WOMEN’S NEWS … North Carolina, No. 1 in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 for the third week in a row, again scored early and often. Two weeks after it beat last year’s NCAA semifinalist UCLA, 7-2, Carolina won, 6-0, at 2008 runner-up Notre Dame.

Against the Bruins, it won only 41 seconds for Tobin Heath to score the first goal. On Friday night, sophomore forward Courtney Jones beat that, scoring after only 23 seconds.

Against UCLA, Carolina had three goals on the board after 13 minutes. In South Bend, it took slightly longer, only 20 minutes.

“It’s disappointing to come out and play like we did, especially when we had such an amazing crowd on the first night in this wonderful new stadium,” said Notre Dame coach Randy Waldrum.

The game drew a sellout crowd of 3,000 at the new Alumni Stadium.

* Besides Carolina, four other ACC teams are still perfect after three weeks: No. 4 Florida State (5-0-0), No. 5 Boston College (3-0-0), No. 10 Wake Forest (6-0-0) and No. 18 Maryland (5-0-0). The Terrapins are the big surprise, beating Santa Clara, 1-0, on sophomore Ashley Grove‘s game to extend its winning streak to five games, their longest in a decade. The key, according to Coach Brian Pensky, is the Terrapins are playing with a lot of confidence.

* With 2-1 wins over ranked Florida and Mercer, No. 12 Indiana matched its best start ever at 5-0-0. Leigh Anne Cummings won the Florida game with a golden goal, while Kelly Lawrence assisted on both goals in the comeback against Mercer. As big as the Florida win was, IU coach Mick Lyon like the Mercer victory just as much. “[Mercer] is a very good team and will win a lot of games this year.”

*TOP 25 ACTION:
Sunday, Sept. 6
No. 8 UCLA 3 (Leroux 51, Larsen 75, Lang 88) No. 7 Florida 0.

Friday, Sept. 4
No. 4 Notre Dame 0 No. 1 North Carolina 6 (Jones 1, McDonald 7, 55, Klingenberg 20, Bartok 37, Nogueira 50)
No. 3 Portland 2 (Reed 21, 44) No. 23 Colorado College 0.
No. 5 Florida State 2 (Huster 57, Lim 81) No. 10 Penn State 1 (Toney 79).
No. 16 Illinois 1 (Nweke 37)  No. 8 UCLA 2 (Leroux 4, Cheney 79).
No. 14 California 1 (Kevorkian 70) No. 13 Texas A&M 0.

This weekend’s Top 25 results and goal scorers