NPU 4-2 over Wesleyan in BloNo. Two goals for Markus Fodstad. Big win for the Vikes!

Quote from: Gregory Sager on October 24, 2012, 10:13:10 PM
NPU 4-2 over Wesleyan in BloNo. Two goals for Markus Fodstad. Big win for the Vikes!

Great and important result for North Park.  I only saw Greif's goal - he sure is deadly from just outside the box.

The first two goals were VERY quality goals for North Park.

Final from Naperville:

NPU 3
NCC 2

Jonas Petterson's hat trick was just enough for NP to hang on to the win in Naperville.  NP 3 - 2 over NC.

Interesting match. Nobody scored in the first half ... but then Jonas Petterson scored three goals in less than seven minutes, which has got to be one of the quickest hat tricks in CCIW history, if not the quickest. However, North Central, which was playing for its life (a CCIW tourney berth was riding on the game for the Cards, since Carthage beat Illinois Wesleyan earlier in the day), scored two goals in the space of 19 seconds with less than 15 minutes left, and the Park was forced to hang on for the win.

Pettersson finishes the CCIW season with eight goals and 18 points, making him the league's scoring champ.

Unfortunately, Wheaton (to no one's surprise) knocked off Millikin earlier in the day, 3-0, to claim the CCIW championship with a 6-0-1 mark to NPU's 5-0-2. As irritating as that is on several levels, what really bothers me more than anything is that NPU's superfluous draw came at the hands of a pretty pedestrian Augustana side. Augie will finish the season either 7-8-3 or 6-9-3, depending upon how the Doggies finish today against Elmhurst. (The 'jays lead, 1-0, in the first half.) You just can't wind up in a draw against a side like that, or it'll come back to haunt you. It certainly did for NPU.

The good news is that the Park gets to host a first-round CCIW tourney match on Wednesday night. Since Carthage beat Illinois Wesleyan today, and those two teams finished in a third-place tie at 4-3 apiece, the Vikings will get to host their old friends from Kenosha on Wednesday. This is the price that NPU will have to pay for that draw with Augie, a much worse price than not getting the regular-season trophy, IMHO; Carthage is a better side than Illinois Wesleyan, which was exposed at season's end for its relatively weak early schedule (the Titans were 11-2 and ranked as high as third in the region, but they lost their last three matches, all of which came against the three CCIW favorites).

At least NPU has tended to play very well in Joe Bean Stadium in recent years. And the NPU faithful will turn out in droves if the anticipated NPU @ Wheaton tourney final comes to pass next Saturday. Also, Wheaton and NPU will probably be ranked #2 and #3 in the region on Wednesday (behind Dominican), which means that a win on Wednesday would set up either Wheaton or NPU nicely for a Pool C berth, depending upon which one would lose next Saturday.

First things first, though. NPU's gonna have to beat Carthage for the second time in eleven days at Hedstrand Field, not an easy task by any means.

NP 3-2 over Carthage.  Wheaton dominates IWU 5-0. 

What is the derivation of Doggies in reference to Augustana?

In the next paragraph, there is a sentence that has six commas, one semi-colon, and parentheses, which rivals passages created by my former supervisor who retired in September 2012.

Quote from: markerickson on November 01, 2012, 10:44:21 AM
What is the derivation of Doggies in reference to Augustana?

They've been called the Augie Doggies by non-Augustana people since time immemorial. Like a lot of nicknames, the rhyme makes it a natural. And a lot of people grew up watching this Hanna-Barbera cartoon, which used to run in shorts alongside Peter Potamus, Quick Draw McGraw, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Snagglepuss, Magilla Gorilla, etc.:

Quote from: markerickson on November 01, 2012, 10:44:21 AMIn the next paragraph, there is a sentence that has six commas, one semi-colon, and parentheses, which rivals passages created by my former supervisor who retired in September 2012.

Glad to help fill that hole in your life, Mark.

NPU's win over Carthage last night certainly wasn't an easy one, as the Vikings followed their frequent m.o. of starting slow and letting the other side score first. And, as has been the case throughout the year and in the match played between NPU and CC two weeks ago, Carthage scored that initial goal on sheer speed, catching the Vikings back on their heels as they got an attacker (Jordan Innis) into the goalmouth on a long kick before any Vikings could get back there to challenge him. When Tim Ahlberg bobbled and dropped the ball, Innis was right there to put the ball in the net.

NPU was less in control of midfield last night than is usually the case, but the Vikings were better than usual around the net. The first Vikings goal was a sweet heel tip-in by Jakob Aronsson right in front of CC keeper Milan Tijanic, off of a Mike Herbst corner kick. The second was a header that Jonas Pettersson rebounded into the net after a save by Tijanic that he'd directed upwards led to the ball hitting the crossbar and bouncing outwards in front of the goalmouth. After Carthage came back with a 40-yard free-kick goal by Mike Heika, effectively screened by the Red Men so that Ahlberg was unable to pick up the flight of the ball, NPU got a goal that was called back by a foul. Then the Vikings finished off the Red Men with a game-winner in the 85th minute that came on another strong goalmouth play: Fredrik Greiff and Herbst teaming up to put one in the upper right corner of the net after Tijanic was unable to negotiate what was either a shot or a pass by Greiff across the goalmouth that Herbst got to instead of Tijanic.

NPU had to work for it, unlike Wheaton. The Sonic Atmospheric Disturbance was fortunate enough to face an Illinois Wesleyan side that was in way over its head in this tourney. But that's the perq that comes from winning the league; the difference between the third-place side and the fourth-place side can be pretty vast, as was demonstrated by the contrast between last night's matches at Hedstrand Field and Joe Bean Stadium.

As Wheaton commentator Rusty Lindsey put it on d3soccer.com's tournament update page: "The table is set for a raucous scene at Joe Bean Stadium on Saturday night when two fierce rivals will battle for the CCIW crown. Top-seed Wheaton disposed of No. 4 Illinois Wesleyan 5-0 behind a hat trick from Chad Musgraves. Second-seeded North Park on the other hand got a late goal and downed No. 3 Carthage 3-2 in the other semi-final.  The Vikings and Thunder will exchange pleasantries with a 7:00 pm kick-off on Saturday night.  North Park and Wheaton have combined to win 9 of the 10 CCIW Tournament Championships since the tournament's inception in 2001."

"Raucous scene" pretty well describes it. As has been the case every time that NPU and Wheaton have faced off for the CCIW tourney title, the scene at Joe Bean Stadium on Saturday night should be nothing short of apocalyptic.

Is there an online video webcast for this game?  Also, when is the game and at what time?  This should be a dandy.

The game will take place at 7:00 p.m. Saturday.

The Wheaton webcast can be linked from the Wheaton website.  Live stats are also available.

http://www2.wheaton.edu/learnres/mediares/WETN/WETN_livewindow/WETN-TV.html


This should be a good game!

Quote from: augie77 on November 02, 2012, 10:56:47 AM
The game will take place at 7:00 p.m. Saturday.

The Wheaton webcast can be linked from the Wheaton website.  Live stats are also available.

http://www2.wheaton.edu/learnres/mediares/WETN/WETN_livewindow/WETN-TV.html


This should be a good game!

Anyone know how much the ticket is? I know its $5 for regular season game but haven't been to wheaton for playoff games recently. If it's less than $7.00 I might go. Only couple hrs drive and i wanna see noah duke it out with jonas.

It was $6 at NP on Wednesday, my guess is it'd be the same Saturday.