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The USA's quest to qualify for the 2006 kicks off with a second-round home-and-away series against a Caribbean nation on consecutive weekends in June. Those matches will be the first of 18 or 20 potential games across a year-and-a-half that the USA will have to play to earn its fifth consecutive trip to the World […]

North Carolina rallied after falling behind by two goals, and Duke, Maryland and Florida State eked out victories as the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament opened at SAS Stadium in Cary, N.C. The top-ranked Tar Heels improved to 19-0-0 with a 6-2 victory over tournament host North Carolina State after trailing, 2-0, by the 18th minute. […]

ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE Quarterfinals North Carolina 6 (O'Reilly 27, Chalupny 35, Tarpley 56, White 67, McDowell 70, Felts 76) North Carolina State 2 (Griswold 6, Underwood 18) Duke 2 (Kroyer 49, Oxenham 68) Virginia 1 (Gusick 13) Clemson 1 (Garcia 79) Maryland 2 (Francis 30, 53) Florida State 2 (Gallegos 29, 66) Wake Forest 1 […]

University of Arkansas women's soccer coach Alan Kirkup was informed Wednesday that his contract will not be renewed, and the school instigated a nationwide search for a replacement. Kirkup was 34-59-4 in five seasons with the Lady Razorbacks, missing the Southeastern Conference tournament the past three years. Arkansas was more competitive this season, but a […]

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE * Tim Howard (Manchester United, England) vs. Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) 3-0. Started: 90 minutes. Made impressive save off Michael Ball's free kick in second half. The Sun rating (10 high; 1 low): 6. BBC rating (10 high; 1 low): 6, ''The United keeper kept his 10th clean-sheet of the season but his […]

Colorado's Joe Cannon, who replaced Scott Garlick in the Rapids' goal for the first-leg of the MLS quarterfinals against Kansas City, gave up a goal in the third minute to Wolde Harris. The Rapids recovered for a 1-1 tie thanks to Nat Borchers' close-range header from a Kyle Beckerman cross. John Spencer hit the Kansas […]

Goalkeeper Luisa Marzotto (Mississippi State), Fr. (2) Australian U-19 World Cup veteran makes 15 saves to preserve scoreless tie in Magnolia Cup clash with Ole Miss, stops seven in 2-1 win over Southern Miss. Defenders Allie Kueny (UC Santa Barbara), Fr. (1) Scores two goals, assisted three more, playing in the back and up front, […]

GOALKEEPERS: John O'Hara (George Mason) Sr. (1)* First goalkeeper to shut out Old Dominion this season also blanks William & Mary in a scoreless draw. DEFENDERS: Marc Elie Andre (Fairleigh Dickinson) Sr. (1) Provides overtime winner and an assist against LIU, helps Knights past Princeton. Lesse Martins (Virginia Tech) Sr. (1) Marshals Hokies' defense to […]

Nov. 4 in Denver Colorado 1 Kansas City 1. Goals: Borchers (Beckerman, Kotschau) 53; Harris (Zavagnin) 3. Colorado — Cannon, Hart (Crawford, 46), Borchers, Fraser, Kotschau, Henderson, Beckerman, Mastroeni, Chung, Carrieri (Roberts, 66), Spencer. Kansas City — Meola, Conrad, Gutierrez, Garcia, Zotinca (Armstrong, 71), Quill, Talley, Zavagnin, Klein, Preki, Harris (Arnaud, 86). Yellow Card: Colorado […]

AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE Quarterfinals New Hampshire 7 (Wishoski 2, 26, 27, 85, 86, Best 6, 24) Northeastern 2 (Howard 49, Pfeifer 69) Maine 3 (Stevens 39, Crawford 60, 76) UMBC (DiCarlo 18) COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Quarterfinals William & Mary 3 (Mosier 41, Flint 64, Tahmassian 69) James Madison 0 Delaware 1 (Breault 25) George Mason […]

Sophomore Jackie Wishoski scored five goals and assisted another Tuesday as New Hampshire routed Northeastern in an America East Conference tournament quarterfinal. The top two seeds in the Mid-American were upset as tournament play began in four conferences. Chiara Best scored two goals and assisted one of Wishoski's as New Hampshire romped, 7-2, to reach […]

After physically dominating its first four foes in the fourth Women's World Cup, the U.S. women couldn't solve Germany, which exposed the Americans' deficiencies in a stirring semifinal. IT WAS 1995 ALL OVER AGAIN. A corner kick, early in the semifinal, against the one team – the only team – that could have knocked off […]

BEFORE FOUNDING Soccer America in 1971, Clay Berling helped get boys and girls soccer off the ground in Northern California. We caught up with Clay, a National Soccer Hall of Fame member, after he attended his fourth Women's World Cup. Your reaction to the U.S. women's semifinal loss … We can't be at the top […]

ENGLAND * Claudio Reyna (Manchester City, PL) at Southampton, 2-0. Started: 90 minutes. Reyna was a ''selfless central link in midfield,'' according to the Telegraph. The Sun rating (10 high; 1 low): 6. Manchester City is in 5th place. Season league stats: 6 games; 1 goal. * Tim Howard (Manchester United, PL) vs. Portsmouth, 3-0. […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor The Revs and Fire get a leg up on the road in the first leg; the Galaxy shakes the Quakes at Home Depot Center. BEST GOALS: For emphatic, ruthless finishing, the Galaxy's Carlos Ruiz has no peer. He nailed down L.A.'s 2-0 win over the Quakes by settling a long […]

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

Record Last 1. North Carolina 18-0-0 1 2. UCLA 14-1-3 4 3. Portland 16-3-0 3 4. Notre Dame 19-1-1 2 5. Penn State 16-2-2 5 6. Santa Clara 11-3-5 8 7. West Virginia 15-3-1 7 8. Virginia 12-4-2 6 9. Florida State 11-6-1 9 10. Duke 12-5-1 10 11. Colorado 15-2-1 12 12. Clemson 11-5-2 […]

RANK TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1 UCLA (15-1-0) 1 10/31 — Rutgers (2-0) 2 Old Dominion (14-2-0) 2 10/31 — at James Madison (2-3); 11/2 — at George Mason (0-1) 3 Maryland (15-1-0) 3 10/31 — Virginia (1-0) 4 Wake Forest (12-3-0) 5 10/31 — Duke (4-0) 5 Santa Clara (12-2-3) 8 11/02 — at […]

Iris Mora set a school season record for assists Sunday as UCLA beat archrival USC to claim the Pacific 10 Conference title and a berth in the NCAA women's soccer tournament. The fourth-ranked Bruins, who clinched a tie for the Pac-10 crown with two games remaining, are the second squad to qualify for the 64-team […]

1. North Carolina (18-0-0) 10/31 vs. Florida State (1-0) 2. Notre Dame (19-1-1) 10/29 vs. Michigan (2-3), 11/2 vs. Miami, Fla. (2-1 OT, Big East quarterfinals) 3. Portland (16-3-0) 11/2 at Santa Clara (1-2 OT) 4. UCLA (14-1-3) 10/29 vs. Loyola Marymount (5-0), 11/2 vs. USC (2-0) 5. Penn State (16-2-2) Idle 6. Virginia (12-4-2) […]

Abby Wambach headed home two Mia Hamm corner kicks in the second half Sunday and the U.S. women's national team completed its 2003 schedule with a simple 3-1 triumph over Mexico at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Cindy Parlow, making her first appearance since sustaining a concussion in the Americans' World Cup third-place win over […]

Nov. 1 in East Rutherford, NJ MetroStars 0 New England 2. Goals: Fabbro (Heaps, Cancela) 17, Noonan (Fabbro, Cancela) 65. MetroStars — Walker, Jolley, Pope, Ziadie (Gaven, 46), Leitch, Clark, Guevara, Lisi, DiGiamarino (Bartolomeu, 71), Juskowiak (Magee, 60), Mathis. New England — Brown, Heaps, Llamosa, Pierce, Leonard, Ralston, Cancela, Joseph, Kamler (Moore, 49), Fabbro (Cullen, […]

CONFERENCE SCOREBOARD Sunday's results BIG EAST CONFERENCE Quarterfinals Notre Dame 2 Miami, Fla. 1 (OT) Boston College 2 Rutgers 1 Connecticut 0 Villanova 1 West Virginia 2 St. John's 1 MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE Quarterfinals Northern Iowa 1 Creighton 2 (OT) Southwest Missouri State 2 Drury 1 TOURNAMENTS BIG EAST CONFERENCE Nov. 2 at home sites, […]

Dartmouth clinched at least a share of the Ivy League women's soccer championship, one of five universities to claim regular-season conference titles on Saturday. Christina Ferraris' overtime goal lifted the Big Green past Harvard, 2-1, at Cambridge, Mass., securing the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. A win or tie at home against […]

Seven schools claimed conference regular-season titles in women's soccer on Friday, including two Birmingham universities that won their first championships. Samford secured the Ohio Valley Conference crown with a 1-0 triumph over visiting Jacksonville State, and UAB won the Conference USA title by beating South Florida, 2-0, in Tampa. Tennessee, Cal Poly, Denver, Loyola, Md., […]