UB Soccer Teams Set For This Week's ECC Championship Tournaments
Men Enter Friday's Semifinals As The Number Two Seed; Women Enter 2010 Championship As Number Three Seed
Bridgeport, Conn.-Both the University of Bridgeport men's and women's soccer teams have qualified for the 2010 East Coast Conference Soccer Championship Tournament that will begin play with semifinals matches this Friday, November 5th. Following Friday's semifinals, UB will serve as the host institution of both ECC soccer championship matches that will be played on Sunday, November 7th. The men's title match will be played on Knights Field at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday followed by the women's championship clash at 2:00 p.m.
The UB women's team, under the direction of twelfth-year head coach Magnus Nilerud, are the number three seed on the ECC women's side and will travel to the two second, Queens (N.Y.) College Knights on Friday for a 2:30 p.m. contest.
The Purple Knight men's team head into the ECC semis with a 10-5-2 overall record and went 5-1-1 in conference play in 2010. UB is also unbeaten in its last seven matches (five wins and two ties), including a 3-1 win over St. Thomas Aquinas in Saturday's regular season finale.
Bridgeport women's squad is also red hot entering the ECC Tournament having won six consecutive matches in which they have outscored the opposition by a total of 32-2. The Purple Knight women head into Friday's action at Queens with a 13-3-1 overall mark, and they finished 2010 with a 5-1-1 ECC record. Queens edged UB, 2-1, in overtime in this season's regular season match-up between the two teams.
The winner of the East Coast Conference Women's Soccer Championship will receive an automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Championship. The ECC Men's Soccer champion does not receive and automatic NCAA bid.
Men's Soccer Tournament
Semifinals:
Friday, November 5
No. 4 C.W. Post (4-3 ECC) at No. 1 Dowling (5-0-2 ECC) – 7:00 pm
No. 3 St. Thomas Aquinas (4-3 ECC) at No. 2 Bridgeport (5-1-1 ECC) - 2:00 pm
Finals:
Sunday, November 7
Knights Field, University of Bridgeport Winner of 1/4 vs. Winner of 2/3 – 11:00 pm
Women's Soccer Tournament
Semifinals:
Friday, November 5
No. 4 Molloy (4-3 ECC) at No. 1 C.W. Post (6-0-1 ECC) – 12 noon
No. 3 Bridgeport (5-1-1 ECC) at No. 2 Queens (5-1-1 ECC) - 2:30 pm
Finals:
Sunday, November 7
Knights Field, University of Bridgeport Winner of 1/4 vs. Winner of 2/3 – 2:00 pm
Admission to the East Coast Conference Soccer Championship Tournament is $5 for adults; $2 for students (with ID), senior and children 5 and up; children under 5 are admitted free of charge to all matches.
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