Men's & Women's Soccer Earn ECAC Berths
Marywood's Men's and Women's Soccer teams has earned ECAC bids

Men's & Women's Soccer Earn ECAC Berths

Men's Soccer - 11/5/2012 3:21:00 PM

Centerville, MA – Marywood University's men's and women's soccer teams have earned a berth into the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) soccer tournaments. The men's team reaches the ECAC post-season for the third consecutive season while the women, who won the tournament in 2010, return for the second time.  Both teams are seeded #7 and will travel to their respective #2 opponents.  The men will travel to take on Frostburg State University (Md.) on Wednesday at 6:00 pm while the women will travel to Philadelphia to take on Swarthmore at 7:00pm.  Marywood's men's team is 10-6-3 on the year while the Bobcats sport a 12-2-4 record, while the Pacers' women's squad is 10-8-1 and Swarthmore is 12-6-1.

Men's Preview:
The Pacers advanced to the CSAC playoffs but failed to make a third straight CSAC title game after a 4-1 defeat at the hands of #2 Rosemont College. Frostburg State, meanwhile, was seeded second in the Capital Athletic Conference semifinals but upset by #3 York (Pa.) 4-3 in double overtime. 

This will be the first ever match-up between the Pacers and Bobcats. If live statistics and/or video of Wednesday's game should become available it will be posted on the men's soccer schedule page under “details.” Game time is 6:00pm.

2012 ECAC South Region Men's Championship Page

2012 ECAC South Region Men's Championship Bracket (pdf)

Women's Preview:

Marywood finished the CSAC regular season unbeaten with a 10-0-1 mark, earning the conference's top seed, but for the third consecutive year was upset in the semifinal round.  Six of the eight losses Marywood has on the year are to either teams that are regionally or nationally ranked while another opponent (Scranton) won their conference and is in the NCAA tournament. 

Marywood won the ECAC South Region tournament in 2010.  After entering as the #6 seed, Marywood went through the top three seeds en route to their first post-season title in school history.  Swarthmore had won the previous three ECAC South Region titles (2007, 2008, 2009) but did not qualify in 2010 when Marywood won it.

This will be the second time Marywood and Swarthmore have played, with the only other meeting coming in 2011 when Swarthmore participated in Marywood's Joe Bochicchio Memorial Classic and beat the Pacers, 2-1. The Garnet fell to Johns Hopkins University in the Centennial Conference semifinals. 

Live stats of Marywood's game at Swarthmore on Wednesday at 7:00pm will be available at http://livestats.prestosports.com/swarthmore/

2012 ECAC South Region Women's Championship Page

2012 ECAC South Region Women's Championship Bracket (pdf)

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