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THE DIAMONDBACK | THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009
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Inside Lacrosse Women’s Poll Top 10 School 1. Northwestern 2. TERRAPINS 3. Penn 4. Duke 5. Princeton
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TERRAPIN MEN’S LACROSSE NOTEBOOK
Goalies, defenders had tough weekend BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer
The Terrapin women’s lacrosse team, shown together before a game in February, are one win away from the seventh perfect regular season in program history. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
The pursuit of perfection Terps looking to match undefeated teams of past seasons BY KATE YANCHULIS Staff writer
Cathy Reese and Quinn Carney, former players turned coaches for the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team, are familiar with the pursuit of perfection. Reese, the third-year head coach, played for the Terps from 1995 to 1998 and was part of undefeated regular seasons in 1995 and 1996. Assistant coach Carney, a freshman during Reese’s senior season, played in two undefeated regular seasons herself in 1999 and 2001.
Now, as coaches, they are trying to repeat the feat. With a win against No. 5 Princeton (12-2) on Saturday, the No. 2 Terps (18-0, 5-0 ACC) would have a perfect regular season record for the first time since 2001. But in the locker room, Reese has kept quiet about the possible achievement — not because she doesn’t want to jinx the team, but rather as an attempt to keep her players grounded. “I think people make a bigger deal about an undefeated season than we do as coaches,” Reese said. “We don’t ever discuss that with our team. We
don’t want any extra pressure. At the end of the day, a win’s a win and a loss is a loss, so we’re treating it like any other game.” She did acknowledge that an undefeated season is “a great accomplishment.” But she emphasized that the team’s strategy would not change against the Tigers, the Terps’ last game before the NCAA Tournament. “We have another chance to play a complete game of really good, solid lacrosse, and that’s what we hope to
Before the ACC Tournament last weekend, Terrapin men’s lacrosse coach Dave Cottle mulled over his weekend plan for the Terps’ two rotating goalies. On Friday, the coach gave Jason Carter and Brian Phipps each one half in the cage. It was a strategy the team had not employed since a Feb. 21 loss to Georgetown. The result wasn’t ideal. Neither goalie looked particularly good in the net as the Terps surrendered 16 goals, in part due to an surprisingly weak defensive performance. “If you look at that tournament, the [stadium] background was not conducive to goalies. There were a lot of goals given up,” Cottle said. “But saying that, we have to make saves.” Despite the spotty play between the pipes, the coach remains confident in both of his goalies. As Phipps said earlier in the season, a short memory is an asset in the cage. “We have two competitive kids,” Cottle said. “I don’t think we played as well as we can, and we’re gonna flush that one and move on to the next one.” Phipps will start in Saturday’s game at Yale.
THE DEFENSE RESTS The Terp defense looked overmatched and uninterested Friday against the Tar Heels. It was an uncharacteristic performance from a group that has stayed strong this year, despite the loss of starting
BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Staff writer
After Adam Kolarek gave up back-to-back singles with only one out in the eighth inning and the Terrapin baseball team clinging to a one-run lead, the onus once again fell on closer Dan Gentzler to slam the door. Coming off a two-inning
save Tuesday against James their runs in the first three Madison, Gentzler was crisp innings, jumping out to an early lead before the once again: He got Mountaineers (29-13) good sink on his fastbattled back to force ball en route to 1.2 Gentzler into action. scoreless innings and BASEBALL “It was definitely a his fifth save of the season, and helped TERPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 tough situation to the Terps (22-24) West Virginia. . . . . . . . 7 come into,” Gentzler said. “I was just escape West Virginia thinking that I needed to get a with an 8-7 win. The Terps scored all eight of groundball or a double play
and get out of the inning. My pitches felt good and I was able to throw a lot of firstpitch strikes, which always helps me out.” With the Mountaineers still in contention for an NCAA regional tournament berth they decided to save their better pitchers for the weekend,
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defender Brian Farrell only three games into the season. But the 16 goals they let up — more than twice their season average of 7.93 goals per game — weren’t the only thing different in the outing. “I would say that the reason we gave up goals were different,” Cottle said. “We didn’t do a great job on the ball, and we were late on our rotations. And then combine that with probably not getting as solid goaltending as we’re used to, [it] registered disaster.” The defensive no-show
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