Wisconsin Soccer Central

Austin Toth (Milwaukee Pius) converted a 25th-minute penalty kick and Juan Antonio Rodriguez (Milwaukee Tech) posted the clean sheet as the host Croatian Eagles Reserves blanked Polonia 1-0 on Tuesday night in Franklin in a Wisconsin Soccer Leagues Reserve Division semifinal.

Toth was good from the spot against Polonia (10-5-2) after Spencer Bursten (Grafton/UW-Parkside) was fouled in the box for the Croatians (13-2-1), who will take on the Milwaukee Serbians Reserves (11-4-1) in the final Saturday night at Time Warner Cable Stadium at Milwaukee's Uihlein Soccer Park. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m.

The teams met June 2 in regular-season play, with the Eagles cruising to a 5-1 victory.

That game will be followed by the Major Division final between Milwaukee Sport Club (9-7-4) and the Milwaukee Kickers (9-5-5) at 8:30 p.m. The teams drew 2-2 in their meeting last fall, then split their meetings this spring with both sides winning at home, the Kickers winning 2-0 on April 24 at Uihlein and Sport Club winning 2-1 on May 29 at Schwabenhof.

MADISON SOCCER ASSOCIATION

The final round of matches in the short, spring season is scheduled for Sunday, with the playoffs set to kick off July 17. However, it appears that most teams still have one or two games to make up.

Madison United has three teams in the league and all three are on track to make the postseason: The club's top team leads the six-team Division 1 standings with a 5-1-1 record, while its Over-30s (5-2-1) and Juniors (5-1-1) stand third and fourth in the 11-team Division 2.

Paradigm (7-5-2), the defending champion Madison Fire (4-1-2) and Deportivo (4-4-0) are in the Division 1 playoff spots. In Division 2, Chivas and Sporting 1836 are tied for the lead at 7-1-0, while Madison Hotspur (4-3-1) currently holds the fifth and final playoff spot – the fourth and fifth seeds play off for the right to take on the No. 1 seed.

Semifinals in both divisions are scheduled for July 21 with the finals July 26, all at Warner Park Field 1. The MSA is playing a short season this spring, then will return to a fall-spring championship setup starting in 2013-14.

Schedules, standings on MSA website

ELITE CLUBS NATIONAL LEAGUE

FC Wisconsin Eclipse will face FC Dallas, McLean SA (Va.) and FC Virginia at the ECNL Under-23 national tournament this week in Richmond, Va.

The Wisconsin team went 3-2-1 in the regular season - both losses were by one goal and came against teams that also made the six-team field for nationals, Illinois' Eclipse Select and Ohio Elite SA.

Eclipse Select and Ohio Elite SA will play the same three teams as FC Wisconsin Eclipse in preliminary matches Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the two teams with the most points – regardless of bracket – will advance to Sunday's final. The preliminary schedule will be determined Wednesday.

WOMEN'S PREMIER SOCCER LEAGUE

The Madison 56ers, the only state team in the WPSL this season, might have narrowly missed out on the Midwest Division playoffs, but at least three players with state ties could be in Centerville, Ohio, for this weekend's matches.

Marquette standout Maegan Kelly recently joined the third-seeded Kansas City Shock (6-2-0), who face No. 2 seed Fire and Ice SC (6-2-0) in the first semifinal Saturday. Those teams met last Saturday in a regular-season finale, with the Illinois side taking a 2-0 victory to earn the second seed.

Meanwhile, incoming University of Wisconsin freshmen Rose Lavelle and Micaela Powers are on the roster for the top-seeded and host Ohio Galaxies (7-1-0). They take on the fourth-seeded Des Moines Menace (5-3-0), who tied the 56ers for fourth place but claimed the final playoff berth on goal differential in league play, the third tiebreaker.

Saturday's winners will play for the Midwest title at noon Sunday.

USL W-LEAGUE

UW's Genevieve Richard leads the USL W-League with six shutouts in 10 matches for the Laval Comets and ranks second in the league with a 0.50 goals-against average.

The Comets (6-1-3) lead the Central Conference by one point over the nine-time reigning champion Ottawa Fury (6-2-2) heading into their matchup Wednesday, with regular-season finales on Saturday.

UW's Kinley McNicoll, who was a midfielder for the Badgers last fall but is listed as a defender for the Fury, has one assist in eight matches.