AAA soccer The Mills Godwin boys and girls soccer teams finished as state runners-up in the Group AAA playoffs in early June. Senior midfielder Anne Lumpkin, the Central Region girls player of the year, is the state player of the year. She is the first state POY from the Central Region since A.B. Robbins of Mills Godwin earned the honor as a junior in 1999.

Today’s game is technically a rematch for the Mills Godwin girls soccer team, though neither team will have anything to avenge. The Eagles will play Frank Cox-Virginia Beach at 4 p.m. in the state semifinals at Westfield High School. Earlier this year a game between the teams was canceled 40 minutes into a 0-0 draw because of what midfielder Anne Lumpkin described as “a swimming pool of a field.“

Quarterfinals: Top bracket, Midlothian (12-3-3) at Deep Run (12-3-2), 7 p.m.; Prince George (9-6-1) at Atlee (15-0-2), 7; Lower bracket, Mills Godwin (13-3-1) at Cosby (14-2-1), 5:30; Hanover (11-4-1) at Thomas Dale (14-1-1), 5
  Semifinals: Tomorrow at Cosby High, 5 and 7:30 p.m.
  Final: Friday at Cosby High, 5:30 p.m.

season preview Even under new leadership, defending Central Region champion Mills Godwin will still be tough. Former assistant coach Ali Toole takes over for her former coach Rob White, but the Eagles return eight starters from the 17-2 2008 season in which the Eagles reached the state tournament for the sixth year in a row. Toole said the Eagles have not had enough time together as a team, but the players are individually talented technically and athletically.