The Mace & Crown

After a Rocky Sophomore Season, Smith Rebounds Strongly on the Field Written By: Jake Ullrich Assistant Sports Editor It was a spring 2011 game that turned Yannick Smith’s ODU career around. After a promising freshman year, Smith had a horrid sophomore season. Unable to find the back of the net all year, he began to [...]

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Written By: Stephen Gowen Staff Writer I’m not sure where Yannick Smith orders his Chinese food, but I hope he has the number on speed dial. Smith and the rest of his Monarch squad made easy work of a University of North Carolina at Wilmington that usually poses a bigger challenge for the Monarchs. In [...]

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A commanding 4-0 victory for the Monarchs over the Rams Written By: Jake Ullrich Assistant Sports Editor Yannick Smith has two pairs of cleats. One all white pair of F50’s and a pair of purple F50’s, both of which he thinks has their positives. “I actually scored all my goals in the purple,” Smith said. [...]

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Inside the mind of Old Dominion’s Gideon Asante

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Junior net-minder Keeping Soccer Monarchs Within Arms Reach of Conference Lead Written By: Brian Jerry Staff Writer After slipping past UNC Wilmington in a 90-minute thriller at the Old Dominion Soccer Complex, the Lady Monarchs (2-1-1 CAA, 5-5-2 Overall) faltered at the hands ofGeorgiaState4-0 inAtlanta,GAon Sunday. Despite the aforementioned conference road loss, junior goalkeeper Brianna [...]

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Lady Monarchs Defeat UNC-W Seahawks 3-2 Written By: Ben Decowski Staff Writer The Lady Monarchs soccer team (5-4-2, 2-0-1) pulled out an exciting 3-2 victory over the UNC-Wilmington Seahawks (2-8, 0-2) on Thursday, Sept. 29 at the ODU Soccer Stadium.  The win was huge for the Lady Monarchs, who now move ahead of Drexel (4-5-2, [...]

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Written By: Tyler McCarthy Contributing Writer After two big losses to unranked CAA opponent George Mason and No. 4 North Carolina, the Monarchs needed  to pick up a much needed win against the unbeaten Blue Hens of Delaware.  Coach Alan Dawson knew how important this game meant to gain back the team’s confidence they had [...]

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Carroll Hopes For A Strong Finish Written By: Sarah Roby Contributing Writer Rachael Carroll is a senior soccer player on the Women’s soccer team here at Old Dominion University.  So far this season, she has started for all 11 games and had three assists on goal,impressive for a defensive player. “I’ve been playing since I [...]

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The Transfer Keeper Ready to Make Impact at ODU Written By: Jake Ullrich Assistant Sports Editor Victor Francoz is going to shoot fifth. Fifth in the penalty kick shoot out ODU is going to be in in the NCAA Championship later this year. See he’s already got it all planned out and he wants the [...]

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ODU’s Tim Hopkinson of Nottingham steals wins for Monarch’s Soccer Written By: Stephen Gowen Staff Writer One would think that it would be a hard choice for a player, who completely dominated his high school and club travel teams so much that a highlight video of his talents runs on YouTube, to select the school [...]

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