Maryland field hockey earns third straight win in 3-1 victory over Indiana

(Courtesy of Maryland Athletics)

In a back and forth offset half Maryland field hockey (v-3, B1G) battled Indiana (0-8, B1G), but in the 3rd quarter the Terps' offense ignited to ride a 3-1 victory for their tertiary straight win.

The Terps remain undefeated confronting the Hoosiers.

The Terps and Hoosiers played a scoreless first quarter with only one shot taken by each squad and zero punishment corners.

The 2nd quarter was more evenly matched with the Terps and Hoosiers trading goals off of penalty corners.

The Terps struck first with a goal by defender Riley Donnelly off their first penalty corner of the game.

Four minutes later on, after a Hoosiers breakaway, Indiana drew their first punishment corner and only one of the game. Midfielder Mary Kate Kesler scored the goal for the Hoosiers just their second of the season causing their bench and fans to erupt.

"They definitely in our outlet clocked the center of the field actually well which made it difficult for usa to get the ball up the field sometimes," Donnelly said. "They have a lot of speedy forwards who were really trying to dispense u.s.a. and break gratuitous."

In the first half and beginning of the tertiary quarter the Terps were plagued by green cards earning three with two coming from midfielder Emma DeBerdine and one by midfielder/forwards Taylor Mason.

"Defense is defense," Meharg said. "You have to recognize when you are in position to play the ball and merely accept, ball body goal. Sometimes we have a trend to be a chip impatient. I always worry about teams when yous are not getting cards cause that means you lot are probably not that ambitious."

Towards the terminate of the third quarter, Stonemason scored the 2nd goal for the Terps with a shot from the upper right side of the shooting circumvolve with an assist by Emma DeBerdine giving the Terps a 2-ane lead.

A minute later, the Terps added to their lead with some other goal past Donnelly off 1 the Terps' six third quarter penalisation corners.

Despite converting ii of their nine punishment corners into goals the Terps had a run of iv straight penalty corners only were unable to convert.

"I recollect when you get into a sequence of corners like that you are trying to piece of work one corner phone call off some other one," Meharg said. "Our execution on our inserts, the person who pushes [the ball] out weren't the well-nigh accurate today. We are still a work in progress on our corners."

Indiana goalie Shannon McNally recorded v saves highlighted by four directly stops on the Terps penalisation corners.

Defender Maura Verleg and forward Bibi Donraadt each picked up ii assists.

The Terps take a bye adjacent weekend and will exist back in action against Iowa on April 2 at 5 p.m. in Iowa.

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