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Pali Blues, Ottawa Fury Advance in W-League Semifinals
by All White Kit
posted July 29, 2012 at 6:21am

  The Pali Blues downed the Quebec City Amiral, 2-0, in the first of Friday’s matches, while the Ottawa Fury got past the DC United Women, 1-0, in the second. The winners will play for the championship on Sunday, while the losers will play fo...more

W-League Final Four Preview
by All White Kit
posted July 26, 2012 at 8:02am

  After three months of play and a weekend of playoffs, the teams gunning for the W-League Championship have been winnowed down from 30 teams total to 11 that made the playoffs to the four that will compete this weekend for the title: the Quebec Ci...more

MWSJA Players of the Week – Week 11
by All White Kit
posted July 25, 2012 at 8:12am

  Yes! Player of the Week, for sure! With the Maryland Capitols’ season done and with no member of the MWSJA attending the final Chesapeake Charge match of the season, we decided it would be unfair to put together a full list of players. Ho...more

Playoffs? Don’t Talk About Playoffs! (W-League & WPSL)
by All White Kit
posted July 24, 2012 at 8:21am

  Warning: This is a rant. I plan on having a more serious discussion about the playoffs later, but for now I’m going to vent. The bottom line is that I’m not terribly impressed with how the playoffs have been done for either the W-Le...more

WPSL Elite: The Show Must Go On; At Least It Should
by All White Kit
posted July 24, 2012 at 8:08am

  The Chicago Red Stars enjoyed a big crowd against Western New York on July 14, but had to forfeit a game just five days later when they couldn't make it to New England. “Do or do not. There is no try.” - Yoda NORTHAMPTON, Mass. &nd...;more

DC United Women Leave No Doubt Who’s No. 1 in East
by All White Kit
posted July 23, 2012 at 6:33pm

  The scene after Sanderson scored the DC United Women's third goal The Charlotte Lady Eagles arrived on Sunday with a distinguished pedigree. According to their coach, they’ve made the playoffs 12 of the last 13 years. Despite being in the...more

Top Seeds DC and Charlotte Advance Easily in W-League Eastern Conference Semifinals
by All White Kit
posted July 22, 2012 at 1:12pm

  Gabby Charno of Long Island (left) battles Charlotte while Lianne Sanderson of the DC United Women (right) faces Virginia Beach The top two seeds in the W-League’s Eastern Conference advanced easily in their playoff matches today, the #1 ...more

Playoff Preview: DC United Women vs. Virginia Beach Piranhas – the rematch rematch rematch
by All White Kit
posted July 21, 2012 at 9:25am

  The DC United Women players at the Meet-the-Team Event Due to the benighted design of the W-League’s Eastern Conference playoffs, the regular-season champion DC United Women will start off by playing a team they’ve faced three times...more

WPSL Elite: Does The Regular Season Title Mean Anything To You?
by All White Kit
posted July 17, 2012 at 2:41pm

LISLE, Ill. – Perspective, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder, so when suddenly red-hot Western New York ran its unbeaten streak in WPSL Elite to 11 with an impressive 2-1 road win over Chicago last Saturday night at Benedictine Univ...more

Maryland Capitols Fall to Syracuse Lady Knights in First-Ever Playoff Match
by All White Kit
posted July 16, 2012 at 11:33am

The Maryland Capitols lost their first-ever playoff match, 2-0, to the Syracuse Lady Knights, on a hot and humid afternoon at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex. Despite being seeded third in the Northeast Atlantic Conference playoffs ...more

WPSL Elite: Sometimes Journey More Important Than Destination
by All White Kit
posted July 11, 2012 at 8:30pm

The plan to come to Chicago for a July vacation was made well before the WPSL Elite schedule came out, or even before the decision was made to cover the league at all this summer (which I thank AWK for, it’s been fun). I knew I would basically miss...more

Maryland Capitols Win Marathon Match to End Regular Season, Now Look Toward Playoffs
by All White Kit
posted July 10, 2012 at 10:51am

  Team captain Anabel Jimenez takes a shot in the first half The final match of the Maryland Capitols’ inaugural season was plagued with delays, but the home team nevertheless managed to come away with a 2-0 win over the visiting Penn Legac...more

Red Stars Rally to Down Charge, 3-1
by All White Kit
posted June 24, 2012 at 6:03pm

  The Charge battle the Red Stars on a rainy night For 45 minutes Paul Riley looked like a prophet after predicting “they get somebody on the wrong day, they’ll beat them” about the Chesapeake Charge downing one of the WPSL Eli...more

WPSL Elite: Boston Stops New England Behind Jones, Simon; Howarth Impresses In Defeat
by All White Kit
posted June 23, 2012 at 10:30am

  The teams line up before kickoff on a brutally hot evening at Dilboy Stadium. SOMERVILLE, Mass. – The record will show that the Boston Breakers defeated the New England Mutiny 4-2 Wednesday night, a result that brought us one step closer ...more

Midseason WPSL Review: Chesapeake Charge
by All White Kit
posted June 21, 2012 at 2:21pm

  Evaluating the Chesapeake Charge is a very different business from looking at the Maryland Capitols or the DC United Women. For either of the latter two teams, anything other than going a couple of games into the playoffs would be a significant di...more

Breakers Forced To Forfeit WNY Win; WPSL Elite Standings Shaken Up
by All White Kit
posted June 19, 2012 at 4:39pm

  In what just turns out to be an unfortunate case for everyone involved, the Boston Breakers were forced to forfeit what was a 3-2 win over Western New York on May 26. The new score is 3-0 in favor of the Flash and puts them in much, much better p...more

Charge Fall Twice in Tough Back-to-Back Matches
by All White Kit
posted June 18, 2012 at 11:34am

  The Chesapeake Charge defense holds off the Flash attack, as it did most of the day The Western New York Flash came to Old Mill School expecting a fairly easy match against one of the WPSL Elite’s amateur sides. They got a surprise. They ...more

Chesapeake Charge Visit Midwest, Get a Point
by All White Kit
posted June 12, 2012 at 3:09pm

The Chesapeake Charge concluded several weeks of road matches with a trip to the Midwest to take on FC Indiana (on Friday) and the Chicago Red Stars (on Sunday). They battled Indiana to a 1-1 draw but fell to first place Chicago, 5-0. Friday’s mat...more

DC United Women Win Battle of Unbeatens
by All White Kit
posted June 11, 2012 at 7:15pm

  Lianne Sanderson and Joanna Lohman team up in their first W-League game for the DCU Women The DC United Women went down to Fredericksburg on Saturday for what promised to be one of the toughest matches of their regular season, against the Impac...more

WPSL Elite Review: Strikers Wanted, But League Shows It Strengths, Too
by All White Kit
posted June 6, 2012 at 1:27pm

  The rain before the New York-WNY match left quite the scenery in pregame warm-ups last Sunday night. HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – In the end, it was just a scoreless standoff between two of the best teams the 2012 version of WPSL Elite has to offe...more

AWK’s Weekly Recap, May 28 – June 3
by All White Kit
posted June 5, 2012 at 2:32am

  This is a snappy recap of the week gone by in women’s soccer. There will be lots and lots of gerunds. Here’s the first edition. Oh, and hello again. It’s been too long.   Streaking. Two undefeated, former WPS clubs took t...more

WPSL News: Toni Pressley Suddenly A Member of Western New York
by All White Kit
posted May 25, 2012 at 6:14pm

  Courtesy U.S. soccer After making her first appearance of the season with the New England Mutiny Sunday night against Philadelphia, former Florida St. defender Toni Pressley was abruptly – and somewhat surprisingly – let out of her ...more

WPSL Elite: Breakers Open With Sell-Out On Day WPS Breathes Its Last
by All White Kit
posted May 23, 2012 at 12:18am

The teams line up at sunny Dilboy Stadium before the Breakers-FC Indiana game last week. SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Officially, the plug was pulled on Women’s Professional Soccer last Friday, and while its certified demise led some that were out o...more

WPS Officially Comes to an End
by Sarah Hallett
posted May 19, 2012 at 5:40pm

With the official termination of the Women's Professional Soccer league the future of women's professional soccer remains unclear....more

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