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  • joined Sep 17, 2011
  • last login Jun 19, 2013
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One Goal From Glory - Terps Fall Short in National Championship Game Thriller

The Maryland Terrapins showed the heart of a champion at Villanova Sunday night coming back from an uncharacteristically shaky start, and a 9-6 halftime deficit to take an 11-9 lead then coming...

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No Ex-Cuses - Terps Move to Championship Game in 11-10 Thriller

Well, it’s about 1:30 Saturday morning as I begin to write this having just walked into my house returning from Philadelphia where the Terps maintained their hopes for an eleventh national...

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WLAX On To the Final Four - Maryalnd Topples Duke 14-9; Baseball Earns 30th Win With 5-4 Extra-Inning Thriller Over BC

It's good news and good news for Maryland Terrapin fans today as women's lacrosse marched into the Final Four with a 14-9 win over the Duke Blue Devils and the baseball team became the first squad...

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Stinnett Gives Terps a Strong Outing as Maryland Defeats BC 4-1

Unlike Jimmy Reed's rocky start on Thursday night, junior Jake Stinnett set the tone early for Maryland Friday night setting down the visiting BC Eagles in order with two strikeouts to start the...

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No Consecutive 30 Win Seasons - Terps Drop Opener to BC 2-1

The Maryland Terrapins baseball squad took an interesting approach to curing their LOB-itis in in Thursday night's series opener against Boston College. They simply didn't put many runners on base...

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Sparse Thoughts About the End to the MLAX Season and Details of WLAX Moving On

So, I spent this afternoon at the entire Maryland Women's Lacrosse game - an 11 -3 thrashing of the Stony Brook Seawolves - and part of the day at the Maryland Men's Lacrosse game - an 8 -16...

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A Short Trip to Tallahassee - Softball falls to VT 8-5

The Maryland softball team headed into the ACC Tournament likely needing to take the title to earn their fourth consecutive bid to the NCAA Tournament but certainly needing to reach the finals at a...

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Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! LOB-Itis Flatlines Terps Season: VCU 9 MD 7

The ran fell heavily enough to delay the start of Wednesday's baseball game between the Maryland Terrapins and the VCU Rams but not heavily enough to postpone it. Based on the outcome, Maryland...

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Terps Fall Short in More Ways Than One: Clemson 9 Maryland 5

It’s time for the nightcap recap and, I believe, the end of the Terrapins hope for post season play despite a valiant effort to climb out of an early and middle inning abyss. After the Terps...

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Keep Hope Alive Terps Can Salvage Series After Dropping a 3-2 Decision at Clemson

The Maryland baseball team last another critical one run decision in the first game of Monday’s scheduled day-night double header against the Clemson Tigers. Despite getting seven and two-thirds...

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Softball Forgets the Broom Falls to VT 4-0 Plus a Snapshot Preview of Women's & Men's LAX Matchups

In something of a repeat of last weekend’s final home series of the season against North Carolina, the Maryland softball team fell short of sweeping a series after winning the Saturday twin bill....

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Big Road Wins All Around - Baseball Tames Clemson; Softball Gobbles Two From VT

Dateline: A wet Clemson, South Carolina where Maryland took on the twenty-second ranked Clemson Tigers in a series critical to maintaining the Terrapins slim post season hopes. The Terps and Jimmy...

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Terps Smile after Brushing Aside Colgate 18 - 6 on Senior Day

The question arising in my mind from Saturday’s Terrapins 18-6 assault on the Colgate Red Raiders is whether the game represents a return to early season form going into the NCAA Tournament, the...

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Drossner Leads Terps to 27th Win of the Season: Maryland 4 Liberty 2

Maryland traveled down Route 29 past UVA and on down to Lynchburg to take on the Liberty Flames. Liberty had won six of their last seven games with their only loss coming in College Park last week....

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What a Diff'rence Six Days Make (apologies to Dinah Washington) Maryland 11 - Towson 6

So, was it home field advantage or the dampness in the air that contributed to the turn around versus Towson? Maybe it was having Alex Robinson on the hill. Regardless, the Terps too care of...

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Sunday Flips the Script - Baseball Tops Duke; Softball falls to UNC

In a reversal of Saturday’s results, the Maryland baseball team bounced back to take the rubber game in their series with Duke handling the Blue Devils by a final of 4-1 while the softball team...

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One For The Thumb: WLAX Brings Home Fifth Consecutive ACC Title

One of the themes for this season’s Maryland Women’s Lacrosse team has been: Strive for Five with the goal of capturing their fifth consecutive ACC Tournament title. Mission accomplished. The...

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Softball: How You Could! Baseball: How Could You?

So I just got back from a post game tailgate with the softball team and their families and I got home thinking it had been a really good day. The Terps swept the doubleheader from UNC – winning...

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Me(h)n's Lacrosse Falls in ACC Tourney; Baseball Grabs an Important Win in Durham

This write up is a bit late tonight because I was attending the Women’s Baskeball Team Banquet and wanted to squeeze in the WLAX recap before I headed over there. The baseball team got a big 1-0...

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WLAX - Terps Move on to the ACC Championship Game - Take Down UVA 13-9

The undefeated and top ranked Maryland Terrapins took the field at Fetzer Stadium on the campus of the University of North Carolina seeking to take the first step in securing their fifth...

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Boom! Boom! Pow! TerrapinBats Resound from College Park to Baltimore

My plan was to open tonight’s column with softball’s double run rule sweep of Wednesday’s double header with Delaware State but I have to begin with the game I didn’t attend –...

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I Thought it Was Deja-vu but it Wasn't: Terps 5 Liberty 3

A chilly cloudy morning gave way to a pleasant sunny cool late fall (er, early spring) afternoon. It was a nice opportunity to watch the Maryland Terrapins take on the Liberty Flames at Shipley...

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Softball and Baseball: Bats Booming and Bats (Relatively) Silent

The College Park campus hosted two Terrapin sports Sunday. At Robert E. Taylor Stadium over by the Comcast Center, the softball team hosted the Boston College Eagles and across campus at Shipley...

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Something to Read if You're Interested in: MLAX,WLAX, Baseball or Softball

Saturday was a good news, good news, good news, good news, bad news, bad news day for men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, softball, baseball, softball and baseball. So I should get started. The...

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Lefty Driesell - Lunch with a Legend

This post is a bit outside the usual scope of my writing but I have to recommend that any Maryland basketball fan who has the time should head over to to ESPN980's website, go into the audio vault...

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Inconceivable! (and yes, that word means what I think it means) MSM 2 UMD 1

How, you may wonder, did the Maryland baseball team mange to drop a 2-1 decision in College Park to the (now 7-21) Mt. Saint Mary’s Mountaineers? One statistic tells the story: 13 men left on...

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Terps Squeak Out Another One Run Win Over VCU

Maryland traveled south on I-95 to Richmond for the second of three mid-week games against the Virginia Commonwealth Rams. The Terps eked out a one run win in a game in College Park last week and,...

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Get out the Broom! WLAX - Win; Baseball - Win; Softball Win

Sunday was a lovely day in College Park – mostly sunny, temps around 70, and a light breeze. It was also a lovely day if you’re a Terp. Three of the spring sports I cover were in action on...

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A Softball Split; A Baseball Loss; & a mention of Men's Lacrosse

The Maryland softball team took the long bus ride to Atlanta to take on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for a double header on Saturday as they come down the home stretch of the 2013 ACC season. T...

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