Sept. 21, 2011

COLLEGE PARK, MD. - The No. 9 Maryland Terrapin women's soccer team plays host to No. 6 Boston College in a primetime showdown at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22, at Ludwig Field.

The match between the Terrapins and the Eagles will be broadcast live on the ACC Regional Sports Network, which includes Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, Fox Sports South, Fox Sports Florida and NESN (click the links to find your local listings). Mike Hogwood will be handling the play-by-play, while Jenn Hildreth, who was a three-sport letterwinner at Emory (the alma mater of Maryland head coach Brian Pensky), will provide the analysis.

Tickets and Game Promotions
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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.

Event Multimedia
• Fans will 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.

Scouting The Terps
• Maryland rebounded from its first loss of the season at Virginia with a 2-1 come-from-behind win over Virginia Tech last Sunday and now has an overall record of 7-1-2 and a 1-1 record in conference play.

• 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 (Ashley Grove had two goals and three assists, which tied the program record for single-game assists. Junior Olivia Wagner had two goals and an assist, while senior 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 (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 (recap 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 (Yewande Balogun made five saves to earn her fifth full shutout of the season. Olivia Wagner led the offense with seven shots, while 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.

Scouting The Eagles
• Boston College comes to College Park sporting a 6-0-2 record overall and a 1-0 mark in ACC play.

• After opening the season with a 2-0-2 record, the Eagles have rattled off four-straight victories, including a 2-0 home win over No. 14 Virginia in their ACC opener.

• Boston College has allowed only one goal so far in 2011 and that came in its very first game of the year - a 1-1 tie with Boston U on Aug. 19. The Eagles currently rank No. 2 in the NCAA in goals-allowed behind only La Salle, which has yet to allow a goal in 2011.

• Junior midfielder Kristen Mewes leads the Eagle offense with 11 points on four goals and three assists. No other BC player has more than two goals or two assists. The Boston College defense has allowed only 52 shots (an average of 6.5 per game) this season with only 27 of those being on net. Senior goalkeeper Jillian Mastroianni has a .963 save percentage and a 0.12 goals-against average.

Series History vs. the Eagles
• This will be just the eighth all-time meeting between Maryland and Boston College and the Eagles lead the series 4-3-1.

• Maryland won the first-ever meeting, 2-1, in 2005, but BC won four-straight from 2006-09. The two teams played to a 1-1 tie in 2009. The two teams met twice last season with the Terps taking both games by one-goal margins.

• Maryland topped No. 2 Boston College (Amy O'Sullivan capitalized on a loose ball off of a Yewande Balogun was solid in net for the Terps, especially in the first half when she made five of her seven saves. The victory over the No. 2 Eagles marks the highest-ranked opponent ever to go down in defeat at the hands of the Terps. Maryland's win over No. 3 UCLA in 2004 was the previous highest-ranked victory.

• Maryland then advanced to its first ACC title game with a 1-0 overtime victory over Boston College (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 Yewande Balogun was tremendous in goal, making six saves.

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 62-48-18 (.555).

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 46 matches and those three have combined for 22 game-winning goals. That means that in 47.8% of Maryland's victories over the past three-plus seasons have come with Spencer (9), Grove (7) or Ayinde (6) soring 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.

Spencer Among Lowes Senior CLASS Award Candidates
• Senior Jasmyne Spencer is one of 30 women's soccer student-athletes selected as candidates for the 2011 Lowes Senior CLASS Award, which will be presented to the senior with notable achievements in four areas of excellence - community, classroom, character and competition. Her "Player Card" can be viewed here.

• An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.

• Each of the 30 candidate classes will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one male candidate and one female candidate who best exemplify excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.

Ranked Terps
• Following its 1-1 start in ACC play, Maryland dropped to No. 9 in the latest Soccer America Top 25 and to No. 11 in this week's NSCAA poll

• Maryland is now at No. 9 in the TopDrawerSoccer.com Tournament 64 rankings.

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 113-46-19 (.688) 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 113 victories (66.1%) at Ludwig Field via shutout. Add in the 10 0-0 ties the Terps have had at Ludwig Field and it totals 84 times that Maryland has shutout its opponent in 178 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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