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It took a regulation 90 minutes, 20 minutes of sudden death overtime and eight rounds of penalty kicks to separate the Orediggers and the Tritons on Sunday afternoon at Auraria Field in Denver.

In the end, the UC-San Diego Tritons emerged with a 6-5 shootout win over the Colorado School of Mines and a trip to the NCAA Final Four.

Anna Evans showed Friday afternoon what the conference offensive player of the year can do with very little space and a team struggling to control the ball.

Evans fired from the top of the penalty area into the upper left corner past a stretched out Dani Hering in the 39th minute. The goal for the Colorado School of Mines came after Metropolitan State University of Denver had controlled much of the play and launched three long-range shots on the Orediggers' goal.

Metro State advanced past Colorado Mines 5-4 on penalty kicks after tying the Orediggers 1-1 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday in Durango, Colo. The Roadrunners moved to 12-5-3 this season, while CSM ended the year at 11-6-4.

Anna Evans put CSM ahead 1-0 in the first half, scoring unassisted in the 27th minute as she broke free from two Metro State defenders for a breakaway.

Three sides that have seen a lot of one another in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference earned a spot in the NCAA Division II women's soccer tournament.

Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado School of Mines and Regis University earned the 3, 4 and 5 spots, respectively, in the South Central region of the tourney.

The Colorado Rapids faced the Colorado School Of Mines yesterday at the Dick in one last preseason friendly before Saturday's season opener. Not surprisingly the side in burgundy didn't find much of a challenge against a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference school, winning 4-0. Here's the starting XI:

Cascio - Cummings - RiveroLarentowicz - Castrillon - MastroeniZapata - Marshall - Wynne - KimuraPickens
Subs:
Amarikwa for Cummings at half
Mullan for Rivero at 58
Thompson for Cascio at 63
Akpan for Castrillon at 68
Palguta for Wynne at 70
Yamada for Larentowicz at 75

The only regular not to play was Moor, who I'm guessing got the day off to rest his tweaked hamstring.

After two straight losses, the Colorado School of Mines squad made sure that senior night included a win to remember.

Five players scored as the Orediggers pounded the Adams State Grizzlies 8-1 on Friday night in Golden. Tesho Akindele led the assault, scoring his first goal in the fifth minute, en route to his sixth career hat trick.

Marc Herschberger scored 3:44 into the first overtime as Metro State upset No. 11 Colorado Mines 2-1 on Sunday at home.

It was the second win over a top-25 team in the past week for the Roadrunners, who improved to 6-2-1 overall and 4-1-0 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. CSM fell to 6-2-0 and 4-1-0.

Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Colorado School of Mines played into the dark and into a second overtime period before someone finally found a goal on Friday night.

The game, which started in Golden at 7:30 p.m., looked like it could stretch into days before someone found a difference maker.

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs men's soccer team answered the No. 13-ranked Colorado School of Mines Orediggers twice Sunday, but ran out of time in its search for a third reply in a 3-2 defeat at CSM Soccer Field.

The Orediggers took leads at 1-0 and 2-1, but the Mountain Lions tied the match shortly afterward each time.

Fort Lewis scored in the second minute, added some second half insurance, then withstood a furious rally to defeat No. 8 Colorado Mines 2-1 on Sunday at Dirks Field.

Freshman Kosta Kordistos started the scoring early, slipping a shot past CSM goalkeeper Manville Strand and inside the far post just 1:43 into the game.

The Colorado Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference women's soccer teams had a flawless Friday as six teams took the pitch for nonconference matches and all six notched wins.

The day included overwhelming triumphs from Colorado School of Mines and Adams State College, and nailbiters for Metropolitan State College of Denver and Colorado Christian.

Colorado School of Mines and Regis University were each ranked in the top 25 men's NCAA Division II preseason poll.

The Orediggers and Rangers (No. 18) were the only RMAC men's teams included in the preseason ranks.

Mines men's soccer team ranked ninth in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division II Pre-Season Poll.

Players from the RMAC dominated the list of classroom standouts released Friday by NSCAA.

The NSCAA Scholar's West Region teams included 10 players from the RMAC among the 22 on the list. Regis University topped the list with four selections. Colorado School of Mines had three, Metro State had two and Mesa State had one representative on the men's team.

Three Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference players were named first team All-Americans, and a total of seven players from the conference made it on to one of the three teams.

Midfielders Chike Sullivan, from Colorado School of Mines, and Steven Emory, from Metro State College of Denver, along with Mines forward Tesho Akindele made the first team.

Players from Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference schools dominated the NSCAA/Performance Subaru's Central region men's soccer teams that were rolled out on Monday.

Colorado School of Mines and Regis University each had five players on the first and second teams. Fort Lewis College and Metropolitan State College of Denver each had four players on the two teams.

Colorado School of Mines defender Chris Bostic was named College Sports Information Directors of America / ESPN the Magazine Third Team Academic All-American, it was announced Thursday.

Bostic, a senior from Erie, Colo., is a mechanical engineering major with a 3.86 cumulative grade point average.

The Fort Lewis College women's soccer team (17-2-1 overall) earned the top seed in the NCAA Division II Central Region and will host first- and second-round playoff games on Friday and Sunday.

The Skyhawks are just one of five RMAC teams among the 48 sides in the women's championship.

Metro State (12-5-2) and Colorado Mines (11-6-3) will face each other in a first round game at 2 p.

The third-ranked Colorado School of Mines men's soccer claimed its first RMAC Tournament Championship title since 2002 prevailing in a penalty kick shootout, 7-6, over Fort Lewis on Sunday afternoon at the CSM Soccer Stadium.

The last time a CSM men's soccer team won the RMAC Tournament Championship was in 2002.

Regular season action in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference drew to a close on Sunday as teams made a final stab for playoff position.

Mines 1, CSU-Pueblo 0: The Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team closed out the 2010 regular season with a 1-0 victory in RMAC women's soccer action against CSU-Pueblo on Sunday afternoon at the CSM Soccer Stadium.

The No.1-ranked Colorado School of Mines will host the 2010 RMAC Men's Soccer Championships in Golden, Colorado, Nov. 5-7, the conference announced Monday.

The Orediggers lead the RMAC with a 10-0-1 conference record.

The RMAC is in the second year of a pilot program in which the host of the conference championship in men's soccer is named two to three weeks in advance.

Colorado School of Mines' Chris Bostic and Megan Woodworth were selected as the 2010 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Soccer Academic Player of the Year for the men and women, respectively, as announced by the RMAC on Tuesday.

Bostic, a senior defender from Erie, Colorado, is a Mechanical Engineer major with a 3.

Colorado School of Mines' Manville Strand and Chike Sullivan were named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Defensive and Offensive Player of the Week as announced today by the RMAC. CSM also remained ranked No. 1 in the NSCAA Division II National Poll.

Mines picked up a pair of wins in conference play last week against Fort Lewis and Mesa State.

The Regis University men's soccer team didn't have to spend too much time smarting from the first loss of the season.

A day after falling to the Colorado School of Mines in the finals of the RMAC tournament, the Rangers (17-1-1) received a No. 1 seed into the NCAA Division II tournament.

Mines, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament champions, grabbed the second seed from the region.

The Colorado School of Mines men's soccer team down 2-1 at the half rallied back to scoring three second-half goals on its way to a 4-2 victory over Colorado Mesa in RMAC action on Sunday afternoon.

A penalty kick by Alex Nass, his fourth goal of the season, put Mines on the board in the 20th minute of the match.

Colorado School of Mines men's soccer player Tesho Akindele is highlighted in the Oct. 28th issue of Sports Illustrated in the Faces in the Crowd section.
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This is the second time that a CSM student-athlete has been featured in Faces in the Crowd. Joel Hamilton, a cross country All-American, was highlighted in 2006.

The Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team scored four-plus goals for the second straight game defeating Colorado Christian by a score of 5-0 on Wednesday evening in RMAC action at the CSM Soccer Stadium.

The two teams shared possession in the middle of the field for the first 20 minutes until Erin Onat put Mines on the board in the 24th minute.

The Colorado School of Mines women's soccer team scored four first-half goals on its way to a convincing 4-0 win over UC-Colorado Springs in RMAC action on Sunday afternoon at the CSM Soccer Stadium.

Mines broke through in the 26th minute when Dani Hering played a ball far post that looked like it was on its way out of bounds when Erin Onat back heeled the ball in to give CSM the lead.

The University of Denver men's soccer team's spring schedule includes 2011 NCAA Tournament participant Tulsa at home, as well as road games against Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids and MPSF foe New Mexico, head coach Bobby Muuss announced.

"With so much of our team returning, we wanted to put together a very challenging spring schedule, and I believe what we were able to put together will really benefit our program in our continued development," Muuss said.

There's something about the soccer team out of Wichita Falls, Texas, that seems to bring out the worst in squads from Colorado.

The Colorado School of Mines, riding along on a storybook season, found that out on Sunday as they fell to Midwestern State 3-1 in the second round of the NCAA Division II men's tourney.

The No.3-ranked Colorado School of Mines men's soccer team thrashed No. 11 Regis University by a score of 5-1 on Thursday afternoon at the CSM Soccer Stadium in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

The Rangers jumped out to a 1-0 lead in similar fashion to the last time these two teams met.

After playing even for a half, Fort Lewis College erupted for three second-half goals and cruised to a 4-1 win over the Colorado School of Mines in Golden on Friday.

The Skyhawks scored first when Artur Piperkov connected for his first goal of the season 10 minutes into the match. Piperkov banged his shot in from 15 yards out.

Colorado School of Mines head men's soccer coach Frank Kohlenstein has been named the NSCAA (National Soccer Coaches Association of America) / Mondo Central Region Coach of the Year for the second straight year.

In his 13th season, Kohlenstein helped guide the 2010 Orediggers to a No. 1 ranking for four consecutive weeks becoming the first team at Mines ever to hold the top spot.