Mid-Atlantic Region

[Shooter McGavin]

After another round of weekend games here are the latest power rankings...

Shooter's Power Rankings
1. F&M--Nice win over the Fords and 7th win in a row for the Diplomats to improve to 8-1-0.
2. Hopkins--Come from behind win over the Bullets and improve to 7-2-0.
3. Messiah--Back to normal for the Falcons with a huge win over top 5 JC. Record improves to 6-2-2.
4. Catholic--The Cardinals keep rising as they pick up a nice road win over conference foe Scranton to improve to 8-1-1.
5. Moravian--The Greyhounds have been flyingnunder the radar and improve to 7-1-1 on the year against stiff competition.
6. Stevens--Losing 3 of last 4 and no wins during this stretch has been tough as the Ducks drop to 6-3-1.
7. Gettysburg--First loss in almost a month moves the Bullets to 5-3-0 on the year.
T8. Swat--The Garnet picked up a nice home win over Lycoming earlier in the week and split with Muhles last night in a battle to go 6-1-2.
T8. Muhles--Muhles also 6-1-2 and in a deadlock with Swat after a tie in conference play last night.
10. Lyco--The Warriors sneak in at 5-4-0 after an impressive bounce back win over Carnegie Mellon. 
HM: Etown, Fords, Dickinson, McDaniel, Stevenson

[Shooter McGavin]

Heads up to curious D3 fans: you might still be able to view the stream of this game. I just reviewed the scoring plays here https://gomessiah.com/watch/?Live=247&type=Live

I hope they leave it up for a few hours. If you go there, to see what I mean about Groothoff's return and more confidence (which comes with the former) changing everything for the Falcons, watch these two segments:
(1) 1:53:30 to 1:55:45.  See how Groothoff, Kokolios, and Goodling (who had the hat trick vs York before Luke's return) manufacture the second goal--and how the defense gloms onto Groothoff, leaving Kokolios wide open to go unmolested to goal.

(2) 2:23:00 watch the sequence of two corners, with Groothoff finishing in spectacular fashion.

This is high level soccer. Such moments have been rare until this past week, including today.

Watched a majority of the game yesterday and the Falcons looked dangerous. Slowly starting to get back to the Messiah we all know as they get healthy and more confident. Lycoming also picked up a nice win over CMU who just tied John Carroll last week. Should be fun to watch both here in a few weeks face off as they continue to build their resumes.

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

MAF Top 10 Rankings
1. F&M
2. JHU
3. Messiah
4. Swat
5. Catholic
6. Stevens
7. Muhles
8. Moravian
9. Gettysburg
10. Fords
HM: Lyco, Etown, Dickinson, McDaniel, Widener, Kings

[Hopkins92]

Dickinson @ F&M (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Hop @ Wash C (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Alvernia @ Messiah (10/5)
Swat @ Ursinus (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Eastern @ Cath (10/1); Drew @ Cath (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Lyco @ Moravian (10/1); Mora @ Susquehana (10/5)
Bullets @ McDaniel (10/5; Fords @ G'burg (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Fords @ G'burg

Note the 10/1 (tuesday) games...

Fords and Muhles with HUGE weeks ahead.

[YoungBuck]

Dickinson @ F&M (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Hop @ Wash C (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Alvernia @ Messiah (10/5)
Swat @ Ursinus (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Eastern @ Cath (10/1); Drew @ Cath (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Lyco @ Moravian (10/1); Mora @ Susquehana (10/5)
Bullets @ McDaniel (10/5; Fords @ G'burg (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Fords @ G'burg

Note the 10/1 (tuesday) games...

Fords and Muhles with HUGE weeks ahead.

I'll have my eye on the Dickinson @ F&M result on Wednesday.  The only remaining undefeated teams so far in CC play, so the winner can take early command of the conference.  Dickinson on a 3 game win streak.  They have averaged 3.8 goals in their 5 wins this year, while only scoring 1 goal in 3 losses (to good teams -- Messiah, Catholic, Lyco).  Meanwhile, F&M have won 7 in a row (5 in a row by 1 goal).  Kopacz and Gilbert are fun to watch and each gives their team a dangerous option up top.  Should be plenty of offense in this one.

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

Dickinson @ F&M (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Hop @ Wash C (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Alvernia @ Messiah (10/5)
Swat @ Ursinus (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Eastern @ Cath (10/1); Drew @ Cath (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Lyco @ Moravian (10/1); Mora @ Susquehana (10/5)
Bullets @ McDaniel (10/5; Fords @ G'burg (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Fords @ G'burg

Note the 10/1 (tuesday) games...

Fords and Muhles with HUGE weeks ahead.

Nice wins for Catholic and Lycoming last night. Some big games ahead today and this weekend!

[YoungBuck]

Dickinson @ F&M (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Hop @ Wash C (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Alvernia @ Messiah (10/5)
Swat @ Ursinus (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Eastern @ Cath (10/1); Drew @ Cath (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Lyco @ Moravian (10/1); Mora @ Susquehana (10/5)
Bullets @ McDaniel (10/5; Fords @ G'burg (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Fords @ G'burg

Note the 10/1 (tuesday) games...

Fords and Muhles with HUGE weeks ahead.

Meaningless stat of the day:

With a 3-0 win over WAC today, Hopkins has now won 23 consecutive Wednesday games, dating back to a 1-0 CC tournament loss @ Haverford in 2014. 

[Hopkins92]

F&M 2:1 Dickinson
Hop 3:0 Washington
Swat 3:1 Bears
Fords 3:2 Muhles
Bullets: 1:0 WMD

[Hopkins92]

Dickinson @ F&M (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Hop @ Wash C (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Alvernia @ Messiah (10/5)
Swat @ Ursinus (10/2); F&M @ Swat (10/5)
Eastern @ Cath (10/1); Drew @ Cath (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Muhles @ Hop (10/5)
Lyco @ Moravian (10/1); Mora @ Susquehana (10/5)
Bullets @ McDaniel (10/5; Fords @ G'burg (10/5)
Fords @ Muhles (10/2); Fords @ G'burg

Note the 10/1 (tuesday) games...

Fords and Muhles with HUGE weeks ahead.

Meaningless stat of the day:

With a 3-0 win over WAC today, Hopkins has now won 23 consecutive Wednesday games, dating back to a 1-0 CC tournament loss @ Haverford in 2014.

How and why do you know this. 

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

Big weekend ahead for the region...in bold are the biggest of the big to tune into

F&M @ Swat
Muhles @ JHU
Alvernia @ Messiah
Drew @ Catholic
Moravian @ Susquehanna
Scranton @ Goucher
Etown @ Juniata
Keystone @ Cairn
Widener @ Lyco
Eastern @ Kings
Wash @ McDaniel
Arcadia @ LVC
Ursinus @ Dickinson
Stevens @ Misericordia
Fords @ Gettysburg

[Shooter McGavin]

Shooter's Power Rankings
1. F&M--Make it 9 wins in a row for the Diplomats to improve to 10-1-0.
2. Hopkins--JHU stays hot and improves to 9-2-0.
3. Messiah--The Falcons won a surprisingly tough conference tilt and move to 7-2-2.
4. Catholic--The Cardinals are unbeaten in the last 10 games and move to 10-1-1.
5. Gettysburg--The Bullets move to 6-3-1 on the year as they draw the Fords.   
6. Lyco--The Warriors have won 3 straight and improve to 7-4-0 on the year.
7. Moravian--The Greyhounds fell in OT to Lyco but bounced back to start conference play to move to 8-2-1.
8. Swat--The Garnet are slowly coming back to reality as they drop to 7-2-2 as they have picked up 4 blemishes in the last 6 games.
9. Muhles--Muhles only have 1 win in the last 5 games and drop to 6-3-2 and remain winless in conference play.
10. Stevens--Winless in the last 5 games as the Ducks drop to 6-3-2.   
HM: Etown, Dickinson, Stevenson

[Hopkins92]

Eastern @ F&M (10/9); F&M @ Ursinus (10/12)
Swat @ Hop (10/12)
Arcadia @ Messiah (10/8); Messiah @ Widener (10/12)
Catholic @ Galludet (10/8); Susq. @ Catholic (10/12)
Bullets @ Susq. (10/9); Bullets @ Muhles (10/12)
Lycoming @ Arcadia (10/12)
Cairn @ Swat (10/8); Swat & Hop (10/12)
Muhles @ Moravian (10/9); Muhles @ Scranton (10/12)
Wilkes @ Stevens (10/12)

Etown @ Drew (10/12)
Dickinson @ Mis. (10/9); WashC @ Dick. (10/12)
LebValley @ Stevenson (10/8); Steve @ Alvernia (10/11)

[Hopkins92]

I just bolded those games because they weren't on the "traditional" Wed/Sat schedule. I don't anticipate the crosstown match btwn Catholic and Galludet to be especially competitive, for example.

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

MAF Top 10 Rankings
1. F&M
2. JHU
3. Messiah
4. Catholic
5. Swat
6. Gettysburg
7. Muhles
8. Lyco
9. Stevens
10. Moravian
HM: Etown, Fords, Dickinson, Scranton

[franklyspeaking]

Seems to me there is a nice dropoff from the top 5 to the next 5.