Nick Berndt (JR, Berwin, Ill./St. Joseph HS) scored on a crossing shot on a sprint six minutes into the second overtime, as host Loras College (Iowa) rallied from a 1-0 deficit to claim a 2-1 victory over Augsburg College in an NCAA Division III national playoff sectional semifinal game on Saturday night at the Rock Bowl.

Augsburg (12-4-7), in the NCAA playoffs for the first time in school history, took the lead two minutes into the second half, as Marcus Elmerskog (FY, Trondheim, Norway) scored on a header off a free kick by Andrew Seidel (SR, Woodbury, Minn.) from 30 yards out.

D.J. Wendell (JR, Princeton, Minn./Charles M. Russell (Mont.) HS) scored from Van Hong (SO, St. Louis Park, Minn.) on a crossing shot in the 63rd minute, as the Augsburg College men’s soccer team advanced to the sectionals of the NCAA Division III national tournament with a 1-0 victory over host Redlands College (Calif.) in a second-round game on Sunday afternoon at Farquhar Field.

Augsburg (12-3-7 overall) will travel to Dubuque, Iowa, to face host Loras (Iowa, 18-4-1 overall) in the sectionals on Saturday (11/22) at 7:30 p.m. The Dubuque sectional site will also include Ohio Northern (19-5-1) and Hobart (N.Y., 18-0-3), which will meet in the other third-round game on Saturday at 5 p.m. The winners of the two third-round games will meet on Sunday (11/23) at 6 p.m. in the sectional final in Dubuque, with the winner earning a trip to the national semifinals on Dec. 5 in Greensboro, N.C.

Going into the last week of the regular season, Augsburg’s men’s soccer team has moved into one of the most important rankings of all — the NCAA Division III regional rankings. In the latest rankings released today, the Auggies are ranked No. 5 in the West Region. Carleton leads the West Region rankings, followed by Loras (Iowa), Redlands (Calif.), Whitworth (Wash.), Augsburg, St. Thomas and Chapman (Calif.).

Major League Soccer, together with its national television networks – ESPN2 and ABC, Fox Soccer Channel/Fox Sports en Español, HDNet and TeleFutura – has unveiled the 2008 Regular Season schedule. Major League Soccer’s four national television partners will again combine to broadcast 113 games.

In the League’s 13th season, each of the 14 clubs will play 30 Regular Season games over 31 weeks, for a total of 210 matches from March 29 – Oct. 26. Each team will play each other twice (home and away), for 26 games. The remaining four games will be played against different intra-conference teams (two home and two away), with consideration given to rivalries.

The U.S. Men’s National Team continued their dominating undefeated streak at home against Mexico this evening with an exciting 2-2 draw in front of 70,103 fans at Reliant Stadium in Houston.

The match was a high-paced affair, with the U.S. jumping out to a 2-1 lead at halftime, only to surrender the tying goal just two minutes into the second half to Mexico’s Jonny Magallón, who had both goals for the Tri-Colores. The U.S. goals came from defender Oguchi Onyewu and 18-year-old Jozy Altidore, making his first start for the United States.

Chris Willaims over on Goal.com has written a great editorial about how soccer’s biggest clubs have outgrown the domestic game, and it is time for a European Super League. The thing about the article that got my attention though was a little bit about the Big Four in England.

Since the beginning of the 2004/2005 season, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United combinded have played 236 league games at home to sides not in the Big Four. Out of those 236 games, they’ve lost just five! And of the five defeats, three of them were at the hands of West Ham!

Below is a little snippet of the editorial, be sure to read the full editorial.

U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley has named the 22 players that will travel to Houston to prepare for the upcoming showdown with Mexico at Reliant Stadium in Houston. The match will be part of a two-and-half-hour broadcast window on both ESPN2 and Univision beginning at 8 p.m. CT. Fans will also be able to listen to the match on 75 affiliates of the Fútbol de Primera Radio Network, and can follow live online via ussoccer.com’s MatchTracker.

US Soccer has unveiled the new 2008 Home kits, and once again they are a completely new style. The new kits are white and gray hoops with red piping, to me it looks more like a golf shirt than anything. In the last few years we have had white with a red and blue vertical stripe, blue with white and red horizontal stripe, royal blue with white pinstripes, red with white and blue sash (the "Don’t Tread On Me" kit that I wish we would keep), white with red and blue sides, red and white stripes, stonewashed blue with white stars, vanilla and blue, and white with blue and red diagonal stripes on shoulder and shorts. While the kit has kept the red, white, and blue, the actual design changes way too much. Other countries keep the same colors as well as the same basic designs, only changing small things, usually due to kit manufacturers chaning templates.

David Beckham and the LA Galaxy are coming to the Dome to play an exhibition match against a to be determined team this October. The Minnesota Thunder will officially announce the match tommorow at a press conference. So far it is not known who the Galaxy will play, there is speculation that it is a team from "south-of-the-border". The match is scheduled for 8pm on October 10th, but that may move if the Twins reach the ALCS and have a home game that Wednesday. Tickets will be going on sale at 4pm today, starting at $40 up to $175 for field seats.

Online voting is now open for the 2007 Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Game. Voting runs until 25 June, and you can vote up to 10 times a day. So head over to MLSnet and vote! You can select 1 keeper, three defenders, five midfielders and two forwards. And no, David Beckham is not in the list of players to vote for, who were selected at the start of the season by their teams. The All-Star game will be played on July 19th against Scotland’s Celtic FC at the new Dick’s Sporting Good’s Park in Colorado. Be sure to tune in to ESPN2 at 9:00pm EST to watch the action.