Archive for October, 2009

• We got a chance to speak with men’s soccer coach Brian Ainscough as his team sprints towards the playoffs in first place.
• Northeastern hockey has the week off, which gives the team a chance to work on their game after two losses last weekend. We’ll look at what the team should be improving during the break.
• Huskies football got its first win in over a year! We’ll go through what worked and if they can do it again this weekend at New Hampshire.
• Ahead of the biggest regular season women’s soccer game in program history, we’ll preview Saturday’s match against Hofstra at Parsons Field.
• The NCAA passed new recruiting regulations, aimed at curbing pay-to-play practices with  third parties connected to prospective players. Will it make a difference?
• As always, the Six Pack and Last Call

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WRBB Sports The Dog Pound Dog Pound Sports Sound

Keith and Alex break down Northeastern’s two losses and preview a busy weekend in conference.

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WRBB Sports Audio, The Dog Pound Hockey East This Week

>>> First, the folks at Northeastern athletics have done a good job going over the playoff scenarios for volleyball, field hockey, and men’s/women’s soccer. [Huskies Insider]

>>> Speaking of soccer, Marvin Pave writes that there’s very MetroWest feel to the men’s soccer team. [Boston Globe West]

>>> Mike Litos strongly believes that Bill Coen deserves a raise and a contract extension, and tells you why. [CAA Hoops]

>>> Jerry Beach has an interesting synthesis of CAA basketball predictions made thus far, compiling them all into one master poll. [Defiantly Dutch]

>>> Patrick McHugh writes about an elated football team that broke its 13-game long winless streak on Saturday. [Huntington News]

>>> While not officially ranked, NU did jump to “12th” in USA Today’s women’s hockey poll. [Huntington News]

With hockey off for the weekend and football on the road, head out to Parsons Field and scream your face off at the women’s soccer game. Of course, if you can’t get to the game, we’ll have it for you live here on WRBB.

WRBB Sports The Dog Pound Men's Soccer, Polls, Women's Soccer

In two weeks, Northeastern Basketball returns to WRBB! The annual red/black scrimmage game will be the site of WRBB’s annual basketball preview show. Join Jason Lavine and WRBB’s basketball announcers and contributors live from Solomon Court beginning at 8 p.m. for a comprehensive preview of the 2009-2010 season, along with interviews with players and coaches. Your home for Huskies sports is WRBB!

WRBB Sports Basketball

This Saturday, WRBB presents a have a special regular season women’s soccer showdown as Northeastern battles Hofstra for the CAA regular season championship at Parsons Field. With a win, Northeastern will host the CAA tournament following week. Keith Lavon and Andrew Parente have the call live beginning at 1:45 p.m. on WRBB and GoNU.tv.

Thursday, October 29

8:00 p.m. – Hockey East This Week

Friday, October 30

3:00 p.m. – Dog Pound Sports Sound

Saturday, October 31

2:00 p.m. – Women’s Soccer: Huskies vs. Hofstra Pride
from Parsons Field in Brookline, Mass.
with Keith Lavon and Andrew Parente
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WRBB Sports The Dog Pound Women's Soccer

During the final half hour of every Dog Pound Sports Sound, we give you six games/series to watch over the weekend and upcoming week- it’s our Friday Night Six Pack. Our panelists pick the winners, and we’ll keep track of it all throughout the season. The rules are simple: pick a matchup correctly (win/loss/tie), you get a point. Pick one incorrectly, you lose a point. Most points at the end of the season in April wins.

Now that this week’s final matchup is complete, the points have been tallied and are listed below.

This week’s games: Vikings/Steelers (NFL), Celtics/Cavaliers (NBA), Will the ALCS go to 6 or 7 games? (MLB), Devils/Penguins (NHL), NU/UNH (College Hockey), NU/UMass-Lowell (College Hockey)

The results:

• Alex W. +4
• Ben +2
• Chris +2
• Andy –
• Nathan -2

The standings so far this year:

• Chris +6
• Alex W. +4
• Ben +4
• Alex F. +2
• Andy 0
• Nathan 0
• Kainani -2

WRBB Sports The Dog Pound

We speak with Rocky Hager, Alex Dulski, John Griffin, and Mike Lukenda after Saturday’s win over Towson.

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WRBB Sports Football, Press Pass Towson

This column will be an occasional look at how we at WRBB cover Northeastern sports, as well as other assorted topics related to Huskies athletics. This week, the spotlight is on Northeastern’s soccer teams. Both the men’s and women’s sides are having tremendous seasons, but the scripts are radically different. First, we start with women’s soccer, whose unbeaten streak has ballooned to five games, just as the regular season comes to a close. Read more…

Alex Faust The Dog Pound Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer

This poll was easy enough to analyze from the Northeastern perspective: Two losses translate to a drop in the polls, unofficially to 29th in the USCHO.com poll and completely out of the USA Today poll.

On to the lists we go. Read more…

WRBB Sports Hockey Polls