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No. 6 Seed Terps Ready For Tigers
May 17, 2000 COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Led by attackmen Andrew "Buggs" Combs (Baltimore, Md.) and Mike Mollot (Holbrook, N.Y.) the Maryland men's lacrosse team advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals for the fourth time in six years after topping Hofstra, 14-12 last Sunday at UMBC. Combs (four goals) and Mollot (three goals, four assists) combined for 11 points for the second straight week to lift the Terps to the first round win. The No. 6 seed Terps will face No. 3 seed Princeton in the round of eight on Saturday, May 20 in New Brunswick, N.J. at Rutgers Stadium. The game will start at approximately 4 p.m. as the second game in a doubleheader following the opener between No. 1 seed Syracuse and unseeded Georgetown (a 14-12 winner over No. 8 Cornell in the first round). The Terps, in their 24th NCAA Tournament, second most of any team in NCAA history, have advanced to the quarterfinals for the ninth time since 1986 when the tournament expanded to 12 teams. Saturday's game against Princeton pits the two teams which faced off for the 1997 and 1998 national championship games with the Tigers winning both times. Saturday's game will also be played on the same field at Rutgers, where Princeton captured the '98 final.
Game Facts and Coverage:
Game 16: No. 6 seed Maryland (No. 6 USILA) vs. No. 3 seed Princeton (No. 3 USILA) Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 Time: Approximately 4 p.m., second game in doubleheader which begins at 1 p.m. with No. 1 seed Syracuse vs. Georgetown Site: Rutgers Stadium (41,500), New Brunswick, N.J.
2000 Records: Maryland: 11-4 (1-2 ACC), Princeton: 10-2 (6-0 Ivy League)
Series History: Maryland leads 28-10-1. Last Meeting: May 25, 1998 - Princeton 15, Maryland 5 in NCAA Championship game at Rutgers.
The Coaches: Maryland: Dick Edell (269-119 overall/28th yr., 158-72 at Maryland/17th yr.) Princeton: Bill Tierney (178-53 overall/16th yr., 144-46 at Princeton/13th yr.)
TV Coverage: Doubleheader live on Empire Sports at 1 p.m. Tape delayed on Fox Sports New York at 4 p.m. (talent: Barry Landers and Bob Rule).
Radio Coverage: Maryland: WMUC (88.1 FM) or on the Internet at www.wmuc.umd.edu. (talent: Steve Tishco and Rob Jemella)
2000 NCAA Tournament Dates & Times The 2000 men's lacrosse NCAA semifinals and championship game return to Byrd Stadium for a record 10th time this May. Here's a complete schedule of the NCAA Division I men's tournament. NCAA First Round:
NCAA Quarterfinals
NCAA Semifinals
NCAA Championship
Records & Rankings: Maryland is ranked No. 6 in the STX/USILA Coaches Poll and the Baltimore Sun poll of May 8, and No. 7 in the Warrior/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll of May 8. No. 3 seed Princeton enters Saturday's postseason match with a 10-2 record (6-0 Ivy League). The Tigers captured the Ivy League's automatic qualifier with a perfect record in conference play. Princeton's wins have come against Johns Hopkins (15-11), Hofstra (11-8), Rutgers (15-5), Yale (17-5), Penn (10-4), Brown (10-7), Harvard (12-6), Cornell (9-5), Dartmouth (10-7) and Hobart (12-6). Their losses have come to the top two seeds in the NCAA Tournament, Virginia (15-8) and Syracuse (16-4). The Tigers split their first two games of the season before winning nine of 10 to finish the regular season. They received a first-round bye as the No. 3 seed. Princeton is ranked third in all three major polls of May 8 (STX/USILA Coaches Poll, Warrior/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and Baltimore Sun poll).
LaxPower Ratings: Princeton ranks No. 4 in the LaxPower ratings with a 96.27 and has the third-most difficult strength of schedule.
Maryland Head Coach Dick Edell: With an 11-4 record this season, Edell has the best career ACC record at 158-72 (.687), all at Maryland. On March 11, Edell became the first coach to reach the 150-win plateau at an ACC school, with the win over Towson. With a lifetime record of 269-119 (.693) over 28 years following stints at the University of Baltimore, Army and Maryland, Edell is the nation's second-winningest active coach. Ironically, the only coach Edell trails on the active list is Jack Emmer (281-153), who succeeded Edell at Army in 1984. He is the fourth all-time winningest coach in men's lacrosse annals, overall. He passed former Cornell coach Richie Moran and Syracuse legend Roy Simmons, Sr. last season and former Towson coach Carl Runk (262) with the Terps' win at Cornell on March 18 this season. The all-time leader is former UMass coach Dick Garber (300 wins). "Big Man," as he is affectionately known, has led his teams to 19 NCAA Tournament appearances (16 in Division I after the 2000 selection), including 12 at Maryland. He has also led the Terps to three ACC championships and three NCAA championship game appearances. He was named the National Coach of the Year by the USILA in 1978 and 1995. He was also selected as the ACC Coach of the Year in 1989, 1992 and 1998.
Winningest Active Coaches (By Wins):
Winningest All-Time Coaches (By Wins):
ACC Coaches Among Best:
Saturday's game pits Edell against the winningest active coach in men's college lacrosse, Bill Tierney. In stints at Rochester Institute of Technology and Princeton, Tierney has won 77.1 percent of his games (178-53).
Winningest Active Coaches (By Win Percentage)
Edell Leads In NCAA Trips: Princeton's Bill Tierney has coached 12 teams to the NCAA Tournament, two at RIT and the last ten at Princeton, all since 1990.
NCAA Tournament Apperances For 2000 Coaches: Coach (Schools) Overall D-I 1. Dick Edell (Balt., Army, Maryland) 19 16 2. Dave Urick (Hobart, Georgetown) 14 4 3t. Dave Cottle (Loyola) 13 13 3t. Dom Starsia (Brown, Virginia) 13 13 5. Bill Tierney (RIT, Princeton) 12 10 6. Mike Pressler (Ohio Wesleyan, Duke) 11 6 7. Kevin Corrigan (Notre Dame) 8 8 8. B.J. O'Hara (Hobart) 7 2 9. John Danowski (C.W. Post, Hofstra) 6 6 10. John Haus (Washington, J. Hopkins) 5 2 11. John Desko (Syracuse) 2 2 12. Dave Pietramala (Cornell) 1 1 WMUC Broadcast Information:
Check Out umterps.com Maryland's Last Game: CATONSVILLE, Md. -- No. 6 Maryland advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals for the fourth time in six years with a 14-12 win over unseeded Hofstra on Sunday at UMBC. Maryland attackmen Andrew "Buggs" Combs and Mike Mollot combined for 11 points to lead the charge. Mollot finished with a career-high seven points (three goals, four assists), combining for 19 over the last three games. Combs scored Maryland's final three goals including the decisive goal which broke an 11-11 tie as he scored 5:55 into the fourth quarter to put the Terps up 12-11. Combs continued his barrage, scoring with 5:37 and 2:18 left in regulation to make it 14-11. Hofstra's Tom Kessler closed the scoring with his fourth goal of the game with 1:18 left in the contest. After Hofstra scored first, Maryland scored five unanswered goals to close the first quarter with a 5-1 lead. In the first-period run, Chris Malone scored the third and fourth goals, both on assists from Mollot. Maryland's other goals in the run came from Mike LaMonica, Brian Zeller and Combs. Hofstra bounced back late in the third after the Terps moved ahead 9-5 on a pair of goals by Mollot and a tally by Zeller. The Dutch scored the final four goals of the period including two by Kessler to tie the game at 9-9. Zeller finished with three goals. LaMonica and Malone each scored twice. In nets, Pat McGinnis made 13 saves. Maryland outshot the Dutch, 43-41 while Hofstra won the groundball battle 46-43.
Box Score Team Stats:
Maryland's 24th Time At NCAA's: Virginia has also played in 24 NCAA Tournaments, playing in the last eight. Princeton has played in 11 tournaments, all since 1990, the Tigers only NCAA appearances. Princeton has won five NCAA titles in 1992, '94, '96, '97 and '98.
NCAA Tournament Apperances For 2000 Teams:
Maryland Record In NCAA's: Maryland is fifth by percentage (.604).
NCAA Records For 2000 Teams (By Wins):
Against Common Opponents: Princeton has won four of five games against common opponents, defeating Cornell, Hofstra, Johns Hopkins and Yale. They also lost to Virginia, 15-8.
Against Common Opponents
Against The 2000 Field: Princeton has a 4-2 record against teams in the field. The Tigers defeated Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Hofstra and Hobart.
Records Against 2000 NCAA Tournament Teams:
Maryland As The No. 6 Seed:
Maryland As The No. 6 Seed
Terps Against No. 3 Seeds: In Maryland's first time as a No. 6 seed against a No. 3 seed in the 1983 semifinals, the Terps upset Virginia, 13-4 in Charlottesville. Maryland also topped a No. 3 seed in the 1979 semifinals as the No. 2 Terps notched a 15-10 victory over Navy in College Park. The Terps' two losses to the No. 3 seeds came to Princeton, 11-10, in the 1992 quarterfinals and Syracuse, 13-9 in the 1995 championship.
Maryland Against No. 3 Seeds:
The Maryland-Princeton Series: Princeton has won the last three meetings, all in the NCAA Tournament, including the last two in the national title games in 1997 and '98. Princeton defeated the Terps in the teams' only NCAA quarterfinal meeting, 11-10 on May 16, 1992 at Princeton. The Terps have won 28 of the 36 regular-season meetings dating to the 1927 inaugural game, a 13-6 Maryland win. The Terps have won the last five regular season games including the last tie in Maryland history, 6-6 on March 30, 1968.
The Last 10 Meetings (Maryland-Princeton)
Terps & Tigers The Last Time -- 1998 Championship Game: Goalie Corey Popham, who was in danger of losing his job on the eve of the Final Four, was the star of the final, making 17 saves as Princeton (14-1) beat Maryland (14-3) for the title for the second straight year. Princeton, the second seed in the tournament, was led by its senior attack line. Jesse Hubbard scored four goals - all in the fourth quarter - Chris Massey had three and Jon Hess two goals and four assists. Scott Hochstadt had two goals for No. 5 seed Maryland, which lost the title game for the third time in four years. The 1997 title game was also a rout, 19-7. However, this one was actually tied 3-3 at halftime before the Tigers broke things open with five straight goals in the third period. Hess set up Lorne Smith's tie-breaking goal with 12:32 left in the quarter and then struck again, breaking Maryland's spirit on an open-net goal with 10:19 left. Maryland defenseman Brian Reese made a bad pass to goalie Kevin Healy while advancing the ball up the field and Hess scooped up the loose ball and scored on an uncontested breakaway. The play seemed to demoralize Maryland, which knocked off top-seeded Loyola in the semifinals at Rutgers Stadium. Josh Sims, Hess and Massey scored over the next five-plus minutes and the lead was suddenly 8-3. Even when Maryland got chances in the span, Popham came up big. He stopped Erik Osberg in close and stopped a breakaway by Matt Hahn, the Terps' all-time leader goal scorer who was blanked in the final. Maryland, which trailed by seven goals at halftime in '97, got goals from Frank Radin and Bob Hanna in a one-minute second quarter span to leave the field tied at 3-3. After Brian Zeller scored to give Maryland an early 1-0 lead, Smith and John Wynne scored 1:07 apart to put Princeton ahead 2-1. Massey scored from six yards out early in the second quarter to stretch the lead to 3-1.
MARYLAND-PRINCETON CONNECTIONS
Jersey Terps Return Home: Freshman Frank Luciano joins the duo to make a trio of Terps from Mountain Lakes, all of which call Boonton Township their hometown.
Terrapins From Long Island No. Player Yr. Hometown/High School 37 Jeff Shirk Sr. Boonton Twp./Mountain Lakes 44 Frank Luciano Fr. Boonton Twp./Mountain Lakes 48 Jason Carrier Sr. Boonton Twp./Mountain Lakes
Going To H.S. Together:
Tigers from Maryland: Included in the dozen is leading scorer and senior midfielder Josh Sims, who attended the McDonogh School in Baltimore. Sims is one of three Tigers from McDonogh (Joe Rosenbaum and Brad Dumont).
Tigers from Maryland: No. Player Yr. Hometown/High School 3 Owen Daly Fr. Baltimore/McDonogh 4 Josh Sims Sr. Edgewater/Severn 5 Joe Rosenbaum Fr. Lutherville/McDonogh 6 Ryan Mollett Jr. Taneytown/Boys' Latin 22 Brad Dumont Fr. Baltimore/McDonogh 25 Damien Davis Fr. Cockeysville/Gilman 28 Chris Merrier Sr. Lutherville/St. Paul's 29 Winship Ross Jr. Harwood/St. Albans 31 Jamie Sullivan Sr. Bethesda/Potomac 36 Josh White Fr. Annapolis/St. Mary's 38 Billy Whitridge Sr. Glyndon/Gilman 41 Willis Wu Sr. Crownsville/Severn
TERPS IN THE NCAA's
1971 (National Finalists)
1972 (Semifinals)
1973 (NATIONAL CHAMPIONS)
1974 (National Finalists)
1975 (NATIONAL CHAMPIONS)
1976 (National Finalists)
1977 (Semifinals)
1978 (Semifinals)
1979 (National Finalists)
1981 (First Round)
1982 (First Round)
1983 (Semifinals)
1986 (Quarterfinals)
1987 (Semifinals)
1989 (Semifinals)
1991 (Semifinals)
1992 (Quarterfinals)
1993 (First Round)
1994 (First Round)
1995 (National Finalists)
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1998 (National Finalists)
2000
NCAA's By The Numbers
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Individual Terps In NCAA's: Zeller recorded his first career hat trick to lift Maryland past Syracuse, 18-17, and into the 1997 national championship game. Zeller followed that with a goal in the '97 final against Princeton. He followed the 1997 performance with a strong showing in the '98 tournament tallying five goals and two assists in helping the Terps to the final against Princeton. He set his career-high of five points against Johns Hopkins in the 1998 semifinals with three goals and two assists for five points. He also scored against Butler in the first round and Princeton in the championship. Zeller's hat trick against Hofstra, marked the third of his NCAA Tournament career -- one each during each season's tourney. Junior Chris Malone (Timonium, Md.) had his first career multi-point game in the '98 semifinals against Loyola with a goal and an assist. Against Hofstra, he posted two goals and two assists for four points, bring his career scoring total in tournament games to seven points (three goals and four points). Freshman Mike Mollot tallied a career-high seven points in his first NCAA Tournament game with three goals and four assists against Hofstra on May 14. Fellow attacker Andrew "Buggs" Combs scored four goals against Hofstra for his first points in post season action. Sophomore Mike LaMonica (Lutherville, Md.) scored two goals in his NCAA Tournament debut against Hofstra. Jon Kemezis (Crofton, Md.), Geoff Burnham (Vestal, N.Y.) and Dan Hughes (Westminster, Md.) have also scored one goal apiece in NCAA Tournament play. Kemezis and Burnham scored in the 1998 first round defeat of Butler while Hughes scored in the 1998 quarterfinal against Johns Hopkins. Goalie Pat McGinnis (Ellicott City, Md.) has seen action in three NCAA Tournament games playing a total of four minutes in 1998 against Loyola in the semis and Princeton in the final. He made his first start in an NCAA Tournament against Hofstra and stopped 13 shots, while allowing 12 goals.
Individual Terps In NCAA Tournaments (G-A-Pts.):
One-Goal Masters: With a 6-5 win over Navy on April 8, Maryland tied the 1989 team, when the Terps also won four one-goal games. Ironically, Maryland also defeated Navy by the same 6-5 score in the 1989 season, as one of its one-goal wins. The Terps' lone one-goal loss in both seasons came to Duke. The Terps are 5-1 this season in one-goal games, the most one-goal games Maryland has played in dating to 1924.
2000 One-Goal Games:
1989 One-Goal Games:
Winning The Close Ones: Five other Maryland teams (1997, 1995, 1992, 1989 and 1924) won four games by one or two goals. Both the '92 and '89 teams played seven games decided by two goals of less, but only won four.
Best Records In One or Two Goal Games In A Year:
Mollot Makes Mark At Maryland: Mollot has totaled an amazing 19 points over his last three games, netting six points (two goals and four assists) in the Terps' last two regular-season games against Yale on April 28 and at UMBC on May 6. He has posted six or more points in a game on four occasions this season. He notched his first six-point game with one goal and five assists against Towson on March 11. Against Yale, Mollot had two goals, coming 4:03 apart in the first quarter, and four assists all prior to halftime.
He has recorded a point in 14 of 15 games with the Terps. He has posted 11 multi-point games and has recorded more than three points in seven games. Mollot had the assist on the game-tying goal against Navy and scored the game-winner with 5:01 left in regulation against the Mids. He had one goal and three assists against Bucknell, three assists against Duke and two goals and two assists in the opener against Mount St. Mary's. In 11 games, Mollot passed Maryland's leader for the entire 1999 season when Marcus LaChapelle had 18, with his 19th helper against Duke in the ACC semifinals in April 21.
Mollot's Three-Point Games:
Mollot Tops Freshman In Assists:
Zeller Reaches 100 Career Points: He scored the eventual game-winner on an extra-man opportunity with 11 seconds left in the third quarter. Zeller has been hot over the last five games totaling 13 points over the stretch. He equaled a season-high with four points (two goals, two assists) against Duke in the ACC semifinals on April 21. After netting a hat trick against Hofstra in the first round, Zeller has 107 career points. Heading into the Princeton game he has 72 goals and 35 assists. He is 22 points away from cracking the Maryland Top 20 in career scoring. Pat O'Meally (1971-74) stands 20th with 129 points. Zeller's 15 assists this season are second on the Terps to Mike Mollot's 32, and are the most he has recorded in a single-season. With 30 overall points this season, Zeller is third on the team in scoring.
Zeller's Career Numbers: Year GP Goals Asst. Pts. 1996 2 1 0 1 1997 16 12 1 13 1998 16 20 13 33 1999 14 24 6 30 2000 15 15 15 30 Career 63 72 35 107
Zeller Back To No. 10: In the seven games since the return to No. 10 on April 8, Zeller has tallied 14 points (11 goals and three assists). He had scored just four goals in No. 24. He has scored 73.3 percent of his goals while wearing No. 10.
The Numbers Game- Zeller In No. 24 and No. 10:
Zeller's Multi-Point Games:
Mollot's Multi-Point Games:
McGinnis Continues To Star: As of the May 7 NCAA statistics, McGinnis ranked No. 8 in the nation in save percentage and No. 9 in goals against average. McGinnis gave up three goals apiece to Bucknell on March 7 and Delaware on March 15, and allowed just one goal in 45 minutes in his career-starting debut against Mount St. Mary's. He allowed just seven goals to No. 11 Cornell, making 10 saves and five goals to No. 11 Navy, making 10 saves. McGinnis has also held the ACC's top scoring team, Virginia, to a season-low 11 goals in two occasions -- March 31 during the regular-season and in the ACC championship game on April 23. In the first game against the Cavaliers, McGinnis made a career-high 27 saves -- which, at the time, was the most saves by a goalie in Division I this season. The mark has since been passed by Mike Abeles of Ohio State, who stopped 28 shots from Johns Hopkins on April 8.
Malone Tops In Goals: Malone set his career-high of four goals at North Carolina and equaled it in goals with four against Johns Hopkins on April 15. Malone has scored multiple goals in nine games this year with four against North Carolina and Johns Hopkins and two apiece versus Mount St. Mary's, Duke, Towson, Navy, Yale, UMBC and Hofstra in the NCAA's.
Malone Nets Career Highs: Last season, Malone set his high of four points -- against North Carolina on March 27, 1999 -- as he recorded two goals and two assists in aiding a Terp victory. With 26 goals this season, Malone has surpassed his single-season career high of 10 goals set last season. With 35 points, he also passed his single-season points high of 19 which he also set in 1999.
Malone's Career Numbers: Year GP Goals Asst. Pts. 1998 17 6 4 10 1999 14 10 9 19 2000 15 26 9 35 Career 46 42 22 64
Malone In The First Half:
Malone's Numbers By Half (G-A-Pts.) 2/27 Mt. St. Mary's 2-0-2 0-0-0 2-0-2 3/4 at Duke 1-0-1 1-0-1 2-0-2 3/7 Bucknell 1-1-2 0-0-0 1-1-2 3/11 Towson 1-1-2 1-1-2 2-2-4 3/15 Delaware 0-1-1 0-0-0 0-1-1 3/18 Cornell 0-1-1 1-0-1 1-1-2 3/25 North Carolina 4-0-4 0-0-0 4-0-4 3/31 Virginia 1-0-1 0-0-0 1-0-1 4/8 Navy 2-0-2 0-0-0 2-0-2 4/15 Johns Hopkins 4-1-5 0-0-0 4-1-5 4/21 Duke 1-0-1 0-0-0 1-0-1 4/23 Virginia 0-0-0 0-1-1 0-1-1 4/28 Yale 2-0-2 0-0-0 2-0-2 5/6 UMBC 0-0-0 2-0-2 2-0-2 5/14 Hofstra (NCAA) 2-1-3 0-1-1 2-2-4 Totals 21-6-27 5-3-8 26-9-35
Malone's Scoring Streak: Malone's point-scoring streak dates back to last season having notched points in 19 straight games (28 goals and 12 assists).
Malone Earns Honors: It was the second time Malone has been honored as the Maryland Student-Athlete of the Week, he also earned the award on March 27 after lifting the Terps past North Carolina on March 25.
Buggs Coming To Life: Combs followed the UMBC showing with another outstanding at Catonsville, Md., against Hofstra in the NCAA First Round. Combs scored four goals to give him nine goals in two games at UMBC. Earlier in the season, Combs netted three goals in Terps' wins over Cornell and Delaware. He set that career high against Towson on March 7, 1998. Combs tallied two-goal games against Mount St. Mary's, at Johns Hopkins and against Virginia in the ACC final on April 23. Overall, he six multiple goal games. Overall, Combs has 22 goals and five assists for 27 points, ranking him fifth on the team in points. He has surpassed his single-season career-high totals in goals and points.
Combs' Career Numbers: Year GP Goals Asst. Pts. 1998 11 6 3 9 1999 14 9 4 13 2000 15 22 5 27 Career 40 37 12 49
Combs Earns Honors: Combs was also named Maryland's male Student-Athlete of the Week for the week ending March 18. He earned his second Student-Athlete of the Week Award on May 15 after lifting Maryland to its first-round over Hofstra.
LaChapelle Near The Top: He scored a goal in the first six games of the season before being shutdown at North Carolina on March 25. The 14 goals represent a single-season best for LaChapelle. He broke out of a recent scoring slump with a goal and three assists for four points against UMBC on May 6. He had not posted more than one point in his previous six games. Earlier this season, LaChapelle had three straight multi-goal games, recording hat tricks against Duke and Bucknell and two goals against Towson. Those three-goal performances tied his single-game career high, which was established against North Carolina on March 27, 1999. After being held pointless against Virginia on March 31, LaChapelle saw his 10 game point-scoring streak snapped. Dating back to the 1999 season, LaChapelle had recorded a point in 10 straight games (14 goals, 11 assists) for 25 points.
LaChapelle's Career Numbers Year GP Goals Asst. Pts. 1997 13 0 2 2 1998 16 1 8 9 1999 13 9 18 27 2000 15 14 14 28 Career 57 24 42 66
LaMonica Knows Goals: Sophomore midfielder Mike LaMonica (Lutherville, Md.) has scored goals in 12 of Maryland's 15 games this season including the last five after scoring twice against Hofstra on May 14. LaMonica has netted a new career single-season best in goals, as he stands with 19. Earlier this year, he set his single-game career highs of four goals and four points against Towson on March 11. All four goals came in the first half. The star performance was especially sweet for LaMonica whose mother, Linda Filbert, is a gymnastics coach for the Tigers. Overall, LaMonica has 19 goals and 22 points. He surpassed his freshman totals of nine goals and 11 points, seven games into the 2000 season. His goals per game average in his career is exactly 1.0, after netting 28 goals in 28 games. LaMonica has scored at least one goal in 14 of the Terps' last 17 games dating to 1999, accumulating 23 goals in that span. After being held without an assist through nine games of the 2000 season, LaMonica tallied two assists at Johns Hopkins on April 15. He added his third assist at UMBC on May 6.
LaMonica's Career Numbers:
Urlock Earns More Time, Goals: Sophomore Matt Urlock (Lutherville, Md.) has done well when pressed into action on the attack. He drew his first start of the season against Duke in the ACC semifinals, replacing Marcus LaChapelle and recorded one goal. He has started four of the last five games. Urlock has scored 10 goals over the last eight games, netting his first career hat trick at Johns Hopkins, a pair against Virginia and the game-tying goal versus Navy. He scored in his sixth straight game against Yale. He also scored two against Virginia for the second time this season in the ACC championship on April 23. He was held scoreless against UMBC on May 6. Last season, Urlock scored against Johns Hopkins for his first goal against a ranked team and finished his freshman season with three goals.
Seniors Play Home Finale: All seven seniors have played in three NCAA Tournaments -- 1997, 1998 and 2000. Maryland advanced to the championship game in both '97 and '98. These Terps also captured the 1998 ACC championship during the seniors' sophomore season.
Connor Scores First Career Goal: The senior captain ranks third on the team in groundballs with 47. Connor's only other career point came as an assist during his sophomore season against Rutgers on April 25, 1998.
Howley Earns First Assist: The ACC Rookie of the Year has been a stalwart in front of Pat McGinnis helping Maryland to a 8.29 team goals against average. Howley has started the last 13 games and recorded 23 groundballs this season.
Burnham Nets Two In 2000: Burnham's other goal came as he scored on a full-field rush after Carrington King won a face-off in the fourth quarter against Delaware on March 15. He scored his first career goal in an NCAA First Round game against Butler on May 10, 1998. Burnham leads all Maryland field players in groundballs with 60. Only goalie Pat McGinnis has more groundballs with 87.
Morsell Passes Career Marks: He opened the season with a bang, recording his first career hat trick against Mount St. Mary's, scoring three goals in 1:44. He also had that multiple-goal game against Towson, netting two goals. Morsell has scored one goal four other times with one in each game against Duke, as well as one goal against Delaware and Yale.
Carroll's Career Game: What is even more impressive is that Carroll accomplished most of the feat against Duke's Scott Bross, who entered the game winning 65.5 percent of his face-offs -- which ranked third in the nation. Overall, Carroll has taken the most face-offs for Maryland this season, 122, winning 48.
Moran Pressed Into Action: The Long Island native recorded a career-high nine face-off wins on 16 attempts against Virginia. That followed a 6-for-12 performance against North Carolina for which head coach Dick Edell called Moran the "hero of the game." Overall, Moran has taken 92 draws, winning 37.
Watkins Nets First Of 2000:
Hochstadt Scores Again: He scored in back-to-back games for the first time in his career after scoring late in the second quarter against Delaware to make the score 9-2. That came on the heels of his second goal of the season, which came against Towson to tie the game at 6-6 in the second quarter. Hochstadt, who had three assists against Mount St. Mary's, scored one goal in his freshman campaign with the Terps, when he scored against Dartmouth on March 23, 1999.
Scoring Initiation: Freshman Jamie Daue (Lutherville, Md.) recorded his first point on an assist to Leary in the fourth.
Defense, Defense, Defense: The Terps have been ranked in the top 12 in the nation in team defense all season, allowing just 8.53 goals per game.
Man-Down Unit Impresses: In last week's NCAA stats of May 7, with an 76.7 kill percentage, Maryland ranked No. 10. The Terps have killed off 50 of 65 penalties without allowing a goal. Opponents have scored on just 23.1 percent of their extra-man chances.
Man-Up Unit Scoring At High Rate: Maryland had a great run scoring on six consecutive opportunities spanning the Delaware and Cornell games on March 15 and 18. Overall, the unit has scored on 21 of its 53 opportunities. Maryland's extra-man unit has scored at least one goal in 11 of 15 games this season. Mike LaMonica leads the Terps in man-up goals with five. Brian Zeller has scored four of his 15 goals on the extra-man.
Terps By The Numbers
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All-ACC For Malone & McGinnis: Malone has led the Terps in goals all season and currently tops the chart with 26 tallies. He is also second on the team in overall scoring with 35 points. Malone has set career highs in both goal and points in 2000. He set his single-game career best for goals with four against both North Carolina and Johns Hopkins this season. He also set a career-high of five points against the Blue Jays with an additional assist. McGinnis has emerged as one of the nation's premier goalies in his first season as the Terps' starter. McGinnis has ranked among the nation's top 10 in goals against average and save percentage throughout the season. He currently has a 8.44 goals against average and a .617 save percentage. McGinnis recorded a career-high 27 saves against Virginia on March 31, a mark that was the highest among all Division I goalies at the time.
Howley: ACC Rookie Of The Year:
Four Named To All-Tourney Team: Combs scored two goals in the championship game. McGinnis made 23 saves over the two games, including 18 in the championship game. His goals against average for the two games was 9.00. Urlock scored three goals in the two games, including two in the title game against the Cavaliers. Zeller was named to the all-tournament team for the second time in his career as he also earned the honor in 1998 when Maryland claimed the title. Over the weekend, Zeller recorded his first multi-goal game against Duke in the semifinals and finished with five points (two goals and three assists). Also named to the team were Virginia's Conor Gill (MVP), Jay Jalbert, Mark Koontz and Ian Shure, Duke's Stephen Card and Nick Hartofolis and North Carolina's Austin Garrison.
Seven Signed For 2001 Season: J.R. Bordley (Vienna, Va./Landon School), Paul Gillette (Millersville, Md./Severna Park), Dan LaMonica (Lutherville, Md./Boys' Latin), Chris Passavia (Stony Brook, N.Y./Ward Melville), Jeremy Pastula (Yorktown, N.Y./Yorktown), Dave Wagner (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) and Lee Zink (Rowayton, Conn./Darien) have all signed on to wear the red, gold, black and white of Maryland.
TERPS IN THE POLLS:
2000 Inside Lacrosse Media Poll (5/8/00):
No./Team/Pts./LW
2000 Baltimore Sun Poll (5/8/00):
2000 LaxPower Power Ratings (5/8/00): No. Team Rating SOS Rec. LW 1. Syracuse 99.90 2 12-1 2 2. Virginia 99.35 7 12-1 1 3. Johns Hopkins 96.63 1 8-3 6 4. Princeton 96.27 3 10-2 5 5. Loyola 96.07 6 11-2 3 6. Cornell 95.36 9 10-3 9 7. Georgetown 95.13 16 11-2 4 8. Maryland 94.60 4 10-4 7 9. Duke 94.39 12 9-4 8 10. Hofstra 93.59 19 11-4 10 11. Navy 93.41 29 9 -4 11 12. Hobart 92.84 13 7-6 12 13. North Carolina 91.84 5 8-6 14 14. Brown 91.81 17 9-6 16 15. Notre Dame 91.15 24 9-3 13
Week-By-Week In The Polls: Date Coaches Media Sun Preseason 8 -- 9 Feb. 27 -- 8 -- March 6 9 9 9 March 13 9 9 8 March 20 7t 8 7 March 27 6 6t 6 April 3 7 8 7 April 10 7 7 7 April 17 9 9 9 April 24 7 7 7 May 1 7 7 7 May 8 6 7 6
TERPS IN THE NCAA STATS (thru May 7):
Team Scoring Defense No. Player GP W-L GA Avg. 1. Navy 13 9-4 78 6.00 2. Bucknell 12 8-4 86 7.17 3. Denver 14 10-4 103 7.36 4. Cornell 13 10-3 101 7.77 5. Virginia 13 12-1 102 7.85 6. Princeton 12 10-2 95 7.92 7. Syracuse 13 12-1 107 8.23 8. Notre Dame 12 9-3 99 8.25 9. MARYLAND 14 10-4 116 8.29 10. Brown 15 9-6 125 8.33
Man-Down Defense No. Team Stops/Att. Pct. 1. Bucknell 52/62 83.9 2. Johns Hopkins 47/57 82.5 3. Sacred Heart 69/84 82.1 4. Brown 71/89 79.8 4. Syracuse 71/89 79.8 6. Georgetown 50/63 79.4 7. St. Joseph's 87/112 77.7 8. Butler 59/76 77.6 9. Providence 45/58 77.6 10. MARYLAND 46/60 76.7
Man-Up Offense No. Team Goals/Att. Pct. 1. Villanova 29/60 48.3 2. Duke 30/63 47.6 3. Loyola 27/60 45.0 4. Ohio State 23/53 43.4 5. Georgetown 25/60 41.7 6. Virginia 22/53 41.5 7. Lehigh 32/78 41.0 8. UMBC 30/74 40.5 9. Bucknell 14/36 38.9 10. North Carolina 25/65 38.5 11. Fairfield 18/48 37.5 12. VMI 25/67 37.3 13. MARYLAND 19/51 37.3
Assists Per Game No. Player GP Asst. APG 1. Ryan Powell, Syracuse 13 43 3.31 2. Brian LaMastro, Hartford 16 52 3.25 3. Jack McTigue, Villanova 14 42 3.00 3. Dan Denihan, J. Hopkins 11 33 3.00 5. Jim Lindsay, Albany (N.Y.) 9 25 2.78 6. Conor Gill, Virginia 13 35 2.69 7. Jason Lavey, Delaware 16 43 2.69 8. David Cohen, Lehigh 14 37 2.64 9. Keith Cromwell, Rutgers 13 34 2.62 10. Dan Marohl, UMBC 14 32 2.29 11. Bert Whitelock, St. Joseph's 16 36 2.25 12. Andy Flick, Georgetown 13 29 2.23 13. Tim Pearson, Army 14 31 2.21 14. Rich Santoro, Holy Cross 13 28 2.15 15. Mike Mollot, Maryland 14 28 2.00 15. Sean Semler, Canisius 13 26 2.00 15. Dave Ulrich, Notre Dame 12 24 2.00
Save Percentage No. Player GP GA Svs. Sv.% 1. Trevor Tierney, Princeton 12 84 160 65.6 2. Mickey Jarboe, Navy 13 76 140 64.8 3. Keith Cynar, Harvard 13 115 203 63.8 4. Rob Mulligan, Syracuse 13 96 167 63.5 5. Mike Abeles, Ohio State 14 121 208 63.2 6. Todd Schreiner, Lehigh 14 130 222 63.1 7. Brian Schmeyer, Marist 13 117 196 62.6 8. Pat McGinnis, Maryland 14 109 182 62.5
Goals Against Average No. Player GP Min GA GAA 1. Mickey Jarboe, Navy 13 748 76 6.10 2. Derek Kenney, Virginia 13 707 82 6.96 3. Trevor Tierney, Princeton 12 688 84 7.33 4. Brian Berger, Denver 12 675 87 7.73 5. Rob Mulligan, Syracuse 13 742 96 7.76 6. Justin Cynar, Cornell 13 780 101 7.77 7. Kirk Howell, Notre Dame 12 701 91 7.79 8. Dave Mullen, Delaware 16 889 120 8.10 9. Pat McGinnis, Maryland 14 800 109 8.18 10. Beret Dickson, Brown 15 863 121 8.41
NCAA D-I Single Game Saves In 2000 Player vs. Team Saves Date Mike Abeles, Ohio State vs.Hopkins 28 4/8/00 Pat McGinnis, Maryland vs. Virginia 27 3/31/00 John Lilly, Holy Cross vs. Colgate 27 4/8/00 Marc Ferrandino, Butler vs. Colgate 26 3/31/00 Marc Ferrandino, Butler vs. Georgetown 26 3/15/00
2000 SEASON HONORS:Geoff Burnham, Sr., Def, Midfield (Vestal, N.Y.)
Jason Carrier, Sr., Defense (Boonton Twp., N.J.)
Andrew Combs, So., Attack (Baltimore, Md.)
Casey Connor, Sr., Defense (Baltimore, Md.)
Michael Howley, Fr., Defense (Wantagh, N.Y.)
Marcus LaChapelle, Sr., Attack (Severna Park, Md.)
Chris Malone, Jr., Midfield (Timonium, Md.)
Pat McGinnis, Jr., Goalie (Ellicott City, Md.)
Mike Mollot, RFr., Attack (Holbrook, N.Y.)
Jeff Shirk, Sr., Def. Midfield (Boonton Twp., N.J.)
Matt Urlock, So., Attack (Lutherville, Md.)
Brian Zeller, Sr., Midfield (Forest Hill, Md.)
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