While Santa Clara fell in the first round to USC, the other top seeds romped in first-round action.
Kerri Hanks' corner kick served up the first goal before taking care of the next three goals herself to lead No. 1 Notre Dame to a 7-1 win over Oakland. The goals gave Hanks 21 for the season.
The game was halted due to lightning at the end of the first half, sending the teams to their locker rooms 55 seconds early. A series of nearby lightning strikes pushed the delay to nearly two hours before the teams returned to quickly finish the first half and then immediately started the second half. Notre Dame, which moves on to Sunday's second round and will face Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which outlasted Michigan on penalty kicks in Friday's first game at Alumni Field.
Yael Averbuch had a hat trick as North Carolina won its 22th straight game with a 7-0 win over UNC Asheville. The Heels outshot the Bulldogs 35-2. Former U.S. U-19 star Ashlyn Harris made the first appearance of her career, making two saves in the last 45 minutes of the match in goal for UNC. Harris missed the entire 2005 season and the first 22 games of the 2006 season with knee injuries as the result of two ACL tears.
Texas, undefeated in its last 12 matches, advanced to the second round with a 4-0 win over Northeast champion Long Island in Storrs, Conn. Juniors Caitlin Kennedy and Kelsey Carpenter and sophomore defender Kasey Moore scored once in the opening period to give the fifth-ranked Longhorns a comfortable lead heading into halftime. They advanced to the second round for the second time in program history. Last year, UT lost in first-round action to UTEP, 3-2, in overtime in Austin.