Knocked Off Reigning Champion Tulsa Golden Hurricane Tyler Gibson’s penalty kick in the 88th minute was the game’s only goal and gave the Charlotte 49ers their first Conference USA men’s tournment chmpionship in their first year back in the league. It was good for a 1-0 win over reigning tournament champion Tulsa. “It’s amazing and […]
Soccer in North Carolina
N.C. Well Represented At U-20 Camp
A pair of Academy club players and four players in N.C. university programs were among the 36 players invited by U.S. Under-20 MNT head coach Tab Ramos for a 10-day training camp in Lakewood Ranch, Fla[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The camp runs from Jan. 3-12. This is the team’s second camp of the new cycle and first […]
RailHawks Championship-Like Season
Clarke Will Return To Coach In 2014 If you were at the final Carolina RailHawks game that closed out the 2013 NASL season it was much like a movie that you have seen before. The RailHawks drew a big home crowd at WakeMed Park, 6,015. They fell behind 1-0 to the San Antonio Scorpions, but […]
Wake’s Bledsoe Makes All-America……Stengel Left Off List
When the NSCAA Division I women’s All-America list was announced there was a familiar name missing. She didn’t play the last nine games of the season, but one would have thought she might have done enough in the first 16 to earn her fourth All-America honor. But Wake Forest senior Katie Stengel was not on […]
Trio Inducted Into USL Hall Of Fame
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Charlotte Lady Eagles President Pat Stewart (Builder) was honored by HOF induction at the USL Hall of Fame banquet during Stewart and former Hampton Roads Piranhas star Mercy Akide-Udoh (Player) were inducted into the USL Women’s Hall of Fame. Stewart has been with the Eagles since 2002. The lone inductee into the USL […]
The Houston Mustangs Completes Unbeaten Season
Select An Experienced, Reputable Sports Tour Operator TC Roberson, Marvin Ridge, Salisbury and Wallace Rose Hill came away with NCHSAA boys state soccer championships with finals held at Dail Soccer Field on the campus of N.C. State University. Class 4-A Champions Cam Wood finished a header in the 66th minute of play to give Asheville […]
Eagles Soar To 15th State Title
Fayetteville Academy won its 15th boys state private school state soccer championship, while Grace Christian School won its first. High Point Wesleyan and Greensboro Day were expected to meet each other for the NCISAA 3-A title, but both were eliminated earlier in the playoffs. North Raleigh Christian the #5 seed, took the home that championship […]
NPSL’s Gate City FC Calls Greensboro Home
The league they play in may have been under a number of different names and at different levels over the years, but the constant soccer franchise in Greensboro has been the Carolina Dynamo. This summer there will be another team in town. Ga[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]te City FC will launch this coming spring and will compete in […]
RailHawks’ Shriver Wins 2013 NASL Golden Boot
Carolina RailHawks striker Brian Shriver scored 15 goals in 2013 to win the prestigious North American Soccer League Golden Boot award as the top scorer during the combined NASL Spring and Fall Seasons. The Clearwater, Fla., native led the race for the Golden Boot heading into the final weekend of regular season action and scored […]
NC Soccer Hall Of Fame To Induct Braswell, Hesmer And Kennedy
The North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame will induct two veteran high school coaches and a former Major League Soccer veteran goalkeeper as the Class of 2014 at the annual Hall of Fame banquet scheduled for Saturday, January 25, 2014, at the North Raleigh Hilton in Raleigh, NC. Selected for induction are William Hesmer, former Wake Forest University All-America […]