Posts Tagged ‘Women’s Soccer’

Northeastern wins the regular season finale, 4-0, and will host next week’s CAA tournament.

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WRBB Sports QuickCast Hofstra, Women's Soccer

>>> 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

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
Streaming Video:

WRBB Sports The Dog Pound Women's Soccer

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

>>> Instead of Northeastern hockey bringing home the big headlines, Huskies football did the honors… [Google News]

>>> Lowell made their 3-1 win over Northeastern look easy in the final moments. [Boston Globe]

>>> The folks in Lowell can definitely get used to winning the way they did on Saturday evening. [The Ice is Life]

>>> Devin Petta is now the all-time Huskies record holder for points scored in a single season. She has a chance to build on it in this weekend’s regular-season championship deciding game against Hofstra. [Huskies Insider] Last Friday, Channel 5′s Mike Dowling did a story on her recent hat trick. [WCVB-TV]

>>> Ryan Kish of George Mason’s basketball blog runs down his CAA picks. [Rush The Court]

WRBB Sports The Dog Pound Women's Soccer

>>> Brad Thiessen made eight saves and was credited with the win, making his debut with the Pittsburgh Penguins last night in the NHL pre-season opener. Joe Vitale was also in the game. The Pens rallied to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-4 in overtime. [Penguins via Huskies Insider] Listen to the third period and overtime here: http://penguins.nhl.com/club/podcastbrowser.htm

>>> Men’s basketball will open the 2009 season at Siena on November 17th.  It’s part of ESPN’s 24-hour College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon to start the year. [ESPN Media Zone]

>>> Andy Katz, on the NU/Siena matchup: “The Huskies should be in the thick of the race for the Colonial title and the Saints are the new NCAA darling after consecutive first-round tournament wins over Vanderbilt and Ohio State.” [ESPN.com]

>>> Northeastern women’s soccer was voted the #1 team in the Mid-Atlantic region by the NSCAA. In addition, they are receiving votes in the national poll. They will face the BU Terriers this Friday at Parsons Field, with live coverage on GoNU.tv [NSCAA]

WRBB Sports The Dog Pound Alumni, Siena, Women's Soccer

Friday, September 18

3:00 p.m. — Dog Pound Sports Sound

6:00 p.m. — Northeastern Women’s Soccer (on GoNU.tv)
Huskies vs. Boston University
with Alex Faust and George Gardner

Saturday, September 19

1:00 p.m. — Northeastern Football
Huskies vs. Youngstown State
with Keith Lavon, Patrick McHugh and Andy Towne
Coverage begins at 12:45 p.m. with Huskies Tailgate

WRBB Sports The Dog Pound BU, Women's Soccer, Youngstown State