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Very light schedule for college games last night (Tuesday) Penn State 1 Bowling Green 0 SIU-Edwardsville 1 Univ.of Missouri - Kansas City 0

Bashing the players in the media serves no purpose. Jared and Leo and others will get their points across behind the scenes in practice. The 2015 team had a brutal butt kicking in their 2nd match at Old Dominion and they rebounded to make it to the final four. Last year's team had a bad first weekend out west. This bad loss and the incentive of playing against 2 former Zips.....should help the Zips rebound on Saturday against Pitt.

Monday was not a good night for the zips on the field...and they did not get any help for RPI Butler lost tonight 2-1 to a Drake team that is not ranked. Drake had lost first game 1-0 to Oral Roberts Western Miichigan lost 1-0 tonight to DePaul DePaul lost first game 1-0 to Kentucky Pitt beat Delaware tonight 6-1...Robby Dambrot scored a goal Washington 2 New Mexico 0 Green Bay 3 N. Illinois 2

scores from Sunday UNC-Wilmington 1 West Virginia 0 Connecticut 1 Niagara 0 ...Connecticut def. Lehigh 2-1 on Friday...I missed that score earlier VCU 3 Radford 0 Creighton 0 UC Davis 0 Michigan State 0 Tulsa 0 Portland 2 Syracuse 1 other national scores of Interest Indiana 1 North Carolina 0 the suckeyes got first win 1-0 over Hofstra Providence had upset #8 SMU on Friday night...Sunday, Providence lost 3-0 to Illinois Chicago. Jesus "Chino" Perez plays for Illinois Chicago and is getting lots of positive press Akron stayed at #2 in top drawer rankings https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-national-rankings/men

San Jose lost to Cal State Northridge on Sunday. I would guess that San Jose has 11 guys in box against Stanford

http://www.phillysoccerpage.net/2018/08/26/match-report-nashville-sc-1-2-bethlehem-steel/ 2) Adam Najem Najem logged a terrific 90 minute performance after making his international debut for Afghanistan in Kabul against Palestine last week. Oh, he got tonight’s winner, too. Not a bad week.

Bowling Green was the last MAC team to start their season They lost 3-2 to Northern Kentucky

Adam Najem with the game winning goal at 90 +3

so many games last night....I am sure that I am not jotting down all games of interest some scores that will help the zips down the road with RPI Creighton 2 #11 Clemson 0 Grand Canyon 2 #12 Wisconsin 1 Washington 2 Maryland 0 not much help RPI New mexico 4 #22 Seattle 2 Georgia Southern 2 VCU 0 St. Louis 1 #17 Notre Dame 1 other scores...in no particular order San Jose State 0 #1 Stanford 0 Providence 2 #8 SMU 1 2ot #5 Wake 2 #2 Indiana 1 2ot west Virginia 2 college of charleston 0 Furman 2 (T)Urban Meyer University 0 ...not a good start for the post John Bluem era Northern Illinois 1 cincinnati 0 ot SIUE 2 Memphis 2 NC State 3 USC Upstate 1 Colgate 1 Pitt 0 Mich. state 1 S. Florida 0 West. Michigan 2 Loyola chicago 0 Syracuse 2 Oregon State 1

https://www.ohio.com/akron/sports/university-of-akron/university-of-akron-mens-soccer-david-egbo-scores-twice-as-no-2-zips-open-season-with-2-2-draw-with-no-9-butler

different article on Adam with quotes from Union coach https://www.brotherlygame.com/2018/8/23/17772152/national-team-debut-kabul-afghanistan-adam-najem-philadelphia-union

some great matchups friday night Indiana vs. Wake Forest Clemson vs. Creighton Maryland vs. Washington none better than the matchup at Cub Cadet Field https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/mens-weekend-preview:-feast-on-friday_aid44574 Below are five matches to track on Friday (all times listed EST). No. 10 Butler at No. 2 Akron, 7 p.m. (Watch ESPN) One of the last fall’s College Cup sides welcomes Butler to town in just one of several compelling matchups of note. The Zips brought back a handful of pieces – goalkeeper Ben Lundt, center back Daniel Strachan, forward David Egbo – but lost so much that even a loss or draw here is no reason for concern. Butler, which has sights set on another Big East crown. Brandon Guhl is going to be a handful up front, while Jared Timmer and Joe Moulden bring back stability and experience. Prediction: Akron 1-1 Butler

excellent article on Adam https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/philadelphia-union/najemthankfulforamazingexperienceinafghanistan/

yes, foot related.

Beacon article before the start of the season https://www.ohio.com/akron/sports/university-of-akron/university-of-akron-mens-soccer-young-talented-zips-look-to-continue-tradition-of-excellence

College soccer news says that Carlo and Marco and Daniel and Leonard Sohn....will be defending in the first match against a pre season All American forward - Brandon Guhl of Butler https://www.collegesoccernews.com/index.php/awards/preseason-all-america-teams/1188-college-soccer-news-2018-preseason-all-america-team

I will put this under pre season rankings again... vote on how the mac teams will finish in the league this year http://getsomemaction.com/news/2018/8/21/mac-announces-2018-mens-soccer-preseason-poll.aspx

Carlo selected to pre season all freshman team https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/2018-mens-di-preseason-best-xi-teams_aid44503

Top Drawer lists their picks for the top 100 upperclassman did not know where to post this https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college/upperclassmentop100/?genderId=m&periodId=49&seasonId=2018&nopage=0 Abdi at 48 ; David at 83 and Marco at 98 I will simply say that there are not 82 soccer players in the country that are better than David Egbo .....and zip fans will also recognize the young man ranked at #45

their link does not seem to work right now to the top 25 but it looks Like Top Drawer soccer has Akron at #2 https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/division-i-mens-preseason-top-25_aid44522

another pre season poll https://www.collegesoccernews.com/index.php/polls/csn-preseason-top-30-poll/1186-college-soccer-news-2018-preseason-national-poll

http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/20180818/festival-helped-showcase-city-as-soccer-town article has 2 minutes of video from last night's game must be from the first half...as EZ is in the game

https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/08/16/armchair-analyst-usmnt-depth-chart-midfielders Interesting read. Wil Trapp, Darlington Nagbe and Jonathan Lewis are mentioned in article. Tyler Adams is going to be a very good soccer player but I disagree with him being ranked ahead of Wil. This writer thinks very highly of a young man (Emmanuel Sabbi) who never made it to U of A.