Men's Soccer 2007 Top Stories
Men's Soccer Upsets Tars in SSC Soccer Championships
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
 WINTER PARK, Fla. - You never know what can happen when you play in the postseason and the Eckerd College men's soccer team proved that on Tuesday night as they upset No. 3 seed Rollins College 2-1 in the quarterfinal round of the Sunshine State Conference Soccer Championships.
The Tritons, the No. 6 seed in the tournament, improve to 12-7 overall and will now travel to Boca Raton on Friday for the semifinal round against No. 2 seed the University of Tampa at 2:30 pm.
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Men's Soccer Qualifies for Conference Championships
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
 ORLANDO, Fla. - The Eckerd College men's soccer team found out on Sunday morning that their 11-7 overall record and 3-5 conference record were good enough to qualify them for the Sunshine State Conference Soccer Championships as the No. 6 seed. The Tritons will face off against Rollins College (10-5-2, 5-2-1 SSC) on Tuesday night in Winter Park. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 pm.
In their regular season meeting the Tritons fell 3-1 to the Tars in an early October match that was hampered by rain and lightning.
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Men's Soccer Upends #17 Sharks
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Eckerd college men’s soccer team got a much-needed Sunshine State Conference win on Wednesday night as they defeated visiting Nova Southeastern University 3-2. The win bumps the Tritons up to 9-5 overall, 2-3 in the SSC, and gives EC a crucial three points in the tight race toward the Conference Championships at the end of October. The Sharks, the 17th-ranked team in the nation, fell to 9-2-1 and 3-2-1 in the SSC.
Scoring for Eckerd started in the 39th minute as senior Criag Hughes returned to the lineup in outstanding fashion when he received a pass from junior Luke Sheekey and blasted the shot into the back of the net to put the Tritons ahead.
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Lebonitte Named Conference Men's Soccer Player of the Week
Monday, October 1st, 2007
 ORLANDO, Fla. - Defense is the word of the week at Eckerd as Triton athletes earned their second conference honor, this time the recipient is junior men's soccer player Jim Lebonitte whose two-game performance was deserving of the Sunshine State Conference's Co-Defensive Player of the Week.
The senior goalkeeper from Moorestown, N.J. helped the Tritons split a pair of SSC matches for the week, allowing one goal and posting 11 saves in the contests. In a 1-0 double overtime loss to Saint Leo, Lebonitte saved six of seven shots on goal. In a 1-0 shutout versus Barry, he stopped all five shots he faced. He concluded the week with a 0.44 goals against average.
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Men's Soccer Dominates in Opening Game
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Eckerd College men's soccer team got their 2007 season jump started as they dominated visiting Florida College 7-0 on goals scored by seven different Tritons on the way to posting their first victory of the season.
For the Tritons the first goal came before fans could even get comfortable as junior Greg Cavallini punched it past the Falcon keeper exactly two minutes into the contest.
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Men's Soccer Picked to Finish in Ninth Place in SSC Preseason Voting
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
 ORLANDO, Fla. - The Eckerd College men's soccer team has been picked to finish in ninth place in the Sunshine State Conference when the preseason polls were released by the conference office earlier today. This preseason vote puts the Tritons two spots lower than the seventh place finish of 2006, all this while only losing two starters to graduation.
Lynn University, whom the Tritons defeated last year, has been chosen as the preseason favorite to capture the Sunshine State Conference men's soccer championship, Commissioner Michael J. Marcil announced.
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Men's Soccer Releases 2007 Schedule
Friday, July 20th, 2007
 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Head Coach Jeremy Wisdo's squad looks to the new season with a more balanced schedule filled with more opponents than in 2006. This year’s schedule is void of the 8 to 10 day layoffs the Tritons had to deal with twice last year.
The advantage to this year’s active schedule is the Tritons will be able to be on the field more, preventing the "rust" from a long hiatus, but the disadvantage, with only one seven day break, will be the ability of the Tritons out on the pitch to quickly recover from the hard competition during the season, especially in the very physical Sunshine State Conference.
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