COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A quartet of Spartans notched goals, and the Michigan State women’s soccer team coasted to a dominant 4-0 result over the Maryland Terrapins Sunday afternoon on Ludwig Field.
As the lineup card was turned in before the game, graduate defender Samantha White became MSU’s all-time career leader in games started with 80 caps. White, a native of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, surpassed program greats in Erin Konheim and Tiffany Laskowski. The duo combined to hold the previous record of 79 starts since the conclusion of the 2005 campaign.
The four-goal margin of victory was the largest by an MSU team against a Big Ten opponent since the Spartans defeated Purdue by an identical score on Oct. 18, 2013, at DeMartin Stadium. Additionally, the Spartans recorded a road victory over the Terrapins for the first time in the all-time series, previously going 0-1-3 on Ludwig Field entering Sunday’s contest. Michigan State takes a narrow lead in the combined series, improving to 3-2-3 since the first meeting in 2014 when Maryland joined the Big Ten.
Michigan State improves upon its best-ever start to conference play, remaining undefeated halfway through the league’s regular season slate. MSU rises to 9-1-3 overall on the year coupled with a 4-0-1 start against B1G challengers, needing only one more victory to match the Spartans’ 2021 win tally in both categories. In defeat, the upstart Terrapins drop to 2-5-5 overall and 1-4 in conference…
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