Winners advance to NPSL national finals, Aug. 2-3 at Northeast site Saturday's matches Atlanta FC (6-1) at St. Paul Twin Stars (4-2) San Diego United (5-2-1) at Sonoma County Sol (6-0-3) Sunday's match New York Athletic Club (5-3-2) at Pennsylvania Stoners (8-1-1) Date unknown Boston Aztec (6-3-1) at Long Island Academy (7-0-2) How they qualified Atlanta FC: Won Southeast St. Paul Twin Stars: Won Midwest (by 1 point over Princeton-56ers and Chicago Fire NPSL) San Diego United: Won Southwest Sonoma County Sol: Won Northwest (by 1 point over Santa Cruz County Breakers) Pennsylvania Stoners: Won Northeast Northern Long Island Academy: Won Northeast Mid-Atlantic Boston Aztec: Finished second in Northeast Northern New York Athletic Club: Finished second in Northeast Mid-Atlantic Essentially, the Northeast is having a four-team tournament and gets two berths in the finals (because they have the most teams). The other four division winners play each other for the other two spots. I believe they will play a Northeast championship game next weekend to determine where the national finals will be, even though the winner and loser will advance.
just found out that there will also be a 3rd place game in the northeast regional (if I read my emails correctly).
Where can I get updated final standings. The records for the Northeast on the web site seem to be incomplete.
Mine aren't final for the Northeast -- I'm not sure whether some of these postponed games are being made up, or were made up. I see the NPSL site has Maine and Morris County with 10 matches in the standings, but that doesn't match with the results. Charm City is the team formerly known as Maryland United. Not sure what happened there. Northeast Mid-Atlantic Division Long Island Academy 7-0-2 23 (one game ppd.) New York Athletic Club 5-3-2 17 Charm City FC 4-4-1 13 (one game not reported) Lancaster Inferno 3-3-2 11 (one game ppd., one game not reported) AC Diablos 2-5-3 9 Northern Division Pennsylvania Stoners 8-1-0 24 (one game ppd.) Boston Aztec 6-3-1 19 Queen City FC 1-5-4 7 Maine Sting 0-5-4 3 (one game ppd.) Morris County Colonials 0-7-1 1 (two games ppd.) Midwest St. Paul Twin Stars 4-2-0 12 Princeton-56ers 3-1-2 11 Chicago Fire NPSL 3-1-2 11 Milwaukee Bavarians 0-6-0 0 Southeast Atlanta FC 6-1-0 18 Performance FC Phoenix 2-3-2 8 Rocket City United 1-5-2 5 Northwest Sonoma County Sol 6-0-3 21 Santa Cruz County Breakers 6-1-2 20 Real San Jose 3-5-1 10 Salinas Valley Samba 0-9-0 0 Southwest San Diego United 5-2-1 16 Arizona Sahuaros 3-4-1 10 Albuquerque Asylum 2-4-2 8
I haven't seen the match reports come out for those ppd matches. As soon as they come about I will let you know. The ppd. matches didn't affect the playoffs either.
The Stoners vs Lancaster game that was halted due to lightning after 26 minutes is being called a tie. So the Stoners would be 8-1-1. And that means you can add a tie to Lancaster's results.
I don't know how this is going to work, but I was told that the Northeast semifinal between Boston Aztec and Long Island Academy is next Friday, July 25.
FYI. The Finals are going to be at Mitchell Athletic Complex in Long Island, it was decided last night at the commissioner conference call.
So now the Penn Stoners-NYAC game is going to be July 28 or 29 http://www.pennstoners.org/?p=122 With the news from Keem on the finals being at Long Island either way, I'm wondering if they're going to skip the Northeast final -- both semifinal winners advance anyway It wouldn't be the NPSL unless there was all sorts of wackiness. I was just looking at the Boston Aztec site, and even their playoff writeup includes phrases like "apparently" and "unofficial speculation"
Would the finals be on the weekend of August 2-3? From talking to some players, most of the D1 players are done playing as of the end of July, as it will be too close to preseason to risk injury.
I'm surprised they even had a write up on their site. And yes the finals are the weekend of August 1-3. Even last year our D1 players weren't allowed to play in the finals and they were a week earlier. It's interesting to see, as the PDL final is August 9th as well. So I'm curious to see how many D1 players play in that match-up. It's a hard choice for players to play for a national title or risk losing out to an injury for your college season. And there should a Northeastern Regional Final, as the winner moves onto the US Open Cup Region I Tournament.
I know that Princeton-56ers DI players played in the finals last year. And two of them went back to California a few weeks later for that All-Star Game against Chivas USA reserves.
Sunday's match Long Island Academy 3-2 Boston Aztec AET Tuesday's match New York Athletic Club (5-3-2) at Pennsylvania Stoners (8-1-1) Friday's NPSL semifinals At Mitchel Athletic Complex, Uniondale, N.Y. Sonoma County Sol (6-0-3) vs. New York Athletic Club or Pennsylvania Stoners St. Paul Twin Stars (5-2) at Long Island Academy (8-0-2)
At Mitchel Athletic Complex, Uniondale, N.Y. Friday's semifinals Pennsylvania Stoners 3, Sonoma County Sol 1 St. Paul Twin Stars 1, Long Island Academy 1, tie (St. Paul advances 4-2 on penalty kicks) Sunday's championship Pennsylvania Stoners (10-1-1) vs. St. Paul Twin Stars (6-2), 12:30 p.m. EDT Game story from the St. Paul-Long Island match Game story from the Stoners-Sonoma match
bad link was provided above on the Sonoma/Stoners match, try this: http://www.pennstoners.org/index.php?p=132