This is Hartwick College

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Seasoned veteran John Paul Boyle ’09 led
the Hawks in scoring with 7 goals and 15
points en route to garnering all-league and
all-region accolades.
The Hartwick men’s soccer program
has had one storied history since its
inception back in 1956 It’s made 23
NCAA appearances; captured a
national title in 1977; has had 26 All-
Americans over the years, and watched
two of its players be recognized as the
Hermann Trophy Award recipients.
However, the program hadn’t seen
anything before like the 2007 season, a
campaign that ended in a late 1-0 loss
to Buffalo in the semifinals of the Mid-
American Conference Championships.
The team finished with a 5-6-7 record.
Yes, a school record seven ties went in
the record books.
“Although our 2007 record perhaps
does not reflect this, I feel it was a decent
season and forward progress was
certainly made,” said Hartwick Head
Coach Ian McIntyre ’96. “As a body of
work, we saw constant improvement
throughout the season and we played
some good attacking soccer.”
After the first four games, the Hawks
looked like a team with a mission-getting
back to the NCAA Tournament. They
opened up the season by splitting two
contests at the Westfield Cup in Akron,
Ohio by downing 2006 NCAA qualifier
UAB (3-1) before dropping a 3-1
decision to nationally-ranked New
Mexico. The following week, Hartwick
recaptured the Mayor’s Cup crown by
blanking James Madison 1-0 on a
converted penalty kick by Chris Jackson
in the first half and then got revenge
2007 Revisited
with a 3-0 defeat of Seton Hall in a
rematch of an opening round clash of
the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Liam
Parrington was named the tournament’s
defensive MVP, while Jackson received
the offensive MVP honors for the second
consecutive year.
However, the next nine games
Hartwick failed to post a win. The Hawks
went 0-3-6 during that span and fell to
3-4-6 overall. In that time period,
Hartwick fell to Penn (2-1), Binghamton
(2-1) and to then 24 th -ranked Akron (2-
0) and recorded ties against Lafayette
(0-0), Fairfield (0-0), Bowling Green (2-
2), Syracuse (1-1), Western Michigan (3-
3), and Colgate (2-2). In the meeting
with Fairfield, the game pitted not only
a pair of Hartwick alumnus in Ian
McIntyre and Stags’ head coach Carl
Rees, but two members of the Hartwick
Athletic Hall-of-Fame. On October 17,
Carson Pryde picked a great time to
bang in his first collegiate goal in the
closing 3:30 of regulation off a restart
as Hartwick battled back to tie the
Orangemen.
On October 28, the Hawks returned
to Elmore Field for Senior Day and put
an end to the winless skid with a
convincing 3-0 result over the defending
MAC champions, Northern Illinois. Less
than a week later, Hartwick posted its
first-ever road win in its short history
in the league with a 2-1 victory at Buffalo
as John Paul Boyle scored in the 73 rd
minute. With the decision, the Hawks
finished their first-ever MAC regularseason
with a 2-1-2 record.
Hartwick completed the regular
season by resting
several regulars in a
1-0 loss at arch-rival
Cornell.
The Hawks went
into the league
tournament with the
third seed and
hosted Western
Michigan for the
second time at
Elmore in the
opening round.
Hartwick advanced
to the semifinals,
which were played
in Akron, in rather
dramatic fashion.
With the game
knotted at 1-1 after
two overtime
sessions, the Hawks prevailed 4-2 in
penalty kicks. Hartwick was down 1-0
after the first round of kicks, however,
redshirt freshman goalie Jeremy Vuolo
came up big by stuffing back-to-back
Bronco shots and the Hawks eventually
regained the lead. Up 3-2, freshman
Michael Cunningham ended the evening
by converting his opportunity for the
game-winner.
Buffalo avenged an earlier setback at
the hands of the Hawks in the semifinals
of the MAC Tournament as Dan Stevens
connected on his third tally of the year
with 2:04 left to end the Hawks’ season.
Boyle, who went on to receive first
team all-league and second team allregion
accolades, completed his junior
season with a team-best seven goals and
15 points. Hartwick placed two
members on the all-conference’s second
team in Parrington and rookie Steven
Amaya. Parrington, who posted a goal
and an assist as a defender, also garnered
first team all-region honors. Amaya
shined at times during the course of the
season and finished with a goal and a
pair of helpers for four points.
Due to an injury to 2006 starting
goalie Joe Gibson, redshirt freshman
Jeremy Vuolo was forced to make 16
consecutive starts and acclimated himself
to the collegiate game rather nicely. He
finished with a 4-5-7 record and
registered five shutouts on the year.
Vuolo turned aside 55 shots and had a
1.02 goals against average.
Redshirt freshman Jeremy Vuolo hung tough for
Hartwick posting five shutouts in net.
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