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3:08 GOAL by AKR HINDS, Nick, Assist by RUHAAK, Brad, goal number 1 for season. 2-0 Nick Hinds in the midfield.....looks like a shrewd mover

from tOSU twitter 5' | Goal Akron. Pass deflected and played to Jonathan Lewis who scores from 12 yards out.

http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/102516aaa.html live stream for Zips at the Buckeyes will be on Big Ten Plus ($$$$) thanks in advance to the many zip fans that will travel down to Columbus

ME87....thanks for your "pitch side" observations....just to give everyone a clue which comment that I am referring to....I added "on-field leaders" to your original quote Missing 2 out of the 3 names....clearly has made a huge difference. I think that my feelings about Victor were made pretty evident in my October 1 'treatise" but I will just say that his will to win is unmatched and I am thankful that Victor came to Akron and I loved to watch this young man do his best for Akron. Jake was a very underrated competitor. We all watched Jake out compete and out work a much more talented GK in Fernando Pina. My praise of Jake is in no way an indictment of Ben Lundt. The final score may show that Ben allowed 3 goals. With a less skilled goalie, the count easily would have been 5 or 6. The stats showed that the WVA goalie made 5 saves and Ben only made 4 saves. In the business world, we often say that there are 2 kinds of statisticans...Liars and dam*n liars. The stats clearly lie here as they don't measure the difficulty of the save. The WVA keeper's saves came on shots from the side that had no hope of finding the net or on 40 foot shots where the zips were playing 2 vs 6. Ben had several punch outs that were very good. Ben was asked to make saves on 1 vs. 2 breaks where the WVA 1 was much faster than our 2 DB's or on 2 vs. 3 breaks where the WVA 2 were much faster than our 3 DB's. I know that I share in everyone's discouragement but Ben Lundt was the zip that I had the most empathy for on Saturday night. The stats will show that the other team scored 3 goals. To me, that does not mean that Ben Lundt did not make some spectacular saves. Jake was a senior that had earned the respect of his teammates by outworking Pina. Jake had earned the right to be vocal and a leader. Ben is a first year zip and it is much harder for him to bark out orders to a 3 or 4 year starter like a Brad Ruhaak or 2 year starters like senior Danilo Radjen or junior Nate Shultz. I have really liked what I have seen from Ben and I really felt empathetic for Ben on Saturday night.

It is unbelievable to me that Portland did not win a game on the road all year. After Saad's penalty kick last year that bounced off the cross bar many times (and helped Portland to advance), I will be rooting for sporting KC to do well this year.

Zach, I don't sit close enough to the field to hear the talk. On last year's team, who were the "on-field leaders"?.

beacon already has an article up with many quotes from Coach Embick http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/university-of-akron-men-s-soccer-visiting-west-virginia-hands-zips-first-home-loss-since-september-2015-1.721498?cache=18961415304345%2525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252fnews%2525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252fohio%2525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252fcss%2525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252fresults%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252527+

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/the91stminute/2016/10/everybody-lost-in-the-needless-nagbe-klinsmann-showdown/ I have always been a huge fan of Darlington Nagbe's skill set. Conversely, I am not a Klinsmann fan. After reading this article, I am even less of a Klinsmann fan. Darlington can do things on a soccer field that others on the USMNT can not do.

In Nick Hinds defense, he made a beautiful entry pass to Stuart on the 2nd goal. There was Stuart and 4-5 nittany lions in the box and Nick hit a beautiful cross into the box.

http://news.psu.edu/story/388208/2016/01/19/athletics/paralysis-fails-slow-athletes-drive this is a good article on why Penn state is honoring the former Akron/Penn State player. When Penn State played at akron last year, several Akron players posted very nice photos and kind words about Brett.

http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/101716aab.html writeup from the Penn State web site... very nice that they are honoring former Akron and Penn State soccer player Brett Gravatt. Brett is a very courageous young man. The match will also feature a special halftime presentation to honor former men's soccer player Brett Gravatt and all Ability Athletes.

impressive results today ....for the next 2 big ten opponents...that the zips will face Penn State defeated Michigan State 1-0 in double overtime Ohio State played to 2-2 tie with highly ranked Indiana (Hoosiers now 8-1-5)

zios in sole possession of first place in the mac with a 2-0-0 record Bowling Green is 1-0-1 after 1-1 tie against WMU (WMU now 0-0-2) Buffalo def. WVU 2-1 to move to 1-1 NIU 0-1-1 and West Virginia is now 0-2

Reminder to everyone...the next zips soccer game at penn state on Tuesday October 18th will be televised on the big ten network...at 7 pm eastern (tribe game 4 is at 3;30) channel 610 on directv congratulations to the zips on a big win tonight... cool to see LeBron congratulate Robby and great to see Reggie Laryea get his first goal (I am sure that Richie is smiling in orlando)

NIU played Western Michigan to a 0-0 tie last weekend Western Michigan is 0-0 right now with bowling Green at 51 minute mark it is very hard to score 6 against anyone.....zips must be doing a great job of finishing tonight

4-0 now 27:12 GOAL by AKR GAINFORD, Sam; Assist by HOLTHUSEN, Stuart; Goal number 2 for season.; cut in from right side, shot from 6 yards 2 Goals 2 SOG 30:26 Header GOAL by AKR CORDEIRO, Manuel; Assist by DAMBROT, Robby and GAINFORD, Sam; Goal number 1 for season.; cross in from the left, header from near top of the six robby just scored at 42;42... he has worked so hard to return from injury....very happy to see him get goal and assist

3 minutes and 16 seconds GOAL by AKR GAINFORD, Sam (FIRST GOAL) Assist by HARTER, Skye Goal number 1 for season. cross to left side, keeper beaten near post

from their web site, it does look like the video is free strange start time...6 pm their time (Central time) 7 eastern time....I think that the tribe playoff game starts at 4:08

has this young man signed a letter of intent? is he a goalie?

Thanks for making the long trip to East Lansing and supporting the zips.

akron playing 10 against 11...as Ezana got a red card

my mistake....corner kicks in the first half....(not penalty kicks)....very sorry

1-0 Michigan State...at half time they scored on a penalty kick around 22 or 23 minutes game tracker shows that Adam Najem was replaced by Marcel Zajac at 36 minutes Jonathan Lewis - yellow card at 9 minutes Akron corner kicks in the half were taken by Pau ; Nick Hinds and Niko DeVera