With Tough Loss, Syosset Soccer Team Loses National Ranking

SYOSSET, NY — The Syosset high school girls soccer team that made national noise by rattling off eight straight wins to start the season are no longer nationally ranked following a tough loss to Massapequa. The Braves entered the season unranked in the USA Today/United Soccer Coaches Super 25 preseason poll, but the scorching start catapulted the team to No. 11 in the country in the sixth week of the season.

The road to undefeated went through a tough Massapequa (10-1) team though, who earlier in the year had given the Syosset girls a run for their money. On Oct. 11, the Braves lost 0-1 in what turned into a defensive battle.

With the loss, the Smithtown West (9-0-1 ) girls team is the sole Long Island team to be nationally ranked, coming in at No. 11 in the seventh week of the season.

Four New York teams remain in the top 25, with the Monohasen (12-0) girls team out of Schenectady being the top-ranked team in the state at No. 6.

Eastern Regional High School (16-0) in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, retained its No. 1 overall rank.

The Braves (8-1) will travel to East Meadow (7-3-1) on Thursday afternoon. Sysosset rolled over East Meadow 5-0 in their previous match Sept. 23.

The girls will then travel Oct. 22 to Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK.

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Happy Senior Day Come out today and support your seniors and the rest of the Braves at SYOSSET WOODBURY PARK against East Meadow @ 4:45! #gdtbab
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IT’S GAMEDAY The Braves (#1) take on Massapequa Chiefs (#2) for the second time this season!!! Come out at 4:15 to support the girls at home!!! #gdtbab
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