Monthly Archives: November 2003

NAIA CHAMPIONSHIP at Santa Barbara, Calif. First round Cal Baptist 1 (Davis 41) Union, Ky. 1 (Martin 25) (2OT) (Cal Baptist advances on penalties, 2-1) Second round Lindsey Wilson, Ky. 8 (Udoh 6, Lipton 10, Petrovic pen. 16, Lirbank-Almbaek 50, 73, Larsen 64, Stockdale 70, Drummonds 85) Mary, N.D. 1 (Benedict 79) Concordia, Ore. 2 […]

Alberta Sackey, last year's African Player of the Year, scored three first-half goals and added a second-half assist as Robert Morris College of Chicago routed Park (Mo.), 6-0, on the opening day of action at the NAIA Championship in Santa Barbara, Calif. Elizabeth Baidu added a pair of goals Wednesday and Basilea Amoah-Tetteh netted her […]

NAIA CHAMPIONSHIP Nov. 19-25 at Santa Barbara (Calif.) City College All times PST First Round Wednesday, Nov. 19 Mary, N.D. 3 (Benedict 15, 20, Haugen 80) Malone, Ohio 1 (Huntington 27) Thomas, Ga. (McAuley 2, Cheyne 34) Northwood, Fla. 1 (Lorenzo 18) McKendrie, Ill. 0 Northwood, Texas 0 (2OT) (McKendrie advances on penalties, 4-1) Robert […]

U.S. under-20 national team coach Thomas Rongen said the only way 14-year-old sensation Freddy Adu would be called up for World Youth Championship would be if another player got hurt. Sure enough, Adu got word from Rongen that he had been called up to the U-20s the same day his signing to an MLS contract […]

SOUTH AMERICA: RESULTS Nov. 15-16 Paraguay 2 (Santa Cruz 30, Cardozo 71) Ecuador 1 (Mendez 59). Uruguay 2 (Chevanton 31, Romero 49) Chile 1 (Melendez 21). Colombia 0 Venezuela 1 (Arango 8). Argentina 3 (D'Alessandro 57, Crespo 62, Aimar 70) Bolivia 0. Peru 1 (Solano 58) Brazil 1 (Rivaldo pen. 21). STANDINGS Argentina, Brazil 7 […]

Three MLS players helped their teams reach the final round of 2006 World Cup qualifying in the African zone: ZIZI ROBERTS. The Colorado forward scored the first goal for Liberia in the Lone Stars' 3-0 win over Gambia to win its series, 3-2, on aggregate. TENYWA BONSEU. Uganda blew a 3-0 lead from the first […]

CONCACAF has nominated U.S. Soccer for the annual FIFA Fair Play Award. The winner will be announced Dec. 15 at the FIFA World Gala in Basel, Switzerland. ''The U.S. Soccer Federation was able to successfully organize the FIFA Women's World Cup within the limited time of four months as against the six years advance notice […]

Spanish-language network Galavision will show all three U.S. first-round games — the first two live — at the World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates. Note: Round of 16 broadcast times are tentative, pending matchups. West Coast satellite viewers may be receiving the East Coast feed and should check their satellite schedule. Nov. 28 […]

BY WILL KUHNS SENIOR EDITOR The surprises of this year's draw are: 1) Preferences given to ACC teams 2) High number of Midwest teams 3) Seeds who may face conference rivals in their first match 4) Santa Clara's unseeding. 1) In the third year of a 48-team field, the tournament selection committee again leaned toward […]

BY SENIOR EDITOR RIDGE MAHONEY For practical reasons and its ultimate survival, building soccer-specific stadiums is an absolute necessity for MLS. Bricks and mortar, though, are boring. The Home Depot Center is a masterpiece of engineering and aesthetics, but it's a building. It can't dribble or skin defenders or score goals. The pulse races not […]

MLS has won the recruiting war for 14-year-old Freddy Adu. Adu and his agents have reached an agreement with MLS for a six-year contract, and Adu will enter the 2004 MLS SuperDraft. He is expected to play for D.C. United, near his hometown of Potomac, Md. Dallas, last in MLS in 2003, holds the first […]

GOALKEEPERS: Ryan Burke (Virginia), Fr. (1) Makes 11 saves in the run of play and six during two penalty-kick tiebreakers as Cavaliers beat Clemson, Wake Forest and Maryland to capture ACC crown. DEFENDERS: Matt Oliver (Virginia) Jr. (2) Helps Cavaliers prevent any goals in the run of play against Clemson, Wake Forest and Maryland en […]

DIVISION I Third Round Friday, Nov. 21 Purdue (14-5-3) at North Carolina (23-0-0), 6 p.m. EST Kansas (18-3-1) at UCLA (18-1-3), 7 p.m. PST Saturday, Nov. 22 Texas A&M (13-5-3) at Penn State (18-3-2), 1 p.m. EST Tennessee (17-4-2) at Florida (18-3-2), 1:30 p.m. EST Brigham Young (14-5-2) at Villanova (15-5-4), noon EST Sunday, Nov. […]

DIVISION II Second Round Monday's results Franklin Pierce 4 St. Rose 1 UC San Diego 0 Cal State Dominguez Hills 0 (UC San Diego advances on penalties, 4-3) Quarterfinal matchups Nov. 22 or 23 Barry (16-4-3) vs. Kennesaw State (22-1-0) Nebraska-Omaha (17-2-4) vs. Northern Kentucky (17-2-4) Adelphi (18-1-1) vs. Franklin Pierce (20-2-0) Metro State (21-0-1) […]

DIVISION I Second Round Sunday's results At Chapel Hill, N.C. North Carolina 5 (Chalupny 3, O'Reilly 16, 52, Ramsey 24, Guess 88) UNC Greensboro 0 At Champaign, Ill. Purdue 3 (Kent 69, Coppedge 76, Sesselmann 80) Western Michigan 2 (McNally 60, Urbats 73) At Santa Clara, Calif. Santa Clara 1 (Estrada 19) Arizona State 0 […]

RANK TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1 UCLA (18-1-1) 1 2 Maryland (17-2-1) 2 3 Notre Dame (15-3-3) 6 4 Wake Forest (15-4-0) 3 5 Indiana (12-3-5) 6 Santa Clara (13-3-3) 4 7 St. John's (14-5-2) 5 8 Saint Louis (13-3-3) 10 9 VCU (16-4-0) 11 10 Old Dominion (14-3-1) 7 11 FIU (13-4-2) 8 12 […]

Defending champion UCLA is the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Men's Division I Tournament, which begins Friday. The action in the 48-team field begins with 16 games this week and another 16 games Wednesday, Nov. 26. The top 16 teams received byes for the first round. Every ACC team except Duke received bids. The […]

(Home team is listed first.) FIRST ROUND (Nov. 21 or 22) Tulsa (12-5-2) vs. Oakland (12-4-5) Florida Int'l (13-4-2) vs. UCF (12-5-3) Virginia Tech (14-4-2) vs. Clemson (9-7-3) Kentucky (12-6-1) vs. Cincinnati (10-4-5) Wisc.-Milwaukee (15-5-1) vs. Western Mich. (12-6-2) Brown (10-3-3) vs. St. Peter's (17-4-2) Santa Clara (13-3-3) vs. SMU (13-6-2) Coastal Carolina (18-2-0) vs. […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor Overtime goals decided two very different semifinals; the Fire duly put away a New England team full of determination but short on sharpness, and the cardiac Quakes rallied twice before stunning Kansas City with another strike in sudden-death. BEST GOAL: No contest. San Jose's Landon Donovan played a one-two with […]

Second-seeded Notre Dame was upset by Michigan for the second time in 18 days, and defending NCAA Division I champion Portland advanced to a title-game rematch with archrival Santa Clara as second-round play was completed Sunday in the NCAA tournament. Villanova surprised seventh-seeded Virginia on penalty kicks, and third-seeded Florida rallied from a three-goal deficit […]

Kristen Habenicht scored two goals, including the overtime winner, and third-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson claimed the East Coast Athletic Conference's Division I women's soccer title on Sunday with a 3-2 victory at top-seeded Fordham. Habenicht finished a 96th-minute breakaway to lift the Knights (10-8-1), who edged Binghamton, 1-0, in Saturday's semifinal. Her 76th-minute chip gave FDU […]

EAST COAST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS WOMEN'S SOCCER CHAMPIONS Division I — Fairleigh Dickinson Division II — C.W. Post Division III — Metro — Richard Stockton Mid-Atlantic — Carnegie-Mellon New England — Salem State Northeast — William Smith DIVISION I Semifinal Fairleigh Dickinson 1 (Young 43) Binghamton 0 Final (Nov. 16) Fordham 2 (Laubinger 25. Hopkins […]

RANK TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1 UCLA (18-1-1) 1 11/12 — at San Diego (2-2); 11/15 — Fresno State (1-0) 2 Maryland (17-2-1) 2 11/14 — N.C. State (2-1); 11/16 — Virginia (1-1, 6-7 PKs) 3 Wake Forest (13-4-0) 3 11/12 — Duke (3-1); 11/14 — Virginia (0-1) 4 Santa Clara (13-3-3) 4 11/15 — […]

SUNDAY'S RESULT EAST COAST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Final Fordham 2 (Laubinger 25. Hopkins 88) Fairleigh Dickinson 3 (Geraghty 34, Habenicht 76, 96) (OT) CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE Nov. 4 at home sites, Nov. 7-9 at Boston University Quarterfinals (Nov. 4) New Hampshire 7 Northeastern 2 Maine 3 UMBC 1 Semifinals (Nov. 7) Boston U. 2 […]

''I'm very happy to get the victory. A lot of good things came out of tonight's game. But you saw some players who haven't been playing [professionally] on a regular basis, who know that they can do a little bit better with regards to the final pass and finishing. While we scored six goals, we […]