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Here are a few scores from today:

Northwestern 6 York 1
Rock Hill 3 Clover 2
Spring Valley 3 Ft.Mill 1
Rock Hill 1 York 1

other games are still in progress and the tournament continues all day saturday. check back here for updated scores.

northwestern 1 spring valley 1

after day one...three way tie for first...rock hill, northwestern and spring valley all have 9 points. spring valley plays rock hill at 10am saturday.

Saturday

Northwestern 6 - 2 Clover

Spring Valley beat Rockhill, but i don't know the score. The final is tonight at 7 i think.

Rock Hill 1 Spring Valley 3
Rock Hill 5 York 1
Ft Mill 4 York 3

Rock Hill finished 2-1-1
York finished 0-3-1

Not sure on the Ft Mill/Clover score in the 3rd/4th place game. Northwestern and SV are now playing for the championship.

check back later ... i may have the final results.

Congratulations to Mike Leddy of Northwestern and the others who made this tournament a great success. It was ran first class and also i'd like to add that ALL of the referees did an outstanding job. Good luck to all the participants of the NWHS Spring Break Tournament in the remaining games of your season.

Northwestern finished first. Beating Spring Valley 1-0.

I have heard that the center ref for the Northwestern v. Spring Valley has 2 kids at Northwestern High. I think that if a ref has anyone related to a school they shouldn't be allowed to ref center, but maybe the lines. The ref gave the advantage to Northwestern the entire game.

this tourney was very poorly done. the field was terrible with the middle being dirt and the grass on the sides being about 2 inches thick. as for the officiating it was horrible. i do not believe that it was poor officiating but partial. the center had 2 daughters that go to northwestern and one of the assistance was too busy talking and flirting with northwestern fans and students. at halftime he did not join the officiating crew but instead stayed on the sideline and talked with the northwestern fans. the officiating was so bad they allowed 2 players too take the sv keeper out in both cases they should have been red cards. in fact the goal that was scored had initially hit the top of the football goal post. this could be seen from anywhere on the field but was not called. you dont miss that call you choose not to call it. i would hope that sv never send a team back to that tourney it was unfair for the teams to play so hard and have to play on a field like that with that type of officiating.

yes, the officiating wasn't the highest quality, but the coaches for both teams agreed the controversial goal by northwestern in the game between nw and sv was indeed a goal, that it had not hit the football crossbar. all teams did well, and yea, fort mill, you know you got lucky, there wasn't a foul in the box, and you should not have beaten us. my props also to rhfrost against york, good luck the remainder of the season.

To Soccer Interested (member number 429)

I have registered today to respond to your crticism of the Northwestern Tournament. Alot of people worked very hard to make the tournament enjoyable. Your criticism of the tournament is undeserved. I hope you will take the time to read the rest of this to learn the facts.

1. Field condition- You criticism of the field conditions is accurate. Spring Valley had to play there twice. We have to play all our home games there. We have been in a struggle for 3 years with school and district administration to get something done without success. It all has to do with interschool politics. If you want to help get something done send me an e-mail through Mr Heise with your criticism of the field (leave the complaints about the officials out) and I can use it to try to get some action. It is in your interest to do this since we will be in your region next year.

2.Officials

the reply was posted before I finished. As you should know officials are assigned by an assignor certified by the League. The schools have nothing to do with it. Your cricism of the officiating is totally onesided and off base. The call on the winning goal was correct. The official had a better view than any spectator; your coach said the call was correct and we have it on video tape which clearly shows that the ball only hit the cross bar of the soccer goal.

The official you complain about talking to the fans is the same official who called a penalty on the Northwestern goal keeper in the first game which allowed Spring Valley to tie the game. I guess you forgot to mention that. There were just as many fouls and yellow cards given to Northwestern as Spring Valley. There were a number of fouls which could have been called against Spring Valley which the official chose to let go. Spring Valley is a good team that plays tough aggressive soccer. So is Northwestern. These are two evenly matched teams who have already tied twice and either team could have won this game. Spring Valley had its chances. Neither the officiaitng nor the field condition stopped Spring Valley from scoring.

This is to the Northwestern Parent.
Why did you have this tournament on that field if you knew it was in such bad shape? Aren't there other fields in Rock Hill that are in better shape? The tournament was well managed, other than a few refs. Overall, great tournament and good competitive soccer.

Well i was once a student at Northwestern and yeah some of the fields are a little ruff. But you guys are making it sound as if you cant even play soccer there. That isnt nothing at all you should try-out for there team when there is2 feet of snow then you know that it is ruff. And another reason why did you play since you know the field is in such bad shape?

About Northwestern's field...Having played there several times in the past few years, I have a plethora of knowledge about the issue. Very poor conditions! Very poorly kept! The part of it that gets me the most is that it is Northwestern, a very reputable school, a big school. It is not a rinky dink no-name school. Now, I understand that they are in the process of building a new soccer site, but that doesn't mean that the current facilities shouldn't be kept up to par. And you know it probably has nothing to do with the coaches. Somebody, particularly a person within that school system, should raise heck!!!!

There is nothing we can do about it. All of our parents and our coach try to get the field as good as we can. But during the football season it all goes to waste. It isn't our decision. It is the school districts. Anyway you can't blame the field for everything. Everyone plays in the same conditons. We arn't used to the field either. We are trying as best as we can.