#3 Terps, #2 Indiana to Tangle in B1G Semifinal
11/10/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 3 seeded Maryland men's soccer team will play second-seeded Indiana on Friday in Columbus in the semifinals of the 2015 Big Ten Tournament.
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Terps rout michigan in b1G quarterfinal
• The No. 3 seed Maryland men's soccer team erupted for five goals – including three from freshmen – in a 5-2 victory over sixth-seeded Michigan Sunday in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament.
• Rookies Sebastian Elney, Eryk Williamson and Amar Sejdic all notched goals for Maryland (9-5-4), which advanced to play No. 2 seed Indiana next Friday in the semifinals. Alex Crognale and Chris Odoi-Atsem also scored for the Terps.
Williamson named b1G Player of the WEek
• Freshman Eryk Williamson was named the Big Ten Conferenc Co-Offensive Player of the Week for his outstanding performance against No. 16 Rutgers.
• The Alexandria, Va., native notched his first two career goals to lead Maryland to the pivotal win over the Scarlet Knights.
Terps Pick up pivotal win over #16 rutgers
• The Maryland men's soccer team picked up a 3-1 victory over No. 16 Rutgers to cap the regular season at Ludwig Field.
• With the win, the Terps guaranteed themselves at least more match in College Park this season. The victory snapped a seven-game winning streak for Rutgers.
• Freshman Eryk Williamson broke out for his first two collegiate goals while seniors Tsubasa Endoh, Mael Corboz and David Kabelik all pitched in offensively. Endoh netted the game-winning score and Corboz and Kabelik each added an assist.
Packing Ludwig
• The Maryland men's soccer team saw three spectacular crowds in its first three matches at Ludwig Field to kick off the 2015 season.
• The Terps averaged nearly 6,300 fans per game after welcoming a stellar crowd of 6,294 against Michigan. Maryland is currently fourth in the nation in average attendance (3,480 per game).
• Maryland set a Ludwig Field-record with 8,449 fans at its electric victory over No. 1 UCLA on Sept. 4.
Terps down #1 ucla in front of record crowd
• Freshman Sebastian Elney headed home the game-winner in the 96th minute to lift the No. 6 Maryland men's soccer team past top-ranked UCLA, 2-1, in front of a Ludwig Field record crowd of 8,449 fans.
• Mael Corboz also scored for the Terrapins, who topped the previous record crowd of 8,397 established Sept. 6, 2013 against Duke. Redshirt junior Cody Niedermeier made six saves in his first start in goal at Ludwig.
league supremacy
• Maryland has won three tournament championships heading into the 2015 postseason.
• Mael Corboz scored on a top-shelf, free kick from 25 yards to give the University of Maryland its first-ever Big Ten Tournament championship with a 2-1 victory against Indiana at Ludwig Field.
• The Terps won their third-straight conference title on Maryland soil after capturing the 2012 and 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament crowns in Germantown.
By the Numbers: Maryland Dominance
8 - Maryland has appearances in the College Cup since 1998 - the most in the country
17 - Maryland has reached the NCAA round-of-16 in 17 of the last 21 years - the most in the country
13 - Maryland has advanced in the postseason 13 straight years
4 - Every four year player since 1998 has been a part of at least one College Cup team.
3 - National championships (1968, 2005, 2008)
six Terps snag all-B1g honors
• Senior Mael Corboz led a group of six Terrapins who earned All-Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer postseason awards.
• Corboz was tabbed a first team selection for the second consecutive season. Senior Tsubasa Endoh, juniors Alex Crognale and Chris Odoi-Atsem and freshman Sebastian Elney all garnered second team honors. Eryk Williamson joined fellow classmate Elney on the All-Freshman team.
• Corboz, a midfielder from Green Brook, N.J., played in all 17 matches for the Terps in 2015, racking up a team-high nine assists and adding a pair of goals. The senior captain was also named a Senior CLASS candidate early this season.
• Endoh picked up his first career all-conference honor after scoring three goals and adding four assists while playing in all 17 matches in the midfield for Maryland. The Tokyo-native posted a team-high two game-winning goals in 2015.
• Crognale and Odoi-Atsem helped guide the Terps to eight shutouts this season, including clean sheets against #4 Notre Dame and #17 Washington in addition to conference foes Michigan, Michigan State and Indiana. Crognale, who hails from Gahanna, Ohio, also racked up a career-high two goals. It was the second straight all-conference nod for Odoi-Atsem, a defender from Mitchellville, Md.
• Elney paced the Terps offensively as a rookie in 2015, posting a team-high six goals and adding a pair of assists. A forward from Boca Raton, Fla., Elney's overtime game-winner against then-No. 1 UCLA has been viewed nearly 370,000 times online.
• Williamson has played in all 17 matches for the Terrapins, notching 16 starts. He picked up his first two career goals in a pivotal win against No. 16 Rutgers to close the regular season. The Alexandria, Va., native has also posted three assists this season.
• Additionally, junior goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier was named a Sportsmanship Award honoree.
Meet the new guys
• The Terps have 13 newcomers on this year's roster, including 11 freshmen. Rookies Connor Smith, Sebastian Elney, Amar Sejdic, DJ Reeves, Andrew Samuels, Jorge Calix, Eryk Williamson, Paul Bin, Aaron Franco, Diego Silva, and Dayne St. Clair join St. John's transfer Cody Albrecht and Eastern Florida JUCO standout Ivan Magalhaes on this year's squad.
Corboz named senior class candidate
• Maryland senior midfielder Mael Corboz has been named a candidate for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award.
• In the classroom, Corboz maintains a 3.4 GPA as an engineering major at Maryland and is a senior captain and leader of a youth-laden 2015 squad that includes 11 freshmen.
• Corboz started a non-profit called the Healthy HeartBeets that focuses on educating children from lower-income areas regarding healthy eating. It started as a means of providing information about affordable alternatives to fast food but eventually became a larger nutrition education program through which he went to different schools and talked to young children about what they typically eat and taught them about healthier alternatives to those specific products.
• A first-team All-Big Ten selection in 2014 after leading the Big Ten in goals scored (10), Corboz was named the Big Ten Championship Most Valuable Player after notching the game-winner against Indiana in the title game. He led the Terps to both regular season and tournament titles in Maryland's inaugural season in the Big Ten.
scouting indiana
• Indiana (12-4-1) has won five straight matches after drawing with the Terps back on Oct. 16. The Hoosiers defeated Wisconsin, 1-0, on Sunday in their quarterfinal.
• Feml Hollinger-Janzen leads the offense with eight goals while Tanner Thompson boasts a team-high nine assists.
• Maryland trails in the all-time series, 2-3-3, including a 0-0 draw the last time the two teams met. The Terps topped IU in last season's B1G title match.
