Tennessee Soccer

Earle Davidson, the only men’s soccer head coach in the NCAA era for the Belmont Bruins’ has resigned his position. He has directed the Belmont program since 1997, but was 6-10-2 overall this fall….. Steve Springthorpe, former women’s head soccer coach at N.C. State University, has accepted the head coaching position at Tennessee Tech University. Spr[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]ingthorpe spent the past season on the coaching staff at Duke University, training goalkeepers as a Blue Devils’ assistant coach. Springthorpe replaces Daniel Brizard, who resigned in November after coaching the Golden Eagles for four seasons. He posted a 3-15-1 record this past season. Springthorpe coached the N.C. State Wolfpack for four seasons…..East Tennessee State captured its second Atlantic Sun Men’s Soccer Championship with a 3-1 win over North Florida. Donte Brangman scored what would be the eventual game-winner 31 seconds into the second half with his first goal of the season. Nate Hodges, the A-Sun Defensive Player of the Year, scored the Bucs’ first half-goal on a 30-yard cracker in the 28th minute of play…..Germantown Houston HS finished the fall season with a Tennessee girls state soccer championship, a 21-0-1 overall record and a #3 national ranking. The two teams ahead of Houston in the final NSCAA poll were also 21-0-1…..The fifth-seeded Lady Railsplitters of Lincoln Memorial University scored a pair of goals in a three-minute span in the second half to capture a 2-0 win over topseeded and 16th-ranked Lenoir-Rhyne in the semifinals of the SAC tournament championship. LMU was eliminated 2-1 by Wingate in the SAC championship game. The game-winner came with 57 seconds left in regulation…..Lee University’s women’s season came to an end in the NCCAA National Championship in Kissimmee, Fla., with a 3-0 loss to Dallas Baptist. The Lady Flames finished the season 14-4-2. Senior Leah Fortune (Orlando, Fla.) was named NCCAA Mid-East Region Player of the Year.