Championship Preview: No. 6 Seahawks at No. 3 Nor'easters
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| NOVEMBER 2 | 3:30 p.m. UNE BLUE STORM STADIUM • BIDDEFORD, MAINE |
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NEWPORT, R.I. (November 1, 2019) - Salve Regina University women's soccer earned the No. 6 seed in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championships and travel to Biddeford, Maine, to face the No. 3 seed University of New England for the second straight year in the postseason.
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LAST TIME OUT
Olivia Pickard (Wellfleet, Mass.) scored her first two collegiate goals in women's soccer, and then assisted on Carah Cote's (Adams, Mass.) seventh of the season as the Seahawks built a 3-0 first-half lead and held on for a 3-2 final against visiting Wentworth Institute of Technology in the final regular-season game of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC).
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SEAHAWKS NOTES FROM THE NEST
- Salve Regina freshman Jenna Park leads all league goalkeepers with 142 saves on the season.
- Her classmate Meagan McLaughlin ranks fifth in points (20).
- Six different Seahawks have more than one goal on the season led by Meagan McLaughlin (8) and Carah Cote (7).
NOR'EASTER NEWS
- Six different Nor'easters have more than one goal on the season led by Katie Beaudoin (12), Jessie Maywalt (5), and Alyssa Boilard (3).
- Beaudoin ranks third in the conference in goals (12) and tied for second in points (29).
- Jenna Pannone ranks second in save percentage (.846) just ahead of Jenna Park (.845).
INSIDE THE SERIES
University of New England and Salve Regina University will meet for the 26th time in women's soccer, and the fourth time in CCC postseason. The Nor'easters lead the all-time series, 18-6-1, and have won 13 of the last 14 meetings (13-0-1) and each postseason meeting (1999, 2010, 2018). In this year's regular-season meeting (Oct. 12 at Toppa Field), the Nor'easters led from start to finish in a 5-1 final. Senior Katie Beaudoin scored her team-leading eighth goal of the season in the 20th minute to give the Nor'easters a 1-0 lead. Junior Kat Buscemi added to the lead with her first goal of the season in the 34th minute. Salve Regina junior Molly Breslin cut the deficit in half when she took a feed from Emily Szemreylo for her second goal of the season.
WHAT'S NEXT?
Winner advances to the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) semifinal on Wednesday, November 6, hosted by higher seed.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Gordon women's soccer finished the 2019 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) regular season with a 7-1 league (13-3-3 overall) record to capture the CCC Regular-Season Championship and the No. 1 seed in the upcoming CCC Championship Tournament.
As the No. 1 seed, the Fighting Scots receive a bye in the first round of the tournament. Gordon is looking to return to the CCC Championship match after having a streak of three-straight championship appearances snapped last season. This year's team has been spectacular scoring a league-best 50 goals while allowing a league-low 17. In conference play, the Fighting Scots posted five shutouts and never conceded more than two goals.
Roger Williams will be the No. 2 seed in this year's bracket after a 5-2-1 CCC season (12-7-1 overall) and will host one of three quarterfinal matches on Saturday, Nov. 2. The University of New England (5-3-0 CCC, 10-5-2 overall) and Western New England (4-3-1 CCC, 8-9-2 overall) will be the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds, respectively, and serve as the other two quarterfinal hosts.
In the quarterfinals the Hawks will host No. 7 seed Wentworth (2-4-2 CCC, 6-11-2 overall) at 11 a.m., the Nor'easters matchup with No. 6 seed Salve Regina (4-4-0 CCC, 9-10-0 overall) at 3:30 p.m., and the Golden Bears meet No. 5 seed Endicott (4-3-1 CCC, 9-7-1 overall) at 2 p.m.
Both WNE and Endicott finished the regular season with 4-3-1 records and 13 points in the conference standings, meaning the league's tiebreaking procedure was needed to determine seeding. The Golden Bears were awarded the higher seed by virtue of their 1-0 head-to-head win over the Gulls in their regular-season meeting.
Following the quarterfinals, the three remaining teams will advance to the CCC Semifinals to join the top-seeded Scots on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Gordon will play the winner of the WNE-Endicott match, while the other two quarterfinal winners meet in the other semifinal. Game times for those matches will be announced following the first round.
The two semifinal winners will advance to compete in the 2019 CCC Women's Soccer Championship match on Saturday, Nov. 9. The winner of the title match will be named the 2019 CCC Women's Soccer Tournament Champion and earn the conference's automatic qualifier into the 2019 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship.
2019 CCC WOMEN'S SOCCER TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
All games hosted by the higher seed
Quarterfinals – Saturday, Nov. 2
#7 Wentworth at #2 Roger Williams, 11 a.m.
#6 Salve Regina at #3 University of New England, 3:30 p.m.
#5 Endicott at #4 Western New England, 2 p.m.
Semifinals – Wednesday, Nov. 6
#4/5 Winner at #1 Gordon, TBD
#3/6 Winner vs. #2/7 Winner, TBD
Finals – Saturday, Nov. 9
Semifinal Winners, TBD