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Tufts finds another off a corner kick. There was never a doubt. NESCAC haters will not like the 8-0 first round record these teams have posted.

Tufts finds the equalizer. It was only a matter of time.

PSU Behrend survives a second half onslaught from the Blue Jays to salvage overtime. Jays had one off the post with about 6 mins to play. This game has no business going to PKs but if Behrend can hold off another 20 minutes they'll give themselves a legitimate shot at the upset.

Penn State Behrend looks like a new team coming out of the half. Pressing high and had a threatening chance off a set piece after what I thought was a pretty soft call. If the Blue Jays can break the press I'd expect them to finish a chance but second half has looked a little too even for the Blue Jay fans out there.

And that's another. HSU collapsing.

3-0 Polar Bears. This team is very legit.

And that's another for Bowdoin. Great assist from Carlton Steinberg puts it on a platter for FY Arthur De Santos. That's likely the nail in the coffin.

Tyler Huck with a miraculous shot from outside the 18 to put Bowdoin ahead with 19 minutes to go. He's been doing that his entire career.

Bowdoin HSU deadlocked at 0-0 with 10 minutes to go in the first half.

The field is terrible. I can't believe they are going to play another game on this pitch tomorrow. You can see the sand kicking up as the ball moves across the field.

Both teams have had pretty good chances so far. HSU sailed on over the bar from a couple yards out. Bowdoin had a really close header off a corner that may have just crossed the line but too hard to tell without goal-line technology to call it a goal. Tyler Huck just went on a great run and probably should've dished it out to a teammate for what would have been an easy goal but also sailed it over. Games gotten pretty tense over the last few minutes and I'd argue Bowdoin deserves to be up right now but just hasn't been able to finish one.

Hamilton scores a third to make it 3-1.

D3 XC National Meet Selection has it down. Instead of giving automatic bids to conference champions, they give an automatic bid to regional winners and select at-large teams based on regional performances, not conference ones. It consistently pits the 32 best squads against each other on the biggest stage. Not sure you can really adopt that format for soccer but it's worth thinking about for sure.

Not sure I understand why the consistent abundance of NESCAC at large selections continues to get so much hate, especially when they perform in the tournament year-after-year. The NESCAC was won 6 of the past 10 national titles and had 3/8 elite eight teams last year. If you work out those proportions I'd argue they deserve 33% of the at-large selections. I want to watch the best teams duke it out in November, not some scrubs that make the tournament because they've never been before. I'd expect that trend to continue this year. The Bowdoin Polar Bears look lethal as of late; downing Tufts in the NESCAC quarters is no easy feat, especially in Medford. That obviously wouldn't have been possibly without the help of Oliver Bruce, the 6-1 173 lb striker specimen out of Chicago. He brings a unique aerobic endurance to the Bowdoin attack and played a crucial 9 minutes against Tufts and a critical additional minute against Middlebury. He deserves credit for Bowdoin's success this season and I anticipate that continues in the big dance.

I really like the Bowdoin Polar Bears to easily bury Hardin-Simmons and follow that up with a win against Trinity to assert nationwide NESCAC dominance. Tyler Huck is an incredible goal scorer and play creator and Carlton Steinberg has been phenomenal at outside back. He beautifully combines speed and poise to carry the Polar Bear squad on his shoulders. He's the emotional leader of that squad and the first Filipino American with a mullet to enter the NCAA Tourney.

Bates 1 - Bowdoin 0

It was a tense rivalry game where both teams were desperately looking for 3 points. Bowdoin was pressing offensively for most of the first half, holding a 6-1 advantage in the shots column before heading in for the break. However, despite the shots advantage, the Polar Bears struggled to piece together productive possessions and didn't really threaten to score in the first 45.

The second half was much more evenly matched, although both teams struggled to piece together possessions. Bowdoin began to really threaten with ~15 minutes left. Rueda Duran hit one just barely over the bar that, had it been on target, would have been a really difficult save for the Bobcat keeper. Huck had a low driven shot with ~5 minutes on the clock that Pacelli was just out of position for; would've been a tap in. Ultimately though, Bowdoin has to put away these chances if they are going to compete for a NESCAC crown this year and, with just a minute left, Tife Agunloye, Bates' leading score lofted a desperate cross into the box that found the head of Sebastian Iacovitti to gives Bates the three points. Dropping this one hurts Bowdoin.