No. 1 North Carolina is unbeaten going into this week's ACC tournament after beating No. 21 Duke, 2-1, on Thursday night.

In ACC first-round play Sunday, No. 20 Maryland needed a shootout to beat N.C. State after they played to a 0-0 tie. In a battle of first-year ACC schools, Virginia Tech beat Miami, Fla., 2-0.

Canadian Katie Thorlakson set Notre Dame records with four goals and 10 points (four goals and two assists) in the No. 2 Irish's 7-0 win over St. John's in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament.

In other Big East tournament play, Villanova upset No. 22 West Virginia, 1-0. Connecticut and Boston College also won 1-0 decisions over Rutgers and Georgetown, respectively.

Tiffany Weimer scored three minutes into overtime as Penn State beat Navy, 1-0, to stretch its home winning streak to 38 games. Penn State is No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament, where it meets No. 8 seed Indiana on Nov. 4, in Columbus, Ohio.

No. 18 Arizona upset No. 5 UCLA, 1-0, on Althea Jones' first-half goal to move into first place in the Pac-10 standings with one weekend of regular season play remaining. With only games against the Pac-10's bottom two teams (Oregon and Oregon State) remaining, the Wildcats have a 5-2-0 record, leading UCLA (5-2-0), Arizona State (4-2-1) and Stanford (4-2-1). Washington fell out of contention when it lost to Washington State, 3-2. The Pac-10 does not have a postseason tournament.

Senior forward Megan Kakadelas scored the game-winner in the 79th minute as No. 7 Santa Clara won its sixth straight game with a 1-0 victory at Loyola Marymount. The Broncos and No. 8 Portland, a 2-0 winner over San Francisco, are tied for the WCC lead with 5-1-0 records.

Franny Iacuzzi's goal with 2:57 remaining in the first overtime gave Colgate a 1-0 win over No. 9 Princeton, snapping the Tigers' 10-game winning streak. Two days earlier, the Tigers became the first team to clinch an NCAA bid with a 7-0 victory over Cornell. The win gave the Tigers their fourth league title in five years, and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament for the Tigers, who will be making their sixth straight postseason appearance.

Junior Caroline Smith scored twice and added an assist as Kansas clinched its first-ever Big 12 regular-season championship by defeating Iowa State, 4-0. The No. 12 Jayhawks and No. 15 Texas A&M each finished the regular season with 8-2 conference mark and were named co-champions of the league, while Kansas will be the No. 1 seed at next week's Big 12 tournament, virtue of a 1-0 victory over the Aggies on Oct. 22.

Dayton (18-1-0) tied a school record for wins by holding off La Salle, 1-0, in the regular-season finale. The Flyers used an early goal from freshman Natalia Walters to extend the nation's longest winning streak to 18 matches.