For the straight second round, a winner in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup has had to forfeit after it was found to have used an ineligible player. Like the Ventura County Fusion, the PDL’s Villages SChad its second-round win — over the USL’s Charleston Battery in a shootout — overturned for having used a player who was cup-tied.

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