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MEN’S NCAA DIVISION I Great Lakes Region 1 Indiana 16-2-0 50 DN Loyola Marymount 3-0, LA UCLA 1-2 2 Akron 14-2-1 45 DH W. Michigan 3-0 3 Butler 15-4-0 35 LA St. Louis 0-3, DA WI-Milwaukee 3-1, DA WI-Green Bay 3-0 4 Cincinnati 11-4-2 35 DA Ohio St. 1-0 5 Notre Dame 9-5-3 31 DH […]

GROUP A Nov. 4 in Amsterdam Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands) 2 (Witschge 32, Gorre 88) Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece) 0. Half: 1-0. Att.: n/a. Nov. 4 in Zagreb Croatia Zagreb 3 (Mikic 7, Rukavina 37, Mujcin 61) Porto (Portugal) 1 (Jardel 39). Half: 2-1. Att.: 10,000. TEAM GP W T L GF GA P Ajax 4 2 […]

MEN’S NCAA DIVISION III South Central Region 1 Wheaton (Ill.) 19-0-0 50 DA Colorado Coll. 3-0, DN St. Olaf 1-0 2 Trinity (TX) 14-2-1 45 DH Centre 2-0, DH Univ. of South 2-1 3 Rhodes 14-4-1 40 LA DePauw 0-2, DA Rose-Hulman 2-1 4 Washington (Mo.) 11-6-1 30 DA Case Western 1-0 (OT) 5 Univ. […]

MEN’S NCAA DIVISION II Central Region 1 Mercyhurst 15-2-1 DH N. Kentucky 2-0, DH Missouri Southern 6-0 2 Truman St. 12-3-2 DN Southern Indiana 8-1, DA UMSL 3-2 3 Quincy 14-2-1 DH Missouri-Rolla 2-1 4 E. Strouds. 15-4-0 DA Kutztown 3-2, DA Bloomsburg 1-0 5 Gannon 14-4-0 DA Findlay 2-1 (OT), DH Missouri Southern 3-0, […]

MENÆS NCAA DIVISION I SCHOOL RECORD PTS. 1 Clemson 17-1-0 470 2 Washington 14-2-0 451 3 Indiana 16-2-0 404 4 UCLA 13-2-0 400 5 Virginia 12-2-2 376 6 Duke 15-2-0 368 7 Creighton 12-2-1 345 8 Connecticut 16-2-0 338 9 Saint Louis 14-3-1 255 10 Stanford 13-4-0 222 11 So. Carolina 13-4-0 190 12 Akron […]

WOMENÆS NCAA DIVISION I SCHOOL RECORD PTS. 1 No. Carolina 18-0-0 300 2 Santa Clara 17-0-1 288 3 Connecticut 17-0-2 274 4 Florida 18-1-0 266 5 Notre Dame 16-2-1 250 6 Portland 14-2-2 242 7 Dartmouth 14-1-1 211 8 Wm. & Mary 13-2-2 204 9 San Diego 15-2-1 197 10 Vanderbilt 14-4-0 195 11 Penn […]

G Daniel Pires (Providence) (1) 10 saves vs. BC (1-0), 8 saves vs. Seton Hall (0-0) D Jamie Clark (Stanford) (1) Scored gamewinner against St. John’s D David Wright (Creighton) (1) 2 goals in 4-1 win over Drake M Wojtek Krakowiak (Clemson) (5) Both goals against Maryland, 4 against Elon M Chris Albright (Virginia) (3) […]

Former U.S. national team coach Bora Milutinovic has signed a two-year deal to coach the MetroStars through the 2000 season. “I am very pleased that we were able to sign Bora to a coaching contract for the next two years,” said Metros GM Charlie Stillitano. “I feel that Bora’s experience is vital to the future […]

G Crystal Gordon (Santa Clara) (1) Sets NCAA shutout streak (917:22 minutes) D Lorrie Fair (North Carolina) (2) 2 goals in 3-0 win over Wake D Kari Sunderhaus (Evansville) (1) MVP of MVC tournament M Kim Clark (USC) (1) 2 goals in upset of UCLA M Jamie Lang (Dartmouth) (2) Freshman scores at 1:20 against […]

Note: * denotes home team FIRST ROUND *Elizabethtown (11-8-1) vs. Johns Hopkins (12-3-1) *Wellesley (14-2-2) vs. Bowdoin (9-4-1) Keene (16-3-0) vs. *Colby (8-4-1) *Nazareth (15-3-0) vs. Rochester (12-4-2) *Lynchburg (17-3-2) vs. Roanoke (14-5-1) *St. Thomas (10-7-1) vs. Gustavus Adolphus (12-5-1) *Denison (15-2-1) vs. Calvin (15-6-0) *Ohio Wesleyan (17-2-0) vs. Olivet (16-2-0). SECOND ROUND Mid-Atlantic: College […]

Nov. 3 in Madrid Atletico Madrid (Spain) 1 (Juninho pen. 45) CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) 0. Half: 1-0. Att.: 28,000. (Atl. Madrid wins 5-2 on aggregate.) Nov. 3 in Valencia Valencia (Spain) 2 (Lopez 45, 90) Liverpool (England) 2 (McManaman 80, Berger 85). Half: 1-0. Att.: 50,000. (Aggregate: 2-2; Liverpool wins on away goals.) Nov. 3 […]

BRUCE ARENA On his first three days on the job “It was a good three days. Our objective is to get to know each other and organize our ieam for a victory and to be patient with a group that is young. We will approach Friday’s game with a philosophy of importance, and try and […]

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Major League Soccer’s second group of Project-40 players will leave the U.S. on Nov. 3 to begin four weeks of overseas training with legendary Italian powerhouse AC Milan. The five players — goalkeeper Tim Howard (MetroStars), midfielders Carlos Parra (Miami) and Joey DiGiamarino (Colorado) and forwards Josh Wolff (Chicago) and Jamar Beasley (New England) — […]

Here is the Soccer America Women’s Top 20, taking into account games played through Nov. 1: Rank/Team Record Last Week 1. North Carolina 18-0-0 1 2. Santa Clara 17-0-1 2 3. Florida 18-1-0 3 4. Connecticut 17-0-2 4 5. Portland 14-2-2 5 6. Notre Dame 16-2-1 6 7. Dartmouth 14-1-1 7 8. Hartford 13-4-0 9 […]

The Nigeria women’s national team won its third consecutive African championship Oct. 31, defeating Ghana, 2-0, in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Nigeria and Ghana had previously qualified for Africa’s two spots in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup by winning their semifinals matches last week to earn berths to the championship game. The Super Falcons completed the […]

The New England Revolution selected midfielders Shawn Medved and Kris Kelderman, both of whom won the inaugural MLS Championship in 1996 with D.C. United, in today’s MLS waiver draft. San Jose, Tampa Bay and Colorado also participated in today’s draft, while the other eight organizations passed on the remaining players waived last Saturday. After the […]

Here is the Soccer America Men’s Top 20, taking into account games played through Nov. 1: Rank/Team Record Last Week 1. UCLA 13-2-0 3 2. Clemson 17-1-0 2 3. Indiana 16-2-0 1 4. Virginia 12-2-2 5 5. Duke 15-2-0 6 6. Creighton 12-2-1 7 7. Washington 14-2-0 9 8. Stanford 13-4-0 11 9. South Carolina […]

U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena has added D.C. United defender (and new U.S. citizen) Carlos Llamosa and France ’98 veteran midfielder Brian Maisonneuve to his 22-man roster for the friendly against Australia Nov. 6 in San Jose. The two additions replace a pair of injured players — Colorado’s Paul Bravo (knee) and Tampa Bay’s […]

MLS teams waived a total of 34 players in preparations for the league’s annual postseason waiver draft, which will be held Nov. 2. Among the players waived were former U.S. World Cup players Paul Caligiuri (Los Angeles) and Cle Kooiman (Miami). MLS clubs cut down roster size in order to clear room under team salary […]

The San Jose Clash’s Spartan Stadium, also the site of first-round and quarterfinal doubleheaders for the Women’s World Cup, will host the draw on Feb. 14, 1999, during halftime of a match between the U.S. national team and a team of World All-Stars. Each of the other 15 nations will have at least one player […]

I can’t vouch for Bruce Arena as a player — I do have a friend who saw him play in the NCAA final four for Cornell in 1972 and says he was brilliant in goal — but I’ve followed his coaching career about as closely as anyone I know. Arena moved to Charlottesville to coach […]

Tom Shenk Do you think the MLS/USSF has done its best in identifying young talent? It seems the future of the pro league and national team rests squarely on the shoulders of those running Project 2010. I am concerned that not enough is being done to find the prospects which are out there. There are […]

POINTS PER GAME Player (Team) GP G A P PPG 1. Kelly Smith (Seton Hall) 15 22 7 51 3.40 2. Danielle Fotopoulos (Florida) 16 23 7 53 3.31 3. Kim Engesser (Nebraska) 16 21 5 47 2.94 4. Jenny Heft (Notre Dame) 17 22 4 48 2.82 5. Marit Foss (Jacksonville) 17 15 17 […]

Oct. 30 in Chicago Chicago 2 Columbus 1 (OT). Goals: Podbrozny (pen.) 45, Klopas (Razov) 99; John (Warzycha) 53. Chicago — Thornton, Kubik (Keller, 14, Ibsen 77), Brown, Okaroh, Armas, Marsch, Kotschau (Klopas, 91), Podbrozny, Nowak, Wolff, Razov. Columbus — Sommer, Clark, Dooley, Iribarren, Smith, Warzycha (Farrell, 78), Williams, Maisonneuve (Yeagley, 67), Elcock, John, McBride. […]