From the Globe's Robert Hohler:

For the first time in five years, soccer players in the Boston public schools are scheduled to play an all-star game tonight at White Stadium as part of the city's quest to boost pride, participation, and a competitive edge in interscholastic sports. The city revived the game with help from the Boston Scholar Athlete program, which Mayor Thomas M. Menino created in August with a $1 million grant from Suffolk Construction Co.'s Red & Blue Foundation to address serious inadequacies in the city's high school sports system.

Soccer was the first sport to benefit from the project, with teams receiving new uniforms as well as equipment they lacked, including goals at several practice fields. Intramural programs were formed at schools without interscholastic soccer, and players at every level were coached to place a greater emphasis on academic achievement.

The girls game is scheduled for 6 p.m., the boys play at 7:30 p.m.

From Globe Correspondent Ryan Thomas:

One day after the boy's Boston City League Championship soccer game between Madison Park and East Boston was called in the 75th minute due to a skirmish stemming from a controversial call that decided the game, Madison Park has decided to withdraw from the MIAA State Tournament.

The decision was made during a team meeting Thursday that involved school headmaster Charles McAfee and coach Joao Gomes.  All parties agreed that it was in the school's best interest to end the season, Gomes said.

The controversial call was a handball against the Cardinals that referee Savas Trellopoulos deemed inside the 18-yard box, which led to a penalty shot by East Boston midfielder Carlos Andres Ruiz who buried the goal for the 1-0 win. 

"I was disappointed with the call; it was outside the 18 [yard box]," Gomes said of the season-ending handball.  "But (the players) can't take it out with anger.  We always preach self responsibility and respect.  Hopefully this will send a message."

After shouts and gestures cascaded from the Madison Park sideline disagreeing with the call, Venude Depina allegedly threw the ball off of Trellopoulos's head. 

"They had every right and reason to be upset with the call, but you can't justify a wrong with another wrong," Gomes added.

Depina, who had not been carded all season, will have his actions reviewed further by Madison Park, with possible disciplinary action to follow.

The 10-seed Cardinals were scheduled to face No. 7 seed Peabody in the Division 1 North tournament Sunday, Nov. 8.

From the YourTown Newton blog:

The 33-year-old boys' varsity soccer coach at Newton North High School died over the weekend, after he collapsed while playing soccer.

Ucal McKenzie, who previously coached at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, died after playing soccer at Joe Moakley Park in South Boston, friends said. He was praised Monday by school officials and fellow players.

"Ucal was a huge presence in this school. He was a doer and an unsung hero who took up any task that was put before him,'' Newton North principal Jennifer Price said in a statement.

McKenzie was the third current or former faculty member of Newton North to die in the last month.

Read more HERE.

BB&N football recruits Austin Capaviella, Philippe Panico, Xander Frantz, Steve Grassa, and Mike DiChaira

A couple of scenes from today's Signing Day. BB&N football recruits (above) pose for a group photo, while Natick standouts (below) put their names on the dotted line.

Natick athletes Shannon Foley (Elon, soccer), Rebecca White (Quinnipiac, track), Tim and Tom Brandt (UMass, football)

Minnechaug topped A-B, 1-0. (David Kamerman / Globe Staff)

Check out our two highlight videos from the Division 1 state soccer championships in Westborough below. For photos from four of yesterday's title games, check out this gallery.

For all of today's final scores, check out our scoreboard.

D1 Girls: Minnechaug 1, A-B 0

D1 Boys: Ludlow 1, Framingham 0

WESTBOROUGH -- Western Mass. swept the Division 1 soccer finals Saturday at Mewhiney Field.

The Minnechaug girls defeated Acton-Boxboro, 1-0, before the Ludlow boys topped Framingham by the same score.

Stick with us for complete recaps from all the state finals today. Check out a replay of our live blog below for in-game updates and analysis, and check back later for video highlights.

A number of area senior student-athletes are making their college commitments official this week, with the early non-football signing period now in play (Nov. 12-19).

Correspondent Brendan Hall checks in with an updated list of commitments:

Baseball
Sahil Bloom, Weston (Stanford)
Kevin Brown, Algonquin (Bryant)
Peter Castaldi, St. John's Prep (Northeastern)
Jon Leroux, Auburn (Northeastern)
Derek Lowe, Lincoln-Sudbury (William & Mary)
John McKenna, Algonquin (UMass-Amherst)
Justin Quinn, Lincoln-Sudbury (Rollins College)
Fran Whitten, Westborough (Maine)

Basketball
Antoine Allen, Notre Dame Prep (Providence)
Russ Braithwaite, St. Mark’s (Babson)
Jamal Coombs-McDaniel, Tilton/Boston (UConn)
Courtney Finn, Winthrop (Bentley)
Dave Johnson, St. Mark’s (Quinnipiac)
Erik Murphy, St. Mark’s (Florida)
Alex Oriakhi, Tilton/Lowell (UConn)
Dartaye Ruffin, Stoughton (Drexel)
James Southerland, Notre Dame Prep (Syracuse)

Field hockey
Kara Mackintire, Shrewsbury (Boston College)

Golf
Brittany Altomare, Shrewsbury (Virginia)

Lacrosse
Quinn Cully, Duxbury (Notre Dame)
Hakeem Lecky, Duxbury (Syracuse)
Colin O'Rourke, St. John's Shrewsbury (Wagner)
Alex Papoojian, St. John's Shrewsbury (VMI)
Chris Pellichero, King Philip (Providence)
Kristen Scopetski, Algonquin (UMass-Amherst)

Soccer
CC Jensen, Acton-Boxborough (Elon)
AJ Millet, Westford (Harvard)
Sarah Wooley, Duxbury (Siena)

Softball
Nicole D’Argento, Ashland (Boston College)
Jessie Bryant, Marlborough (Providence)

Soccer standings and leaders have been posted online. Hop over to High School Sports Central and scroll down to the soccer section to check out these, as well as the latest soccer top 20s.

A note on how our standings work: Unlike our football database, which is fueled by the box scores reported by coaches, the soccer standings display the information reported by league representatives each Sunday.

What's the difference? You'll see a team like Lexington listed with a record of 8-0-0. But if you click on the team name to view the Minutemen's results page, you'll only find the five games reported to the Globe during the season.

Much like Lexington, each team page has a helpful email link to send the Globe updated game data. If your favorite school is missing game data, please ask a coach or athletic director to submit that information to us.

To avoid gaps in the data, coaches are reminded to please call the Globe with game scores after each contest. When we enter a score into our daily scoreboard, it automatically populates these team pages.

Leagues with incomplete standings are ones that failed to report full standings to the Globe. We encourage coaches to contact their league representative to ensure they call each Sunday with updated information.

He was all over the place.

Manning three positions throughout the game -- outside midfielder, center midfielder, and forward -- Weymouth’s Robbie Lynch was in the thick of a highly intense soccer match with Framingham last week.

And he was there at nearly every turn, it seemed. Deflecting the oncoming barrage of shots and passes by the Flyers, and working intently with the rest of the crew up front, the Weymouth utility man helped the Wildcats buttress an attack of their own. While Lynch didn’t personally deliver any nets in resplendent fashion, his small-ball manner, his uninterrupted rhythm, was just as critical as Weymouth emerged with a 2-2 tie.

Lynch assisted on the second Weymouth goal and aided countless other plays, sustained by his fiery tempo.

“I just like to keep going hard, keep moving”, Lynch said of his on-field energy. His mindset is as simple as that, with the magnified results coming almost naturally through years of repetition.

Asked how long he had been dribbling around the black-and-white sphere, Lynch had to think for a moment. “Since I was about 3, I think”, he finally surmised, the date perhaps marking the moment he could actually break out in a run.

The enthusiasm that has come to characterize his game from that first day is fairly evident by merely watching him. But if one sought any reinforcement of that theory, they would only need to speak for a moment with his coach.

“His passion for the game … his work rate is just unbelievable,” said Weymouth coach Bill McEachern, “He’s very committed, and [on the field] it’s just crazy [to watch]. We try to keep him as involved as possible.”

When one first notices Lynch, they are not immediately struck by an intimidating sight. Standing slighter than many of his peers, the young Weymouth player is neither tall, nor stodgy, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in speed and agility. Intimidating with his skill, and the scrappy capability to stick to his opponent, one learns to watch out for Lynch. The sight of him scrambling across the pitch spurs an unorthodox concept of an imposing frame.

Despite his incredible play commitment, even Lynch admits he suffers from mental blunders and momentary breaks in concentration at times. In regards to the Framingham game, Lynch said, “We just had some mental lapses at the end. We stopped thinking for a second, got caught off guard, and they capitalized.”

He acknowledged that hard work and focus should help to avoid similar situations in the future.

If Lynch seems mature in his words, then it’s not in the traditional sense of age. The forward/midfielder/defender is only a sophomore this year. After starting every game as a freshman in 2007, the Wildcats are looking for Lynch to take on a bigger role this season, a feat that he already seems to be tackling.

It’s scary to think of Lynch’s potential, with nearly three full years to pulse his game along Wildcat Way. The beat is starting quietly, a less-than-flashy melody. But with diligence and time, with passion and instinct, this soccer musician could really get into a rhythm.

As the 2008 fall season goes into full swing, we've invited a handful of local standouts to write about their seasons on our Player Diaries blog.

I'll allow our contributors to introduce themselves:

Abbie Brown, Westwood, Field hockey

So, two years ago, Westwood field hockey wasn't the best team in the state, nor are we now, but we are working our way to tournament again. Last season, we went to the tournament for the first time in nine years which was a big accomplishment for the us. This year we hope to do the same thing and get further than last year. As of right now, the Westwood Wolverines field hockey team is 2-0 from beating Stoughton and Scituate in two nonleague matchups. We still have a long way to go until we make the tourney, but our team is willing to do whatever it is to make it again.

I play field hockey and lacrosse, and run winter track. This past spring my team was the 2008 Division 1 girls' lacrosse state champions.

Mike Savery, Hingham, soccer

My name is Mike Savery and I play midfield for the Hingham boys' soccer team. We were 6-6-6 last year, making the playoffs for the ninth straight time under our coach Ken Carlin. However, our worst season under coach Carlin ended just as horribly, losing to Oliver Ames in the play-in round, 1-0. This year, however, will be much different. We are returning eight starters, and have 15 senior players, myself included. I will be looking to split some time this year on the right side, as we have yet to figure out the winning formation. Along with playing on the soccer team, I am a four year varsity skier, two of those years as captain.

Kara Dunford, Notre Dame Academy, cross country

I'm at senior at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham. I'm running cross country in the fall for the first time. Besides cross country, I am one of the captains of the indoor and outdoor
track teams. I am also editor-in-chief of the school newspaper and I am interested in pursuing a career in Journalism in the future.

Check back on our Player Diaries page for much more from this trio as the season goes on. If you're interested in writing for us, drop us an email with your name, school, sport, and a quick note on why you'd like to contribute.

We're dusting off our Player Diaries blog for the fall season and we're looking for athletes who might be interested in chronicling their seasons on Boston.com.

Last fall, Mansfield football standout Mike McPherson and Ursuline volleyball All-Scholastic Caitlin Burchill kept us updated on their exciting seasons. Now we want you to tell us all about your fall season.

Interested? Drop us an email with your name, sport you play, and a brief bio about yourself. Remember, you don't have to be the team superstar. Heck, if you're the stats keeper and you want to tell the world about how your team is doing, we want you, too.

We'll pick a handful of our favorites to handle the Player Diaries this fall. Hey, it doesn't look bad on a college resume, either.

Here's the schedule for the 2008 Agganis All-Star Classics:

• Awards ceremony -- Sun. July 13, 10 a.m. -- Fraser Field, Lynn
• 11th Softball Classic -- Sun. July 13, noon -- Fraser Field
• 14th Baseball Classic -- Sun. July 13, 2 p.m. -- Fraser Field
• 4th Women’s Basketball -- Mon. July 14, 6 p.m. -- Lynn English
• 4th Men’s Basketball -- Mon. July 14, 7:30 p.m. -- Lynn English
• 13th Men’s Soccer -- Tues. July 15, 5:30 p.m. -- Manning Field, Lynn
• 13th Women’s Soccer -- Tue. July 15, 7:30 p.m. -- Manning Field
• 48th Football Classic -- Wed July 16, 7 p.m. -- Manning Field

After the jump you'll find all the rosters that we've been provided for the event.