Northern Athletics Conference Women's Soccer

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Edgewood's first-round opponent?  UW-Stevens Point.

Pointers season stats can be found here:

http://athletics.uwsp.edu/sports/wsoc/2008/TEAMCUME.HTM

[Just Bill]

Live Stats for Edgewood/UWSP: http://sidearmstats.com/edgewood/wsoc/

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UW-Stevens Point 6, Edgewood 0.

Eagles had a tough early draw. I read from a press release that the Pointers have the 6th highest scoring offense of all the Women's D3 teams in the land.

[Jim Matson]

The Pointers are a high scoring team, no doubt.

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Rockford has hired a new women's soccer coach:

http://www.northernac.org/releases/2009_04/20090413b.html

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Another coaching change (Alverno) here:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2009_04/20090421b.html

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Alverno has added an assistant coach:

http://northernac.org/releases/2009/2009_07/20090731a.html

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Here is the 2009 Northern Athletics Conference Women's Soccer Pre-Season Poll:

http://northernac.org/releases/2009/2009_08/20090818a.html

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Alverno has added another assistant coach:

http://www.alverno.edu/athletics/soccer/20090824.html

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Key opening day NAthCon non-conference matches:

Aurora at Carroll:

Elmhurst at Dominican

UW-Platteville at Marian (early test for Sabers, also how will Pioneers have adjusted given the change in their coaching situation?

Augustana-IL at Edgewood

Ripon at MSOE

(Concordia-WI the only projected NAthCon playoff team not in action tomorrow).

[DIIIdad]

I will be at the Augie/Edgewood game tomorrow night and will chime in with results.

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9/01 NAthCon finals just in:

North Park 7, WLC 0
Alverno 7, Mount Mary 0
Lake Forest 4, Concordia-Chicago 1
Northland Int'l 3, Lakeland 2

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4 more 9/01 finals:

MSOE 6, Ripon 0
Marian U 2, UW- Platteville 2
Elmhurst 1, Dominican 0
Carroll U 2, Aurora 0

[DIIIdad]

I will be at the Augie/Edgewood game tomorrow night and will chime in with results.

Final score: Augie 3 - 0.  This was Edgewood's first home loss in 17 games dating back to 10/31/06.  Augie controlled this game in every facet, out-shooting Edgewood 23-5 and 15-0 in corners.  Edgewood hung tough though, keeping the score 0-0 at the half. 

But in the second half, Augie finally pounced on a few loose balls and put it away.  The third goal was a fluke, as Edgewood had just put in their backup freshman keeper and she bobbled the ball with an obvious bout of nerves.  She was very impressive after that, making at least 4 point blank saves.  I initially felt bad for her, but after seeing her bounce back with some beautiful saves, she'll be fine.

[Just Bill]

Edgewood scores twice in the final 10 minutes (both by freshman Abby Moder) to beat Ripon 4-3.  Moder finishes with 3 goals.

http://www.edgewoodcollegeeagles.com/custompages/Statistics/wsoccer/2009/ws09-02.htm