BALTIMORE, Maryland October 10, 2015 - Sophmore George Campbell came off the Maryland bench to score three goals as the No. 25 Terrapins stormed from two goals back to defeat Penn State, 4-3, Friday night in University Park, Pennsylvania. The victory enabled the Terps to move ahead of the Lions and into a first place tie in the Big Ten with Michigan (5-2-3, 2-0-2 in the Big Ten). Both Maryland and Michigan have 8 points, while Penn State remained stuck on 7 points. Northwestern (5-4-1, 2-2-0 in the Big Ten), the only other Big Ten school with two conference wins, is next with 6 points.
Campbell's first score was the most important, Maryland Coach Sascho Cirovski told a student reporter after the game. It came in the last four seconds of the first half with Maryland (6-3-3, 2-1-2 in the Big Ten) down, 2-1. The Nittany Lions (5-4-2, 2-2-1 in the Big Ten) had scored twice in the match's opening minutes to put the Terps on their heels. Tsubassa Endoh got the Terps on the board with a score in the 33rd minute, and Campbell tied the score after reciving a corner kick from Jorge Calix. Then, Campbell, a sophmore, scored twice within three minutes of the second half - in the 56th and 59th minutes - to put the Terps up, 4-2. The Lions fought back and pulled to within a single goal when Conner Maloney scored his second goal of the match in the 64th minute, but Maryland's usually stingey defense and keeper Cody Niedermeier (7 saves) rose to the occassion, stopping homestanding Penn State the rest of the way.
Maryland is now off until next Friday, when they take on Indiana in College Park beginning at 7:30 pm. Here are the current NSCAA Rankings, with the records of the teams at the time the votes were tabulated, in parenthesis. All of this courtesy of the NSCAA and NCAA.
1 Creighton (10-0-0) 600 points
2 North Carolina (8-0-1) 551 points
3 Stanford (8-1-0) 547 points
4 Coastal Carolina (6-0-1) 517 points
5 Clemson (8-1-2) 497 points
6 Wake Forest (8-1-1) 482 points
7 Notre Dame (7-2-2) 439 points
8 Akron (7-2-1) 435 points
9 Denver (8-0-2) 389 points
10 Virginia (6-1-2) 369 points
11 Old Dominion (6-1-1) 364 points
12 Georgetown (6-2-2) 302 points
13 Elon (8-2-0) 236 points
14 Hofstra (8-2-0) 229 points
15 South Carolina (6-2-1) 215 points
16 Oregon State (7-3-0) 180 points
17 Washington (5-2-3) 176 points
18 South Florida (7-3-0) 165 points
19 Seattle (9-2-0) 144 points
20 Kentucky (6-2-1) 124 points
21 Butler (6-0-3) 116 points
22 Syracuse (7-2-1) 108 points
23 Utah Valley (9-2-0) 93 points
24 Xavier (7-3-0) 80 points
25 Maryland (4-3-3) 68 points
Also receiving votes:
26 North Carolina-Wilmington 61 points
27 Florida International 52 points
27 California-Santa Barbara 52 points
29 New Mexico 38 points
30 New Hampshire 33 points
31 North Carolina State 29 points
32 St. Francis (Brooklyn) 27 points
33 Michigan 24 points
34 Indiana 21 points
35 Southern Methodist University 10 points
36 Temple 6 points
37 Boston College 5 points
37 Boston University 5 points
39 Louisville 3 points
40 California 1 point
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