New England Soccer Discussion

[deiscanton]

No rest today for us fans....

The MIT vs Coast Guard NEWMAC final started just about a few minutes after Babson advanced to the NEWMAC Championship game, and MIT has already saved a penalty kick situation in the 4th minute....

[Hopkins92]

And they miss!

And, hoo boy, this PbP guy... bless his heart, as they say down south.

[deiscanton]

And they miss!

And, hoo boy, this PbP guy... bless his heart, as they say down south.

It is so hard when the live stats give a spoiler alert about a minute before the live stream on TV catches up......

[Hopkins92]

And they miss!

And, hoo boy, this PbP guy... bless his heart, as they say down south.

It is so hard when the live stats give a spoiler alert about a minute before the live stream on TV catches up......

Yeah, so, I didn't want to be pedantic, but CGA kicker put it off the crossbar and OB. As opposed to the GK actually saving it.

[Mr.Right]

If you get a chance go back and slow motion that PK. How the ref missed that dive is beyond me..

LEC Semi:

ECONN eliminates RIC 3-1 and will face UMB or WCONN in Final. Maybe ECSUalum caught the game and will give us a report..

[Hopkins92]

If you get a chance go back and slow motion that PK. How the ref missed that dive is beyond me..

What's strange is that the MIT guy doesn't protest at all. Can't say the ref was out of position on that. Just bought into the dive.

[deiscanton]

If you get a chance go back and slow motion that PK. How the ref missed that dive is beyond me..

What's strange is that the MIT guy doesn't protest at all. Can't say the ref was out of position on that. Just bought into the dive.

The MIT guy did make contact on the Coast Guard player in the box before he went down.   I can't really conclude on the replay on the video at regular speed that there was a "Cristiano Ronaldo" type acting dive on the play.  Apparently, most of you watching it think that it was a "Ronaldo" type dive...

[Mr.Right]

If you get a chance go back and slow motion that PK. How the ref missed that dive is beyond me..

What's strange is that the MIT guy doesn't protest at all. Can't say the ref was out of position on that. Just bought into the dive.

The MIT guy did make contact on the Coast Guard player in the box before he went down.   I can't really conclude on the replay on the video at regular speed that there was a "Cristiano Ronaldo" type acting dive on the play.  Apparently, most of you watching it think that it was a "Ronaldo" type dive...

True but slow it down to the slowest speed and you can see the "bump" and then a full swan dive leaping off his feet

[deiscanton]

Just something of note for the second NEWMAC semifinal--

The commentator for the Coast Guard/MIT game on the NEWMAC Sports Network is Jonah White from the Brandeis commentary team, who is on loan today to call this one.

I thought that I was hearing a familiar voice on commentary from MIT on this game....

[deiscanton]

And they miss!

And, hoo boy, this PbP guy... bless his heart, as they say down south.

And if you notice how the call of that dramatic moment was very similar to the call of dramatic moments from the Brandeis game over the past weekend vs Emory, the PbP guy today is indeed Jonah White, 1/2 of the Brandeis commentary team, who is on loan to the NEWMAC Sports Network this week, as Brandeis does not have any home games until next Monday's women's basketball opener.

[Mr.Right]

Just something of note for the second NEWMAC semifinal--

The commentator for the Coast Guard/MIT game on the NEWMAC Sports Network is Jonah White from the Brandeis commentary team, who is on loan today to call this one.

I thought that I was hearing a familiar voice on commentary from MIT on this game....

Yea he is growing on me. He knows both rosters and the game. Gets amped up for chances...not bad

[Mr.Right]

And they miss!

And, hoo boy, this PbP guy... bless his heart, as they say down south.

And if you notice how the call of that dramatic moment was very similar to the call of dramatic moments from the Brandeis game over the past weekend vs Emory, the PbP guy today is indeed Jonah White, 1/2 of the Brandeis commentary team, who is on loan to the NEWMAC Sports Network this week, as Brandeis does not have any home games until next Monday's women's basketball opener.

So the Newmac have its own Sports network? I notice other leagues doing this as well except Nescac and a few others.  Is it just a control thing or are they saving money ?  Deis will know this

[deiscanton]

And they miss!

And, hoo boy, this PbP guy... bless his heart, as they say down south.

And if you notice how the call of that dramatic moment was very similar to the call of dramatic moments from the Brandeis game over the past weekend vs Emory, the PbP guy today is indeed Jonah White, 1/2 of the Brandeis commentary team, who is on loan to the NEWMAC Sports Network this week, as Brandeis does not have any home games until next Monday's women's basketball opener.

So the Newmac have its own Sports network? I notice other leagues doing this as well except Nescac and a few others.  Is it just a control thing or are they saving money ?  Deis will know this

The NEWMAC does have its own streaming sports network, which they mostly use for coverage of their conference tournament games.  NESCAC uses the Northeast Sports Network (NSN.com) to do their conference semifinals and championship games in all sports.   I do not know the details of how or why NEWMAC created this network, as it is not like the Northwest Conference, Landmark Conference, or Little East networks where you can get the streaming of all of their regular season and postseason games of all of their teams.  NEWMAC tends to use this network for playoff games as well as for their football games, where there are a lot of associate football members who in most sports are in other leagues. 

[deiscanton]

Thank goodness that I am following this Coast Guard v MIT game on live stats as well, as there are indeed technical difficulties with the live streaming of the game.   The game will come out fine on the on demand replay.

We are in golden goal extra time in the first extra time period.  The score is still 0-0 as of the 94th minute.

[deiscanton]

96th minute yellow card issued to Coast Guard's Steve Ferrandino.