SCURRY ELECTED TO HALL

Goalkeeper Briana Scurry and contributor Joe Machnik have been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Scurry was selected Thursday on the player ballot, Machnik on the builder ballot. Scurry backstopped the 1999 U.S. women to the World Cup title, stopping a penalty shot against China in the shootout. Scurry played every minute in goal in three Women’s World Cups and two Olympic Games, sustaining only two losses. She won two Olympic gold medals. “Soccer had already given me so much more than I could possibly give back,” Scurry said. “Now, to be inducted alongside the likes of Michelle Akers, Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly, I am truly humbled.” Machnik has been a player, coach, referee, instructor, match commissioner and broadcaster and has been called “American soccer’s renaissance man.”