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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Bradley University seniors Tim Regan and Hamid Mehreioskouei are headed to the same professional soccer league via opposite paths.

Both players were selected Friday in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft. Regan was taken in the second round by the New Jersey-based MetroStars, while Mehreioskouei is bound for the West Coast after the Los Angeles Galaxy chose him in the fourth round.

Mehreioskouei joins former BU teammate Gavin Glinton on a Galaxy club that won the 2002 MLS Cup.

Regan, an all-American defender from Orland Hills, became the third BU player in as many years to be selected in the second round. He was taken 17th overall after the MetroStars acquired rights to that slot from Columbus. The MetroStars gave up defender Nelson Akwari and their 2004 second-round pick.

Mehreioskouei was the final pick of the fourth round and the 40th player selected overall. Hampered by a persistent hamstring injury, the forward from Schaumburg was limited to two goals and six points in his senior season. Among all-time BU leaders, Mehreioskouei ranks third in goals (28) and second in points (84).

Regan is one of just two players in BU history to earn multiple all-American honors in the same season. He was named the 2002 Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year.

Regan was the fourth player drafted by the MetroStars. He joins a club that hired ex-Chicago Fire coach Bob Bradley - tied for the most coaching wins in MLS history - after failing to make the league playoffs in 2002.

Two Missouri Valley Conference players went ahead of Regan. Diego Walsh of SMU was taken seventh by Columbus and Jason Thompson, a junior who gave up his final season of eligibility at Eastern Illinois, was selected 15th by Dallas.

With the first pick of the draft, D.C. United selected Hermann Trophy winner Alecko Eskandarian, who scored 25 goals last fall as a junior at Virginia.

The MetroStars selected Furman midfielder Ricardo Clark second. He was a first-team all-American and starts for the U.S. Under-20 team.

The Fire had the third pick and chose Portland midfielder/forward Nate Jaqua.

Regan and Mehreioskouei represent the third and fourth BU players drafted by an MLS team, following Glinton in 2002 (taken 25th by Los Angeles) and Bryan Namoff in 2001 (15th by D.C. United).

Glinton was among the league's top rookies in 2002 until suffering a season-ending ankle injury midway through the season.  

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