long poles and short-stick d-middies) have scored goals or tallied assists. In total, Terrapin defenders have 10 goals and eight assists for 18 points. The Terps have totaled 181 points as a team, which means that just over 10 percent of Maryland's offense has come from a defensive player.
• Sophomore long pole Brian Farrell leads the defense with six goals and an assist and is actually tied for 10th on the squad in points. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound Baltimore native, had scored at least one goal in five of the Terps' last seven games.
• Three short-sticks and one long pole each have two points on the year. Short-stick Spencer McAllister has two goals, while Dan Burns and Dean Hart each have two assists. Junior long pole Chris Rhine also has two points on a goal and an assist.
• Sophomore long pole Dan Halayko has one goal, while senior All-America candidate Joe Cinosky and sophomore wrecking ball Bryn Holmes have added assists.
Where's The Beef? Check The "D"
• How big is Maryland's defense this season? Well, Towson head coach Tony Seaman, who's Tigers have a big defensive unit of their own, had this to say: "We're certainly nothing like the bullies down at Maryland with size or strength ...". Take a look at the top seven close defensemen and/or long poles for the Terps in 2008 - the average for the group is 6-foot-3, 221 pounds.
Brian Farrell: 6-5, 240
Mike Griswold: 6-4, 230
Max Schmidt: 6-4, 230
Joe Cinosky: 6-3, 225
Zach Hinton: 6-3, 205
Jacob Baxter: 6-1, 230
Ryne Adolph: 6-1, 190
Freshmen Leading The Way
• The season is just about a quarter gone (there's still a long way to go), but the top three scorers for the Terps right now are freshmen. This is rare air for the Maryland program.
• Going back to 1962 only two Terrapins (Mike Mollot, who was a redshirt freshman, in 2000 and Joe Walters in 2003) led the team in points as a rookie. Only four (Walters, Matt Hahn in 1995, Rob Wurzburger in 1988 and Pete Worstell in 1977) led the team in goals and another four (Dan LaMonica in 2001, Mollot, Rob Chomo in 1991 and Tim Cox in 1989) led the squad in assists.
• Travis Reed, Ryan Young and Grant Catalino are already approaching some freshmen milestones and are poised to climb the freshman class records in several categories. Reed is already tied for eighth, along with Dave Dempsey (1970) on the all-time freshman goals scored list with 18. Catalino trails him by just one goal and is tied with Bob Boneillo (1977) with 17 goals. The trio is tightly bunched together on the all-time freshman points. Young is tied for 13th with Ed Mullen (1972) with 24, while Catalino and Reed are tied with each other for 15th with 23 points. Young's 17 assists has him in eighth place on the freshman assist chart and needs just three more to tie Andrew Whipple (1995) and Frank Urso (1973) for sixth. .
Fast Starts
• Since Coach Cottle arrived in College Park in 2002 only 11 players have totaled 23 points or more in the first 11 games of a season. Three of those are 2008 freshman attackmen Ryan Young, Grant Catalino and Travis Reed. Young's 17 assists is the third-best of any player in the last seven seasons through 11 games. The only rookie since 2002 to be on a better pace than Young, Reed and Catalino was Joe Walters in 2003 when he had 35 points on 28 goals and seven assists through 11 games.
Freshmen Starters
• There was a lot of speculation about which freshmen would start in the season opener at Georgetown. The question was answered with four (see below). But freshmen starting the season opener is nothing new for the Terps under Coach Cottle. Since 2002 there have now been eight Terrapins that have started the season opener as freshmen.
2002: None
2003: Joe Walters vs. Duke
2004: None
2005: Max Ritz vs. Georgetown
2006: Dan Groot vs. Georgetown
2007: Brian Phipps vs. Bellarmine
2008: Grant Catalino, Travis Reed, Max Schmidt and Ryan Young at Georgetown
Memorable Debut
• Freshman Grant Catalino scored four goals in the Terps' 11-6 season-opening win at Georgetown on Feb. 23. That performance marked the most goals by a Maryland freshman since Rob Wurzburger tallied four scores in a 19-4 win over Hambden-Sydney.
• For his performance against the Hoyas, Catalino was named both the ACC Player of the Week (along with UNC goalie Grant Zimmerman) and the University of Maryland's male athlete of the week.
A Family Affair
• Many school's refer to their sports programs as families, but under Coach Cottle the Maryland men's lacrosse program has really become a family affair. Since arriving in College Park in 2002, Cottle has had eight sets of brothers don the red and black together for at least one season.
Harry & Harry: 2004-05-06-07
Brendan & Ian Healy: 2003-04-05
Bryn & Travis Holmes: 2007
Dan & Mike LaMonica: 2002
Chris & Willy Passavia: 2002-03
Brian & Michael Phipps: 2007
Max & Xander Ritz: 2005-06
Mark & Michael White: 2008
Fathers and Sons
• Maryland's family tradition doesn't end with brothers. Fathers and sons are also part of the Terps' tradition and that's never been more evident than this season. This year's Maryland men's lacrosse roster features three players whose father's not only played at Maryland, but won a nation title together. Mike Farrell, father of Brian, Wilson Phipps, father of Brian, and Jake Reed, father of Travis, were all members of the Terps' 1975 NCAA championship squad.
Terps' 83rd Season of Lacrosse
• The Terps boast an all-time record of 690-229-4 (.750), 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 82 seasons with a .500 or better record, including last season when the Terps went 10-6. The program reached the 650-win milestone with a 16-12 win over Army in the first round of the 2004 NCAA tournament at Byrd Stadium.
• Since 2000, Maryland is 98-40 for a .710 win percentage. 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.
Road Work
• For just the second time in program history, the Terps opened the season with three-straight games away from College Park. In 1978 Maryland opened with a pair of games in North Carolina - a 25-11 win at NC State and a 14-7 win at Duke - before beating Dartmouth, 16-3, in a neutral site game at Garden City, Long Island.
• 2008 marks the 12th time in the 83 years of Maryland lacrosse that the Terps will open a season with at least two road games. In the previous 11 seasons (1952, 1954, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 2001, 2004 and 2006) Maryland has a combined record of 23-0 in those road games. This season the Terps were 2-1 in its three-game road trip to open the season, bringing its record to 25-1 (.962).
A Family Affair
• Many school's refer to their sports programs as families, but under Coach Cottle the Maryland men's lacrosse program has really become a family affair. Since arriving in College Park in 2002, Cottle has had eight sets of brothers don the red and black together for at least one season.
Harry & Harry: 2004-05-06-07
Brendan & Ian Healy: 2003-04-05
Bryn & Travis Holmes: 2007
Dan & Mike LaMonica: 2002
Chris & Willy Passavia: 2002-03
Brian & Michael Phipps: 2007
Max & Xander Ritz: 2005-06
Mark & Michael White: 2008
Fathers And Sons
• Maryland's family tradition doesn't end with brothers. Fathers and sons are also part of the Terps' tradition and that's never been more evident than this season. This year's Maryland men's lacrosse roster features three players whose father's not only played at Maryland, but won a nation title together. Mike Farrell, father of Brian, Wilson Phipps, father of Brian, and Jake Reed, father of Travis, were all members of the Terps' 1975 NCAA championship squad.
Maryland In Season Openers
• Maryland has a 79-3-1 (.958) lifetime record in season openers dating back to the 1924 season. The Terps have won their last 15 openers and 23 of the last 24, with the only loss coming to Duke in 1993, when they fell to Duke 9-5 on March 6.
• After losing their 1925 opener to Yale, 5-3, the Terps went on to win 40 consecutive season openers from 1926 through 1967. The streak was broken when Maryland tied Princeton, 6-6, in the 1968 opener. Following the deadlock, Maryland went on to win its next 14 openers, giving the Terps a 54-0-1 record over a 57-year span (Maryland did not field a team in 1944 and 1945 due to World War II.)
15 Straight In Season Openers
• After beating No. 4 Georgetown to open the 2008 season the Terps now have a 15-game winning streak in season openers. Five of those wins came against Villanova (1994-98) and the last nine over Denver, Mount St. Mary's, Air Force, Hobart, Duke, Georgetown (four times) and Bellarmine. Over the 15-year stretch, Maryland outscored its foes 204-78 (an average score of 13.6-5.2) in those games.
• The Terps have not allowed more than seven goals to any opponent in a season opener over the last 15 years. Maryland has not allowed an opponent to score 10 or more goals in a season opener since Syracuse beat the Terps, 16-13 on March 9, 1983.
2008 Captains: Adolph, Cinosky, Dalton, Evans & Ritz
• Five players have been named team captains for the 2008 season. The quintet, which was voted on by the team during the preseason, consists of seniors
Ryne Adolph,
Joe Cinosky,
Will Dalton,
Drew Evans and
Max Ritz.
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