Wisconsin Soccer Central

While no Wisconsin teams qualified for this year's U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships, that doesn't mean there won't be any state players at the event from July 21 to 26 in Tulsa, Okla.

Midfielder Nathan Feiner and defender Zach Landt, teammates on the New Richmond High School team, are part of the Sporting St. Croix SC Under-16 side that earned one of the eight berths at nationals by winning the Region II championship last month in Appleton.

The Minnesota team outlasted FC Wisconsin Nationals 4-2 on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the regional final.

Sporting St. Croix will face Virginia's Loudoun Red, South Carolina's CESA Premier and the Penn Fusion in Group B. The top two teams in each group advance to the national semifinals July 25, with the winners squaring off in the final July 26.

In addition to Feiner and Landt, two players who play college soccer in Wisconsin and one who has committed to do so in the future also are on rosters of teams that are headed to nationals.

Forward Mark Segbers, a Big Ten Conference All-Freshman Team selection for the University of Wisconsin last fall, is on the roster for St. Louis Scott Gallagher in the Under-19 boys competition. On the girls side, incoming Marquette freshman striker Jamie Kutey is part of the KC Metro Dynamos Under-18 team, while forward Rachel Johnson, who has verbally committed to the Golden Eagles for 2017, is playing up with Nebraska's Gretna Prima Green in the Under-19 competition.

• The Elm Grove Blues Under-16 boys team earned a draw and dropped one-goal decisions in their other three matches at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Presidents Cup last week in Overland Park, Kan. Milwaukee Marquette's Gerardo Ornelas scored a 77th-minute equalizer as the Blues tied Washington's PacNW 98 Blue 1-1 in Saturday's round-robin finale, following 1-0 losses to Virginia's VSA Heat Blue on Thursday and Florida's FCT Scorpio on Friday. In Sunday's consolation match, Elm Grove took an early lead through goals by Waukesha Catholic Memorial's Isaac Barta in the 15th and Brookfield East's Bryce Wilkerson in the 23rd, but FCT Scorpio came back for a 3-2 victory.