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Several unranked women's teams take unbeaten and untied records into the fourth weekend of play. Navy (6-0-0) will get a stern test from George Mason Friday night before closing out the weekend with a second home game against Columbia on Sunday afternoon. Freshman forward Cassie Barbaresi has been a big factor in Navy's 6-0-0 start. Last […]

Another big crowd is expected at Historic Riggs Field Friday when No. 2 Clemson hosts No. 5 North Carolina in a key ACC men's match. Last Friday night, the Tigers beat defending champion Maryland, 2-1, before 6,821 fans, the second largest crowd in Riggs Field history. The Clemson-UNC game, the 48th in their series, is being […]

Hometown star Abby Wambach scored twice in the first half to lead the USA to a 3-1 win over Mexico in a women's friendly Wednesday night at the new PAETEC Park in Rochester, N.Y., Lindsay Tarpley also scored for the USA, which improved its 2006 record to 11-0-3. ''I thought that [Wambach] just gave so […]

Brazilian great Romario heads the 2006 All-USL First Division Team. The Miami FC forward tied Seattle rookie Cam Weaver for the league lead in goals (18) and points (39). Midfielder Zinho, a teammate on Brazil's 1994 World Cup championship team at at Miami FC, joined Romario and Weaver on the first team. Montreal defender Gabriel […]

Fox Soccer Channel will broadcast the first men's game of the season in its NSCAA College Match of the Week series Thursday night when St. John's hosts UConn in a battle of perennial national contenders (kickoff: 8 pm ET). The Big East opponents find themselves unranked after three weeks but are on the rebound. UConn (2-2-1) […]

Freshmen Jason Herrick and Jeremy Hall scored goals in the second half to lead Maryland, ranked No. 6 in the Soccer America Men's Top 25, to a 2-0 victory over visiting Mt. St. Mary's on Wednesday night.   For both Herrick, a Chicago Magic product, and Hall, a former U.S. U-17 resident, it was their […]

College sports cable network CSTV has 20 men's and women's soccer games left on its fall programming schedule. Most regular-season games are aired on weeknights — broadcasts of games played the previous weekend. Coverage also includes live or same-day coverage of five conference tournament finals. Men's Coverage: Fri, Sept. 15 Indiana at Saint Louis (Live) […]

Florida State, ranked No. 1 in the Soccer America Women's Top 25, got goals from Australian Sel Kuralay (her fourth straight game with at least one goal) and Japanese midfielder Mami Yamaguchi to beat Central Florida, 2-0, on Wednesday in a game played in the driving rain. The skies didn't open up until FSU and […]

Five-time French champion began its 2006-07 UEFA Champions League campaign as it did last season with a big win over Real Madrid. OL beat Real Madrid, 2-0, on Wednesday — a year to the day after inflicting a 3-0 defeat on the nine-time European champions in last season's opener. Brazilian Fred and Portuguese midfielder Tiago […]

Referee Silvia Regina de Oliveira said she should have trusted her own vision and not her referee assistant when she awarded a goal to Brazilian club Santacruzense in its 1-1 tie with Atletico Sorocaba that was actually scored by the ball boy, who stroked home from a yard out. Click here for video of the […]

Sept. 13 in Foxboro, Mass. New England 1 D.C. United 1. Goals: Dempsey (Twellman, Franchino) 56; Gros 25. New England – Reis, Heaps, John, Parkhurst, Franchino (Smith, 73), Ralston, Dorman, Joseph, Larentowicz, Dempsey, Twellman. D.C. United – Perkins, Erpen, Boswell, Namoff, Gros, Donnet (deRoux, 71), Gomez, Olsen, Carroll, Moreno (Dyachenko, 75), Adu (Walker, 88). Yellow […]

Sept. 12 Group A Chelsea (Eng.) 2 (Essien 24, Ballack pen. 68) Wer. Bremen (Germ.) 0. Barcelona (Spain) 5 (Iniesta 7, Guily 39, Puyol 49, Eto?o 58, Ronaldinho 93) Lev. Sofia (Bulg.) 0. Group B Sp. Lisbon (Port.) 1 (Caneira 64) Inter Milan (Italy) 0. Bay. Munich (Germ.) 4 (Pizarro 48, Santa Cruz 52, Schweinsteiger […]

Five-time French champion began its 2006-07 UEFA Champions League campaign as it did last season with a big win over Real Madrid. OL beat Real Madrid, 2-0, on Wednesday — a year to the day after inflicting a 3-0 defeat on the nine-time European champions in last season's opener. Brazilian Fred and Portuguese midfielder Tiago […]

Brazilian great Romario heads the 2006 All-USL First Division Team. The Miami FC forward tied Seattle rookie Cam Weaver for the league lead in goals (18) and points (39). Midfielder Zinho, a teammate on Brazil's 1994 World Cup championship team at at Miami FC, joined Romario and Weaver on the first team. Montreal defender Gabriel […]

Defending champion Barcelona crushed Levski Sofia, 5-0, in the most lopsided result of the first day of the UEFA Champions League. Despite heavy rain, Barca played superbly and was rewarded with goals from Andres Iniesta, Ludovic Giuly, Carles Puyol, Samuel Eto'o and Ronaldinho, who scored in stoppage time. Levski Sofia was playing its first game […]

The 2006 inaugural CONCACAF Beach Soccer championship kicks off on Wednesday at Punta Leona in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. The tournament, which will last through Sept. 17, serving as qualification for the 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Nov. 2-12 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The top two CONCACAF finishers will earn a berth at the […]

No. 4 Duke fell from the ranks of the unbeaten and untied men's teams Tuesday night when the Blue Devils were held to a 0-0 tie by No. 15 Virginia Tech in ACC action. “That’s a part of the nature of the game — sometimes the goals don’t come,” said Duke coach John Rennie. ''[Virginia […]

Two Portland stars have been named to the U.S. women's national team squad for Wednesday's match against Mexico in Rochester, N.Y. (TV: ESPN2, 8 pm ET). Sophomore Megan Rapinoe replaced North Carolina forward Heather O’Reilly, who suffered a minor ankle injury when Portland and UNC played on Sunday. Rapinoe joins UP junior Stephanie Lopez as […]

WOMEN'S PLAYER OF THE WEEK F Danesha Adams (UCLA) WOMEN'S TEAM OF THE WEEK G Jaime Souza (Pacific) D Natalie Cocchi (West Virginia) D Emily Zurrer (Illinois) M Veronica Ambort (San Diego) M Samantha Conn (Rice) M Diane Matheson (Princeton) F Danesha Adams (UCLA) F Holly Gault (Kansas) F Nikki Marshall (Colorado) F Casey Nogueira […]

U.S. U-20 star Danesha Adams is the Soccer America Women's Player of the Week. Playing her first matches of the season after returning from the Under-20 Women's World Championships in Russia, Adams led UCLA to wins over No. 4 Texas A&M, 2-1, and No. 12 Connecticut, 3-0, at the UCLA Women's Cup. Adams, who won the […]

MEN'S PLAYER OF THE WEEK F Mike Grella (Duke) MEN'S TEAM OF THE WEEK G Dane Brenner (South Florida) D Jon Leathers (Furman) M Fabio Assumpcao (Drexel) M Will Mason (Elon) M David Roth (Northwestern) F Mike Grella (Duke) F Maxwell Griffin (UCLA) F George Josten (Gonzaga) F Michael Kraus (Creighton) F Yannick Reyering (Virginia) […]

Sophomore Mike Grella, whose brilliant second-half goals lifted Duke to a 4-3 victory over Wake Forest in a battle of unbeaten and untied ACC teams last Friday night before a record crowd of 4,323 at Wake's Spry Stadium, is the Soccer America Men's Player of the Week. Grella tied the score at 2-2 in the […]

The expansion Miami FC and the Puerto Rico Islanders both survived a two-game head-to-head showdown on the weekend to clinch the USL First Division's final two playoff berths and leave the defending champion Seattle Sounders and Atlanta Silverbacks on the outside. The Rochester Rhinos, meanwhile, grabbed the second playoff bye, but came up short in […]

The father in the Burke coaching family was misidentified in the Sept. 6 College Reporter. Doug Burke, who coached at Houghton, was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1990. Son Steve, who coaches Judson, recently became the 21st men's coach at a four-year school to reach the 400-victory mark.

York snapped Messiah's 31-game winning streak dating back to the 2004 season when it held the Falcons to a 1-1 tie in Division III men's action. Andrew Wheeler's goal in the second half earned the Spartans the tie. Eric Frey's header had put Messiah ahead in the 9th minute. It had a chance to put […]