Nov. 19, 2011

STILLWATER, Okla. - The Maryland Terrapin women's soccer team (12-5-4) advances to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament and will play No. 2 seed Oklahoma State (21-1-2) in Stillwater, Okla., Sunday afternoon at the Cowgirl Soccer Complex. Opening kick is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT).

• The winner of Sunday's match will advance to the Elite Eight and will play the winner of the No. 1 seed Stanford/No. 4 seed Boston College game, which is scheduled for a 4 p.m. ET start in Palo Alto, Calif.

Ticket Information
• Tickets are $10 for single-session general admission. Student tickets are $5.

Event Multimedia
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Championship Links
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Maryland Returns To The NCAA Tournament For 12th Time
• The Terps are in the NCAA Women's College Cup in three-straight seasons for the first time since 2002-04 and 11th time overall. Maryland holds a 13-10-2 record in tournament play and is 0-3 all-time in the third round.

• The last time Maryland advanced to the Sweet 16 was 2009 when the No. 4 seeded Terps fell at No. 1 seed North Carolina, 1-0.

Maryland's Individual NCAA Records

Maryland's Team NCAA Records

Scouting The Terps
• Maryland is 12-5-4 after defeating Auburn, 1-0, in the second round of the NCAA tournament in Stillwater, Okla.

• The Terps got their 2011 season off to a good start with a 1-0 win over No. 22 Minnesota (recap | stats) on Aug. 19. Danielle Hubka scored the game's lone goal in the 20th minute when she finished a through ball from Becky Kaplan. Yewande Balogun was solid in net and recorded three saves, but the biggest save of the game came from Kristen McAfee, who cleared a Golden Gopher shot away from the net just before it crossed the goal line in the 88th minute.

• Maryland followed that up with a 9-0 drubbing at Loyola (recap | stats) on Aug. 22. Kaplan scored three goals - all in 1-v-1 situations with the Greyhound keeper - to become the first Terp since 2000 to record a hat trick. Senior Ashley Grove had two goals and three assists, which tied the program record for single-game assists. Junior Olivia Wagner had two goals and an assist, while senior Jasmyne Spencer added two assists. Freshman Alex Doody had a goal and an assist to record her first collegiate points.

• The showdown with No. 1 Stanford lived up to its billing as the two top five teams battled to a 0-0 tie (recap | stats) on Aug. 26. The match was as even as could be. The Cardinal had a slight lead in shots, 19-17, but the Terps had eight corner kick opportunities to Stanford's six. Stanford controlled the first half, out-shooting Maryland 10-2, but Yewande Balogun made five of her 11 saves in the opening 45 minutes to keep the Terps in the match.The second half was a different story as it was Maryland controling the flow of the game and earning an 11-5 shot advantage.

• After being delayed a day due to the effects of Hurricane Irene, the Terps topped Navy, 3-0 (recap | stats), on Aug. 29. Hayley Brock led the way with four points on a goal and two assists. Olivia Wagner and Alex Doody also scored, while Lydia Hastings, Kristen Schmidbauer and Annesia Faulkner tallied assists. Yewande Balogun only needed to record two saves to register her third shutout of the season. However, for the Terps it was the fourth shutout of the season, which set a school record for most consecutive shutouts to begin a year.

• The Terps continued to play good soccer with a 2-0 shutout of St. Louis (recap | stats) on Sept. 2. All of the scoring came from returning upperclassmen as Ashley Grove netted the first goal in the 14th minute off assists by Domenica Hodak and Skyy Anderson. The insurance goal came from Danielle Hubka and was setup by Becky Kaplan and Jasmyne Spencer. The back line of Anderson, Mallory Baker, Lydia Hastings and Megan Gibbons did a terrific job limiting the Billikens and Yewande Balogun needed to make just one save to earn her fourth shutout of the season.

• Maryland set the school record for consecutive shutouts with its sixth clean sheet of the season with a 4-0 win at Cornell (recap | stats) on Sept. 4. The defense again was stifling and limited the Big Red to just three shots with 0 being on goal. Jasmyne Spencer netted her first goal of the season to give the Terps a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute off an assist by Domenica Hodak. Hodak tallied her second assist of the game in the 70th minute by setting up Hayley Brock's third goal of the year. Brock then turned around and got the helper on Cory Ryan's first collegiate goal in the 81st minute. Sade Ayinde wrapped up the scoring with her first goal of the season on a direct strike off of a corner kick in the 84th minute.

• The game vs. American was moved to the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown due to inclement weather in the College Park area, but that didn't stop the Terrapins from rolling to a 5-1 victory over the Eagles (recap | stats) on Sept. 7. Sade Ayinde scored in the 24th minute and again on a penalty kick in the 37th minute to lead the Terps. Olivia Wagner also scored on a PK and Maryland also got an own goal off a redirection off of a free kick by Kristen McAfee. Shade Pratt wrapped up the scoring with her first collegiate goal in the 74th minute. Maryland saw it's shutout streak end at 634 minutes when a long lob by Jasmine Mohandesi found the back of the Terrapin net just out of the reach of goalkeeper Yewande Balogun. The match was shortened to 86 minutes due to lightning.

• Maryland finished its non-conference slate with a 0-0 tie at James Madison (recap | stats) on Sept. 11. The Terrapins dominated the run of play, out-shooting the Dukes 25-8 and earning six corner kicks to JMU's one. Yewande Balogun made five saves to earn her fifth full shutout of the season. Olivia Wagner led the offense with seven shots, while Jasmyne Spencer had six.

• The ACC season opened with a 4-1 defeat at No. 14 Virginia (recap | stats) on Sept. 15. Olivia Wagner scored the lone goal for the Terrapins, converting on a free kick from 20 yards out in the 56th minute.

• The Terps fell behind 1-0 to Virginia Tech, but scored two goals in a span of 4:01 early in the second half to earn a 2-1 victory (recap | stats) on Sept. 18. Olivia Wagner scored the first Terrapin goal, blasting a free kick from 24 yards out into the upper left corner. Wagner then assisted on the game-winner, sending a corner kick to the back post where Cory Ryan got on the end of it and finished with a header into the left side of the Hokie net.

• Sophomore Hayley Brock collected a long ball from goalkeeper Yewande Balogun and finished into the lower right corner to give Maryland a 1-0 lead early in its primetime showdown with No. 6 Boston College, but the Eagles got an own goal in the 88th minute to tie the score, sending the match into overtime. In OT, the Eagles played a long ball off of a free kick inside the Maryland 18. The ball took a high bounce and found its way to Victoria DiMartino, who tapped the ball into the net in the 98th minute to give BC a 2-1 victory (recap | stats).

• The Maryland defense was stout, but the offense never got going and the result was a 0-0 tie with NC State (recap | stats) on Sept. 25. Yewande Balogun made four saves to earn her sixth shutout of the season and the eighth full shutout overall for the Terrapins.

• The Terrapin offense got a boost with the return of All-American Jasmyne Spencer, who missed four starts due to an injurt sustained at James Madison, to the starting lineup. The boost wasn't just superficial either as Spencer delivered by scoring the 10th game-winning goal of her career to give Maryland a 2-1 victory at Clemson (recap | stats) on Sept. 29. The Terps wasted no time jumping on the Tigers as junior Danielle Hubka scored in the second minute to give Maryland a 1-0 lead. Spencer then capitalized on a defensive miscue by Clemson to score unassisted in the 22nd minute. The Tigers scored in the 33rd to cut the lead back to a goal, but the Terrapin defense held out for the 2-1 win.

• Yewande Balogun made three big saves in overtime to help the Terrapins earn a 0-0 tie vs. No. 6 Wake Forest (recap | stats) on Oct. 8. Balogun finished the match with seven saves to earn her 17th career shutout. Jasmyne Spencer, Olivia Wagner and Becky Kaplan led the offense with four shots apiece.

• Maryland got off only three shots, but all of them found the back of the net as the Terrapins topped No. 11 Florida State, 3-0 (recap | stats), to earn their first win in Tallahassee since 2001. Danielle Hubka, Ashley Grove and Becky Kaplan each tallied a goal and an assist, while Skyy Anderson also had an assist in the win. Yewande Balogun made 10 saves to post her 18th career shutout.

• Miami has been a house of horrors for the Terps and that continued this season with a 2-1 defeat (recap | stats) to the Hurricanes. Maryland got out to a 1-0 lead on a free-kick goal by Olivia Wagner, but Miami tied the match before halftime. The Canes took the lead in the midway through the second half to pick up the win. Miami finished the match with only two shots on goal vs. the Terps.

• The Terrapins got out to an early 1-0 lead at No. 8 Duke thanks to the first goal of the season by Lydia Hastings, but the Blue Devils responded with three goals in a 15-minute span in the second half to take the match, 3-1 (recap | stats).

• The 2011 "Senior Night" will be one no one will soon forget as Maryland came from behind to topple No. 8 North Carolina, 2-1 in overtime (recap | stats), in front of 2,126 at Ludwig Field on Oct. 27. Carolina took a 1-0 lead early in the first half on a header by Courtney Jones and held that advantage until the 87th minute. Jasmyne Spencer flicked the ball forward to Hayley Brock, who finished into the lower left corner of the net to send the match in OT. In the 98th minute, Becky Kaplan scored the game-winner, also finishing into the lower left corner. Megan Gibbons and Sade Ayinde picked up the assists on the game-winning goal. Yewande Balogun made five saves for Maryland, but she was helped by two big team saves from Annesia Faulkner and Gibbons in holding the Tar Heels to just a single goal.

• Maryland lost at Virginia, 2-1, in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament (recap | stats). Jasmyne Spencer led the offense with two shots, while Domenica Hodak had two "team saves" on the defensive side of the field.

• The score wasn't indicitive of the competitiveness of Maryland's 5-1 victory over La Salle (recap | stats) in the first round of the NCAA tournament. The Terrapins took a 1-0 lead at the start of the 23rd minute when Ashley Grove converted a penalty kick opportunity, which was set up by Danielle Hubka being fouled in the box. The Explorers tied the match three minutes later and that's how the two teams would stay until the 50th minute when Maryland got another PK opportunity (Jasmyne Spencer was taken down in the box to setup this one) and Olivia Wagner banged it home to make it a 2-1 game. The Terrapins got three goals, two by Hayley Brock and the final by Hubka, in the final six minutes to blow the game open.

Scouting The Cowgirls
• Oklahoma State is 21-1-2 after beating Illinois, 1-0, in the second round of the tournament. The Cowgirls are in the NCAA tournament for the seventh time, including each of the last six seasons.

• Oklahoma State won its first 15 games, surrendering just four goals, to start the season before playing to a 1-1 tie with Texas on Oct. 14. The Cowgirls' only loss of the season came in the Big 12 championship game, a 1-0 decision to Texas A&M. OSU advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 9-1 win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the first round and gutting out a 1-0 win over Illinois in the second.

• Sophomore midfielder/forward Taylor Mathews leads the Cowgirl offense with 25 points on nine goals and seven assists. Junior forward Megan Marchesano is the team leader in assists with 10. Junior goalkeeper Adrianna Franch has allowed just five goals all season and has a 0.28 goals-against average..

Series History vs. the Cowgirls
• This will be the first-ever meeting between Maryland and Oklahoma State.

Head Coach Brian Pensky
• Brian Pensky is in his seventh season as the head coach of the Maryland women's soccer program. After helping lead the Terrapin men's program to three-straight appearances in the College Cup, Pensky took over the women's soccer program prior to the 2005 season. He has steadily built the program back to prominence and took it to its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2004 last season. Pensky owns an overall head coaching record of 67-52-20 (.554).

Terps Toppling Top 10 Teams
• Maryland has defeated a Top 10 ranked team 18 times in its history. The Terps' most memorable Top 10 victory, 2-1 at No. 2 North Carolina on Oct. 24, tied for he highest ranked opponent ever defeated by Maryland. The Terrapins defeated No. 2 Boston College on Oct. 7 in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Those two victories mark the first time in program history that Maryland has defeated two Top 10 teams in a single month. The Terps then added to that with another 2-1 win over No. 8 Florida State on Oct. 28. The latest Top 10 win for the Terps came on Oct. 27 at Ludwig Field when Maryland defeated No. 8 North Carolina for the first time ever at Ludwig Field. Here's a list of all of the Terps' Top 10 wins:

Game-Winners Galore
• Throughout their careers, Terrapin seniors Jasmyne Spencer, Ashley Gove and Sade Ayinde have had a knack for scoring game-winning goals for Maryland. Since they arrived in 2008, Maryland has won 51 matches and those three have combined for 23 game-winning goals. That means that in 45.1% of Maryland's victories over the past three-plus seasons have come with Spencer (10), Grove (7) or Ayinde (6) scoring the game-winner.

Spencer Earns Third All-ACC Selection
• Senior forward Jasymne Spencer of the No. 22 University of Maryland women's soccer team was named to the All-ACC second team that was released by the conference office on Thursday, November 3. The native of Bay Shore, N.Y., becomes just the fifth player in the history of Terrapin women's soccer to be named to the All-ACC team three times. Spencer, who was a first team selection in 2009 and 2010, joins four-time honoree Kimmy Francis and three-time selections Emily Janss, Mallory Mahar and Erin Taylor.

Beanz Earns First Cap At Pan Am Games
• Freshman goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands was recently named to the Canadian National Team that is competing at the Pan American Games Guadalajara 2011, which runs from October 18-27. Beanlands earned her first cap with the full national team, starting in the 1-0 victory over Argentina on Oct. 20. Canadian coach John Herdman said this about Beanlands following the match, "(Rachelle) grew in confidence as the match wore on. Perhaps those first five minutes were shaky, but she grew in confidence and made some good decisions and made a good save."

• Canada, which defeated Costa Rica, 3-1, in its opening match has qualified for the semi-final stage of the Women's Football Tournament, thus earning at least two more matches in Mexico. Canada played to a scoreless tie with Brazil on October 21 before winning the semi-final match vs. Colombia, 2-1, on October 25. Canada tied Brazil, 1-1in the championship match, but comes home with the gold medal after winning the shootout, 4-3.

Non-Conference Success
• Dating back to its 10-0 win over Mount St. Mary's in 2008, Maryland is unbeaten in its last 31 matches vs. non-ACC opponents. The Terps have outscored its non-conference opposition 94-15 in those 31 matches.

• The Terps recorded 20 straight wins over non-ACC foes before tying Georgetown, 1-1, in second round of the NCAA tournament in 2010. Maryland is now 27-0-3 in its last 30 non-conference games after opening 2011 with wins over No. 22 Minnesota, Loyola, Navy, St. Louis, Cornell and American and tying No. 1 Stanford and James Madison. Maryland extened the streak with a 5-1 win over La Salle in the first round of the NCAA tournament and a 1-0 win over No. 3 seed Auburn in the second round.

115 And Counting At Ludwig Field
• The Terps won their 100th match at Ludwig Field with a 6-0 victory over Iona on Aug. 20, 2010. Since its opening in 1995, Ludwig Field has proved to be a tremendous home-field advantage for the Terps women's soccer team. All-time Maryland is 115-47-21 (.686) at Ludwig Field.

• Through the seasons, the Terps have had a knack for shutting teams out at Ludwig Field. Maryland has won 74 of its 115 victories (64.3%) at Ludwig Field via shutout. Add in the 12 0-0 ties the Terps have had at Ludwig Field and it totals 86 times that Maryland has shutout its opponent in 183 games (47.0%).

Shutout Streak Comes To An End
• Maryland's record-setting streak of shutouts came to an end in the Terrapins' 5-1 win over American on Spet. 7. Maryland held opponents scoreless for the first 634 minutes of the 2011 season. The six shutouts mark the first time in the program's 25-year history that Maryland has opened a season with six clean sheets.

• The streak of six shutouts is the longest streak all-time at Maryland. The 1996 team had the previous long streak of five from Sept. 22 through Oct. 1.

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