Three days after an exhausting double-overtime road trip to Raleigh, N.C., there are some new and new-ish faces in the starting lineup tonight. Here’s the initial eleven:

—————————Swaim——————————
——Lee——White——Tangney——Kemp——
—————————Kassel——————————
—Cortes—————Yates—————Forbess—
—————Oduaran—————Herrick—————

The savvy Terp soccer fan might notice that a certain Mr. Townsend is missing up top. (In his place is forward Matt Oduaran, making his first career start). He went down late in Saturday night’s game, missed practice yesterday and, as of a few minutes ago, was hanging out with suspended midfielder Doug Rodkey on the bench. If there was one game he could get away with missing, though, this is probably it.

Goalkeeper Zac MacMath played Saturday, but had a wrap around his shoulder after the game. I’d guess his spot on the bench is for precautionary measures and gives him just another day off before arguably the season’s biggest test Friday against No. 2 UNC.

More later.

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