The No. 21/7 Georgetown Hoyas males’s soccer crew (1-2-2, Huge East) fell 2-1 to a bodily No. 14/19 Maryland aspect (3-1-1, Huge Ten) at dwelling on Saturday afternoon. After a gradual begin, Georgetown’s dominant second half wasn’t sufficient to tip the stability of their favor.
The Hoyas began the sport with a pair of offsides calls – a pattern that may proceed all through the match. Georgetown sophomore midfielder Diego Letayf fouled contained in the field for an early Terps’ penalty kick, which senior Malcolm Johnston simply transformed to place Maryland up 1-0 within the seventh minute. Apart from diving within the different path, there wasn’t a lot that sophomore goalkeeper Luca Ulrich, making his second begin of the season, may have accomplished.
The primary half was characterised by photographs on aim for the Terrapins and lengthy balls to nobody for the Hoyas. The lack of expertise on Georgetown’s roster confirmed, however Maryland’s aggressive, bodily play didn’t assist. Sophomore midfielder Blaine Mabie and junior midfielder Kyle Linhares each took a number of falls all through the sport.
Partway by means of the primary half, Linhares had a pleasant run up the precise aspect of the sphere that led to a nook kick with a number of crosses in entrance of the aim, however the Hoyas simply couldn’t get a head on the ball. Additionally they confirmed room for enchancment within the timing of their runs and within the accuracy of their crosses. The Hoyas have been repeatedly referred to as offside, and their crosses tended to be both too excessive or too lengthy.
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Within the thirtieth minute, unhealthy luck and poor passing worsened issues for the Hoyas. Sophomore midfielder Joe Buck tried to move again to Ulrich, however missed large. Ulrich ran out of aim to get the ball earlier than it went out of bounds to keep away from a nook kick, however in his try and clear it, he kicked it on to Maryland’s redshirt senior defender Nick Richardson, who simply completed on an open aim, placing the Terps up 2-0 to shut out the half.Maryland tallied seven photographs on aim to Georgetown’s one.
The Hoyas turned issues round within the second half, with extra passes connecting and a shot from junior ahead Marlon Tabora simply lacking the aim to land on high of the online inside the first ten minutes. Because the half went on, each groups bought more and more bodily. Buck bought a yellow card within the sixty fifth minute, adopted shortly by a yellow for Maryland’s freshman defender Luca Costabile.
Georgetown had no bother getting the ball down the sphere for scoring alternatives within the second half, however struggled to complete on crosses. Once they did handle to get a head or a leg on a cross, it normally went over the online, till freshman midfielder Jack Panayotou discovered the again of the online assisted by freshman ahead Jacob Murrell.
Each groups began taking part in way more roughly because the clock wound down, with pointless shoving when the ball wasn’t even in play. As time wound down, Terps’ freshman ahead Max Riley nearly had a breakaway likelihood. However earlier than he may absolutely break free from the Hoyas’ again line, he fouled and bought a yellow card.
Regardless of controlling play in the course of the second half and outshooting Maryland 14 to three, the Hoyas couldn’t convert their quite a few scoring alternatives and the sport completed 2-1, Terrapins. Shifting ahead, Georgetown must work on their ending and emphasize sturdy play from the beginning. This was a sport that they might have received had they performed in addition to they did the second half within the first.
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The Hoyas play their subsequent sport on Friday, September 16 at 8:30 p.m. at St. John’s (1-3-1, Huge East) of their first sport of convention play. The match shall be broadcast stay on FS1. Observe @GUVoiceSports on Twitter for extra updates and continued protection of all Georgetown sports activities.
Proud Montgomery County, MD resident Gavriella Kaufmann (Potomac) won her episode of FOX’s game show “Name that Tune”, which aired last week.
Kaufmann, who was born and raised in Potomac and graduated from Churchill High School in 2015, stated in an interview with FOX 5, that she has always been into music and referred to herself as a music and game show savant. When she saw an ad on LinkedIn about being on season 4 of the game show, she immediately knew she had to do it.
“I’ve loved game shows for as long as I can remember, and music has always been a huge part of my life. Being on Name That Tune was the perfect combination of both passions—it was like a dream come true.” Kaufmann told us.
The episode had a happy ending, with Kaufmann winning a whopping $85,000! She added, “When I was on Name That Tune, I was so focused on doing my best and naming as many songs as possible that I completely lost track of the score. It wasn’t until Jane, the host, told me my total. I was in complete shock, but it was such an incredible moment!”
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.
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.
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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.
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.”
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“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.
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The campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. (credit: Courtesy)
“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.
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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.”
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SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
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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.
