2018 Summit League men's soccer tournament

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2018 Summit League men's soccer tournament
Classification Division I
Teams4
Matches3
Attendance751
Site CIBER Field
Denver, Colorado
Champions Denver (5th title)
Winning coach Jamie Franks (3rd title)
MVP Scott DeVoss (Denver)
Summit League men's soccer tournament
«2017   2019»
2018 Summit League men's soccer standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 19 Denver4 0 115 4 2
Omaha 4 1 07 8 1
Purdue Fort Wayne 2 3 010 8 1
Eastern Illinois 1 2 23 11 4
Western Illinois 1 3 14 10 3
Oral Roberts 0 3 26 7 3
As of December 11, 2018
Rankings from United Soccer Coaches

The 2018 Summit League men's soccer tournament, was the 25th edition of the tournament. It determined the Summit League's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.

Contents

Denver won the Summit League title, making it their fifth title in the last six years. [1] They defeated the defending Summit League champions, Omaha, 1–0. [2] [3] [4]

Seeds

SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker
1 Denver 4–0–1
2 Omaha 4–1–0
3 Purdue Fort Wayne 2–3–0
4 Eastern Illinois 1–2–2

Bracket

Semifinals
Nov. 8
Final
Nov. 10
      
1 Denver 1
4 Eastern Illinois 0
1 Denver 1
2 Omaha 0
2 Omaha 1
3 Purdue Fort Wayne 0

Results

Semifinals

No. 1 Denver 1–0No. 4 Eastern Illinois
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Report
CIBER Field, Denver, Colorado
Attendance: 175
Referee: Shane Butler

No. 2 Omaha 1–0No. 3 Purdue Fort Wayne
Report
CIBER Field, Denver, Colorado
Attendance: 175
Referee: Heber Estrada

Final

No. 1 Denver 1–0No. 2 Omaha
Report
CIBER Field, Denver, Colorado
Attendance: 401
Referee: Mark Kadlecik

Statistics

All Tournament Team

2018 Summit League Men's Soccer All-Tournament team [5]

Andy O'Donoghue, Purdue Fort Wayne
Matthew Lieshout, Purdue Fort Wayne
Kris Luke, Eastern Illinois
Cole Harkrader, Eastern Illinois
Marcos Bautista, Omaha
Nil Ayats, Omaha
Billy Hoffman, Omaha
Moshe Perez, Denver
Kenny Akamatsu, Denver
Jacob Stensson, Denver
Scott DeVoss, Denver

MVP in Bold

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