Category: College Soccer Reporter

All-American Kerri Hanks set up goals by freshman Jessica Schuveiller and sophomore Taylor Knaack as Notre Dame improved to 25-0-0 with a 2-0 win over Florida State and moved into the Women’s College Cup for the third consecutive season.

Sophomore Christen Press, one of the hottest strikers in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament, was the difference as Stanford beat Portland, 1-0, to move into the semifinals for only the second time.

Olympic gold medalists Lauren Cheney (UCLA), Tobin Heath (North Carolina) and Amy Rodriguez (USC) and 2006 winner Kerri Hanks (Notre Dame) are among the 15 players who have been named semifinalists for the 2008 Missouri Athletic Club Women’s Hermann Trophy.

In a game moved to the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School’s athletic complex in Akron after it was postponed due to inclement weather and unplayable field conditions at Lee Jackson Field, No. 5 seed Akron beat Ohio State, 1-0, on a goal by senior Matt Tutich with five seconds remaining in the second overtime on Wednesday. The Zips won’t get time, however, to have their home field in shape for Sunday’s game against No. 12 Northwestern. The NCAA moved their third-round game to Northwestern.

Play continues in the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament with four third-round games in Saturday and four on Sunday. For the third-round schedule …

Three players on defending champion and top-ranked Wake Forest — Cody Arnoux, Sam Cronin and Marcus Tracy — head the list of 15 players who have been named semifinalists for the 2008 Missouri Athletic Club Men’s Hermann Trophy.

Top-ranked Wake Forest got a scare in the second round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament Tuesday night when it needed a golden goal by junior forward Cody Arnoux in the first overtime period to subdue William & Mary, 1-0, at Spry Stadium.

Five seeds lost on Tuesday in the second round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament. No. 4 Michigan State fell to UIC in a shootout. No. 9 Loyola (Md.), No. 10 Virginia, No. 12 Notre Dame and No. 15 UC Santa Barbara also fell. For reports on all the second-round games …

Two second-round games —  Akron-Ohio State and Dartmouth-Boston College — in the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament will be played Wednesday after bad weather forced their postponement. For the second- and third-round schedule …

Four Division I men’s programs are looking for new head coaches. Three of the teams — Wisconsin, Navy and Columbia — have won an NCAA Division I title or reached the title game.

Former Delaware and Dartmouth head coach Alden H. “Whitey” Burnham, died on Nov. 18 after a brief illness in Hanover, N.H., at the age of 85.

The 16 seeded teams begin action in the second round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament on Tuesday. For the second-round schedule …

Perhaps the biggest surprise in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament is the presence of Texas A&M. The Aggies, who struggled late in the season, have gotten hot in the postseason and reached the quarterfinals, where they will meet North Carolina Friday in Chapel Hill.

Englishman Steve Zakuani emerged this fall as one of college soccer’s most feared strikers and a leading candidate for Player of the Year honors. The sophomore leads all NCAA Division I scorers with 20 goals and 47 points. Bothered by a sprained left ankle during the Mid-American Tournament, Zakuani is rested and ready for the No. 5 Zips’ second-round match against Ohio State Tuesday in Akron.

Neal Kitson won a national championship as a freshman at NCAA Division II Dowling in 2004 and hopes to finish his career with a second championship, this time with Division I St. John’s. Kitson, whose 0.34 goals-against average is the lowest in the country, has been sensational in his first year as a full-time starter with the No. 3 seed Red Storm, who open play in the NCAA Tournament against Boston University.

It’s been quite a tumultuous end-of-season for Ohio State, last year’s runner-up at the Men’s College Cup. The Buckeyes ended the season with four straight losses but managed to earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Things got worse when Coach John Bluem suspended six players — five of them starters in last year’s final against Wake Forest — indefinitely for a violation of team rules. But the Buckeyes (9-8-3) survived to win at Oakland on penalty kicks with a makeshift team and advanced to Tuesday’s second-round game at Akron (16-1-4).

Former Columbus Crew coach Greg Andrulis takes one of the nation’s hottest teams to No. 2 Maryland for Tuesday’s second round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament. George Mason extended its winning streak to eight games with a 1-0 win over Penn on Friday. Only the Terrapins, winners of 11 in a row, have a longer active winning streak.

Five teams — UNC Greensboro, Cal Poly, Harvard, Jacksonville and Ohio State — won on the road in the first round of the NCAA Division I  Men’s Tournament. The 16 seeded teams move into action in the second round on Tuesday. For the first-round results and second-round schedules …

Westmont College’s remarkable postseason continued Saturday when the Warriors beat Holy Names, 3-2, in overtime before 2,000 fans at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium. The victory, which sends the Warriors to the NAIA Championships, came 10 days after a wild fire destroyed the home of Westmont coach Dave Wolf and the school’s soccer/baseball facility and closed down the campus.

Yavapai completed its first perfect season when it beat San Jacinto, 1-0, and won its seventh NJCAA Division I men’s tournament.

Tampa came back from two goals down and won, 3-2, at Tusculum to reach the NCAA Division II men’s final four it will host Dec. 4-6. Amherst knocked off top-ranked Texas (Trinity), 1-0, while Stevens Institute eliminated defending champion Middlebury in a shootout in the NCAA Division III men’s quarterfinals. Five seeded teams fell in the opening round the NAIA Men’s Tournament. For all the weekend results …

UCLA defeated defending champion USC, 1-0, in the marquee match of the third round of NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. Top-ranked Notre Dame needed an overtime penalty kick from Kerri Hanks to beat unseeded Minnesota, 1-0. Stanford also struggled to put away unseeded Rutgers and had to settle for a 1-0 on a late goal from Kelley O’Hara. The fourth No. 1 seed, North Carolina, extended its scoreless streak to 671-plus minutes with a 3-0 win over Illinois. Two No. 2 seeds Florida State and Portland and No. 3 seeds Duke and Texas A&M complete the final eight. For game reports on all eight third-round games …

The sellout of of 4,879 for Saturday night’s Portland-James Madison game ensured that Portland will lead women’s soccer in both average and overall attendance this year.

Freshman Kaylee Neutzling scored two goals to lead Lewis & Clark Community College to a 3-2 win over top-ranked Darton College and give the Trailblazers the NJCAA Division I Women’s championship.

No. 1 Grand Valley State was knocked out of the NCAA Division II Women’s Tournament. Unbeaten Williams heads the field for the NCAA Division III women’s final four, while all the seeds advanced in the NAIA Women’s Tournament. For all the weekend results …