USL First Division · United States · level 2

1998

Honors
champion Rochester Rhinos
mvp Mark Baena
golden boot Darren Tilley

405 games 3.19 goals / game 2,581 avg. attendance closest-club map

Standings

team GP W SOW SOL L pts gf ga ppg gf/ga
Rochester Rhinos 28 23 1 1 3 70 72 15 2.50 4.80
San Diego Flash 28 20 1 1 6 61 58 23 2.18 2.52
Richmond Kickers 28 18 3 2 5 57 48 22 2.04 2.18
Nashville Metros 28 18 2 1 7 56 70 31 2.00 2.26
Hershey Wildcats 28 17 2 1 8 53 51 31 1.89 1.65
Seattle Sounders 28 17 1 0 10 52 63 28 1.86 2.25
Minnesota Thunder 28 16 3 1 8 51 52 33 1.82 1.58
Milwaukee Rampage 28 16 1 3 8 49 61 39 1.75 1.56
Montreal Impact 28 13 8 2 5 47 47 33 1.68 1.42
Orange County Zodiac 28 15 1 3 9 46 49 43 1.64 1.14
Staten Island Vipers 28 15 1 1 11 46 46 37 1.64 1.24
Virginia Beach Mariners 28 15 1 3 9 46 44 39 1.64 1.13
Long Island Rough Riders 28 14 3 1 10 45 46 35 1.61 1.31
New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers 28 14 1 1 12 43 53 50 1.54 1.06
Vancouver 86ers 28 13 2 1 12 41 55 42 1.46 1.31
Charleston Battery 28 11 1 1 15 34 37 40 1.21 0.93
Cincinnati Riverhawks 28 11 0 0 17 33 48 65 1.18 0.74
Worcester Wildfire 28 10 2 2 14 32 37 50 1.14 0.74
Nike Project-40 28 10 1 2 15 31 45 55 1.11 0.82
Jacksonville Cyclones 28 10 0 2 16 30 36 53 1.07 0.68
El Paso Patriots 28 9 3 1 15 30 51 54 1.07 0.94
San Francisco Bay Seals 28 9 1 5 13 28 31 47 1.00 0.66
Toronto Lynx 28 8 1 2 17 25 27 42 0.89 0.64
Atlanta Silverbacks 28 7 0 1 20 21 31 67 0.75 0.46
California Jaguars 28 6 0 1 21 18 32 95 0.64 0.34
Raleigh Flyers 28 5 0 2 21 15 31 66 0.54 0.47
Albuquerque Geckos 28 5 0 1 22 15 39 100 0.54 0.39
Connecticut Wolves 28 2 5 3 18 11 32 57 0.39 0.56

Season leaders

complete stats

Goals

  1. Mark Baena 24
  2. Darren Tilley 21
  3. Mike Burke 16
  4. Amos Magee 15
  5. Antonio Robles-Jimenez 15
  6. Gary Glasgow 15
  7. Kirk Wilson 15
  8. Yari Allnutt 14
  9. Gino DiFlorio 12
  10. Josh Wolff 12

Assists

  1. John Ball 15
  2. Jason Cairns 14
  3. Mauro Biello 13
  4. Jon Szczepanski 12
  5. Giuliano Oliviero 11
  6. Jason Willan 11
  7. John Smith 11
  8. Amos Magee 10
  9. Dick McCormick 10
  10. Lester Felician 10

Appearances

  1. Christopher Roselli 29
  2. Stoner Tadlock 29
  3. Brian Ashton 28
  4. Chad Carithers 28
  5. Dusty Hudock 28
  6. Gabe Eastman 28
  7. Jason Cairns 28
  8. Joe Cannon 28
  9. Keith Ratzburg 28
  10. Manuel Carou 28

Most recent games

all games

date season team score team venue referee attendance sources
Oct. 17, 1998 1998 Minnesota Thunder 1 - 3 Rochester Rhinos Frontier Field 13772 1
Oct. 3, 1998 1998 Hershey Wildcats 0 - 1 Rochester Rhinos Hershey, PA 1847 1
Sept. 30, 1998 1998 Minnesota Thunder 2 - 1 San Diego Flash San Diego, CA 3183 1
Sept. 26, 1998 1998 Minnesota Thunder 2 - 1 San Diego Flash Blaine, MN 2743 1
Sept. 26, 1998 1998 Hershey Wildcats 1 - 3 Rochester Rhinos Frontier Field 8121 1
Sept. 23, 1998 1998 Montreal Impact 1 - 4 Rochester Rhinos Frontier Field 7529 1
Sept. 21, 1998 1998 New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers 3 - 3 San Diego Flash New Orleans, LA 1104 1
Sept. 20, 1998 1998 Montreal Impact 2 - 2 Rochester Rhinos Complexe Sportif Claude-Robil… 4360 1
Sept. 20, 1998 1998 Minnesota Thunder 2 - 1 Seattle Sounders Seattle, WA 3597 1
Sept. 20, 1998 1998 Hershey Wildcats 4 - 2 Richmond Kickers Richmond, VA 9147 1
Sept. 19, 1998 1998 New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers 1 - 2 San Diego Flash San Diego, CA 4043 1
Sept. 18, 1998 1998 Minnesota Thunder 2 - 1 Seattle Sounders Blaine, MN 2084 1
Sept. 17, 1998 1998 Hershey Wildcats 0 - 0 Richmond Kickers Hershey, PA 2296 1
Sept. 7, 1998 1998 Seattle Sounders 2 - 1 Vancouver 86ers Vancouver, BC 5094 1
Sept. 7, 1998 1998 Milwaukee Rampage 6 - 0 Raleigh Flyers Raleigh, NC 725 1
Sept. 7, 1998 1998 Richmond Kickers 3 - 1 Virginia Beach Mariners Virginia Beach, VA 2731 1
Sept. 6, 1998 1998 Atlanta Silverbacks 3 - 2 Nike Project-40 Atlanta, GA 2482 1
Sept. 6, 1998 1998 Orange County Zodiac 2 - 1 San Diego Flash Irvine, CA 627 1
Sept. 6, 1998 1998 Nashville Metros 5 - 1 Albuquerque Geckos Sacramento, CA 1035 1
Sept. 6, 1998 1998 Rochester Rhinos 3 - 2 Toronto Lynx Toronto, ON 1957 1
Sept. 5, 1998 1998 Milwaukee Rampage 2 - 1 New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers Milwaukee, WI 3217 1
Sept. 5, 1998 1998 Hershey Wildcats 4 - 1 San Francisco Bay Seals Hershey, PA 4727 1
Sept. 5, 1998 1998 Charleston Battery 1 - 3 Jacksonville Cyclones Jacksonville, FL 1128 1
Sept. 5, 1998 1998 Long Island Rough Riders 0 - 1 Montreal Impact South Huntington, NY 2386 1
Sept. 5, 1998 1998 Raleigh Flyers 0 - 2 Richmond Kickers Richmond, VA 5787 1

Awards

award winner
Champion Rochester Rhinos
Coach of the Year Pat Ercoli
Defender of the Year Scott Schweitzer
Goalkeeper of the Year Pat Onstad
MVP Mark Baena
Rookie of the Year Mike Burke

Where the minutes came from

United States: 55,338 minutes, 7.0%United States: 55,338 minutes, 7.0%United States: 55,338 minutes, 7.0%Canada: 25,297 minutes, 3.2%Montserrat: 1,992 minutes, 0.3%Scotland: 6,032 minutes, 0.8%England: 11,862 minutes, 1.5%Sweden: 1,507 minutes, 0.2%South Africa: 2,147 minutes, 0.3%South Africa: 2,147 minutes, 0.3%Serbia: 2,976 minutes, 0.4%Serbia: 2,976 minutes, 0.4%Japan: 839 minutes, 0.1%Japan: 839 minutes, 0.1%Japan: 839 minutes, 0.1%Japan: 839 minutes, 0.1%Japan: 839 minutes, 0.1%Japan: 839 minutes, 0.1%Japan: 839 minutes, 0.1%Japan: 839 minutes, 0.1%Jamaica: 2,939 minutes, 0.4%Italy: 1,912 minutes, 0.2%Italy: 1,912 minutes, 0.2%Italy: 1,912 minutes, 0.2%Italy: 1,912 minutes, 0.2%Ireland: 1,465 minutes, 0.2%Guyana: 500 minutes, 0.1%Greece: 2,065 minutes, 0.3%Denmark: 1,468 minutes, 0.2%Denmark: 1,468 minutes, 0.2%Croatia: 90 minutes, 0.0%Bulgaria: 883 minutes, 0.1%Brazil: 183 minutes, 0.0%Belarus: 800 minutes, 0.1%
  • 25% and over
  • 10-25%
  • 5-10%
  • 2-5%
  • under 2%
Minutes by country of birth. Each country is shaded by its share of the minutes; the bands are fixed, so one season can be compared with another. Hover or focus a country for its figures, and read the table below for all of them. A country too small to draw at this crop is marked with a dot.
minutes by country of birth
countryminutesshare
not recorded 672,069 84.8%
United States 55,338 7.0%
Canada 25,297 3.2%
England 11,862 1.5%
Scotland 6,032 0.8%
Serbia 2,976 0.4%
Jamaica 2,939 0.4%
South Africa 2,147 0.3%
Greece 2,065 0.3%
Montserrat 1,992 0.3%
Italy 1,912 0.2%
Sweden 1,507 0.2%
Denmark 1,468 0.2%
Ireland 1,465 0.2%
Bulgaria 883 0.1%
Japan 839 0.1%
Belarus 800 0.1%
Guyana 500 0.1%
Brazil 183 0.0%
Croatia 90 0.0%

Totals are summed from what the record holds — see the coverage note.