Both the Spartans (6-0-1) and the Bulls (7-1-1) were recognized for good results from last week in the NSCAA poll released today.
UT beat the top ranked Lynn University team on Saturday evening and edged up in the Division II rankings from number four last week, to number three this week. Lynn's loss to the Spartans dumped them all the way to number fourteen. Click to continue reading...

On Sunday afternoon, Mallori Lofton-Malachi [left] and the South Florida defense did what now other team this season has been able to do: Shutout Rutgers' potent attack. Coming into the match, the Scarlet Knights had not met a team that could keep them off the score sheet for ninety minutes, including two top twenty-five teams. Click to continue reading...

If defense wins championships, then the South Florida men (7-1-1) looked like champions on Saturday night. Cincinnati (7-4-0) was scoring two goals a game on average before they met USF's defense. It wasn't easy, but thanks to seven saves, including stopping a late penalty kick, Jeff Attinella [left] recorded his fourth shutout of the year. Click to continue reading...

The South Florida women edged visiting Seton Hall (4-6-1) on Friday night with a 1-0 victory off a goal by Chelsea Klotz [left]. Her eighty-fourth minute goal, assisted by Noelle Pineiro, was the second time in as many games that the duo had teamed up for the game winner. Last Sunday, the roles were reversed as Klotz assisted on Pineiro's late goal that sealed West Virginia's defeat at the USF Soccer Stadium. Click to continue reading...

Former USF star, Jeff Cunningham, continues his good form of late with the only goal in a 1-0 win against the New England Revolution on Wednesday night. The FC Dallas striker now has sixteen goals on the season and is now one goal ahead of Conor Casey of the Rapids for the MLS scoring lead. Cunningham's goal came in the seventy-first minute of play and secured a valuable three points for his club. Click to continue reading...

USF's leading scorer, Noelle Pineiro [left], secured a big win for the Bulls on Sunday with an assist and then a goal to defeat West Virginia (4-3-4) in front of just 267 at the USF Soccer Stadium. Pineiro, a sophomore from Bradenton, has been USF's most consistent source of scoring this season, while the team has lacked the finishing touch at times. Click to continue reading...

What did the Bulls really need after being upset by West Virginia on Friday night in a Big East Conference match? How about a date with the Big East whipping boys Pittsburgh Panthers (1-8-0)? Perfect.
South Florida (6-1-1) pushed the attack against Pitt, out shooting them 19-10. The Bulls were rewarded at the quarter hour mark when Andre Mittoo scored his first goal of the season. Click to continue reading...

Saturday night, Jeff Cunningham scored what turned out to be the game winner in the fifth minute of play for FC Dallas. Later, in the eighty-seventh minute, Cunningham added an insurance goal as Dallas topped Real Salt Lake at home.
The two goals, coupled with Jaime Moreno's goal for DC United on Sunday, means that Cunningham is now ten goals behind the DC veteran for the MLS all time goal scoring record. Click to continue reading...

A large crowd of over 1,500 turned out on a cool Friday evening in Morgantown to watch West Virginia (3-2-2) shock the number three ranked Bulls barely a minute into overtime. Ninety minutes of regulation time yielded a poor effort from South Florida (5-1-1) as they failed to get one of their just three shots on the Mountaineer goal. Click to continue reading...

When: Tonight, 8pm
Where: Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium, Morgantown, WV
South Florida (5-0-1) travels tonight to take on the Mountaineers (2-2-2) in the Bulls' third Big East game of the season. USF has a number three ranking in the latest NSCAA poll to defend and would like to improve its position in the Big East Red Division, where the Bulls are in third place after two matches. Click to continue reading...

Note to Rowdies management: Please, oh pretty please, include a roof on the stadium you are building, wherever it my end up. I don't mean one of these so-called roofs that don't cover anything. I mean an honest to God roof. The kind that keeps the sun off my face and the rain off my back.
My hunch is that the Rowdies will play at USF in 2010 and hopefully move into a new stadium of their own design in 2011. Click to continue reading...

On Sunday, if the Bulls were all theatre majors, they would have been presenting an encore performance of Friday's draw against Marquette. Get an early goal, but fail to put away your opponent and let them hang around and get enough chances until they are able to score an equalizer. Then the grand finale is to have your fans on the edge of their seats for twenty minutes of overtime before settling for a tie. Click to continue reading...

Former USF star, Jeff Cunningham continues his climb up the various MLS scoring charts. FC Dallas' Cunningham scored his thirteenth goal of the 2009 season in the fifty-fourth minute of Saturday's away loss to the Kansas City Wizards. The goal put Dallas up 2-1, but the Wizards scored twice in the last quarter hour to hand Dallas its twelfth loss of the season. Click to continue reading...

When: Today, 4pm
Where: Stetson Soccer Complex, Deland, FL
After dropping their Big East Conference opener 2-1 to Marquette on Thursday, the Bulls (2-4-1) face a non-conference opponent in Stetson this afternoon. This will be South Florida's final non-conference match. These schools drew 1-1 last season in Tampa. Click to continue reading...

Stanford Men Beat Santa Clara (http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-soccer/stan-m-soccer-body.html) USF Don's Men Fall To Cal (http://www.usfdons.com/sports/m-soccer/sanf-m-soccer-body.html) 6-1-1 Sac State Head to Winless Cal Poly... Click to continue reading...

When: Tonight, 7:30pm
Where: USF Soccer Stadium
South Florida (4-0-0) starts its Big East Conference schedule, tonight, at home to Marquette (1-3-0). Last season, Marquette was the doormat of the conference, winning just one conference match. USF comes into this match ranked number five by the current NSCAA poll. Click to continue reading...

South Florida's offensive difficulties continued tonight in Wisconsin against Marquette (6-2-1). The Bulls (2-4-1) dropped the curtain raiser for their 2009 Big East Conference schedule 2-1 to the Golden Eagles. USF has only had one multiple goal performance this season and has been shutout twice. Click to continue reading...

A left knee injury suffered while playing for FC Dallas will keep St Petersburg native and former USF Bull, Anthony Wallace, from playing in his second U20 World Cup later this month.
Wallace [above, in action for the USA in the last U20 World Cup] played in the 2007 U20 World Cup when the USA made it to the quarterfinals. Click to continue reading...

Two USF players, one current and one former, have received accolades for last week's performances.
South Florida's junior goalkeeper, Jeff Attinella, was named the Big East Conference goalkeeper of the week based on his two shutouts last week. The 1-0 wins against Valparaiso and Virginia Tech have paced the Bulls to a perfect 4-0-0 start. Click to continue reading...

After South Florida's red hot performance on Friday night, beating Austin Peay 6-0, the Bulls went ice cold on Sunday against UCF. USF has had trouble scoring goals this season except in their rout of Austin Peay and against the Knights, they had difficulty even getting a shot on goal. The Bulls had just four on the day and only one was on goal. Click to continue reading...

The two biggest stars in MLS, Landon Donovan and David Beckham, were upstaged in their own stadium by one of the league's most prolific goalscorers.
Former USF ace, Jeff Cunningham, scored two goals and an assist to lead MLS also-ran FC Dallas to a stunning 6-3 victory over the Galaxy at the Home Depot Center on Saturday. Click to continue reading...

Jeff Attinella posted his third consecutive shutout in the Bulls net to boost South Florida to a 4-0-0 record in a game where both schools could only muster seven shots apiece. Attinella now has a stingy 0.25 GAA for the season.
USF capitalized on one of those shots, just a minute into the second half. Click to continue reading...

When: Today, Noon
Where: USF Soccer Stadium
South Florida will host LSU today and both schools enter the match with identical 1-1-1 records and both are short on goals scored. The Tigers have scored three on the season and the Bulls have netted just two.
Good goalkeeping from senior Mallori Lofton-Malachi has kept the Bulls season on track. Click to continue reading...

On a wet and stormy evening, the two hundred eighty-two stalwart fans who came out for the first day of the Dafedecker Classic at USF Soccer Stadium watched 220 minutes of soccer without seeing a single goal.
The first match of the double header saw UCF and LSU play forty-five scoreless minutes before a nearly two hour delay due to weather. Click to continue reading...

You could tell that the regular season was here by looking at the number of fouls and cards in tonight's match. This was definitely not a friendly exhibition. The 1,184 on hand witnessed UCF accumulate five yellow cards and two reds, while USF had two yellows.
In fact, the Golden Knights had already seen yellow twice, before the Bulls got the first goal of the match in the twenty-fourth minute. Click to continue reading...

When: Today 1pm
Where: James G Pressley Stadium, Gainesville
In the early afternoon heat today the Bulls will square off against the Gators. Unfortunately for gridiron fans, it will be for the third installment of the women's soccer series between the schools and not a date with Tim Tebow. Click to continue reading...

USA U20 coach Thomas Rongen has selected his squad for the upcoming U20 World Cup in Egypt and St Petersburg product Anthony Wallace [pictured right for FC Dallas] is among his selections.
Wallace, who plays in the midfield, enrolled at USF after high school and played just one season with the Bulls. Click to continue reading...

Both the USF and UT women kicked off their regular season campaigns at home yesterday, with the Bulls getting a win and the Spartans settling for a draw.
UT (0-0-1) tied North Georgia 2-2 by allowing two late goals by the Saints (0-1-1). The 24th ranked Division II school in the country, UT out shot the visitors 20-7, but saw their lead slip away as North Georgia was able to convert on a couple of their handful of shots. Click to continue reading...

When: Tonight, 7:30pm
Where: USF Soccer Stadium
The Bulls will entertain Stetson in USF's final tuneup before the regular season gets underway. USF is 1-1 so far, with a victory over University of Tampa and a loss to national power Akron. Stetson's only preseason action this year was a win over Rollins College. Click to continue reading...

Former USF striker Jeff Cunningham [above] is still searching for his 114th career MLS goal, which would tie him for second on the all-time list with Ante Razov. In Sunday's 3-2 loss to the Redbulls, Cunningham assisted on FC Dallas' first goal in the nineteenth minute. The assist was his 64th of his career and fourth of the season. Click to continue reading...

In an effort to expand St Leo University's recruiting into both Canada and internationally, the school has added Quebec native Annie Hamel. A graduate of the University of Maine, Hamel has also served as a graduate assistant at her Alma mater for a season after her 2004 graduation. Her other coaching experience includes a stint with the W-League's Ottawa Fury U-20 team. Click to continue reading...

USF continued their dominance over their local rivals, University of Tampa, with a 4-1 victory tonight at the USF soccer stadium. The fifth annual exhibition, dubbed the Rowdies Cup in honor of the 1975 NASL Champions, saw the Spartans head back to the south end of town still seeking their first win of the series. Click to continue reading...

Former USF star Jeff Cunningham [right] scored the only goal of the game in the twentieth minute to lead FC Dallas to a rare victory over cross-state rival Houston Dynamo. It was the striker's ninth goal of the MLS season.
Cunningham, who had four shots in the match, was also chopped down in the Houston penalty area by Tampa native Bobby Boswell in the twelfth minute. Click to continue reading...

Former University of South Florida defender Neven Subotic [pictured right] is being pursued by both Arsenal and Manchester City of the English Premiership according to reports.
The Serbian international has been a hot property since leaving USF for Germany in 2006. Subotic represented the USA at the youth international level, before committing his senior allegiance to his birthplace Serbia. Click to continue reading...

Eleven of USF's returning players didn't go very far this summer to sharpen their skills. They either played with the WPSL's Galactics Amazons or the W-League's Tampa Bay Hellenic. Both clubs enjoyed good success with Galactics finishing fourth in a very tight division race and Hellenic securing their first playoff berth with a second place finish in the Atlantic Division. Click to continue reading...