Blog from Todd Carton
By my rough count, the Big Ten has handed out 84 weekly player of the week or co-player of the week awards – 46 men’s and 38 women’s – in its inaugural lacrosse season. Because of their respective start dates, Maryland wasn’t eligible for four of the men’s awards and six for the women. This week, two Terrapin women and one man won conference player of the week plaudits bringing the men’s total to 12 and … Read More »
Tim Tebow to sign with the Eagles on Monday
Orioles look better then Red Sox—Jones’ 5 RBI Continues his great start
Clippers defeat Spurs easily but still San Antonio in the series
Bayhawks open season with 12-8 Victory over Florida Launch
Stupid Foul by Carolina Costs them Victory and #1 Ranking
What does it take to turn a team around? In 2014, the Maryland softball team finished 11-35. The 11 wins were the fewest in the 20 year history of the program. With rumor and controversy swirling around the coaching staff, Maryland released Larua Watten from her contract and in late summer hired Courtney Scott-Deifel as the program’s third head coach.
Scott-Deifel came with a solid pedigree. As a player at the University of California Berkeley, she was an All-American catcher … Read More »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx00iUgIbCY
For 56 minutes the Terps were dominated in this game and trailed 9-5 but then the cream rose to the top.
The tying goal from Colin Heacock was a rocket at an extreme angle.
Jay Carlson scored the game winner as he completed the hat trick. Maryland always has 1 Senior who rises to new levels–Dan Burns, Joe Cummings, Andrew Schwartzmann, and now Jay Carlson. This is not to take anything away from his his performance last year, but Jay … Read More »
Blog from Todd Carton
For most of you, Maryland athletics is close to exclusively about two sports – football and men’s basketball. Periodically, other Terrapins teams may appear as proverbial blips on your radar: women’s basketball as they roll to a Big Ten title or reach a Final Four, Sasho Cirovski’s soccer squad as they make their generally annual run deep into the postseason, perhaps the same goes for Missy Meharg and her field hockey team or either of Maryland’s … Read More »
I’ll have a more comprehensive report at the end of the weekend but for now, let’s let it be sufficient to say that Friday was a good night for Maryland’s bat and ball sports. Both Terrapins softball and baseball opened three game home sets Friday night and each was important for its own reasons.
At the softball complex, the Terps took on the Penn State Nittany Lions in the next to last home series of the season. As the weekend … Read More »