Wisconsin Soccer Central

Milwaukee Marquette's Alex McBride had an assist as the West topped the East 3-2 in the second annual High School Soccer All-America Game on Saturday in Birmingham, Ala.

The midfielder set up Niko Hansen of Carmichael Jesuit (Calif.), a New Mexico recruit, in the first half to pull the West even at 1-1 in the match featuring some of the country's top high school seniors. After the teams traded goals,Charlie Constantino of East Kentwood (Mich.) scored the game-winner with less than 3 minutes remaining.

Marquette's Steve Lawrence was one of four coaches for the West team, which also included Whitefish Bay defender Jake Taylor. McBride and Taylor are headed to Marquette University next fall and played alongside another Golden Eagles recruit – goalkeeper Kyle Gress of St. Thomas Aquinas (Kan.).

• Taylor, the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association Player of the Year, was one of just eight defenders on the 81-player National Soccer Coaches Association of America high school boys All-American team. Gress and another Marquette recruit, midfielder Daniel Szczepanek of Warren Township (Ill.), also made the All-American team.
• Muskego junior forward Andrija Novakovich, who has committed to Marquette for 2014, and Kettle Moraine senior goalkeeper Kyle Ihn, a UW-Green Bay recruit, joined McBride and Taylor on the NSCAA All-Region V team.
• Milwaukee Marquette (23-1-2) finished sixth in the final NSCAA fall boys national poll of the season.
• Cedarburg's Josee Stiever, last spring's WSCA Player of the Year as a junior, was named to the NSCAA high school girls All-American team. Midfielder Micaela Powers, a University of Wisconsin recruit from Beavercreek, Ohio, made the team for the second straight year.
• Stiever was one of five state players on the All-Region V girls team, along with Waunakee midfielder Molly Laufenberg and forward Jill Ross, Menomonee Falls midfielder Jenna Woodson and Hartford senior striker Maria Stephans. Laufenberg (UW), Woodson (UW-Whitewater) and Stephans (UW-Milwaukee) all were freshmen in college this fall.