Terp Talk - Maryland Sports

Opportunity is Knocking On Judgement Day For Men’s Basketball

Bruce — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:19:25 +0000

For the past 4 days I have encountered 1 question : should the Terps get past Michigan State, can they beat Kansas? I kept insisting that even though the Jayhawks would be the favorite, a Maryland upset was certainly possible. Ever since I saw a good Cornell team dominate 39 minutes at Allen Fieldhouse, I realized this Kansas team was a paper tiger. Are Collins and the X man a better combo then Greivis and Eric? I guess we will never know. But now the stakes have been raised for today’s matchup against Izzo and company.

Listen the Terps have had a super year. Gary being COY in the ACC and Greivis being 1st team All American certainly has made this season special. But now the chance to get to the Sweet 16 looms even larger. This is the same MSU team we destroyed last Thanksgiving. This battle sets up to be a war and I will take General Vasquez to lead us into battle any day over Kalin Lucas. It’s gametime, Terrapin nation is psyched up , and the light is visible at the end of the tunnel. You can interpret this any way you want!!!

#2 Lady Terps Defeat BC 7-6 Despite Outstanding Play from BC Goalie

Bruce — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:58:07 +0000

No. 2 Maryland slid past a previously undefeated Boston College team Saturday, 7-6, to gain sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Despite being held to its lowest scoring output of the year, the Maryland defense allowed BC a mere nine shots in the match and caused 14 Eagle turnovers. Brandi Jones and Karri Ellen Johnson led the Terrapin attack with two goals apiece. Johnson, a sophomore Tewaaraton nominee, also caused three turnovers and had a team-best four draw controls.

Terps Coasting 13-6 Will Stay Undefeated—Post game Audio from Cottle, Catalino, Holmes

Bruce — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:13:29 +0000

Pretty much a dominating effort by the #4 Terps today as they move to 6-0. Grant Catalino led the way with 7 points–4 goals and 3 assists. Overall the dominance of Bryn Holmes on faceoffs and Brian Phipps in the nets was the difference.

Cottle Post game Cottle UMBC

Catalino Catalino UMBC

Bryn Holmes Bryn Holmes UMBC

Retreivers on the Comeback Trail 11-6 After 3

Bruce — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:44:49 +0000

Catalino nails his 4th as Terps lead 12-6 with 9 minutes left

Catalino Assists on First 2 Goals of 2nd Half

Bruce — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:27:23 +0000

Grant Catalino continues his torrid pace assisting Travis Reed and Adam Sear. Ryzmar answers with his 3rd 10-4 Terps.

Jake Bernhardt answers on a Ryan Young pass. 11-4 Terps. 9 min left in the 3rd.

Terps Explode for 4 Goals — Up 6-1

Bruce — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:57:28 +0000

Drew Snider, Catalino, Bernhardt, and Shakespeare have score early in the 2nd period with 7 minutes left in the half.
Lathan answers for UMBC 6-2 Terps

Catalino to Travis Reed 7-2

Catalino scores again 8-2. Hat trick for Grant.

8-3 at half Terps in control

Terps Break on top on Goal by Adam Sear

Bruce — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:23:55 +0000

UMBC is frustrating the terps on defense with
3 steals. 1-0 7 min to go

Goal by Shane Ryznar for the host 1-1

Catalino answers unassisted 2-1 Terps 4 minutes left

Live Blog from UMBC as #4 Terps Face Retrievers

Bruce — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:03:45 +0000

The Terrapins are trying to gain redemption from the 3 straight losses to UMBC. But the key ingedient to UMBC has gone—goalie Jeremy Blevins.

Terps Advance To Round of 32 Dominating Houston 89-77 —Predictions for the Weekend

Bruce — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:51:37 +0000

As last night’s game developed into a track meet, I was totally confident that the Terps would eventually win easily. There was no way an undermanned Houston team with only 2 scorers could run with Maryland. Some comments on the game at 1:33 AM.

Jordan Williams was outstanding scoring 21 points with 17 rebounds in a break out game. Greivis said after the game that the game plan was to get the ball in deep to Jordan and I though his floor game was superb. Besides his 16 points, the ACC POY had 7 rebounds with 6assists, committing only 1 turnover.

Landon is back. He finished with 19 points and netted his jumper several times.

Aubrey Coleman scored 26 for the Cougars but definitely tired as the game went on. His first step to the bucket gave Maryland fits early and he certainly is a tremendous talent.

“Steady” Eric Hayes was 4-7 from the field with 11 points and 6 assists. Once again Adrian provided excellent minutes off the bench scoring 9 including 2 of his patented line drive 3s.

Gary seemed rather upset in the post game press conference when he heard that Maryland was scheduled to play Michigan State in the early game at 11:45 PST. Basically it’s ridiculous and I will have more to say on PressBox Live Saturday morning on ESPN 1300.

Maryland won the game like a 4 seed should clearly in control in the 2nd half. Only a few desperate 3s by Houston at the end of the first half kept this game somewhat in check.

The ACC completed the first round 4-2 with Duke, Georgia Tech, Wake, and the Terps advancing.

My predictions for the weekend:

Midwest: Kansas, Tenn, Georgia Tech

West: Syracuse,Butler,Pitt, Kansas State

East: Kentucky, Cornell, New Mexico, West Va

South: Duke, Texas A&m, Baylor, St Mary’s

In a superstitious mode I skipped the Md MSU game.

Terrapin Baseball Upsets #3 Georgia Tech Behind Brett Harman

Bruce — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:27:52 +0000

Senior Dan Gentzler hit two home runs off reigning ACC Pitcher of the Year Deck McGuire and Brett Harman delivered his second consecutive splendid start on the mound as the University of Maryland baseball team upset No. 3 Georgia Tech, 5-2, Friday evening at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium at Shipley Field in the first game of a three-game Atlantic Coast Conference series.

The victory improved Maryland’s record to 8-9 and 2-2 in the ACC, while Georgia Tech dropped to 14-2 and 3-1 in conference play. The 5-2 triumph came nearly two years to the day since the Terps’ last win against a top-five team. Maryland defeated then-No. 3 North Carolina, 4-2, March 21, 2008. from umterps.com