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forecast was for very bad weather this afternoon... that probably kept the crowd down they could have easily scored 4 in first half Aodhan missed a PK 5 minutes in and zac had great opportunity to score 1 minute in on a rebound off reinaldo shot I hope there were lots of recruits at today's game... very pretty, attractive, aggressive soccer... this team will be dangerous in the NCAA's if they don't get a top 16 seed, there needs to be an investigation

Marquette looks they will secure a top 16 seed after 20 minutes, they lead providence 3-0 in big east final

go, zips...get it done for your injured Captain Zips first XI vs. WMU: Fenlason (GK), Derschang, Souders, Cross, Abdul-Salaam, Souto, Najem, Quinn, Stevenson, Brenes, Portillos.

william and mary, which was #10 in the latest RPI, lost today to Drexel (#94 in RPI)

New Mexico is #5 in the RPI...but they were beaten 3-0 tonight by Tulsa Marquette is #15 in RPI....they are 0-0 with Butler after 60 minutes... a Butler win....would help the zips in their quest for a top 16 seeds go, bulldogs

from the beacon.....sounds like Bryan will be ready for the NCAA's The University of Akron men’s soccer team looked just like a No. 1 seed should look in a conference tournament Friday. UA played aggressive, and showed the creativity and skill of a team ranked eighth in the country in defeating No. 4 seed West Virginia 3-0 in a Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinal match. A crowd of 1,677 at FirstEnergy Stadium witnessed the Zips’ first three-goal match this season. Senior forward Eric Stevenson scored twice and senior midfielder Aodhan Quinn scored once to advance Akron (15-3-1) to the MAC Tournament final at 1 p.m. Sunday. “We just saved it for the playoffs,” UA coach Jared Embick said with a smile. “We had it in us all year long, it’s just sometimes you finish goals and sometimes you don’t.” Akron will face No. 2 seed Western Michigan (9-8-1), which defeated No. 3 seed Hartwick (5-9-4) in Friday’s opener 1-0. “I am happy with the performance,” Embick said. “I thought we were excellent, especially after we settled down in the first half. From there on until we got up 3-0 was some of the best soccer we have played. It is at the right time and we are going to keep moving forward. We will put it in perspective because we have a job to do on Sunday.” Akron quickly asserted itself against West Virginia (7-7-5) and held an edge in shots (22-9), shots on goal (7-2) and corner kicks (5-3). Stevenson scored his first goal with 18 seconds remaining in the first half following a pass from freshman midfielder Adam Najem. “We just had an overload with about a minute left in the first half and Addy set it in,” Stevenson said. “I just hit it. It definitely gave us a lot of confidence going into the second half knowing we were a goal up.” Quinn, who was named the MAC Player of the Year, prior to the match, scored his goal in the 58th minute with an assist going to Najem and senior Zac Portillos. Stevenson’s second goal came in the 66th minute. Junior defender Saad Abdul-Salaam and Najem each had an assist. Stevenson started at forward with seniors Reinaldo Brenes and Robbie Derschang. Quinn and freshman Najem and Victor Souto were solid in their midfield positions. UA junior Bryan Gallego started as a defender, but left the match after seven minutes following an apparent elbow to the throat. Sophomore Andrew Souders subbed in and played with starters Abdul-Salaam, Portillos and freshman Louis Cross. “He has a bruised larynx,” Embick said of Gallego. “I think he will be fine.” Embick said Gallego is questionable Sunday. Zips redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Jake Fenlason made his collegiate debut in place of redshirt freshman Fernando Pina and made two saves. “I thought he was great,” Embick said of Fenlason. “We threw him into a playoff game for his start. I thought he handled himself well. He managed his nerves and played confidently. He got into this because he has been training hard and doing very well in training. There comes a point in time where you have got to look at every position. Fernando is a very good keeper. He is young and he has played a lot of games. I think it’s the first time around, and I don’t know if he is worn down, but he hit a little slump, so we went with Jake. He has been a little bit more confident and better in training.” West Virginia’s best scoring chance came with 9:40 to go in the second half when sophomore Ryan Cain attempted a penalty kick, but his shot was wide left.

#1 in the country Notre Dame and Virginia just played to 3-3 tie Virginia won 4-3 on PK's

Fenlason playing goalie any word on Pina?

Penn State is another team that was ranked ahead of Akron in RPI this week in the big ten semis today....Penn State and Indiana played to a 0-0 draw IU won 5-3 on penalty kicks IU will play Michigan State in the big ten final on sunday... so IU could advance to the NCAA tourney with a losing record.... Creighton, Wake Forest and Penn State ....have all lost in their first conference tourney game If Akron can win the MAC.....they deserve a top 16 RPI seed.... go, zios

Akron was clearly the better team last year when they beat Indiana in the regular season. Indiana lost last year in the Big Ten conference quarterfinals. IU played 4 good games all year....they got hot at the right time... Over the course of the season, they were nowhere near the best team in the country

big ten scores. Michigan State 2 Ohio State 0 Indiana 2 Michigan 1 Northwestern 2 Wisconsin 1 IU vs. penn state and NW vs. Mich . State in the semis I sure hope IU does not luck out and win the tourney...they lucked out last year to win NCAA from Michigan web site COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The University of Michigan men's soccer team fell to the Indiana Hoosiers, 2-1, in overtime Wednesday (Nov. 13) in the opening round of the 2013 Big Ten Tournament at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. U-M's score came in the 11th minute off the foot of senior Ezekiel Harris (Flint, Mich. Carman-Ainsworth), but the Wolverines conceded a pair of scores the rest of the way. U-M now awaits the NCAA Tournament field announcement, which comes on Monday (Nov. 18) at noon via NCAA.com.

Creighton was #17 in this week's RPI...with akron at #18 tonight, providence def. Creighton in first round of big east #13 Virginia def. #14 Wake Forest 1-0 in ACC quarterfinals.... hopefully, Akron can move past both Creighton and Wake Forest in RPI

college soccer news is a joke

article from kalamazoo paper http://www.mlive.com/broncos/index.ssf/201...ml#incart_river and fyi...fknbuflobo...western michigan does not have lights

bring on that team from west virginia.... western michigan will have to face hartwick without their starter ...who got the red card

gravatt starting in Overtime no andrew souders??? this team can not afford any injuries

thank you.....for the twitter link even though the news is bad..... hopefully , the zips can still get a win

west virginia and bowling green played to 3-3 draw last night both finish mac play at 2-2-2 w. va gets #4 seed in mac tourney based on overall record Hartwick is #3 seed with 3-2-1 record W. Va will play the top seed in MAC semis (hopefully, that match will be Friday night in ROO country)

on the radio wed. night, Steve French said that Paul Warner and his wife had just welcomed a baby into the world... Paul does a great job for Akron soccer

Twitter just says live stats .@ZipsMSoc faces Western Mich in regular-season finale at 1 pm. Follow live stats http://www.wmubroncos.com/liveStats/liveSt...;DB_OEM_ID=4600

Akron is going to need a win at W. Michigan to host the MAc conference tourney W. Michigan just defeated N. Illinois 2-1 to move to 4-0-1 in the league

many of the teams ranked in the top 15 of the coaches poll....lost last week..... so, Akron jumped 8 spots NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division I Men's - National - Poll 10 - November 5, 2013 Rank School 1st Votes Total Points Prev. W-L-T 1 Notre Dame 18 571 2 9-1-5 2 UCLA 5 556 3 10-3-4 3 Washington 0 522 4 11-1-4 4 Caifornia 0 506 1 11-2-2 5 Maryland 0 471 8 9-3-5 6 UMBC 0 455 5 13-1-2 7 Louisville 0 416 11 11-3-3 8 Georgetown 0 412 5 12-4-1 9 Akron 0 368 17 12-3-1 10 Marquette 0 328 18 11-3-2 11 Penn State 0 318 9 11-4-1 12 UC Santa Barbara 0 307 16 11-4-2 13 Wake Forest 0 289 12 8-4-5 14 Connecticut 0 261 20 9-2-5 15 Virginia 0 214 15 8-4-4 16 Wisconsin 0 181 13 12-3-2 17 UAB 0 174 10 11-4-1 18 Michigan State 0 167 22 9-3-3 19 North Carolina 0 164 RV 7-3-5 20 Cal State Northridge 0 117 13 12-4-1 21 Coastal Carolina 0 96 6 12-4-0 22 Xavier 0 84 NR 10-5-2 23 New Mexico 0 77 RV 10-4-2 24 UC Irvine 0 57 RV 10-4-3 25 Creighton 0 55 RV 9-6-2 Records are as submitted by the regional rankers and reflect the current 2013 record as of November 3 Also receiving votes: Elon 54, Clemson 53, Virginia Commonwealth 56, William & Mary 35, Furman 18, Syracus 18, Saint Louis 16, Missouri State 12, Loyola Marymount 11, Delaware 10, Old Dominion 9, Charlotte 6, Monmouht 6, UIC 3, Northwestern 2, Navy 1

Louisville and USF 0-0 after 110 wisconsin 1 N' western 0 ucla leads cal 2-1 after 74 minutes

Furman, which is a quality win for the zips. also lost last night they lost 2-0 to Wofford georgetown lost 1-0 yesterday to st. johns and coastal carolina lost 1-0 to UNC asheville I know a lot can still happen in conference tourneys....but will 3 west coast teams now be part of the top 4 overall seeds? NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division I Men's - National - Poll 9 - October 29, 2013 Rank School 1st Votes Total Points Prev. W-L-T 1 California 19 545 1 10-1-2 2 Notre Dame 1 510 2 8-1-5 3 UCLA 0 502 4 8-3-4 4 Washington 0 471 3 11-1-4 5 Georgetown 0 463 9 12-3-1 6 Coastal Carolina 1 402 8 12-2-0

there are no undefeated teams left... UCLA knocked off #3 Washington today 2-1 Penn State 2 Northwestern 1 Wisconsin 1 Michigan State Penn State game on Nov. 6 will be huge and fyi....the former Charlotte coach is at Stanford