Ron West Walnut Creek, Calif. Here's another cap question. Does a player get a cap if he is on the active roster, but remains on the bench for the entire match? Mike Woitalla: Ron, a player must get on the field during the game to be awarded a cap. FIFA, the world's governing body, monitors national federations' cap counts for record-keeping purposes. FIFA will confirm from official match reports that a player did indeed play, and that the game was a full international -- i.e. between two national teams rather than between a nation and a club or between Olympic …

WOMEN'S NCAA DIVISION II Central Region 1 No. Kentucky 10-0-0 DA St. Joseph 3-2, DA Indianapolis 2-0 2 North Dakota 8-0-1 DA South Dakota 4-1 3 UMN-Duluth 5-1-0 DH Moorhead State 2-1, DH MN-Crookston 7-0 4 Minnesota State 6-4-1 LA No. Colorado 1-3, LA Col. Christian 2-4 4 Indianapolis 7-3-0 DH IUPFW 8-0, LH No. Kentucky 0-2 6 SIU-Ed 5-2-0 DA Quincy 5-0, DA So. Indiana 1-0 7 So. Indiana 3-3-0 DH UMSL 4-0, LH SIU-E 0-1 8 Central Missouri State 7-3-0 DA Missouri Valley 2-0, DN St. Cloud State 2-0, LN Nebraska Omaha 0-2 9 Winona State 4-3-0 10 …

Sept. 28 in Bradenton, Fla. USA 5 Paraguay 3. Goals: Beckerman 17, 33, 53 (pen.), Cila 80, Beasley 85; Villalba 12, Fugueredo 14, 60 (pen.). USA -- Countess, Akwari, Yi, Withers (Cutler, 19), Martin (Onyewu, 46), Kalso (Trembly, 46), Beckerman, Jackson, Beasley, Convey, Thompson (Cila, 70). Paraguay -- Caballero, Villalba, De Vaca, Melgarejo (Vera, 64), Guerrero, Fretes, Moreno, Santa Cruz, DaSilva, Guzman, Figueredo. Red cards: USA -- Onyewu 89; Paraguay -- De Vaca 89, DaSilva 89. Att.: 100.

Goalkeeper Matt Jordan (4) Dallas Defenders Clint Peay (1) D.C. United Diego Sonora (2) D.C. United Jorge Rodriguez (1) Dallas Midfielders Dario Brose (2) San Jose Mark Chung (2) MetroStars Chad Deering (1) Dallas Forwards Ronald Cerritos (5) San Jose Jeff Cunningham (4) Columbus Brian McBride (1) Columbus Eduardo Hurtado (2) MetroStars ò In parentheses is the number of times a player has been named to the Team of the Week.

æIÆm focused up frontÆ Crew forward Brian McBride says heÆs going back to being a targetman after dabbling in midfield for much of the season. SA: Losing to Rochester in the Open Cup semis must rank as one of your most frustrating defeats. BM: Even more frustrating is walking around in the stands at the final and seeing your own fans looking at you and going, ôWhy arenÆt you guys out there?ö ThereÆs no other way of explaining it except that it pisses you off. SA: D.C. United swept you in four games, you lost three of four to Tampa …

WOMEN'S NCAA DIVISION III Central Region 1 Wheaton 8-0-0 DH North Park 7-0, DA North Central 6-0, DA Kalamazoo 3-2 2 Macalester 7-1-0 DA St. Benedict 1-0, DH Cornell 3-1, DA Augsburg 3-0 3 Washington U. 7-1-0 DH Case Western 2-0 4 WI-Stevens Point 7-1-0 DA Whitewater 1-0, DA Stout 6-0 5 St. Mary's 7-0-0 DA St. Thomas 1-0, DH St Olaf 2-1 6 Gustavus Adolphus 7-1-0 DH St. Olaf 4-0, DA Concordia 3-0 7 WI-La Crosse 7-1-0 DH Platteville 4-0, LH St. Thomas 0-1 8 Chicago 4-2-1 DH Carnegie Mellon 2-0 9 St. Thomas 3-3-0 DA LaCrosse 0-1, LH …

MEN'S NCAA DIVISION III Great Lakes Region 1 Otterbein 7-0-0 DH Ohio Wesleyan 3-0 2 Earlham 9-0-0 DH Anderson 3-1, DA Wooster 1-0 3 Heidelberg 9-0-0 DA Kenyon 4-0, DA Rochester 9-0 4 Ohio Wesleyan 5-1-1 LA Otterbein 0-3, DA Ohio Northern 6-1 5 De Pauw 5-1-1 DH Trinity 2-1, DH Southwestern 3-2 6 Allegheny 7-2-0 DH Washington & Jefferson 1-0, DH Denison 2-1 7 Kalamazoo 5-1-0 DH Defiance 12-0, DA Olivet 1-0 8 Hope 6-2-0 DA Calvin 2-1, DA Albion 2-1 9 Denison 6-2-0 DA Marietta 2-1, LA Allegheny 1-2 10 Whittenberg 5-3-0 DN Baldwin-Wallace 5-2, DN Anderson 5-1 …

MENÆS NCAA DIVISION II Central Region 1 Lewis 6-2-1 DH Bellarmine 2-1, DH Kentucky Wesl. 4-1 2 Truman State 5-2-1 No activity 3 Wisconsin-Parkside 7-1-1 DH Kentucky Wesl. 3-0, DH Bellarmine 3-0 4 Indianapolis 6-3-0 DH IUP-Fort Wayne 2-0, DH No. Kentucky 2-0 5 IUP-Fort Wayne 7-2-0 LA Indianapolis 2-0, DA St. Joseph's 5-0 Far West Region 1 Seattle Pacific 6-1-1 DH W. Baptist 2-0 2 UC Davis 9-1-0 DA Chico State 4-0, DA CSLA 2-0, DA Grand Canyon 1-0 3 CS Dominguez Hills 6-3-0 DA CSUB 1-0, DA CS Stanislaus 4-3 4 Grand Canyon 7-2-0 DH CS San …

WOMEN'S NCAA DIVISION I Central Region 1 Nebraska 8-1-1 DH Tulsa 9-0, TA Clemson 0-0 2 Texas A&M 9-1-0 DA Texas 5-0, DA TCU 4-0 3 Baylor 7-2-0 DH Evansville 2-0 4 Missouri 7-2-0 DH Loyola 6-0 5 So. Methodist 6-3-0 DH Evansville 2-0 6 Iowa State 8-2-0 LA Arizona 1-3, DH N. Arizona 3-2 7 Colorado 7-3-0 DH Air Force 2-0, DH Utah 2-1 8 Texas 5-3-0 LH Texas A&M 5-0 9 TCU 6-3-0 DA Texas Tech 2-1, LA Texas A&M 0-4 10 Mississippi 8-2-0 DH Auburn 6-1, DH Alabama 2-0 Great Lakes Region 1 Notre Dame 6-2-0 …

Rochester advanced to the Eastern Conference finals against Hershey with a 2-0 win over Pittsburgh in Game 3 of their series at Frontier Field. The Rhinos open the Eastern Conference finals at Hershey Oct. 3. Sept. 28 in Rochester, N.Y. Rochester 2 Pittsburgh 0. Goals: D.Miller (Biello) 35, Daligcon 49. Rochester -- Onstad, Restrepo, Schweitzer (Zavala, 68), Walton, Daligcon, Allnutt, Kirmse, Miller, (Mercik, 85), Biello, Tilley (Young, 71), Hardy. Pittsburgh -- Dedini, Evans, DePalma, Kot, (Bell, 58), Butler (Castma, 69), Apple (Karn,71), Vasic, Ezzy, Bonseu, Jaworski (Tripoli, 46), Terlecky. Att.: 6,541.

Here's a look at MLS and CONCACAF Champions Cup games on television this week: Date Matchup Kickoff (ET) Television September 29 *D.C. United vs. Olimpia (Honduras) 9:00 p.m. Fox Sports World September 29 Colorado at Los Angeles 10:30 p.m. No TV October 1 *Chicago Fire vs. Alajuela (Costa Rica) 9:00 p.m. Fox Sports World October 1 *Semifinals - Teams TBD 11:00 p.m. Fox Sports World October 1 San Jose at Colorado 9:00 p.m. Fox Sports Bay Area October 2 MetroStars at New England 7:30 p.m. Fox Sports New England October 3 Los Angeles at Dallas 1:00 p.m. …

Group E Sept. 28 in Madrid Real Madrid (Spain) 3 Porto (Portugal) 1. Goals: Morientes 22, Helguera 37, Hierro pen. 67; M. Jardel 23. Half: 2-1. Att.: 27,000. Sept. 28 in Athens Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece) 3 Molde (Norway) 1. Goals: Giovanni 15, 69, Luciano 77; Lund 58. Half: 1-0. Att.: 50,000. Club GP W T L GF GA P Real Madrid 3 2 1 0 10 5 7 Porto 3 2 0 1 4 3 6 Olympiakos Piraeus 3 1 1 1 6 6 4 Molde 3 0 0 3 2 8 0 Remaining matches: Oct. …

METROSTARS 1 SAN JOSE 2 Sept. 22 Att.: 7,215 Goals MetroStars: Zambrano (Kelly, Lozzano) 35. San Jose: Brose 12, Cerritos (Brose, Sequeira) 53. SA Report Card MetroStars: Ammann 5, Petke 4, Semioli 5, Khakpour 5, Corrales 5, Villegas 5, Walsh 5, Lozzano 5 (Chung, 59th, 5), Kelly 6 (Joseph, 76th, 5), Zambrano 6, Hurtado 5. San Jose: Cannon 6, Wright 4, Doyle 6, Conrad 5, Mulrooney 5, Cloutier 5, (O'Brien, 67th, 5), Solis 5, Lewis 5, Brose 7, Sequeira 6 (Bower, 87th, NR), Cerritos 6. Yellow cards MetroStars: Khakpour 25, Semioli 76, Petke 87. Referee: Noel Kenny. Assistants: Chip Reed, …

Steve Schermerhorn Deerfield, Ill. I am a former high school coach. A parent recently contacted me about scholarships. I remember a publication that listed all of the colleges and universities in the country that had soccer programs. It also listed the names of coaches, available scholarships, cost, etc. Was that publication Soccer America? If so, how may I attain a copy of the specific "college" issue. My sincere thanks for all of your efforts. Mike Woitalla: Soccer America's 1999 College Choice issue marked our 21st annual college guide, which includes the information you mention. To obtain a copy, call Distribution …

The following are quotes from the Sept. 28 MLS media teleconference, which featured D.C. United Head Coach Thomas Rongen, Chicago Fire General Manager Peter Wilt, Chicago Fire Midfielder Jesse Marsch. Thomas Rongen Opening Comments: "This tournament is very important for both Chicago and for us ... The winner will allow some prestige for MLS ... We are certainly measuring ourselves within CONCACAF with very good competition ... I think our draw in the first round against Olimpia on Wednesday might be the toughest in the first round ... They are the current Central American Champions and with Toluca and Necaxa …