It took three tries, but Connecticut coach Len Tsantiris finally registered his 400th career victory as the Huskies shut out Hartford, 3-0, Sunday, in New Haven.
Tsantiris joined Anson Dorrance as only the second coach in women's soccer history to achieve 400 wins. Tsantiris won his 399th game when UConn opened the 2004 season with a 2-0 victory over Navy, but it then lost three in a row to Penn State, Portland and Yale before beating neighboring Hartford.
Six Soccer America Top 25 team remained unbeaten and untied after Week 3: No. 2 Notre Dame (6-0-0), No. 5 Virginia (5-0-0), No. 12 Washington (5-0-0), No. 13 Kansas (6-0-0), No. 20 Illinois (5-0-0) and No. 23 Princeton (3-0-0).
No. 8 UCLA fell to Maryland, 2-1, Sunday at the Virginia Soccer Classic. No. 18 Nebraska also lost for the second time this weekend, falling to Stanford, 1-0, at home.
No. 17 Auburn lost for the first time this season Saturday when it lost to Indiana, 1-0, in a match moved up because of the threatened arrival of Hurricane Ivan.
No. 11 Florida had to settle for a 2-2 tie at Missouri. No. 22 Cal Poly tied Maine, 0-0.
No. 3 Florida State, which lost to Florida Friday night, needed an overtime goal from Leah Gallegos to beat Stetson, 1-0.