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Named to the Akron Classic All-Tournament team for the Zips were Lundt, Najem and seniors Danilo Radjen (Broadview Heights, Ohio) and Victor Souto (Sao Paulo, Brazil).

some scores from top 25 and zip future opponents San diego State 1 Bradley 0 Cal 2 Penn State 1 Stanford and st. Marys played to 2-2 tie Buffalo 1 Canisius 0 North Carolina 3 St. Louis 0 Syracuse 2 Loyola Marymount 1 Clemson 2 providence 1 Indiana 3 Cal Irvine 1 Western Michigan 2 Dayton 0 Denver 1 rutgers 0 sept. 9 zip opponent oregon state 4 wright state 0 (oregon state had 1-1 tie with DePaul Friday night) on Friday night, Va. Tech defeat Ohio state 1-0 in 2 ot's tonight, Ohio state is playing future zip opponent cal santa barbara ...they are 0-0 after 90

Beacon already has an article up (no photos) http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/university-of-akron-men-s-soccer-tyler-sanda-s-goal-ben-lundt-s-shutout-lift-zips-to-1-0-victory-over-seattle-1.707974?cache=18961415304345%2525252525252525252525252Fnews%2525252525252525252525252Fohio%2525252525252525252525252Fcss%2525252525252525252525252Fresults%252525252525252525

If I remember correctly, Seattle shut out a very high powered UCLA team last year to advance in the NCAA tournament and they also have 2 pre season all americans on their team. Great credit to Coach Embick for starting the season with 2 top ten teams.

http://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-men/article/2016-08-26/mens-college-soccer-no-2-akron-scores-final-minute-bests-no-10 inside the article, you can click on a 2 minute 6 second press conference with Coach Embick, Brad and Ben Lundt. really shows a nice angle of Brad's goal

soccer by Ives is impressed by the deandre bobblehead

One possible other score of interest Akron's next Friday opponent...San Diego State opened their season by playing Illinois-Chicago to a 1-1 tie in the Gonzaga tourney San Diego State will face Bradley on Sunday

I am getting the scores from top drawer soccer...so I am using their ratings Penn State, Michigan and Mich. State did well for the Big Ten #1 North Carolina 3 Cal Poly 0 #2 Maryland and #6 UCLA 1-1 tie Penn State and #4 Stanford 0-0 #5 Syracuse 3 U Mass 0 Michigan State 2 #8 SMU 1 #10 Clemson 2 #25 S. Carolina 1 St. Louis 1 #11 Wake Forest 0 Monmouth and #12 Denver 1-1 #13 Indiana 1 #30 New Mexico 0 #14 Creighton 2 Rutgers 0 #15 Boston College 2 Quinnipac 0 #16 UConn 3 Iona 1 Michigan and #17 S. Florida 0-0 #27 Virginia 2 #18 Coastal Carolina 1 #19 Notre Dame 4 Cal Irvine 0 #24 Utah Valley 2 #20 Washington 1...Elliot Rubio was GK for UVU #21 Kentucky 4 Marquette 0 #23 Cal Santa Barbara 2 Oakland 1 Northern Illinois and SIU-Edwardsville 1-1 Bowling Green 4 IUPUI 0 Western Michigan 2 Marshall 0 Buffalo 9 Daemen 0 Daemen????...Russell Cicerone - 5 goals and 1 assist

http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/university-of-akron-men-s-soccer-brad-ruhaak-s-goal-with-36-seconds-to-play-lifts-no-2-zips-to-1-0-win-over-no-7-georgetown-in-season-opener-1.707618# I love the first photo.....Victor and Brad = passion

I absolutely love this tweet from Zarek......Darren, Ben, Darlington and Zarek are rocking the scarves great to see former zips supporting the team.... I saw that Wil Trapp also tweeted that he was loving listening to Robbie Derschang on the live feed

great student crowd. very good to see the interim president and AD Larry Williams in the crowd Akron was the better team and deserved the win. The veterans...Victor, Adam, Sam, Danilo and Brad all really had outstanding games

this is down the road a little bit (and hopefully, Stuart will be 100% healthy by then)....but I just noticed that one zip soccer game this year will be televised on the big ten network The zips road game at Penn State will be televised on October 18 (hopefully, no zips jerseys will be stolen this year) http://www.btn2go.com/schedule?date=2016-10-18&sids=MSC

http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/ua-soccer-second-ranked-zips-motivated-by-heartbreaking-loss-in-ncaa-tournament-1.707184 please get well, quickly....Stuart Holthusen

yes......just getting ready to post article from Marla Ridenour

soccer america http://www.socceramerica.com/article/70095/soccer-america-mens-preseason-top-25.html

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/divison-i-mens-soccer-preview:-aug-26-28_aid39719 top Drawer talks about the akron game and 4 other games. One encouraging note. We know that Georgetown's goalie is a first team all american pre season selection. The encouraging note is that Georgetown's 2 center backs and 2 outside backs from last year....all graduated. Go, Zips.

I sure hope that Marla Ridenour of the Beacon does an article Friday morning about the season opener. I know that she has been busy writing articles about Clayton Murphy and he deserves all of the credit that he is getting. However, I do hope that she finds time to write about Akron U.s best sports team.

Coach Embick is quoted several times in this article from a North Canton and Plain township newspaper http://www.northneighbornews.com/sports/20160824/zips-ranked-high-still-seeking-right-lineup-as-season-launches

September not far away http://www.starsandstripesfc.com/2016/8/23/12549910/usa-world-cup-qualifying-roster-squad-trinidad-tobago

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-national-top-100/men/2016 Victor is selected by Top drawer soccer to be the 32nd best sophomore, junior or senior in College soccer and drum roll, please....they list Captain Adam Najem as the 2nd best player in all of college soccer. Georgetown has a midfielder listed as the 3rd best player in all of college soccer. We all know Victor and Adam would much much rather have a 2nd star at the end of the year....rather than pre-season recognition.

http://mac-sports.com/news/2016/8/23/MSOC_0823160003.aspx similar to last year, the zips are not picked by all coaches to win the regular season title

action photos from zips twitter

http://mac-sports.com/news/2016/8/23/MSOC_0823160431.aspx

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/2016-tds-mens-preseason-best-xi_aid39686 Very happy to see Victor, Akron's very good holding midfielder recognized on a pre season all american list. Adam and Victor have truly been great 4 year starters Hopefully, Jon Lewis and Jesus Perez can join Nick Hinds on the freshman list when they do a post season all freshman team and wow....3 of the first 4 opponents are represented like crazy...Georgetown-1 on first team , 1 on 2nd team and 1 on freshman ; Seattle - one on first; one on 2nd ; UCLA - wow, how can they not be preseason #1 ? - 2 on first team ; 1 on 2nd team ; 2 on freshman team