Archive for ‘October, 2011’

All aboard the ‘ship: Women’s soccer advances

For the 17th time this season, the Boston University women’s soccer team triumphed over its opponents, this time during another tense game at Nickerson Field on Sunday. While the weather was quite a bit colder than the Terriers (17-2-1, 8-0-0 America East) are used to playing in, the women rose up against Binghamton University with [...]

Single-season wins record all part of winning effort

With wind cutting through already cold air and snow piled up a few yards away from the endlines of Nickerson Field, the Boston University women’s soccer team broke a record on Sunday afternoon. When the Terriers beat the Binghamton University Bearcats 2-1 in an America East Conference semifinal showdown, they earned their 17th win of [...]

Men’s soccer trounced by Binghamton, captures conference title

When a team is winless and playing its last conference game of the season, the team plays for respect. The Boston University men’s soccer team now knows to respect Binghamton University, as the Terriers (9-8-0, 5-2-0 America East Conference) fell 5-1 to the last-place Bearcats (5-10, 1-5-2 America East) in snowy Vestal, N.Y. in the [...]

California Cool: Long Beach boy Nieto comes up with game-winner

Friday night at the Mullins Center, as he nonchalantly leaned with his back against a wall outside the media room, Matt Nieto maintained his naturally calm and collected demeanor, despite an unimpressive 2-2 tie with University of Massachusetts and despite the Boston University men’s hockey team’s overall underwhelming success. “We’re not worried at all right [...]

Halloween scare comes early

It seems these days that it is not a No. 12/13 Boston University men’s hockey game without a goal from sophomore forward Matt Nieto. So on Saturday night at Agganis Arena, when BU and the University of Massachusetts were knotted 4-4 in overtime and Nieto had yet to score, it seemed likely Nieto would be [...]