Oct. 28, 2011

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COLLEGE PARK, MD. - The No. 16 Maryland Terrapin women's soccer team (10-4-4/4-4-2 ACC) heads to Charlottesville, Va., as the No. 7 seed in the 2011 ACC Tournament. The Terps will battle the second-seeded Virginia Cavaliers on Sunday, Oct. 30 at 1:00 p.m. at Klöckner Stadium.

• The winner of Sunday's match will advance to the ACC Tournament semifinals and face the winner of the No. 3 seed North Carolina/No. 6 seed Florida State match, which will also be played at 1 p.m. on Sunday in Chapel Hill, N.C.

• The semifinals and finals of the 2011 ACC Tournament will be held at the WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., on Friday, Nov. 4 and Sunday, Nov. 6, respectively.

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As the No. 7 Seed
• This season marks the first time ever that the Terrapins will compete at the ACC tournament as the No. 7 seed.

Maryland In The ACC Tournament
• Maryland has an all-time record of 10-19-4 (Maryland won three of four ties on penalty kicks) in ACC Tournament games dating back to the first year of the event in 1988.

• The 2nd-seeded Terps won their first ACC tournament game since 2003 with a 1-0 decision vs. Duke in 2010. Senior Molly Dreska scored the game-winner in the 71st minute, finishing a cross from junior Sade Ayinde into to the upper right 90 from 17 yards out. Senior Colleen Deegan started the play with a nice long ball to Ayinde at the left corner of the Blue Devil 18. Redshirt junior Yewande Balogun made three of her four stops in the first half to keep a rested Duke squad off the board.

Maryland advanced to its first ACC title game with a 1-0 overtime victory over Boston College in the semis. Sophomore Danielle Hubka scored the game's lone goal 55 seconds into the first overtime, finishing a long ball sent over the top of the Eagle backline by junior Skyy Anderson. Terp keeper Yewande Balogun was tremendous in goal, making six saves.

The Terrapins run in the ACC tournament came to an end with a 1-1 tie vs. Wake Forest in the title game. But the Demon Deacons took home the tropy, winning the shootout 3-1. Junior Ashley Grove gave Maryland a 1-0 lead in the fifth minute, but Wake tied the match in the 19th minute. The two teams went scoreless for the remaining 100 minutes, sending the match to a shootout. The Terps and Deacs each coverted their first PK attemps, but WF keeper Aubrey Bledsoe stopped the next three Maryland attempts to seal the title for Wake Forest

• The Terps entered the 2009 tournament as the No. 6 seed, but once again drew the North Carolina Tar Heels in the opening round. UNC won the match 3-0.

• Maryland made the 2005 tournament as the No. 8 seed. Maryland matched-up with No. 1 seed North Carolina and was dealt a 3-1 defeat by the Tar Heels. UNC scored three goals in the first 10 minutes. Ashly Kennedy scored Maryland's goal in the 69th minute.

• In 2004, the Terps played NC State in the first round game at Ludwig Field (Boston College had not yet joined the conference). Maryland was the No. 8 seed, while the Wolfpack was seeded ninth. The game was played to a 0-0 tie through 110 minutes so a shootout determined which team would advance. All- ACC goalkeeper Nikki Resnick made two huge saves in the shootout and Maryland advanced 4-2. The Terps played No. 1 seed North Carolina in the quarterfinals and that game went into overtime with a 0-0 score, but UNC got a goal from Heather O'Reilly in the 103rd minute to advance with a 1-0 win.

• 2003 was the last time the Terrapins won an ACC tournament game, topping Clemson 2-1 in the quarterfinals. Maryland, the No. 6 seed, got two goals from Kimmy Francis to defeat the No. 3 seed Tigers. No. 2 seed Florida State knocked off the Terps in the semifinals, 1-0.

• In 2002,  Maryland advanced the ACC Tournament semifinals for the first time in three years, as they knocked off host Florida State, 4-2 on Nov. 7, before a television audience on Sunshine Network. All four goals in the win came from freshmen: Ali Andrzejewski, Simone Dekker, Kimmy Francis and Mallory Mahar. Maryland lost North Carolina, the eventual league champion, North Carolina in the semifinals, 4-0.

• In 1999, as its highest seed ever, No. 2 seed Maryland advanced to the semifinals with a 2-1 quarterfinal win over No. 7 seed Duke on Nov. 4, 1999 before falling to No. 3 seed Wake Forest, 1-0, in the semis on Nov. 5.

• Maryland had its only runs to the ACC finals in 1995 and 1997, the only other time the ACC Women's Soccer Tournament was held at Wake Forest. In 1995, as the No. 3 seed, the Terps defeated Clemson 2-0 in the first round and NC State 1-0 in the second round before falling to eventual champion North Carolina 3-0.

• In 1997, Maryland escaped NC State in the first round, 4-3, in penalty kicks after tying 1-1 in regulation. The Terps advanced to the finals with a 2-1 win over Duke. In that win, Jackie Mynarski scored Maryland's first goal, while Keri Sarver added the winner. Ali Wolff made five saves for the win. The Terps dropped the final to North Carolina, 4-0.

Scouting The Terps
• Maryland closed out the regular season in historic fashion, topping No. 8 North Carolina, 2-1 in overtime, for the first-ever win over the Tar Heels at Ludwig Field. The Terrapins finished the regular seaon with a 10-4-4 overall mark and an ACC record of 4-4-2.

• The Terps got their 2011 season off to a good start with a 1-0 win over No. 22 Minnesota (Danielle Hubka scored the game's lone goal in the 20th minute when she finished a through ball from Becky Kaplan. Yewande Balogun was solid in net and recorded three saves, but the biggest save of the game came from Kristen McAfee, who cleared a Golden Gopher shot away from the net just before it crossed the goal line in the 88th minute.

• Maryland followed that up with a 9-0 drubbing at Loyola (Jasmyne Spencer added two assists. Freshman Alex Doody had a goal and an assist to record her first collegiate points.

• The showdown with No. 1 Stanford lived up to its billing as the two top five teams battled to a 0-0 tie (recap | stats) on Aug. 26. The match was as even as could be. The Cardinal had a slight lead in shots, 19-17, but the Terps had eight corner kick opportunities to Stanford's six. Stanford controlled the first half, out-shooting Maryland 10-2, but Yewande Balogun made five of her 11 saves in the opening 45 minutes to keep the Terps in the match.The second half was a different story as it was Maryland controling the flow of the game and earning an 11-5 shot advantage.

• After being delayed a day due to the effects of Hurricane Irene, the Terps topped Navy, 3-0 (Lydia Hastings, Kristen Schmidbauer and Annesia Faulkner tallied assists. Yewande Balogun only needed to record two saves to register her third shutout of the season. However, for the Terps it was the fourth shutout of the season, which set a school record for most consecutive shutouts to begin a year.

• The Terps continued to play good soccer with a 2-0 shutout of St. Louis (Jasmyne Spencer. The back line of Anderson, Lydia Hastings and Megan Gibbons did a terrific job limiting the Billikens and Yewande Balogun needed to make just one save to earn her fourth shutout of the season.

• Maryland set the school record for consecutive shutouts with its sixth clean sheet of the season with a 4-0 win at Cornell (Jasmyne Spencer netted her first goal of the season to give the Terps a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute off an assist by Domenica Hodak. Hodak tallied her second assist of the game in the 70th minute by setting up Hayley Brock's third goal of the year. Brock then turned around and got the helper on Cory Ryan's first collegiate goal in the 81st minute. Sade Ayinde wrapped up the scoring with her first goal of the season on a direct strike off of a corner kick in the 84th minute.

• The game vs. American was moved to the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown due to inclement weather in the College Park area, but that didn't stop the Terrapins from rolling to a 5-1 victory over the Eagles (Kristen McAfee. Shade Pratt wrapped up the scoring with her first collegiate goal in the 74th minute. Maryland saw it's shutout streak end at 634 minutes when a long lob by Jasmine Mohandesi found the back of the Terrapin net just out of the reach of goalkeeper Yewande Balogun. The match was shortened to 86 minutes due to lightning.

• Maryland finished its non-conference slate with a 0-0 tie at James Madison (Jasmyne Spencer had six.

• The ACC season opened with a 4-1 defeat at No. 14 Virginia (recap | stats) on Sept. 15. Olivia Wagner scored the lone goal for the Terrapins, converting on a free kick from 20 yards out in the 56th minute.

• The Terps fell behind 1-0 to Virginia Tech, but scored two goals in a span of 4:01 early in the second half to earn a 2-1 victory (recap | stats) on Sept. 18. Olivia Wagner scored the first Terrapin goal, blasting a free kick from 24 yards out into the upper left corner. Wagner then assisted on the game-winner, sending a corner kick to the back post where Cory Ryan got on the end of it and finished with a header into the left side of the Hokie net.

• Sophomore Hayley Brock collected a long ball from goalkeeper Yewande Balogun and finished into the lower right corner to give Maryland a 1-0 lead early in its primetime showdown with No. 6 Boston College, but the Eagles got an own goal in the 88th minute to tie the score, sending the match into overtime. In OT, the Eagles played a long ball off of a free kick inside the Maryland 18. The ball took a high bounce and found its way to Victoria DiMartino, who tapped the ball into the net in the 98th minute to give BC a 2-1 victory (recap | stats).

• The Maryland defense was stout, but the offense never got going and the result was a 0-0 tie with NC State (recap | stats) on Sept. 25. Yewande Balogun made four saves to earn her sixth shutout of the season and the eighth full shutout overall for the Terrapins.

• The Terrapin offense got a boost with the return of All-American Jasmyne Spencer, who missed four starts due to an injurt sustained at James Madison, to the starting lineup. The boost wasn't just superficial either as Spencer delivered by scoring the 10th game-winning goal of her career to give Maryland a 2-1 victory at Clemson (recap | stats) on Sept. 29. The Terps wasted no time jumping on the Tigers as junior Danielle Hubka scored in the second minute to give Maryland a 1-0 lead. Spencer then capitalized on a defensive miscue by Clemson to score unassisted in the 22nd minute. The Tigers scored in the 33rd to cut the lead back to a goal, but the Terrapin defense held out for the 2-1 win.

• Jasmyne Spencer, Olivia Wagner and Becky Kaplan led the offense with four shots apiece.

• Maryland got off only three shots, but all of them found the back of the net as the Terrapins topped No. 11 Florida State, 3-0 (recap | stats), to earn their first win in Tallahassee since 2001. Danielle Hubka, Ashley Grove and Becky Kaplan each tallied a goal and an assist, while Skyy Anderson also had an assist in the win. Yewande Balogun made 10 saves to post her 18th career shutout.

• Miami has been a house of horrors for the Terps and that continued this season with a 2-1 defeat (recap | stats) to the Hurricanes. Maryland got out to a 1-0 lead on a free-kick goal by Olivia Wagner, but Miami tied the match before halftime. The Canes took the lead in the midway through the second half to pick up the win. Miami finished the match with only two shots on goal vs. the Terps.

• The Terrapins got out to an early 1-0 lead at No. 8 Duke thanks to the first goal of the season by Lydia Hastings, but the Blue Devils responded with three goals in a 15-minute span in the second half to take the match, 3-1 (recap | stats).

• The 2011 "Senior Night" will be one no one will soon forget as Maryland came from behind to topple No. 8 North Carolina, 2-1 in overtime (recap | stats), in front of 2,126 at Ludwig Field on Oct. 27. Carolina took a 1-0 lead early in the first half on a header by Courtney Jones and held that advantage until the 87th minute. Jasmyne Spencer flicked the ball forward to Hayley Brock, who finished into the lower left corner of the net to send the match in OT. In the 98th minute, Becky Kaplan scored the game-winner, also finishing into the lower left corner. Megan Gibbons and Sade Ayinde picked up the assists on the game-winning goal. Yewande Balogun made five saves for Maryland, but she was helped by two big team saves from Annesia Faulkner and Gibbons in holding the Tar Heels to just a single goal.

Scouting The Cavaliers
• Virginia finished its regular season with a 13-3-2 mark overall and a 7-2-1 record in ACC play.

• After opening their season with a 6-1-1 mark in non-conference play, the Cavaliers opened their ACC schedule with a 4-1 win over Maryland on Sept. 15. Virginia then went 1-2-1 over its next four games before winning its final five conference matches to secure the No. 2 seed in the ACC tournament.

• Junior forward Caroline Miller leads the Cavlier offense with 31 points on 14 goals and three assists. Senior goalkeeper Chantel Jones has logged all 1,686 minutes and has a 0.75 goals-against average and a .696 save percentage.

Series History vs. the Cavaliers
• This will be the 31st time Maryland and Virginia will meet on the pitch. Maryland trails in the all-time series 4-22-4. The Terps are 2-4-1 vs. the Cavaliers under Pensky.

• The last time these two teams played in the ACC tournament was 1994. No. 6 Maryland and No. 3 Virginia battled to a 1-1 tie and took the match to penalty kicks where the Terrapins would advance 3-1. All-time in the ACC tournament, Virginia holds a 2-0-1 series lead.

Head Coach Brian Pensky
• Brian Pensky is in his seventh season as the head coach of the Maryland women's soccer program. After helping lead the Terrapin men's program to three-straight appearances in the College Cup, Pensky took over the women's soccer program prior to the 2005 season. He has steadily built the program back to prominence and took it to its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2004 last season. Pensky owns an overall head coaching record of 65-51-20 (.551).

Terps Toppling Top 10 Teams
• Maryland has defeated a Top 10 ranked team 18 times in its history. The Terps' most memorable Top 10 victory, 2-1 at No. 2 North Carolina on Oct. 24, tied for he highest ranked opponent ever defeated by Maryland. The Terrapins defeated No. 2 Boston College on Oct. 7 in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Those two victories mark the first time in program history that Maryland has defeated two Top 10 teams in a single month. The Terps then added to that with another 2-1 win over No. 8 Florida State on Oct. 28. The latest Top 10 win for the Terps came on Oct. 27 at Ludwig Field when Maryland defeated No. 8 North Carolina for the first time ever at Ludwig Field. Here's a list of all of the Terps' Top 10 wins:

Game-Winners Galore
• Throughout their careers, Terrapin seniors Jasmyne Spencer, Ashley Gove and Sade Ayinde have had a knack for scoring game-winning goals for Maryland. Since they arrived in 2008, Maryland has won 49 matches and those three have combined for 23 game-winning goals. That means that in 46.9% of Maryland's victories over the past three-plus seasons have come with Spencer (10), Grove (7) or Ayinde (6) scoring the game-winner.

Spencer Earns Preseason Honors
• Senior Jasmyne Spencer earned three major preseason honors heading into the 2011 season. Last season, Spencer became the first Terp in the program's history to be named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Preseason Watch List and once again she is among the 42 selections to the Watch List in 2011.

• She was also selected to the Soccer America preseason All-America list for the second-straight season and was named one of the top 20 upperclassmen in Division I by TopDrawerSoccer.com.

• Spencer is coming off a junior season that saw her selected to the All-ACC first team for the second consecutive season and became the first Terp to earn NSCAA All-America honors since 1996. She was also a repeat first team All-Southeast after tying for the team lead with 10 goals and finishing second on the squad with 25 points. Her two-year totals of 20 goals and 50 points are the highest two-year aggregate for a Terrapin since 1995-96.

Beanz Earns First Cap At Pan Am Games
• Freshman goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands was recently named to the Canadian National Team that is competing at the Pan American Games Guadalajara 2011, which runs from October 18-27. Beanlands earned her first cap with the full national team, starting in the 1-0 victory over Argentina on Oct. 20. Canadian coach John Herdman said this about Beanlands following the match, "(Rachelle) grew in confidence as the match wore on. Perhaps those first five minutes were shaky, but she grew in confidence and made some good decisions and made a good save."

• Canada, which defeated Costa Rica, 3-1, in its opening match has qualified for the semi-final stage of the Women's Football Tournament, thus earning at least two more matches in Mexico. Canada played to a scoreless tie with Brazil on October 21 before winning the semi-final match vs. Colombia, 2-1, on October 25. Canada tied Brazil, 1-1in the championship match, but comes home with the gold medal after winning the shootout, 4-3.

Non-Conference Success
• Dating back to its 10-0 win over Mount St. Mary's in 2008, Maryland is unbeaten in its last 29 matches vs. non-ACC opponents. The Terps have outscored its non-conference opposition 88-14 in those 29 matches.

• The Terps recorded 20 straight wins over non-ACC foes before tying Georgetown, 1-1, in second round of the NCAA tournament in 2010. Maryland is now 26-0-3 in its last 29 non-conference games after opening 2011 with wins over No. 22 Minnesota, Loyola, Navy, St. Louis, Cornell and American and tying No. 1 Stanford and James Madison.

100 And Counting At Ludwig Field
• The Terps won their 100th match at Ludwig Field with a 6-0 victory over Iona on Aug. 20, 2010. Since its opening in 1995, Ludwig Field has proved to be a tremendous home-field advantage for the Terps women's soccer team. All-time Maryland is 114-47-21 (.684) at Ludwig Field.

• Through the seasons, the Terps have had a knack for shutting teams out at Ludwig Field. Maryland has won 74 of its 114 victories (64.9%) at Ludwig Field via shutout. Add in the 12 0-0 ties the Terps have had at Ludwig Field and it totals 86 times that Maryland has shutout its opponent in 182 games (47.2%).

Shutout Streak Comes To An End
• Maryland's record-setting streak of shutouts came to an end in the Terrapins' 5-1 win over American on Spet. 7. Maryland held opponents scoreless for the first 634 minutes of the 2011 season. The six shutouts mark the first time in the program's 25-year history that Maryland has opened a season with six clean sheets.

• The streak of six shutouts is the longest streak all-time at Maryland. The 1996 team had the previous long streak of five from Sept. 22 through Oct. 1.

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