COLLEGE PARK, Md. –  The No. 2-ranked Maryland field hockey team earned its first shutout of the season Sunday with a 5-0 victory over New Hampshire at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.
 
"I think it's super important to be able to score a lot of goals," head coach Missy Meharg said. "We've been working hard on goal scoring. This year, I'm super impressed, as I said a couple of days ago, with our depth. We have a lot of young women that can score goals, a lot of different women. It feels really good.
 
Sophomore Bibi Dondraadt was the leading scorer of the game, scoring two goals in the second quarter.
 
Junior co-captain Bodil Keus fired up the Terps with the first goal of the game around two and a half minutes in. She banged one in off a penalty corner set up by senior Madison Mcguire and Dondraadt.
 
Dondraadt got on the board twice in three minutes in the second quarter. With just over eight minutes left in the period, Dondraadt took a pass from Keus and brought it along the left side. She chipped it under the crossbar for the score. Just over two minutes later, she scored off a rebound on another penalty corner.
 
Maryland led New Hampshire 3-0 at halftime.
 
The Wildcats got their first penalty corner 10 minutes into the third quarter. Maguire made her first career defensive save on the play to keep them scoreless.
 
"I'm really psyched about is we had two defensive saves," Meharg said. "They weren't even by the goalkeeper. I thought Madison Maguire as a post-player is just phenomenal and that was a big time save."
 
The Terps finished strong with two goals in the final quarter. Just 23 seconds apart, Maguire had a hand in the final goals of the game to secure another win. With just under 10 minutes remaining, she made a move passed the goalie and cracked a hard shot into the bottom of the cage. Seconds later, Maguire found senior co-captain Jen Bleakney on the near side of the cage for the Terps' final goal of the game.
 
New Hampshire was awarded two penalty corners in the final minute of the game. Freshman Belle Bressler got her stick on the shot of the second to preserve the shutout with 40 seconds left.
 
Maryland took 25 shots to New Hampshire's six. The Terps had six penalty corners to four for the Wildcats.


Maryland is ranked No. 2 in the Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I Coaches Preseason poll released Tuesday. The Terrapins have been ranked in the top 5 in 207 of 214 polls, dating back to 1999.
 
Next, Maryland will travel to Evanston, Ill. to take on No. 3 Duke and No. 13 Boston College in the Big Ten/ACC Cup at Northwestern next weekend. The Terrapins will play the Eagles (1-0) Friday at 2 p.m. ET and the Blue Devils (1-0) Sunday at noon ET. All live stats and live stream information will be posted on umterps.com.

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DEFLECTIONS… Sunday's game marked the 50^th career game for Hannah Bond, Brooke DeBerdine and Bodil Keus…The Terrapins own the all-time series over New Hampshire, 7-0… Maryland is now 180-20 (.900) all-time at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex…head coach Missy Meharg is 567-138-9 (.800) in her 32 years as head coach.
 

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Head Coach Missy Meharg

On the importance of getting off to a good start early in the season: 
"I think it's super important to be able to score a lot of goals. We've been working hard on goal scoring. This year, I'm super impressed, as I said a couple of days ago, with our depth. We have a lot of young women that can score goals, a lot of different women. It feels really good. But, I'm really psyched about is we had two defensive saves. They weren't even by the goalkeeper. I thought Madison Maguire as a post-player is just phenomenal and that was a big time save. Their goalie in the second half was definitely more of a threat to us. I was kind of happy that goal-keeping decision was the way it was, but on the flip side, Madison just made a spectacular vision. Many times when the goalie's out that high, you're going to lose the ball. I was impressed."

On Bibi's goals:
"Bibi's natural. She's so fit too. She can run up and down those side midfields or create a problem for defenses because she has the physicality to play defense in the shell at this end of the field and in three passes she'll be inside the circle. She's very aerobic and getting stronger, physically with Will Franco, our strength coach. We're excited about where Bibi is going to go."

On opening the season with two wins:
"I think it's important as we head into next weekend. We need space and shots. We're working hard on that in terms of circle defense. We definitely gained ground from Friday in terms of not letting the ball in the circle. So in that regard, we will continue working on that because I am confident that Boston College and Duke will get into our circle."

On not allowing shots:
"The biggest thing is to be an intercept. I guess if they don't touch the ball and you get to it first, we don't have to worry about a shot. Maryland is very aggressive with trying to intercept and if you can't get to the ball, then tackle right when they're about to receive it because their eyes are down. I think that's probably why we got called for the push also. We're awfully aggressive in that and it becomes a tough decision when you want that much grit and grr and you need to stay away from the body."

On Bibi's first goal:
"That's Bibi. She's really tricky and we call it 3-D skills. If you watch, she can pick a ball up off of a pass or just in the air and just knock it. She does it, she practices it. In the Netherlands too, when they're young they do a lot of skills like that. I'm always on her about when there is no contest, and people around you, keep the ball on the ground for her own teammates. She's impressive."

On Madison Maguire and Jen Bleakney's dynamic in today's game:
"The two of them haven't played a lot with each other yet and they're gaining ground. We will be  doing a lot of video for them to look at each other and get used to each other in terms of press and counter, press and counter. I'm excited about it."

On the DeBerdine sisters' play today:
"When you're brought up in a system like that, you know what the cadence and the footwork is. They played in high school together, they played club together. We're very fortunate they're both on this team. And you're right, when you put them together, they play as one person and that's very comforting. If we can get everyone else in that family, were going to be in pretty dangerous."  

Sophomore Forward Bibi Donraadt

On what was going through her head during the game:
"I think we were all really connecting well with each other. I was connecting well with the ball on the corner so that's why I think the game went really well and why I assisted on one of [the goals]. For the other [goals],the goalie was a little short and I love lifting up the ball so this was the perfect opportunity to use this skill."

On the value of a shutout:
"I figure like whenever we are on the field, Hannah Bond is on the backline and she had like these amazing saves, but we weren't just like on the sides in the back but also in the forward. There were a lot of people at the far post and everyone was ready to score and save the goal and that's the most important thing to connect with each other and win games."

Senior Midfielder Madison Maguire
On what energy they gain when they see another teammate score a goal:
"I think that our whole entire team can score like as you can see, from our other games, we had about 6 or 7 girls score so I think that just the variety of everyone scoring brings so much energy to the team. We want everyone to score and connect better."

On what was going through her head during the game:
"I mean, I have been working really hard and I know the rest of the team has been working hard throughout this summer. I mean, it is my senior season so I gotta go out with a bang but I am trying to just do whatever I can for the team and go back to where we were and finish what we started." 

On the value of their shutouts:
"It is just a mentality, like from last year going off of Hannah Bond's save of UConn it just created this culture that we are gonna save the ball no matter what. Even if the goalie comes out and misses it, we are gonna be there for her back."

Junior Defender Bodil Keus

On what her mindset is when she's standing alone on defense and how she's attacking the ball:
"I mean my main goal is not to step in and wait for the attacker to make a decision of what to do and I react on that, I am just keeping calm and trying to find the outsides to get it out of the way."

On what energy they gain when they see another teammate score a goal:
"Like it doesn't matter who scores. If someone scores, everyone is happy for them."

On the value of their shutouts:
"It's important that for every opportunity we get, we get the ball in front of the goal and that someone will touch it. That is just our main goal."