Will NCAA Find Success In MLS Stadiums? They didn’t sell all of the 13,000 or so seats at Region Park in Hoover, for the 2012 NCAA Division I College Cup championship game, but the crowd of 9,242 was the second largest since 2004 when 13,601 turned out at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. […]
Soccer in Alabama
The Game Is Better Because Of Folks Like Randy Farley
By Ray Alley, Publisher Most people who will read this story never heard of Randell Farley, but if you’ve been involved in youth soccer at least 25-30 years you surely knew someone like him. Farley passed away in mid-December at the age of 61 in Gardendale, Ala. Sarah A. McCarty wrote about his passing on […]
Not The Seasons Tigers, Tide Wanted
Iron Bowl Was For Played For Pride The goal of every collegiate soccer team is to end the season with a victory. For some, that means a national championship. For a much greater number, it is a positive finish to a less than satisfying season. The Auburn Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide played such […]
A Season To Remember For The USA Jaguars
It had been a historic season for the University of South Alabama Jaguars when the final whistle sounded in a 5-0 loss to Florida State in Tallahassee. However, the loss came in the opening round of NCAA Division I postseason. For the Jaguars, that was uncharted water. Six seniors led USA to the team’s first-ever […]
Vestavia Captures Four D1 State Titles
Vestavia Hills Soccer Club captured four fall Alabama Youth Division I Powerade State Cup championship, two each for boys and girls teams[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. Vestavia Steamers 99 Black won the U15 boys title over USC 99 Boys Premier, and Vestavia Steamers 98 Black finished ahead of Homewood Freedom 98 in the U16 division. The other two […]
AUM’s Championship Run Falls One Win Short Of Title
Auburn University Montgomery has never won a NAIA men’s national soccer championship. Four times the Warhawks have reached the title game, coming up a little short each time. It happened again in the 2013 final, as the Warhawks lost 2-1 in overtime to Martin Methodist College at Emory Folmar Soccer Complex in Montgomery, Ala. Overtime […]
Double Trouble For Auburn Foes
Freshman Casie Ramsier Leads Tigers’ Scoring One can forgive Auburn Universities opponents this fall if they think they are seeing double. That would be the Ramsier twins. Casie and Brooke Ramsier are freshman for the Auburn Tigers. They are identical twin sisters from Dallas, TX. They have been together always….as in ALWAYS! And they wanted […]
AUM On Winning Streak, Koch Gets Milestone Win
The Warhawks of Auburn Montgomery started the season 2-4. Things just were not clicking. And then they did. Eight wins later coach Wulf Koch’s club had a 10-4 record and was ranked #7 in the Oct. 22 NAIA men’s national poll. Win #10 was a 2-1 decision over rival Mobile with both goals scored by […]
2014 Presidents Cup Region III In Decatur
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Decatur, Ala, has been named the host for the 2014 US Youth Soccer Region III Presidents Cup championships, June 6-9, 2014.[show_to]The regional winners in the boys and girls U13/U17 age groups will advance to the national championships, July 10-13, 2014, in Greenville, SC. Games will be played at the Jack Allen Soccer Complex, […]
Three Big SEC Wins For Bulldogs
‘Those Aren’t Shabby Wins’…….Samford’s Todd Yelton Six games into the season, if the Samford Bulldogs were members of the Southeastern Conference they would be leading that league with 3-0 record. A sweep of SEC teams in the non-conference portion of the Bulldogs’ schedule was capped with a 3-2 double-overtime win over Vanderbilt, their first-ever win […]