NPSL Midwest Region Playoffs Review/Preview

Central Conference

Quad Cities 5-0 shutout of Eau Claire cemented their conference title- a 3-point difference over Minnesota United Reserves (23-20). Here's their celebration...
((HT: QC Eagles FC their own selves))


The Reserves beat the Madison 56'ers as they finished third (15 points). FC Bordo also beat Eau Claire to finish 4th with 14 points. Minnesota TwinStars were idle and finished with 12 points and Aris was winless for the season.

Great Lakes East Conference

Fort Pitt Regiment survived a last week loss to Detroit City FC to keep the top spot- one point better than Erie Admirals and two better than AFC Cleveland. Here's DCFC head coach Ben Pirmann after the win over Fort Pitt
((HT: Press Row Sports))


Erie had a 6-point week with wins over Michigan and AFC Cleveland. FC Buffalo finished their season with a win over Michigan Stars as well and a total of 16 points. Here's a look at their home finale
((HT: Buffalo Live))


Great Lakes West Conference

Lansing United wrapped the final weekend with a 4-point performance- a win over Indiana Fire
((HT: Lansing United their own selves))


And a draw with DCFC to wrap with 28 points- one more than Le Rouge.
Here's highlights of the draw


And postgame sound from head coach Eric Rudland


WILX-TV's Susan El Khoury looks at the first-year franchise


Indiana Fire wrapped up their season with a third place finish and a win over Cincinnati. Michigan ended up with 13 points and Cincinnati finished with 10.

Lansing United hosts the region playoffs Saturday and Sunday at the East Lansing Complex. Fort Pitt gets Quad City at followed by United vs. the Minnesota United Reserves at 7:30pm. The winners meet Sunday for the region title.

NPSL Week 10 Midwest Region Review/Preview

Central Conference

Quad Cities is ahead and the group behind seems to taking good pieces of each other...

The Eagles lead is 5 over Madison (20-15) while FC Bordo (11) and the Minnesota squads TwinStars (9) and United Reserves (also 11) are all within reach of one another for the home stretch. Eau Claire Aris are still looking for their first win of the season.

Last week, QC pulled out 4 points against the Minnesotans while Madison watched. TwinStars lost to FC Bordo and Quad Cities while United reserves drew the conference leaders. Aris also had the weekend off.

This week, QC are at United. Madison also travel there. Aris also travel to TwinStars.
The Eagles did a little behind the scenes thing to let us know how they hold up before games
((HT: QC Eagles))


Great Lakes East Conference

This is one of the most fun conferences to pay attention to all season long...
Four teams now separated by five points... AFC Cleveland (15), Fort Pitt Regiment (14), Erie Admirals (11), and FC Buffalo (10)

Last week, AFCC beat FCB but lost at Erie. Fort Pitt lost a crossover match with Indiana Fire, but beat Cincinnati. FC Buffalo also lost to Lansing United, 2-1.

Here are those highlights
((HT: Lansing United their ownselves))


This week, Erie hosts Buffalo but then travels to Cleveland. Fort Pitt also goes to Buffalo Sunday.

Great Lakes West Conference

Another scramble, but in two separate groups...

Indiana Fire are a point ahead of Le Rouge (21-20) with Lansing at 18. Then, Cincinnati and Michigan are paired at 9 points heading into the weekend.

After beating Fort Pitt, Indiana lost 4-0 at DCFC.
Here's goal number two for DCFC, a spectacular free kick
((HT: Sam Raffa))


Michigan was idle.

This week, Indiana are off and Detroit City can make some serous moves with a game at Michigan before a home game with Cincinnati. Lansing does the reverse- hosting Cincinnati before heading to Michigan.