I think the Little East Conference deserves its own thread in 2013. Last year posts were made in the New England soccer thread
Here is a pretty good preseason overview of 2013 ECSU Warrior Mens Soccer squad.
It describes top losses and top newcomers and in addition provides a nice interview with Coach Greg DeVito (7th year, 88-28-12)
Eastern is ranked 1st in this season's LEC Coaches Poll after going 17-2-1 in 2012. They made their 4th NCAA appearance in 7 yrs under Coach DeVito, and were defeated by St Lawrence U 2-1 in 2ot in last years NCAA Tournament. ECSU was ranked 22nd in the final 2012 D-III Soccer poll.
They kick off their season Sat Aug 31 at Widener U in Swarthmore PA
http://nutmeg.easternct.edu/mt-static/athletics/2013/08/fall-2013-season-previews.html
Happy to see this thread dedicated to the Little East.
I have a question that I'm going to try and word in a way that doesn't anger KSC fans... (though now that I've said that maybe it's inevitable).
I have only been to LE matches at KSC (lived nearby, and really enjoy soccer of all levels). I probably saw 4-5 games in a 4 year span, and no joke every one of those games included a fight. One game was even ended early because of a fight.
My question is... Is KSC notorious for instigating fights? Or did I just happen to come on the nights each year that ended up that way?
tj,
I have been watching Keene State for many years and there is no doubt they play a very physical brand of soccer. On the other hand, Eastern men's (and BTW, women's) soccer team(s), qualified for a 2012 Bronze Team Ethics Award for accumulating ten or less yellow and no red cards over the course of the 2012 season.
UMass Dartmouth was also very physical last year.
All you need to do is go to the LEC soccer statistics section on the LEC Conference web site and look at yellow/red cards given over the years, and I believe you will see, Keene St, UMD and in some years RIC have a lot of them. As a matter of fact , if I remember correctly, UMD had at least one, maybe 2 guys thrown out in last year's LEC tournament final vs ECSU.
2012 Season
Team GP Fouls YC-RC
Eastern Connecticut 20 167 9-0
Keene State College 19 294 23-0
Plymouth State 18 187 8-1
Rhode Island College 18 245 21-2
Southern Maine 18 169 11-0
UMass Boston 17 217 18-2
UMass Dartmouth 19 249 29-2
Western Connecticut 17 170 22-1
Rough start for the Warriors this afternoon with a 3-0 loss to Widener U in Swarthmore PA. ECSU freshman goalkeeper Greg Walton has 3 shots directed toward him and 3 found the net, Shots were 10 -7 in favor of Widener. Max Reid had 2 of the 3 goals for Widener.
Eastern plays Swarthmore tomorrow @ 4PM
3-3 tie with Swarthmore today, ECSU led twice but could not hold on to lead. They are starting 6 freshman so far. Mitch Power did not play today indicating a possible injury. Hope not, as we need experience right now!!!
First game observed on line indicated to me they need to work on technical skills, defense, and time of possession! Freshman goalkeeper needs experience as well.
Keene St starts off 0-2 with losses to Brandeis 3-2 and Hobart 3-0 this weekend.
Early LEC Conference results:
2013 Men's Standings
School Conf Overall
Western Connecticut 0-0-0 1-0-0
Rhode Island College 0-0-0 1-0-1
Mass-Boston 0-0-0 1-1-0
Eastern Connecticut 0-0-0 0-1-1
Mass-Dartmouth 0-0-0 0-0-0
Plymouth State 0-0-0 0-0-0
Southern Maine 0-0-0 0-1-0
Keene State 0-0-0 0-2-0
ESCUalum.....forgot that you are a big soccer fan. Noticed that this year's team has 8 freshmen and no juniors. One FY player is from Amherst....a GK. Maybe he should start over the other FY GK from Maine...just pulling your leg here. Also noticed another FY player is from Newtown.
Wonder why ESCU does not schedule Amherst in men's soccer. It seems that the women's squad plays Amherst on a regular basis. FYI, it seems that the women's game this year at Amherst will be a night game....suggesting to me it will be on the new turf field in the new football stadium which has lights....if true, it will be the first night time soccer game at Amherst! Hope the Lady Jeffs will make a game of it....seems ESCU's women squad is loaded and playing well.
Oh yes, forgot....why no juniors on your squad? Amherst's also brought in 8 new players this year....including one from AK and a 6'6' PLAYER FROM CA.
amh63,
Hope you had a wonderful summer. (BYW looks like you got hammered on karma ???, wht happened?). Here's one back
yes, huge ECSU athletics fan including soccer.
Looks like Coach DeVito brought in ton of VG Freshman in in 2010 but only recruited 3 in 2011, one, Nick Demo, who was very good, must have left/transfered the other two did not make the team in 2012.
Lots of Freshman starting this year, including 2 goalkeepers, which, from what I can observe after viewing one match, will be a re building year. One kid , who is the women soccer Coach's son is a soph transfer from U of Hartford, so he should be pretty good.
Looks like Amherst will again be in the thick of the race for the NCAA National Championship, nice recruiting year for Coach Serpone.
Yes, the Eastern women look very good so far this year and should do well. Exciting the new athletic facilities at Amherst. The Lord Jeff student athletes certainly deserve the best facilities as they have earned them!!!!
Looking forward to another great year of D-III athletics in 2013-14 especially bb and baseball with our new baseball coach, (Matt LaBranche), from WNEU. Best of luck to all of Amherst's teams this year, (except of course when they play the Warriors ;) ) in all their sports!
ECSUalum....Yes the Summer was good with a week at the Delaware shores with the family just before Labor Day. Saw your Prez at my 50th Class reunion in late May." Good times were had by all!
Thanks for the Karma point. It seems that someone from another region/board became upset over posts by members of the "CAC" board and took it out on posters, Amherst posters mostly. "our special friend" is how some refer to the person. It has gone on for some time.....but the situation is under control, I believe. At least four posters were given initially 100 negative pings each, it appears, before steps were taken. Hopefully, I will reach a net positive count before the start of basketball season. Silly games by childish person.
In any case, I will keep a watch over your Warriors as the year progress. Chat with you later on sport matters.
Amh63,
Wow, the idiot who pinged the CAC board must have spent hours/days? serving out the negatives to your group...what a whacko ::)!!!!
Saw Dr Freeland last fall when Elsa was getting one of her many honors/awards from national, state and local organizations. A great guy!!!
Anyway, I was with Elsa last week for the ground breaking ceremonies for our new Fine Arts Instructional Center. She was very happy it got OK by the Gov and that our poor Fine and Performing Arts majors, (who have been in the old Schaefer Hall for 50 yrs), will finally have a state of the art facility in 2015. She has really been promoting our new brand of being the State of Connecticut's designated Public Liberal Arts University. The campus is really beautiful now and has really changed since I was there in the 70's. Our outdoor athletics facilities are second to none!!
Take care,
ECAlum
From ECSU SID Bob Molta:
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. -- Freshmen Nicholas Warren (Southbury) and Ryan Pomroy (Ivoryton) - two of six newcomers in the Eastern Connecticut State University men's soccer starting lineup - connected for their first career points with 2:13 left to lift the Warriors to a 1-0 non-conference victory over Bridgewater State University in their home-opener Saturday afternoon at Thomas Nevers Field.
Much better passing and communication today vs last weekend in coming up with the victory today. Freshman getting a lot of experience which bodes well for later this year and next year!
ECSU nips Ramapo of NJ in Willimantic this afternoon is a hard fought match. Freshman Mark Richards got a beautiful cross from another Freshman Eric Fiore for the header. Veteran Tim Jennison scored with 1 min left in 2OT for the winner when Ramapo goalkeeper Steve Monaghan came out of his goal to block Jennison's shot but could not control the rebound. Otherwise, match was even with 12 SOG apiece. ECSU now at 2-1-1 Ramapo falls to 2-2-1
Eastern beat up on poor Mitchell 6-0 today, (whom Eastern beat only 1-0 in a close match last year!!). Mitchell incurred much of the damage from Warrior Freshman/Soph. players !! Senior Mitch Power launched another rocket off a set piece from 25 yards today, he had a couple of those last year 8-)
Scoring as follows
EC 13:35 Freshman Back Emmanuel Caicedo (1) (unassisted) beat keeper to near post from right side
EC 07:36 Freshman MF Ryan Pomroy (1) (Freshman Forward Kyle Peterson) served from left side to center and finished
EC 02:19 Soph.Tim Jennison (3) (Freshman Back Mark Richards) stopped, dropped off pass and finished
EC -31:-6 Senior MF Mitch Power (1) (unassisted) off free kick from 25 yards out
EC -39:-11 Soph. MF Gavin Neuendorf (1) (Freshman Fprward Alejandro Tobon) head flick to open look in front of goal
EC -44:-9 Senior MF Luke Capezzone (1) (Freshman Forward Alejandro Tobon & Zane Lombardo)
ECSU nips WCSU 1-0 at Nevers Field this afternoon on a goal by Freshman Nicholas Warren his second 37 sec into OT1.
The Colonials always play this cross state rival game tough. This was start of LEC play
from Bob Molta ECSU SID
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. -- Sophomore midfielder Arman Karbassioon's (Cheshire) first career game-winning goal helped the Eastern Connecticut State University men's soccer team extend its Little East Conference unbeaten streak to 13 with a 1-0 victory over Keene State College Saturday afternoon at Thomas Nevers Field.
Eastern (6-1-1, 2-0-0 LEC) posted its fourth consecutive shutout this year when Karbassioon beat Keene State (2-7-0, 1-1-0 LEC) keeper Malcolm Cheney in the 76th minute with a shot from the right side of the box for the only goal of the match. Sophomore back Zane Lombardo (Portland) ignited the scoring play with a cross from the left side of the field into the box to freshman midfielder Ryan Pomroy (Ivoryton). Pomroy gave it off to senior midfielder Mitch Power (Douglas, MA), who set up Karbassioon's first goal of the season.
Making his second consecutive start, Karbassioon became the fifth different Eastern player to record a game-winning goal in the team's six triumphs.
Eastern freshman keeper Greg Walton (Brunswick, ME) posted his fifth shutout in eight starts - fourth in a row
CURRENT LEC STANDINGS
Conference Overall
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Team GP Record Win % GP Record Win %
Eastern Connecticut 2 2-0 1.000 8 6-1-1 0.812
Rhode Island College 2 1-0-1 0.750 10 5-2-3 0.650
Keene State 2 1-1 0.500 9 2-7 0.222
UMass Dartmouth 2 1-1 0.500 7 5-2 0.714
UMass Boston 2 1-1 0.500 10 7-3 0.700
Plymouth State 2 1-1 0.500 8 3-4-1 0.438
Western Connecticut 2 0-1-1 0.250 9 2-6-1 0.278
Southern Maine 2 0-2 0.000 10 0-9-1 0.050
ECSU has little trouble with St Joseph's ME (7-3-1) and top scorer Kyle Shangraw, (10 games 856 min. 8 goals 3 assist. 19 points) gaining a 3-0 victory at Nevers Field. Jennison, Power and Tabon and goals for Eastern. I think today's game was probably the best I have ever seen a Warrior team play, even considering last year team. Defense was impenetrable, time of possession/technical ball control was outstanding, and scoring set-ups were executed with precision, all with a lot of freshman/soph. playing in between seasoned veterans like Mitch Power, Carl Stensland, Chris Giustina and Luke Capezzone. Freshman Alejandro Tabon's goal was a classic, with excellent ball control off the cross, a couple of nice moves and a strong clean finish. Freshman Goalkeeper Greg Walton had another clean sheet today, (5th in a row) and is gaining more and more confidence and experience as time goes on. What is turning out to be, what I called a rebuilding year, is the making of a solid team which with good health and continuous improvement, will have a very good year and looks to be a dangerous team in the making over the next couple of years!!!
Eastern will now be tested on the road with some excellent competition, ie Wesleyan, 10/8; Babson, 10/14; and returning home 10/19 vs RIC, who, I think the Warriors will contend with for the 2013 LEC title.
Their play thus far was rewarded this week with points awarded in the recent d3 soccer top 25 poll
Tuned in for the majority of the match to see St. Joes. Goalkeeper was a hs basketball teammate of my nephew. This contest was never in doubt and quite frankly the SJ's game just left me scratching my head. Benner did what he could but when he's facing point blank shots from 15 yds with no defender within 5 yds it's going to be pretty tough to stop. The most perplexing thing though was the SJ's offense. ECSU got credit for 4 saves but it seemed at least double that many times that SJs launched one at the goal from 35-40 yds out with no chance of scoring. Just seemed lazy and impatient, like they didn't want to work it all the way in to get a better opportunity. Tough to really get a good read on ECSU from this game because the just completely overmatched St Josephs. The Wes game next week should be a good test. ECSU should win that one.
Mag,
Good points, and it is accurate to say Eastern has not really had that tough of a schedule thus far. Wesleyan, Babson tests will show the true metal of the team.
If Mitch Power, Tim Jenneson stay healthy they will provide the bulk of the offense. ( also 9 other players have scored goals so Eastern has scoring potential with a rang of players. Our Freshman goalkeeper has not really been tested except for the first couple game of the season vs Widener and Swarthmore giving up 6 goals in 2 games, but as I said in my previous post, Walton seems to be gaining confidence and expertise, at least based on what I have seen. ECSU's overall defense has been pretty good as well, which helps his recent stats.
I am really pleasantly surprised on how well the young players are performing so far.
ECSU is a dangerous squad.
The program had a great run in 11' and I really think they are on the crusp of becoming elite.
The next 4 weeks will tell us a lot about quite a few teams.
Alo,
Thanks for the clarification, I have to admit I assumed Walton played the whole game and did not see the boxscore :-[.
Saint,
I agree, if this large batch of STARTING FRESHMEN GEL LIKE I HOPE, 2015-16 COULD BE INTERSTING. COACH DEVITO HAS DONE A NICE JOB SO FAR!!!
ECSU over U Southern Maine 4-1 in Gorham ME.
Shots by period 1 2 Tot Saves by period 1 2 Tot
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Eastern Conn........ 8 12 - 20 Eastern Conn........ 0 1 - 1
Southern Maine..... 2 3 - 5 Southern Maine..... 1 2 - 3
Corner kicks 1 2 Tot Fouls 1 2 Tot
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Eastern Conn........ 7 5 - 12 Eastern Conn........ 3 3 - 6
Southern Maine...... 1 2 - 3 Southern Maine...... 4 1 - 5
SCORING SUMMARY:
GOAL Time Team Goal Scorer Assists Description
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1. 9:39 SMMS13 Caleb Leino (2) Nat LeBlanc cross from RW thru box, 10 shot off left
2. 40:11 ECSUMS Mitch Power (6) Penalty kick
3. 50:43 ECSUMS Carl Stensland (1) Unassisted steal, couple dribbles, 18 yd shot
4. 78:40 ECSUMS Mitch Power (7) Tim Jennison pass from lw
5. 83:08 ECSUMS Nicholas Warren (3) Unassisted
CURRENT LEC STANDINGS
Conference Overall
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GP Record Win % GP Record Win % Last 10 Streak
Eastern Connecticut 4 3-0-1 0.875 12 8-1-3 0.792 8-0-2 Won 1
UMass Dartmouth 4 3-1 0.750 11 8-3 0.727 7-3 Won 3
UMass Boston 4 2-1-1 0.625 14 9-4-1 0.679 6-3-1 Won 2
Keene State 4 2-2 0.500 12 4-8 0.333 4-6 Lost 1
Plymouth State 4 1-1-2 0.500 12 5-4-3 0.542 5-2-3 Tied 1
Rhode Island College 4 1-1-2 0.500 13 5-4-4 0.538 4-4-2 Tied 1
Western Connecticut 4 0-2-2 0.250 13 2-9-2 0.231 0-8-2 Lost 2
Southern Maine 4 0-4 0.000 14 0-13-1 0.036 0-10 Lost 10
Do not know what was the problem with Eastern today, but got their butts handed to them by Babson today 2-0 :-[
Must have had at least 15 bad passes/give aways today, no offence to speak of, and was TOTALLY out played by the Beavers
Very poor possession stats due to being out hustled in most aspects of the game!!! Poorest game I have seen in a couple of years!!!
Lets hope they can regroup for next game because this game was a disaster!!! >:(
Another sort of sloppy passing game for Eastern, however, with 17 sec left in regulation time, Mitch Power rockets in the only goal of the match into the upeer right corner from 15 yds , to give the Warriors a 1-0 win over Rhode Island College.
Additionally, Eastern have not looked as competent on set pieces this year, which needs some work, especially for LEC/NCAA tournament play.
ECSU play a offensively explosive UMDartmouth squad @ Dartmouth MA next weekend!!!! Win this match, clinch LEC Tourney home field advantage!!!
US Coast Guard Academy plays ECSU to a 0-0 tie in a pretty evenly matched game from a stats standpoint, (only Live stats this afternoon). Eastern's record goes to 9-2-4, USCGA now 6-6-2.
UMass Dartmouth fell to Bridgewater St tonight 1-0 and Keene St fell to Springfield 2-1.
Huge LEC match Sat. with ECSU vs USD playing for regular season championship and home field advantage.
2013 Men's Standings Conference Overall
Eastern Connecticut 4-0-1 9-2-4
Mass-Dartmouth 4-1-0 9-5-0
Keene State 3-2-0 5-10-0
Mass-Boston 2-2-1 10-6-1
Rhode Island College 1-2-2 6-5-4
Plymouth State 1-2-2 5-5-3
Western Connecticut 1-2-2 3-11-2
Southern Maine 0-5-0 0-15-1
Hard to believe that the LEC and/or UMass Dartmouth will not be streaming the LEC regular season title game vs ECSU this Saturday, while all other LEC games will have video ???
Looks like the game is now being streamed!!! Fantastic, Thanks LEC/UMD
Eastern completely outclassed, outplayed, outhustled by UM Dartmouth. Showed that the Corsairs are the best team in the LEC. They win the regular season and home field advantage. If ECSU continues like this, they can call it a season, just painful to watch. >:(
new ECSU athletics web site location:
http://gowarriorathletics.com/landing/index
The new site has nice set of photos, (bird's eye views of outdoor facilities), of athletic facilities, which they never had before!!
Surprise surprise .....UMD loses to WestConn 2-0 today, so ECSU needs to beat Plymouth St today to clinch home field advantage for Wednesday's start of LEC Tournament. THANKS TO THE COLONIALS FOR GIVING THE WARRIORS A SHOT!!!
Eastern takes care of business vs Plymouth St 3-1, so will host LEC Tourney Wednesday Nov 6 At Thomas Nevers Field
ECSU ....thanks for the comment. Amherst is the top seed in the conf. playoffs...thereby should host the semi- finals. The winner of the playoffs is the conference title holder...gets the AQ for the post season. Presently, they are ranked first in the regionals and possibly No. 1 in the nation in some polls which helps in getting a NCAA bid if they lose in the playoffs.
ECSU defeats RIC 4-1 this afternoon including another 25 yrd free kick blast into right corner by Mitch Power 8-). RIC scored with a minute left in the game.
The Warriors will play the winner of the Keene St/UMD game, (played tonight at 6:30pm), on Saturday for the LEC title and another NCAA Tourney bid.
UMD coming to Thomas Nevers Field Saturday to play ECSU for the LEConference Tournament Championship. It should be a different result in Willimantic on Saturday, than it was last Saturday in Dartmouth MA ;D
What a difference home field advantage makes with the ECSU Warriors, as this time, they, outclass the UMD Corsairs for a 3-1 LEC Tournament Championship victory. Mitch Power started out the scoring for Eastern with a spectacular left footed blast from 20 yard into the upper left corner off a cross by fellow senior Carl Stensland. UMD keeper Carranza had no chance. Power followed that up with a penalty kick later when he was pulled down in the box
UMD scored on a penalty kisk with at the 20 min mark 2nd half.
ECSU ...thanks for keeping track and the interest :). +Karma
Is it possible our school teams will meet in the post season? Selection this Monday.
ECSU....the NCAA bracket answered my question. If our teams survive the first round, they should meet in the next round. Looking forward to the match :).
amh63,
Thank You sir, Would be nice to face the Lord Jeffs again, however, I think the Warriors are a little to young this year to go far into the tourney. They played with a lot of freshman this year, have no juniors, and although they will graduate Mitch Powers next year, I am confident that this years FR and So class will develop into team that will have chance to go deep in a couple of years!!
I will be rooting for the LJ again this year to go all the way!!
BTW we got reservations at the Lord Jeffery Inn in Amherst for the Jan 7 basketball matchup with Eastern!! Very excited to spend some time in Amherst and to experience LeFrak 8-)
ECSU.....Amherst has just posted on its athletic website, the upcoming NCAA contest to be held at Amherst. The post has previews of all the site participants. They also cite that there is a webcast of the games....I guess to be reached by going to the Amherst website. Enjoy the game on Sat....it starts at 11 AM. Still hope both our teams meet on Sunday.
ECSU 0 Gordon 0 halftime. Both teams have had chances but have not converted.
Nice shot by ECSU that pings the crossbar, and then the nightmare name "Kasiguran" finishes a Kai-esque type goal...
Congrats to Gordon College in their 1-0 victory over the Eastern Warriors.
ECSU had chances but could not put the ball in the net... unfortunately.
However...Another great season for Coach DeVito and the Warriors. I will really miss Srs Carl Stensland, Mitch Power, and Luke Capezzone, as well as Chris Giustina, Mike Radelbeck and Dan Eisenmann... great college soccer careers!!!
Quote from: lastguyoffthebench on November 16, 2013, 12:31:40 PM
Nice shot by ECSU that pings the crossbar, and then the nightmare name "Kasiguran" finishes a Kai-esque type goal...
It was lastguy, and would have probably been the winning goal, but as you well know soccer can be a game of inches. Gordon played well, controlled/possessed
the ball more efficiently and....... got the winning goal, which was a beauty!!!
Congrats to the ECSU Men and Women's Soccer teams for efforts both on the field and in the classroom.
http://gowarriorathletics.com/releases/nscaa
Inspirational article on ECSU standout defender Jon DeCasanova who was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and given less than a one-percent chance of survival last year.
Looks like he may be back on the field if things continue to go well for him 8-)
http://gowarriorathletics.com/sports/msoc/2013-14/releases/decasanova