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Today's MAC tourney saw NIU defeating BGSU 2-1, Buffalo over Florida Atlantic 6-0 (ouch!), and Hartwick over Western Michigan 4-0.So tomorrow it will be NIU vs Buffalo and Akron vs. Hartwick.Hartwick was especially dangerous in the air today, scoring twice off of headers on corner kicks. Akron back four, be aware!

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Today's MAC tourney saw NIU defeating BGSU 2-1, Buffalo over Florida Atlantic 6-0 (ouch!), and Hartwick over Western Michigan 4-0.So tomorrow it will be NIU vs Buffalo and Akron vs. Hartwick.Hartwick was especially dangerous in the air today, scoring twice off of headers on corner kicks. Akron back four, be aware!
Thanks for the news! Can HW or UB score on our back-line? We'll see. I see NW defeated PSU and IU beat OSU in Big-11 playoffs. Was that the semis?
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I know many of you have never been to a soccer game. Tonight is the perfect night to come out and see what it's all about. Should be a decent crowd, lot's of Rowdies of course. But it also should be a win which is what we all need after last nights football game. So go to Barley House before the game, get fueled up, and come on down at 7:30 for the game. You won't be disappointed.

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From GoZips.com following Akron's win at Hartwick earlier this year ...* * * * *ONEONTA, N.Y. – Behind a pair of scores from Steve Zakuani, the No. 2 University of Akron men’s soccer team rolled to a 2-1 victory at Hartwick Saturday night in its Mid-American Conference regular season finale at Elmore Field.The Zips (14-1-3, 6-0-0 MAC) will have one final tune-up at Ohio State next Friday before hosting the MAC Tournament at Lee Jackson Field from Nov. 13-16. Akron clinched its 11th regular-season title against Western Michigan last weekend and will receive a first-round bye as the No. 1 seed.“We looked like a well oiled machine tonight and I thought we finally played to our potential on both sides of the ball for 90 minutes,” said third-year coach Caleb Porter. “I was very proud of our mental toughness dealing with a sloppy field and a very physical Hartwick team."UA dominated the contest from start to finish, out-shooting Hartwick, 17-7, for the game and 7-1 in the first half. The game featured seven yellow cards and an ejection of Hartwick's Sam Wright.“We kept plugging away and never lost focus,” Porter added. “We talked about playing like a team on a mission and it looked that way tonight.”Zakuani, who entered the week as the nation’s points leader, gave the Zips a 1-0 lead in the closing moments of the opening period. The speedy forward collected a Hartwick clearance at the top of the box and scored to the goalkeeper's right-hand side for a 1-0 Akron lead with 43 seconds left.The Hermann Trophy candidate struck again in the 73rd minute off a feed from Matt Tutich to post his fourth multiple-score game of the season. Tutich slipped a pass to Zakuani, who broke into the box, made a quick cutback to beat a Hartwick defender, and beat the 'keeper low for his 17th tally of the season.Akron was denied its 13th shutout of the year when Hartwick’s John Paul Boyle found the net in the 85th minute.The Zips will square off in their regular-season finale in Columbus against the Buckeyes next Friday at 7:30 p.m. (EST)Zips Notebook: Akron improved to 4-1-1 all-time versus Hartwick and completed its seventh undefeated MAC regular-season since joining the league in 1993 ... With his 16th and 17th goals of the year Saturday, Zakuani matched Hartick's season total (17) as a team ... UA is 76-10-6 versus teams from the MAC since '93 and is undefeated in its last 13 league contests dating back to the 2006 season ... The intensity was high in the late stages of the game as four cards were issued in the final sixteen minutes.* * * * *Hey Rowdies - see what you can do to get inside the head of Hartwick's #11 Sam Wright (ejected in the last meeting up in New York) and possibly some of the other Hartwick players. Should be at Lee Jackson tonight - I hope we bring our 'A' game - GO ZIPS!

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Day TWO of the Longest Weekend in Zips HistoryTM saw Akron again get the wrong end of the refs' calls, but this time we pulled it out to win in PK contest.Tomorrow continues the marathon Zips week as mens basketball takes on Canisius at the JAR at 7:00PM. Sunday has the Men's Soccer team playing NIU in the MAC finals at 2:00 at the Jack, and the Women's Basketball team playing Michigan in the JAR that night.

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Day TWO of the Longest Weekend in Zips HistoryTM saw Akron again get the wrong end of the refs' calls, but this time we pulled it out to win in PK contest.Tomorrow continues the marathon Zips week as mens basketball takes on Canisius at the JAR at 7:00PM. Sunday has the Men's Soccer team playing NIU in the MAC finals at 2:00 at the Jack, and the Women's Basketball team playing Michigan in the JAR that night.
I'm gonna be rowdie'ed out by the end of the weekend...
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Day TWO of the Longest Weekend in Zips HistoryTM saw Akron again get the wrong end of the refs' calls, but this time we pulled it out to win in PK contest.Tomorrow continues the marathon Zips week as mens basketball takes on Canisius at the JAR at 7:00PM. Sunday has the Men's Soccer team playing NIU in the MAC finals at 2:00 at the Jack, and the Women's Basketball team playing Michigan in the JAR that night.
The refs were twice as bad as the football refs yesterday.
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Day TWO of the Longest Weekend in Zips HistoryTM saw Akron again get the wrong end of the refs' calls, but this time we pulled it out to win in PK contest.Tomorrow continues the marathon Zips week as mens basketball takes on Canisius at the JAR at 7:00PM. Sunday has the Men's Soccer team playing NIU in the MAC finals at 2:00 at the Jack, and the Women's Basketball team playing Michigan in the JAR that night.
The refs were twice as bad as the football refs yesterday.
The MAC is desperate to get two teams in the NCAA tourney. Just wait until Sunday; it could be ten times worse.
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Day TWO of the Longest Weekend in Zips HistoryTM saw Akron again get the wrong end of the refs' calls, but this time we pulled it out to win in PK contest.Tomorrow continues the marathon Zips week as mens basketball takes on Canisius at the JAR at 7:00PM. Sunday has the Men's Soccer team playing NIU in the MAC finals at 2:00 at the Jack, and the Women's Basketball team playing Michigan in the JAR that night.
The refs were twice as bad as the football refs yesterday.
The MAC is desperate to get two teams in the NCAA tourney. Just wait until Sunday; it could be ten times worse.
That game was amazing. Sunday will be tough but NIU is not nearly as physical as Hartwick. Also, our boys are gonna learn a lot from this close one. I'm sure the post game speech by Caleb addressed that tonight.let's get it done sunday!!!! 2pm at the Jack
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Day TWO of the Longest Weekend in Zips HistoryTM saw Akron again get the wrong end of the refs' calls, but this time we pulled it out to win in PK contest.Tomorrow continues the marathon Zips week as mens basketball takes on Canisius at the JAR at 7:00PM. Sunday has the Men's Soccer team playing NIU in the MAC finals at 2:00 at the Jack, and the Women's Basketball team playing Michigan in the JAR that night.
The refs were twice as bad as the football refs yesterday.
The MAC is desperate to get two teams in the NCAA tourney. Just wait until Sunday; it could be ten times worse.
That game was amazing. Sunday will be tough but NIU is not nearly as physical as Hartwick. Also, our boys are gonna learn a lot from this close one. I'm sure the post game speech by Caleb addressed that tonight.let's get it done sunday!!!! 2pm at the Jack
Finally a day game for the first time in a month. Much better.
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Looks like Zips win it 1-0 in the second overtime.
Way to hang in there Socceroos against all of the elements! Go Zips!!!I watched Loyola (MD) lose their 1st game of the year to Fairfield in the MAAC championship this afternoon. I wasn't particularly impressed with either team. The announcers kept citing Loyola, St. John's and Wake Forest as being "teams to watch" in the NCAA tourney. They did mention Akron a few times, but didn't really show much of an awareness of the Zips. Here's hoping they'll be FORCED to become aware here very soon :thumb:
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