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2-2, Booters Stun Maryland

McGlynn, Conner Shine In Soccer Game Of Year

By Winston Wood
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

A University of Maryland soccer
team has not lost a game in the
Atlantic Coast Conference in nineteen
years. The current national
co-champs have built what amounts
to a dynasty in that sport in the
ACC, having only tied one team in
the conference, Duke in 1954.

Referred to as "Burris's kiddie
corps" in the school newspaper.
The Diamondback, no one gave
Virginia much of a chance in
yesterday's ACC game, a conference
which the Terps smugly
considered themselves to have
wrapped up before the season even
began. So sure of themselves were
they that the NCAA championships
appear, on their schedule. All this
has changed, though, as the "kiddie
corps" from Charlottesville
back from a 2-0 deficit to tie the
highly favored Turtles, 2-2.

In what was the most magnificent
team effort of an already
remarkable season, the Cavaliers
completely dominated the action,
both in regulation play and in the
two overtimes.

The Maryland coach, Dyc
Royal, an old hand at championship
soccer, dejectedly admitted
after the match that his team had
been out-hustled. Only having been
tied once before, he seemed to have
forgotten the feeling and was at a
loss for words. He added, however,
that this had been a really excellent
Virginia team, and if they manage a
win over VPI Thursday, a bid to the
national championships might be in
the balance.

Play started out very quickly
before a partisan crowd of some six
hundred, ready for another conference
wipe-up. The rout never
materialized, as after Rocco Morelli
scored his two goals early in the
first quarter, the Virginia team
completely took over control of the
game. Fired up by the above mentioned
article in The Diamondbacks
and Mr. Burris himself, the
Cavaliers simply out-played and
out-hustled the Maryland team.

The first Cavalier goal came
midway in the second quarter, as
the action had moved into the
midfield area. Second-year man Jay
Connor scored on a head feed from
S Kennelly, and from then on
there seemed to be no stopping the
seemingly inspired Virginia team.
Though the Cavaliers only took six
shots, they were still able to keep a
great amount of pressure on the
Maryland goal.

Continuing to control play in
the second half, the Cavaliers were
unable to climb on to the scoreboard
again until the fourth quarter,
with only 3:11 left in the game,
when second-year man Fred
McGlynn scored on a feed from
Conner in a fast break on the
Maryland goal, forcing the game
into overtime.

Still in control of play in both
overtime periods, the Cavaliers
hardly allowed the ball into their
end of the field. With only six
seconds left, in a semi-insane
attempt to score the winning goal,
Rasim Tugberk broke through with
a hard bullet that just hit the goal
post as the final gun sounded. The
bench went mad, simultaneously
some six hundred jaws dropped in
the audience, but it was true, the
kiddie corps had done it.

By Tying Maryland, Virginia's Soccer Team Shares Championship Of ACC, 4-0-1

Second-year Men Fred McGlynn, Jay Conner Helped Cavaliers To Biggest Of All Time