Category: College Soccer Reporter

Top 25 teams William & Mary (No. 12) and BYU (No. 13) were both upset in women’s conference tournament semifinals on Thursday night. Fourth-seeded Old Dominion advanced to the CAA championship for the first time, topping top-seeded William & Mary, 6-5, on penalty kicks after the squads battled to a 1-1 tie at the Virginia […]

Notre Dame dominated the Big East’s award ceremonies on Thursday night. The No. 1 Irish women took three awards: Offensive Player of the Year (Kerri Hanks), Defensive Player of the Year (Carrie Dew) and Rookie of the Year (Michele Weissenhofer). Hanks, who has 15 goals and 11 assists, was the only unanimous women’s award winner. […]

After an injury-riddled season that left it with a 6-10-2 record going into the Big Ten men’s tournament, Penn State could have hung it up, but the Lions opened play Thursday with a 2-1 comeback victory over Northwestern decided by senior Simon Omekanda‘s goal in the 103rd minute. The Lions have played arguably the toughest […]

UC Irvine earned the biggest win in its program history when it beat UC Santa Barbara, 2-0, Wednesday night before a record crowd of 1,561 fans  at Anteater Stadium and took over first place in the Big West. Matt Murphy scored the game-winner in the 24th minute, and former U.S. U-20 Brad Evans put the […]

Soccer America’s Women’s Conference Tournament Scoreboard ACC. Clemson was the only lower seeded team to advance to the semifinals with a 2-1 win over No. 4 Boston College. Meghan Smith‘s goal in the 87th minute was the difference for the fifth seed Tigers, who extended their unbeaten to six straight matches. Clemson meets No. 1 […]

On a day when women’s conference tournament play moved into full swing, the biggest result was California’s 1-0 victory over No. 4 Santa Clara in a non-conference game that could have huge implications for the NCAA Tournament. Reserve Stephanie Wieger scored on a 22-yard chip shot in the sixth minute of overtime to lift Cal […]

Soccer America’s Men’s Conference Tournament Scoreboard AMERICA EAST. Top seed Binghamton moved into the conference final for the fourth straight year with a victory over Boston University in a shootout after their semifinal game ended in a 1-1 tie. Binghamton hosts Vermont in Saturday’s final. The Catamounts beat New Hampshire, 1-0, on Lee Stephane Kouadio‘s […]

Wednesday’s battle between this week’s No. 1 and the preseason No. 1 in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 at the ACC Tournament turned out to be a dud. Wake Forest, which moved into first in this week’s Top 25 and North Carolina, ranked 10th, failed to score in 110 minutes of action before the […]

California junior Javier Ayala-Hil and Texas sophomore Kasey Moore are the Soccer America Players of the Week. Ayala-Hil scored a hat trick and the game-winning goal in the Golden Bears’ 4-1 win over UCLA to clinch the Pac-10 men’s title. Ayala-Hil, a product of East Palo Alto, Calif.,  ranks second in the Pac-10 in points […]

If the opening game is any indication, this year’s ACC Men’s Tournament should be sensational. Ninth seed N.C. State knocked off eighth seed Virginia Tech, 4-3, with all seven goals coming after halftime — the last three in the span of 105 seconds late in the see-saw game. The Wolfpack blew a 2-0 lead before […]

Canada international Brittany Timko (Nebraska) was named the Big 12 Player of the Year for a record third time, sharing this year’s award with Swede Yolanda Odenyo (Oklahoma State). Several other women’s conferences announced their individual award winners. In the ACC, sophomore Yael Averbuch beat out her teammate, U.S. international star Heather O’Reilly, for the […]

Play begins this week in the NCAA Division II men’s and women’s tournaments. The final fours for both men and women will be played Nov. 16-19 in Pensacola, Fla., as part of the NCAA Division II National Championship Festival. Click here for the NCAA Division II men’s tournament first-round pairings. Click here for the NCAA […]

Despite clinching its first Pac-10 men’s title on Sunday, California did not earn an automatic berth into the 48-team NCAA Division I Tournament, contrary to what was reported in Monday’s College Soccer Reporter. The Pac-10 lost its automatic berth this season. Cal, ranked No. 11 in the nation, is expected to receive an at-large berth, […]

Boston College’s Charlie Davies, who missed all but one game of the 2005 college season, capped a comeback season by being named the 2006 ACC Offensive Player of the Year. Davies leads all ACC players with 15 goals in 15 games and has the Eagles on the verge of making the NCAA Tournament after they […]

Play begins this week in the NCAA Division II men’s and women’s tournaments. The final fours for both men and women will be played the week of Nov. 16-19 in Pensacola, Fla. Click here for the NCAA Division II men’s tournament first-round pairings. Click here for the NCAA Division II women’s tournament first-round pairings. Here’s […]

The men’s and women’s regular seasons finish this weekend, and 15 Division I conference championships — six men’s and nine women’s — will televised. The NCAA Division I men’s and women’s tournament fields will be announced on Monday, Nov. 6. The women’s selections will be announced on ESPNEWS’s 3-4 p.m. ET news slot. The men’s […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR 20 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 17 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. 16 Steven Holloway, Monmouth, Sr. 16 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 16 Jeffrey Gonsalves, Rhode Island, Sr. 15 Charlie Davies, Boston College, Jr. 15 Riley O’Neill, Kentucky, Sr. 14 Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville, Sr. 14 Jarrod Smith, West Virginia, Sr. […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Weekend Results) 1. Notre Dame (18-0-1) 1 10/24 at Cincinnati 3-0, 10/29 St. John’s (Big East Tournament) 3-0, 11/3 Marquette (Big East Tournament). 2. North Carolina (18-1-0) 2 Wake Forest 4-0, 11/1 N.C. State (ACC Tournament). 3. UCLA (16-2-0) 3 10/27 Washington 2-0, 10/29 Washington State 2-0, 11/5 at Oregon, 11/5 […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Last week’s results) 1. Wake Forest (15-2-1) 3 10/27 at Virginia 2-1, 11/1 North Carolina (ACC Tournament). 2. West Virginia (15-1-2) 5 10/23 Pittsburgh-canceled, 10/28 South Florida 1-0 (Big East Tournament), 11/3 at Rutgers (Big East Tournament). 3. SMU (15-1-3) 1 10/25 at UAB 1-2, 10/28 Marshall 1-0, 11/1 Marshall or […]

No. 1 Notre Dame moved into the semifinals of the Big East Tournament with a 3-0 win over St. John’s on Sunday. Brittany Bock showed her strength in the air with two early goals on headers off set plays, and Kerri Hanks capped the victory with her 16th goal of the season. The victory at […]

California and Santa Clara are the first teams to clinch berths in the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament. The Northern California schools won their respective conference titles on the road in Los Angeles on Sunday. California clinched the Pac-10 title with a 4-1 victory over UCLA in front of a season-high crowd of 2,815 (fourth-largest […]

Wake Forest moved into the top spot in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 with a 2-1 win at Virginia on Friday night. The Demon Deacons climbed two spots, moving ahead of SMU, which fell at UAB, 2-1, on Wednesday, and Duke, which lost at  Clemson, 1-0, on Saturday. Substitute Cody Arnoux scored the winning […]

Joe Bean, the winningest coach in college soccer history at any level, earned his 600th career win Wednesday night when Wheaton (Ill.) beat Carthage, 5-0, to secure a berth in the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin Tournament. Bean, who now has a career record of 600-183-59, has announced he will retire at the end […]

Women’s conference tournament action began Thursday with two first-round games in the Big East. Louisville improved to 13-4-1, establishing a school record for wins with a 1-0 win over Pittsburgh. The two teams battled for 106 minutes until Jamie Craft scored on a rocket from 35 yards. Erin Bohn converted a penalty kick in the […]

North Carolina snapped a five-game winless streak with a 3-1 win at Boston College in ACC action on Thursday night. Senior Corey Ashe scored two goals in a four-minute span in the second half to lead the No. 13 Tar Heels, who thus avoid Tuesday’s opening-round game in the ACC Tournament between the No. 8 […]