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#4 Terps Open Season vs. St. John's Friday
Aug. 24, 2011
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 4 Maryland men's soccer team opens its season with a pair of matches against St. John's and West Virginia as part of the 2011 ACC/BIG EAST Challenge. The Terps face St. John's on Friday at 8 p.m. at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown. The Terps welcome West Virginia Sunday in its home opener at Ludwig Field. Kickoff for Sunday's contest is 7 p.m. Maryland is 6-3-1 on its opening weekend since 2006. The Terps fell to No. 24 Michigan State in dramatic fashion in their opener last season before trouncing Northeastern, 5-0, on Sunday.Tickets and Game Promotions · Click here for ticket information for the 2011 ACC/BIG EAST Challenge at the Maryland SoccerPlex. Note: Price of ticket includes both the West Virginia/Virginia and St. John's/Maryland matches on Friday. · Click here for a complete list of game promotions for this season.
Parking Information Maryland SoccerPlex Information: Parking for Friday's games at the Maryland SoccerPlex is free. Event Multimedia · Maryland's student-run radio station, WMUC, will also be broadcasting the match at WMUCsports.com.
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Scouting The Terps · Maryland opens its 2010 season ranked No. 4 in the preseason NSCAA poll and No. 2 and No. 8 in the TopDrawerSoccer.com and Soccer America preseason polls, respectively. Though the squad lost seven starters from last season, the Terps return top scoring threats Casey Townsend and Patrick Mullins as well as a nearly competely intact back line
· The Terps will be led on offense by 2011 MAC Hermann Trophy watch list selection Casey Townsend. The Traverse City, Mich., native is the top returning scorer for the Terps after scoring nine goals for 2010 ACC champion Maryland. Departed four-year starter Jason Herrick was selected by the Chicago Fire with the 45th pick in the MLS SuperDraft in January. The 2010 ACC Freshman of the Year, Patrick Mullins will move up top this season to assist Townsend at the striker position. · Gone from the midfield are starters Doug Rodkey, Matt Kassel and Billy Cortes but the cupboard is far from bare, however. Three players on this season's squad earned starts in the midfield in 2010 including Kaoru Forbess, Helge Leikvang and John Stertzer. Forbess has 30 career starts to his name and is the most seasoned veteran in the unit. Leikvang is a highly-skilled player from Norway who boasts a powerful shot and a calm defensive demeanor. Stertzer has improved in each of his first two seasons in College Park and became a solid offensive weapon as a full-time starter by the end of the 2010 campaign. · Taylor Kemp returns for his third season as a starter at outside back. Alex Lee will seal up the middle once again this season after helping the Terps tally a program-best 15 shutouts in 2010. A very athletic defender, Lee will have an increased role in communication both on and off the field while serving as a captain for this year's unit. · Redshirt senior Will Swaim will enter the season on top of the depth chart at goalkeeper, replacing three-year starter and current Philadelphia Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath. 2011 Preseason Preview Scouting The Red Storm
· Senior Pablo Battuto Punyed (5g, 2a) and Walter Hines (3g, 2a) are the top returning scorers for the Red Storm. SJU lost its top scoring threat with the departure of Tadeu Terra (5g, 5a). · Rafeal Diaz returns as the starting goalkeeper. Diaz boasted a .831 save percentage while giving up 15 goals in 18 starts in 2010. · The Terps are 4-3 against SJU all-time. Maryland dropped the Red Storm in the 2008 national semifinals in double overtime on its way to the program's third national championship. Scouting The Mountaineers
· The Mountaineers are led by preseason All-American Raymon Gaddis. Gaddis recorded five points while playing every minute of every game in 2010. · WVU's top returning scorer is Franck Tayou, who registered nine goals in 2010. The Mountaineers will have a new keeper with the departure of full-time starter Zach Johnson. · The Terps are 1-2 against WVU all-time. Maryland defeated the Mountaineers, 1-0, on Oct. 21, 2008 in Morgantown in the squads' last meeting. Poll Central Head Coach Sasho Cirovski Townsend Earns Preseason Honors · Townsend was tabbed to the initial 42-player list for the MAC Hermann Trophy, the top individual honor in college soccer. A senior from Traverse City, Mich., the 2010 First Team All-ACC pick is Maryland's top returning scorer after tallying nine goals as a junior. · Townsend was also named a College Soccer News Second Team Preseason All-American. He is currently 15th in TopDrawerSoccer.com's listing of the top 100 prospects for professional soccer in the college senior class. ACC Freshman of the Year Returns for Terps · As a midfielder, Mullins was also a TopDrawerSoccer All-Rookie second team pick. · The New Orleans, La., product will move up to a striker position in 2011, accompanying Casey Townsend and replacing four-year starter Jason Herrick. From College Park to the MLS Terps Land Top Recruit · Shinsky is a member of U-17 U.S. National Team...played at West York Area where he scored a goal for the U.S. U-17 National Team in the FIFA World Cup in Malawi. Fan Friendly Ludwig Field · A program-high crowd of 7,260 watched Maryland top No. 9 Duke in 2010. The Terps were second nationally in overall attendance in 2009. Maryland has averaged more than 2,000 fans per match in each of the last seven seasons. The Terps When (2010)...
Follow Maryland Athletics on Twitter Media Information · GameTracker: Follow Terps games live in 2011 on your computer with GameTracker. Links for all games that will be available can be found at www.umterps.com.
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