Women's Soccer Sun-Belt Conference Tournament

Game 1

The #1 seed FIU Golden Panthers lost in the first game to the #8 seed Arkansas Little Rock Trojans in front of the largest crowd on the day. Regulation ended with a scoreless tie, really a sleeper especially for a first thing in the morning game. The Trjoans striked quickly in overtime making the Golden Panthers best ever in conference regular season record a waste.

It's official, there is a Sun-Belt Conference tournament in South Florida with neither of the South Florida teams involved. It's going to be tough to draw local fans, or really any fans at all that aren't the parents of the remaining teams' players.

Game 2

#4 North Texas beat #5 Middle Tennessee State and faces UALR tomorrow at 4pm.

Game 3

#2 seed Denver, the most impressive looking team and the defending champion, won 3-0 dominating #7 Troy.

Game 4

#6 Arkansas State upset #3 Western Kentucky 2-1 after winning a shoot out 4-2. WKU had plenty of chances to score but couldn't capitalize. These two teams made sure that the day and night of soccer could not have possibly gone any longer. It was 1-1 after the first half and then no one scored through the second half or either of the two overtime periods.

#6 ASU faces #2 Denver tomorrow at 7pm.

Interesting Notes

- In the last week of the season it was a question if either of the Arkansas teams in the Sun-Belt Conference would make the playoffs. They each helped their cause by shutting out the Owls at FAU. Now they control their own destiny on facing each other in the Sun-Belt Conference Championship at FAU Soccer Complex.

- I will be missing my softball playoff game in order to call both the games for the tournament tomorrow. If we didn't have two months of rain outs with my softball team this wouldn't have happened. Let's hope for no rain in Boca and pouring rain in Fort Lauderdale tomorrow night just like what happened tonight so I can be good with both.

- The Sun Belt Conference Championship game is Saturday at 1pm