Category: College Soccer Reporter

Formerly foes in Conference USA, No. 17 Marquette and Saint Louis will renew their women’s series Wednesday night in the opening game of the NSCAA College Match of the Week series (live, Fox Soccer Channel, 8 p.m. ET) in St. Louis as rivals, plain and simple. Marquette (2-0-1), which reached the NCAA Division I third […]

No. 8 Virginia Tech, one of seven unbeaten and untied ACC men’s teams, improved its record to 4-0-0 with a 1-0 win over William & Mary. Sophomore Scott Dillie‘s header off a beautiful Patrick Nyarko cross in the 13th minute was the lone goal. Soccer interest is running high in Blacksburg, where 1,411 fans, the fifth-largest […]

Notre Dame forwards Joseph Lapira and Amanda Cinalli swept the Soccer America Player of the Week awards. Lapira topped off a career day on Sunday with his fourth goal of the game in overtime to give the Irish a 5-4 victory over Indiana before 5,613 fans at the Hoosiers’ Armstrong Stadium. Lapira, the Soccer America […]

Clemson forward Courtney Foster, a member of the 2003 Soccer America All-Freshman Team and a three-time All-ACC second-team pick, injured her knee against Tennessee Tech and will be out for the remainder of the season. Foster entered the 2006 season with 24 career goals.

Of the 10 women’s conferences that sent two or more teams to the 2005 NCAA Division I Tournament and have played two full weeks, the ACC has the best record in non-conference play. Only the Big Ten has a sub-.500 record in non-conference action in games through Sept. 3. Of the 10 conferences, the Big […]

For the second time in eight days, No. 3 Virginia beat a West Coast power. The Cavs (4-0-0) downed No. 10 UCLA, 1-0, Monday night on German star Yannick Reyering‘s goal from 10 yards off Nico Colaluca‘s corner kick in the 88th minute. It was the Cavaliers’ fourth straight shutout, while the Bruins fell to 0-2-1. […]

NCAA Division II men’s regional power Tusculum canceled its season after several members of the team were accused of taking an undisclosed amount of money and food from concessions they operated as a program fundraiser at the recent NASCAR races at Bristol Motor Speedway. The money was returned and no charges were filed by law […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. Florida State (3-0-0) 1 2. Notre Dame (4-0-0) 3 3. Santa Clara (3-1-0) 2 4. Texas A&M (3-0-1) 4 5. UCLA (3-1-0) 7 6. Portland (2-1-1) 8 7. North Carolina (4-1-0) 9 8. Penn State (2-1-1) 5 9. West Virginia (4-0-0) 12 10. Auburn (4-0-0) 16 11. Missouri (4-0-0) 17 […]

The big showdown of the weekend took place in South Bend, Ind., where Notre Dame beat Santa Clara, 3-1. Jill Krivacek’s left-footed strike tied the game in the 64th minute and Amanda Cinalli added a pair of goals to cap Notre Dame’s three-goal spurt over a nine-minute stretch in the final game of the Inn […]

North Carolina midfielder Yael Averbuch set an NCAA record for the fastest goal scored in NCAA women’s history Sunday afternoon when she scored in the Tar Heels’ 4-0 victory over Yale after only four seconds. Averbuch stunned the New Haven crowd of 2,189 when she took the opening kickoff and shot the ball off the ground […]

Never in recent memory has a nationally ranked team lost because it could field six or fewer players. But that’s what happened to then-No. 7 UNC Greensboro Saturday night when the Spartans’ game against VCU was awarded to VCU in the 77th minute with the Rams leading, 3-1, after UNCG had its fifth player red carded. […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. North Carolina (4-0-0) 1 2. SMU (4-0-0) 2 3. Virginia (3-0-0) 3 4. Maryland (3-0-0) 4 5. Clemson (4-0-0) 5 6. Duke (4-0-0) 9 7. Wake Forest (4-0-0) 11 8. Virginia Tech (3-0-0) 12 9. San Francisco (3-0-0) 10 10. UCLA (0-1-1) 6 11. Notre Dame (2-1-1) 18 12. UC […]

The ACC’s dominance has reached new heights. Long considered men’s soccer’s best conference, the Atlantic Coast Conference boasts seven teams among the top eight teams in this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 (see below). The seven ranked teams are all unbeaten: No. 1 North Carolina (4-0-0), No. 3 Virginia (3-0-0), No. 4 Maryland (3-0-0), […]

Fordham, which jumped to No. 23 in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 after upsetting South Florida, 2-1, on Sunday, opened its home season Thursday night with a 3-1 victory over Army. Seniors Pat McNamee and Omero Rozen and sophomore Steve Woicik scored for the Rams (2-0-0). Grant Kerr set up two goals. On Sunday […]

Fox Soccer Channel will broadcast 20 college games –12 men’s games and eight women’s games — on its NSCAA College Match of the Week. Women’s action kicks off on Sept. 6 with a match between Saint Louis and No. 11 Marquette.  Men’s action gets underway the next day with St. John’s against No. 16 Connecticut […]

Last year, the Washington Huskies endured one of the worst seasons in women’s soccer history. That all but four games were decided by one goal was no consolation. UW stood for U-Winless, as in 0-17-3. One year after advancing within one game of the Women’s College Cup, the Huskies fell apart in 2005. This is […]

Most teams will consider a season with only three losses a success, but not Indiana, which has won seven national championships and been to 17 final fours since 1982. Last year, the Hoosiers finished 13-3-6. “It was like gloom and doom,” IU coach Mike Freitag told the Indianapolis Star. Well, Freitag’s situation wasn’t like that […]

Tom Martin, the James Madison men’s coach, passed the 400-mark in career victories and the 300-mark in victories at JMU with the Dukes’ wins over Seton Hall (2-1 in overtime) and Alabama A&M (4-3) at VCU’s Nike/Alltel Classic. He entered this season ranked among the top five winningest active NCAA Division I coaches by victories […]

No. 6 Virginia, the only team in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 in action on Wednesday, remained unbeaten as it topped VCU, 4-0, at Klockner Stadium. With star Jess Rostedt in Russia with the U-20s, two other Ohio products came through for the Cavs, who improved to 3-0-0. Sarah Curtis had a career-high two […]

Severe thunderstorms forced the postponement of Wednesday night’s match between Southern Conference favorite UNC Greensboro, No. 7 in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25, and Campbell, picked to win the Atlantic Sun. Lightning forced the players to remain in their locker rooms just before warmups were slated to begin in Greensboro. Thirty minutes past the scheduled […]

No. 2 Santa Clara will be depleted when it travels to No. 3 Notre Dame this weekend to face Harvard Friday and the host Irish Sunday (TV: ESPNU, live, 1:30 pm ET) at the Inn at Saint Mary’s Classic, but it won’t be anything like last weekend. The Broncos are missing Amanda Poach and Jordan […]

Sterling Smith, a Chapel Hill product, scored the first goal of her career Tuesday night to lift No. 9 North Carolina to a 1-0 victory over UNC Greensboro before 2,387 fans at Fetzer Field. Playing their third game in five days, the Heels were “strung out physically,” according to Coach Anson Dorrance. They didn’t score […]

Is there a better duo in the country? Clemson seniors Dane Richards and Frederico Moojen are proving hard to stop. After combining for three goals and two assists in the fifth-ranked Tigers’ 4-3 win over South Carolina on opening night, they added two goals apiece in their 8-1 victory over Georgia State Tuesday night in […]

Florida State’s Mami Yamaguchi was selected as the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week after scoring the game-winning goal in the Seminoles’ 2-1 win over defending champion Portland on Sunday.   The goal by Yamaguchi, a Japanese international, completed Florida State’s comeback from a 1-0 halftime deficit and helped end Portland’s 26-game unbeaten streak.  The […]

SMU’s Leone Cruz won’t quickly forget his college debut. The defender from Round Rock, Texas, is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week after scoring both game-winning goals in the No. 2 Mustangs’ 1-0 victories over Wisconsin and then-ranked Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Tulsa’s Great Western Downtown Plaza/Golden Hurricane Classic. Cruz, who played for FC Texas, […]