NESCAC

[Bobcat1]

The Flounder has found his way home....Based on the writing Flounder I am guessing a few drinks in ya? PK's can be nervy and some have found the drink to ease the viewer's nerve.



I will say I heard in mid October from a Springfield player that said "Stevens was the best team they had faced all year". At the time I thought nothing of it but now I know why. They really came to play and gave it absolutely everything they had.

Appreciate it Mr. Right! Was lucky enough to be able to be at the Tufts v Stevens game in person and was one of the most exciting and nervy games I've been at in all my years of watching the Ducks! Will take any sh*t coming my way on the chin as this is a NESCAC feed, but was not impressed with Tufts in any way. Didn't look up for the game, played like they were already counting their Sweet 16 chickens, and would be confident in saying Stevens had the significantly better chances. Was also a bit disappointed at some of the clearly targeted fouls (Tufts sub goes studs up on Stevens center back with 24 seconds left) and language from the Jumbos leading into some straight up violent behavior. Tough to blame the kids playing, but was not a classy win for Tufts in my honest opinion. Both teams clearly put a lot of work into their penalty routines, and it showed as it took 13 rounds to find a winner. Typically will cheer for the team that beats Stevens in the tournament, but this year will be wearing a Washington College hat next weekend. Hoping for some more exciting games as we all enjoy the sport that we love at the D3 level!

No sh*t coming your way. Tufts has absolutely had its struggles recently with second round games (St. Joe's in 2017, Stevens in 2018, WPI in 2019). It's been either a very late goal in regulation to eek out a win or gone to penalties. Stevens was very impressive from start to finish. The only part I will disagree with is Tufts being a dirty team (targeted fouls/violent behavior). Bates is one of the very few teams bigger than Tufts and we had a clean game with them this year. I'm sure the Conn supporters can comment as well as they have played Tufts twice.  I think the regular posters who follow NESCAC would agree as well. I could also make the case that Stevens fouled Van Brewer (some hard fouls) many times throughout the game and not much was called. In an elimination game like that the refs need to let them play a bit while making sure the game does not get out of control.  It was a tremendous test of wills and as we know it could have gone either way. Tufts has been very good lately in the third and fourth rounds so it will be interesting to see how they regroup and come out against a very hot Washington College team.

[Mr.Right]

Midd at F&M--- Midd had the toughest road of the 4 Nescac Schools to get to the NCAA Sweet 16. A 7 hour bus ride was the first obstacle Friday morning and if they were to lose a harsh ride home would be waiting Sunday night. They battled to a 1-0 victory over Oneonta on neutral turf Saturday and then got a deserved 2-0 Win over F&M on Sunday night. Midd looked plenty comfortable right on F&M's field. They were the aggressor to start the game. They took it too F&M right off the hop as they were pressing and running hard. It immediately made F&M uncomfortable and rushed. They also gave F&M absolutely no time on the ball. Everything was purposely sped up to Midd's liking. Middlebury's depth really showed as F&M could match the fresh legs but not the quality of talent on the bench. Midd had scored two Goals while F&M were still looking for a couple quality chances. F&M was a good team but were sorely lacking a playmaker in the middle of the field. No one was pulling the strings. Then around the 80th minute F&M started showing signs of life and Midd became a bit bunkered in. F&M started pumping balls into the box for a couple of men to deal with. The men told the children to wait for scraps on the edges but to "Enter at your own risk". #20 and #12 were causing some problems with flicks, bad bounces, earning corners and even a PK. Midd GK #33 Ryan Grady saved the PK. He had not broken a sweat until the 80th but the PK, dealing with corners and #20 kept him plenty busy for the last 10 minutes. #20 wanted to end his career on a reckless challenge on an opposing GK. It is almost like he came to this bright idea on his own and last minute. Out of nowhere on the stream all you can see is #20 get a running head start from half? whole field? bench? across the street? and clumsily barrel right into Grady during a corner kick. The ball was not the intent on that play. Grady took the hit well though and his teammates had his back.


Midd Starters:     LB #19 Lund, LCB #32 O'Brien, RCB McFarlane and RB #25 Nelson. Centrally Midd had #10 Sloan, #12 Powers and #30 Farrell. LW #8 Barry, RW Saint-Louis and striker was #9 Reid.

The F&M official scorer mixed up Farrell and McFarlane. They have McFarlane playing 45 minutes(he played 90), Farrell playing 90(he played 50).


Midd Bench:                  #16 Pape took over for Nelson at RB with 20 minutes left in the 1st Half and stayed there the rest of the game. #2 Hannam basically split the wing with Barry 45/45 with Barry getting the bulk 1st Half and Hannam 2nd Half. Both players had some skillful moments. #6 Chae was sitting coming in for Sloan. #5 Barsamian and #26 Payne played centrally 2nd Half and gave Midd the needed fresh legs along with #21 Juarez who played late 1st Half and started the 2nd Half. Elias has this midfield playing as a unit and all understanding their role now and that there are only so many minutes to go around. He somehow got 7 players at least 30 minutes Centrally without losing any edge in the game. #7 Proctor got a good run at wing and at one point late in the game when Midd was killing minutes was holding the ball up in the corner staying big to battle 1v4 with F&M finally prying it loose. #11 Roberts got an end of the half run at striker.



1st Goal      "2nd Chances in a Game"         The first real good chance of the game came about 20 minutes in when Sloan was about to get swarmed by 3 F&M players and the ball at his feet just inside F&M's defensive half. He quickly switched the field of play by passing to  Farrell who had made an off ball run to get open. Farrell then took a quick glance left and drove a ball into the stride of LW Barry on the flank. As this was playing out on the other side of the field Powers makes a smart run into the box. Powers is basically free in the box as a would be defender stares at the play and decides to not get between the goal and Powers. Once Powers quick thinking brain made this assessment he stretched his long right arm with the wingspan of an eagle into the air. Barry back on the left flank with the ball at his feet caught a glimpse and served a beauty of a ball right into the path of Powers but Powers could not quite re-direct it and headed it right into the GK who would make the save. Rumors have it that the bench was hearing Powers yelling about "if only he could get one more chance at a free header in the box." He got that chance 10 minutes later. CK from Chae is hit a bit heavy as Pape lunges for and gets to it but heads it at the top of his head and across the box but past the 6 and heading out of bounds down the goaline towards the corner flag. Lund uses his speed to collect the ball and one time a serve into the mixer. Powers who had still been in the mixer from Chae's corner took a step maybe two and turned his body to face Lund. The ball was sent in and just over the out stretched head of Hannam and a defender and found Powers who buried it just over the finger tips of the diving GK.


2nd Goal         "Why Seeing the Game In-Person Matters"    The F&M stream conks out at Halftime and does not resume until the 55th minute. The 2nd Goal was scored in the 49th. All I know it was Jordan Saint-Louis from (Brendan Barry).


Favorite Sequence #1         With five minutes left in the 1st Half the Midd defense suffocated an F&M player into a giveaway at midfield. Proctor got the ball and played Juarez with speed. Juarez one timed it to an open Farrell. Farrell takes about 3 touches and sees Hannam making a great run sprinting down the left flank. He also sees a wide opening between the RB and RCB start to open up as he drives the ball. He plays a perfect ball into the stride of Hannam. Hannam then one-times a 15 yard ball across the box into the left foot of a moving Saint-Louis. Rocket foot meets ball but the ball is just lasered over the crossbar. Would have been a fantastic Goal.

Favorite Sequence #2         With 30 seconds left in the 1st Half Hannam strips an F&M player in Midd's defensive 3rd. He backheels a ball to Chae who plays Juarez who is driving towards goal with the ball at his feet. Hannam stays with the play and makes a nice sprint to overlap Juarez. Juarez sees Hannam and plays a quick one-two with Hannam and gets the ball back near the top of F&M's box only to have a defender right on him. Juarez takes a touch away from the defender and then with a piece of skill backheels it over to the left flank and Roberts. Bang bang play but unfortunately Roberts was called offside and the Half ended with some serious technical play and then the Frosh offsides.


Game Balls:
1. Powers--The Goal but he was also working hard 1st Half in a more advanced position on the field.
2. Saint-Louis--Besides the Goal I did not see he also had a couple other dangerous looks.
3. Grady--Shutout, PK save and the last 10.

[College Soccer Observer]

From someone who was there in person, props for an excellent summary.  For the second goal, Barry got the ball on the wing, beat his man and whipped in a cross that Saint-Louis connected perfectly with on a bullet header that gave the keeper no chance.  I was on the other side of midfield, so not sure how far out his was, but the cross and the header both had a lot of pace on them.  F and M had a similar chance in the first half, but the header was right at Grady.

[oldonionbag]

Highlights of Tufts v Stevens epic shooutout have been posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKiNFb97YYo&t=2s

[Mr.Right]

From someone who was there in person, props for an excellent summary.  For the second goal, Barry got the ball on the wing, beat his man and whipped in a cross that Saint-Louis connected perfectly with on a bullet header that gave the keeper no chance.  I was on the other side of midfield, so not sure how far out his was, but the cross and the header both had a lot of pace on them.  F and M had a similar chance in the first half, but the header was right at Grady.

Good to know. I remember the chance you are talking about 1st Half it was off a CK and the kid connected with it hard but right at Grady.

[Mr.Right]

Stevens at Tufts:


Jumbocast 1st Half:
The stream was a clusterf*ck the entire 1st Half. The announcers kept saying "technical difficulties" but man I hope they can fix that before this weekend. The PbP kid has been doing it all year and does a fine job especially for a Frosh. He will be real good his Senior year. He is a Tufts homer but because he brings "the passion" it forces the viewer to not really care. He comes well prepared researching the opponent as well as Tufts. He should just call the game alone. The Color guy Felix seems like a real good kid a real nice positive kid but 1st Half he was lost in space. Color Guy quote of the 1st Half "The Sun is starting to come out now so it might warm down the weather". At one point when Shin got fouled he yelled "Shin is down". So while this is not a problem during the Regular Season it becomes a minor one during the NCAA's as it kind of gets in the way. Good kid excellent kid but was all over the map interjecting on everything from Volleyball to Cops walking the players off in victory. Frankly Tufts could have 3 Color Guys, I honestly would not care as long as the stream is flawless next weekend.

1st Half Comments:
From what I did see there were very few chances from either side in that Half. Tufts had a couple chances from the run of play early on but could not finish. Stevens also had a few from the run but Stevens showed they were for real with #10 Silva hitting the crossbar on one set piece and later playing another free kick to the back post that no one made a run for. Great ball by Silva as he was dangerous playing behind the striker. He was capable of creating his own shot and one of those players that can Win these type of challenging games all by himself. Other than that it was a pretty sloppy / choppy Half.

Ref / Fouls 1st Half:
The ref(Jordan Cavaco) did ok 1st Half but he got bullied by the Tufts bench one time into giving a YC to Stevens #21 on an inadvertent trip on Tufts #2 Gerken. It was completely accidental and just a foul which is what he originally called but the balking of the bench influenced him as his hand went for the pocket 30 seconds later. #ridiculous

Unnecessary Hard Foul 1st Half #1:
50/50 ball in Tufts end with Stevens pushing forward. The ball was challenged by Tufts #16 Paoletta and Stevens #12. Stevens player was looking for the ball and Paoletta was looking for the body. Paoletta absolutely bulldozed right into #12 with a Shoulder Check but correctly kept his elbow tucked in or risk a Penalty. Oh wait my bad wrong sport. The ref waved play on as Stevens pushed forward and #12 lay motionless on the turf. Stevens #11 then showed a nifty piece of skill to beat Tufts #22 Aidan Welsh by flicking it to himself over Welsh's head. He beat Welch and then drives a 25 yard left footed rocket off the post. Stevens #12 was dazed but recovered and Jordan Cavaco broke out his 4th YC of the 1st half. Felix "I do not know if that should have been a card at all it was really unintentional and wrong place wrong time." Uh-huh.

Unnecessary Hard Foul 1st Half #2:
Tufts defender #25 Clivio chasing Stevens #11 who was hunting a long ball by the touchline just past the Tufts bench. It was maybe 50/50 that #11 could get to it before going out of bounds. Even if he did get it there was no room to go anywhere as Clivio had him closed down. Instead of just buckling down and defending Clivio decides to shoulder check the kid off his feet and onto the turf and almost rammed him into the fence. Just a stupid foul in a dangerous area. This was the set piece I mentioned before with #10 hitting a great ball to the back post for a free header but the run was not made.

Lineups:
Starters:   It was difficult to tell what Tufts was doing because of the stream but I think they were defending in a 5-3-2 with 3 Central Defenders but when they got the ball and went forward RB #3 Daly and LB #2 Gerken were up and down the flank to make a 3-5-2. The 3 Central defenders were LCB #25 Clivio, CB #16 Paoletta and RCB #22 Welsh. Midfield was #6 Enge, #5 Aroh and #13 Van Brewer in a more attacking role. Looked like #11 Cano was joined by #10 Seigelstein up top. Seigelstein and especially Welsh were thrown right into the fire as it was the first weekend they have played in a very long time. This has become the story of how the grunts do the hard work to get you to where you are and "the talent" comes in to Win the title. I get it now.

Bench 1st Half:

#19 Traynor for Seigelstein   20'
#14 Ingersoll for Enge          25'
#9 Jacobs for Cano              30'
#8 Shin for TVB                   30'
#4 Cook for Gerken              35'

2nd Half:

2nd Half Lineup:
Tufts came out in a somewhat more attacking formation. Looked like a 4-2-3-1 with a back 4 of LB Daly, LCB Clivio, RCB Welsh, RB Gerken. Central midfield had #5 Aroh and Ingersoll hanging back while Van Brewer was attacking. Wide Left was Cano, Wide Right was Traynor and Jacobs was up top. So Tufts made some changes with Cano out wide and Jacobs up top. Enge and Paoletta not starting instead going with Welsh and Ingersoll.

2nd Half Subbing:
#26 Gibson Campbell for #2 Gerken at RB    55'
#6  Enge   for #14 Ingersoll                        58'
#12 Brady  for #9 Jacobs up top                  64'
#8  Shin   for #13 Van Brewer                     64'
#10 Seigelstein for #19 Traynor                   68'
-After about 5-10 minutes Daly went to RB and Campbell went LB.
#9 Jacobs   for #12 Brady                           76'
#13 TVB     for #8 Shin                               77'
#19 Traynor for #10 Seigelstein                  83'
#16 Paoletta for #22 Welsh                         84'
#22 Welsh   for #6  Enge                            86'
               
2nd Half Comments:
The Half was a defensive slugfest. Tufts had more of the ball and Stevens was hounding them pretty good. Neither team had any time on the ball in their attacking halves. Stevens busted all half. Neither team generated many dangerous chances. Stevens best chance was off a misplayed weak header by Welsh to GK #0 Lauta. It was picked off by Stevens #22 but Tufts GK Lauta saved the day with a big play to thwart the striker. Welsh had a pretty decent game but did show some rust with that header and a badly misplayed ball in midfield late in the game. Jacobs might be coming back from injury but has unfortunately lost all his speed and is not the same player up top at least not that I saw in that game. Seigelstein got a good run in but did not play enough minutes for me to get a read. Campbell was fine at wingback but did show some rust with a couple bad giveaways in dangerous areas.  With Cano out wide it gives Tufts a much better threat on the flank. He is one of few Jumbos that can create his own shot and havoc 1v1 and they need him out there. Now striker could be where Seigelstein lands along with Brady, Jacobs and even Traynor IMO should be getting runs up top. He has a nose for the goal if given opportunities. He has got to work on his 1v1 in offseason as with a stronger left foot he could be a real danger out wide. Centrally they are fine and the back 4 are good to go. I just think in the years to come they need to focus less defensively and start playing some quick one two touch futbol. They had 1 dangerous counter the whole 2nd Half and with Stevens hounding them with 11 behind the ball they should have been off to the races before Stevens could adjust defensively. Tufts were to slow in attack this game.

Announcers did keep saying "The fans are going crazy cheering on their Bos" Frankly the atmosphere was a bit depressing with not a good showing by Tufts supporters. I mean you compare that to what Conn fans did at a much smaller school and even other D3 schools across the country that we have seen this year draw real well. This team always drew well up on campus and they have got to get a Soccer specific field with the Women where Kraft is. They might be able to squeeze a really nice turf Soccer Specific field right in that space. I get it its cold out and kids watch the NFL but the players deserve better than this. Maybe the play on the field needs to be crisper as well. Have the kids show off their individual talent by getting the ball down and playing some true futbol and generating more chances and goals. Start countering with purpose. It will have to wait for 2022 as nothing is going to change now but when this monster Senior class graduates Tufts will need to make some changes to the style. Yes I know they have Won 4/6 NCAA Championships doing it their way but this team needs to be much crisper going forward or it could end on their Home field this weekend.

Bad Fouls 2nd Half:
Stevens owned this category 2nd Half as #22 had two ruthless fouls back to back late in the 2nd Half. He has got to be booked on the 2nd one but the ref gave only a warning.

OT:
Stevens felt a little more adventurous feeling like they had been giving too much respect to Tufts during the match. They came at Tufts the first 5 minutes and then Tufts came back with a nice opportunity off a TVB cross but no one finished it. Back and forth each way but nothing to dangerous.

OT2:
Gerken with a nice header on goal. He was running hard 2nd OT.

Question is the Stevens kid #8 Sean Masur related to St.John's Head Coach Dave Masur? There is also a young Masur on the Coaching staff. Masur started his Coaching career in D3 at MSU in the late 80's.

PK's:
Stevens #16 missed 2.
Tufts #8 Shin telegraphed his with his hips.
Just crazy Tufts GK Lauta is an absolute nutter. Making saves, blasting the ball in the stands, hyping up the refs and anyone else near him. What a GK though as if he continues to progress and keeps working hard and stays somewhat humble he could play at the next level.

[gfal5]

To answer your question, yes both player and coach are Dave Masur's nephews

[Another Mom]

Re lack of student supporters -- somewhat related, I remember being shocked after Tufts won the national championship in 2019, and checking Tufts' social media and seeing zero mention of this achievement.

(With the caveat that I could have missed a post; although I was looking for one at the time)

[d4_Pace]

Mr right. I think you're pretty spot on with most your assessments. Tufts won the NESCAC tourney with 6 players who may have started if healthy. 5 of those 6 returned this past weekend, some after significant periods off. I'm hoping the less than perfect performances can be partially attributed to rust and that those guys will be better for it this weekend.

I understand that the commentators weren't great but they were also 2 18 year old freshmen calling a DIII soccer game. I understand people being upset but some of the comments on the YouTube stream were over the top.

The small crowd was odd. We've traditionally had pretty big crowds especially for NCAA tournament games. On the streams this years it's seemed like the crowds have been bigger than normal during the regular season so I don't know what happened.  Maybe it was too cold or this was a big week for midterms, idk but the crowed was certainly disappointing and atypical last weekend.

Ultimately it's all about survived and advance at this time of year and that's what they did. It's gonna required a better performance this weekend cause Washington college is legit.

[d3commentr]

Stevens at Tufts:

Ref / Fouls 1st Half:
The ref(Jordan Cavaco) did ok 1st Half but he got bullied by the Tufts bench one time into giving a YC to Stevens #21 on an inadvertent trip on Tufts #2 Gerken. It was completely accidental and just a foul which is what he originally called but the balking of the bench influenced him as his hand went for the pocket 30 seconds later. #ridiculous

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2021/11/17/state-police-trooper-arrested-domestic-violence/?p1=hp_featurestack

I don't think he will be reffing any of the games this weekend...

[DucksFan02]

Fantastic writeup Mr. Right!! Spot on about the flow of play, atmosphere, physicality, and chances in the game. From someone whom was there in person, well done and hoping the streaming situation is fixed by this weekend. Heard from others that the commentators were a joke and essentially spent their time getting called out in the comments of the stream.

d3commentr that is crazy about the referee!! no wonder he was letting so much go uncalled/carded!!!

[Brother Flounder]

Stevens at Tufts:


Jumbocast 1st Half:
The stream was a clusterf*ck the entire 1st Half. The announcers kept saying "technical difficulties" but man I hope they can fix that before this weekend. The PbP kid has been doing it all year and does a fine job especially for a Frosh. He will be real good his Senior year. He is a Tufts homer but because he brings "the passion" it forces the viewer to not really care. He comes well prepared researching the opponent as well as Tufts. He should just call the game alone. The Color guy Felix seems like a real good kid a real nice positive kid but 1st Half he was lost in space. Color Guy quote of the 1st Half "The Sun is starting to come out now so it might warm down the weather". At one point when Shin got fouled he yelled "Shin is down". So while this is not a problem during the Regular Season it becomes a minor one during the NCAA's as it kind of gets in the way. Good kid excellent kid but was all over the map interjecting on everything from Volleyball to Cops walking the players off in victory. Frankly Tufts could have 3 Color Guys, I honestly would not care as long as the stream is flawless next weekend.

1st Half Comments:
From what I did see there were very few chances from either side in that Half. Tufts had a couple chances from the run of play early on but could not finish. Stevens also had a few from the run but Stevens showed they were for real with #10 Silva hitting the crossbar on one set piece and later playing another free kick to the back post that no one made a run for. Great ball by Silva as he was dangerous playing behind the striker. He was capable of creating his own shot and one of those players that can Win these type of challenging games all by himself. Other than that it was a pretty sloppy / choppy Half.

Ref / Fouls 1st Half:
The ref(Jordan Cavaco) did ok 1st Half but he got bullied by the Tufts bench one time into giving a YC to Stevens #21 on an inadvertent trip on Tufts #2 Gerken. It was completely accidental and just a foul which is what he originally called but the balking of the bench influenced him as his hand went for the pocket 30 seconds later. #ridiculous

Unnecessary Hard Foul 1st Half #1:
50/50 ball in Tufts end with Stevens pushing forward. The ball was challenged by Tufts #16 Paoletta and Stevens #12. Stevens player was looking for the ball and Paoletta was looking for the body. Paoletta absolutely bulldozed right into #12 with a Shoulder Check but correctly kept his elbow tucked in or risk a Penalty. Oh wait my bad wrong sport. The ref waved play on as Stevens pushed forward and #12 lay motionless on the turf. Stevens #11 then showed a nifty piece of skill to beat Tufts #22 Aidan Welsh by flicking it to himself over Welsh's head. He beat Welch and then drives a 25 yard left footed rocket off the post. Stevens #12 was dazed but recovered and Jordan Cavaco broke out his 4th YC of the 1st half. Felix "I do not know if that should have been a card at all it was really unintentional and wrong place wrong time." Uh-huh.

Unnecessary Hard Foul 1st Half #2:
Tufts defender #25 Clivio chasing Stevens #11 who was hunting a long ball by the touchline just past the Tufts bench. It was maybe 50/50 that #11 could get to it before going out of bounds. Even if he did get it there was no room to go anywhere as Clivio had him closed down. Instead of just buckling down and defending Clivio decides to shoulder check the kid off his feet and onto the turf and almost rammed him into the fence. Just a stupid foul in a dangerous area. This was the set piece I mentioned before with #10 hitting a great ball to the back post for a free header but the run was not made.

Lineups:
Starters:   It was difficult to tell what Tufts was doing because of the stream but I think they were defending in a 5-3-2 with 3 Central Defenders but when they got the ball and went forward RB #3 Daly and LB #2 Gerken were up and down the flank to make a 3-5-2. The 3 Central defenders were LCB #25 Clivio, CB #16 Paoletta and RCB #22 Welsh. Midfield was #6 Enge, #5 Aroh and #13 Van Brewer in a more attacking role. Looked like #11 Cano was joined by #10 Seigelstein up top. Seigelstein and especially Welsh were thrown right into the fire as it was the first weekend they have played in a very long time. This has become the story of how the grunts do the hard work to get you to where you are and "the talent" comes in to Win the title. I get it now.

Bench 1st Half:

#19 Traynor for Seigelstein   20'
#14 Ingersoll for Enge          25'
#9 Jacobs for Cano              30'
#8 Shin for TVB                   30'
#4 Cook for Gerken              35'

2nd Half:

2nd Half Lineup:
Tufts came out in a somewhat more attacking formation. Looked like a 4-2-3-1 with a back 4 of LB Daly, LCB Clivio, RCB Welsh, RB Gerken. Central midfield had #5 Aroh and Ingersoll hanging back while Van Brewer was attacking. Wide Left was Cano, Wide Right was Traynor and Jacobs was up top. So Tufts made some changes with Cano out wide and Jacobs up top. Enge and Paoletta not starting instead going with Welsh and Ingersoll.

2nd Half Subbing:
#26 Gibson Campbell for #2 Gerken at RB    55'
#6  Enge   for #14 Ingersoll                        58'
#12 Brady  for #9 Jacobs up top                  64'
#8  Shin   for #13 Van Brewer                     64'
#10 Seigelstein for #19 Traynor                   68'
-After about 5-10 minutes Daly went to RB and Campbell went LB.
#9 Jacobs   for #12 Brady                           76'
#13 TVB     for #8 Shin                               77'
#19 Traynor for #10 Seigelstein                  83'
#16 Paoletta for #22 Welsh                         84'
#22 Welsh   for #6  Enge                            86'
               
2nd Half Comments:
The Half was a defensive slugfest. Tufts had more of the ball and Stevens was hounding them pretty good. Neither team had any time on the ball in their attacking halves. Stevens busted all half. Neither team generated many dangerous chances. Stevens best chance was off a misplayed weak header by Welsh to GK #0 Lauta. It was picked off by Stevens #22 but Tufts GK Lauta saved the day with a big play to thwart the striker. Welsh had a pretty decent game but did show some rust with that header and a badly misplayed ball in midfield late in the game. Jacobs might be coming back from injury but has unfortunately lost all his speed and is not the same player up top at least not that I saw in that game. Seigelstein got a good run in but did not play enough minutes for me to get a read. Campbell was fine at wingback but did show some rust with a couple bad giveaways in dangerous areas.  With Cano out wide it gives Tufts a much better threat on the flank. He is one of few Jumbos that can create his own shot and havoc 1v1 and they need him out there. Now striker could be where Seigelstein lands along with Brady, Jacobs and even Traynor IMO should be getting runs up top. He has a nose for the goal if given opportunities. He has got to work on his 1v1 in offseason as with a stronger left foot he could be a real danger out wide. Centrally they are fine and the back 4 are good to go. I just think in the years to come they need to focus less defensively and start playing some quick one two touch futbol. They had 1 dangerous counter the whole 2nd Half and with Stevens hounding them with 11 behind the ball they should have been off to the races before Stevens could adjust defensively. Tufts were to slow in attack this game.

Announcers did keep saying "The fans are going crazy cheering on their Bos" Frankly the atmosphere was a bit depressing with not a good showing by Tufts supporters. I mean you compare that to what Conn fans did at a much smaller school and even other D3 schools across the country that we have seen this year draw real well. This team always drew well up on campus and they have got to get a Soccer specific field with the Women where Kraft is. They might be able to squeeze a really nice turf Soccer Specific field right in that space. I get it its cold out and kids watch the NFL but the players deserve better than this. Maybe the play on the field needs to be crisper as well. Have the kids show off their individual talent by getting the ball down and playing some true futbol and generating more chances and goals. Start countering with purpose. It will have to wait for 2022 as nothing is going to change now but when this monster Senior class graduates Tufts will need to make some changes to the style. Yes I know they have Won 4/6 NCAA Championships doing it their way but this team needs to be much crisper going forward or it could end on their Home field this weekend.

Bad Fouls 2nd Half:
Stevens owned this category 2nd Half as #22 had two ruthless fouls back to back late in the 2nd Half. He has got to be booked on the 2nd one but the ref gave only a warning.

OT:
Stevens felt a little more adventurous feeling like they had been giving too much respect to Tufts during the match. They came at Tufts the first 5 minutes and then Tufts came back with a nice opportunity off a TVB cross but no one finished it. Back and forth each way but nothing to dangerous.

OT2:
Gerken with a nice header on goal. He was running hard 2nd OT.

Question is the Stevens kid #8 Sean Masur related to St.John's Head Coach Dave Masur? There is also a young Masur on the Coaching staff. Masur started his Coaching career in D3 at MSU in the late 80's.

PK's:
Stevens #16 missed 2.
Tufts #8 Shin telegraphed his with his hips.
Just crazy Tufts GK Lauta is an absolute nutter. Making saves, blasting the ball in the stands, hyping up the refs and anyone else near him. What a GK though as if he continues to progress and keeps working hard and stays somewhat humble he could play at the next level.

Good stuff Right!  Pretty Spot On!  I would also like to see the Jumbos connect on shorter passes... Stevens had some good players.  Great game!

[Mr.Right]

Stevens at Tufts:

Ref / Fouls 1st Half:
The ref(Jordan Cavaco) did ok 1st Half but he got bullied by the Tufts bench one time into giving a YC to Stevens #21 on an inadvertent trip on Tufts #2 Gerken. It was completely accidental and just a foul which is what he originally called but the balking of the bench influenced him as his hand went for the pocket 30 seconds later. #ridiculous

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2021/11/17/state-police-trooper-arrested-domestic-violence/?p1=hp_featurestack

I don't think he will be reffing any of the games this weekend...

Just to correct the record. This is not the referee. There is no way that Center Ref was 27.

[Mr.Right]

I feel like this is what Lauta needs for his pregame.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1447312032836067335

[Mr.Right]

Amherst at Babson next.