New England Soccer Discussion

[ECSUalum]

Rory O'Neill a 6'4" midfielder who is very dangerous especially on set pieces, and Chris Kuehn another midfielder, who actually took 9 shots.  Kuehn and O'Niell, combined, took 13 of the 26 shots. ECSU actually had zero shots in period 2!!!
Eastern has a relatively tall team with defenseman Jordan Clark @ 6-5, and just about all of thier starting backs at 6 feet, so I think that helped to keep a clean sheet. 

We have Babson and UM Dartmouth coming up!!

[ECSUalum]

NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division III Men's - National - Poll 6 - October 9, 2012
Rank School Prev. W-L-T
1 Trinity (Texas)  1 11-0-1
2 Amherst  2 8-0-1
3 Messiah  3 11-0-1
4 Loras  5 12-1-1
5 Carnegie Mellon  4 8-1-1
6 Olivet  7 12-0-1
7 St. Lawrence  10 11-1-0
8 Montclair State  8 12-1-0
9 Brandeis  9 11-0-1
10 Whitworth  11 9-0-2
11 Dominican (Ill.)  12 10-0-0
12 Hiram  21 11-0-1
13 Wisconsin-Platteville  19 11-1-1
14 York (Pa.)  14 10-2-1
15 Stevens Institute Of Technology  22 10-2-0
16 Swarthmore  NR 8-1-1
17 Williams  17 7-0-2 18 Calrleton  16 10-1-1
19 Rutgers-Camden  18 10-2-1
20 New York University  6 9-1-1
21 Ohio Northern  25 12-2-0
22 University Of Scranton  NR 9-0-1
23 Illinois Wesleyan  NR 10-1-0
24 Colorado College  25 10-3-0
25 Eastern Connecticut State  24 10-0-1

[amh63]

ECSU....Nice work on this board.  It may be possible that Amherst will have a chance to meet your team this season in the post season.   Your women's team gave Amherst's women's team quite a game recently.

[ECSUalum]

amh63,
Thanks, ECSU will have to come up with a strategy to deal with Noon and the 6-5 Sucre brothers, (is one injured?), if they are going to be successful vs the Lord Jeffs.
Ladies did OK, but need to be more crisp in their passing and maintain better ball possession.

[amh63]

ECSU....In this weekend's game against Colby, at Amherst, both the brothers played.  Game injuries are hard to fine and never reported on by the school before and after the games.  Amherst won 2-0 and seemed to be letting younger players do the scoring.  Amherst is very deep and the FY goalie is progressing well it seems as he has another shut-out.
Sorry, I checked the writeup and one of the brothers did NOT play.  My bad as they say these days.  However, in Sunday's game....today...against Bowdoin at home, FY player, Singer was put in and scored his first goal near the end of the first half.  Singer is a 6'5" player from San Jose, CA being used up front as an attacker.  Score at the half is 1-0.  Amherst is using a large number of players today in a game that Bowdoin is still in and could surprise. 

[ECSUalum]

amh63,

Thanks for the info, in fact I watched the match with Bowdoin on the Amherst stream this afternoon, (and BTW, the Williams vs Babson match).
Amherst mens soccer is #2 in the country because of Noon, Hoe, young, (6'5"), players like Singer, and the Lord Jeffs extraordinarily tough Defense.  I looked at the Amherst roster and height numbers and could not believe the number of players/starters who are above 6'2" foot!! They will go far this year in the NCAAs, good luck to them!!

I watched ECSU have their way with UMBoston this Sat in Willi defeating them 7-0.  They have Coast Guard, Babson, and UMD coming up, which should tell us if they really belong in the top 23

[Jump4Joy]

What do you all think of these NCAA regional rankings that just came out?
New England                           
1   Amherst      11-0-1   11-0-1            
2   Williams      9-0-2      9-0-2            
3   Brandeis      11-1-1   12-1-1            
4   ECSU              12-0-1   12-0-1            
5   Wesleyan (CT)   7-2-2      7-2-2            
6   Babson      11-3-1   11-3-1            
7   Tufts              6-2-3      6-2-3            
8   MIT              8-3-1      8-3-1            
9   Roger Williams   11-4-0   11-4-0            
10   Bowdoin      7-3-2      7-3-2            
11   UMass-Dart      10-3-0   10-3-0

[ECSUalum]

What do you all think of these NCAA regional rankings that just came out?
New England                           
1   Amherst      11-0-1   11-0-1            
2   Williams      9-0-2      9-0-2            
3   Brandeis      11-1-1   12-1-1            
4   ECSU              12-0-1   12-0-1            
5   Wesleyan (CT)   7-2-2      7-2-2            
6   Babson      11-3-1   11-3-1            
7   Tufts              6-2-3      6-2-3            
8   MIT              8-3-1      8-3-1            
9   Roger Williams   11-4-0   11-4-0            
10   Bowdoin      7-3-2      7-3-2            
11   UMass-Dart      10-3-0   10-3-0

NESCAC continues to dominate the region!!!!!

ECSU now 13-0 with 1-0 victory over US Coast Guard Acad.. Matt Furman's 12th goal this year and his 15th career game winner.

[ECSUalum]

What do you all think of these NCAA regional rankings that just came out?
New England                           
1   Amherst      11-0-1   11-0-1            
2   Williams      9-0-2      9-0-2            
3   Brandeis      11-1-1   12-1-1            
4   ECSU              12-0-1   12-0-1            
5   Wesleyan (CT)   7-2-2      7-2-2            
6   Babson      11-3-1   11-3-1            
7   Tufts              6-2-3      6-2-3            
8   MIT              8-3-1      8-3-1            
9   Roger Williams   11-4-0   11-4-0            
10   Bowdoin      7-3-2      7-3-2            
11   UMass-Dart      10-3-0   10-3-0

NESCAC continues to dominate the region!!!!!

ECSU now 13-0 with 1-0 victory over US Coast Guard Acad.. Matt Furman's 12th goal this year and his 15th career game winner.

Make that 14-0 with 3-0 win over University of Southern Maine.  Big out of conference game tomorrow with Babson, then hopefully ECSU will wrap up LEConference Championship and home field advantage with win over UMass Dartmouth next Sat. UMD lost to Keene St 1-0 today.


2012 Men's Standings    Conf   Overall
Eastern Connecticut      5-0-1 14-0-1
Mass-Dartmouth           5-1-0 11-4-0
Keene State                 4-1-1 9-6-1
Plymouth State             3-3-0 6-9-0
Rhode Island College      2-4-0 4-10-1
Western Connecticut     2-4-0 3-10-2
Mass-Boston                1-5-0 4-9-2
Southern Maine            1-5-0 4-12-0

[ECSUalum]

First loss for the Warriors @ Babson 1-0 in 2OT goal scored @ the 101 minute mark!!!

Eastern Connecticut                                     Babson College
## Player                 MIN  GA Saves                 ## Player                 MIN  GA Saves
---------------------------------------                 ---------------------------------------
1  Jordan Munsell...... 101:09  1     3                 1  Jackson Klein....... 101:09  0     4
TM TEAM................   0:00  0     1

Shots by period       1  2 OT O2  Tot                   Saves by period       1  2 OT O2  Tot
-------------------------------------                   -------------------------------------
Eastern Connecticut.  5  5  1  1 - 12                   Eastern Connecticut.  2  2  0  0 -  4
Babson College......    5  7  1  1 - 14                      Babson College...... 1  2  1  0 -  4

Corner kicks             1  2 OT O2  Tot                   Fouls                     1  2 OT O2  Tot
-------------------------------------                   -------------------------------------
Eastern Connecticut.  2  1  0  0 -  3                   Eastern Connecticut.  0  6  1  0 -  7
Babson College......    3  2  0  0 -  5                       Babson College...... 5  5  2  0 - 12

[ECSUalum]

Cory Tobler's 92:56 strike in OT for a 2-1 win clinches the LEC regular season title and home field advantage for the Warriors. They face Plymouth State in the first round of the LEC tourney. 

Final LEC standings:

2012 Men's Standings       LEC    Overall
Eastern Connecticut        6-0-1   15-1-1
Keene State                   5-1-1  11-6-1
Mass-Dartmouth              5-2-0  11-6-0
Plymouth State               4-3-0  7-10-0
Southern Maine               2-5-0  5-13-0
Rhode Island College        2-5-0   4-13-1
Western Connecticut       2-5-0   3-12-2
Mass-Boston                  1-6-0   5-10-2

[ECSUalum]

Eastern wins LEC Tournament with 3-1 defeat of UMass Dartmouth.  Hopefully we will have a couple of NCAA games @ Nevers Field this upcoming week for the first time.  Congrats to Coach De Vito and the Warriors soccer team. 
BYW Cory Tober played a fantastic game even while being mugged by UMD all afternoon!!  Great job Cory!!!. 

[ECSUalum]

Eastern Warriors get NCAA National Tournament first round matchup vs St Lawrence U!!  A very good team now and historically, (Overall Current Record 13-2-3 (5-2-1 Liberty League)), with team top scorer, Sam DeMello, (11 goals, -1 assists, -23 points).  Eastern lost to them last year (first game of season), 1-0 in Canton NY.

The Bracket is posted on NCAA.com and you can Watch a replay of NCAA.com D-III Mens Soccer Selection Show:  http://www.ncaa.com/video#!soccer-men/2012-11-05/diii-mens-soccer-2012-selection-show

[1970s NESCAC Player]

ECSU should have a good chance this time.  Per LaPaz, DeMello's hamstring injury will keep him out for the remainder of the year.

[ECSUalum]

Thanks Colby,

Looks like ECSU will be travelling to Williams College, Williamstown MA, for the first round game with St Lawrence.
Williams College will play Thomas (ME) (15-2-3)