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No. 4 Maryland field hockey throttles Drexel, 7-1, to open the season
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With No. 4 Maryland area hockey holding a cushty lead within the season opener in opposition to Drexel, sophomore attacker Hope Rose acquired the ball off a move from senior midfielder Nathalie Fiechter. Rose ripped a shot previous Drexel’s goalkeeper for her second aim of the day and prolonged the Terps’ result in 6-0.
The star sophomore poured it on all night to provide Maryland a dominant 7-1 victory over Drexel within the season opener on Friday in Faculty Park.
“She was one in every of our main scorers and she or he took the spring off. Hope performed with the nationwide staff and performed with the Professional League internationally,” Meharg stated. “So I’m not shocked. She likes to set folks up. She’s harmful. So she’s doing simply what it’s that she desires to do.”
Maryland and Drexel each used the primary couple of minutes to really feel one another’s methods out. Each golf equipment struggled to generate any offense to begin the competition.
The Terps wouldn’t enable their chilly streak to linger an excessive amount of longer. Rose took benefit of an early second-quarter penalty nook with a pleasant move to senior Emma DeBerdine. DeBerdine’s strike entered the suitable cage, giving the Terps a 1-0 lead.
Lower than two minutes after DeBerdine’s aim, Rose made her presence felt once more, scoring her first aim of the season on a robust shot that narrowly missed the outstretched palms of Drexel goalie Megan Hadfield.
With halftime on the horizon, freshman midfielder Sophie Klautz scored her first aim as a Terp with a low shot that squeezed into the left aspect of the cage. Maryland took a commanding 3-0 lead after half-hour in Faculty Park.
Maryland head coach Missy Meharg and her membership wouldn’t take their foot off the gasoline within the second half. With slightly below 12 minutes left within the third quarter, Klautz delivered a swift shot to the again of the cage to provide Maryland an awesome 4-0 lead. The aim gave the Netherlands native two targets on the night.
“I went to Eindhoven [Netherlands] throughout COVID and she or he was a U-17 Dutch participant and I watched the nationwide staff play for the Netherlands,” Meharg stated of Klautz. “I noticed that fiery, redheaded, younger, great athlete and I’m like I want her in [Maryland] purple.”
Rose received again within the scoring column later within the interval, as she fired a rocket into the suitable aspect of the cage to provide the Terps a 5-0 lead.
Maryland added on two extra targets, one from Rose and one other from graduate midfielder Dani Van Rootselaar to provide Maryland a convincing 7-0 lead.
Drexel did nonetheless get on board within the ultimate interval with a aim to chop the Terps’ result in six. Maryland had already constructed a monster lead that nothing within the ultimate couple of minutes mattered because the Terps secured a six-goal victory within the season opener.
Three issues to know
1. Maryland extends its opening day streak to a powerful 20 video games. The Terps didn’t enable a sluggish first quarter to derail their possibilities to safe a victory. With the victory over Drexel, Meharg and the Terps prolonged their season-opening win streak to twenty video games. Maryland’s offense took over within the second quarter and by no means appeared again en path to a dominant victory.
2. The Terps protection neutralized Drexel’s offense all the night time. Maryland began graduate goalkeeper Christina Calandra, and she or he defended the cage at a excessive degree all the night. In three quarters of enjoying time, Calandra held Drexel scoreless and allowed a mere two pictures. The Terps protection is based on velocity and forcing turnovers to ignite their explosive offense. Maryland junior defender Rayne Wright showcased excellent lateral agility by sliding her toes and leaping quite a few passing lanes, inflicting havoc on the defensive finish.
3. Freshman Sophie Klautz displayed a superb efficiency in her first sport as a Terp. Klautz got here to Maryland after a embellished profession within the Netherlands. The freshman scored two targets in consecutive quarters, displaying she will be able to contribute instantly to a Terps offense that ranked within the high 10 within the nation final season. With Klautz within the fold, Maryland’s offense may very well be troublesome to deal with this season.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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