Binghamton, UNH Share #AEWSOC Regular-Season Title, #AEChamps Bracket Set
The field, seeds and matchups for the 2017 America East Women’s Soccer Championship are set following an exciting final day of the regular-season that saw Vermont earn the final tournament berth and Binghamton win a share of the league’s regular-season title, along with New Hampshire.
With five programs -Albany, Binghamton, Hartford, New Hampshire and Stony Brook- having already secured bids to the tournament entering Sunday, the Catamounts downed the Seawolves, 2-0, and earned the final berth after Maine defeated UMass Lowell, 1-0. UVM will head to the championship for the third-straight year.
The Bearcats earned a piece of the regular-season title for the first time since 2004 and the tournament’s No. 2 seed after Erin Theiller’s overtime goal gave the Bearcats a 3-2 OT win over Hartford. New Hampshire, which had secured the top seed for the championship on Thursday, got upset at UMBC, 3-1. The Wildcats are the top seed for the first time since 2007 by virtue of its regular-season win over Binghamton,
The championship gets underway with quarterfinal action on Thursday, Oct. 26 as #4 Hartford hosts #5 Stony Brook at 6 p.m. and #3 Albany entertains #6 Vermont at 7 p.m. Semifinal action takes place on Sunday, Oct. 29 with #2 Binghamton welcoming the Albany-Vermont winner at 1 p.m. and #1 New Hampshire hosting the Hartford-Stony Brook winner at 2 p.m. The semifinal winners will face off for the 2017 conference title at the higher remaining seed on either Saturday, Nov. 4 or Sunday, Nov. 5. All tournament games will air on either ESPN3 or AmericaEast.TV.
Stay up-to-date on the tournament by visiting Championship Central for streaming and live stats links as well as box scores, highlights and recaps following each round in addition to team information, tournament history and more.
Follow @AmericaEast and @AEDigitalNet on Twitter to get the real-time championship updates. Use the #AEChamps and #AEWSOC hashtags to join the conversation.
2017 America East Women’s Soccer Championship
All Games at Higher Seed
Quarterfinals – Thursday, October 26
#5 Stony Brook at #4 Hartford, 6 p.m.
#6 Vermont at #3 Albany, 7 p.m.
Semifinals – Sunday, October 29
#3/6 Winner at #2 Binghamton, 1 p.m.
#4/5 Winner at #1 New Hampshire, 2 p.m.
Final – Saturday, November 4 or Sunday, November, 5
Semifinal Winners, TBA
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