Mike Chanenchuck (5 goals and 1 assist), and Niko Amato (17 saves) put the Terps on their backs today and led Maryland to a relative easy 10-6 victory over #1 Duke 10-6.
Observations of the day:
X position matchup—raffa vs Brendan Fowler was almost worth the price of admission. Flowler won 11-8 but Charlie won the key battles.
I was very impressed with BL grad Colin Heacock who scored 1 goal and set Rambo another with a great pick play.
Goran Murray did a great job on Jordan Wolf especially in the 2nd half.
Maryland won the gb battle 32-26 led by 6 ground-balls by Michael Erhardt.
Shot of the day — a sidearm whip shot bu JoLo (joe Locasio)
Tomorrow we will have all of our post game videos up:
Post game comments
Maryland Head Coach John Tillman
On if there is a philosophy this year of trying to have more shots on goal:
“I think you always play to your players and what you have. We lost some great players last year. I mean we don’t have the same top guys, but I do think if you look at from first to ten I think we have more depth. We have more guys that we feel like can play faster. I think they are a pretty diverse group. I think part of the problem for us right now is getting those guys healthy and then putting them in the right spot and getting them to play to their strengths. With some early injuries with Colin [Heacock] and Timmy [Rotanz] we haven’t been able to do that. We had some other injuries that the guys have played, but they haven’t really logged all the minutes that you want. I think for this game we did a good job of fighting our way out of it. It was not a very good start, but the guys hung together and we got better as the game went along. I think at times I think every team hopes they can win some guys where you don’t have your best stuff, but you do fall back on the things that [the players] mentioned; like teamwork, having each others back, fighting, and scrapping. They did a very good job offensively, but 31 [Niko Amato] in the goal bailed us out a lot today.”
Senior Midfielder Mike Chanenchuk
On the significance of beating Duke:
“It’s a significant victory because Duke is one of our rivals and it’s another ACC game. Them coming into Byrd [Stadium], it’s always going to be a battle with them.”
On why he got so many open looks shooting today:
“I think that our whole offense did really well today, working together and it just kind of happened that I had pretty good success shooting today. Like I have said previously, I think our offense revolves around 10 different guys. Some guys get hot one day, some guys get hot today, and today I was that person.”
Senior Goalie Niko Amato
On how the defense seemed to be locked in today:
“Yeah I think we’re getting total team effort from our guys right now. You see how tough each groundball was out on the field today. Charlie [Raffa] has been doing a great job in the faceoffs and our offense had been doing well; they’ve been clicking. Our defense has been flying around, not giving up anything easy. We’re getting great efforts across the board right now and we want to continue to build off that and improve.”
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