New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's game and on goinigs on our nine campuses and provide links to recaps, previews, features and exclusive coverage.
We've got a lot to talk about today after the first full
weekend of America East Conference play.
Men's soccer teams started their conference slates as did field hockey squads,
while the volleyball and women's soccer races are starting to take shape. Even cross country got in on the act this
weekend with plenty of teams hitting the trails.
Let's
head out to the soccer pitch where we had a busy weekend for the men and women. We'll start on the men’s side where some
teams were looking to shake off the non-conference woes and turn them into
conference success. Boston U. was
certainly one of those teams, heading down to Hartford for the opener against
the Hawks. The Terriers broke a 77th
minute deadlock to down Hartford, 1-0.
Elsewhere, Vermont continued its sizzling start scoring a 3-0 win
against Binghamton in Burlington. Albany
made things interesting against UMBC down in Baltimore, even taking a one goal
lead in the second half. Pete Caringi
III and Andrew Bulls had other ideas, though, rallying the Retrievers to a 2-1
win.
Yesterday
was full of women's soccer action.
Undefeated Hartford hosted New Hampshire, which was coming off a big win
over Albany. The Hawks proved to be too
stingy on defense and too dynamic on offense, earning a 3-0 shutout. That is Hartford's ninth shutout of the
season as they continue the best start in program history. Boston U. kept pace with Hartford as the
Terriers notched a 2-1 win in Orono against Maine. Vermont and UMBC played to a 2-2 draw in
Baltimore and neither Binghamton nor Stony Brook could find the goal-scoring
magic in a 0-0 stalemate in Vestal.
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