New England Soccer Discussion

[ECSUalum]

Mr Right, Thanks for your insight, spot on!

[ECSUalum]

Eastern plays Conn College even in the first half, then a questionable call in the box goes against the Warriors for a penalty kick, which kick starts the Camels who then dominate the second half.  A penalty kick by Emmanual Agyemang off a take down of his brother in the box is Eastern's only score.  A tale of two halves and as Mr Right commented a "fluid Camel attack" smoked the Eastern defense with 2 goals by Matt Butera.  I thought we had a chance in this one but it was not to be.  Congrats to Conn College for a nice non-conference win.

[NEsoccerfan20]

Endicott's Evan Couchot scored his 15th goal of the season yesterday for the Gulls. Has been a consistent goal scorer every year since he arrived in Beverly but this year seems to be taking his game up a notch. Going to be interesting to see how far he can take this young team this season.

[Mr.Right]

Eastern Nazarene receiving 2 votes for this weeks Top 25 is beyond baffling

[OldNed]

Eastern Nazarene receiving 2 votes for this weeks Top 25 is beyond baffling

I saw that and I was thinking the same thing.  Good record and all for Eastern Nazarene, but really poor SOS (367 per Massey).  I wonder if maybe some of the voters confused Eastern Nazarene with another school - maybe ECSU?

[Mr.Right]

Quick shout out to MCLA for getting its first MASCAC conference Win in OVER 2 YEARS. One more and they might get into their tournament.

[ECSUalum]

I would have guessed the ECSU vs Keene St game would have been much closer, however Eastern plays very well at home and it looks like the defense shut down Keene's big scorers!  Pat Agyemang scored his 14th and 15 goals of the season.  I have never seen a 6' 3" guy with such acceleration, pace, ball control and finishing as Agyemang has!!  Excellent win over a usually tough LEC competitor!

[OldNed]

Once again, St. Joseph's of Maine has another good season going.

- a regular-season undefeated streak at 64 games, since a 2-0 loss to University of New England on September 4, 2016

- St. Joe's has not allowed a goal in the last 808:11 minutes of play with eight-consecutive shutouts

- St. Joe's is one of just three NCAA DIII Men's Soccer teams to have not suffered a loss this fall – Roanoke (11-0-2) and Amherst (9-0-2) are the others

My son graduated in May from St. Joe's so I've been a little quiet about this year's team, but it's time to keep them in the conversation with many of the other good New England teams.  I don't think St. Joe's can hang with Amherst or Tufts, but I think they can hold their own against most other area teams.  I'll be looking forward to the St. Joe's-WPI game a week from today.

[PaulNewman]

Mr. Blooter...fantastic column (per usual but you seemed to outdo yourself this time).  Loved "...year before maiden title."  It's almost like a scoring a goal when the mind yields just the right word.

[OldNed]

I watched the WPI - Middlebury game online and it ended in a 0-0 tie. I thought both teams were fairly even in the first half, but Middlebury had a few chances where WPI didn't.  Middlebury looked better in the 2nd half and they were consistently able to pass the ball around and get to the top of the 18 yard box but they had trouble moving the ball past the WPI defense. 

In the second OT, the only really good chance by WPI's Bazzini was negated by a really nice save by Middlebury keeper Grady.

Paul Beatty didn't play for WPI so maybe he's injured again?

[blooter442]

Mr. Blooter...fantastic column (per usual but you seemed to outdo yourself this time).  Loved "...year before maiden title."  It's almost like a scoring a goal when the mind yields just the right word.

Much appreciated — funny that you say that because I didn't have any thought about using it at the time I wrote it, but in hindsight seems to work.

Babson with another big NESCAC scalp — this time of Conn., 2-1 at home in which the Beavers rallied from a 1-0 deficit with just over 10 minutes left. They are 8-4-2 and with two very good ranked wins after being 3-3 following losses to Brandeis, Amherst, and Williams. After that, they also lost 3-2 at home to Endicott two weeks ago. That's how quick perception can change in 14 days.

As far as the game, looked like it might have been a bit smash-and-grab given that Conn. had a 9-4 SOG advantage (and two of Babson's four came in the last 10:01.). Didn't see them getting better than a draw out of either Tufts or Conn. but that's why the games are played on the pitch instead of the minds of the prognosticators. The next big step for them I think in terms of getting back to regional power status — and by that I mean their 2009-2012 Eric Anderson heyday level — is to pull out a win of that magnitude on the road, as they have gone 0-2 in "big" away games this year. That said, you can only beat people where they are on your schedule, and Babson has proved its ability to do that (at home, at least) with two invaluable wins.

[PaulNewman]

Mr. Blooter...fantastic column (per usual but you seemed to outdo yourself this time).  Loved "...year before maiden title."  It's almost like a scoring a goal when the mind yields just the right word.

Much appreciated — funny that you say that because I didn't have any thought about using it at the time I wrote it, but in hindsight seems to work.

Hey, I'm from the South so things don't come quite so easily for me.  To borrow a couple of your faves, that said or either way, I learned something.  I was only familiar with "maiden voyage."   Now I can do maiden marriage, maiden blank experience, maiden car purchasing ordeal, etc, etc.

[blooter442]

Hey, I'm from the South so things don't come quite so easily for me.  To borrow a couple of your faves, that said or either way, I learned something.  I was only familiar with "maiden voyage."   Now I can do maiden marriage, maiden blank experience, maiden car purchasing ordeal, etc, etc.

Oh man, this is all reminding me of how much I overuse certain phrases. I used to give my friend in college a ton of grief for overusing cliches — in hindsight, I guess you could call that "projection."

[ECSUalum]

ECSU over WCSU in Danbury 1-0 on a Justin Jensen goal.  Eastern possession was great before the goal, but after the goal they just could not connect 2 passes in a row and WCSU dominated with 3 or 4 close calls     It amazes me the difference in Eastern's play... like night and day 

[Mr.Right]

Hmmm...Brandeis starting 3 Frosh tonight v Chicago. Have these 3 been starting?