New England Soccer Discussion

[blooter442]

FWIW Just a reminder Right is always Right....

Also we need to have a sir down on the Nor'easter News.....Not to play editor but there was a WPI/Springfield paragraph that made 2 appearances in the piece AND you mentioned 7 of the last 8 Nescac Championships have been played at Amherst but off the top of my head IIRC it would go:

2010--Bowdoin
2011--Amherst
2012--Williams
2013--Amherst
2014--Amherst
2015--Midd
2016--Amherst
2017--Tufts


Either way your the man no matter what so keep up the good work....However, since you corrected me like a month ago and noted how you hated to be that guy I decided to get involved on this one....

Ha fair enough. The first part is my bad, I was pasting it from my phone into an email and I guess I selected that one twice. I knew 2011 was there as well as '13 '14 and '17 for sure and I guess I figured '15 was there since they were the top seed (forgot they got knocked out at the QF stage) as well as '12 since they were the top-ranked side in NE but forgot that Williams actually hosted that year. The other one (the 7th) will be this weekend so I believe I meant going back as far as '11 including this year. Should have been clearer.

[blooter442]

"He saves Medina's a...bacon."

[Mr.Right]

I'll chalk it up to you still being a little salty about the way Brandeis finished the year....I feel ya as I watched a bunch of their games in October and was one frustrated neutral fan...

[blooter442]

I'll chalk it up to you still being a little salty about the way Brandeis finished the year....I feel ya as I watched a bunch of their games in October and was one frustrated neutral fan...

Yep, definitely a bunch of salt. What was most frustrating in addition to the lack of steeliness was that the nature of the defeats were based on mistakes. I get that every team makes mistakes. However, when it's similar mistakes in similar situations again and again it's frustrating.

[Mr.Right]

I'll chalk it up to you still being a little salty about the way Brandeis finished the year....I feel ya as I watched a bunch of their games in October and was one frustrated neutral fan...

Yep, definitely a bunch of salt. What was most frustrating in addition to the lack of steeliness was that the nature of the defeats were based on mistakes. I get that every team makes mistakes. However, when it's similar mistakes in similar situations again and again it's frustrating.

Agreed...Also, the early goals given up were killers....Almost like Brandeis was not ready to PLAY...I really started to pay attention to Brandeis in 2012 and DO NOT remember them ever coming out of the gates listless and unprepared like that..I used to watch them occasionally before 2012 especially when they had Ben Premo up top as he was a special player who I would guess might have scored 30-40 Goals in his career at Brandeis.

[Mr.Right]

Wheaton just had its best chance to get an equalizer....Wheaton Head Coach Waggoner knows he must push now...its advance or bust because I doubt Wheaton will be playing in the ECAC's but you never know as sometimes a Coach will accept the ECAC invitation especially with a young and new team for Waggoner

[blooter442]

Agreed...Also, the early goals given up were killers....Almost like Brandeis was not ready to PLAY...I really started to pay attention to Brandeis in 2012 and DO NOT remember them ever coming out of the gates listless and unprepared like that..I used to watch them occasionally before 2012 especially when they had Ben Premo up top as he was a special player who I would guess might have scored 30-40 Goals in his career at Brandeis.

Yeah those were frustrating because they were playing against two good teams and you have to be switched on from the first minute. The other thing was all those overtime goals where the Brandeis of the past would have been in that situation a few years back -- under pressure -- and at least seen it out for the draw and maybe even have countered and won.

Great save by Heintzelman off the Wheaton header.

[Mr.Right]

Babson finishes off Wheaton rather handily and will now face Springfield in the Newmac Final. I think that game is a complete tossup but again bubble teams should be rooting for Babson.

[Mr.Right]

Some HUGE matches in New England today but one has my attention....Two of the best strikers in New England will be going at each other when WCONN travels to ECONN today in the Little East Semi's. ECONN's Patrick Agyemang has 9 Goals and 3 assists while WCONN's Chauncey Allers could be playing his final game with a grand total of 23 Goals and 9 Assists. Allers is well on his way to being named an All-American and deservedly so. ECONN won a barn burner at Home 4-3 in the regular season but WCONN outshot them 16-9 and had an early 2-0 lead before ECONN ripped off 4 goals to take the game over. WCONN has more bite in attack BUT they have had issues defensively and in net all season so they will need to clean that up if they want to win today.

[Mr.Right]

Little East Semi's moved from ECONN's grass field to the turf.

[Mr.Right]

WCONN up 2-0 on ECONN limiting ECONN to 1 SOG so far.


Brandeis and NYU locked up 0-0. Only change in Brandeis lineup looks to be Mukala for Glass.

[Mr.Right]

WOW.....ECONN gets one goal back late to make it 2-1 and then in the final seconds whipped in a dangerous ball into the box that was headed beautifully but an amazing save by WCONN GK and then ECONN collected the rebound with 4 seconds left and looked to have finished it but another UNREAL save by WCONN GK to preserve the Win for WCONN....What a finish and ECONN players absolutely dejected....That is tough stuff for ECONN but a fantastic bounce back year for them...Congrats...

[Mr.Right]

Gordon and RWU heading to OT in the CCC Final.

[OldNed]

Gordon was outplayed most of the second half and into the OT period, but they managed to put one in on Roger Williams to win it.

[ECSUalum]

WOW.....ECONN gets one goal back late to make it 2-1 and then in the final seconds whipped in a dangerous ball into the box that was headed beautifully but an amazing save by WCONN GK and then ECONN collected the rebound with 4 seconds left and looked to have finished it but another UNREAL save by WCONN GK to preserve the Win for WCONN....What a finish and ECONN players absolutely dejected....That is tough stuff for ECONN but a fantastic bounce back year for them...Congrats...

Thanks Mr Right for your comments!  Another fantastic season of commentary on this thread.  ECSU had some injuries to a couple of key players, but no excuse, the Warrior defense was just up to the task against the Colonial front line giving up 2 early goals!  Still a young ECSU team and will learn from this season!  Best of luck to your NESCAC favorite!  PS Colby has done an amazing job in the tourney! +1k