Tops Teams

[mmccrr]

Who's looking strong this Fall?? Who graduated a lot? Will Messiah climb back up to the top this year or Trinity make another appearance in the finals?

[CrusaderNation]

Our surprising Crusaders graduated some key people but they return a ton of undergraduate talent who played major roles in the Final Four run.  They are also bringing in a terrific recruiting class, so, they may be one to watch in the future!

[mmccrr]

Do they have a solid GK replacement?? As an outsider looking in she seemed to keep them in a lot of their games as they got further in the NCAA's

[CrusaderNation]

We hope so... but the team in front may be stronger so that might lighten the load.  This time of the year everything looks good on paper though doesn't it?

[ppn512]

Offensively, Messiah's top scorer in Nikki Elsaesser returns. They graduated Alicia Frey and Corrine Wulf. Other seniors graduated but they weren't the stars. Messiah should be a top team again this season. Looked strong last night against Kutztown (d2 team) in a scrimmage.

[mmccrr]

Of teams mentioned...
#2 Messiah proving to be the team we all know with a perfect 7-0 record and conceding only 1 goal on the year.  1-0 OT win on #11 Misericorida this week

#7 Emory seemed to have been dominant over Capital with a 3-1 win and a lopsided shot count of 34 - 6.

Other notables:
Middlebury is currently sitting at 3-3 on the season with hiccups against Amherst, Conn College and Bowdoin

#1 Washington University also ever dominant with a perfect record and 1 goal conceded as well. Next weekends match up vs #3 Wheaton will be a great test of the best playing the best.

#15 William Smith sitting at 3-2, dropping games to #4 Carnegie Mellon ( whom is having a great start) and Messiah.  William Smith might be down but there not out. Those aren't bad losses by any means

Ill Wesleyan v Chicago another interesting match up next week in the top 25


My dark horses for the year are Lynchburg and Bowdoin.  Impressive results against some good teams... I know its still early but this could be a interesting NCAA Tournament.

All in all it seems like this could be anyones year.  Any noteables missing???