Tag: college men

[FEATURE] Icelanders Petur Sigurdsson, Jon Jonsson and Hrafn Davidsson follow in a long tradition of foreign players who have helped make Boston University a national men’s power for more than a quarter century. All three players have been key contributors on the Terriers, who extended their unbeaten streak to six games with a 1-1 tie with Hartford on Wednesday, and they brought with them their fun-loving ways from Reykjavik’s music scene.

[UPDATE] Notre Dame remained the only unbeaten team in Big East Conference play with a 3-0 win over Pitt on Wednesday night. Notre Dame leads the Big East’s Blue Division by four points (23-19) over Connecticut. St. John’s is first, one point ahead of Louisville and South Florida, in the Red Division thanks to the Red Storm’s 1-0 win over Rutgers and DePaul’s 2-1 win over Louisville.

Everyone knows about Wake Forest, the No. 1 team in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25, unbeaten in 13 games, winner of its last four games by a margin of 20-0. But another team remains unbeaten going into Week 8 of the 2007 season. Led by scoring sensation Graciano Brito, the Cape Verdean immigrant who never played organized soccer until he entered college, Quinnipiac has completed one of the most remarkable turnarounds in the history of college soccer. Coming off a 1-12-4 season and being picked to finish last in the Northeast Conference, Quinnipiac is 9-0-3.

No. 1 Wake Forest, SMU, Creighton and Louisville were the only Soccer America Top 25 teams to sweep both games they played last week. For all the Top 25 weekend results …

A coroner’s jury in Peoria County, Ill., looking into the death of Bradley University player Danny Dahlquist ruled that his death was an accident. Dahlquist, 19, died of carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation on Aug. 12 after his roommates and a friend lit roman candles under his bedroom door as a prank after a night of drinking.

[MAKING A LIST] U.S. under-20 national team forward Andre Akpan scored in his ninth consective game for Harvard when he had the Crimson’s lone goal in a 1-1 tie with Holy Cross on Wednesday.

[MEN’S TOP 25 ACTION] Notre Dame fans certainly can’t say they haven’t gotten their money’s worth this season. Four days after the Irish drew, 3-3, with Connecticut in a battle of the nation’s No. 1 and No. 3 teams, Notre Dame fell to Indiana, 3-2, in a game that drew a crowd of 3,462 fans — the third largest in its history — in the driving rain.

Michigan State freshman Spencer Thompson, who scored the first two goals of his collegiate career in wins over ranked Notre Dame and Michigan, is Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week for games played Oct. 8-14.

[INJURY] Washington got more bad news on the injury front when senior Kevin Forrest, the 2006 Pac-10 Player
of the Year, was lost for the rest of men’s season due to a stress fracture in his left foot.

Joseph Lapira woke up at just the right time, scoring two goals to lead Notre Dame back from a 2-0 deficit and help the Irish eventually earn a 3-3 tie with top-ranked Connecticut in a Big East showdown on Saturday afternoon. Lapira, who scored 22 goals for Notre Dame last season and won the Hermann Trophy as college soccer’s top player, was held to just two goals in Notre Dame’s first 12 games before matching his 2007 total against UConn at Alumni Field.

No. 1 Connecticut travels to No. 3 Notre Dame Saturday in a battle of Big East powers. Two other important Top 25 showdowns pit No. 9 Northwestern against No. 13 Indiana in the Big Ten and No. 10 Harvard against No. 14 Brown in the Ivy League. For the complete Top 25 results and schedules …

It took Munga Eketebi 11 games, but he finally got his first win as Florida International men’s coach. Eketebi, who was promoted after long-serving coach Karl Kremser retired, had endured an 0-8-2 start as head coach until Wednesday’s 3-2 win over UCF.

O’Brian White is an early favorite for Men’s Player of the Year honors. The Jamaican youth international via Ontario scored a hat trick for the second straight game and led No. 1 Connecticut to a 3-0 win over Providence Wednesday night at Morrone Stadium.

Concordia (Calif.) held at No. 1 for the fourth straight week, while Berry made the biggest jump, moving up seven spots to No. 7 in the NAIA Men’s Top 25 Poll. Berry beat then-No. 6 Lee, 3-2, in double overtime last Friday. For the complete Top 25 …

Maryland moved back above .500 with a 2-1 win over Lehigh in non-conference action on Tuesday. Sophomore Jeremy Hall connected on a penalty kick in the 84th minute to break the tie. The loss was the third of the season for the Mountain Hawks (5-3-2), who lost only two games all last season. For all scores and more news from Tuesday’s action …

[UPDATE] There’s no stopping Graciano Brito, the Cape Verdean immigrant who never played organized soccer until entering college and is the NCAA Division I’s leading scorer. Brito’s unassisted goal in the 88th minute gave unbeaten Quinnipiac a 1-0 win over Holy Cross on Tuesday for his third game-winning goal in five days.

Jay Singh, a 20-year-old junior whose coach called him “Beckham” for the way he could strike a ball, died unexpectedly Sunday night at his home in San Bruno, Calif. Singh was redshirting at Cal State Northridge after transferring from Loyola Marymount. According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the cause of death is still under investigation and results of an autopsy done on Monday would not be known for several weeks.

UC Santa Barbara junior Chris Pontius, who scored four of five Gaucho goals in a pair of wins, is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week for games played Oct. 1-7.

Of the seven men’s crowds in excess of 3,000 over the weekend, three rank among this year’s 20 largest crowds. Creighton and Connecticut lead all schools with three crowds among the 20 largest. Ten different schools account for the top 10 crowds.

Friday’s three men’s conference games proved why the ACC is considered the most exciting conference in the country. Virginia Tech-Wake Forest, Duke-Boston College and Maryland-Clemson produced 17 goals, dramatic comebacks and great action.

Four Top 10 men’s teams improved their positions with two wins on the week: Connecticut, Notre Dame, Santa Clara and SMU. For complete Top 25 weekend results and goalscorers …