This is Hartwick College
This is Hartwick College
This is Hartwick College
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2 0 0 8 H A R T W I C K S O C C E R<br />
Seasoned veteran John Paul Boyle ’09 led<br />
the Hawks in scoring with 7 goals and 15<br />
points en route to garnering all-league and<br />
all-region accolades.<br />
The <strong>Hartwick</strong> men’s soccer program<br />
has had one storied h<strong>is</strong>tory since its<br />
inception back in 1956 It’s made 23<br />
NCAA appearances; captured a<br />
national title in 1977; has had 26 All-<br />
Americans over the years, and watched<br />
two of its players be recognized as the<br />
Hermann Trophy Award recipients.<br />
However, the program hadn’t seen<br />
anything before like the 2007 season, a<br />
campaign that ended in a late 1-0 loss<br />
to Buffalo in the semifinals of the Mid-<br />
American Conference Championships.<br />
The team fin<strong>is</strong>hed with a 5-6-7 record.<br />
Yes, a school record seven ties went in<br />
the record books.<br />
“Although our 2007 record perhaps<br />
does not reflect th<strong>is</strong>, I feel it was a decent<br />
season and forward progress was<br />
certainly made,” said <strong>Hartwick</strong> Head<br />
Coach Ian McIntyre ’96. “As a body of<br />
work, we saw constant improvement<br />
throughout the season and we played<br />
some good attacking soccer.”<br />
After the first four games, the Hawks<br />
looked like a team with a m<strong>is</strong>sion-getting<br />
back to the NCAA Tournament. They<br />
opened up the season by splitting two<br />
contests at the Westfield Cup in Akron,<br />
Ohio by downing 2006 NCAA qualifier<br />
UAB (3-1) before dropping a 3-1<br />
dec<strong>is</strong>ion to nationally-ranked New<br />
Mexico. The following week, <strong>Hartwick</strong><br />
recaptured the Mayor’s Cup crown by<br />
blanking James Mad<strong>is</strong>on 1-0 on a<br />
converted penalty kick by Chr<strong>is</strong> Jackson<br />
in the first half and then got revenge<br />
2007 Rev<strong>is</strong>ited<br />
with a 3-0 defeat of Seton Hall in a<br />
rematch of an opening round clash of<br />
the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Liam<br />
Parrington was named the tournament’s<br />
defensive MVP, while Jackson received<br />
the offensive MVP honors for the second<br />
consecutive year.<br />
However, the next nine games<br />
<strong>Hartwick</strong> failed to post a win. The Hawks<br />
went 0-3-6 during that span and fell to<br />
3-4-6 overall. In that time period,<br />
<strong>Hartwick</strong> fell to Penn (2-1), Binghamton<br />
(2-1) and to then 24 th -ranked Akron (2-<br />
0) and recorded ties against Lafayette<br />
(0-0), Fairfield (0-0), Bowling Green (2-<br />
2), Syracuse (1-1), Western Michigan (3-<br />
3), and Colgate (2-2). In the meeting<br />
with Fairfield, the game pitted not only<br />
a pair of <strong>Hartwick</strong> alumnus in Ian<br />
McIntyre and Stags’ head coach Carl<br />
Rees, but two members of the <strong>Hartwick</strong><br />
Athletic Hall-of-Fame. On October 17,<br />
Carson Pryde picked a great time to<br />
bang in h<strong>is</strong> first collegiate goal in the<br />
closing 3:30 of regulation off a restart<br />
as <strong>Hartwick</strong> battled back to tie the<br />
Orangemen.<br />
On October 28, the Hawks returned<br />
to Elmore Field for Senior Day and put<br />
an end to the winless skid with a<br />
convincing 3-0 result over the defending<br />
MAC champions, Northern Illino<strong>is</strong>. Less<br />
than a week later, <strong>Hartwick</strong> posted its<br />
first-ever road win in its short h<strong>is</strong>tory<br />
in the league with a 2-1 victory at Buffalo<br />
as John Paul Boyle scored in the 73 rd<br />
minute. With the dec<strong>is</strong>ion, the Hawks<br />
fin<strong>is</strong>hed their first-ever MAC regularseason<br />
with a 2-1-2 record.<br />
<strong>Hartwick</strong> completed the regular<br />
season by resting<br />
several regulars in a<br />
1-0 loss at arch-rival<br />
Cornell.<br />
The Hawks went<br />
into the league<br />
tournament with the<br />
third seed and<br />
hosted Western<br />
Michigan for the<br />
second time at<br />
Elmore in the<br />
opening round.<br />
<strong>Hartwick</strong> advanced<br />
to the semifinals,<br />
which were played<br />
in Akron, in rather<br />
dramatic fashion.<br />
With the game<br />
knotted at 1-1 after<br />
two overtime<br />
sessions, the Hawks prevailed 4-2 in<br />
penalty kicks. <strong>Hartwick</strong> was down 1-0<br />
after the first round of kicks, however,<br />
redshirt freshman goalie Jeremy Vuolo<br />
came up big by stuffing back-to-back<br />
Bronco shots and the Hawks eventually<br />
regained the lead. Up 3-2, freshman<br />
Michael Cunningham ended the evening<br />
by converting h<strong>is</strong> opportunity for the<br />
game-winner.<br />
Buffalo avenged an earlier setback at<br />
the hands of the Hawks in the semifinals<br />
of the MAC Tournament as Dan Stevens<br />
connected on h<strong>is</strong> third tally of the year<br />
with 2:04 left to end the Hawks’ season.<br />
Boyle, who went on to receive first<br />
team all-league and second team allregion<br />
accolades, completed h<strong>is</strong> junior<br />
season with a team-best seven goals and<br />
15 points. <strong>Hartwick</strong> placed two<br />
members on the all-conference’s second<br />
team in Parrington and rookie Steven<br />
Amaya. Parrington, who posted a goal<br />
and an ass<strong>is</strong>t as a defender, also garnered<br />
first team all-region honors. Amaya<br />
shined at times during the course of the<br />
season and fin<strong>is</strong>hed with a goal and a<br />
pair of helpers for four points.<br />
Due to an injury to 2006 starting<br />
goalie Joe Gibson, redshirt freshman<br />
Jeremy Vuolo was forced to make 16<br />
consecutive starts and acclimated himself<br />
to the collegiate game rather nicely. He<br />
fin<strong>is</strong>hed with a 4-5-7 record and<br />
reg<strong>is</strong>tered five shutouts on the year.<br />
Vuolo turned aside 55 shots and had a<br />
1.02 goals against average.<br />
Redshirt freshman Jeremy Vuolo hung tough for<br />
<strong>Hartwick</strong> posting five shutouts in net.<br />
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