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another fabulous article....about Richie..... Richie was a fiery competitor at Akron.....Toronto is fortunate to have a "Warrior" on their team https://www.thestar.com/sports/tfc/no-matter-what-position-he-plays-richie-laryea-a-driving-force-for-toronto-fc/article_1b8f151d-750e-5186-aa75-a76a21a323c2.html

The quotes in this article....about Richie Laryea...are absolutely glowing there are so many quotes that I am not allowed to post all of them.... please click on the article....and read about former Zip Richie https://wakingthered.com/2025/08/31/20909/osorio-was-the-goal-hero-but-laryea-vilsaint-play-big-hand-in-toronto-fc-draw-with-cf-montreal/ CanMNT and TFC veteran Richie Laryea occupied the role of a center-back, instead of his usual role at full-back. However, Laryea was everywhere, making deep runs all the way to the CFMTL box, and sometimes controlling possession as an advanced No. 8. “Richie has become, for us, wherever we need somebody, for whatever reason, he just goes there, and he’s excelled in everything I’ve asked him to do,” (head coach) Fraser said. “And I’ve asked him to do probably six or seven different things this year.” Goalscorer and the man of the moment, Osorio, was also full of praise for Laryea, acknowledging that people might already know how good he is, but Laryea may not be getting the proper respect he deserves. “I can’t speak highly enough about that guy,” Osorio said. “He is an unbelievable competitor, an unbelievable footballer. He plays where he’s told to play, and he does the job. I think a lot of people know how good he is, but actually, I think even he deserves even more respect than he actually gets. Because that guy is a top-level player.”

Saturday August 30th The big East went 0-2 tonight The really bad loss is that Bellarmine (from the Atlantic Sun conference) defeated Xavier 3-1 St. Louis (at home) had a 1-0 win over Seton Hall. Cornell will be a tough non league game for the Zips. Cornell finally opened their season tonight with a 3-0 win over LeMoyne I think that there are 4 games on sunday...involving Zips opponents. Northern KY at Western Illinois 2 Manhattan at UConn 6 St. Johns at Wake Forest 7 pm Temple at Ohio State 7 pm

The soccer ball in last night’s game should be super healthy. The ball recuperated many, many times in last night’s game. the announcer was laughably very bad.

very well taken corner kick by Akron.....

PDF box score says attendance of 1,773 tough to compete with high school football on Friday night https://gozips.com/documents/2025/8/30/akr-wvu-msoc-box-8-29-25a.pdf

Huge win tonight for Georgetown Georgetown with a 1-0 home win over highly ranked Pitt Wisconsin gets a 1-0 over Western Michigan Michigan defeated Creighton 3-1 VCU gets a 2-1 road win at Old Dominion At home, Providence with a 2-0 win over Boston College

Zips played absolutely ferocious defense tonight. Great game plan, great effort from the players.... Ashton and Matthew Paiva......make a tremendous duo on that side of the field. Matt Dreas and Jack Sullivan/Tyler Morck....were excellent in ball winning at midfield.

the announcer is just horrible...... several times, he called Tyler Morck.....Tyler Bush That being said, outstanding defensive game plan by the Zips.... outstanding swarming defense.

Friday August 29 American University and number 1 Vermont battled this afternoon to a 1-1 result. Vermont led 12-7 in shots ; 6 to 1 in shots on goal and 9-2 in corners Vermont plays at Georgetown on Monday September 1.

Thursday August 28 Big East teams continue to be unimpressive.... New Jersey Institute of Technology played to a 0-0 result with UConn Detroit Mercy defeated Butler 2-0 Iona and Villanova played to a 1-1 tie Marquette scored at 86 minutes to earn a 3-3 tie with Drake. DePaul did get a 2-1 win over Chicago State St. John's did its part tonight for the Big East with a 5-0 win over New Hampshire (on Sunday night, St. John's will play at ACC powerhosue Wake Forest) Ohio State got a 1-0 home win over the Oakland Grizzlies games to follow on Friday August 29 Number 1 Vermont at American 4 pm Western Michigan at Wisconsin 7 pm Boston College at Providence 7 pm Creighton at Michigan 7 pm VCU at Old Dominion 7 pm number 7 Pitt plays at Georgetown 7:30 pm

WEAR WHITE !!!

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/ The United Soccer Coaches have released their most current vote....and they say that the number 16 ranked Zips will host the number 10 ranked Moutaineers this FRiday night. Are the coaches correct? Will both of these 2 teams be receiving a top 16 bye when the NCAA tournament begins in November?

West Virginia with a 4-0 win over LaSalle Maryland went on the road and got a 1-0 win at number 25 Georgetown The New Haven Chargers (this is their first year in Division 1) defeated Providence 1-0 Reminder- Georgetown and Providence were predicted to finish 1-2 in the Big East- Eastern division

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-national-rankings/men

great result for St. Louis !!! tonight's games La Salle at W. VA 6 Maryland at Georgetown 7 New Haven at Providence 7 Cleveland State at Grand Canyon 10

https://dxbhsrqyrr690.cloudfront.net/sidearm.nextgen.sites/akron.sidearmsports.com/stats/msoc/2025/pdf/20250824084656-akr-nku-msoc-8-24-25.pdf PDF box score....shows tonight's attendance at 1,487 Shots in the 2nd half were 8-0 for Akron. Caleb Borneo and Jack Sullivan and Remi Agunbiade , to me, were the bright spots in tonight's game. Borneo always seemed to be around the ball in the 2nd half.

Some Sunday night scores UConn might be better than expected Thursday night, they knocked off ACC team Syracuse Tonight, UConn hosted #8 UMass...two teams battled to a 1-1 result #23 Hofstra with a 2-0 win over St. John's UNC Greensboro defeated VCU 3-2 Butler with a 1-0 win over Bowling Green.

Who is the bozo doing play by play on ESPN Plus? someone needs to tell him that our GK name is not pronounced BOOD ler

Dayton really dominated WMU at WMU 18 shots to 7 11 shots on goal other games today number 1 Vermont with a 4-0 win over Boston U DePaul and Oakland battled to a 1-1 result Marquette with 2-1 win over Northern Florida

Sunday August 24 number 12 Dayton defeated number 20 Western Michigan 4-0

The Beacon Journal has done an outstanding job of honoring the incomparable Stu Parry. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/college/zips/2025/08/22/akron-zips-soccer-caleb-porter-stu-parry-mls-new-england-revolution-portland-timbers-columbus-crew/85745054007/ "Stu Parry is the godfather of the Akron men's soccer program," Caleb Porter told the Akron Beacon Journal on Aug. 19 regarding Parry, who died Aug. 15 at the age of 92. "He is the founder. I had a great relationship with him. I had a close relationship with him. He was one of the first people that called me when I got the job [at the age of 31] and we were having lunch maybe two days later. "He was a mentor to me," Porter said. "I really made a point every season to have him talk to the team because I wanted the current players to understand the founder and who he was. It is very important when you have a tradition of excellence that the current players understand they are a part of something a lot bigger than themselves. I felt it was important that they understood the man that started the program because Akron soccer didn't just fall out of the sky and become a national contender. He is the one that started it and paved the way.