Sept. 28, 2011

COLLEGE PARK, MD. - The No. 11 Maryland Terrapin women's soccer team plays its sixth game in 18 days when it plays at Clemson on Thursday, Sept. 29. The Terps and the Tigers are set for a 7 p.m. start at Riggs Field.

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• The Maryland-Clemson match will be streamed live on the internet via Tigercast, which is a subscription service.

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Scouting The Terps
• Maryland will look to even its ACC record after playing to a 0-0 tie with NC State last Sunday, which moved the Terrapins' overall record to 7-2-3 and a 1-2-1 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 (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 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 (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.

Scouting The Tigers
• Clemson has a 5-5-0 overall record overall and a 0-3-0 mark in ACC play after dropping a 2-0 decision at home to No. 4 Duke on Sunday.

• The Tigers won their first five games of the season, but have lost their last five matches, including a 0-3-0 start to ACC play. Clemson started conference play with a 3-2 overtime loss at Miami on Sept. 15. The Tigers then suffered a 6-2 home loss at the hands of then-No. 10 Florida State on Sept. 22 before losing 2-0 to the Blue Devils.

• Junior forward Maddy Elder leads the Tigers' offense with 17 points on six goals and five assists. Sophomore Morgan Hert started vs. the Blue Devils and made six saves, but fellow sophomore Lauren Arnold has played the majority of the minutes for the Tigers this season and has a 1.44 goals-against average this season.

Series History vs. the Tigers
• This will be the 22nd all-time meeting between Maryland and Clemson and the Terrapins hold a 12-8-1 lead in the series.

• Last season, Jasmyne Spencer totaled a career-high five points on two goals and an assist to lead Maryland to a 4-0 rout of Clemson (recap | final stats). Senior Caitlin McDowell tied her career-high with four points on a goal and two assists. Senior Molly Dreska also scored in the victory, while juniors Skyy Anderson and Domenica Hodak each added assists. Redshirt junior Yewande Balogun made two saves to pick up her second full shutout of the season.

• The last time these two teams met in Clemson, S.C., the Terps came out fast in the second half and scored three times to Jasmyne Spencer continued her breakout season with two goals, the first on an assist from freshman Danielle Hubka and the second on a rebound put-back off of an Ashely Grove shot that found the post. Grove scored the third goal for Maryland. Senior All-ACC goalkeeper Mary Casey tied her season high with five saves in the team's seventh shutout of the season. .

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 62-49-19 (.550).

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
• Maryland is No. 11 in the latest Soccer America Top 25 and to No. 19 in this week's NSCAA poll

• Maryland is now at No. 16 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 113-47-20 (.683) 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 11 0-0 ties the Terps have had at Ludwig Field and it totals 85 times that Maryland has shutout its opponent in 180 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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