Soccer just doesn’t get better then this. Some observations of a thrilling victory by the #1 and undefeated Terrapin squad:
First comment is that Casey Townsend is just a flat out goal scoring machine. Last night he had 3 goals and could have possibly had 6. He is a magician with the ball and I promise you this he will be a USA World Cup player.
The UMBC faithful and team were electric and never let up even when trailing by 3-1 with 9 minutes left. Apparently the Terps thought the game was in hand but Sr Sean Rothe (Archbishop Curley) had other ideas. In a 2 minute stretch , he scored twice to knot the game at 3.
The first 10 minute OT was pretty uneventful until the Terps were fouled in the penalty area with seconds left. John Stetzer fired a bullet penalty shot but UMBC goalie Dan Louisignau made an incredible save to send the game into double OT.
At the beginning of OT 2 UMBC missed a chance to secure victory with a point blank shot and then an empty net follow up that was kicked high. A few seconds later Stetzer redeemed himself by heading in a pass from Taylor Kemp to seal the victory.
Carolina lost to Virginia Tech Saturday which paved the way to the #1 Ranking.
Sasho commented after the game: “I think it was a very exciting college soccer game, I wanted to bring our team into a hornet’s nest…to have the largest crowd in their program’s history and a very good team pushing us. The second half, we came out and played Maryland soccer but we didn’t manage the last 10 minutes well.
“I give our guys credit. We came back. We calmed down. We showed great resilience and great grit. The reason I have John Stertzer take penalties is because he has the courage and strength to come back from that. And he certainly came back with a great goal.”
Maryland returns home to put their #1 status on the line against NC State Friday night at Ludwig Field.
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