http://qui.live.mediaspanonlinen.com/rss/ Quincy Herald Whig en-us It's been a decade since the Quincy University men's soccer team advanced to postseason play. The Hawks prepped for that 1998 season by going abroad, playing five preseason matches in England. The experience was invaluable for a team that went on to post a 14-4-2 record and a 9-1-1 mark inside the Great Lakes Valley Conference, a season that ended with the program's first NCAA Division II Tournament trip. With 10 starters back from a team that went 12-4-3 last fall, the Hawks are hopeful another foreign excursion will help them play past the GLVC Tournament again this year. On Tuesday, the team announced plans to play a series of three exhibition matches in Germany next month. "It definitely helped us," said QU assistant coach Mike Carpenter, who played on that 1998 team and will coach the Hawks along with Chris Mackenzie in Germany. "It's no coincidence that we're going this year because we think we have that type of team that we did in '98. To play three additional games and have those additional training sessions might not seem like that big a deal, but it will give us quite a leg up." http://qui.live.mediaspanonline.com/new_story/7-2----DOB-column