United to face Battery in Open Cup final

 
For the first time in a decade, teams from different levels in the U.S. soccer pyramid will battle for the open national championship when D.C. United of Major League Soccer takes on the USL First Division's Charleston Battery for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. (link)

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