{"id":18421,"date":"2024-05-08T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=18421"},"modified":"2024-11-01T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:37:57","slug":"on-this-day-nov-18-1989-mens-soccer-wins-the-ncaa-division-iii-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/on-this-day-nov-18-1989-mens-soccer-wins-the-ncaa-division-iii-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Nov. 18, 1989 | Men\u2019s Soccer Wins the NCAA Division III Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phil D’Adderio (#8) moves the ball up field during 1989 NCAA Championship game.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Nov. 18, 1989, Elizabethtown College defeated Greensboro College by a 2-0 score to win the NCAA Division III Men\u2019s Soccer Championship. The victory marked the program\u2019s first NCAA title in history and capped off a historic season for the Blue Jays who tallied a 24-3 record.<\/span><\/p>\n

Played on the team\u2019s home field in front of more than 2,500 dedicated fans, including more than 200 alumni who returned to campus, the game featured a brief snow shower and frigid temperatures. Following 78 minutes of scoreless action, senior forward Mark Pratzner notched the game\u2019s first score. Less than five minutes later, Pratzner took a pass from Robbie Martin and iced the content with his second goal of the day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The National Championship win defied expectations for a team that had lost eight starters from the previous season\u2019s playoff team.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an unbelievable ending to our season,\u201d legendary Elizabethtown College Men\u2019s Soccer Head Coach, Arthur \u201cSkip\u201d Roderick \u201975 said. \u201cWe seemed to start slowly but just kept getting better. But I don\u2019t think anybody would have thought we\u2019d win it all this year.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 1989 team was enshrined among the all-time greats at the College when they were inducted into Etown\u2019s Ira R. Herr Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout Elizabethtown College\u2019s 125th anniversary year, follow along as we share 125 compelling stories about the College\u2019s defining moments, alumni stories, and fun facts since our founding in 1899 at <\/span>etown.edu.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Nov. 18, 1989, Elizabethtown College defeated Greensboro College by a 2-0 score to win the NCAA Division III Men\u2019s Soccer Championship. The victory marked the program\u2019s first NCAA title in history and capped off a historic season for the Blue Jays who tallied a 24-3 record. Played on the team\u2019s home field in front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":18422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18439,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421\/revisions\/18439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}