Wisconsin Soccer Central

Ian Bennett scored a career-high 37 goals for the Milwaukee Wave during the regular season and ranked second in the Major Arena Soccer League. The veteran midfielder was rewarded this week with a spot on the All-MASL second team.

The 30-year-old Bennett ended up with 44 goals in 25 appearances overall in his seventh season with the Wave, who advanced to the Central Division finals but were swept by the Missouri Comets in a two-game series last weekend.

In the regular season, Bennett finished 10 goals behind league leader Franck Tanyou of Soles de Sonora. The Canadian ranks sixth in Milwaukee history with 162 goals in 150 regular-season matches, an average of 1.08 goals per game.

Wave midfielder Max Ferdinand was a third-team All-MASL selection after his solid debut season in Milwaukee. The former Baltimore Blast standout led the Wave with 19 assists – he tied for eighth in the league – and also scored 19 goals in 19 games.

Two players with state ties earned honorable mention on the league honor teams: Milwaukee midfielder Marcio Leite, who was third on the Wave with 17 goals and added 13 assists in 17 matches, and Chicago Mustangs defender Joshio Sandoval, who played for the Madison 56ers in National Premier Soccer League in 2012.

On Twitter: @IanBennett26

• Matt Pyzdrowski (Marquette) and Helsingborgs IF were eliminated from the Swedish Cup on Sunday, falling 5-4 on penalties after a 0-0 draw with host Kalmar FF in a quarterfinal. Media reports praised Pyzdrowski's play, crediting the goalkeeper with keeping the visiting team in the game. On Twitter: @MattPyzdrowski
• Seven players with state ties are on preseason rosters of National Women's Soccer League teams, who started training camp this week. Five of those players are in camp with the Chicago Red Stars: Goalkeeper Michele Dalton (UW), defender Cara Walls (Wauwatosa East/UW), midfielders Rosie Malone-Povolny (Marquette), Rebekah Roller (Brookfield East) and forward Mary Luba (Shorewood/Marquette). Walls, the second-leading goal scorer in UW history, played up top for the team as a rookie last season but apparently has moved to the backline. Dalton led the NWSL with a 0.917 goals-against average in 2015, while Luba signed with the Red Stars in September after a strong season with the club's reserve team. Malone-Povolny is in camp after playing the past five years in Iceland, Sweden and Norway, while Roller played in Finland last season. The other Wisconsin players in NWSL training camps are Orlando Pride forward Sarah Hagen (Appleton North/UW-Milwaukee) and defender Lauren Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre Dame), a non-roster invitee with the Houston Dash. Hagen is with the expansion Pride after being acquired in an offseason trade with two-time defending NWSL champion FC Kansas City. Sesselmann no longer is an allocated Canadian national team player, and has been limited to just one NWSL appearance for the Dash over the past two seasons due to injury. The fourth NWSL season kicks off April 16.