The Northeastern women’s volleyball team hosted the New England Challenge over the weekend, winning two of the three matches and closing out the preseason with a record above .500.
Despite outpacing the Wildcats with five more shots on target, the Huskies could not squeak anything past UNH keeper Mia Neas. They eventually lost on a pinball cross into the box that found senior forward Brooke Murphy, who tapped in the game-winner in the 81st minute.
Before Flint joined the program in 2008, there was a six-year period when the Huskies failed to post a winning season and did not qualify for conference playoffs. Since then, however, Flint has led the team to top-tier status of collegiate women’s hockey.
The funds will be released to the hockey program annually using a formulaic approach. He said the standard withdrawal from endowment funds is four percent annually, which would give the hockey program an extra $80,000 each year for the next 25 years.
Looking to carry the momentum from their upset win over the University of Massachusetts Lowell last Saturday night, Northeastern men’s soccer faced a true test of their fitness, with both games of the week needing extra time to decide an outcome.
The playoff format MLB uses is a flawed way of crowning a champion considering the nature of baseball. The game’s arbitrary, large-sample-size friendly tendencies lend themselves to the long haul of its 162-game regular season, not the whiplash-inducing brevity of its playoffs. Too many unpredictable and unpreventable things happen over the course of one baseball game for such an unforgiving playoff format to be a good method of choosing a champion.
The Huskies, matched up against their undefeated opponent, were unable to close out the road trip with a victory, as the golden goal found its way into the net nine minutes into extra time, sealing the Huskies’ fate with a 1-1 record in the Lone Star state.
A strong battle between the teams—Berkeley trying desperately to notch an insurance goal and Northeastern pushing to force overtime, if not a win—lasted the majority of the second half, with constant back-and-forth possession.
In front of a record-breaking crowd of 2,017 people at Parsons Field Saturday night, junior defender Martin Nygaard sent his 108th minute penalty kick off the post and into the back of the net, securing a historic victory for Northeastern University (NU) men’s soccer against No. 12 University of Massachusetts Lowell.
