WVU Mountaineer Sports: Basketball | Football | News |Men's Soccer: WVU Drops NCAA Contest

The West Virginia men's soccer team saw its season come to an end with a 4-0 loss at No. 5 Maryland in the second round of the NCAA Championship at Ludwig Field on Sunday evening.

The Mountaineers finished the season with an 11-8-1, their second consecutive season with 11 wins. Ten of West Virginia's matches were against Top 25 opponents at the time of the match and WVU had a record of 5-5 against those teams.

The Terrapins held both the shot (19-5) and corner kick (8-6) advantages. Maryland's Casey Townsend recorded a game-high four shots, while Andy Bevin and Uwem Etuk had two shots apiece for the Mountaineers.

WVU controlled much of the beginning and end of the first half, but six Maryland shots in a span of eight minutes in the middle of the half proved to be deadly.

Townsend was able to convert on a rebound in the 20^th minute to give Maryland the 1-0 lead after Helge Leikvang sent a cross that went off the hands of WVU keeper Pat Eavenson. Townsend gathered the rebound and rocketed the ball in the open net.

The Terrapins previous best chance came in the 12^th minute on a Townsend shot that was blocked after a free kick just outside the 18 yard box.

WVU opened play by forcefully and Maryland conceded two early corner kicks that almost led to a WVU goal in the fourth minute when Bevin sent a corner that trickled through the goalmouth and across the field.

Maryland held a 9-2 shot advantage at the half, while the corner kicks were equal at 5-5.

Etuk recorded WVU's first shot on-goal in the 55^th minute when he lined a shot from the right side of the pitch into the arms of Maryland keeper Keith Cardona.

Townsend notched his second goal of the match in the 60^th minute after Sunny Jane sent a pass off his heel to Jereme Raley, who crossed to Townsend.

Jordan Cyrus extended the lead to 3-0 only a minute later after Jane sent a pass through the goalmouth to the foot of Cyrus. Cyrus was able to kick it into the open net from two yards away.

Townsend completed the hat trick in the 76^th minute after receiving a long pass from Kaoru Forbess past the WVU defenders. Townsend gathered the ball and placed it perfectly over the head of Eavenson and into the back of the net.

Eavenson recorded three saves in the losing effort, while Cardona made one save for the shutout.

The game was the last for seven seniors as forwards Nick Claudio and Franck Tayou, defenders Ruben Garrido, Raymon Gaddis, Uzi Tayou and Matt Drake and goalkeeper Yale Tiley played in their last career matches.

Maryland will now advance to the third round on Sunday, Nov. 27, where it will host the winner of Louisville/Bradley.