NXT LVL Soccer Showcase: Day 1 Results

Nationally ranked Northwood, South Kent School win openers
Northwood School (N.Y.) senior Thiago Cesar (right) lines up a shot in the team's 3-0 win over Combine Academy (N.C.) on Friday.
Northwood School (N.Y.) senior Thiago Cesar (right) lines up a shot in the team's 3-0 win over Combine Academy (N.C.) on Friday. / Jacon Slagel

COLONIE, N.Y. – The three-day NXT LVL Soccer Showcase kicked off Friday with five matches at Afrim’s Sports Park, and the favorites won the day.

Northwood School (N.Y.), ranked No. 5 in the most recent High School On SI Prep Top 15 rankings, defeated Combine Academy (N.C.) 3-0, and No. 11 South Kent School (Conn.) used a late flurry to put ahead FC Florida Prep (Fla.) 3-0. Telmo Reino Perez scored all three South Kent School goals. 

Here are the day’s results: 

Northwood School (N.Y.) 3, Combine Academy (N.C.) 0: Goals – N: Andrea Castro 2, Thiago Cesar.

South Kent School (Conn.) 3, FC Florida Prep (Fla.) 0: Goals - SKS: Telmo Reino Perez 3.

Hoosac School (N.Y.) 3, Bridgton Academy (Maine) 1: Goals - H: Vukasin Ivanovic, Lazar Vucicevic, David Germain. BA: Matthew Honekamp.

St. Andrew’s School (R.I.) 3, South Kent School U17s (Conn.) 2: Goals - SA: Alejandro Rosa, Matheus Porto, Juan Diego Rodriguez Olmos. SKS: Ish Caillende 2.

FC Florida Prep U17s (Fla.) 2, Northwood School U17s (N.Y.) 1. 


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Sheldon Shealer
SHELDON SHEALER

Sheldon Shealer is an award-winning sports journalist with more than 30 years of state and national high school sports coverage, which includes creating the Maryland high school football media state rankings and state records. His previous stops include editor positions with ESPN, Student Sports, The Frederick News-Post, and Hagerstown Herald-Mail, and time as a reporter with The Washington Post. He is also a professor of sports journalism at Mount St. Mary's University and a PhD candidate at Penn State University. He began contributing to High School On SI in 2025.