Category: College Soccer Reporter

Herkimer County (N.Y.) Community College hosts the NJCAA Division III men’s and women’s final fours Saturday and Sunday. The defending champion Generals are the top seeds in the men’s tournament. They needed an overtime goal from Englishman Joe Hunt to beat SUNY Cobleskill, 1-0, last week’s Region III final. Their only loss was to NJCAA […]

The NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament began on Wednesday with seven first-round games. It continues this weekend with action at eight regional sites. Here’s a look at the top five teams in the final NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division III rankings of the regular season. (Tomorrow: the D3 women’s top five.) Soccer America’s NCAA D3 Men’s Tournament […]

Shunned by the NCAA women’s soccer committee for a regional seed, defending NCAA Division I women’s champion Portland opens its title defense with a tough test against BYU Thursday in Salt Lake City, Utah. Host Utah meets Idaho State in the only other first-round game being played on Thursday. Soccer America’s NCAA Division I Women’s […]

The NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament opens Friday and Saturday with 16 first-round games. Here are five to watch: Soccer America’s NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament Scoreboard ST. JOHN’S-MONMOUTH. It’s something of a New York area derby with the Big East champion, winner of six games in a row by shutout, against the Northeast champion, […]

St. John’s is the hottest team entering the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament. The Red Storm have won six games in a row — all by shutouts — going into Friday’s first-round game against visiting Monmouth. After being decimated by defections during the offseason — New Zealand international Steven Old turned pro and signed with […]

Texas, one of four No. 1 regional seeds in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament, won’t host on the first weekend of tournament play. Its regional quartet will be hosted by UConn. Penn State forward Barkley Miller‘s last name was misidentified in last Friday’s story about the Nittany Lions. They finished with a 7-11-2 record, […]

John Tart, who guided Charlotte to the NCAA Division I Tournament semifinals in 1996, resigned as men’s head coach Tuesday after 12 years with the 49ers. In 1996, Tate was named the Conference USA Coach of the Year after leading the 49ers to a school record 19 wins and the semifinals. He leaves as the […]

The NAIA’s top-ranked team, Azusa Pacific, advanced to the NAIA Women’s National Championship for the ninth straight year with a 4-0 win over Vanguard Tuesday night in the Region II final. Freshman Theresa Broad led the Cougars with two goals to give her 23 goals for the season. Lindsey Wilson, the 2004 NAIA women’s champion, […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR (HOMETOWN) 20 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. (Lake Charles, La.) 18 Steven Holloway, Monmouth, Sr. (New Zealand) 17 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. (Kenya) 17 Riley O’Neill, Kentucky, Sr. (Canada) 17 Jeffrey Gonsalves, Rhode Island, Sr. (Canada) 15 Charlie Davies, Boston College, Jr. (Manchester, N.H.) 15 Josh Trott, Holy Cross, Sr. […]

Oregon’s Nicole Garbin is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week for leading the Ducks to big wins over No. 3 UCLA, 2-1, and USC, 3-1. Garbin settled a double overtime thriller with the Bruins, scoring from seven yards out off a throw-in by teammate Allison Newton in the 108th minute to snap UCLA’s […]

Freshman Ryan Soroka, who helped St. John’s capture the Big East Tournament, is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week. The former U.S. U-17 star, who had game-winning goals in the Red Storm’s first two games of the Big East Tournament the previous week, played a part in all three of the team’s goals […]

Regional Play Nov. 10-12 in Chapel Hill, N.C. No. 1 North Carolina (21-1-0) vs. UNC Asheville (10-6-3) William & Mary (16-1-3) vs. Navy (21-1-0) Nov. 10-12 in Knoxville, Tenn Louisville (13-4-2) vs. Duke (9-8-2) No. 4 Tennessee (11-6-3) vs. UAB (8-11-1) Nov. 10-12 in Winston-Salem, N.C. No. 3 Wake Forest (15-5-1) vs. Old Dominion (17-4-1) […]

With 64 teams in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament, there would seem to be plenty of bids to go around for everyone, but there wasn’t one for Oregon. In Monday’s biggest surprise, the NCAA women’s soccer committee ignored the Ducks, turning out the Pac-10’s second-place team for the first time in history. Coming off […]

Santa Clara and Texas joined Notre Dame and North Carolina, ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25, as the top regional seeds in the NCAA Division I women’s tournament, which begins with the first two rounds Thursday-Sunday at 16 regional sites. The No. 1 regional seed assures a team […]

First Round Nov. 10 or 11 Brown (10-4-3) vs. Adelphi (11-6-1) Rutgers (10-6-2) vs. Rhode Island (12-5-4) UAB (10-6-3) vs. Gardner-Webb (9-7-3) Harvard (13-4-0) vs. Binghamton (9-6-5) St. John’s (13-5-2) vs. Monmouth (14-3-3) UIC (12-2-5) vs. Western Illinois (15-7-0) San Francisco (12-6-1) vs. New Mexico (13-3-3) George Mason (12-5-3) vs. Bucknell (8-7-6) UC Santa Barbara […]

Duke, No. 1 in the final Soccer America Men’s Top 25 of the season, was also selected as the No. 1 seed for the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament, which begins play with first -ound action on Friday and Saturday. Four ACC teams were named among the top five men’s seeds — Duke, No. 2 […]

Men’s Automatic Qualifiers & At-Large Teams Women’s Automatic Qualifiers & At-Large Teams

Men’s Quarterfinal Pairings Seattle (12-7-1) vs. Fort Lewis (19-1-1) Southern Connecticut State (17-2-3) vs. Dowling (20-0-1) Lincoln Memorial (14-1-3) vs.  Northern Kentucky (16-2-3) Queens (12-4-3) vs. West Florida (19-1-2) (Games on Nov. 11 or 12; home teams not announced.) Women’s Quarterfinal Pairings Franklin Pierce (18-2-1) vs. West Chester (22-0-0) Grand Valley State (17-1-1) vs. Nebraska-Omaha […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Last week’s results) 1. Notre Dame (20-0-1) 1 2, North Carolina (21-1-0) 2 3. UCLA (17-3-0) 3 4. Santa Clara (15-4-1) 4 5. Texas (17-3-0) 7 6. Portland (14-3-3) 5 7. Florida State (14-3-4) 6 8. Penn State (15-4-3) 16 9. West Virginia (14-3-3) 9 10. Utah (15-4-1) 10 11. Navy […]

Notre Dame and North Carolina won the Big East and ACC titles to finish 1-2 in the final Soccer America Women’s Top 25. Both teams are assured of all-important regional seeds that will keep them at home through the quarterfinals — if they keep winning — but last week’s results did nothing to settle the […]

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 […]

The final weekend of the men’s college regular season resulted in 22 conference champions clinching automatic berths into the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament, which begins on Friday. Soccer America’s Men’s Conference Tournament Scoreboard The NCAA Division I men’s committee must decide by this afternoon the other 26 teams that will complete the 48-team field. […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Last week’s results) 1. Duke (16-3-1) 4 2. SMU (17-1-4) 3 3. Wake Forest (15-3-3) 1 4. Indiana (14-4-2) 7 5. West Virginia (15-2-3) 2 6. Virginia (14-3-1) 5 7. Maryland (15-4-1) 6 8. Santa Clara (12-4-4) 8 9. Clemson (12-4-2) 9 10. North Carolina (11-5-3) 10 11. California (12-5-1) 11 […]

Pat Thomas scored 26 seconds into overtime to give fourth-seeded Seattle a 2-1 victory over West No. 1 Cal State Dominguez Hills Thursday night in the first round of the NCAA Division II Men’s Tournament. “I think it was a great game overall, and I was really proud of our team,” said first-year coach Brad […]

Two Big Ten bubble teams had their NCAA women’s tournament hopes compromised on Thursday. Indiana’s late-season collapse is complete. The Hoosiers (9-7-4) were upset by Michigan, 2-1, in a game that saw both teams get on the board with own goals. In mid-October, IU was 5-0-1 in conference play with the tie coming against powerhouse […]