Ashley Spivey isn’t all that familiar with being the star.

Entering yesterday’s contest at N.C. State, the midfielder’s three goals ranked fourth on the Terrapins women’s soccer team. She has started every game in her freshman season, but rarely plays every minute. With stars such as Hayley Brock, Becky Kaplan and Olivia Wagner normally dominating the stat sheet, Spivey is no stranger to being overshadowed by her more experienced teammates.

But the Terps’ normal contributors didn’t quite measure up to Spivey yesterday. The freshman took four shots and tallied two goals, leading the No. 12 Terps to a 3-0 victory over ACC bottom-feeder N.C. State.

“Those two goals were given to me on a silver platter,” Spivey said. “I barely even had to work for them.”

The first of those goals came in the 20th minute. Defender Domenica Hodak crossed the ball to her on the left wing and Spivey sent the ball past Wolfpack goalkeeper Madison Shaw, recording her fourth goal this season.

Her fifth came just 43 minutes later. Spivey blew past the Wolfpack defense and was all alone against Shaw, flipping the ball into the corner of the net to extend the Terps’ lead to 3-0.

“Ashley was really good in the attacking side of things today,” coach Jonathan Morgan said. “She was creative and dangerous and both goals were fantastic finishes. She put herself in some really good places.”

Spivey’s performance was simply a microcosm of the Terps’ offense yesterday, which put on one of its best performances of the season. More than 83 percent of the Terps’ shots were on goal, a number far better than what they posted against lesser opponents such as Towson and Francis Marion, where only 58 and 57 percent of their shots were fired at the net, respectively.

Overall, they tallied 20 shots on goal yesterday, which is more than they had in their previous two games combined.

“That certainly isn’t a number you see every day,” Morgan said. “We always talk about getting shots on frame, because when you put a shot on frame, you have an opportunity to score. Their goalkeeper [yesterday] was phenomenal and we forced her to make a lot of saves.”

The win almost looked effortless for the Terps (10-3-2, 5-1-1 ACC), especially considering they had to play without star midfielder Danielle Hubka, who suffered an ankle injury on Sept. 30 at Virginia Tech. They held N.C. State (5-9-0, 0-5-0) to just 10 shots and forced Shaw to make 17 saves.

At the end of the game, though, the story was about Spivey. But even after the best game of her young career, the freshman was left looking for more.

Spivey scored two goals in her first turn at being the star, and her team scored three overall. If a few things had gone differently, the forward thinks those numbers might have doubled.

“Their goalie played awesome,” Spivey said. “If some of our shots were an inch or two to the right, we would have scored six or seven goals.”

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