Nov. 10, 2011

COLLEGE PARK, MD. - The No. 25 Maryland Terrapin women's soccer team (10-5-4) hosts No. 23 La Salle (15-1-3) in in the first round of the 2011 NCAA tournament Friday night at Ludwig Field. Opening kick is scheduled for 6 p.m.

• The winner of Friday's match will advance to the second round and will play the winner of the No. 3 seed Auburn/Utah State game. The other half of Maryland's section of the bracket finds Illinois hosting defending national champion Notre Dame and No. 2 seed Oklahoma State hosting Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The second and third rounds will be played next weekend on the campus of the highest-seeded advancing team.

Ticket Information
• Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for youth/seniors and college students with a valid ID. Advance tickets are available through the Maryland ticket office by calling 1-800-IM-A-TERP or on-line at umterps.com.

Parking Information
General Information: After 4 p.m. on weekdays and on weekends, there is no charge for parking in Lots Z1 or 1b or in Regents Drive Garage. Lots R2 and R3 are limited to vehicles displaying current valid permits for the respective lots at all times. Weekdays Before 4 p.m.: Fans arriving on campus before 4 p.m. on weekdays should park in Union Lane Garage (located between Cole Field House and Stamp Student Union). Rates are $2.00 per hour ($10.00 per day maximum). The garage may only be accessed via Campus Drive and Union Lane, at the top level of the garage. The exit lanes are located at the bottom level of the garage. If the Union Lane Garage is unavailable, fans should park in the Stadium Drive Garage located behind Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium. Regulations at the Stadium Drive Garage are similar to those at Union Lane Garage. Rates at Stadium Drive Garage are $2 per hour ($10 per day maximum). Stadium Drive Garage is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to midnight.

Weekdays After 4 p.m. - Fans arriving on campus after 4 p.m. on weekdays can park free in Lot Z1 or Lot 1b, both of which are located between Cole Field House and Ludwig Field, or in Regents Drive Garage, which is located on Regents Drive between Stadium Drive and Field House Drive. However, due to the construction of the new Biosciences Research Building on Field House Drive between Stamp Student Union and the Bio-Psych Building, fans should note that the walk from Regents to Shipley will be longer than usual because of limited or no pedestrian access in certain construction areas on Field House Drive. Directional signs will be posted.

Event Multimedia
• Fans will be able to watch the Maryland-La Salle game live on-line for free at NCAA.com All-Access.

• Fans will also be able to follow all of the action on umterps.com via Gametracker.

• Maryland's student-run radio station, WMUC, will also be broadcasting the match at WMUCsports.com.

• Updates will also be posted to the Maryland Women's Soccer Facebook page, so "Like" the page and get updates sent straight to your news feed.

Championship Links
• Championship Bracket
• NCAA Women's Soccer home page

Maryland Returns To The NCAA Tournament For 12th Time
• The Terps are in the NCAA Women's College Cup in three-straight seasons for the first time since 2002-04 and 11th time overall. Maryland holds a 11-10-2 record in tournament play and is 8-2-1 all-time in the first round.

• The last time Maryland advanced to the second round was last season when the No. 1 seeded Terps tied Georgetown, 1-1, but the Hoyas advanced to the Sweet 16 on penalty kicks, 3-2.

Maryland's Individual NCAA Records

Maryland's Team NCAA Records

Scouting The Terps
• Maryland is 10-5-4 after losing at Virginia, 2-0, in the ACC Tournament on Oct. 30.

• 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, 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 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 Hayley Brock 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 (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 (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 (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, 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 (Ashley Grove and Becky Kaplan each tallied a goal and an assist, while 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 (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. 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.

• Maryland lost at Virginia, 2-1, in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament (Jasmyne Spencer led the offense with two shots, while Domenica Hodak had two "team saves" on the defensive side of the field.

Scouting The Explorers
• La Salle is making it's first-ever trip to the NCAA tournament after earning an at-large bid out of the Atlantic 10 with a 15-1-3 overall record.

• After opening the 2011 season with a 2-0 win at Delaware, the Explorers tied Drexel, 0-0 in their second match. That was their lone blemish during the regular season until playing back-to-back 1-1 ties on the road at Rhore Island and Fordham on Oct. 26 and 28, respectively. La Salle's lone loss of the season occured in the Atlantic 10 tournament - a 1-0 defeat to UMass on Nov. 4 in Dayton, Ohio.

• Freshman forward Kelsey Haycook leads the Explorers' offense with 36 points (which is tied for 21st in the NCAA rankings for total points) on a team-best 16 goals and 4 assists. She is joined by another double-digit scorer in sophomore midfielder Renee Washington, who has 10 goals and five assists. Senior goalkeeper Melissa Sanger has started all 19 games for La Salle and has a 0.36 goals-against average, which is third in the NCAA rankings.

Series History vs. the Explorers
• This will be just the seventh time Maryland and La Salle will meet on the pitch. Maryland leads the all-time series 4-1-1, but the two schools have not played since 1993.

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 65-52-20 (.547).

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 Third All-ACC Selection
• Senior forward Jasymne Spencer of the No. 22 University of Maryland women's soccer team was named to the All-ACC second team that was released by the conference office on Thursday, November 3. The native of Bay Shore, N.Y., becomes just the fifth player in the history of Terrapin women's soccer to be named to the All-ACC team three times. Spencer, who was a first team selection in 2009 and 2010, joins four-time honoree Kimmy Francis and three-time selections Emily Janss, Mallory Mahar and Erin Taylor.

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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