AIC Men's Soccer Blog #7

AIC Men's Soccer Banquet

The AIC Soccer banquet is a new tradition that begins this year, and hopefully will continue for years to come. Its a great way for us to send out our seniors in style, and thank them for all their hard work and dedication over their careers at AIC. There will be food catered, music playing, and awards given to some of the seniors that were voted by the team players. For more information clink on this link below:

AIC Men's Soccer Banquet 2016

Please let us know below if you will be attending the AIC Men's soccer banquet! Vote below and let us know so that we can have everything set up and ready for everyone! Everyone is welcome as we want everyone to feel and be apart of the big AIC men's soccer family. This is more than just a team, it's a family! 

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Here is the link to the restaurant that will be catering our food:
Restaurant Link

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                  Comparing 2015 to 2016



AIC Men's soccer 2015 season-

In 2015 the AIC Men's soccer team finished with an overall record of 4-8-5, (2-6-5) in conference. This led them to finished 11th overall in the conference. At home they had a record of 3-1-5 and away they finished 1-7-0. AIC scored 17 goals in 2015, averaging 1 goal a game. They took 211 shots throughout the season and 95 of those were on target. They only had 11 assists throughout the season. 

Overall Record 2015

2015 Statistics

AIC Men's soccer 2016 season-

in 2016 the AIC Men's soccer team finished with an overall record of 8-9-1, (6-6-1) in conference. Finishing 7th overall in the conference. Four positions higher than they finished the previous year, and this led them to clinch a spot in the playoffs for the first time since 2014. At home the yellow jackets had a record of 4-3-0, and an away record 3-6-1. The team scored 32 goals in the season, averaging 1.78 goals a game. They had 22 assists. Almost doubling this in both these categories! 

Overall Record 2016

2016 Statistics

Here is where your YellowJackets rank amongst their competition in the Northeast-10 Conference:

Northeast-10 Statistics

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                                    The Future is Bright

                                                

The AIC Men's soccer team has a very bright future ahead of them. They are returning 9 out of there 11 starters next year. They were led by an attack made out of 5 freshmen and 1 sophomore. The defensive line is taking a big hit with the loss of Lasse Olrik, the most consistent defender all season for the Yellow Jackets. Another huge defensive loss, is the loss of senior goalkeeper Sebastian 

Tamayo, who has easily been the top goalkeeper in the Northeast-10 conference over career at AIC. 

Click on this link below to see the leaders in scoring and assist for the men's soccer team.
Statistics


The leader in points was Jake Durham, a freshman. Steven Hernandez came in second and Alejandro Alvarez was third for overall points. The team was very young and they are very excited to get back to work and pick back where they left off.

Jake Durham, pictured below-

Here is a highlight video I made of Alejandro Alvarez. The link is below.

Alejandro Alvarez Highlight Video
Enjoy!

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The Northeast-10 Conference Quarterfinals

The AIC Men's soccer team dropped a tough game in the Northeast-10 conference quarterfinals against #19 nationally ranked Merrimack this past Tuesday, November 1 2016. The final score of the game was 2-0. Merrimack went up 1-0 fifteen minutes into the game and shortly after AIC received a red card. AIC battled it out playing with one less man but could not pull the upset off and eventually ended up losing 2-0. 

#NEWERA

Despite the disappointing loss in the first round of playoffs this a huge step in the right direction for the Yellowjackets mens soccer program. It is only the second season Head Coach Luke Perry has taken over the helm of the AIC men's soccer program and has already brought the program to playoffs and one of the highest regular season finishes in program history, finishing in 7th place. Graduating only a couple of seniors, the team still has many returners coming. Their top 3 leaders in points on the team were Jake Durham, Steven Hernandez and Alejandro Alvarez. Two being freshmen and one being a sophomore. The team is very young and there are high hopes to return even stronger next year. 

http://www.aicyellowjackets.com/cumestats.aspx?path=msoc&year=2016

Here are the stats of the AIC Men's soccer 2016 season. 

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The Most Important Game of the Season So Far...

The American International College Men's soccer team is hosting Bentley University tomorrow night, October 28th 2016 here at Abdow Field at American International College. The AIC men's soccer team is currently sitting in 8th place in the Northeast 10 conference. The first 8 teams qualify for the conference playoff tournament. With a win, and an Assumption college loss, the AIC Men's soccer can have an overall finish in 6th place. This will lead the highest regular season finish in program history. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8B5XNjDGeY

On Wednesday, October 25th the AIC men's soccer team hosted #9 nationally ranked Adelphi University. The game was back and fourth the entire time and regular time ended with a 1-1 draw. In the first period of overtime AIC was dominating and creating most chances. With about 5 seconds left in the second period of over time Adelphi scored off a cross and won the game.

Click on this link to see the goal that Adelphi scored with 5 seconds left:

Come out tomorrow night to support your AIC Mens soccer team as they are trying to get playoff berth for the first time since the 2014 season!

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American International College Men's Soccer is fighting for a playoff berth. As of right now, the American International College Men's Soccer team has an overall record of 6-7. Four of those wins being in conference and five of those losses being in conference. There are four games left in the season and they must win at least two of the next four games to make it to playoffs.

Here is a link of where the AIC Men's soccer team did last year in the Northeast 10 standings:

2015 Standings

The men's soccer team was seeded 11th in the conference out of 14 teams. As of right now they are in 8th place and have the last spot in the playoffs. With 2 more wins they will clinch a spot in the Northeast-10 2016 playoffs for the first time since the 2014 season, and the first time since Head Coach Luke Perry has taken over here at American International College.

http://northeast10.org/sports/msoc/2016-17/standings
On this link you will find the standings in the Northeast-10 men's soccer conference.


Here's a video clip of the beginning of the New Era of the American International College Men's soccer team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f4pywO31GQ

This Wednesday, October 17th the AIC Men's soccer team will be hosting St.Rose in a vital game on the push to playoffs. St. Rose is 5-6-1, with an overall conference record of 3-5-1. They will be playing at 7pm, at Abdow Field here at American International College.
Come out and support!

AIC Men's Soccer vs. St Michaels College

The American International College men's soccer team is hating St. Michaels College men's soccer team on Saturday night, October 8th 2016.  The game will take place at Adbow Field at American International College. It will be a night kick off game at 7 PM. 

http://aicyellowjackets.com/schedule.aspx?path=msoc

On this like is some more information about the competition, and a little facts about how your mens soccer team has been doing so far this season. 

In this video you have seniors Matt Moore, Lasser Olrik and Jason Burnesuz speaking about the potential our team has for this year! 

Come out and support your fellow Yellow Jackets as they look to get a conference win after a tough overtime loss against Assumption College.