Category: College Soccer Reporter

Wake Forest is No. 1 in the final Soccer America Men’s Top 25 of the 2008 season. Creighton, Maryland, Akron and South Florida round out the top five. For this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 and last week’s results …

Top-ranked Lynn fell to Tampa, 3-2, in the second round of the NCAA Division II Men’s Tournament on Sunday. Three unbeaten teams — Montclair State, Hobart and Trinity (Texas) — are still alive in the NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament. For all the weekend results …

Four unseeded teams remain alive after the first two rounds of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. Minnesota, James Madison, Rutgers and Illinois all moved into next weekend’s round of 16 with upsets.

The four No. 1 and No. 2 regional seeds all moved into the third round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. Top-ranked Notre Dame needed a late goal to beat Michigan State, 1-0, in the second round. Two other No. 1 seeds, North Carolina and Stanford, won their second-round games in convincing fashion. UCLA’s game against San Diego was postponed until Monday night because of the poor air quality in the Los Angeles area. For all the results and schedules …

Unbeaten and untied Grand Valley State advanced in the NCAA Division II Women’s Tournament. Unbeaten Williams, Lynchburg, Messiah and Johns Hopkins moved into the round of 16 in the NCAA Division III Women’s Tournament. For all the weekend results …

Massachusetts, the surprise of last year’s Men’s College Cup, was almost written off half way through the 2008 campaign, but the Minutemen look set to return to the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament after running off six straight wins to earn the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic-10 Tournament, which continues Friday with the semifinals at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Boston University, Jacksonville and UC Irvine won men’s conference titles on Saturday. Jacksonville came back from 3-1 down to defeat Campbell, 4-3, in the Big South final and end Campbell’s school-record 12-game winning streak. On Friday, top-ranked Wake Forest lost for the first time in 25 games when it fell to Virginia, 3-2, in the ACC semifinals. For all the results and schedules …

Third-ranked Midwestern State needed overtime to oust Incarnate Word, 2-1, in the first round of the NCAA Division II Men’s Tournament on Thursday. The NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament began Thursday with a thriller at North Carolina Wesleyan, where the Bishops came back from 3-1 down with less than 15 minutes to play to beat Virginia Wesleyan, 4-3, in overtime. For all the NCAA Division 2 and 3 men’s results and schedules …

SOCCER AMERICA profiles the seven teams — Army, Belmont, Long Beach State, Morehead State, Northern Arizona, Northeastern and South Dakota State — making their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament and hoping to spring at upset in first-round action on Friday.

Defending champion USC moved into the third round with a shootout victory at BYU on Saturday. The only seeded team to lose on Friday was Colorado, a 1-0 loser to South Dakota State, which was making its NCAA Division I Tournament debut. The other first-time team to win was Northeastern, which edged Boston area rival Harvard on penalty kicks. For all the first-round results and schedules …>

The NCAA Division II and III Women’s Tournaments began on Thursday with wins over D2 UC San Diego (on a golden goal) and D3 Carleton, Husson and Washington & Jefferson (in a shootout). For all the NCAA Division 2 and 3 women’s results and schedules …

Swede Yolando Odenyo is a big reason Oklahoma State tied a school record with 17 wins and enters the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. Odenyo earned Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year honors. She talks about the Cowgirls’ chances in the NCAA Tournament.

USC begins its NCAA Division I women’s title defense Thursday against Boston University in in Provo, Utah. In Thursday’s other first-round game, regional host BYU, the Mountain West champion, faces surprise ACC finalist Virginia Tech. For all the first-round matchups …

First, Virginia lost Chris Agorsor, the nation’s top freshman prospect, with a knee injury in September. Then, Tony Tchani, since named the ACC Freshman of the Year, went down with a knee injury of his own in late October. You’d think the Cavaliers were done for the year, but they exploded for a 4-2 win over Duke in the Wednesday’s quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament in Cary, N.C.

Top-ranked Wake Forest is now No. 1 in the latest RPI index of NCAA Division I men’s programs released on Monday. For the RPI rankings of the top 25 teams and the teams on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament …

Men’s conferences swung into tournament action in a big way on Wednesday. Finals were set in two conferences: UC Irvine vs. UC Santa Barbara in the Big West and Boston University vs. Binghamton in the America East. Perhaps the biggest shocker was SMU’s 3-0 loss at home to South Carolina in the Conference USA’s quarterfinals — a loss that left the Mustangs  in danger of not being selected to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 15 years. For all the results and schedules …

The NCAA Division II Men’s Tournament opened Wednesday’s with a miracle comeback in Jefferson City, Tenn., where Francis Marion came back from three goals down in the last half hour and defeated Carson-Newman, 4-3, on a golden goal by Kyle Clinton. For more on Wednesday’s openers and the complete NCAA Division 2 and 3 men’s schedules …

It’s the No. 1 seed against the No. 8 seed, top-ranked and unbeaten Wake Forest against N.C. State in Wednesday’s ACC quarterfinals. A mismatch? Hardly. The Wolfpack is one of the hottest teams in the country, and Coach George Tarantini is relishing the opportunity to take on the mighty Demon Deacons.

In Tuesday conference tournament action, George Mason crushed Hofstra, 5-0, and Northeastern beat Old Dominion on penalty kicks in the CAA. Conferences in action on Wednesday: ACC, America East, Atlantic Soccer, Atlantic Sun, Big West, Conference USA and Missouri Valley. For all the results and schedules …

With another big week, Akron sophomore Steve Zakuani extended his lead among NCAA Division I men’s scorers in points (45) and retained the lead in goals (19). For all the NCAA Division I leaders …

Perhaps the most remarkable story of last weekend’s conference tournaments was Tennessee’s SEC championship. With an 8-10-1 record, the  Lady Vols’ only path to an eighth straight NCAA Tournament appearance was to win the SEC Tournament in Orange Beach, Ala. To make their task more difficult, Preseason All-American Kylee Rossi was sidelined with a hip injury that has ended her career.

After big weekends at the Horizon League Tournament, Cynthia Morote-Ariza of Loyola (Ill.) and Milwaukee’s Sarah Hagen are 1-2 in points among NCAA Division I women’s players. Hagen now leads in goals and Morote-Ariza is still No. 1 in assists. For all the NCAA Division I leaders …

Top-ranked Notre Dame (21-0-0) heads the 64-team NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament field. UCLA, Stanford and North Carolina, ranked 2-3-5 in the final Soccer America Women’s Top 25, are the other No. 1 seeds in one of the most competitive fields in women’s history. For all the tournament entrants and first-round schedule …

Sophie Schmidt, the Canadian Olympian who led Portland to a 4-1 victory in a winner-take-all WCC match at San Diego, is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week. For all the Soccer America Women’s Team of the Week selections for games played Nov. 3-9 …

The draws for the NCAA Division II and III Women’s Tournaments were held on Monday. Both tournaments begin with first- and second-round play this week. For the complete schedules …