Disappointed with the outcome of Thursday’s match, head coach Ashley Phillips and the Huskies came into Sunday with a heightened sense of determination.
The Huskies will look to bounce back with two road conference games this week, with matches against Hofstra and Drexel looming. Despite the strong effort from the Huskies in their recent games, they will look for some tangible results.
The Huskies’ win, their 25th over the Catamounts in program history, served as a needed refresher for the team as they headed home after a 4-1 loss against the University of Maine Friday.
Tangentially, this is yet another example of the NHL lacking any regard for its players. The league doesn’t listen to the players on issues like the All-Star Game, it shows little care for player safety and now it has ignored the opinion of virtually every player on the Olympics.
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.
