Southern New Hampshire University 2014 Men's Soccer
No. 1 SNHU (16-1-1)
vs. No. 2 So. Connecticut (15-3)
Larkin Field - Manchester, N.H.
Northeast-10 Championship - Final
Sunday, November 9, 2014 - 1:00 pm
Video: www.northeast10.tv
COMPLETE GAME NOTES (PDF)
SERIES VS. SCSU: Southern Connecticut leads 28-12-8
LAST MEETING: October 11, 2014 - SNHU 5, So. Connecticut 0 (at New Haven, Conn.)
THE PENMEN: Southern New Hampshire, ranked No. 6 nationally, reached its fourth straight NE-10 final with a 2-0 win over Merrimack Friday night...Kenny Doublette leads the Penmen with 14 goals and four assists for 32 points...he had both goals on Friday...Sebastian Stezewski has totaled 10 goals and seven assists for 27 points...Jose Seoane, despite only playing in 10 games, is third on the team in scoring with 10 goals and three assists for 23 points...Sofiane Tergou has notched five goals and seven assists, while Brian Grisell has added four goals and seven assists...Miguel Carneiro has a team-high eight assists to go along with three goals...16 different players have scored at least one goal for the Penmen...the defense, led by NE-10 Player of the Year Callum Williams, has allowed 11 goals all season and posted 10 shutouts...the Penmen had a total of nine NE-10 All-Conference performers, including First Teamers Carneiro, Doublette, Stezewski, Williams and Dominic Samuel...graduate student keeper Dom DiMaggio has started all 16 games and owns a 0.56 goals-against average, .810 save percentage and seven shutouts.
HEAD COACH MARC HUBBARD: Marc Hubbard enters his seventh season as head men's soccer coach at SNHU...the 2013 NSCAA Division II Coach of the Year, and a three-time Northeast-10 Coach of the Year, Hubbard has guided the Penmen to six straight NCAA berths, including the 2013 national championship, and owns a career 116-20-15 (.818) record.
THE OWLS: Second-seeded Southern Connecticut scored twice in the final eight minutes Friday to rally past Adelphi 2-1 in the other Northeast-10 semifinal...Daquan King leads the Owls with nine goals and three assists for 21 points, while Markus Jacobsen has totaled nine goals and a pair of assists...Chae Brangman has notched six goals and four assists, while Daniel Ruiz has four goals and a team-high five assists...Noah Veronier has started every game in goal for the Owls and owns a 0.95 goals-against average and .738 save percentage with seven shutouts.
WHAT'S NEXT: Ranked first and second in the region, both SNHU and Southern Connecticut are all but assured of hearing their name called when the NCAA field is announced on Monday night...the Penmen would be making their seventh straight appearance, the longest active streak in Division II...regional play begins next weekend.
NEWS AND NOTES: SNHU and Southern Connecticut are longtime rivals dating back to the days both were in the now-defunct New England Collegiate Conference...while the Owls have controlled most of the series, the Penmen have turned the tide as of late, going 5-0-2 in the last seven meetings ...SNHU had their 37-game unbeaten streak (35-0-2) dating back to last season snapped against Le Moyne on October 25.. the streak is the second longest in NCAA Division II history...prior to the loss, the Penmen had been unbeaten in 32 consecutive Northeast-10 contests. ..the Penmen have won 24 in a row at Larkin Field, tying a program record set from 1988-90 ...SNHU has scored 71 goals in 18 games, averaging 3.94 goals a game...the Penmen are seeking their third straight NE-10 tournament title, something no school has done since Merrimack won three straight from 1995-97...SNHU has also been to three straight conference finals, as it fell to Franklin Pierce in 2011...Keegan Campbell, Jonathan Lupinelli and Sebastian Stezewski were all named Capital One Academic All-District last week.
