{"id":16946,"date":"2012-11-15T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=16946"},"modified":"2012-11-17T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T14:46:38","slug":"ncaas-northeastern-upsets-bc-brown-prevails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=16946","title":{"rendered":"NCAAs: Northeastern Upsets BC, Brown Prevails"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Northeastern’s Dante Marini scored the only goal his team needed to upset Boston College in Thursday’s NCAA Tournament first round match. (Photo: Chris Aduama\/aduama.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dante Marini\u00a0played the hero\u00a0in Northeastern’s (14-2-4)\u00a01-0 upset win over Boston College (8-5-6)\u00a0during Wednesday’s first round match of the NCAA Men’s Soccer Tournament at Parson Field.<\/p>\n

Marini found the back of the net in the 14th minute when Don Anding nodded a Nikko Lara flip-throw in toward the far post, where Marini put it through.<\/p>\n

From there, Huskies’ keeper Oliver Blum kept the sheet clean, making a career-high nine saves on the evening.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Northeastern win sends them to Storrs, Conn., where they’ll face fourth-seeded Connecticut (15-3-1) on Sunday at 1pm.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Brown (13-2-3) secured a 2-0 win over Drexel (12-3-3) in their first round matchup\u00a0behind the efforts of Thomas McNamara and Daniel Taylor at Vidas Field in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

McNamara opened the account in the 17th minute, while Taylor\u00a0made it a two-goal advantage in the 42nd minute.\u00a0Bears keeper Sam Kernan-Schloss made five saves to send his club through to the second round, where\u00a0Brown will\u00a0face second-seeded Maryland (17-1-2)\u00a0in College Park, Md. on Sunday at 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dante Marini’s 14th minute goal sends Northeastern to the second round of the NCAAs; Brown grabs a 2-0 win over Drexel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[104,31],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Dante1.png?fit=481%2C262","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16946"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16990,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946\/revisions\/16990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}