Mid-Atlantic Region

[Hopkins Walk-On]

Hopkins also played a man-up for 70+ minutes. Gettysburg came out very aggressive - pressing high and hard - which gave Hopkins some trouble. One of the G'burg players got a little carried away and came in with a ridiculously reckless tackle, for which he received a straight red card. As Hopkins92 noted, JHU controlled possession. However, Gettysburg had a number of very dangerous chances. The JHU goalkeeper, Alex Morgret, made a few outstanding saves.

The Centennial is setting up for a momentous final regular season game between JHU and F&M at Homewood.

[Hopkins92]

Hopkins also played a man-up for 70+ minutes. Gettysburg came out very aggressive - pressing high and hard - which gave Hopkins some trouble. One of the G'burg players got a little carried away and came in with a ridiculously reckless tackle, for which he received a straight red card. As Hopkins92 noted, JHU controlled possession. However, Gettysburg had a number of very dangerous chances. The JHU goalkeeper, Alex Morgret, made a few outstanding saves.

The Centennial is setting up for a momentous final regular season game between JHU and F&M at Homewood.

Once again, to keep my marriage in tact, had the game on the laptop while watching Netflix and missed the red card. Explains that second half, for sure.

[Hopkins92]

Centennial

Hopkins 1:0 Gettysburg
Dickinson 1:2 F&M
Washington 2:0 Ursinus
Fords 0:0 Muhles
Swat 0:1 McDaniel

Landmark

Catholic 4:1 Drew
Susquehanna 0:2 Moravian
Juniata 0:1 E'town
Goucher 0:3 Scranton

MAC-F

King's 0:2 Stevens
Arcadia 0:2 Misericordia
Del. Valley 0:5 Lycoming
DeSales 3:4 Wilkes
Valley Forge 0:2 FDU-F

MAC-C

CNU 1:4 Messiah
Alvernia 2:0 Hood
Widener 3:1 York
Eastern 1:2 Stevenson
Leb. Valley 3:0 Albright

NJAC

Montclair St. 5-2 Ramapo
Rutgers-Camden 1:0 NJCU
Rowan - Rutgers-Newark (ppd to today)
TCNJ - 1:2 Will. Paterson
Kean 1:1 Stockton

[Hopkins92]

Out of all that, of particular note:

* - McDaniel with a Centennial result. Just keeping tabs on the Night Terrors.
* - Misericordia with a significant result
* - York got worked at home by Widener. I might dig deeper on that Widener squad to see what might have changed from the 0-3 start. Now won 5 of 6 and that was a dominant performance in York. Their striker looked really dangerous. Wonder if he was out of form early?? More on that later...
* - We talked about that Kean game... 1-1 tie leaves you wondering about Stockton going forward... or is this more Kean coming into form?

ETA - Widener striker is Sean Fatiga (junior) who now has 5 on the season after his brace against York. From what I can gather, most of these goals have come in the last couple of weeks... He was clinical on both finishes. He's a bit of a tank and tough to dispossess. Gonna keep an eye on him.

Second point, Messiah's MacDonald now has 11G, 1A on the year after scoring yesterday. I was rambling about him looking like an All-American after his assist against NYU... Not like I'm uncovering a hidden gem , but I hadn't looked up his stats. That's gotta be close to leading the nation, no?

[Hopkins92]

The Centennial is setting up for a momentous final regular season game between JHU and F&M at Homewood.

Just went back and looked at respective skeds... I'm not going to jinx my boys... nuff said.

Dips still have Gettysburg, Swat and Haverford. First game speaks for itself, historical stuff pulls in the stress with the other two.

But, yeah... your statement stands

[Flying Weasel]

Second point, Messiah's MacDonald now has 11G, 1A on the year after scoring yesterday. I was rambling about him looking like an All-American after his assist against NYU... Not like I'm uncovering a hidden gem , but I hadn't looked up his stats. That's gotta be close to leading the nation, no?

Coming into the weekend, Matt McDonald's 10 goals was tied for 7th in the nation.  The NCAA stats should update later tonight or early tomorrow.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3/current/individual/573

http://stats.ncaa.org/rankings/change_sport_year_div

When looking at goals per game (https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3/current/individual/5), I see Alem Duratovic (Kenyon) had 9 in 8 games, now 9 in 9 after the weekend.  Not bad even if he scored a hattrick against Spalding.

A more familiar name I see among the leaders is Rutgers-Newark's Frank Catania with 10 goals (and 3 assists) in 10 games a he tries to improve upon last years' 20 goals and 5 assists.  His team could use goal number 11 tonight to defeat Rowan as the teams are tied 1-1 entering the second half of their NJAC tilt.

Sorry, I guess I took that off the Mid-Atlantic topic.

[PaulNewman]

Second point, Messiah's MacDonald now has 11G, 1A on the year after scoring yesterday. I was rambling about him looking like an All-American after his assist against NYU... Not like I'm uncovering a hidden gem , but I hadn't looked up his stats. That's gotta be close to leading the nation, no?

Coming into the weekend, Matt McDonald's 10 goals was tied for 7th in the nation.  The NCAA stats should update later tonight or early tomorrow.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3/current/individual/573

http://stats.ncaa.org/rankings/change_sport_year_div

When looking at goals per game (https://www.ncaa.com/stats/soccer-men/d3/current/individual/5), I see Alem Duratovic (Kenyon) had 9 in 8 games, now 9 in 9 after the weekend.  Not bad even if he scored a hattrick against Spalding.

A more familiar name I see among the leaders is Rutgers-Newark's Frank Catania with 10 goals (and 3 assists) in 10 games a he tries to improve upon last years' 20 goals and 5 assists.

Duratovic, a soph, also doesn't start, although the 2nd line forwards essentially split time with the two starters.

[SierraFD3soccer]

True about the 2-1 win by F&M against Dickinson.  F&M dominated possession and the goals were nice. Dickenson keeper played well and it could have easily been more. Sloppy goal given up in the last 10.

One thing that may not be discussed much on this board is substitutions. For instance and excluding keeper, F&M only had two players playing 80 plus minutes and substitutes played substantial time. This is consistent throughout the year.  Fortunately, almost no drop off when subs come in for F&M.

Got to look for rest as well as looking for players to step up if there are injuries.  There are way, way too many games played in such a short period of time. Coaches have to have deep dependable benches.  If not, losing one or two starters  devastate teams. 

[SierraFD3soccer]

The Centennial is setting up for a momentous final regular season game between JHU and F&M at Homewood.

Very true.  Still a lot of soccer to be played. I'm sure JHU will also be looking avenge last year's loss at Tylus.

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

MAF Power Rankings (Region 4 and Region 5)

Region 4
1. Stevens
2. Montclair
3. Misericordia
4. Lycoming
5. NYU
6. St. Mary's (Md)
7. NJ City
8. Stockton

Region 5
1. Messiah
2. Hopkins
3. F&M
4. Gettysburg
5. Alvernia
6. Catholic
7. Drew
8. Scranton
9. McDaniel
10. Swarthmore

[Hopkins92]

Thanks for that MAF... past the top 3 in each region, all of those teams have significant question marks. I still can't get over Lyco getting so thoroughly smashed by Messiah. No shame in it, but 5-0 is just hard for me to get past.

I almost went to Drew back in the day, so I have (very tenuous) soft spot for them. But, hoo boy, that was not a great home performance on Saturday. Again, nothing too crazy about losing to Catholic, but that was very one-sided. And while we're talking about the Cardinals, they've taken down both Scranton and Drew... Nothing really stopping them from running the table at this point. Not meant to jinx, but they looked really good and the remaining conf. sked has now opened wide.

I would also rate NYU... They gave Messiah all they could handle. They will have some nice UAA tests to boost their SoS, which is already pretty good.

[camosfan]

MAF Power Rankings (Region 4 and Region 5)

Region 4
1. Stevens
2. Montclair
3. Misericordia
4. Lycoming
5. NYU
6. St. Mary's (Md)
7. NJ City
8. Stockton[/b]

Region 5
1. Messiah
2. Hopkins
3. F&M
4. Gettysburg
5. Alvernia
6. Catholic
7. Drew
8. Scranton
9. McDaniel
10. Swarthmore

Montclair is a stronger team than Stevens.

[PaulNewman]

MAF Power Rankings (Region 4 and Region 5)

Region 4
1. Stevens
2. Montclair
3. Misericordia
4. Lycoming
5. NYU
6. St. Mary's (Md)
7. NJ City
8. Stockton[/b]

Region 5
1. Messiah
2. Hopkins
3. F&M
4. Gettysburg
5. Alvernia
6. Catholic
7. Drew
8. Scranton
9. McDaniel
10. Swarthmore

Montclair is a stronger team than Stevens.

@camosfan, you might want to ask some of your Tufts brethren about that.

[camosfan]

tough game last year notwithstanding. They have a good starting 11 but lack the depth you need for the knockout phase of the competition.

[PaulNewman]

Yep, the Stevens depth definitely really killed them against Tufts when they got to PK shootout after 110 minutes and lost 11-10.