Fall Showcase Soccer games are played in Raleigh and Orange prior to the NCAA Div. 1 soccer championships at WakeMed SP in Cary. Youth games are scheduled at WRAL Fields in Raleigh, Soccer.com in Efland and other fields as thousands of youngsters descend on the Triangle to participate. Duke and UNC women played in a Dec. 6 women’s semifinal along with Stanford/Wake Forest.
Visitors, parents and kids, fill a lot of hotels/motels and eat a lot of meals in multiple Triangle counties including Orange. Early reports had more than 1,600 teams attending.