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coaches and leaves Northwestern - the next year Northwestern wins 4A
coaches and leaves Greenville - the next year Greenville wins 3A
coaches and leaves Riverside - the next year Riverside heads to the 3A Championship and has a good chance to win!

The curse lives on!!!

Interesting point! I think that all of those teams probably were loaded with talent from club ball. What amazes me are the teams that continually produce winners without that $$$ pipeline. It's easy to win with club players at the HS level - look at South Aiken with the Aiken Fire players.

It is really about having $$$ pipelines in urban areas like Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston. Big cities with lots of money and many soccer-playing children who eventually grow into soccer-playing high schoolers.

GIRLS
2A/1A - Woodruff 2-1 Bishop England
3A - Hilton Head 2-1 Riverside
4A - Wando 2-1 Mauldin

BOYS
1A - Academic Magnet 2-1 Christ Church
2A - Bishop England 3-0 Emerald
3A - Chapin 2-1 Riverside
4A - Northwestern 3-2 Spring Valley

SV 2-1 NW

Have seen both teams play Irmo and thought SV looked like the better team top to bottom. I think Holland is all the player Enzo is.

Bishop England 14 to 0

I don't know too much about the girls side, but let me tell you that it's taken a few days to get back on here after the Eastside (boys) loss. I really thought EHS would take the title again, but Riverside scored and we didn't, so congrats to the Warriors!

Therefore I feel like the upstate will once again prevail in AAA. Northwestern will upend Spring Valley in AAAA. Coin flip in the AA game with neither team nearly as strong as past squads. The 1A Final will be the same way. Hopefully there will be lots of goals and exciting soccer. I'll be there on Saturday.

Club tryouts and selections soon enough for the "second season". Can't wait!

girls
woodruff
riverside
mauldin

boys
NW
chapin
emerald
AM

jkr:
I agree with all your picks.

Emerald was up on Lexington 1-0 at half lost there top guy with a knee injury.Then lost 4 -1. I will agree they didn't play as well in the Palmetto cup but they had both of their best players whom were both seniors miss the next two games.They lost 3-0 to Eastside and tyed the next game but they have everyone healthy now, I think they give the private 2ABishop England a run for their money.