Men's and Women's Soccer pick up pairs of wins, MAAC Titles

Greyhound soccer players had everything neatly laid out in front of them heading into their last weekend of their regular season schedule. Each team would take the field twice and if they secured victories, they would each be crowned regular season Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Champions for the 2nd consecutive season.

A true credit to Coaches Mark Mettrick and Katherine Remy Vettori, both squads got the job done… in emphatic fashion.

The men defeated St Peter’s 1-nil on Friday and dominated an outclassed Siena team Sunday afternoon 3-0. The ‘Hounds will close the regular season a perfect 9-0 in conference with a win next weekend over Rider. As it stands now they are 8-0 in the MAAC and 16-0-1 overall. A #1 seed has been secured in the upcoming four-team MAAC Tournament, and they may have potentially assured themselves a couple home games in the NCAA Tournament in a few weeks.

The women’s team proved that it’s not how you start the season, but instead it’s how you end it. They had a tough mountain to scale in upstate New York on their way to the summit. After Friday’s 2-0 win over Marist, it came down to a 1 game season with Siena. In the winner-takes-all final game of conference play, Loyola got 2 goals from senior Lea Day, and a hard fought 2-1 victory over the Saints. They started the season 0-5-2, but now ride an 11 game unbeaten streak where they’ve gone 9-0-2 and have ended the year with an impressive 9-5-4 record.

Upcoming for the Loyola men’s squad will be the previously mentioned Rider game in Lawrenceville, NJ this coming Saturday then a trip to Poughkeepsie, NY for the MAAC tournament to be held, November 14-16. Next up for the women is their chance to send themselves to the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. They’ll play the Golden Griffins of Canisius in the semifinals of the MAAC tournament on Friday. Looming in the finals could be a rematch with the tourny’s host, Siena, on November 9th.