Ameritas Classic hosted by Creighton

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The Hoyas will travel to Omaha Nebraska to take place in Creighton's Soccer tournamnet. The team leaves today and will play the hosts tomorrow at 8:30pm et. You can get live coverage if you follow this link www.cstv.com/media/livegame.html?school=gu&sport=&interval=rest_season#m-soccerYou will also find the link to the Gamertracker for the missouri state game for sunday as well as all the Georgetown games that will be covered by gametracker this year.

Creighton is ranked 20th by the Soccer Times poll and 29th by the College Soccer news. Creighton was ranked as high as 6th preseason. They started the season with two losses a 1-0 loss to indiana and a 4-1 thumping at the hands of ND. *edit* the NSCAA soccer poll has decided to not do their first poll until after this weekend meaning in their eyes when we face creighton it will be us facing #8 Creighton. so hopefully we can return to the hilltop with a top ten win under our belts. If we can we will at least be in the also recieving votes category. With a match up with #12 st.john's giving us an oppertunity to break into the top 25 very early.

This will be the second meeting for the teams after last year when creighton dominated an injury depleated hoya team.

This will be this first meeting with missouri state. Missouri state comes inot the Ameritas classic with a 1-0-1 record havind tied Oral roberts and Defeated UMKC (univeristy of missouri -Kansas city). The 4th team in the Ameritas classic who the hoyas will not play is Fairleigh Dickinson-Teaneck who come into the classic 1-1 having lost to leigh and beating stony brook.

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The game was delayed due to the previous women's game running over. it's is only now about to start. In the earlier mens game Farleigh Dickenson defeated Missouri state 2-1 in OT.

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Georgetown Falls 3-2 In overtime to Creighton.

Creighton went up 1-0 early on a miscomunication by the defense in the 5th minute allowing a creighton player to run onto a ball and slot it past keszler

The hoyas responded as mike glacuum dribbled through the blue jay defense and knocked the ball into the bakc of creighton's net in the 20th.

the hoyas took the lead 4 minutes as daniel grasso found the back of the net for the third time this season.

Then creighton equlized on a blast from inside the box.

They Hoyas played some great soccer. I watched it on the internet on creighton television. The hoyas were controling the play and definetly looked as good as i've seen them. They had the better play in the second half but could not find that go ahead goal.

It was a very physical game with the hoyas giving as well as they got. the ref was decent but as it's creighton's tournament they got a lot of the calls. The creighton players were a bunch of thungs knocking over are players even after both player were out of bounds and continuing to attack late in the game even though we had a player down. THe ref had to blow the whistle and stop the game cause creighton just kept attacking. htis goes against all etiquet in soccer. even in the world cup they kick it out.

The seocnd half ended scorelessly. about 8 minutes into the first overtime crieghton put the ball in the back of the net off of a corner kick . It was yet another heart breaking loss for the hoyas who despite being out shot had just as many if not more dangerous chances and much of the run of play. It's a real shame to loose another game they in all rights deserved to win.

The hoyas will try and snap their two game slide when the face misssouri state on sunday before returning to the hilltop.

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No shame in that, Creightons a real good team. They pretty much smacked us around last year at home, so a 3-2 loss in OT at their place is definite progress.

It seems like the team has been right there so far this year, just a couple breaks didn't go there way. Hopefully when they start playing some home games rather than tough road opponents things will be different.

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guhoyas.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/recaps/090206aab.html

guhoyas.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/stats/2006-2007/gm3creig.html

www.gocreighton.com/sports/common/news_releases_detail.asp?articleID=5260

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The Hoyas dropped to 1-3 after a 2-0 L to missouri state this morning. I was only able to follow the action via game tracker. So i can't know for sure but this result seems a lot worse than the creighton loss. MSU seemed to dominate the game from the getco and seemed like the defense was very shakey as coach eventually pulled the two outside defenders. In a move that was decided upon before leiving for nebraska back up joe devine was given the state against MSU. Devine had 6 saves in the loss. The Bears out shot the hoyas 18-6 with an 8-1 advantage in SOG and 6-3 advantage in corners. It seems like the OT loss to Creighton really took it out of the team.

Both MSU goals came off of crosses. The first coming off a header on a corner kick in the 12th minute. THe second came from a volly off a cross in the 30th minute.

Georgetown commited 14 fouls to Missouri states 13. Cory zeller and Juston Kondos were each issued a yellow card warning from the ref. MSU's Andy cooper was also shown a yellow card, while his teammate joe welch was shown two yellow cards in the match and was sent off in the 66th minute. Georgetown had 4 offsides to MSU's 3.

I can't tell much more not having seen the actual game. I'll have to wait till the recaps come out to learn a little more. The Hoyas hope to bounce back in their home opener on Friday versus Syracuse at 3pm. The tests will come quickly has #12 St. John's comes to call a week from today.

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guhoyas.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/recaps/090306aaa.html
www.missouristatebears.com/13951.htm

I think this summed it up pretty well: "For the first time this season, I was really disappointed with our performance," said Georgetown head coach Brian Wiese. "Give credit to Missouri State, they were ready to play and were driven. We have to put this one behind us and quickly get focused on our upcoming home opener."


Georgetown junior Mike Glaccum (Philadelphia, Pa./La Salle) and freshman Len Coleman (Basking Ridge, N.J./The Pingry School) were both named to the Ameritas Classic All-Tournament Team.