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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Ridge Girls Soccer season ends in final Championship-Patch.com

Ridge high school girls Varsity Soccer team has encountered Lenape regional championship in the NJSIAA Group 4 on Saturday at The College of New Jersey. Largely for Lenape scored twice in the first half, giving them a lead that led to victory 2-0. The victory was a repeat of his victory over Lenape girls soccer championship game in Ridge State in 2008.


IN THE SHORT


Ridge was slow to gain steam at the beginning of the game, there is no way to high powered by Lenape Indians. Lenape took advantage and Courtney Kovac scored in just the fifth minute of the game. Ridge makes an offensive run, but Lenape will have precedence, directed with 10 minutes left, half with a goal of Katie Rigby who would pick up 2-0 half the score.


It was clear to everyone that the bold Ridge was not abandoned by any account, and the second half was a different group.


"For us the second half, is a new game," said Ridge coach Katie Donahue. "I felt that our role was somewhat less timid, started to intensify shortly and will be us."


The Devils took it to Lenape whilst retaining the ball for the Indian end for more than half. Although there were two opportunites, Ridge was fought by a smothering defense that stopped any advances that have been made against them.


DIABOLOS KEY PERFORMERS


Elise Romano, midlfielder -Romano was the stopper in the defence and the starter on offense for the Devils, Kelly McWhorter, forward McWhorter -had a pair of chances in the penalty area and got an elbow to the side for its efforts, Cefelli, midfielder Gigi -Cefelli fed promotions and had a great shot late in the second half of this Lenape of Allison Johnsonthat would be heaven to quit? Jackie Tobia, midfielder -Tobia was active side to side and edge to edge working the ball into the end of Lenape.


THEY SAID


"When we arrived at what I said on the first ten minutes we need to make sure that the game does not follow. When we went down, I didn't know how to react, because we haven't downwards by one goal to you you don't know how many games. For the second half I said that we should go and start connecting the ball and we had some difficulty with this, we still did not win the first balls to win. We knew the attack was unlimited, attacks with numbers and speed and we simply could not hold the ball.


"It's frustrating because I know that I am not playing our best game, collectively and individually.  But we hold our head up high knowing that we came here and left its all about the field that the second half. Unfortunately, this must be the string together for 80 minutes. Hats off [Lenape], these are the champions. They did what they had to do today, and is a fantastic group. "— Ridge coach Katie Donahue


"The first half we came out a little sluggish, we were not ready. They got two balls in the us. The second experiment, put our heads a little bit. Half-time, we said "we cannot miss it, you must enter a fight ' and the second half to put the fight and took 0-0, had more shots on goal than them.  He gave us all of us.  It was a long period. It is just good to get here. " Senior Captain Jackie Tobia

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

10.21.11 Weekend Preview: Women's Soccer Regular Season Finale - Anonymous Eagle


Two volleyball matches provide a frame for men's and women's soccer this weekend. But let's start with the season finale for women's soccer.


Women's soccer brings a close to their season with a match against South Florida (6-7-4, 2-5-3). The Golden Eagles currently sit tied with West Virginia for first place in the American Division. To win their third consecutive American Division title outright, Marquette will need to beat the Bulls at Valley Fields tomorrow night and needs a West Virginia loss or tie to break the logjam at the top of the standings. Unfortunately, the #17 Mountaineers have drawn a road match at Pittsburgh, and the Panthers currently sit at 2-12-4 on the year with a Big East record of 1-7-2. The good news is that all of Pitt's ties have come at home this year, while one of their wins was at home and the other was on a neutral site. Also falling into the good news category is that their lone home win was in their last home contest, a 6-1 asskicking of an otherwise completely mediocre St. John's team. That WVU-Pitt match takes place tonight at 6pm Central (live stats available here), so Marquette will know if they have a shot at the outright title when they take to the pitch on Saturday night.


As for the Bulls, they snapped a 5 match winless streak and a 3 match scoreless streak in their last match, a 3-2 win over St. John's in New York. Taylor Patterson leads USF in scoring with 13 points (5G, 3A) and 13 different Bulls have netted a goal this season. Nicole McClure has the majority of net time for USF with a GAA of 1.18 and a save percentage of .796.


After the jump: Men's soccer travels to New Jersey & volleyball looks to stay atop the Big East standings!

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The Seton Hall Pirates provide Saturday night's competition for the men's soccer team as they look to rebound from Wednesday's night defeat. Freshman Sebastian Jansson was named to Soccer America's Team Of The Week and is expected to return to play after leaving the Georgetown match with a shin injury. 9 different players have tallied goals for Seton Hall (4-8-2, 0-5-0) this season, led by sophomore Max Garcia. One of the nine is Anthony Reichwaldt, who started SHU's first five games as their goalkeeper before being moved to forward. Based on that, it's not terribly surprising to find out that the Pirates have used 4 different keepers this season, none of whom have managed a save percentage better than Reichwaldt's .714.

Volleyball starts their weekend tonight at 7pm when they play host to Seton Hall. Meghan Matusiak leads the Pirates (13-8, 4-2) with 3.72 kills/set, a number that ties her for 2nd best in the conference with Marquette's Ciara Jones. Alyssa Warren is dangerous when serving and from the back line, currently tied for 6th best in the Big East in service aces per set with MU's Ashley Beyer and sitting 3rd in the BE with 5.51 digs/set. Live video of the match will be available here.


The New Jersey theme continues in the Al McGuire Center on Sunday afternoon when Rutgers drops in for a match at 12:30pm. You'll be able to watch the match via live streaming here. The Scarlet Knights (8-15, 1-5) are currently winless in 7 attempts on the road with a trip to Syracuse tonight before coming to Milwaukee. Rutgers is a bit of a mystery as Alex Jones, their team leader in kills/set, is sidelined by injury and their 2nd best hitter by average, Tiffany Regmund, isn't a regular player either. Kallie Pence leads the Knights with 3.33 digs/set and junior setter Stephanie Zielinski leads the Big East with 11 double-doubles this season.


Sunday, July 3, 2011

Two and a Half Men: The Complete First Season

Two and a Half Men: The Complete First SeasonHedonistic bachelor Charlie (Charlie Sheen) is a jingles writer who, he blithely states, makes a lot of money for doing very little work, sleeps with beautiful women who don't ask about his feelings, drives a Jag and lives at the beach, and sometimes, in the middle of the day, for no reason at all, likes to make himself a big pitcher of margaritas and take a nap out on the sundeck. His brother, Alan (Jon Cryer), evicted from his house by his soon-to-be-ex-wife, is "rigid, inflexible, uptight, obsessive and anal-retentive." Charlie and Alan are "twisted Jungian archetypes," according to series co-creator Chuck Lorre in one of this set's bonus features. If by "twisted Jungian archetypes," he means Oscar and Felix from The Odd Couple, then yes, Charlie and Alan are "twisted Jungian archetypes," and this inaugural season finds rich comic tension in their period of adjustment. Charlie is a Man Behaving Badly, whose idyllic life is upended when "fuddy-duddy" Alan moves in, accompanied by his impressionable 10-year-old son, Jake (Angus T. Jones), with whom he shares custody with his iceberg-cold, sexually confused (a comic conceit thankfully abandoned by season's end) estranged wife, Judith (Marin Hinkle). Alan is a single father who is appalled by his amoral brother's lifestyle and by the influence Charlie might have on Jake ("Uncle Charlie, I understand the point spread, but I'm still confused about the vig"). And then there's Berta (effortless scene-stealer Conchata Ferrell), Charlie's formidable, tart-tongued housekeeper who is initially driven out the door by Alan's fussiness ("The peanut butter stains on Jake's shirts really require an enzyme presoak").

Two and a Half Men is a guy show that sets feminism back a good three decades. Women are portrayed as either bimbonic objects of lust (Transformers' Megan Fox guest stars as Berta's teenage granddaughter), vengeful and retaliative (Heather Locklear as Alan's divorce lawyer), crazy hot (Jenna Elfman as an unstable single mother on the run), or emasculating (Holland Taylor as Charlie and Alan's mother, or, as Charlie refers to her, "Mom, the Impaler"). The charming Melanie Lynskey's is a particularly thankless role, that of Rose, Charlie's "insightful and disturbing" stalker, who becomes Jake's babysitter. While Charlie's "bad-boy act" could quickly get old in lesser hands, Sheen, in the past not the most natural of comic actors, is in his element. Charlie's genuine affection for Jake goes a long way toward redeeming his character (and lack of it). Two and a Half Men, a People's Choice Award-winner its first season, really adds up with a crudely funny sense of humor that is all kinds of wrong, but also smart and, at times, even sweet. --Donald Liebenson

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