Tonight's Huskie Derby is the mid-week headliner, Washington at UConn. It could be low scoring, though, as so far this year, GKs Andre Blake of UConn and Spencer Richey of UDub have combined to allow only one goal. Friday night features a bunch of good games, among them Maryland @ North Carolina Marquette @ Michigan UCSB @ UCLA Saturday and Sunday aren't quite up to that level, although Cal St Northridge (4-0) faces its first big test when it travels to New Mexico (also 2-0-1).
That really sucks for Richey and U-Dub. J.R. Eskilson @JREskilson3m UW senior GK Spencer Richey leaves UConn-Washington game with six minutes left on the back of a cart with his leg in a brace. #d1msoc
Ended 0-0, by the way. I suspect that both teams will get an RPI bonus from this result. As terrible as that injury sounds for UDub and Richey (too late for a medical redshirt, iirc), it bears adding that Washington does have a reasonably interesting backup GK in 6'7 Ryan Herman. He'll need to step forward for them.
NC State took a 2-1 OT win at William & Mary. Wolfpack goals from USC transfer Alex Martinez and UCLA transfer Holden Fender. USC = South Carolina, of course.
Martinez is actually a transfer from High Point, just down I-85 from Raleigh. Regardless, a good win for the Pack.
Duke beats Georgia Southern 1-0. The goal is scored by Sounders academy product Nick Palodichuk. Alex Long - an actual transfer from South Carolina - made 8 saves for the shutout.
http://instagram.com/p/eG-k0Quz1D/ I'm guessing that if he wants to use it he gets a medical redshirt. Although, he has a solid enough body of a work (53 college starts plus his time with the 17s) that an MLS team might be willing to draft him and wait for him to recover.
Eric Martinez. Alex Martinez. Alex Long. All from and played in the Carolinas. All left their original programs. I can't imagine how someone would confuse all that. (Not sure where Eric ended up. He had a season of eligibility as a R-Sr. Maybe he just graduated and moved on.)
According to "ericsmom" from nc-soccer.net, Eric Martinez is in a masters program at the London School of Economics, "the opportunity was too good to pass up". Apparently, he did have offers from several colleges to play as he had one year of eligibility left. Kevin Stam also left South Carolina with a year of eligibility left and is now playing in Sweden.
They may suck, but the LSE Keynesians play with a lot of heart and travel first class on the English government's nickel.
Keynesians? As opposed to the Friedmans? Pretty high-brow humor for this forum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
Actually, the LSE football club plays under the moniker of "the Economicals," and fields multiple teams ... see http://www.lse.ac.uk/alumni/LSEConnect/pdf/winter2010/Pitching.pdf
Surely the English Sandon is grousing about the presence of a Yank when there are plenty of native chaps available.
I'll be damned. I still think Keynesians is better than Economicals, and both pale in comparison to Banana Slugs.
Evansville takes down SLU 2-1 in 2OT. SLU with 2 goals in the last 240 minutes. Offense is lacking to say the least.