Score: No. 3 UAlbany 1, No. 2 Vermont 0
Location: Virtue Field in Burlington, Vt.
Records: UAlbany (6-7-6) | Vermont (13-3-2)
Short Story: Jeff Thielmann scores in the 81st minute to knock off two-seed Vermont and advance to the America East title game.
Key Stats
- Jeff Thielmann scored his second goal of the season
- Shafique Wilson recorded his fifth-straight clean sheet while making five saves
- UAlbany’s shutout streak has grown to 505:44 of game time
- Vermont outshot UAlbany 18-4 overall
- Domenic Baumann took three of UAlbany’s four shots
- Vermont drew seven corner kicks to UAlbany’s one
- Vermont controlled 58% of total possession
- Vermont committed 18 fouls to UAlbany’s eight
Head Coach Trevor Gorman: “It was a tremendously gutty performance from our guys. This Vermont team has been ranked in the top-20 of the country all season long and in the top-20 of the RPI all season long and they are a very good team with players who have been around this league for three and four years. We knew that to come up here we were going to have to defend very well, we were going to have to absorb pressure, and we were going to have to defend our box. Give credit to our guys, they fought, they were pinned in, they defended with everything they had, and they kept them out. And then we did find that moment of quality. I wish we might have attacked a little bit more in the second half, and controlled the ball a bit more, but, in the end, in the playoffs, all that matters is you advance, and we’re delighted to do it. Now we get the…
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