SOCCER: PACHUCA LEAGUE CHAMPS.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Richard Nunez converted a 79th-minute penalty kick, and Pachuca won its fourth Mexican Primera Division Primera División (Spanish for First Division) can refer to:
Goalkeeper Miguel Calero made two big saves in the first half, and Pachuca, the top seed in the playoffs, was inches from two more second-half goals. The first leg, Thursday in San Luis Potosi San Lu·is Po·to·sí A city of central Mexico northeast of León. It was founded in the late 1500s and is a mining, transportation, and industrial center. Population: 659,000. Noun 1. , was a scoreless draw. Nunez scored after Angel Reyna was whistled for knocking down Andres Chitiva as he raced into the left side of San Luis' box. Luis Angel Landin struck the crossbar from 13 yards in the 72nd minute, and Gabriel Caballero's header sailed just wide in stoppage time. San Luis' best chances were in the first half, but Pachuca's Leobardo Lopez stopped Israel Martinez in the box in the 15th minute, and Calero halted Martinez one-on-one in the 23rd and leaped to knock away Jesus Mendoza's header in the 25th. Pachuca also won Apertura titles in 1999, 2001 and 2003. Queretaro won the Primera A Division Clausura final, beating Indios de Ciudad Juarez on penalty kicks after a 2-1 victory tied the aggregate score 3-3. The Gallos Blancos will face Apertura titlist ti·tlist n. The holder of a competitive title; a champion: a chess titlist. titlist a champion or one who holds a title. See also: Athletics Puebla in a playoff, with the winner moving up to the Primera Division. --Watford wins: American defender Jay DeMerit scored the first goal as Watford won promotion to England's Premier League with a 3-0 romp over Leeds United -- featuring U.S. World Cup starter Eddie Lewis -- in the second-tier Football League Championship's playoff final in Cardiff, Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. . Reading and Sheffield United were promoted after finishing 1-2 during the regular season. --Elsewhere: The San Fernando Valley Quakes San Fernando Valley Quakes are an American soccer team, founded in 2006. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference against teams (1-2-1) surrendered two penalty kicks and fell 2-1 to the San Francisco Seals The term San Francisco Seals can refer to any of two defunct professional sports teams based in San Francisco, California or the currently active San Francisco Seals soccer teams. in a Premier Development League game in Livermore. UC Santa Barbara's Eric Frimpong scored for the Quakes. ... Uruguay topped Northern Ireland 1-0 in East Rutherford, N.J., on Fabian Estoyanoff's 33rd-minute goal. The South Americans face Romania on Tuesday at the Coliseum. |
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