My alma mater can play some soccer

For those of you scoring at home, today both the Messiah men's and women's soccer teams took home NCAA Division III national championships in Greensboro, NC. The title was the 6th in 9 years for the men, and with the 6th title, they broke the record for most by one school. The women won their 2nd title overall. The games were polar opposites, with the men beating Stevens Tech on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie through regulation and 20 minutes of overtime, while the ladies blew the doors off of 2 time defending champion Wheaton, with a 5-0 victory, avenging last year's title game loss to Thunder. (BTW, on the year, the Messiah ladies out scored their opponents by a total of 119 to 9, wrap your head around that).

In doing this, the 2008 Messiah teams became only the second from the same school to win both men's and women's titles in the same year. The first? The 2005 Messiah teams, also in Greensboro.

I was following the action via live video streaming over the internet, and one of the announcers mentioned that he had seen a Messiah fan with a t-shirt that referred to Greensboro as "South Grantham", and at this point, it's pretty apt. The men's and women's Final Fours have been held in Greensboro now on 3 occassions, meaning 6 titles have been given out, and Messiah has 5 of them. The teams are a collective 10-1 at MacPherson stadium, the lone loss coming by the women, to Puget Sound, in the semis in 2004. (Since the girls played first that year, that means Messiah teams are currently on a ten game winning streak at that field, pretty wild stuff)

Anyhow, nothing particularly insightful here, just wanted to take a chance to brag on the alma mater once more. With the Phillies winning the World Series, I'm not sure what to do with all of this winning by my favorite teams...