NCAA TOURNAMENT 2024

[SierraFD3soccer]

PLEEEEEASE shut up!!!! Let them play. So, so, so many words. This is not radio. What next?? Tell us about the offside rule???

[SierraFD3soccer]

Camera person forgot their glasses and has A.D.D.

And the woman broadcasting is clueless and has a crush on overhyped miniature striker for the purple.

Exactly. She must be the Bob Costas of D3 soccer.

[Bucket]

Referee for one semi is from Alabama and the other semi is from Illinois.  Ref for final is from California.

They play soccer in Alabama?

I kid, I kid.

Midd hoopster Edward Witherington (Fairhope, Alabama) was a pretty good goalie at the scholastic level . . .

There is some very, very good soccer played down here at the club level. Birmingham United, Alabama FC, some of the Mobile teams. There are some amazing soccer facilities here also. But yes, American Football still dominates and the SEC still refuses to have men's soccer as it would draw resources from other sports.

Additional note that will only interest you—Edward's father was at W&L with me.

[Bucket]

PLEEEEEASE shut up!!!! Let them play. So, so, so many words. This is not radio. What next?? Tell us about the offside rule???

And interesting choice of Jeremy Franklin as pbp, as he's employed by W&L.

[stlawus]

This game is really horrid quality.

[eaglesoccerdad]

FWIW - 27 deg in Roanoke

[eaglesoccerdad]

This game is really horrid quality.

definitely not the beautiful game

[eaglesoccerdad]

nice #32 - cynical kick to the head

[boomer]

nice #32 - cynical kick to the head

Certainly late

[jknezek]

That wasn't a pretty first half. Oh well. Sometimes it goes that way in high stakes games.

[jumpshot]

Yeah, 32 late kick to the head of Midd goalie ... and tackle arm tackle by 17 from behind to prevent a Midd breakaway each brought amHerst yellow cards.

[Bucket]

Some interesting tactical changes in this game for the Panthers. Frosh "supersub" Keagan Harder, Midd's leading scorer and NESCAC freshman of the year,  starts his first game of the season in place of all-conference forward Gavin Randolph. And Freshman Samual Dolan gets the starting nod on defense in place of sophomore Ari Klayman. Klayman tweaked his hamstring against Vassar, but he did come on in this game as a sub. (FWIW: Klayman was starting in place of frosh Anthony Costintino, who broke his leg in the last game of the regular season.) For a Panther team that has so many senior contributors, there's basically a starting quality second team of underclassmen. Impressive depth.

[Kuiper]

Great header by Enmore kitten.  When the Middlebury GK went out that hard for the corner, he absolutely had to get a touch on it.  Once he missed, it was real trouble.

Amherst 1 - Middlebury 0

[gocamels]

Middlebury goalie wearing a baseball cap in net, gets scored on right away. Coincidence?

[eaglesoccerdad]

nice finish there by Midd #4