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2023 WF Soccer Thread - NCAA Tourney 2nd Round - Hoosiers Visit Spry 5 pm Sunday ESPN+

JuiceCrewAllStar said:
Like how does Marshall come to have the second best soccer team in the country??
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Weird stuff happens on college soccer. Usually it's some combination of elite coaching and and/or unique talent pipelines/connections. Marshall is almost all international dudes, plus 4 kids from a boarding school in Connecticut.
 
awakegirl said:
I feel like this prob means you’re a paisano. Love it.
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Only a 1/4, but a very strong 1/4. My grandma married a Texan, but her entire collection of siblings all basically lived within a couple blocks of each other, so we'd just wander around to the great aunt's with the pool. Then go back to grandma's and drink cabinets. I loved cabinets. Good memories.

My dad played Little League/high school club or all-star ball against Davey Lopes, and went to the same high school as Ernie DiGregorio, two more RI sports legends.
 
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OldGouldandBlack said:
Only a 1/4, but a very strong 1/4. My grandma married a Texan, but her entire collection of siblings all basically lived within a couple blocks of each other, so we'd just wander around to the great aunt's with the pool. Then go back to grandma's and drink cabinets. I loved cabinets. Good memories.

My dad played Little League/high school club or all-star ball against Davey Lopes, and went to the same high school as Ernie DiGregorio, two more RI sports legends.
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Ernie D! My kids play basketball at Davey Lopes often! Good stuff.
 
Deacon Women take the first leg of the Ocean State swing with a 3-1 win over the URI Rams. The Deacs are now off to Providence to vanquish Brown.
 
The WF men play at Pitt tonight (7 pm on ACCN+). Some tidbits on that matchup from the WF Game Notes:

  • Wake Forest and Pitt will meet in the ACC opener for each program in Saturday night's showdown at Ambrose Urbanic Field.
  • The Demon Deacons will enter the contest as the No. 9 ranked team in the latest United Soccer Coaches poll. Pitt, meanwhile, is receiving votes and was ranked No. 5 in the preseason poll.
  • The Deacs come to Panther territory with a 2-0-2 overall record with victories over Grand Canyon and Furman and draws against Cal and then-No. 20 Maryland. Pitt, meanwhile, is 1-2-1 with a victory over Howard, a draw against current No. 14 Penn State and losses suffered to Georgetown and current No. 2 Marshall.
  • In the preseason ACC poll, Wake Forest was picked to finish second in the Atlantic Division with Pitt selected to top the Coastal Division.
  • Wake Forest holds the ACC's longest consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances streak at 12-straight years while Pitt is tied with Clemson for the second-longest streak in the conference at four-straight years.
  • Saturday's matchup will be the sixth all-time meeting between the Demon Deacons and Panthers.
  • Wake Forest holds a 5-0-0 record against Pitt in the all-time series including a 3-1 victory in the most recent meeting on Sept. 17, 2021.
  • This is Wake Forest's first appearance at Ambrose Urbanic Field since a 2-0 victory on Sept. 13, 2019.
Also, WF's Roald Mitchell, #9 pictured below, is coming off a hat-trick against Furman:

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That was a bullshit penalty call. Pitt player was not getting to that ball
 
Geez. 3-0 Pitt. What happened?
 
The ladies are prolly better at this point. Let’s see but it’s been a quiet couple years…
 
Rafi said:
The Wake men were #1 in the country last year.
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Yeah until the wheels fell off and they got blown out at home to end both ACC and NCAA. C’mon you can’t be seriously arguing this point.
 
Henry Chinaski said:
Yeah until the wheels fell off and they got blown out at home to end both ACC and NCAA. C’mon you can’t be seriously arguing this point.
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You wrote that “it’s been a quiet couple of years” yet we were #1 in the country for a while last year. I wish our football and men’s bball teams could have years like that. I would guess that men’s soccer was the only Wake program to be ranked #1 in the country last year, except for women’s golf.
 
I thought he was talking about the women’s program.
 
Rafi said:
You wrote that “it’s been a quiet couple of years” yet we were #1 in the country for a while last year. I wish our football and men’s bball teams could have years like that. I would guess that men’s soccer was the only Wake program to be ranked #1 in the country last year, except for women’s golf.
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Baseball
 
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