Wisconsin Soccer Central

Sarah Hagen (Appleton North/UW-Milwaukee) opened the scoring as FC Kansas City held off host Sky Blue FC 3-2 in its National Women's Soccer League regular season finale Wednesday night in Piscataway Township, N.J.

Making just her second start in the past nine matches, Hagen made an early impact by scoring in the 5th minute. Heather O'Reilly found Amy Rodriguez, whose cross past two defenders left Hagen with a tap-in for her fourth goal of the season.

Defending NWSL champion FC Kansas City (9-6-5) already had clinched a playoff spot and is unbeaten in its past six (4-0-2) heading into the postseason. The Seattle Reign (12-3-4) wrapped up the top seed in the four-team playoffs, while the Chicago Red Stars (8-3-8) and the Washington Spirit (8-5-6) also will play in the postseason.

On Twitter: @sarahapplehagen

• Michele Dalton (UW) made five saves in her fifth shutout of the season as the Red Stars blanked the Western New York Flash 2-0 on Saturday in Rochester, N.Y. Dalton leads the NWSL with a 0.917 goals-against average and ranks second in the league in clean sheets for the Red Stars (8-3-8), who can claim the No. 2 seed in the playoffs by beating the Houston Dash on Sunday. On Twitter: @MicheleDalton18
• Sisters Katie and Maegan Kelly (Marquette) and Åland United will play in the championship round of the Naisten Liiga in Finland after finishing fourth through the season's first 18 matches. The top six teams vie for the league title, while the bottom four battle to avoid relegation – the remaining matches are combined with the regular-season results to determine the final standings. Katie Kelly has two goals and one assist and has played all 1,620 minutes for Åland United (9-4-5), while younger sister Maegan has five goals and two assists in 15 appearances (14 starts). Rebekah Roller (Brookfield East) and Merilappi United, meanwhile, will be looking to avoid relegation after going 3-12-3 and finishing eighth out of the 10 teams. Roller also has played every minute and has recorded one assist. On Twitter: @kkelly21 @maegskell @RebekahRoller3
• Carlos McCrary, who played three seasons with the Madison 56ers in the National Premier Soccer League, has one goal in five appearances (three starts) for Sportfreunde-Seligenstadt of the German fifth-division Hessenliga. The former North Carolina and Creighton attacker scored 11 goals for 1. FCA Darmstadt in the sixth-tier Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd last season. On Twitter: @CarlosMcCrary
• Defender Charles Kazlauskas (Milwaukee Thomas More) signed with De Treffers, an amateur club in Groesbeek, The Netherlands. The 32-year-old Kazlauskas made more than 300 appearances for TOP Oss and Helmond Sport in the second-division Jupiler League over the past decade. De Treffers plays in the Topklasse Zondag, the third tier of Dutch soccer.
• Captain Tony Walls (Wauwatosa East/UW-Green Bay) scored for the second straight match as the host Rochester Rhinos blanked Saint Louis FC 2-0 in a USL match Sunday in New York. Walls' fourth goal of the season came in the 35th and gave the Rhinos (15-1-8) a two-goal lead, and they went on to post their 15th clean sheet of the season. On Twitter: @TWalls20
• Rookie center back Axel Sjoberg (Marquette) played all 90 minutes the Colorado Rapids topped visiting Sporting Kansas City 2-1 in Major League Soccer action Saturday night in Commerce City, Colo. The Rapids have allowed just nine goals in 989 minutes with the 6-foot-7 Swede on the field – Sjoberg missed most of June and July because of a knee injury. On Twitter: @SjobergAxel