USL announces Week 4 honors
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
TAMPA, FL – United Soccer Leagues announced today the A-League, Pro Soccer League, Premier Development League and W-League Teams and Players of the Week for Week 4, honoring Atlanta’s Alan Woods, Charlotte’s Jacob Coggins, Brooklyn’s Mike Todd and New Jersey’s Kate Sands as Players of the Week.
The Atlanta Silverbacks picked up a critical lead in their US Open Cup qualification series against the Charleston Battery with a surprising 2-0 shutout win over the visiting defending A-League champions.
Key in the club’s defensive effort was 2003 A-League Second Team All-League defender Alan Woods. The fourth-year veteran has become a fixture in the Silverbacks back line since joining the club in 2002 after playing in Major League Soccer for the New England Revolution in 2001 and for Charleston in 2000.
Woods played in all 28 games for the club last season and registered one goal. He has two goals and an assist in his 75 career regular season A-League matches.
The Charlotte Eagles qualified for the US Open Cup behind an outstanding performance by Jacob Coggins Friday night. Coggins had a hand in all five goals of the club’s 5-0 road win over Northern Virginia in a lightning-shortened game (51 minutes), recording a hat-trick and two assists.
Coggins' three-goal game brings him to six goals and three assists for 15 points in just four games this season. Coggins was also named Player of the Week in for Week 1 of the season.
He scored the first two goals of the match in the 10th and 22nd minutes on assists from Josh Rife and Juan Munoz-Airey, respectively. In the 38th minute, he set up longtime star Dustin Swinehart for his first goal of the season before completing his hat-trick three minutes later on an assist from Jonah Long. Two minutes into the second half Coggins found Swinehart for the final tally of the game.
Two days after scoring both goals in a 2-0 win over the Vermont Voltage, Brooklyn Knights newcomer Mike Todd scored a pair of second half goals to lift the PDL squad to a come-from-behind 3-2 win over the Rhode Island Stingrays at the Metropolitan Oval Sunday.
Rhode Island jumped ahead 2-1 in the 49th minute on a goal by Jeffrey Smith but Todd responded with the first of his two goals, heading in Leonardo Asencio's cross in the 62nd minute.
Eight minutes later Todd scored what proved to be the game-winner when he took a feed from Freddy Guiraw and beat Rhode Island keeper Jeffrey Newman from 14 yards out.
Todd also scored both goals in a 2-0 win over 2003 Northeast Division regular season champion Vermont Voltage Friday night at the Oval. He tapped in Daniel Leon's free kick at the far post in the 33rd minute and added a header in the 72nd minute on an assist from Danny Kramer.
Forward Kate Sands, who registered just two goals and one assist in nine games played for the club last year, starred for the Wildcats on the offensive end of a surprising 6-1 victory over the 2001 and 2002 league champion Boston Renegades with two goals and two assists while also drawing a penalty kick.
New Jersey finally broke through a packed-in Boston defense in the 36th minute as Sands found a bouncing ball in the box and cracked it into the upper left corner from 15 yards out.
Leading 2-0 New Jersey didn't let up in the second half as Sands fed Kelly Hammond for a goal in the 55th minute before scoring her second unassisted goal of the night three minutes later. Lloyd raised the advantage to 5-0 off a pass from Sands in the 63rd minute.
Hammond closed the scoring on a penalty kick in the 83rd minute after Sands was taken down in the box on a run to goal.
USL Teams of the Week
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