The 19th-ranked men's soccer team beat Mid-American Conference opponent Bowling Green 4-0 Saturday on Senior Day at Lee Jackson Field. With the win, the Zips improved to 10-2-2 overall and 2-0-1 in the MAC. The Zips have also held eight of their last nine opponents scoreless, including their last six straight opponents.
If you are a fan of Northeast Ohio sports teams, you're incurably deranged. You're sadistic. The best occurences for us in the last 20 years have been gut-wrenching. You don't have to describe the situations. You just give them names or numbers. Like '97 or '95 or 2007.
Tony Romo's fumbled snap in last year's playoffs continues to haunt me to this day. As I set up to kick a momentum-swinging field goal to bring the score within one, I let the football slip under my finger. The ball was not slick, nor was it a hold for a game-winning kick, but it was equally depressing.
It may have been a bye week, but the Browns still squeaked out a win. Granted, it was a Cleveland Browns paper football, but whatever. After that lame Indians game I need all the positive Cleveland spin I can get. Bosma never stood a chance in this competition.
Michael Taggart often watches Akron's road football games alone, scrutinizing each Zips play and animatedly voicing his opinion on the team's execution. Taggart has seen them all run countless times before - in practice. The University of Akron sophomore is in his first season as a walk-on member of the Zips' scout team.
The women's soccer team was unable to notch a victory in their last home stand of the season as it battled both Western Michigan and Northern Illinois to double overtime ties. In Friday's game against Western Michigan, Kyra Petrole put the Zips on the board in the 45th minute with a goal from 40 yards out to the left corner of the net.