After knocking off Maine on penalty kicks, the women's soccer team heads to Boston for the America East title game Saturday against the defending champion Terriers.

The Bearcats are looking for their second America East title and first since 2004.

To win it, they'll have to beat the same Boston squad that shut them out 3-0 back in September.

"Going into Boston, it's going to be very intense," says freshman and M-E grad Jamie Holliday. "It's going to be even higher stakes than it was for Maine."

"They've got a very well coached, well organized team, but we think we match up very well against them with our athleticism and with our possession style of play," adds head coach Sarah McClellan.

The men hope to advance to their seventh straight conference finals and the road begins at home Saturday night in the quarterfinals against UMBC.

The same UMBC team it just beat 4-0 last week.

"It creates a new challenge for us," says senior Kyle Kucharski. "We did well against them the first time, but they're going to come at us with something new and we have to be ready for that and we have to come at them with the same or better."

The Maine-Endwell grad Kucharski is one of six Bearcats named to the all-conference team earlier this week.

And that's this week's Bearcat Brief.