University of Maryland Athletics

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse team heads to State College, Pa. this weekend for the ACC/ALC Challenge hosted by Penn State. The Terrapins take on Ohio State on Friday at 5:00 p.m. and then face the No. 11 Nittany Lions on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Maryland is 10-2 all-time in the ACC/ALC Challenge.

Terps Travel To Penn State For ACC/ALC Challenge
• The No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse team heads to State College for a pair of games this weekend in the ACC/ALC Challenge hosted by Penn State.
• The Terrapins take on Ohio State on April 6 at 5:00 p.m. before facing No. 11 Penn State on April 8 at 3:00 p.m.
• No. 2 North Carolina plays the Nittany Lions at 7:00 p.m. on Friday and then takes on the Buckeyes at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.
• Maryland is 10-2 all-time in the ACC/ALC Challenge with Penn State grabbing a win in 2005 and Ohio State beating the Terps in 2002.
• Last season, the Terps beat their two opponents by a combined score of 33-15 as they defeated Penn State, 16-7, and then Ohio State, 17-8.
• Seniors Krista Pellizzi and Katie Doolittle both scored nine points in the challenge last season. Pellizzi recorded five goals and four assists while Doolittle had eight goals and an assist. Junior Kelly Kasper racked up seven points on four goals and three assists.

Terps Get Past Georgetown, 14-10
• Junior Lauren Cohen recorded five points on four goals and an assist as the No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse team defeated No. 7 Georgetown, 14-10, at the Multi-Sport Field on April 3. Classmate Kelly Kasper had a pair of goals and assists while senior Krista Pellizzi added a goal and three assists.
• Junior Casey Magor added a hat trick while junior Katie Princiotto had a goal and two assists. Junior Allie Buote recorded seven saves in the win.
• It was the first win against the Hoyas since April 7, 2004.

First Half Dominance
• The Terps own a 170-109 advantage in scoring through the first 11 games of the season, but the first half has been something special.
• Maryland owns a 98-46 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.
• Against Johns Hopkins on March 21, Maryland jumped out to a 14-7 lead in the first half of play.
• Maryland used a 12-2 lead in the first half to take down Stanford, 15-7, on March 28.
• The Terps outgunned Georgetown to a 9-4 halftime lead on April 3. Maryland used that advantage to take the 14-10 win.

Scouting The Buckeyes
• Ohio State enters the weekend with a 6-2 record with all of its wins coming against unranked opponents. Its two losses came at the hands of Johns Hopkins and Notre Dame, both ranked nationally.
• The Buckeyes have won their last three outings by a combined five goals. Ohio State beat St. Bonaventure (15-14), Virginia Tech (13-10), and California (9-8) on April 1.
• Kristen Slahor is Ohio State's big gun as she has racked up 24 goals and 21 assists for 45 points. She has a shot percentage of .686.
• Kelly Haggerty has recorded 18 goals and two assists while Jessica Patane has notched 15 goals.
• Ohio State's defense is led by Bethany Carey who leads the team with 25 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers while Danielle Gibson has 20 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers.
• Kristen Gilwee is the starter in the cage and sports a save percentage of .516 while allowing 9.38 goals per game.

Scouting The Nittany Lions
• Penn State enters the ACC/ALC Challenge at 7-3 but is coming off of a 16-5 loss to No. 12 Penn on April 3.
• The Nittany Lions sport three players with over 20 points led by Jessi Lieb and Lindsay Dutch who both have 31 this season. Lieb has 22 goals and nine assists while Dutch has recorded 18 goals and 13 assists.
• Kerry Shea has added 17 goals and five assists while Karen Long has posted 14 goals and seven assists.
• Lieb also leads the team with 26 ground balls and is second with 16 draw controls. Her 14 causd turnovers also lead the squad.
• Cammie Jurkowsky allows just 8.06 goals in the cage while saving 46 percent of the shots she faces.

Buote As It May
• Junior Allie Buote has been hot in the cage as of late, leading the Terps to five straight wins and earning ACC Player of the Week honors on March 26. She was also tabbed the womenslacrosse.com Player of the Week.
• Buote saved 11 shots in Maryland's 15-7 win against Stanford on March 28, marking the third-straight game in which she notched over 10 saves. That was the best three-game streak of her career.
• On March 24 against No. 1 North Carolina, Buote came up with 13 saves and held the Tar Heels to eight goals below their season average in an 8-6 win.
• She came up with two game-saving stops in the last two minutes of the game as she kicked away a free position with 1:52 to go and then stopped a point-blank shot with 50 seconds left to keep the Heels at bay.
• Buote racked up a career-high 14 saves against No. 13 Johns Hopkins on March 21 in a 22-15 win and also stopped nine shots in Maryland's 13-7 win at No. 9 Dartmouth.

Krista Clear
• Senior Krista Pellizzi has paced the Terps' attack this year as she is second on the team with 29 goals and 41 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 a goal in every game so far this season.
• She has recorded five goals and six points in three games this season: vs. Boston College (2/24), vs. Brown (3/10), and vs. Stanford (3/28).

1-2 Punch
• With Maryland's 8-6 win against No. 1 North Carolina on March 24, the Terrapins have now beaten a No. 1 and a No. 2 team in the country.
• Maryland held North Carolina to eight goals below their season average of 14 to get the win.
• The Terps won a wild one against the No. 2 Blue Devils back on March 3, 19-18. It was the first win for the Terps against the Blue Devils since 2003, a 9-8 overtime triumph in College Park, and it stopped a four-game skid against their ACC rival.

Drawn To Perfection
• Junior Dana Dobbie, a transfer from Ohio University, is off to an impressive start in College Park.
• The Canadian National Team member leads the team in goals (36) and points (44).
• Dobbie, the 2005 national leader in draw controls, has accumulated 49 in 11 games this season. She is averaging 4.45 per game. She led the country in 2005 with 5.14 per contest.
• She has 30 more draw controls than anyone else on the team and accounts for 29 percent of the draws.
• Dobbie has scored six or more goals in three games this year: at UMBC (2/19), at Dartmouth (3/16), and vs. Johns Hopkins (3/21).
• Dobbie excelled at draws against the Retrievers on February 19 as she racked up 10 in all. That total matched the entire UMBC team.
• She also picked up a season-high 11 draw controls against No. 13 Johns Hopkins on March 21.
• Dobbie racked up a career high seven goals in the win against No. 9 Dartmouth on March 16. That was the most goals scored by a Maryland player since Kelly Coppedge did it against Johns Hopkins on April 12, 2003.
• Dobbie was added to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List on March 25 her outstanding play through the first half of the season.

A Little Help From Prince
• Junior Katie Princiotto has become a huge contributor on the offensive end in 2007. She has a team-best 21 assists in 11 games. Her 1.90 average is second in the ACC. She also has 12 goals and her 32 points are third on the team.
• Prior to this season, Princiotto had not recorded an assist in 29 contests.

Terps Sport Fourth Best Offense In The Nation
• Maryland's high powered offense currently ranks fourth in the nation with 15.60 goals per game. Denver ranks first in the country at 16.17 goals per outing. Cathy Reese and Jen Adams were at Denver prior to coming to Maryland in August of 2006.
• The Terps are also in the top top 10 in several other categories as they lead the nation in draw controls (15.30), are sixth in scoring margin (+5.70), and 11th in caused turnovers (10.70).
• Junior Dana Dobbie ranks in three different categories as she is fourth in draws (4.60), tied for fourth in goals (3.50), and 23rd in points (4.20).
• Junior Kelly Kasper is tied for 19th in the nation on the caused turnovers ledger with 2.00 a game.
• Junior Katie Princiotto is 15th in the country with 1.90 assists per game.
• Junior Allie Buote ranks 26th in the nation in goals against average (10.11) and 27th in save percentage (.486).

Reese Tabbed US Lacrosse Coach of the Week
• Maryland women's lacrosse head coach Cathy Reese was named the US Lacrosse Coach of the Week on March 26.
• It was the second time Reese has earned the award which makes her the only coach this season, both on the men's and women's side, to garner the honor twice.
• Reese earned the award for Maryland's two wins against ranked opponents last week. The Terrapins opened the week with a 22-15 win against No. 13 Johns Hopkins on March 21. The Terps then knocked off previously unbeaten No. 1 North Carolina, 8-6, on March 24. The Terps held the Tar Heels to eight goals under their season average of 14.
• Reese was also tabbed US Lacrosse Coach of the Week on March 4 for Maryland's wild 19-18 win against Duke at Ludwig Field. It 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.

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 in the season opener 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 leads the team with 36 goals, 44 points, and 49 draw controls.
• McFadden leads all freshmen with 12 goals, 10 assists, 22 points, 16 caused turnovers,18 ground balls, and 17 draw controls.
• Spinnenweber is second among freshmen with seven goals.

Record Setting Start
• Nobody was able to stop the Maryland offense through the first five games of the season.
• The Terrapins had accumulated 94 goals in five games, an 18.8-per-game average. Both of those numbers are the best offensive starts to any season in program history through five games.
• The previous record was 87 goals in 2000 under head coach Cindy Timchal.
• Maryland now has 170 goals through 11 games which is 33 behind the 203 goals the 2000 squad had.

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 179-20.

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.

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.

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.

Maryland Runs Past No. 13 Johns Hopkins
• The Terrapins used their fast pace offense to get by No. 13 Johns Hopkins, 22-15, on March 21 at the Lacrosse & Field Hockey Complex.
• Four Terrapins established new career highs in the game led by junior Lauren Cohen who scored a career-high six goals and classmate Allie Buote who saved a personal-best 14 shots.
• Junior Dana Dobbie racked up a career-high nine points in the win on six goals and three assists, also a personal best. She recorded a season-high 11 draw controls in the game as well. Junior Casey Magor notched a career-high three goals and matched her best game of five points.
• Junior Kelly Kasper added two goals and three assists for the Terps while freshman Caitlyn McFadden had two goals and a helper. Junior Katie Doolittle posted a pair of goals and senior Krista Pellizzi had a goal and an assist.
• The win improved Maryland's record against the Blue Jays to 9-0 all-time.

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 since May 5, 2003 in a 26-6 win against Temple.
• The Terrapins scored 23 times on just 48 shots with 48 percent of their shots finding the back of the net.

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 found the back of the cage in 30 straight games going back to her freshman year in 2005. That streak ended at No. 7 Virginia on March 13.
• Junior Dana Dobbie has a few streaks going as she has notched a goal and a draw control in every game so far this season. She holds team highs for goals in a game (7) and draw controls in a game (11). Dobbie also has a ground ball and a caused turnover in all but two games.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi has also scored a goal in every contest this year.
• Freshman Caitlyn McFadden has recorded a point in every game this season.

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.

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.