The PDL Carolina Dynamo played the NASL Carolina RailHawks close for the first half, but wilted in the second. The RailHawks’ 3-1 victory advanced them to the third round of the 2013 U.S. Open Cup and gave them a home game against MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy on Wednesday, May 29. A year ago the […]
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Providence Day Tops GDS For NCISAA 3-A Soccer Championship
The Greensboro Day School Bengals may have felt they had passed their biggest hurdle in their run for the NCISAA Class 3A girls soccer championship when they survived a wild semifinal finish against Charlotte Latin. After all, Latin had knocked the Bengals out of the 2012 playoffs and they had not lost since that game. […]
NCHSAA Finals Set To Be Played At N.C. State Stadium
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association 4A championship finals features undefeated and #1 ranked Green Hope (27-0-0) against Hough HS (21-2-0). The 3-A title will be contested by Cardinal Gibbons (21-2-1) and St. Stephens (21-3-2). South Iredell (22-2-0) will take on Swansdboro (22-5-1) for the 2A championship. Once-beaten Raleigh Charter (20-1-0) will play Lake […]
Dynamo vs. RailHawks Winner Gets LA Galaxy
Will Host In U.S. Open Cup Third Round A year ago the NASL Carolina RailHawks turned their season around with a 2-1 victory over the defending MSL champion Los Angeles Galaxy before a soldout crowd at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary. They would like to have another shot at the Galaxy again on home turf […]
N.C. Girls Prep Top Ten
NCHSAA Class AAAA 1. Green Hope (27-0-0), 2. Hough (21-2-0), 3. Myers Park (18-2-1), 4. New Bern (14-7-1), 5. Lake Norman (24-1-0), 6. Leesville Road (18-5-1), 7. West Forsyth (15-4-1), 8. New Hanover (14-6-2), 9.Millbrook (21-2-1), 10. East Forsyth (16-2-2). NCHSAA Class AAA 1. Cardinal Gibbons (21-2-1), 2. Chrlotte Catholic (20-3-3), 3. St. Stephens (21-3-2), […]
S.C. Soccer
The NCAA has selected former Winthrop University team captain Matt Horn (Mooresville, NC) as one of two student athletes as 2013 Water Byers Scholars. With it goes a $24,000 postgraduate scholarship…… Midfielder Koty Millard from Cardinal Newman School (Columbia, S.C.) has been named NSCAA/TopDrawerSoccer.com Boys High School Player of the Week. Millard led his team […]
Wando, Irmo Capture 4-A State Titles
Final Irmo Game For Phil Savitz Wando and Irmo captured SCHSL state soccer championships. Nothing new there. But it was Irmo that won the boys title after Wando, unbeaten and favored to take that championship, was eliminated in the second round of postseason play by Dutch Fork. Irmo picked up its 16th state title with […]
Battery Tops Dynamo Reserves In Inter-League Game
The Charleston Battery won a game against a Major League Soccer team that counts in the league standings. That inter-league match between the USL PRO Battery, and the Houston Dynamo Reserves, moved Charleston back into second position in the league standing. Jamacian Dane Kelly provided the game-winner in the 1-0 victory, volleying in the game’s […]
Battery To Host English Championship Portsmouth FC
The Charleston Battery will play England’s Portsmouth F.C. in an international exhibition on Wednesday, July 27 at Blackbaud Stadium. This marks the second consecutive year that the Battery has hosted an English team. Last July the Battery played the Bolton Wanderers in front of a sold out crowd of 5,249. Portsmouth plays in the English […]
Hilton Head Sweep…….Raptors Win
Call it sibling rivalry. The Green twins do keep track of their individual goals. Amanda Green had a goal and assisted on another for Hilton Head Island HS in the SCHSAA 3-A girls soccer championship game. Her twin sister, Ashley, also scored a goal as the Seahawks beat Eastside for their their third consecutive state […]