University of Maryland Athletics

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse team will host Ivy League opponent Brown on Saturday, March 10 at noon at the Lacrosse & Field Hockey Complex. The Terrapins have won all 13 meetings between the programs all-time and won 21-5 in Providence in 2006.

Terps Host Brown On Saturday
• The No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse hosts Ivy League opponent Brown on Saturday, March 3 at noon at the Lacrosse & Field Hockey Complex.
• Like the series against Richmond, the Terrapins and Brown have met 13 times all-time with Maryland winning every contest.
• Last season, the Terps beat the Bears 21-5 in Providence. Senior Krista Pellizzi racked up five goals and three assists while junior Kelly Kasper recorded two goals and three assists. Senior Katie Doolittle added a hat trick as 10 Terps notched a point in the win.

Strong First Half Gives Terps Win At Richmond
• Maryland outscored the No. 13 Spiders 10-2 in the first half en route to a 15-9 triumph at First Market Stadium on March 7.
• Junior Casey Magor established new career highs with four assists and five points to lead the Terps. Junior Dana Dobbie added three goals and an assist while classmates Kelly Kasper and Katie Princiotto had two goals and two assists apiece. Kasper added five caused turnovers.
• Senior Katie Doolittle had two goals, six ground balls, four draw controls, and three caused turnovers.
• The win improved Maryland's all-time record against Richmond to 14-0.

Trio Of Honors For Duke Win
• Head coach Cathy Reese was named the US Lacrosse Coach of the Week for the Terps' triumph against Duke on March 3.
• The Terrapins' 19-18 win was the first win against the Blue Devils since 2003 and it also snapped Duke's 12-game road winning streak that dated back to 2005. The 19 goals allowed by Duke are the most in the program's history.
• Junior Lauren Cohen was named the womenslacrosse.com Player of the Week for her career day as she recorded career highs with four goals and six points.
• Senior Becky Clipp was tabbed the womenslax.com Player of the Week for her caused turnover that sealed the win for Maryland. Clipp drew a charge on Duke's last possession to give the Terps the win.

Record Setting Start
• Nobody has been able to stop the Maryland offense so far this season as the Terps have scored 15 or more goals in every game this season.
• The Terrapins have accumulated 75 goals in four games, an 18.75-per-game average. Both of those numbers are the best offensive starts to any season in program history through four games.
• The previous record was 67 goals in 1986 under head coach Sue Tyler.
• Maryland is 4-0 for the first time since 2003.

Scouting The Bears
• Brown comes into Saturday's matchup with a 2-1 record. The Bears suffered a 17-5 season-opening loss at North Carolina and lost to Stony Brook, 10-9, in New York. Sandwiched in between was a 13-12 overtime win at Sacred Heart.
• Brown has yet to play a home game.
• The Bears have been outscored in the first half 21-11 while the Terps own a 43-15 advantage in the first half in their games.
• Mimi DeTolla leads the team in points with nine on six goals and three assists while Bethany Buzzell also has six goals.
• Molly McCarthy has recorded four goals and a pair of assists while Lauren Vitkus has addded four goals as well.
• Melissa King has started the last two games in goal and has a goals against average of 10.48 while saving 42 percent of the shots she faces.

Series History
• Maryland and Brown have met 13 times previously with the Terrapins taking every meeting.

Last 10 Meetings:
March 11, 2006: Maryland 21, Brown 5 (Providence, R.I.)
March 11, 2005: Maryland 20, Brown 7 (College Park)
March 12, 2004: Maryland 21, Brown 6 (Providence, R.I.)
March 15, 2003: Maryland 15, Brown 5 (College Park)
March 16, 2002: Maryland 19, Brown 8 (Providence, R.I.)
March 17, 2001: Maryland 20, Brown 4 (College Park)
March 11, 2000: Maryland 18, Brown 7 (College Park)
March 22, 1999: Maryland 18, Brown 13 (Providence, R.I.)
April 11, 1998: Maryland 15, Brown 6 (Providence, R.I.)
March 25, 1997: Maryland 14, Brown 5 (College Park)

Reese's Success at Maryland
• Head coach Cathy Reese is not new to the Maryland lacrosse world. In fact, she has been a vital part of the program's legacy. As a player and assistant coach from 1995-2003, Reese helped the Terps win seven national championships.
• Reese and the Terps did not lose a game in her freshman and sophomore seasons.
• In her eighth year on campus, Reese's record with Maryland is a staggering 173-19.

Reese Turns Denver Program Around
• Reese will look to do in College Park what she achieved in the Mile High City as Denver's head coach for three seasons. The Pioneers saw limited success prior to her arrival in 2004, but that all changed.
• Denver had one winning season since the program's inception in 1999 and in her third year at the helm, the Pioneers soared to new heights. Denver went 15-5 and won the regular season Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) title and advanced to the finals of the conference tournament.
• For her success, Reese was tabbed MPSF Coach of the Year. She also mentored the first Pioneer women's lacrosse student-athlete to All-America status.

First Half Dominance
• The Terps own a 75-43 advantage in scoring through the first four games of the season, but the first half has been something special.
• Maryland owns a 43-15 advantage in goals in the first half this season.
• In the season-opener at UMBC on February 19, Maryland jumped out to a 15-3 lead in the first half.
• The Terps did much of the same against Boston College (February 24) and Richmond (March 7) as they outscored the Eagles, 10-3, and the Spiders, 10-2, in the opening frame.

Terp Ranks In The ACC
• Maryland is etched all over the season leaderboard in the conference in the early going of the season as six Terps are ranked in either goals, assists, or points per game.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi finds herself on all three ledgers as she leads the league in points per game (5.67) while her goals (3.67) and assists (2.00) per game marks are third.
• Junior Dana Dobbie is fourth in the ACC in goals per game (3.33) while senior Katie Doolittle (2.00) and freshman Caitlyn McFadden (2.00) are tied for ninth. McFadden is also fifth in ground balls per game at 2.67.
• Junior Katie Princiotto leads the conference in assists at 2.67 per game while her 4.33 points per game is third.
• As a team, Maryland is easily the best offense so far this season. Maryland averages 20 goals per game and assists on 10 of them a game. Their 46.33 shots per game is also the best in the ACC as are their 30 points per game.
• Duke is second in the three main categories as they score 15.20 goals per game, average 6.60 assists, and have recorded 21.80 points.

Notice: Newcomers Have Arrived
• With the absence of Maryland's top returning scorer in junior Kelly Kasper, the Terps found other ways to score as their newcomers made an immediate impact at UMBC.
• Junior Dana Dobbie scored the first goal of the Cathy Reese era at the 27:39 point of the first half. It was also her first goal as a Terp. She finished the day with a game-high six goals.
• A trio of freshmen also got in on the act as Amanda Spinnenweber recorded four goals and two assists, Caitlyn McFadden notched a hat trick, and Ali Perkins notched a goal and dished out three assists.
• Dobbie is second on the team lead with 13 goals and leads with 26 draw controls.
• McFadden leads all freshmen with six goals and nine points and leads the entire team with 10 caused turnovers.

Drawn To Perfection
• Junior Dana Dobbie, a transfer from Ohio University, is off to an impressive start in College Park.
• The Canadian Naitonal Team member is second on the team in goals (13) and third in points (14).
• Dobbie, the 2005 national leader in draw controls, has assumulated 26 in four games this season. She is averaging 6.5 per game. She led the country in 2005 with 5.14 per contest.
• She has 15 more draw controls than anyone else on the team and accounts for 34 percent of the draws.
• Dobbie excelled at draws against the Retrievers on February 19 as she racked up 10 in all. That total matched the entire UMBC team.
• Dobbie has recored a hat trick in three of the first four games and notched six goals in the season-opener at UMBC.

Little Help From Prince
• Junior Katie Princiotto has become a huge contributor on the offensive end in 2007. She has a team-best 10 assists in four games. Her 2.67 average currently leads the ACC while her 4.33 points per game is third. She also has seven goals and her 17 points is second on the team.
• Prior to this season, Princiotto had not recorded an assist in 29 contests.

Krista Clear
• Senior Krista Pellizzi has paced the Terps' attack this year as she leads the team with 14 goals and 20 points.
• Pellizzi was named the ACC Player of the Week on February 26 for her performance in Maryland's wins against UMBC and Boston College.
• Against the Retrievers on February 19, she recorded two goals and two assists.
• Against the Eagles on February 24, Pellizzi matched her career highs with five goals, three assists, and eight points.
• Pellizzi has scored three or more goals in each of the last three contests.

Terps' Offense Explodes In Season Opener
• The Maryland attack could not be stopped on February 19 in its 23-8 rout of UMBC. The Terps notched 23 goals, which is the most in nearly three years.
• The Terrapins scored 23 times on just 48 shots with 48 percent of their shots finding the back of the net.

Terps Outlast Duke In 19-18 Win
• Maryland and No. 2 Duke took part in a shootout on March 3 and it was the Terps who came away with a 19-18 victory.
• The Terrapins' offensive explosion is the most goals ever allowed by Duke in a game. The previous high was 18 which had been done three times. Most recently, Virginia scored 18 on the Blue Devils in 2002. • Maryland also scored 18 goals against Duke in 2001.
• Junior Lauren Cohen had a career game as she set new personal bests with four goals and six points while her two assists matched her career high.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi continued her solid play with four goals and an assist while junior Dana Dobbie added a hat trick and eight draw controls.
• Junior Kelly Kasper was a force in all aspects of the game as she recorded two goals, an assist, five caused turnovers, three ground balls, and two draw controls.
• In all, seven Terps finished the game with multiple goals.

Scoring Streaks
• Junior Kelly Kasper had an impressive scoring streak heading into the season as she notched a goal in all 20 games last season. She also caused a turnover in every contest in 2006. She has found the back of the cage in 29 straight games going back to her freshman year in 2005. The last time she didn't score a goal was against Johns Hopkins on April 9, 2005.
• Kasper, who didn't cause a turnover against BC, had caused a turnover in 24 straight games dating back to April 29, 2005.

Preseason Honors Handed Out
• Seniors Becky Clipp and Katie Doolittle and junior Kelly Kasper earned a pair of preseason accolades last week. All three were placed on the 2007 Preseason Tewaaraton Watch List. The Tewaaraton is given annually to the nation's top lacrosse student-athlete.
• Current associate head coach Jen Adams was the first-ever winner of the Tewaaraton back in 2001.
• Clipp and Kasper were also honored as second-team preseason All-Americans by Inside Lacrosse.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi and junior Dana Dobbie were the other Terrapins recognized by Inside Lacrosse as they were both put on the third team.

ACC Shows Its Power Again
• The Atlantic Coast Conference continues to be one of the premier conferences in women's lacrosse. The ACC sported four teams in the top 20 of the IWLCA preseason Coaches Poll.
• Duke was ranked No. 2 and North Carolina comes in at No. 4. The ACC and the BIG EAST both had two teams in the top five as Georgetown and Notre Dame were ranked No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.
• Maryland was ranked No. 8 and Virginia was right behind the Terps at No. 9.
• North Carolina started its season off with a bang by knocking off No. 1 and two-time defending national champion Northwestern on Saturday, February 17. The Tar Heels beat the Wildcats, 9-8, in double overtime.

To Be The Best...
• Maryland will have to beat the best as 11 of its 17 regular season contests will be against teams ranked in the IWLCA preseason Coaches Poll.
• Eight of those 11 teams are ranked in the top 10 and three are in the top five.
• The Terrapins will go through its toughest stretch from March 13 to April 3 when it plays six-straight ranked opponents. The slate begins at No. 9 Virginia and then is followed up by No. 6 Dartmouth, No. 10 Johns Hopkins, No. 4 North Carolina, No. 18 Stanford, and No. 3 Georgetown.

Loaded With Experience
• Maryland returns eight student-athletes who started all 20 games last season. Junior Allie Buote returns to the cage and will anchor the defense. The back line is familiar with each other as Becky Clipp started every game last season along with Martha Raver. Megan Cassara also appeared in all 20 contests with four starts.
• The Terps' are experienced in every area on the field as the midfield returns Kelly Kasper, Katie Doolittle, and Lauren Cohen who all started every game last year as well. At attack, Casey Magor and Krista Pellizzi all notched 20 starts as well.