FIFA’s medical chief Michel D’Hooghe says he’s seen a rise in career-ending fouls over the past two years, and he wants referees to show more red cards and coaches to do their part in curbing violent play. “We see more violent fouls over the whole world,” as games gain in financial importance, said D’Hooghe. “Some […]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Revs’ Veteran Ralston Out For Season
New England boosted its playoff chances with a 2-1 comeback win over Seattle last weekend but has lost captain and 14-year MLS veteran Steve Ralston for the season to a 19th minute knee injury. "Steve Ralston is the heart and soul of this team and losing him is tough," said defender Jay Heaps said. Ralston […]
U.S. U-20s Hope To Rebound Against Cameroon
After opening its U-20 World Cup campaign in Egypt by getting thumped, 3-0, by Germany, the Thomas Rongen-coached USA hopes to rebound on Tuesday (12:40 pm ET, ESPN2, espn360.com, Galavision) against Cameroon, which beat South Korea, 2-0, in the other Group C match. "We need to be more aggressive," said forward Peri Marosevic, who stayed […]
Jozy Altidore’s Life At Hull
The Los Angeles Times' Chuck Culpepper serves up a detailed look at American striker Jozy Altidore's quest to make it in the English Premier League and looks at the 21-year-old's childhood as the son of Haitian immigrants who met on a bus in Orange, N.J. Altidore, among the Hull City players from nine nations, lives temporarily […]
Soccer on TV
The USA, after opening with a 3-0 loss to Germany, rounds out the first round of the U-20 World Cup with matches on Tuesday (Cameroon) and Friday (Korea Republic). The midweek is also jam packed with Concacaf Champions League, European Champions League and Copa Sudamericana. The MLS Game of the Week is on Friday as Los Angeles hosts Chicago.
Formation changes don’t slow down high-scoring LSU
WOMEN’S NEWS … LSU put on one of the most impressive displays of the women’s season when the Tigers blasted previously unbeaten Georgia, 6-0, and Tennessee, 5-1, to open their SEC season. The wins propelled LSU into the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 for the first time this season at No. 20.
On Friday, freshman forward Carlie Banks led LSU with a hat trick and frontline partner Rachel Yenez added a goal and two assists. Two days later against Tennessee, the Tigers switched formations, dropping Banks from the starting lineup and using just Yenez up front. The result? LSU scored four first-half goals.
“We’ve got a versatile attack,” said LSU coach Brian Lee after the Tennessee game. “That was the appropriate move for today. I think it speaks well of our team that we can take out Carlie Banks, who had a hat trick on Friday, and still be up 2-0 nine minutes in. We did a good job of keeping up the pressure.”
Yenez finished the weekend with three goals and two assists, while midfielder Malorie Rutledge had one goal and three assists. Freshman Tricia Johnson scored goals against Georgia and Tennessee.
Weekend Results
* TALLAHASSEE BARN-BURNER. You’d be hard-pressed to find two better young women’s teams than Florida State and Boston College. Between them, they started 10 sophomores and four freshmen Sunday in Tallahassee, where they put on quite a show.
Twice Florida State went ahead and twice the visiting Eagles equalized before sophomore Jessica Price gave the Seminoles the lead for good, breaking a 2-2 tie in the 73rd minute on her seventh goal of the season. The 3-2 win was the Seminoles’ third in a row over a Top 25 team. The loss snapped BC’s nine-game winning streak.
“Well, it was exactly what we expected,” said FSU coach Mark Krikorian. “We know Boston College is a very, very good team. They came in here and pushed us to the limit. The good thing for us is that we found a way to win.”
* GAME OF THE DAY:
Sept. 27 in Tallahassee, Fla.
Florida State 3 Boston College 2. Goals: Huster (Short, Pressley) 10, McCarty (Edwards) 23, Price (McCarty) 73; V.DiMartino (Mewis) 13, Caldwell (Bouchelle, V.DiMartino) 56.
Florida State — McNulty, Jaurena, Brockway, Edwards, Pressley, Short, DaCosta, Hunter, Lim, Price, McCarty. Subs: Crown, Bolinsky, Switzer, Kazbour.
Boston College — Mastroianni, Pember, Henderson, Cerrone, Beyar, Regan, G.DiMartino, Bouchelle, Mewis, V.DiMartino, Caldwell. Subs: Gimpel, Knowlton, Payne, Wirth.
Referee: Shane Moody.
Att.: 902.
Rough weekend for Top 25 teams
MEN’S NEWS … Fourteen teams ranked in last week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 lost this weekend. They included three upsets apiece in two of the major conferences, the ACC and Big East.
Perhaps the biggest surprise was Clemson’s 1-0 win at Virginia on Saturday night. The win was get first win in seven games under interim coach Phil Hindson. Another ACC team in transition, Virginia Tech, followed suit by beating N.C. State, 2-0.
The third unranked team ACC to beat a ranked team was Boston College, a 2-0 winner over Duke. The Eagles have won five in a row and jumped into this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 at No. 14.
Two Big East teams, Louisville and South Florida, lost for the first time this season on Friday when they dropped conference games to Notre Dame (4-0) and West Virginia (1-0), respectively. Also losing on Friday was St. John’s, which fell at Connecticut, 1-0.
Weekend Results
* TOP 25 UPSETS:
Friday, Sept. 25
No. 4 California 1 (Carrasco 41) New Mexico 2 (Urbany 21, Farquharson 89).
West Virginia 1 (Sebele 92) No. 5 South Florida 0 (OT).
Notre Dame 4 (Thomas 49, Perry 60, Dike 75, Brovsky 77) No. 7 Louisville 0.
San Diego State 4 (Reza 21, 60, Wallace 31, Tott 75) No. 11 UC Santa Barbara 2 (Silva 27, Nonni 46).
Boston College 2 (Reddick 59, Mejia 89) No. 12 Duke 0.
Connecticut 1 (Watson-Siriboe 40) No. 22 St. John’s 0.
Davidson 4 (Pilgrim 23, Caskey pen. 39, 62, Reiter 81) No. 25 South Carolina 1 (Lindsay 74).
Saturday, Sept. 26
No. 13 Virginia 0 Clemson 1 (Mattson 41).
Hartwick 2 (Roydhouse 40, Summers 75) No. 15 Dartmouth 0.
Sunday, Sept. 27
No. 14 Creighton 1 (Gjoesund 34) Portland 2 (Warner 48, Nielsen 84).
Virginia Tech 2 (Akogyeram 80, Shupp 5) No. 17 N.C. State 0.
Penn State 2 (Hertzog 53, Yeisley 80) No. 18 Michigan 0.
Cal State Bakersfield 1 (Lampart 19) No. 20 Loyola Marymount 0
Butler 2 (Pollock 52, Cardona 87) No. 25 Wisconsin-Green Bay 1 (Walls 82).
* PERFECT STARTS. Following Harvard’s 1-0 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday and Stetson’s 1-1 tie with Alabama A&M on Sunday, the number of unbeaten and untied teams is down to three:
— No. 1 Akron (7-0-0) defeated Bowling Green, 6-0, to open its Mid-American season. The Zips scored all six goals in the first half. Midfielder Michael Nanchoff, who missed the entire 2008 season due to an illness, matched a 43-year school record shared by his father, George, with four assists.
— No. 9 Monmouth (8-0-0) beat Loyola (Md.), 1-0, on Saturday and finished with a perfect non-conference record for the first time in program history. A pair of freshmen teamed up to give the Hawks the win before 1,322 fans in Baltimore. Cody Calafiore‘s cross found Ryan Clark for the winning goal in the 78th minute.
— After eight wins at home, No. 25 UMBC (9-0-0) took to the road Saturday and defeated La Salle, 3-0, ending an 11-game road winless streak dating back to the 2007 season. Sophomore forward Andrew Bulls, scored a pair of first-half goals to give him 12 for the season.
Poor weekend for foreign legion
[AMERICANS ABROAD] After sitting out three straight league games, midfielder Michael Bradley came on as a halftime sub for Borussia Moenchengladbach, which gave up three second-half goals in a 3-0 loss to Freiburg. Aside from keeper Tim Howard winning with Everton in the Premier League, not much went well for Americans abroad last weekend.
Surprise Sampdoria takes first in Serie A
[ITALY] Sampdoria, which hasn’t won the Serie A title since 1991, is the surprise of the Italian season, taking over first place with a 1-0 win over defending champion Inter Milan, its fifth victory in six games.
England scissored by Uruguay [VIDEO]
[GOLAZO] Uruguay substitute Tabare Viudez scored with a stunning scissor-kick in the 84th minute to down England, 1-0, at the U-20 World Cup.
Islanders overtake Rochester again
[USL-1] For the second year in a row, the Puerto Rico Islanders overcame a first-leg deficit and knocked the Rochester Rhinos out of the USL First Division playoffs. The two Canadian quarterfinalists, Montreal and Vancouver, held on to their first-leg advantages and joined Puerto Rico and regular-season champion Portland in the semifinals.
MLS Results
D.C. United blew a 1-0 lead at home to Western Conference last-place team San Jose and lost 2-1. The loss left it in ninth place in the overall standings, behind Colorado, Chivas USA, Seattle and New England in the race for the four wild-card playoff berths. For all the game summaries, current standings and leading scorers …
What They’re Saying
“I’m really proud that we didn’t lose faith in the way we can play on the road.”
— San Jose Earthquakes coach Frank Yallop after his team ended a 20-game road winless streak with its first away win in 477 days when it downed D.C. United, 2-1. (San Jose Mercury)
International Results
Chelsea lost its first game in the English Premier League, falling to Wigan, 3-1, and allowing defending champion Manchester United to pull even in first place. Barcelona and Real Madrid remained perfect in Spain’s La Liga. In Germany, Hamburg, a 1-0 winner over Bayern Munich, and Bayer Leverkusen are tied for the Bundesliga lead. For the weekend results and current standings …
Revs silence Sounders after Montero rocket [VIDEO]
[MLS NAMES & NUMBERS] Fredy Montero scored on a spectacular long-range rocket but the Seattle Sounders went down to New England. Columbus remained red hot when the Galaxy came to town. FC Dallas’ Jeff Cunningham moved to the top of the league-scoring lead at Real Salt Lake’s expense. For highlights from last weekend’s MLS action. …
Soccer America Women’s Top 25
[COLLEGE] Stanford and North Carolina both overcame close calls and remain 1-2 in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25. Portland, UCLA and Florida State all moved up one spot and complete the top five. For the complete Soccer America Women’s Top 25 rankings …
Soccer America Men’s Top 25
[COLLEGE] No. 1 Akron, No. 9 Monmouth and No. 25 UMBC are the only unbeaten and untied teams left in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25. UCLA moved up to No. 2 with a pair of wins, while ACC teams Maryland, Wake Forest and North Carolina complete the top five. For the complete Soccer America Men’s Top 25 rankings …
Crew clinches but spoilers just won’t go away
[MLS PLAYOFF WATCH] Defending champion Columbus secured a playoff spot by beating the Galaxy, 2-0, but the real news came from the other end of the standings. The bottom three teams – New York, FC Dallas, and San Jose – all dented the hopes of teams in the chase by refusing to lose, and in two cases, actually winning. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney updates the playoff race …
USA-Germany Report Card
[UNDER-20 WORLD CUP] Soccer America’s Paul Kennedy grades the U.S. players in Saturday’s 3-0 loss to Germany at the Under-20 World Cup in Suez …
USA falls to Germany in horrendous display
[UNDER-20 WORLD CUP] Not much was expected of the USA at the 2009 Under-20 World Cup in Egypt, and it certainly did nothing to dispel its doubters with a horrendous display in the opening game. Germany got two goals two minutes apart on the half hour and cruised to a 3-0 win Saturday in Suez.
Under-20 World Cup:
Monday Updates
Referees have some explaining to do
I very much like what Arsene Wenger said about the mystery of stoppage time. Briefly, he’s complaining that no one knows exactly how the referees calculate the time to be added on at the end of a game. He says that everyone should know and that there should be a clear set of guidelines explaining the matter.
Florida State hands BC its first loss of the season
WOMEN’S NEWS … No. 6 Florida State handed No. 3 Boston College its first loss of the season with a 3-2. The visiting Eagles twice came back from one-goal deficits, but sophomore Jessica Price won the game for the Seminoles with her seventh goal of the season in the 73rd minute.
In another ACC match involving Top 25 teams, No. 2 North Carolina rediscovered its scoring touch and made easy work of No. 17 Wake Forest, 4-0.Top-ranked Stanford improved to 10-0-0 with a 1-0 at St. Mary’s in a game played in 100-degree temperatures.
Top 25 teams to fall on Sunday to unranked teams were:
— No. 9 Maryland (2-0 at Miami, Fla.);
— No. 10 Santa Clara (2-0 at home to USC);
— No. 19 Indiana (3-2 at Wisconsin on sophomore Laurie Nosbusch‘s hat trick);
— No. 21 Texas A&M (3-2 at Oklahoma);
— No. 25 UCF (1-0 at home to Memphis).
(Click here for more Sunday women’s results.)
* TOP 25 SCOREBOARD:
Sunday, Sept. 27
St. Mary’s 0 No. 1 Stanford (Press 59).
(Cardinal extends scoreless string to 447 minutes.)
ACC: No. 2 North Carolina 4 (Hawkins 12, McDonald 22, Engen 62, Rich 70) No. 17 Wake Forest 0.
UC Santa Barbara 1 (Ortega 43) No. 5 UCLA 3 (Belcher 50, Leroux 62, 80).
No. 6 Florida State 3 (Huster 10, McCarty 23, Price 73) No. 3 Boston College 2 (V.DiMartino 13, Caldwell 56).
SEC: Arkansas 0 No. 8 Georgia 2 (Pollock 4, Falle 80).
ACC: Miami (Fla.) 2 (Roseboro 27, Steinbruch 64) No. 9 Maryland 0.
(Coach Tricia Taliaferro gets her 100th career win.)
No. 10 Santa Clara 0 USC 2 (Buehning 50, Davila 90).
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SEC: No. 11 South Carolina 1 (Watts 56) Kentucky 0.
Big East: No. 12 Notre Dame 1 (Fowlkes 50) Louisville 0.
(Irish stretch unbeaten streak against conference opponents to 55 matches.)
Big Ten: No. 13 Michigan State 3 (Heyboer 22, 95, Stander 49) Penn State 2 (Schoepfer 59, Nairn 69) (OT).
ACC: No. 14 Virginia 3 (Miskel 8, Rostedt 38, Alwine 54) Clemson 0.
Big East: Providence 1 (Camburn 15) No. 15 St. John’s 1 (Stefansdottir 77).
Big East: No. 16 Connecticut 5 (Ruutu 27, Shufelt 36, 66, Busque pen. 50, Garufi 88) Syracuse 0.
Oral Roberts 3 (Manyan 31, Booth 70, Soto 90) No. 18 Kansas 5 (Cressy 1, Williamson 18, 45, Dolinsky 67, Robbins 83).
Big Ten: Wisconsin 3 (Nosbusch 52, 73, 87) No. 19 Indiana 2 (Beach 73, 76).
Big East: No. 20 Rutgers 1 (Schacher 53) Villanova 1 (Schuyler 24).
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Big 12: Oklahoma 3 (Palmer 6, 9, Kraft 61) No. 21 Texas A&M 2 (Hamilton 14, 55)
SEC: No. 24 Florida 5 (Annis 34, Barney 44, 83, Eicken 66, Tymrak 83) Vanderbilt 1 (Forester 90).
Conference USA: No. 25 UCF 0 Memphis 1 (Strnadova 41).
Big Ten: Northwestern 0 No. 25 Purdue 2 (Leinert 62, Seeger 85).
Big Ten: No. 25 Ohio State 1 (own goal 19) Michigan 0.
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America East
Vermont 1 Albany 1
Atlantic Sun
Mercer 2 Stetson 3
Atlantic-10
Duquesne 0 Massachusetts 1
George Washington 0 Dayton 6
Big East
DePaul 1 Cincinnati 0
South Florida 2 West Virginia 1
Big Ten
Illinois 2 Minnesota 2
(Crowd of 2,347 for SoccerFest is second largest crowd in school history.)
Big 12
Baylor 0 Texas 0
Colorado 1 Iowa State 0
Missouri 3 Oklahoma State 2
Texas Tech 3 Nebraska 3
CAA
Hofstra 4 Drexel 0
James Madison 3 Towson 2
Northeastern 1 Delaware 1
Old Dominion 1 UNC Wilmington 3
VCU 2 George Mason 1
William & Mary 6 Georgia State 2
Conference USA
Colorado College 2 Tulsa 0
East Carolina 1 Houston 2
Marshall 1 Rice 0
Southern Miss 0 UAB 1
UTEP 2 SMU 0
Horizon
Valparaiso 0 Loyola (Ill.) 1
Northeast
Central Conn. State 3 Quinnipiac 2
SEC
LSU 6 Tennessee 1
(Tigers have scored 12 goals in their first two SEC games.)
Mississippi 3 Auburn 2 (OT)
(Hannah Weatherly converts penalty kick to break tie.)
Mississippi State vs. Alabama-postponed
Southern
College of Charleston 1 Samford 0
(Bulldogs give up first goal of the season.)
Non-Conference
Cal Poly 3 Arizona 0
Middle Tennessee 1 Florida Atlantic 0
(Blue Raiders extend their school-record best start to 8-1-1.)
Pacific 3 Air Force 0
Robert Morris 1 American 0
San Diego State 2 UC Irvine 1
TCU 4 Texas Women’s 0
UC Davis 2 Nevada 1
Utah 0 Pepperdine 1
Wagner 0 Lafayette 0
Wyoming 1 UC Riverside 0
Youngstown State 0 St. Francis (Pa.) 0
* EARLIER TOP 25 RESULTS:
Friday, Sept. 25
No. 4 Portland 1 (Burk 55) No. 22 Oregon State 0.
(Top 25 showdown draws 4,238 fans.)
Cal State Northridge 0 No. 5 UCLA 2 (Larsen 18, Cheney 43).
No. 7 California 1 (Sisler 93) Cal Poly 0 (OT).
SEC: LSU 4 (Banks 16, 18, 63, Yepez 52) No. 8 Georgia 0.
No. 10 Santa Clara 1 (Patton 17) Cal State Fullerton 0.
SEC: No. 11 South Carolina 2 (Rhoades 16, Jacobs 52) Vanderbilt 1 (Lukens 89).
(Gamecocks remain perfect at 9-0-0.)
Big East: Cincinnati 1 (Hebbeler 76) No. 12 Notre Dame 2 (Fowlkes 78, Schuveiller 81).
Big 12: Oklahoma State 3 (Miller 17, Langdon 53, Richardson 76) No. 18 Kansas 0.
Big Ten: Northwestern 1 (Herczeg 80) No. 19 Indiana 0.
Big East: Georgetown 0 No. 20 Rutgers 1 (Jones 13).
(Ashley Jones has eight goals in last six games.)
Big 12: Baylor 0 No. 21 Texas A&M 1 (Hooper 59).
No. 23 Oregon 2 (Sweeney 38, Mansfield 65) Portland State 0.
SEC: No. 24 Florida 2 (Thompson 13, pen. 99) Kentucky 1 (Lopez 56) (OT).
Conference USA: No. 25 UCF 3 (Whidden 3, 12, George 90) UAB 1 (Blair 59).
Big Ten: Wisconsin 1 (Leinert 78) No. 25 Purdue 1 (Flannery 52).
Thursday, Sept. 24
ACC: No. 2 North Carolina 2 (Lubrano 83, Rich 97) Duke 1 (Gummersall 89) (OT).
ACC: Miami (Fla.) 0 No. 3 Boston College 2 (V.DiMartino 32, Mewis 36).
ACC: No. 6 Florida State 2 (McCarty 18, Kazbour 35) No. 9 Maryland 1 (Spencer 22).
ACC: N.C. State 2 (Dugal 5, 88) No. 14 Virginia 1 (Norbo 69).
Big East: No. 15 St. John’s 1 (Pasciolla 96) No. 16 Connecticut 0 (OT).
Soccer America Women’s Top 25
TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK
1. Stanford (10-0-0) 2
2. North Carolina (9-0-1) 1
3. Boston College (9-1-0) 4
4. Portland (9-1-0) 3
5. UCLA (8-1-1) 5
6. Florida State (9-1-0) 6
7. California (6-2-0) 7
8. Georgia (7-1-1) 8
9. Maryland (8-2-0) 9
10. Santa Clara (8-3-0) 10
11. South Carolina (10-0-0) 12
12. Notre Dame (7-3-0) 13
13. Michigan State (7-0-2) 11
14. Virginia (6-2-2) 16
15. St. John’s (8-1-1) 18
16. Connecticut (7-3-0) 19
17. Wake Forest (8-2-0) 20
18. Kansas (8-2-1) 25
19. Indiana (8-2-0) 22
20. Rutgers (8-1-2) 23
21. Texas A&M (6-4-0) NR
22. Oregon State (7-2-0) NR
23. Oregon (7-1-1) NR
24. Florida (8-3-0) 14
25. UCF (6-3-1) 17
25. Ohio State (8-1-1) NR
25. Purdue (6-2-2) 15
Get the latest college news Monday-Friday in Soccer America’s College Soccer Reporter.
Nakazawa leads UCLA past UNLV
MEN’S NEWS … No. 3 UCLA improved to 5-1-0 with a 3-0 win over visiting Air Force. The Bruins got two second-half goals from senior Kyle Nakazawa.
No. 4 California and No. 5 South Florida rebounded from losses on Friday night to pick up wins on Sunday over Air Force (3-0) and Pitt (2-1), respectively.
Four more Top 25 teams fell to unranked teams, bringing the weekend total to 13:
— Portland edged No. 14 Creighton, 2-1;
— No. 17 N.C. State fell at Virginia Tech, 2-0;
— Penn State snapped No. 18 Michigan’s winning streak at seven games with a 2-0 win;
— No. 25 Wisconsin-Green Bay lost for the first time this season when it fell at Butler, 2-1.
(Click here for more Sunday men’s results.)
* TOP 25 SCOREBOARD:
Sunday, Sept. 27
No. 4 California 3 (Wiedeman 9, 26, Omphroy 57) Air Force 0.
Big East: Pittsburgh 1 (Boehm 86) No. 5 South Florida 2 (Mittoo 16, Anor pen. 52).
Big East: Marquette 2 (Von Rueden 57, Herrera 88) No. 7 Louisville 2 (Braun 4, Knight 23).
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No. 14 Creighton 1 (Gjoesund 34) Portland 2 (Warner 48, Nielsen 84).
ACC: Virginia Tech 2 (Akogyeram 80, Shupp 5) No. 17 N.C. State 0.
Big Ten: Penn State 2 (Hertzog 53, Yeisley 80) No. 18 Michigan 0.
(Wolverines’ winning streak is snapped at seven games.)
Big Ten: No. 19 Michigan State 0 No. 24 Ohio State 1 (Scales 18).
Cal State Bakersfield 0 No. 20 Loyola Marymount 3 (Gallaudet 1, Rementer 11, Lawson 26).
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Big East: Providence 0 No. 22 St. John’s 0.
Big Ten: No. 23 Northwestern 1 (Hillgard 93) SIU-Edwardsville 0 (OT).
Horizon: Butler 2 (Pollock 52, Cardona 87) No. 25 Wisconsin-Green Bay 1 (Walls 82).
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83th minute: No. 11 UC Santa Barbara 1 (Ibrahim pen.) UC Irvine 0. (Attendance: 4,511.)
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Saturday, Sept. 26
Mid-American: No. 1 Akron 6 (Barson 7, Bunbury 19, 35, Nagbe 25, Zemanski 36, Speas 44) Bowling Green 0.
ACC: No. 9 Wake Forest 1 (Arena 62) No. 6 Harvard 0.
Loyola (Md.) 0 No. 10 Monmouth 1 (Clark 78).
(Game draws 1,322 fans at Geppi-Aikens Stadium.)
ACC: No. 13 Virginia 0 Clemson 1 (Mattson 41).
(Tigers get first win in seven games under interim coach Phil Hindson.)
Hartwick 2 (Roydhouse 40, Summers 75) No. 15 Dartmouth 0.
Rhode Island 1 (Puranen 45) No. 21 Boston University 2 (O’Neal 6, 23).
(Aaron O’Neal leads BU with seven goals in nine games.)
Cal and Georgia fall to unranked teams
WOMEN’S NEWS … Two Top 10 teams — No. 7 California and No. 8 Georgia — lost on Friday night to unranked teams.
Cal outshot Cal Poly, 25-8, but fell to the visiting Mustangs, 1-0, on Whitney Sisler’s golden goal. The star of the night was Carlie Banks, who scored a hat trick for LSU in its 6-0 win over Georgia. The loss was the first of the season for the Bulldogs.
The other Top 25 teams to fall to unranked teams were No. 18 Kansas, which lost to Oklahoma State, 3-0, in the Big 12 opener for both teams, and No. 19 Indiana, which lost at Big Ten rival Northwestern, 1-0.
(Click here for more Friday night women’s results as well as the weekend Top 25 schedule.)
* FRIDAY’S SCOREBOARD:
Friday, Sept. 25
No. 4 Portland 1 (Burk 55) No. 22 Oregon State 0.
(Top 25 showdown draws 4,238 fans.)
Cal State Northridge 0 No. 5 UCLA 2 (Larsen 18, Cheney 43).
No. 7 California 1 (Sisler 93) Cal Poly 0 (OT).
SEC: LSU 6 (Banks 16, 18, 63, Yepez 52 Boudreau 84, Johnson 85) No. 8 Georgia 0.
No. 10 Santa Clara 1 (Patton 17) Cal State Fullerton 0.
SEC: No. 11 South Carolina 2 (Rhoades 16, Jacobs 52) Vanderbilt 1 (Lukens 89).
(Gamecocks remain perfect at 9-0-0.)
Big East: Cincinnati 1 (Hebbeler 76) No. 12 Notre Dame 2 (Fowlkes 78, Schuveiller 81).
Big 12: Oklahoma State 3 (Miller 17, Langdon 53, Richardson 76) No. 18 Kansas 0.
Big Ten: Northwestern 1 (Herczeg 80) No. 19 Indiana 0.
Big East: Georgetown 0 No. 20 Rutgers 1 (Jones 13).
(Ashley Jones has eight goals in last six games.)
Big 12: Baylor 0 No. 21 Texas A&M 1 (Hooper 59).
No. 23 Oregon 2 (Sweeney 38, Mansfield 65) Portland State 0.
SEC: No. 24 Florida 2 (Thompson 13, pen. 99) Kentucky 1 (Lopez 56) (OT).
Conference USA: No. 25 UCF 3 (Whidden 3, 12, George 90) UAB 1 (Blair 59).
Big Ten: Wisconsin 1 (Leinert 78) No. 25 Purdue 1 (Flannery 52).
Maryland beats North Carolina — again
MEN’S NEWS … A record Ludwig Field crowd of 6,946 fans watched No. 8 Maryland beat No. 2 North Carolina, 1-0, in a rematch of last year’s NCAA Division I championship game.
Maryland has now beaten North Carolina four times over the last two seasons — all by shutouts. UNC had the edge in play, but the Terrapins won on Kevin Tangney‘s header in the 89th minute. Billy Schuler had a chance to put Carolina ahead, but he missed a penalty kick in the second half.
Tangney, a player who has missed two full seasons due to a pair of ACL tears, has emerged as one of the leaders on a very young Maryland team. “That was one of the best moments of my 17 years here and not because we won the game against a great opponent but in the player that found the way to get the game-winning goal,” Maryland coach Sasho Cirovski said. “With all that he has been through, I rarely talk about a single player after a game, but you have a gulp in your throat when he scored that goal and had that celebration because you know what he’s gone through. He’s made of the best stuff on earth.”
GAME OF THE DAY
Sept. 25 in College Park, Md.
Maryland 1 North Carolina 0. Goal: Tangney 89.
Maryland — MacMath, Kemp, White, Tangney, Lee, Kassel, Rodkey, Yates, Forbess, Townsend, Herrick. Subs: Saint Cyr, Cortes, Oduaran, Woodberry.
North Carolina — Haggerty, Graye, McKinney, Loyd, King, McCarty, Brown, Urso, Farfan, Dixon, Schuler. Subs: Lebo, Martinez, Walters.
Referee: Andrew Chapin.
Att.: 6,946.
* TOP 25 SETBACKS. In Big East play, West Virginia and Notre Dame handed No. 5 South Florida and No. 7 Louisville their first losses, respectively. No. 4 California fell to New Mexico, 2-1. No. 11 UC Santa Barbara lost at San Diego State, 4-2. No. 12 Duke, No. 22 St. John’s and No. 25 South Carolina also lost to unranked teams.
* G20 FEVER. Visiting DePaul was not deterred by all kinds of security details in place for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh to beat host Pitt, 1-0, on Steffen Vroom‘s goal in Big East action on Friday. “There were roadblocks everywhere, and we had to take a detour to the game,” said DePaul coach Craig Blazer. “There were all kinds of policemen and security forces in the streets. Some of the leaders from Germany and their delegation were staying in our hotel. There were SWAT teams in our hotel.”
(Click here for more Friday night men’s results as well as the weekend Top 25 schedule.)
* FRIDAY’S TOP 25 SCOREBOARD:
ACC: No. 8 Maryland 1 (Tagney 88) No. 2 North Carolina 0.
San Diego 1 (Feld pen. 62) No. 3 UCLA 2 (Hollingshead 10, Nakazawa pen. 48).
No. 4 California 1 (Carrasco 41) New Mexico 2 (Urbany 21, Farquharson 89).
Big East: West Virginia 1 (Sebele 92) No. 5 South Florida 0 (OT).
Big East: Notre Dame 4 (Thomas 49, Perry 60, Dike 75, Brovsky 77) No. 7 Louisville 0.
San Diego State 4 (Reza 21, 60, Wallace 31, Tott 75) No. 11 UC Santa Barbara 2 (Silva 27, Nonni 46).
ACC: Boston College 2 (Reddick 59, Mejia 89) No. 12 Duke 0.
Washington 0 No. 14 Creighton 1 (Finlay 25).
Big Ten: Wisconsin 0 No. 16 Indiana 1 (Bruin 57).
(Game drew a crowd of 1,703, largest Badger crowd since the 1997 season.)
Big East: Connecticut 1 (Watson-Siriboe 40) No. 22 St. John’s 0.
Big Ten: No. 23 Northwestern 2 (Eliason 45, O’Neill 84) Drake 2 (Kuhn 27, Webb 86).
Davidson 4 (Pilgrim 23, Caskey pen. 39, 62, Reiter 81) No. 25 South Carolina 1 (Lindsay 74).
Horizon: Wright State 1 (Kercher 89) No. 25 Wisconsin-Green Bay 4 (Walls 5, Grable 22, Banks 66, Patterson 78).
