Monthly Archives: November 2006

Besides seeding the teams, the NCAA men's soccer committee's other main task is to pick the 26 at-large teams. Here are some questions the committee must examine: Does it again give the nine-team ACC eight berths? Champion Duke, Wake Forest, Maryland, Virginia, Clemson and North Carolina are locks. Boston College should get in. Virginia Tech […]

WOMEN Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Berths: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference: Penn State-Behrend American Southwest Conference: Hardin-Simmons Atlantic WomenÆs Colleges Conference: Notre Dame (Maryland) Capital Athletic Conference: Salisbury Centennial Conference: Johns Hopkins College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin: Wheaton (Illinois) Commonwealth Conference: Elizabethtown Commonwealth Coast Conference: Endicott Empire 8: Nazareth Freedom Conference: Scranton Great Northeast […]

MEN Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Berths: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Medaille (20-1-0) American Southwest Conference Hardin-Simmons (14-5-1) Capital Athletic Conference York (Pennsylvania) (19-0-2) Centennial Conference Johns Hopkins (17-1-2) City University of New York Athletic Conference Baruch (12-6-1) College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Wheaton (Illinois) (12-7-3) Commonwealth Conference Elizabethtown (11-5-2) Commonwealth Coast Conference Roger […]

1029conf wom Conference Champions ACC: North Carolina America East: Hartford Atlantic Sun: Jacksonville Atlantic-10: Saint Louis Big East: Notre Dame Big Sky: Idaho State Big South: UNC Asheville Big Ten: Penn State Big 12: Texas Big West: Cal State Fullerton CAA: Old Dominion Conference USA: UAB Horizon: Loyola (Ill.) Ivy: Columbia MAAC: Niagara Mid-American: Toledo […]

1025conf men scores Conference Champions ACC: Duke America East: Binghamton Atlantic Soccer: Adelphi Atlantic Sun: Gardner-Webb Atlantic 10: Rhode Island Big East: St. John's Big South: Winthrop Big Ten: Indiana Big West: UC Santa Barbara CAA: Hofstra Conference USA: SMU Horizon: Loyola (Ill.) Ivy: Harvard MAAC: Fairfield Mid-American: Northern Illinois Mid-Continent: Western Illinois Missouri Valley: […]

Nov. 5 in Washington, D.C. D.C. United 0 New England 1. Goal: Twellman (Pat Noonan, Jay Heaps) 4 D.C. United – Perkins, Namoff, Boswell, Erpen, Gros, Carroll, Gomez (Simms, 81), Olsen, Adu (Donnet, 65), Eskandarian (Dyachenko, 76) Moreno. New England – Reis, John, Parkhurst, Riley, Heaps, Franchino (Smith, 67), Joseph, Hernandez (Larentowicz, 44), Dorman, Noonan, […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor, Soccer America In both stadiums hosting MLS conference finals Sunday, the play was intense, the crowds raucous, and the results justified. D.C. United outshot New England, 18-6, at a rowdy RFK lit up by flares and shrouded by smoke but were undone, 1-0, by an early Taylor Twellman goal, a […]

For the second straight year, UNLV claimed the Mountain West tournament championship, as the Rebels topped 10th-ranked Utah, 6-5, in a shootout after they played to a 0-0 tie on Saturday afternoon at Ute Field. It was the second straight game, the Rebels won in this year's tournament in a shootout, after UNLV advanced past […]

  U.S. head coach Greg Ryan on the match: ''We were really happy with the performance. Canada is just a very difficult team to play against. They knock a ton of long balls, you have to win them in the air, and they are great at knocking them in behind you afterwards. So I think, […]

Captain Kristine Lilly scored on a wonderful strike in the 68th minute to give the U.S. women's national team a 1-0 victory against neighbor Canada to win the championship of the 2006 Peace Queen Cup Saturday in Seoul, South Korea. Lilly took a ball from Aly Wagner in the right side of the penalty area, […]

Men's Quarterfinalists Lincoln Memorial (14-1-3) Seattle (12-7-1) Southern Connecticut State (17-2-3) Northern Kentucky (16-2-3) Men's Regional Scores Appalachian Region Nov. 2 in Hickory, N.C. Lenoir-Rhyne 3 Catawba 2 Carson-Newman 0 Lincoln Memorial 1 (OT) Nov. 4 in Hickory, N.C. Lenoir-Rhyne 1 Lincoln Memorial 1 (OT) (Lincoln Memorial wins 5-3 on penalties.) Great Lakes Region Nov. […]

Sophomore Barry Neville (converted a penalty kick with 58 second left in the first overtime to lift top-seeded Binghamton to a 1-0 win over No. 2 Vermont in the America East championship game on Saturday. The Bearcats earned their second America East Championship. All-Championship Team Barry Neville – Binghamton (Most Outstanding Player) Jason Stenta – […]

Senior Charles Altchek scored two second-half goals four minutes apart Saturday afternoon as Harvard defeated Columbia, 3-1, to win the Ivy League championship outright at Ohiri Field. The Crimson claimed its 12th League title in school history, but first since the 1996 season. The title gives Harvard the Ivy LeagueÆs automatic bid to the NCAA […]

Columbia won its first Tvy League women's title on Saturday with a 1-0 victory over Harvard. Senior midfielder Aubrey Medal sent the game's only goal in the net with less than nine minutes left to give, scoring off a corner taken by Shannon Munoz. The win is Columbia's seventh straight victory. The Lions will enter […]

No. 1 Notre Dame improved to 19-0-1 with a 2-0 win over Marquette in the semifinals of the Big East Tournament on Friday. The Irish will meet Rutgers in the championship game on Sunday. The Scarlet Knights rallied from a two-goal deficit and posted a 3-2 victory over West Virginia. Rutgers will be playing in […]

No. 3 SMU needed a shootout to beat UAB in the semifinals of the Conference USA men's tournament. After playing to a 1-1 tie through regulation and two 10-minute overtimes, SMU put away UAB, 3-1, in the deciding shootout. SMU Goalie Matt Wideman stopped the first two UAB shots and the fourth Blazer try to […]

Fourth-seeded George Mason reached the CAA MenÆs Championship game for the first time since 2003, edging top-seeded Towson 5-4 on penalty kicks after the two squads battled to a 1-1 double-overtime tie in semifinal action Friday night at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex. The Patriots (12-5-2) advance to SundayÆs title match against No. 2 seed Hofstra, […]