Here are the latest poll results from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for the week ending 9/24 for local high schools and college.

In the high school latest national poll only DeMatha is in the top 25 for boy's soccer. DeMatha broke into the top 25 this week at #18 with a 8-0-3 record. In Region IV, DeMatha is at #3 followed by McDonogh at #5 with a 9-1-0 record, River Hill at #7 with a 4-0-1 record and Broadneck at #12 with a 5-1-0 record.

With the release of the lastest soccer rankings some teams moved up and some fell out of the rankings.

In Division I Men's College Soccer the Terps moved up to the #2 position in this week's national poll. Maryland 5-1-0 moved from #4 to #2. Loyola stayed at #17 with a 6-0-1 record. Maryland stayed #1 in the South region with Towson at 4-2-0 breaking in at #8. Loyola stayed at #1 in the North Atlantic Region with Mt. St. Mary's at 3-2-1 at #9.

The Baltimore-Washington area has always been a soccer hot bed for as long as I can remember. This year is no different with area teams, both high school and college, earning national rankings.

At the high school level McDonogh Girls Soccer Team is currently ranked #1 in the latest NSCAA Poll. In the latest Region IV Poll there are three area teams ranked at #1, #9 and #10. Of course, McDonogh is at #1 and Good Counsel is at #9 and Quince Orchard is #10.

Today at the Tower (1st Mariner Building) Baltimore Blast owner Ed Hale announced the formation of a new league for this upcoming season at a press conference. The new league will be name the NISL or National Indoor Soccer League.

Five clubs will make up the new NISL. The clubs are the Baltimore Blast, LaRaza de Monterrey, Philadelphia Kixx, Orlando Sharks and the Rockford Rampage. Each team will play a 18 game schedule with 9 home games and 9 away games. Games and s ...

Looking for something to do this Labor Day Weekend?? Don't want to travel far?? Well check out the 1st Annual Deofest this Sunday August 31st at Slainte Irish Pub, Koopers Tavern and Woody's Rum Bar down in Fells Point.

The Crystal Palace Football Club will be holding this event to celebrate the life of Matt DeOrsey and to help raise money for The Epilepsy Foundation. Come out and mingle with the Crystal Palace players and coaches and meet some new friends.

The Crystal Palace FC went into last night's semi final game against the Charlotte Eagles hoping to fair better then their previous meeting; which was an embarassing lost.

Crystal Palace left everything on the field against the Charlotte Eagles but came up short in the end losing 2-1. The Crystal Palace side opened the scoring in the 5th minute when Val Teixeira assisted on a goal by Shintaro Harada off of a free kick just outside of the box.

Both ...

Last night the Crystal Palace FC outlasted the Harrisburg City Islanders in the 1st Round of the USL2 Playoffs to win 7-6 in penalty kicks.

Both teams went at each other right from the beginning of the game, but Crystal Palace drew first blood in the 9th minute of the game. CP's Gary Brooks header gave CP an early 1-0 lead. CP's Shintaro Harada assisted on the play with a beautiful cross to Brooks.

Only minutes later Harrisburg came back to tie th ...

It had to be a long, long drive home for the Crystal Palace team last night after being embarrassed in Richmond by the Kickers.

The Richmond Kickers beat Crystal Palace 5-0 to finish the regular season. Crystal Palace was never in the game as Richmond dominated from the start to the end of the game. The loss gives Crystal Palace a 11-8-1 record for the season.

Crystal Palace will have to find a fix for their problems quickly. Their last 9 games Cr ...

As everyone knows WNST held it's 10th Anniversary yesterday at Sports Legends. My family went to the event and had a tremedous time.

I emailed Nestor this morning to thank him again for having us at the event and to tell him how much fun our son Connor had at the event.

Connor and I were in the basement and he was attempting to an announcer at one of the displays at Sports Legends and John Buren the former Sportscaster from Chann ...

Tomorrow's matchup between Crystal Palace and Richmond could be a preview of a semi-final playoff matchup.

The 3-1 loss to Bermuda was a hard one for the Crystal Palace FC to swallow but it didn't finish their chances for a 3rd place spot in the upcoming playoffs.

Even if Crystal Palace wins tomorrow in Richmond (CP beat them at home 2-0) it will not guarantee them a 3rd place spot in the playoffs. That disappeared as their defense did when they l ...

Dreams of a 1st Round playoff bye and a berth into the semi-final went by the side after the Richmond Kickers beat the Wilmington Hammerheads Saturday 3-2. So all the Crystal Palace team has left to play for is a 3rd Place finish in the standings and a 3rd Place berth into the playoffs.

3rd Place was still within the grasp of the Crystal Palace side going into Sunday's game against the Bermuda Hogges. Mayor Dixon invited the Crystal Palace FC to mov ...

Last night the Crystal Palace squad held on for dear life as the Real Maryland squad tried to steal one away. Going into stoppage time Crystal Palace held a 3-1 lead and had for the most part dominated the Real Maryland side.

Real Maryland scored their second goal of the game in the second minute of stoppage time when Nilson Perez found the net to make the game 3-2. Just a minute later Real Maryland had thought they had stolen a point when an errand back pass by Crys ...

Crystal Palace FC went into tonight's game against league leading Charlotte Eagles with high hopes of gaining ground in the playoff seatings with a win.

This was all over quickly in tonight's game. Charlotte scored in the 8th minute of the game and then in the 17th minute; then never looked back. In the 8th minute Charlotte's Dustin Swinehart scored his 1st of two goals on the night with a header. In the 17th minute Charlotte's Jorge Herrera scored to make it 2-0.< ...

This past Thursday the Crystal Palace FC won their matchup against Harrisburg 2-1 to earn a berth into the playoffs. Crystal Palace became the 4th team to earn a playoff spot, leaving two more spots up in the air.

The true test for the Crystal Palace FC comes tonight in Charlotte against the 1st Place Eagles. Crystal Palace had their worst showing of the year against this same team earlier this year when they lost to the Eagles 3-1 at home. That night nothing seemed ...