Bauer Leads UNH to Second-Straight #AEMSOC Title 11/16/2019 9:00:19 PM DURHAM, N.H. – For the second-straight season, New Hampshire is the America East men’s soccer champion. Josh Bauer’s goal just 3:27 into the contest held up as the top-seeded Wildcats beat third-seeded Hartford, 1-0, in the 2019 conference title game on Saturday evening at UNH’s Wildcat Stadium. With the win, New Hampshire, the first #AEMSOC team to win consecutive titles since UMBC won three straight from 2013-15, earned the conference’s automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship. The Wildcats, the 16th ranked team in the nation, will host Fairleigh Dickinson at Wildcat Stadium on Thursday in the NCAA First Round at 6 p.m. The game will air on AmericaEast.TV. It's the fourth-straight year and sixth time in the last seven that an #AEMSOC team has hosted an NCAA contest. Bauer earned Most Outstanding Player honors for the second-straight year. He is just the second #AEMSOC player to earn the award twice joining Boston University’s Nick Bone, who accomplished the feat in 1996 and 1997. In addition to scoring the game winner in the title game, the junior All-American defender led a unit that didn’t allow a goal in the tournament. UNH, which improved to 14-1-3 on the season, scored the game’s lone goal in the fourth minute as Bauer, the two-time America East Defender of the Year, headed home a feed from Kyle Brewster to put his team on top, 1-0. The Wildcats held a 20-5 advantage in shots. Hartford, which concludes its season 12-5-4, had two solid scoring chances in the second half, but America East Goalkeeper of the Year Alejandro Robles stopped both shots. Bauer led the All-Championship team selections and was joined by teammates Antonio Colacci, Rory O’Driscoll and Jonny Wolf, Hartford’s Aitor Elena, Sergi Martinez and Jimmy Slayton. Vermont’s Jon Arnar Barddal and Garrett Lillie, UMass Lowell’s Patrik Gujic and Alejandro Osorio, UAlbany’s Reid Conde and Binghamton’s Andrew McDonnell. Hartford’s Jimmy Slayton the championship’s Elite 18 Award for having the highest GPA among student-athletes competing in the championship game. The senior carries a 3.74 GPA in entrepreneurial studies. Visit Championship Central for box scores, highlights and recaps from each round in addition to team tournament history and more. 2019 America East Men’s Soccer Championship All Games at Higher Seed Quarterfinals – Saturday, November 9 at #3 Hartford 2, #6 Binghamton 0 #5 UMass Lowell 1, at #4 UAlbany 0 Semifinals – Wednesday, November 13 #3 Hartford 3, at #2 Vermont 2 (OT) at #1 New Hampshire 3, #5 UMass Lowell 0 Final – Saturday, November 16 at #1 New Hampshire 1, #3 Hartford 0 About America East: The America East provides its member schools and their athletic programs a platform upon which student-athletes can achieve both collegiate and life success through the promotion and nurturing of athletic excellence, academic achievement and leadership, on and off the field. - #3Pillars – Building the Complete Student-Athlete -