The #1 team in the country, Sioux Falls City FC, host the Central Region's playoffs over the weekend. Saturday (National Ranking/Regional Ranking) #1/1 Sioux Falls City v FC Pride Sioux Falls City's Katharina Oelschlager leads the deepest and most prolific attack in the region,
Playoffs! In the Northland! As part of the planned rotation between regions, it has long been known that the Northern Conference's winners this year would not only seal that conference's only spot in the playoffs, but would also host the Central Regional finals. This year there
Sioux Falls City FC completed their perfect season with a win over St Croix Legacy. The winning goal came from Taylor Thomas. The other results from this round are covered here [uncode_block id="1756"]
The battle for the North was all set up for a showdown on Friday, albeit with an unexpectedly tight result in Maple Grove. Wednesday St Croix Legacy 1-0 Mankato United This was a Spotlight Match of the week, full gallery here. Minnesota Thunder 11-2 Rochester United Caroline Bailey
Ben VanWyk brings our WPSL spotlight to the match up of MapleBrook Fury and Joy Athletic. The rest of the week's coverage, including multiple other Spotlights, will be published soon. [uncode_block id="1756"]
undefined Against the run of play, St Croix Legacy won a narrow victory, with a goal from Laney Murdzek. Enjoy Ben VanWyk's photos. [uncode_block id="1756"]
With so much action in the league this week, we spotlighted Salvo's comprehensive victory over Manitou. The other results are as follows: Tuesday St Croix Legacy 3-2 Rochester United Lexi Huber (from Kallianne Mogler) and then Lainey Murdzek (from Avery Murdzek) put Legacy ahead 2-0 within
Spotlight Match - Salvo 6-0 Manitou It took less than two minutes for Salvo to earn their first corner and only a minute more before they registered their first shot on goal. With barely 5 mins on the clock, the hosts had the opportunity to go ahead but a cross
Wednesday Minnesota Thunder 8-0 Manitou FC Doubles by Grace Estby and Caroline Bailey and single goals from Isabela Engle, Maddie Poor, Paige Peltier and Paige Kalal rocketed Thunder past Manitou. St Croix Legacy 0-3 Salvo SC St Croix made Salvo work in the opening hour, but a penalty
Week 5 of WPSL action sees the last two clubs in the North finally make their season debut (in St Croix's case, after two postponements). More about that match later, here's the full recap of the week's action. Wednesday Salvo SC 1-0 Minnesota
Friday Mankato United 0-3 Minnesota Thunder A comfortable win, with goals by Kaitlyn MacBean (from Paige Peltier), Paige Kalal (from Paige Peltier) and Kalal again (from Mackenzie Jacobson). Here's the opening two goals - the second showing stunning ball control, via our friends at Equal Time Soccer and
undefined Spotlight Match: Minnesota Thunder 2-0 Joy Athletic Club Last year's national leading goalscorer Kaitlyn MacBean returned for another Summer and led Thunder past their neighbors, with tallies in the 13th (from Rilyn Rintoul) and the 90th (from half-time sub Ashley Thirk). [uncode_info_box items=
Yes, it is too big but it features some of the best amateur players in the country, and some who have very recently been professionals. Let's look at the Northern Conference of the Women's Premier Soccer League. Salvo SC Having finished in second place in the
I argued last year that the WPSL North is too big. It's more than 51,000 sq miles, and it remains so, in fact with expansion into Sioux City Iowa, it's got even bigger. So how should we/would I split it? You could do one
Semi-Finals Charlotte Eagles (South) 1-0 Rhode Island Rogues (East) The Eastern Wildcard winners faced the Southeast Conference's Eagles. Rhode Island conceded a ninetieth minute equalizer in their Championship game but went ahead again in stoppage time. Charlotte won the South after rallying from a 4-1
Khyah Harper, Salvo's hottest attacking player at the moment is not a shock, but comes to the postseason with a track record at the University of Minnesota and with Salvo. She is joined by club mates Ansley Atkinson, Lauren Eckerle and breakthrough highschooler Ayden Gagner in goal. At
