Monmouth, Stony Brook Share Regular Season Title; Field Set for CAA Women’s Soccer Championship
Miles McQuiggan
RICHMOND, Va. (Oct. 27, 2024) – Monmouth and Stony Brook earned a co-regular season title and will host the opening weekend of the CAA Women’s Soccer Championship, while Elon, Hofstra, Delaware, and Charleston round out the six-team tournament that begins on Thursday.
The Hawks (11-2-5, 7-1-2) and Seawolves (12-3-3, 7-1-2) are the top two teams in the standings at 23 points to conclude the regular season. The teams tied in their regular season meeting; Monmouth earned the top seed by virtue of its win over Hofstra on Thursday.
Elon (12-3-1, 7-3) is the No. 3 seed and will face No. 6 seed Charleston (11-3-5, 4-2-4) on Thursday at 4 p.m. on Long Island, while Hofstra (7-4-6, 5-3-2) earned the No. 4 seed and will face fifth-seeded Delaware (6-6-6, 4-2-4) at the same time in New Jersey.
Delaware and Charleston emerged from the three-team tie at 16 points in the league standings in a wild conclusion to the league’s Decision Day. The Blue Hens surrendered a late goal before finding the equalizer moments later off a corner to earn a 1-1 draw at Northeastern, while Charleston scored three goals in the first eight minutes to cruise to a 4-0 win at Campbell.
All three teams in the tiebreak – Delaware, Charleston, and Towson – played to draws against each other in the regular season. Delaware is the No. 5 seed thanks to its win over the highest-standing common opponent between the three teams (Hofstra). Charleston is the No. 6 seed on a goal-differential tiebreaker, as the Cougars and Tigers played to identical results against all seven common opponents. Charleston was +5 (14-9) in goal differential in league games, while Towson was +2 (10-8).
The winners of Thursday’s contests will play the host schools in games on Sunday at 1 p.m. Semifinal winners will meet the following weekend on a day and time to be determined based on the host institution’s venue availability. All five games of the Championship can be seen on FloFC.
2024 CAA Women’s Soccer Championship
Thursday, Oct. 31
(5) Delaware vs (4) Hofstra (West Long Branch, N.J.) – 4 p.m., FloFC
(6) Charleston vs (3) Elon (Stony Brook, N.Y.) – 4 p.m., FloFC
Sunday, Nov. 3
Hofstra/Delaware at (1) Monmouth (West Long Branch, N.J.) – 1 p.m., FloFC
Elon/Charleston at (2) Stony Brook (Stony Brook, N.Y.) – 1 p.m., FloFC
Saturday, Nov. 9 or Sunday, Nov. 10
CAA Final – Time TBD, FloFC
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