Men's Soccer 2014 Season Thread

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 9 years ago

After two games in the season, the Rams are without a win. In their first game the Rams outplayed Seton Hall, but could not put in the clincher and came away with a tie. Against PC in the second game, a bad 5-1 loss, we saw all the problems that have recently marked the program. Whereas URI has dominated the series against PC in the past, the Rams have now loss 4 straight to the Friars. So after promising start with the exhibition games, the regular season has begun badly.

rhodyrudder · Unread post by **rhodyrudder** » 9 years ago

It was 1-0 in the second when one play, I won't say it changed everything since Pee-cee had the lead and was controlling a lot of possession, but it was effectively the end of Rhody's hopes.
Remember, the boys had gone 110 minutes 2 days earlier. Why does the NCAA have OT in regular season matches?!?
A Fry-ah attempted a shot, and missed the ball ala charlie brown, falling spectacularly in the process. I couldn't tell how much, if any, contact there was.
But out came the red card, and after the PK it was 2-0, and rhody was down a man.
Three more goals came in short succession.
Rhody got one back in the 88th.
After 2 games, I think the team has shown some good play. They look smarter, more confident on the ball when they have it in the middle third. This team will not finish 12th in the a-10!

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

Why are we calling them "the boys" or is that UK football speak? I envision U12 South Kingstown soccer games when I hear that.

I hope you are right, Rudder, that they are fundamentally better despite the slow start.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 9 years ago

MSoccer beat NJIT 2-0 tonight and the WSoccer beat Bryant 2-1

MSoccer now 1-1-1 while WSoccer is now 3-0-1

rhodyrudder · Unread post by **rhodyrudder** » 9 years ago

BC 3-0 Sunday.
Was 1-0 til late,
and the last 2
may have come
as counterattacks
with Rams pressing
for equalizer.
Home Friday vs Lehigh.

rhodyrudder · Unread post by **rhodyrudder** » 9 years ago

3-game winning streak in progress after tonight's 3-0 win v Stony Brook has Rhody above .500 with 2 more OOC matches this week. At Bryant Wed, and home v Albany Sat.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

Thx for the update, Rudder. Thank goodness they have some positive momentum.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 9 years ago

At 4-3-1, they have already doubled their win total of last season (2-14) and equaled their win total of 2012 (4-11-3). This has been done at the 7 game mark of an 18 game season. Looks like things are headed in the right direction. Keep up the good play.

Date Opponent Score Attend
Aug 29 Seton Hall T, 1-1 533
Aug 31 at Providence L, 5-1 855
Sep 4 NJIT W, 2-0 423
Sep 7 vs. Boston College L, 3-0 421
Sep 12 Lehigh L, 1-0 240
Sep 14 Yale W, 1-0 219
Sep 17 Sacred Heart W, 3-1 233
Sep 20 Stony Brook W, 3-0 319

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 9 years ago

Men's soccer moves to 6-3-3 and 2-0 in the A-10 today with a 2-1 win over GW at home.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 9 years ago

Men's and woman's soccer are both off to impressive starts as is the volleyball team (only football struggling)

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 9 years ago

Need to get baseball and golf back to their recent success.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 9 years ago

It's nice to see the men's soccer team turning around. This is Gareth Elliott's second season as head coach. He played under Ed Bradley from 1998-2001, was an assistant for Bradley from 2003-05, and stayed at URI for two years after Bradley left. He was also able to convince Bradley to come back to URI as soccer Director of Operations before last season.

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 9 years ago

Not my usual sports interest, but this is nice-

STC · Unread post by **STC** » 9 years ago

I'm not a soccer fan either but this is great news. Seems like the arrow is pointing up for both soccer programs these days.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

Awesome. Garrett getting it done in year 2!

rhodyrudder · Unread post by **rhodyrudder** » 9 years ago

It's now late season, only one home game left.
Friday nite v UMass.
So far, maximum points.
Good win today vs a good Dayton team.
Even match, not a lot of chances for either side.
Scoreless after 90, the good guys slipped a loose ball
in after a free kick, and walk away unbeaten and untied
in conference play after a great weekend.
Told ya we weren't finishing last, or 12th or whatever
the preseason pick was!

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 9 years ago

With the Sunday OT 1-0 win over Dayton, the Rhody men move to 8-3-3 on the season and 4-0 in A-10 play. With only four games left, they are assured of a winning regular season (not counting A-10 Tournament). The last overall winning season (including tournament) was all the way back in 2007. Big improvement over the 2013 team which lost its last eight and went 2-14.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 9 years ago

Is there a NCCA tournament for soccer and if there is are we in position to get into it? Do we need to win the conference to get in? When was our last A10 regular season title?

rjsuperfly66 · Unread post by **rjsuperfly66** » 9 years ago

TP,

In answers to your question, there is an NCAA soccer tournament. 48 teams are invited. 16 teams get first round byes. Every game but semi-finals and finals usually played on higher seeds home field.

In regards to URI, at this point they likely need to win the A10 to make the NCAA. Dayton (previously ranked 38) and George Mason (previously ranked 48) were both good wins, but URI entered the week ranked 116. They also have not performed strong on the road (1-2-1) which is partly why their RPI Is lower.

The A-10 is a decent soccer league, some really good teams (St. Louis and Davidson), and some really bad teams, 3 teams among the bottom 25 in D1 (St. Bonaventure, UMASS, LaSalle).

URI's final home game is against UMASS, but they will have some tough road games coming up where they can try to make a significant jump.

At St. Joes (previously 117)
At St. Louis (previously 18)
At Duquense (previously 80)

If they want to push at-large territory before conference tournament, I would estimate they could do no worse than 3-0-1 in those 4 games. I would say 3-0-1 rough estimate an RPI of 55-60. But there is room for them to move, I'm estimating a 20-30 spot jump for the Rams after last week.

And to question 3, a quick search tells me the last regular season title was '05, and the last conference tournament title was '06.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 9 years ago

Good stuff RJ. Thanks. I thought George Mason was #22 when URI beat them? But that aside, good info. I look forward to following them down the stretch.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 9 years ago

VCU, SLU and GMU have been very good over the last few seasons, other than that I couldn't tell you much about A10 soccer

neil · Unread post by **neil** » 9 years ago

Nice turnaround from last year. Kudos to Elliott. It would be nice to see them finish strong with a number of games on the road.

rjsuperfly66 · Unread post by **rjsuperfly66** » 9 years ago

Since my last post, RPI has been updated.

URI has jumped to 78 in the newest update (increase of 38 spots).

Their remaining schedule:

vs. UMASS (176 of 205)
at St. Joes (113)
at St. Louis (17)
at Duquesne (96)

Other A10 schools:

Davidson (14)
George Mason (42)
Dayton (45)
VCU (116)
George Washington (124)
Fordham (127)
St. Bonaventure (169)
LaSalle (182)

Other URI opponents:

Seton Hall (home, tie) - 71
Providence (away, loss) - 11
NJIT (home, win) - 144
Boston College (neutral, loss) - 64
Lehigh (home, loss) - 108
Yale (home, win) - 198
Sacred Heart (home, win) - 203
Stony Brook (home, win) - 188
Bryant (away, tie) - 123
Albany (home, tie) - 157

The Top 25 Coaches Poll should be updated tomorrow.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 9 years ago

TruePoint wrote:Is there a NCCA tournament for soccer and if there is are we in position to get into it? Do we need to win the conference to get in? When was our last A10 regular season title?

As someone else mentioned, there is a tournament for soccer, and we've been 11 times. We went in 1972, 76, 77, 79, 95, 96, 99, 2000, 03, 05, and 06. We played home games in the tournament in 72, 77, 79, 95, and 2000.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 9 years ago

Looking at our players in relation to the A10, we have 5 players that make various leaderboards, English senior Matt Sykes, English junior Ryan Oakley, South African redshirt freshman Dante Lamb, South African freshman Carlo Davids, and German freshman Nils Leifhelm. When it comes to the points stat, goals equal 2 points and assists equal 1 point.

Sykes is first in the league in shots and shots per game. He's 4th in points and goals and 6th in points per game and goals per game. He's tied for 5th in assists and 7th in assists per game.

Oakley is 9th in shots per game and 5th in assists and assists per game.

Lamb is 10th in points per game. He won the A10 rookie of the week for 10/6-12.

Davids is 8th in assists.

Leifhelm is our keeper. He's 8th out of 10 in goals against average, 5th out of 10 in save percentage and shutouts per game, 2nd of 10 in saves, 6th of 11 in saves per game and 4th of 11 in shutouts. He won back to back rookie of the week awards for 9/22-28 and 9/29-10/5

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 9 years ago

Keeper Nils Leifhelm was named rookie of the week yesterday. In the process he becomes URI's first ever 3 time rookie of the week in men's soccer and this is the fourth rookie of the week award this season for the team, which is a program record.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 9 years ago

Is he the EC Matthews of soccer?

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 9 years ago

Maybe Pat Riley drove up to see him instead?

rhodyrudder · Unread post by **rhodyrudder** » 9 years ago

2 more wins this weekend, including a great game on senior night, and the boys (sorry atp) are still at maximum points with only 3 matches left.

Woo-hoo!!!

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 9 years ago

Keep it going, soccer!

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 9 years ago

10-3-3 with two games left (at nationally ranked St Louis and at Duquesne).

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 9 years ago

Sir Alex Ferguson flew in on a G5 late last night to look at our FR goalkeeper. He landed on the football practice field in the wee hours, and was spotted by my buddy having tea and crumpets with our HC and Thorr. He didn't understand the concept of coffee milk.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 9 years ago

Love it!

Bangers and Mash served to all who came to see the boys off on senior day!

URI_IEP · Unread post by **URI_IEP** » 9 years ago

bigappleram wrote:Sir Alex Ferguson flew in on a G5 late last night to look at our FR goalkeeper. He landed on the football practice field in the wee hours, and was spotted by my buddy having tea and crumpets with our HC and Thorr. He didn't understand the concept of coffee milk.

It wasn't Sir Ferguson...

It was Joachim Löw checking out our rookie goalkeeper to take over for Manuel Neuer on the German National Team. At least that's what my cousin's fiancee who had a personal conversation with him outside the CVS in Wakefeild said. She also said Löw was at CVS because he needed some cough medicine. They had a nice conversation and then they took a selfie together. Enjoy the last two games with our rookie keeper, because Löw said "avter zees year he'z going zu Bayern Muenchen".

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 9 years ago

URI_IEP wrote:It was Joachim Löw checking out our rookie goalkeeper to take over for Manuel Neuer on the German National Team. At least that's what my cousin's fiancee who had a personal conversation with him outside the CVS in Wakefeild said. She also said Löw was at CVS because he needed some cough medicine. They had a nice conversation and then they took a selfie together. Enjoy the last two games with our rookie keeper, because Löw said "avter zees year he'z going zu Bayern Muenchen".

All kidding aside, it looks like he had success with FC Schalke 04's reserve squad before coming to URI. FC Schalke 04 is one of the top clubs in all of Europe and their reserve team plays in a 13,500 capacity stadium.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 9 years ago

URI is currently 63rd in the RPI. They play Sunday at Saint Louis who is 24th, then the Sunday after at Duquesne who is 96th.

URI_IEP · Unread post by **URI_IEP** » 9 years ago

RhowdyRam02 wrote:
URI_IEP wrote:It was Joachim Löw checking out our rookie goalkeeper to take over for Manuel Neuer on the German National Team. At least that's what my cousin's fiancee who had a personal conversation with him outside the CVS in Wakefeild said. She also said Löw was at CVS because he needed some cough medicine. They had a nice conversation and then they took a selfie together. Enjoy the last two games with our rookie keeper, because Löw said "avter zees year he'z going zu Bayern Muenchen".
All kidding aside

I wasn't kidding. I stand by my sources!

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 9 years ago

RhowdyRam02 wrote:URI is currently 63rd in the RPI. They play Sunday at Saint Louis who is 24th, then the Sunday after at Duquesne who is 96th.

College Soccer RPI Link:
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men ... soccer-rpi

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 9 years ago

URI_IEP, you're great and all, and I love reading your posts, but doesn't "IEP" stand for "Individual Education Plan"?

But I did hear that "Der Kaiser," Franz Beckenbauer was looking for the Rathskeller for his official HQ…..

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 9 years ago

Another week, another rookie of the week honor, the fifth consecutive week URI has claimed the award. Dante Lamb gets his second award of the year for his performance Friday night where he scored two goals in 55 minutes of action against UMass, including the game winner. Lamb is leading URI with 9 points in conference play. He has four goals and one assist in 6 games.

Rhody74 · Unread post by **Rhody74** » 9 years ago

Men's team ranked 30th!

http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-soccer/ ... 1027294zmw

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URI_IEP · Unread post by **URI_IEP** » 9 years ago

bressler3south wrote:URI_IEP, you're great and all, and I love reading your posts, but doesn't "IEP" stand for "Individual Education Plan"?

But I did hear that "Der Kaiser," Franz Beckenbauer was looking for the Rathskeller for his official HQ…..

@ URI the acronym IEP has a different and slightly more International meaning

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 9 years ago

Amazing story.
URI Predicted by A10 Coaches Preseason Poll for 12th Place just 5 points from the bottom. Now alone in 1st place with an undefeated record.

Preseason A10 Coaches Poll
1 Saint Louis 164 (10)
2 George Mason 151 (2)
3 VCU 147 (1)
4 Dayton 127
5 Davidson 105
6 Duquesne 100
7 La Salle 93
8 Fordham 70
9 George Washington 58
10Saint Joseph’s 53
11 Massachusetts 40
12 Rhode Island 39
13 St. Bonaventure 34

Current Standings
1 Rhode Island 6 - 0
2 VCU 3 - 0 - 3
3 Saint Louis 3 - 1 - 2
4 George Mason 3 - 2 - 1
5 Dayton 2 - 1 - 2
6 George Washington 2 - 2 - 1
7 Fordham 2 - 3 - 1
8 Duquesne 2 - 2
9 Davidson 1 - 2 - 1
10 La Salle 1 - 2 - 1
11 Saint Joseph's 1 - 3 - 1
12 Massachusetts 1 - 4 - 1
13 St. Bonaventure 0 - 5

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 9 years ago

URI_IEP......international entertaining person......man of mystery.....

OBRAM · Unread post by **OBRAM** » 9 years ago

Great maybe I can catch a game.

URI_IEP · Unread post by **URI_IEP** » 9 years ago

Ramulous wrote:URI_IEP......international entertaining person......man of mystery.....

...........secret agent man............

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 9 years ago

URI_IEP wrote:
Ramulous wrote:URI_IEP......international entertaining person......man of mystery.....
...........secret agent man............

Oooooooh, you're one of those!!!!!!!!!!!! INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINING PLAN PERFECTED!!!!!!!

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