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USASA Region II first round draw announced, Michigan championship decided Sunday

April 8, 2010 by Eric Anderson

The draw for the USASA Region II Open Cup tournament is set, with several new teams among the eight amateur sides that will vie for two berths in the 2010 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup.

KC Athletics, the first entry from Kansas in at least several years, opens up at the Des Moines Menace USASA team in a first-round match May 1. The Menace have competed under a number of different names, including the Iowa Menace and the Des Moines Menace Reserves. The team is a collection of players from the Des Moines Menace Under-20s and some former PDL players.

Newcomer Fire SC ’00 is playing as the Minnesota representative, and travels to AAC Eagles, who ended RWB Adria’s three-year run as Illinois state champion. AAC Eagles, however, qualified for the 2008 Open Cup — along with Adria — after being the state runners-up. The Fire, as the name would suggest, were founded in 2000 and compete in the Minnesota Amateur Soccer League where they are the two-time defending league champions.

One interesting first-round game pits the St. Paul Twin Stars, the two-time defending National Premier Soccer League Midwest Region champions, but a first-time entry in this tournament, against 402 Academy. The Nebraska team advanced to the Open Cup last year in its first attempt, falling to the Minnesota Thunder 3-2 in the first round.

The other opener sees the Milwaukee Kickers, who ousted six-time Open Cup qualifier Bavarian SC in last fall’s Wisconsin state final, play host to the Michigan champion, Detroit United. Detroit United is scheduled to play Ann Arbor United on Sunday, April 11 at Saline High School to determine the final qualifier. Detroit United defeated Ann Arbor United 1-0 to win their first state title since 2007 and to deny Ann Arbor their second straight championship.

The winners of the two second-round matches earn spots in the Open Cup, and will play in the Region II championship June 18-20 at Gaelic Park in Chicago for a spot in the USASA national semifinals. No information was announced about the second round draw.

Saturday, May 1
(All games at 3 p.m. ET)
Detroit United (Michigan) at Milwaukee Kickers (Wisconsin)
Fire SC ’00 (Minnesota) at AAC Eagles (Illinois)
St. Paul Twin Stars (NPSL Midwest) at 402 Academy (Nebraska)
KC Athletics (Kansas) at Des Moines Menace USASA (Iowa)

Filed Under: US Open Cup Tagged With: 2010 USASA Qualifying, 402, AAC Eagles, Ann Arbor United, Des Moines Menace USASA, Detroit United, Fire SC ‘00, KC Athletics, Milwaukee Kickers, St. Paul Twin Stars, USASA Region II

Meet the USASA: Class of 2009

September 13, 2009 by Aaron Stollar

USASA logoDulles Sportsplex Aegean Hawks (Region I)
DC-based club has learned from their inaugural Open Cup berth in 2007

Emigrantes Das Ilhas (Region I)
“Immigrants of the Islands” making their first US Open Cup appearance

402 (Region II)
New Nebraska team has familiar names excited to play in Minnesota

Bavarian SC (Region II)
Milwaukee club making amateur-record sixth appearance in Pro Era

Atlanta FC (Region III)
The second year NPSL franchise adds first Open Cup berth to list of early success

Lynch’s FC (Region III)
Jacksonville club has plenty of changes coming, they hope one will be winning an Open Cup game

Arizona Sahuaros (Region IV)
On hiatus from the NPSL, the Sahuaros are back in the Open Cup for the third time in four years

Sonoma County Sol (Region IV)
Three-time cup participants are a family affair, on and off the field

Filed Under: Meet the Underdogs, US Open Cup, US Open Cup Qualifying Tagged With: 2009 Meet The USASA, 2009 USASA Qualifying, 402, Aegean Hawks, Arizona Sahuaros, Atlanta FC, Bavarian SC, Emigrantes Das Ilhas, Lynch's FC, Sonoma County Sol, USASA

2009 Meet the Underdogs: 402 from Nebraska

August 19, 2009 by TheCup.us Staff

Creighton University's Morrison Stadium. File Photo: Creighton University
Creighton University's Morrison Stadium. File Photo: Creighton University
Creighton University’s Morrison Stadium. File Photo: Creighton University

When discussing the hotbeds of soccer in the US, Nebraska usually doesn’t enter the conversation.

But Jason Mims will tell you that when it comes to adult soccer in the state what’s been lacking is organization, not talent.

“No one ever thinks of Nebraska soccer as any good,” Mims said, “but there are some good players and good coaches.”

Thanks to Mims, some of the state’s top players will get the chance to show that on a national stage in the US Open Cup. He put together the 402 team, which is named after the area code for the eastern part of Nebraska.

“There’s so many good players around, and we always had guys playing in men’s leagues and pickup games and stuff, but we’ve never done anything officially organized,” said Mims, a former Saint Louis University player who is heading into his ninth season as an assistant coach for the Creighton men’s program — a regular in the Top-25 rankings each fall.

“I just figured this year was a good year to organize it, get the right players and kind of do something official.”

Most of the players on the 402 roster are former Creighton players who continue to live in the Omaha area, and several of them have been involved in professional soccer — including two players who were especially pleased to see the team drawn to play at the Minnesota Thunder of the USL First Division in a first-round match Tuesday night in Blaine, Minn.

One is forward Johnny Torres, who was a two-time national player of the year for the Bluejays and the fifth overall pick in the 1998 Major League Soccer College Draft by the New England Revolution.

Torres had 10 goals in 113 games in parts of five seasons in MLS, also spending time with the Miami Fusion and the Chicago Fire, before signing with the Thunder. The native of Colombia scored 19 goals in 47 matches for Minnesota over the 2002 and 2003 seasons, then headed to Milwaukee Wave United and scored 11 times in 2004.

Now 33, Torres is back at Creighton as an assistant under coach Bob Warming along with Mims. He can still put the ball the net, as evidenced by his hat trick in 402’s 5-3 extra-time victory over Illinois’ RWB Adria — a US Open Cup qualifier the past two years — in the semifinals of the USASA Region II tournament last month.

“I think he’ll have some friends and family there, and I think he’s looking forward to getting back for a day and seeing his old place,” Mims said. “He’s excited because they finally got rid of that stupid track that was around the field (at the National Sports Center), that’s the first thing he said. … Hopefully, he’ll get one or two chances to put one away.”

It also will be a homecoming — and perhaps a farewell — for Andrei Gotsmanov.

The midfielder grew up in Eagan, Minn., and starred at Woodbury High School before a standout college career that started at St. John’s and finished at Creighton and has close connections to the Thunder.

Gotsmanov’s father, Sergei, played professionally in the Soviet Union, England and Germany and for the USSR and Belarus national teams before finishing his career with the Thunder in the late 1990s. Andrei’s older brother Sasha also played for the Thunder in 2006 and 2007 after a spending a season with the Colorado Rapids of MLS.

Andrei Gotsmanov was a first-team All-American for Creighton last fall and was a semifinalist for the Hermann Trophy, given to the country’s top player. He was picked by the Revolution with the No. 24 overall pick in this year’s MLS SuperDraft, but it appears that his immediate future lies in Europe.

“He’s not going to go to New England, he’s going to go on trials in Sweden and Denmark in the next month or so,” Mims said. “This will kind of be his last game with us. I think he’s looking forward to getting back home and playing in that game in front of his dad and his family. It should be exciting for him.

“He’s a classy midfielder. I’ve been at Creighton nine years now, and he’s the best pure midfielder we’ve ever seen. He’s a pure No. 10. The kid is incredible. Hopefully, at some point he’ll get a chance to be a good professional and end up hopefully being on our national team. He’s that good.”

Also on the 402 roster are two former Creighton players who were drafted in 2008: midfielder Tony Schmitz was picked by DC United in the fourth round of the SuperDraft, while forward Tim Bohnenkamp was taken by San Jose in the second round of the supplemental draft that year.

Mims said the team draws from a player pool of about 30. But as is the case with many amateur teams, it’s usually pretty simple to make a game-day roster: “If they can make the game on that day, that’s who goes on the trip,” said Mims, who also plays left back in addition to managing the side.

The team has had varying success with its training sessions, having as many as 20 players show up and as few as four. Case in point: Mims, Torres and 402 forward Tim Walters, who completed his playing career at Creighton last fall and is now a student assistant coach in the program, recently spent 10 days in Peru on a trip with the Bluejays.

Needless to say, 402 didn’t train during that time.

“We hardly train at all, so we’re definitely not in shape,” Mims said. “But our guys are experienced enough to keep the ball and hold on to the ball, and that’s why we’ve been successful.

“I hope that we don’t get embarrassed up there. I don’t expect to win. Those guys are pros and they get paid and they train every day and they’re in midseason form right now … They should be able to beat us. So we don’t expect to win, but we do expect to compete. … I think we have a good enough group of guys that we can go up there and compete.”

Filed Under: Meet the Underdogs, US Open Cup, US Open Cup Qualifying Tagged With: 2009 Meet The USASA, 2009 USASA Qualifying, 402, Nebraska, USASA Region II

2009 First Round recap: Favorites survive first day, Barons pull off upset, Hawks just upset on day 2

June 11, 2009 by

2009 U.S. Open Cup First Round
(Home team listed on right)
June 9
Orange County Blue Star 2:5 Sonoma County Sol
Carolina RailHawks 2:1 Richmond Kickers
Western Mass Pioneers 3:2 (aet) Emigrantes Das Ilhas
Wilmington Hammerheads 2:0 Charlotte Eagles
Rochester Rhinos 1:1 Pittsburgh Riverhounds
Rochester advance on penalities, 4-2
Cleveland City Stars 3:0 St. Louis Lions
Chicago Fire (PDL) 3:1 Bavarian SC
Harrisburg City Islanders 4:1 Reading Rage
Minnesota Thunder 3:2 402
Charleston Battery 2:0 Atlanta FC
Miami FC Blues 2:1 Lynch’s FC
Austin Aztex 2:0 Mississippi Brilla
El Paso Patriots 2:1 Arizona Sahuaros
Kitsap Pumas 0:3 Portland Timbers
June 10
Real Maryland Monarchs 1:0 Aegean Hawks FC
(Match stopped in 74th minute)
Crystal Palace Baltimore 0:3 Ocean City Barons
——————————————————————
Player of the Round: Byron Carmichael (OCB)
Some things you should know about the First Round
Notable upsets in the First Round of the Open Cup

If seeing the underdogs prevail is your thing, then you went to sleep disappointed last night.

Of the fourteen matches first round US Open Cup matches last night, only one was won by a team from the lower division, and even that wasn’t much of an upset.

The evening began with the lone “upset” of the day, as the NPSL’s Sonoma County Sol, perhaps the hottest team of the 32 set to play in the First Round, defeated the PDL’s Orange County Blue Star 5-2. Shawn Percell scored twice and Trevor Hurst, Eric Lafon, Eric Larson added the others for the Sol. The Sol are 12-0-1 in all matches played in 2009.

The most dramatic game of the night was in Rochester, as the Rhinos needed a stoppage time equalizer and penalties to overcome the USL-2 Pittsburgh Riverhounds. Trailing 1-0 for much of the game, the Rhinos forced extra time when Tai Atieno knocked in a corner kick in second half stoppage time. Atieno then missed a potential game winning penalty kick with two minutes left in overtime, but Rhinos goalkeeper Scott Vallow came up with two saves in the penalty shootout to see his club through to the Second Round.

Two matches were postponed and were moved to the following day. Ocean City and Crystal Palace Baltimore was put off early in the day when heavy overnight rains left the Barons’ home field, Cary Stadium, flooded. The Dulles Sportsplex Aegean Hawks and Real Maryland Monarchs were forced to set their game back a day when heavy thunderstorms rolled through the Rockville, Md. area.

The next day, the Ocean City Barons became the first PDL team to beat a USL professional squad in the 2009 tournament, winning a 3-0 decision over Crystal Palace Baltimore of the USL Second Division.

Byron Carmichael opened the scoring in the 7th minute, with an assist from Neal Melchionni. Carmichael struck again in the 33rd minute with an unassisted goal to gibe the Barons a 2-0 halftime lead.

With 12 minutes remaining, JT Noone left no doubt as to who the winners were with a Ryan Richter-assisted goal. The game had been postponed on Tuesday due to a flooded field from heavy overnight storms.

In Rockville, Maryland, the Dulles Sportsplex Aegean Hawks were done in by Mother Nature on Wednesday night, as their opening round game versus the Real Maryland Monarchs was halted in the 74th minute after an hour and a half lightning delay, giving the USL-2 club a 1-0 win. The only goa,l of the match game from Ryan Cordeiro in the 14th minute, with an assist from Gary Brooks. Soon after, the Hawks were reduced to 10 men when Michael Goldman was shown a red card.

Hawks manager Jonathan Knight was understandably upset that the game was called. We have been told there was a 10 pm deadline, which is when the stadium lights had to be shut off (presumably by a city ordinance), and the game was official called at 10:18 pm. The game had to be rescheduled for tonight due to severe thunderstorms on Tuesday night.

This is the second year in a row weather has played a part in Real Maryland’s First Round Open Cup game. Last year their gasme against NY Pancyprian Freedoms was moves back three days after severe storms prevented play on the original date. Maryland won the rescheduled game 3-2 in extra time.

Ocean City will host Real Maryland next Tuesday in the Second Round.

Filed Under: US Open Cup Tagged With: 2009 First Round, 402, Aegean Hawks, Arizona Sahuaros, Atlanta FC, Austin Aztex, Bavarian SC, Carolina RailHawks, Charleston Battery, Charlotte Eagles, Chicago Fire PDL, Cleveland City Stars, Crystal Palace Baltimore, El Paso Patriots, Emigrantes Das Ilhas, Harrisburg City Islanders, Kitsap Pumas, Lynch’s FC, Miami FC, Minnesota Thunder, Mississippi Brilla, Ocean City Barons/South Jersey Barons, Orange County Blue Star, Pittsburgh Riverhounds, Portland Timbers, Reading Rage, Real Maryland Monarchs, Richmond Kickers, Rochester Rhinos, Sonoma County Sol, St. Louis Lions, Western Mass Pioneers, Wilmington Hammerheads

2009 First Round: Late red cards ruin 402’s comeback attempt as Thunder win 3-2

June 9, 2009 by

NationalSports Center – Blaine, Minn. | 8:05 p.m.
Match reports: Minnesota Thunder
Photos: Jeremy Olson
Twitter: @mnthunder @MinnesotaSoccer

3
FT
2
Brian Cvilikas 30’
Leonel Saint-Prioux 40’
Brian Cvikikas (Saint-Prioux) 46’
     
12’ Andrei Gotsmanov (Torres)
57’ Tony Schmidtz
84’ Tony Schmitz (SENT OFF)
90’ Tim Walters (SENT OFF)

The Minnesota Thunder survived the challenge of Nebraska’s 402 with a 3-2 victory to advance to the Second Round.

402, named after Eastern Nebraska’s telephone area code, struck first when former Thunder player Johnny Torres assisted on Andrei Gotsmanov’s 12th minute goal. Minnesota nearly tied the score twice shortly after, but attempts from Brian Cvilikas and Rod Dyachenko could not cross the goal line.

Cvilikas finally broke through in the 31st minute when he drilled home a pass from Dyachenko. Leonel Saint-Preux gave the Thunder a halftime lead when he chipped a shot over 402 goalkeeper Ross Kaufman. The USL-1 club increased their lead in the 47th minute when Cvilikas scored his second of the game, when Saint-Preux fed him for the score. Just ten minutes later, 402 closed the gap back to one as Tomy Schmitz sent a 25-yard shot past goalkeeper Nic Platter.

Toward the end of the game, 402 were reduced to ten men when Schmitz was shown his marching orders for a hard foul on Saint-Preux. Minnesota will host the Chicago Fire PDL club next Tuesday in Round 2.

Starting Lineups:

Minnesota: Nic Platter; Quavas Kirk, Chris Clements, Jon Greenfield, Andrew Peterson; Lawrence Olum, Jeremiah Bass, Rod Dyachenko (Ricardo Sanchez 66); Melvin Tarley (Geoffrey Myers 66), Brian Cvilikas, Leonel Saint-Preux (Marco Terminesi 89)

402: Ross Kaufman; Matt Thomas (Andrew Watts 88), Chris Brunt (Matt Wadleigh 45), Ryan Junge, Jay Mims, Tim Walters, Tim Bohnenkamp (Jace Peters 45), Andre Gotsmanov, Joshua Moran, Tony Schmitz

Game Statistics

Minnesota: Shots 21, Fouls 8, Offside 0, Corners 1
402: Shots 12, Fouls 6, Offside 1, Corners 7

Goalkeeper Statistics
Platter (Minnesota): Shots faces 12, Saves 4, Goals Allowed 2
Kaufman (402): Shots faces 21, Saves 5, Goals Allowed 3

Cautions:
MIN: Saint-Preux, 25 ‘,Thomas, 83 ‘
402: Schmitz, 38’, Gotsmanov 84 ‘

Ejections: 402: Schmitz, 84’, Walters, 90 ‘
Attendance: 245
Referees: Elias Bazakos, Fotis Bazakos Troy Cohrs , Jorge Oncontrillo

Filed Under: US Open Cup Tagged With: 2009 First Round, 402, Andrei Gotsmanov, Brian Cvilikas, Johnny Torres, Leonel Saint-Prioux, Minnesota Thunder, Nic Platter, Ross Kaufman, Tim Walters, Tony Schmidtz

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