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 […]
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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 […]
Hilton Head Island, Bishop England, St. Joseph’s Champs
Three close games and one not so close. That’s the storyline for the South Carolina High School League boys state championship games in 2013. Irmo had to go to penalty kicks to win the Class 4-A state title. Hilton Head Island won the 3-A championship with a 1-0 decision, and Bishop England won its 16th […]
Destiny? Perhaps It Was!
It was reported in The State that when Irmo senior Mattison Gossett stepped up to take what would be the deciding kick in the state 4-A championship shootout against the Lexington ?, he asked the referee, “Is this the winning kick?” The referee replied, “That’s the rumor,” to which Gossett said, “I like that rumor.” […]
Tennessee Soccer
The Vanderbilt University women’s soccer team spent eight days in May on a trip to Brazil. Much of the activity was centered around Rio de Janeiro, including training sessions, cultural activities and two exhibition games against local club teams….The University of Memphis is moving to a new conference, the American Athletic Conference, and will have […]