Akron Rick

For those (like me) that can't make it, the game will be on ESPN Plus.

Beat Santa Clara we travel to 14-4 Kentucky who has a bye.

Still cheaper than ESPN Plus...but I don't see NIU streaming any Zips' Women's volleyball games !

Thanks for catching the error. I was looking at the WMU game time and thought it was the NIU game (damn old age!)

It is 2pm CT which is 3pm in Akron. I think..not positive, though.. that going through the NIU all-access stream will be our only recourse for tv. Go to Northern Illinois Athletics, on to men's soccer and you should find a soccer schedule. There you will find a "watch" link that should take you to the game (in theory).

Good catch on the corners... I think around 55 minute mark was the 1st of the night which validates Welker's observation that UM wasn't forcing anything in their offensive end until late in the game. BTW the play-by-play guy was David Bacon who does most of the Zips home games

I thought a big difference tonight was the Nits played that high defense..at least in first half..but their defenders were beat downfield repeatedly by the Zips transition attack which resulted in more quality shots on net. Props to Embick for a perfect tactic.

I have an ESPN + subscription but ESPN3 is another channel. However last night I went to gozips.com/soccer where they list each game and link who if anyone is airing it. I hit the ESPN3 link they provided and voila! there it was. It was a weird defense Southern was playing as they were conceding possession by playing no press until the final 3rd of the field. Thus they had little chance to score. I'm sure Coach Embick didn't complain.

Real team effort tonight. For those that didn't get to see it you can get an idea how many played well by how many different names were brought up in these posts. I would add Portman to that list. He seemed to be everywhere in that last 25-30 min. when you could see the legs getting heavy.

For the first MAC game of the season this half has been tremendous. End to end action, noone giving any quarter, and the young Zips came to play! Now they must sustain the effort.

Nice write-up, Tenn. I noticed their schedule is front-loaded with home games with 7 of the first 9 unfortunately inc.the Zips game. Then they have a no. of MAC away matches. If they can run that gauntlet they will deserve that high ranking and that "huge chip" will have served them well. Zips obviously need that 1st goal and it will be very difficult as WVU's keeper Tekesky has 5 clean sheets. Go Zips!

I 'll admit I was one switching back-and-forth from futbol to football although I saw the whole 1st half . Although the Zips couldn't find the net I was reminded a bit about the "death by a 1000 passes" as they were dominating possession and were much more precise but again unlucky. Best chance came after only a few minutes of play when Shook found himself on the end of a Henry cross staring down the keeper but blasted it way over the bar. Didn't get to see the winner by DC but now it's back on the road where they need to play like home.

I must have confused them with their rival on the Charles River.

Lucky for us their best athletes are on crew and have no time for soccer.

"the Zips need to get back to death by 1,000 passes... possession soccer and spreading the field " I was thinking exactly this during the game... I wonder if Coach had that thought as well!