Monthly Archives: November 2002

The U.S. U-20 men labored to a 2-0 win over Haiti Wednesday night to open their qualifying campaign for the 2003 World Youth Championship. Also in Group B — the four-team round-robin from which the top to finishers will qualify — Canada downed El Salvador, 2-0. The USA meets El Salvador Friday night. Against the […]

NCAA SCOREBOARD DIVISION II First round Wednesday's results Adelphi 2 Bloomsbury 1 Merrimack 2 St. Rose 0 Truman State 1 Northern Colorado 0 Ashland 3 Wheeling Jesuit 2 North Florida 2 Catawba 0 Christian Brothers 5 West Florida 0 Metro State 1 West Texas A&M 1 (Metro State advances on penalties, 1-0) UC Davis 4 […]

Chicago Fire general manager Peter Wilt and forward Ante Razov were among the Fire delegation that traveled to Morelia on Monday to finalize a partnership between the MLS club and Los Monarcas. Included in the agreement are open exchanges of first-team players and coaches and of youth team players from the Fire Academy and Fuerzas […]

The U.S. U-20s meet Haiti tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET in Charleston, S.C., in their opening game of the CONCACAF qualifying tournament for the 2003 World Youth Championship. The game is available live on pay-per-view through DirecTV and Time-Warner cable (New York City). ''Haiti is a very well-balanced and organized team with 2-3 special attacking […]

By Mike Woitalla In its first international game since the 2002 World Cup, Coach Bruce Arena's U.S. squad will face a very young El Salvador squad on Sunday at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. (3 pm ET, live on ESPN). Comprised of under-22 players, the Salvadorans arrive with a team preparing for the Central American […]

GOALKEEPER Matt Haefner (Penn), Jr. (1) Recordx his eighth shutout of the season, stopping six shots in 0-0 tie with Princeton that clinches Quakers' first NCAA bid in 25 years. DEFENDERS Bobby Gehring (Wake Forest), Sr. (1) Scores in 4-0 win over Davidson and adds hat trick in 8-0 win over Georgia Southern. Alan Keely […]

Goalkeeper Michelle Mattos (UNC Asheville), Fr. (1) Makes 35 saves in four games — three in penalty-kick shootouts — as the Bulldogs play Western Carolina to a non-conference tie, then score PK triumphs over Elon and top-seeded Liberty to advance to the Big South tournament final. Eleven saves keep UNCA close in 2-0 loss to […]

NCAA DIVISION I CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS CHAMPIONSHIP SUMMARIES America East Conference Hartford 4 (Engman 29, Mucha 35, Akerlund 58, 70) Stony Brook 0. Atlantic Coast Conference North Carolina 6 (Bush 8, Reddick 20, 76, White 42, Murphy 65, Gervais 82) Clemson 0. Atlantic Sun Conference Central Florida 3 (Blagriff 8, own goal 51, Baines 79) Jacksonville […]

Pacific-10 Conference champion Stanford is the No. 1 team in Soccer America's final Top 25 rankings for the 2002 college women's soccer season. The Cardinal, in the top spot the past five weeks and six of the past seven, completed a perfect Pac-10 campaign on Sunday, going 9-0-0 and surrendering only one goal. Stanford (18-1-0), […]

BY SCOTT FRENCH Soccer America Senior Editor No. 1 Stanford was given a grueling path to the College Cup women's soccer final four and West Region teams were again handicapped by NCAA strictures on travel as the 64-team Division I Tournament bracket was unveiled Monday. The top-seeded Cardinal (18-1-0) were given the most difficult of […]

ACC Regular-season champion: Wake Forest. Conference tournament Quarterfinals: Nov. 14 in Cary, N.C. No. 4 Virginia vs. No. 5 Duke No. 2 Maryland vs. No. 7 NC State No. 3 North Carolina vs. No. 6 Clemson Semifinals Nov. 15 in Cary, N.C. No. 1 Wake Forest vs. Virginia-Duke winner Maryland-N.C. State winner vs. North Carolina-Clemson […]

11/11 Ranking … Team (Record) … 11/4 Ranking 1 Wake Forest (14-0-4) 1 2 St. John's (12-1-5) 2 3 SMU (15-1-3) 3 4 Indiana (14-2-2) 4 5 California (13-3-2) 6 6 UCLA (12-3-2) 5 7 Furman (15-2-1) 7 8 Connecticut (14-4-0) 8 9 Stanford (13-3-2) 9 10 Maryland (13-4-0) 10 11 Virginia (12-5-0) 11 12 […]

No. 22 Penn became the second team to clinch a berth in the NCAA Men's Division I tournament when it tied Princeton, 0-0. The Quakers clinched a share of the Ivy League title, a feat they had not accomplished in 22 years. They take the automatic berth by virtue of their win over Dartmouth, the […]

11/4 Ranking … Team (Record) … 10/28 Ranking 1 Wake Forest (14-0-4) 1 11/2 — at Davidson (4-0); 11/9 — Georgia Southern (8-0). 2 St. John's (12-1-5) 2 11/9 — Seton Hall (2-0, Big East quarterfinals). 3 SMU (15-1-3) 4 11/8 — Evansville (4-0, Missouri Valley quarterfinals). 4 Indiana (14-2-2) 7 no games. 5 UCLA […]

Nebraska and Ohio State claimed unexpected titles and North Carolina made emphatic its hold on the Atlantic Coast Conference championship as 18 schools claimed NCAA Tournament berths in women's soccer Sunday by winning conference tournaments. Connecticut prevailed in a Big East showdown with West Virginia, and Tennessee captured its first Southeastern title. The 64-team NCAA […]

NCAA DIVISION I CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS DAILY SCOREBOARD Sunday, Nov. 10 Conference finals America East Conference Hartford 4 Stony Brook 0 Atlantic Coast Conference North Carolina 6 Clemson 0 Atlantic-10 Conference Richmond 3 Rhode Island 1 Big East Conference Connecticut 1 West Virginia 0 Big Ten Conference Ohio State 2 Wisconsin 1 Big 12 Conference Nebraska […]

College Women: Soccer America's Top 25 Scoreboard (Week 11: Nov. 4-10) 1. Stanford (18-1-0) 11/8 vs. Arizona State (2-0), 11/10 vs. Arizona (6-0) 2. UCLA (16-3-0) 11/8 at Washington (2-1), 11/10 at Washington State (2-1) 3. North Carolina (17-1-4) 11/7 vs. Wake Forest at Florida State (3-0, ACC quarterfinals), 11/8 vs. Maryland at Florida State […]

England * Brad Friedel (Blackburn, PL) at Southampton, 1-1. Started: 90 minutes. Freidel was beaten by a James Beattie penalty kick in the 38th minute. A 90th-minute Andy Cole goal salvaged a point for Blackburn, whose coach, Graeme Souness, credited FriedelÆs saves for RoversÆ ''lucky'' tie. Southampton coach Gordan Strachan proclaimed Friedel Superman. * Kasey […]

Pepperdine claimed its first West Coast Conference title, and earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament, after rallying for a 2-1 victory over visiting San Francisco in its regular-season finale on Saturday. The eighth-ranked Waves became the first team aside from Santa Clara or Portland to win a WCC crown, which they share with the […]

Mia Hamm chose the best possible moment to score her first goal in the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup — four minutes into overtime — as the Americans captured their fifth confederation title in 11 years with a hard-fought win Saturday over Canada in horrid conditions at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Hamm got on the […]

The confederation championship is on the line but the pressure is off when the United States and Canada tangle tonight at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., in the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup final. The North American powers already have taken care of the tournament's most serious business, nailing down berths in next year's Women's […]

No. 1 Stanford and Cal Poly claimed NCAA Tournament berths on Friday and Navy, the final unbeaten Division I team, tasted defeat for the first time as most conference tournaments reached the semifinal stage. Stanford clinched a share of the Pacific-10 Conference title, and earned the league's automatic berth to the 64-team NCAA field, as […]

Three No. 1 seeds, including previously unbeaten Charlotte, were among favorites who stumbled Thursday as Conference Tournament Week in college women's soccer near full stride with 13 conferences in action. Penn State and Michigan, the top two seeds in the Big Ten Conference women's soccer tournament, were eliminated in opening-round play Thursday at Lansing, Mich. […]

No. 1 Wake Forest (13-0-4), a 4-0 winner over Davidson, is the only remaining unbeaten team after No. 16 Coast Carolina's 2-1 loss to Winthrop. Freshman Darrell Vydra scored in the 102nd minute to lead the Eagles past Coastal Carolina (15-1-2). Winthrop claims the top seed in next week's Big South tournament it will host. […]

11/4 Ranking … Team (Record) … 10/28 Ranking 1 Wake Forest (13-0-4) 1 11/2 — at Davidson (4-0); 11/9 — Georgia Southern. 2 St. John's (11-1-5) 2 11/9 — Seton Hall (Big East tournament quarterfinals). 3 SMU (14-1-3) 4 11/8 — Evansville (Missouri Valley quarterfinals). 4 Indiana (14-2-2) 7 no games. 5 UCLA (11-2-2) 3 […]