ESPNHS Boys' Soccer

Collin Martin, a Class of 2013 midfielder prospect from Bethesda, Md., verbally commited to Wake Forest, his family confirmed Friday.

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In a move long anticipated, US Soccer announced Friday that it will adopt a 10-month schedule starting next fall. US Soccer claims it received "overwhelming support from the Development Academy membership" for a season that will run from September through June or July of the following year. The move will prevent Academy players from representing their high school teams starting next school year, which was a source of debate and concern at the National Soccer Coaches Assocation of America Convention held last month. US Soccer prepared this list of frequently asked questions to explain the transition.

SARASOTA, Fla. -- The following are the scoring summaries from Friday's opening day of Under-17/18 competition for the Development Academy's Winter Showcase:

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The Los Angeles Daily News reported Tuesday that a school bus carrying a boys' soccer team to a match caught fire along I-5 in California. There were no reported injuries and the team was transfered to another bus in order to get to the match.

Read the Daily News report.

It comes as no surprise that Brophy Prep (Phoenix, Ariz.) checks in at No. 1 in The Arizona Republic preseason boys' soccer rankings. The defending state champ was the top-rated Arizona program and No. 2 overall in the POWERADE FAB 50 preseason rankings released in early November.

See The Arizona Republic classification rankings.

The ESPNHS state rankings will be updated each Monday throughout the fall season.

NOTES: The fall season includes the following states: California (fall), Colorado, Connecticut, D.C., Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia (private), West Virginia, Wisconsin. The number of ranking positions for each state is based on the size and competitiveness of the state.

Rankings Through Nov. 20.

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Conestoga (Berwyn, Pa.) capped an undefeated run with a 1-0 victory over Upper St. Clair (Upper St. Clair, Pa.) to capture the Pennsylvania Class AAA state title Saturday. Conestoga, ranked No. 6 in last week's POWERADE FAB 50, ended the season 24-0-1.

Read a complete match report from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Green Hope (Cary, N.C.), ranked No. 7 in last week's POWERADE FAB 50, survived a dramatic overtime finish against Myers Park (Charlotte, N.C.) to give Andrew Chadwick his first state title in his last match as the program's coach.

Read the match report from the Raleigh News and Observer.

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A change of venue did little to thwart the dominance of St. Louis schools at this year's Missouri boys' soccer state championships, which where held outside of St. Louis for the first time ever.

DeSmet (St. Louis, Mo.) defeated Oakville (Oakville, Mo.) for the Class 3 crown and Priory (St. Louis, Mo.) downed Trinity Catholic (St. Louis, Mo.) in the Class 2 final in Kansas City, Mo. All four finalists are St. Louis-area schools.

Read the match details from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Class 3: DeSmet defeated Oakville; Class 2: Priory caps undefeated season.

A goal in the closing seconds of regulation and one more early in overtime lifted Bowie (Bowie, Md.) to its ninth state title, defeating POWERADE FAB 50 No. 13 Walter Johnson (Bethesda, Md.), 2-1, in the Class 4A final.

Read the match report from The Washington Post.

The Republican is reporting Wednesday that Ludlow (Ludlow, Mass.) will not have any players suspended in the wake of an altercation at the end of the team's Division I state semifinal match Tuesday night against Worcester North (Worcester, Mass.).

For a detailed account of the incident, click here.

Forty of the nation's top fall-playing high school soccer seniors have been selected for the inaugural High School All-American Game, which will be held Dec. 10 in Birmingham, Ala.

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Each week, ESPNHS highlights the multi-goal scorers from the U.S. Soccer Development Academy.

Here are the top offensive performances from the weekend of Nov. 13-14:

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The last time the Concorde Fire under-17/18 squad played consecutive games against South Conference Southeast Division rivals South Carolina United Battery and Georgia United, the Fire gave as good as it received.

But there is only one problem with that.

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ESPNHS soccer tracks results of the Top 25 teams in the POWERADE FAB 50 in this forum. If we are missing a result, e-mail Sheldon Shealer at Sheldon.Shealer@espn.com.

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