Midfielder Jacob Montes shot beat Maryland's outstanding keeper, Dayne St. Clair, with an assist from fellow midfielder Christopher Lema. With the win, the 13th ranked Hoyas improved to 10-2-1 while Maryland fell to 10-1-3.
The Georgetown goal came shortly after it dodged about as big of a bullet as the game of soccer has to offer. Maryland's outstanding striker, Eric Matzekevich, ran on to a ball just outside of the Georgetown box and launched a shot with all of his might at the Hoya goal. Unfortunately for Maryland, the shot banged off the cross bar, rattling the goal structure and Georgetown's keeper, JT Marcinkowski, who had no hope whatsoever of blocking the shot had it dipped even 2 inches more after leaving Matzelevich's foot.
As it was, Marcinowski was outstanding. He made eight saves in recording the clean sheet.
Despite the number of shots on goal by Maryland, Georgetown managed to control large chunks of the game with crisp and accurate distance passing around the perimeter of Maryland's defense. Maryland had very few chances in the second half to counter-attack.
Maryland's defense was also effective, squeezing off the Hoyas outside of the penalty box and limiting Georgetown to only 3 shots on goal for the entire contest. St. Clair saved two of those shots, but not the third.
Terp coach Sasho Cirovski will learn a lot about his Terrapins now that their 30-game regular season unbeaten streak - dating back to 2015 - has been snapped. Maryland's next match is Friday night, also in College Park, against Coastal Carolina.
Maryland still leads the Big Ten. They are 5-0-2 in conference play, good for 17 points. Indiana and Michigan State, both 4-0-2, are tied for second. While the Terps play a non-conference match this weekend, Michigan State travels to Northwestern on Friday and Indiana hosts Wisconsin on Saturday.
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