• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Eagles got 2011 off to a good start with a 2-1 home win over UMBC, but dropped a 4-0 decision at Georgetown to even their record at 1-1. A 1-0 neutral-site win over New Hampshire on Aug. 26 was American's last victory as it has lost at Vermont (1-0) and at home to Robert Morris (2-1) and Iowa (3-1).
• Junior forward Samantha Trotta leads the Eagle offense with two goals, while fellow junior Jasmine Mohandesi is the team-leader with two assists.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Maryland moved up two spots to No. 7 in the TopDrawerSoccer.com Tournament 64 rankings.
• 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 25-0-2 in its last 25 non-conference games after opening 2011 with wins over No. 22 Minnesota, Loyola, Navy, St. Louis and Cornell and tying No. 1 Stanford.
• Through the seasons, the Terps have had a knack for shutting teams out at Ludwig Field. Maryland has won 74 of its 112 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 176 games (47.7%).
| Maryland |
| Team |
| Totaled 20 or more points in game |
29 at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| Totaled 15-19 points in a game |
29 at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| Totaled 10-14 points in a game |
11 at Cornell (4-0, 9/4/11) |
| Scored 10 or more goals in a game |
10 vs. Mount St. Mary's (10-0, 9/21/08) |
| Scored seven, eight or nine goals in a game |
9 at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| Scored six goals in a game |
9 at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| Scored five goals in a game |
9 at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| Scored four goals in a game |
4 at Cornell (4-0, 9/4/11) |
| Scored three goals in a game |
4 at Cornell (4-0, 9/4/11) |
| Had six or more assists in a game |
11 at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| Had five assists in a game |
5 vs. Navy (3-0, 8/29/11) |
| Took 30 or more shots in a game |
55 vs. Eastern Kentucky (0-0, 8/31/08) |
| Took 20-29 shots in a game |
29 at Cornell (4-0, 9/4/11) |
| Had 10 or more fouls in a game |
10 vs. Stanford (0-0, 8/26/11) |
| Won an overtime game |
1-0 vs. Boston College (11/5/10) |
| Individual |
| A Maryland player totaled seven or more points |
7, Ashley Grove at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| A Maryland player totaled six points |
6, Becky Kaplan at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| A Maryland player totaled five points |
5, Olivia Wagner at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| A Maryland player totaled four points |
4, Hayley Brock vs. Navy (3-0, 8/29/11) |
| A Maryland player totaled three points |
3, Sade Ayinde vs. High Point (4-1, 11/12/10) |
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3, Alex Doody at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| A Maryland player scored four goals |
4, Sara Gustafson vs. Howard (9-0, 10/11/00) |
| A Maryland player scored three goals |
3, Becky Kaplan at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| A Maryland player scored two goals |
2, Ashley Grove at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
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2, Olivia Wagner at Loyola (9-0, 8/22/11) |
| A Maryland player scored a goal in three straight games |
Sade Ayinde (9/5-12/10 -Stony Brook, Seton Hall, Delaware) |
| A Maryland player scored the game-winning goal in three straight games |
Ashley Grove (8/20-27/10 - Iona, Missouri, Tennessee) |
| A Maryland player had assists in three straight games |
Caitlin McDowell (8/20-27/10 - Iona, Missouri, Tennessee) |
| A Maryland player had three assists |
3, Annesia Faulkner vs. Mount St. Mary's (10-0, 9/21/08) |
| A Maryland player had two assists |
2, Domenica Hodak at Cornell (4-0, 9/4/11) |
| A Maryland player had 10 or more shots |
10, Jasmyne Spencer vs. Missouri (3-2, 8/22/10) |
| A Maryland player had 5-9 shots |
6, Ashley Grove at Cornell (4-0, 9/4/11) |
| A Maryland GK made 10 or more saves |
11, Yewande Balogun vs. Stanford (0-0, 8/26/11) |
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| Opponent |
| Team |
| Totaled 15-19 points in a game |
16, at North Carolina (0-5, 9/28/08) |
| Totaled 10-14 points in a game |
10, vs. Bucknell (2-3, 8/29/08) |
| Scored seven or more goals in a game |
7, vs. Florida State (2-7, 11/8/01) |
| Scored six goals in a game |
6, at Notre Dame (0-6, 9/4/05) |
| Scored five goals in a game |
6, at Notre Dame (0-6, 9/4/05) |
| Scored four goals in a game |
4, vs. North Carolina (0-4, 10/1/05) |
| Scored three goals in a game |
3, vs. North Carolina (0-3, 11/4/09) |
| Had six or more assists in a game |
6, at North Carolina (0-5, 9/28/08) |
| Had five assists in a game |
6, at North Carolina (0-5, 9/28/08) |
| Took 30 or more shots in a game |
37, vs. Duke (0-0, 10/14/06) |
| Took 20-29 shots in a game |
22, vs. North Carolina (0-1, 11/1/09) |
| Had 10 or more fouls in a game |
10, at Cornell (4-0, 9/4/11) |
| Individual |
| An opposing player totaled six or more points |
6, Courtney Jones, North Carolina (5-0, 9/28/08) |
| An opposing player totaled five points |
6, Courtney Jones, North Carolina (5-0, 9/28/08) |
| An opposing player totaled four points |
4, Kaley Fountain, Wake Forest (2-3, 10/29/09) |
| An opposing player totaled three points |
3, Meghan Lenczyk, Virginia (3-2, 9/30/10) |
| An opposing player scored four goals |
N/A |
| An opposing player scored three goals |
3, Courtney Jones, North Carolina (5-0, 9/28/08) |
| An opposing player scored two goals |
3, Courtney Jones, North Carolina (5-0, 9/28/08) |
| An opposing player had three assists |
3, Kacey White, North Carolina (1-3, 11/2/05) |
| An opposing player had two assists |
3, Kacey White, North Carolina (1-3, 11/2/05) |
| An opposing player had 10 or more shots |
12, Britteny Steinbruch (0-1, 10/14/07) |
| An opposing player had 5-9 shots |
5, Molly Pathman, vs. Duke (1-0, 11/3/10) |
| An opposing GK made 15 or more saves |
19, Stephanie Lunch, Eastern Kentucky (0-0, 8/21/08) |
| An opposing GK made 10 or more saves |
10, Kelly Murphy, at Cornell (4-0, 9/4/11) |
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