Bradley broke open a close game with 4 second half goals to beat Oral Roberts 5-0 in Peoria Friday night. Hometown lad Freshman Chris Brown scored his first two and Michael Smith added his first. Thirteen different players have scored for the Braves and they have outscored opponents in the second half 15-1 this season. Bradley remains undefeated with their seventh win in nine games. Pre-season All-American Hamid Mehreioskouei missed his fourth straight match through injury. Michigan went to Evansville and thrashed the Purple Aces 6-2. In his first start after transferring from Germany, Junior Juergen Schmieder bagged a hat trick and Mychael Turpin, Mike White, and Knox Cameron added single tallies each. The Wolverines moved to 4w-4l-1d.
OSU (1)- Wisconsin (0) Drake (3)- Western Illinois (1) Butler (2) - Drury (1) Two time All PDL 1st Team Player Mike Mariscalco credited with the goal (PK) and an assist. Mariscalco has been involved in every goal scored by Butler this season, save one.
Dsocc - as a Butler booster, how do you account for the Bulldog's crappiness this year? I thought with Mariscalco and Pantazi, Butler would be pretty good. I suppose they could still come around and win the Horizon, but losses to Cleveland State and Hartwick are not very promising.
Best guess, injuries, suspensions and shallow bench. 2 starting senior backs out for the season, replacement freshman B injured, starting keeper-hand injury, senior DM-ankle surgery preseason, soph DM patellar tendinitis, Pantazi-ankle injuries from PDL season, 2 starters suspended for red card or yellow card accumulations.
Bradley Runs Unbeaten Streak To 10 Over three games in 8 days, Bradley outscored N. Illinois, Oral Roberts & Drury by a total of 14-0. Drury was the latest victin, going down 4-0 Sunday in Peoria. http://bubraves.com/press/200209293.html Dayton 2 - Michigan 0 http://www.daytonflyers.com/menssoc...UTSOUTMICHIGAN20TOWINFOURTHSTRAIGHT_5428.html http://mgoblue.com/soccer-m/02-03/release-09-29.html Jason Thompson bagged a 6 pack for E. Illinois in a 8-0 pasting of visiting Illinois-Chicago. Last season, home standing UIC whupped Eastern 7-2. http://uicflames.ocsn.com/sports/m-soccer/recaps/092902aaa.html Michigan State defeated Northwestern 1-0 in Big Ten action. http://nusports.ocsn.com/sports/m-soccer/recaps/092902aaa.html http://msuspartans.ocsn.com/sports/m-soccer/recaps/092902aaa.html
Re: Bradley Runs Unbeaten Streak To 10 Bradley being undefeated this far into the season is quite impressive given that A) their leading scorer from last year graduated and B) their second-leading scorer is injured and played only sparingly so far this year. That said, the opponents listed above aren't exactly that good so we'll see what happens with the Braves when they play some tougher teams. SIX GOALS?!?! Holy Schnikees! I know UIC ain't exactly Sigi's UCLA teams or anything, but 6 goals, man, that's a helluva tally. Thompson has put up great numbers at EIU and in the PDL and played well with the 23s. I don't think he has much left to prove at the college level so I hope this is his last year with the Panthers. Very quietly, Northwestern is improving. It may not happen this year but very soon the Wildcats are gonna win a couple of Big Ten games and after that, I see them making some noise on the national scene. Not sayin' they'll be like Indiana, but there's no reason they can't be like Bradley or Notre Dame.
Re: Re: Bradley Runs Unbeaten Streak To 10 I think this is actually a con for Thompson, and something that worries me a bit about his future. In his giant freshman year that got everyone's attention he did the same thing - pounding in a huge number of goals in a few blowouts (I can't find the stats anymore, but he had 6 against Belmont and had 9 or 10 of his 20 (21?) in two games.). I would much prefer to see a more even scoring record and more goals against quality opposition. And this concern about his consistency is not even taking into account his relative vanishing act last year for the Panthers. His PDL and U-23 successes certainly indicate that he is a great prospect, regardless of my concerns, but I don't know if I'd agree that he has nothing left to prove. He still does for me. That said, congratulations to him for scoring six.
Schedule wise Bradley lucks out in the Missouri Valley as well. Tulsa, SMU & Creighton are all home matches.
Thompson comments Jason Thompson does have an impressive goal scoring record away from Eastern Illinois. He followed up the great freshmen season by scoring some goals at the US Soccer Festival in the summer of 2001, including a brace to beat a Mexican club team and another against the U-18 NT, IIRC. The US Festival goals earned him a spot on the US Amateur team (?) that played a series of games against MLS squads down in Florida earlier this year. IIRC, the USASA team had some success against the MLS teams. Hopefully, Thompson caught the eye of someone from MLS down in Florida. He scored something like 12 goals playing PDL this summer to earn 2nd team ALL-PDL. Finally, he was invited to the U-23 National team camp (his first NT camp invite at any level) and promptly bagged a few goals during the England tour. Sunholz never even gave him a look after his impressive freshmen year at the U-20 level, which means his Eastern Ill goals weren't respected and they only gave him a shot to impress at the US Festival. Let's face it, the kid has clawed his way into the National team program like nobody else in the U-23 pool. Everyone else in the pool has experience at the U-20 level with a couple of exceptions, but they play for big-time soccer schools. Eastern Illinois can’t be the best soccer environment for a U-23 pool player, so I agree with Sandon the sooner he leaves the better for his soccer career. I’m fairly sure that he didn’t forget how to score goals during his sophomore year. But, he probably got much more attention from opponents that knew they had to stop him and who knows if Eastern Ill has anyone else on the roster that can play. It doesn’t help that he plays for a mediocre team.
Kudos to Thompson, but how much of a dumb ass is Eastern's head coach. Luckily Thompson didn't get hurt. In a blowout like that I would have pulled him out after 3 goals.