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MEN’S NEWS … It was a rough night for Top 25 teams Indiana, Boston University and George Mason. They were all playing at home and blew leads they held for long stretches, falling to unranked teams …

— No. 15 Indiana took the lead against visiting Butler in the 4th minute on Darren Yeagle‘s first goal since the 2006 season but gave up the tying goal in the 82nd minute and ended up losing, 2-1, on Connor Burt‘s header in overtime. “All credit to Butler,” said IU coach Mike Freitag. “They are a good team, and I said before the game this was going to be a tough one. We have to do some soul searching. Sometimes guys put on an Indiana jersey and they think it is just going to happen for them.”

— New Hampshire was undeterred by Michael Bustamante‘s goal in the 12th minute, rallying for second-half goals by Jordan Thomas and Chris Banks on counterattacks to defeat No. 17 Boston University, 2-1. The loss ended the Terriers’ five-game unbeaten streak.

— No. 23 George Mason was also unable to hold on to a 1-0 lead, losing to ACC rival Towson, 2-1, on goals by Marco Mangione and Liam Maloney in the last 11 minutes. For the Patriots, the loss snapped a five-match winning streak.

* ZIPS LEAVE IT LATE. No. 1 Akron improved to 10-0-0 with a 3-1 victory at UIC Wednesday night. The Zips didn’t get their first goal until Blair Gavin broke the deadlock in the 72nd minute and Kofi Sarkodie made it 2-0 in the 86th minute. Kevin Stoll ended Akron’s six-game shutout streak, cutting its lead to 2-1 with less than two minutes to play. But Teal Bunbury sealed the victory just 36 seconds later on a breakaway. “With this team, I never know who’s going to score but I always know someone will find a way eventually,” Akron coach Caleb Porter said. “Tonight it was Blair who made a special play to put us ahead.”

* WEDNESDAY’S TOP 25 ACTION:
UIC 1 (Stoll 89) No. 1 Akron 3 (Gavin 72, Sarkodie 86, Bunbury 89).
Big West: No. 7 UC Santa Barbara 1 (Silva 29) Cal Poly 0.
No. 8 Harvard 2 (Tsuda 27, Akpan 37) Holy Cross 0.
Big East: No. 11  Louisville 1 (Rolfe 84) No. 5 South Florida 0.
Northern Illinois 0 No. 12 Northwestern 1 (Eliason 46),
(Wildcats win third straight game by 1-0 score.)
No. 15 Indiana 1 (Yeagle 4) Butler 2 (Pollock 82, Burt 104) (OT).
America East: No. 17 Boston Univ. 1 (Bustamante 12) New Hampshire 2 (Thomas 53, Banks 74).
No. 20 Virginia 2 (Ownby 6, Agorsor 11) Longwood 0.
CAA: No. 23 George Mason 1 (Washington 49) Towson 2 (Mangione 79, Maloney 83).

Wednesday Results

* BULLS’ UPDATE. UMBC sophomore Andrew Bulls, the nation’s leading scorer, scored his 14th goal of the season in the Retrievers’ 2-0 win over Stony Brook. He tied the UMBC record set by Giuliano Celenza in 2000 by scoring at least one point in 11 straight games.

* OWNBY RETURNS. Brian Ownby wasted no time getting back into the swing of things for Virginia after returning from international duty at the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt. The U.S. U-20 scored six minutes into the Cavaliers’ 2-0 win over Longwood.

* CROWD COUNT. Five days after breaking the Harder Stadium attendance record, UC Santa Barbara drew a crowd of 5,842 for its 1-0 win over Cal Poly.

MEN’S NEWS … Englishman James Belshaw has quickly earned the reputation as one of the top young goalies in college soccer, but the Duke freshman could do nothing in the face of a Davidson onslaught. The streaking Wildcats scored twice in the first eight minutes and went on to beat the No. 6 Blue Devils, 4-1, on Tuesday night in front of 1,487 fans in Alumni Stadium.

Trinidadian Yannick Pilgrim scored two goals, and Southern Conference scoring leader Charlie Reiter and freshman Brian McGue each had one for Davidson.  “Yannick showed his class again tonight,” said Davidson coach Matt Spear. “He is just dynamite. His pace and his finishing are surreal. He had one of those games where you just couldn’t catch him.”

Unranked Davidson improved to 9-1-0 with its seventh straight win. “I went into this game thinking we could win because the guys have played so well and have come so far already this season,” said Spear. “They just believe that their way, their system, and their patterns are working so precisely, and so sharply, that they can win every single game.”

* GAME OF THE DAY:
Oct. 6 in Davidson, N.C.
Davidson 4 Duke 1. Goals: McGue (Reiter) 3, Pilgrim (Bostwick) 9, Reiter (Zipin) 57, Pilgrim 77; Thomas (Grossman) 25.
Davidson — Sanders, Shannon, Macnamara, Bostwick, Page, Millard, Caskey, Zipin, McGue, Pilgrim, Reiter. Subs: Goldsberry, Roark, Hayes, Hambleton, Bracken, DiLallo, Ramsay, Smith, Turner, Paras, Boulding, Simms, Shelton.
Duke — Belshaw, Ibeagha, Sih, Wenger, Molinar, McDaniel, Grossman, Bienenfeld, Thomas, Harrison, Finley. Subs: D.Tweed-Kent, Ruffing, C.Tweed-Kent, Brown, Lewis, Trnka-Amrhein.
Referee: Alex Prus.
Att.: 1,487.

* HUSKIES BREAK OUT. Connecticut is showing signs of breaking out of a season-long scoring slump. Sophomore Tony Cascio scored two goals and added two assists and freshman Carlos Alvarez had his first career goal to go along with two assists in the No. 13 Huskies’  4-0 win over Providence Tuesday night at Morrone Stadium. The four goals were the most of the season for UConn, which had scored only nine goals in its first nine games. What’s saved the Huskies is their defense. The victory was their fourth shutout win in a row.

* TUESDAY’S TOP 25 ACTION:
No. 3 North Carolina 1 (Schuler 75) Liberty 0.
Davidson 4 (McGue 3, Pilgrim 9, 77, Reiter 57) No. 6 Duke 1 (Thomas 25).
UNC Greensboro 0 No. 7 Wake Forest 3 (Schilawski 7, da Luz 32, Bone 82).
No. 10 Maryland 1 (Forbess 26) Loyola (Ill.) 0.
Big East: No. 13 Connecticut 4 (Alvarez 7, Ponce 19, Cascio 21, 60) Providence 0.
No. 25 N.C. State 2 (Sanchez 64, Zuerne 90) Wofford 0.
Big East: Pittsburgh 0 No. 25 West Virginia 0.

Tuesday Results

* DETROIT SHAKEUP. Midway through his 18th season at Detroit, Morris Lupenec resigned, handing the reigns of the program over to assistant coach Nick Deren. A day later, the Titans beat visiting Buffalo, 3-1, to give Deren the win in his debut and snap an eight-game winless streak. Sophomore Sam Seppo broke open Tuesday’s game with two second-half goals. “It felt so good to score today,” said Seppo. “I felt like I got a monkey off my back because I have been missing finishes this season.”

* LEADING SCORERS:
PLAYER, SCHOOL GOALS
1. Andrew Bulls, UMBC 13
2. JC Banks, Green Bay 10
3. Chris Cutshaw, Bradley 9
– Matthew Skonicki, Winthrop 9
– Andrew Wiedeman, California 9
5. Saeed Sulemana Baba, Western Mich. 8
– Andy Stadler, George Washington  8
– Giovanni Destasio, Iona 8
– Matt Eliason, Northwestern 8
– Mauro Fuzetti, Michigan 8
– Levi Houapeu, UMBC 8
(Statistics are through games played Oct. 4.)

WOMEN’S NEWS … North Carolina, third in this week’s Soccer America Women’s Top 25 following Sunday’s 1-0 loss at Virginia Tech, and top-ranked Stanford, are 1-2 in the first NCAA Women’s Division I RPI index the NCAA released this fall.

(Click here for the complete women’s RPI.)

The RPI — Ratings Percentage Index — is the most important of the criteria it uses to determine the 64-team field for the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. The RPI is a mathematical formula designed to objectively compare results and strength of schedule.

The ACC leads all conferences with four teams in the RPI top 10 — Carolina, No. 3 Florida State, No. 7 Virginia Tech and No. 9 Boston College — and the Pac-10 leads with seven teams in the RPI top 25. The surprise is UCF at No. 5.

* Women’s RPI (Top 25)
1. North Carolina
2. Stanford
3. Florida State
4. Portland
5. UCF
6. South Carolina
7. Virginia Tech
8. UCLA
9. Boston College
10. Arizona State
11. Connecticut
12. Georgia
13. Santa Clara
14. LSU
15. Texas A&M
16. Wake Forest
17. USC
18. Oregon
19. Florida
20. Maryland
21. Oregon State
22. Washington State
23. Notre Dame
24. Penn State
25. UAB
(Rankings as of Oct. 4.)

* TAYLOR REGAINS FORM. One of the key factors in No. 1 Stanford’s 6-2 demolition of Santa Clara on the road Thursday was the play of sophomore Lindsay Taylor. The 2008 Soccer America Freshman of the Year has been slowed by a virus, but she showed against the Broncos she is regaining her form, providing two killer passes for the third and fourth goals scored by Teresa Noyola and Kelley O’Hara. “Every day that I’m getting in practice, I feel like I’m getting better during the games,” Taylor said afterwards. “Every day my fitness is getting back up.”

Women’s Player of the Week: Nikki Marshall (Colorado)
Women’s Team of the Week

* LOWE’S SENIOR CLASS FINALISTS:
Elizabeth Betterbed, Army
Kelsey Davis, Portland
Kristi Eveland, North Carolina
Theresa Ferraina, Loyola (Md.)
Lauren Lopez, UNC Greensboro
Blakely Mattern, South Carolina
Lizzy Nichols, Harvard
Kelley O’Hara, Stanford
Emily Peterson, Texas A&M
Myra Sack, Dartmouth
(Vote here.)

* HEATH GETS CALL-UP. For the second time this fall, North Carolina will be without senior Tobin Heath, The Olympic gold-medalist will join the U.S. women’s national team for its friendly against Germany Oct. 29 in Augsburg. The match will come on the tail end of an eight-day training camp in Germany. Heath, Carolina keeper Ashlyn Harris and UCLA’s Lauren Cheney recently attended the women’s camp at the Home Depot Center.

* MONDAY’S RESULTS:
Atlantic Sun
Stetson 1 Florida Gulf Coast 2

Big South
High Point 1 College of Charleston 2
Liberty 3 Coastal Carolina 0

Non-Conference
Lehigh 1 Columbia 1
(Ashlin Yahr earns visiting Lions tie with her team-best sixth goal of season.)
Princeton 1 American 0
Yale 3 Central Conn. State 2
(Becky Brown leads Yale with two goals.)

MEN’S NEWS … Kyle Nakazawa is making an early case for Player of the Year honors with a torrid run for UCLA, which is again No. 2 in this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25. Once again this season, “Bend it like Naka” has been the refrain for Bruin fans.

The senior midfielder matched his previous season high with his seventh goal of the season — all in the last six games — on a free kick in the Bruins’ 1-1 tie at Washington on Sunday afternoon.

Once considered one of the most promising players in the U.S. national youth team system, Nakazawa is coming off a back injury that limited him to eight starts in 2008.

Nakazawa, who had trained at Dutch club Ajax in 2001, first made a name for himself at the 2005 Under-17 World Cup, where he scored two goals to lead the USA to first place in its group, but he chose to attend UCLA instead of pursuing professional opportunities.

Free kicks have been Nakazawa’s specialty. Both goals at the Under-17 World Cup — against North Korea and Italy — were on free kicks. He scored on a free kick to give UCLA a 1-0 win over New Mexico in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. And he scored on free kicks against both Oregon State and Washington on last weekend’s trip to the Pacific Northwest.

* NAKAZAWA STREAK:
Sept. 10, UC Davis (4-0), goal
Sept. 17, Cal State Fullerton (2-1), assist
Sept. 25, San Diego (2-1), goal on penalty kick and assist
Sept. 27, UNLV (3-0) two goals
Oct. 2, Oregon State (3-1) two goals, one on free kick, and assist
Oct. 4, Washington (1-1) goal on free kick

Weekend Results

* GAME OF THE WEEKEND:
(Tommy Appel-Schumacher‘s goal for Towson from 45 yards just 95 seconds into the game set the tone for a wild match on Alumni Day.)
Oct. 3 in Philadelphia
Drexel 6 Towson 5 (OT). Goals: Assumpcao pen. 19, Goldberg (Assumpcao) 21, Assumpcao (Baker), 74, Baker 77, Goldberg 87, Page 106; Appel-Schumacher 2, Maloney 33, N. Bermudez Roa 66, Cabrales 69, Mangione 83.
Drexel — Washam, Miller, Ermold, Rohlfsen, LeBourne, Assumpcao, Baker, Page, Goldberg, Johnson, Crose. Subs: Vignola, Sales, Olson, Crockett, Volpatti.
Towson — Steele, Greatwich, Spivey, Horta, Hurkamp, Zecha, Mangione, O’Rourke, LeVine, Appel-Schumacher, Maloney. Subs: Nzokou, J. Bermudez-Roa, N. Bermudez-Roa, Froedert, Cabrales.
Referee: Hossam Saad.
Att.: 465.

MEN’S NEWS … Kyle Nakazawa extended his scoring streak to six games when he scored on a free kick from 25 yards early in No. 2 UCLA’s game at Washington, but the Bruins had to settle for a 1-1 tie in their Pac-10 showdown when they conceded an own goal early in the second half. Nakazawa has seven goals and four assists in his last six games. The senior’s seven goals match a career high.

* ZIPS REMAIN PERFECT. On Saturday, No. 1 Akron improved to 9-0-0 with a 3-0 win at Florida Atlantic. Teal Bunbury led the Zips with two goals. Akron, which has allowed just one goal all season, has not allowed a goal in the last 574 minutes.

* RETRIEVERS FALL. No. 25 UMBC lost for the first time after nine wins Saturday when the Retrievers fell at Vermont, 3-1, in their America East opener. Marty Galvin led the Catamounts with two goals and an assist on fellow senior Matt Hennessey‘s goal. UMBC now falls to 0-8-2 in its last 10 America East road games.

(Click here for more Sunday men’s results.)

* TOP 25 RESULTS:
Sunday, Oct. 4
Pac-10: Washington 1 (own goal 50) No. 2 UCLA 1 (Nakazawa 8).
Northeast: Fairleigh Dickinson 0 No. 9 Monmouth 1 (Kinne 84).
WCC: St. Mary’s 1 (Coehlo 45) No. 18 Portland 1 (vanSchaik 69).
Big Ten: No. 11 Ohio State 0 No. 21 Northwestern 1 (Hilgard 52).
Conference USA: No. 23 Kentucky 0 UAB 1 (Gumede 15).
(Game draws crowd of 1,774 fans at the UK Soccer Complex.)

Saturday, Oct. 3
Mid-American: Florida Atlantic 0 No. 1 Akron 3 (Bunbury 2, 30, Speas 38).
Big East: No. 7 South Florida 2 (Fairclough 51, Anor 83) Cincinnati 0.
Ivy: Yale 0 No. 8 Harvard 1 (Rogers 103).
America East: No. 19 Boston Univ. 3 (Appiah 22, 25, Prunier 43) Stony Brook 0.
Big East: DePaul 0 No. 20 Louisville 6 (Rolfe 4, Knight 13, 16, DelPiccolo 20, Walker 55, Tufty 87).
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Big East: No. 22 Connecticut 1 (Cascio 56) No. 13 Georgetown 0.
America East: Vermont 3 (Hennessey 13, Galvin 23, 65) No. 25 UMBC 1 (Bulls 30).
CAA: No. 25 Old Dominion 0 UNC Wilmington 0.
Ivy: Columbia 1 (Adafin 51) No. 25 Brown 2 (Thompson 42, Elenz-Martin 104) (OT).

MEN’S NEWS … UC Santa Barbara set a school regular-season attendance record Friday night when the No. 12 Gauchos drew 10,114 fans to watch them beat No. 11 Indiana, 3-0, in a nationally televised game at Harder Stadium. Danny Barrera and Canadian freshman Michael Nonni led UCSB with a goal and an assist apiece.

* GAME OF THE DAY:
Oct. 2 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
UC Santa Barbara 3 Indiana 0. Goals: Barrera (Tetteh) 39, David (Nonni) 51, Nonni (Barrera) 61.
UC Santa Barbara — Hayden, Boxall, Hoyle, McGlynn, Tetteh, Silva, Barrera, Hedevag, David, Walker, Nonni. Subs: Zerah, Ibrahim, Madueno.
Indiana — Soffner, Sarkodie, Wiet, Meyer, Balchan, Alexander, Jordan, Yeagle, Kelly, Bruin, Adlard. Sub: Hagedorn.
Referee: Alex Gorin.
Att.: 10,114.

* NAKAZAWA FIREWORKS. Senior Kyle Nakazawa scored two goals and set up the third to lead No. 2 UCLA to a 3-1 win at Oregon State in their Pac-10 opener. Nakazawa has six goals and three assists in his last five games and extended his scoring streak to five games. He has scored or assisted on eight of UCLA’s last nine goals.

* ACC SHOWDOWNS. No. 15 Duke defeated No. 3 Maryland, 2-0, and No. 5 North Carolina edged No. 16 Virginia, 1-0, in overtime. Zack Schilawski‘s first career hat trick lifted No. 4 Wake Forest to a 5-1 win over Virginia Tech, while Tyler Lassiter‘s two goals led N.C. State past No. 14 Boston College.

* BATTLE OF THE BAY. In their Pac-10 opener, No. 6 California beat No. 17 Stanford, 1-0, thanks to Andrew Wiedeman‘s team-leading ninth-goal of the season.

— After opening with seven straight wins, No. 9 Monmouth had to settle for a 0-0 tie at Northeast rival Sacred Heart.

(Click here for more Friday night men’s results as  well as the weekend Top 25 schedule.)

* FRIDAY’S RESULTS:
Top 25
Pac-10: Oregon State 1 (Ramsey 19) No. 2 UCLA 3 (Nakazawa 38, 87, Hollingshead 62).
ACC: No. 15 Duke 2 (Finley 52, Harrison 79) No. 3 Maryland 0. (Highlights)
(Blue Devils remain perfect at home with a 6-0-0 mark.)
ACC: Virginia Tech 1 (Bentley 63) No. 4 Wake Forest (Lubahn 6, Adams 12, Schilawski 48, 59, 70).
(Senior Zack Schilawski gets his first career hat trick.)
ACC: No. 5 North Carolina 1 (Brown 109) No. 16 Virginia 0 (OT).
(Game draws 3,192 fans at Fetzer Field.)
Pac-10: No. 6 California 1 (Wideman 49) No. 17 Stanford 0.
Northeast: Sacred Heart 0 No. 9 Monmouth 0.
No. 12 UC Santa Barbara 3 (Barrera 39, David 51, Nonni 61) No. 11 Indiana 0.
(Bears draw 1,320 fans, largest regular-season crowd in Kevin Grimes era.)
ACC: N.C. State 2 (Lassiter pen. 65, 103) No. 14 Boston College 1 (Fitzpatrick pen. 6 (OT).
WCC: Santa Clara 0 No. 18 Portland 1 (Warner pen. 77).
Horizon: Loyola (Ill.) 0 No. 24 Butler 0.

WOMEN’S NEWS … Last year, Stanford put up a five-spot when it made the trek down El Camino Real to Santa Clara. Thursday night, the No. 1 Cardinal outdid itself, pounding the Broncos, 6-2. Buck Shaw Stadium sure feels like home!

Christen Press and Kelley O’Hara combined for four goals and two assists, giving them 30 points apiece for the 11-0-0 Cardinal, who matched its best start ever in 1991.

The Santa Clara program has been rejuvenated this season, but the Silicon Valley Super Clasico was no contest. Even a special pre-game speech by San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary, a friend of strength and conditioning coach Greg Marshall, was of little help to the Broncos.

“Stanford proved today how good a team they are,” said Santa Clara coach Jerry Smith. “They beat us in every aspect of the game tonight and you have to hand it to [Stanford coach] Paul Ratcliffe, his staff, and his players.  They did a tremendous job.  I’ve been saying for weeks they are the best team in the country and they beat us good today. I think my team is pretty solid team and today they made us look average.”
 
* GAME OF THE DAY:
Oct. 1 in Santa Clara, Calif.
Santa Clara 2 Stanford 6. Goals: Angeli (Bosio) 16, Shim pen. 80; O’Hara (Press) 25, Press (Nogueira) 37, Noyola (Taylor) 53, O’Hara (Taylor) 55, Press (O’Hara) 62, Hing-Glover 87.
Santa Clara — Henninger, LaPonte, Potts, Angeli, Matheson, Perry, Reynolds, Webster, Patton, Vernon, Bosio. Subs: Lahman, Orand, Miller, Chun, Poach, Lewis, Aozasa, Beaudoin, Johnson, Shim, Jeffers, Crum.
Stanford — Maker, Quon, Jenkins, Garciamendez, A.Riley, Nogueira, McCann, Noyola, O’Hara, Taylor, Press. Subs: Verloo Dickerson, Stannard, K.Riley, Watkins, Finley, Averbuch, Heath, Redman, Hing-Glover.
Referee: Vince Cortes.
Att.: 1,483.

* BC COACH FUMES. No. 2 North Carolina survived another scare, getting late penalty kicks from Casey Nogueira and Ali Hawkins to defeat No. 6 Boston College, 2-1, on Thursday night before a crowd of 1,800 at the Boston College Soccer Complex. Both goals resulted after the Eagles were called for handballs in the penalty area — calls that infuriated BC coach Alison Kulik, who had to restrain herself from confronting referee Andrew Chapin.

“Clearly, both of those [handballs] weren’t intentional,” she told the Boston Globe. “It’s unfortunate … What’s done is done. I can’t change the result. For me, to go after the middle guy [Chapin], as tempting as it might have been, serves me no purpose. I’d let my team down. They need me on Sunday and I need to be there [for another ACC home game against N.C. State]. That’s my job. It crossed my mind.”

Midfielder Gina DiMartino had chipped Tar Heel goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris (back from the U.S. national team camp) in the 55th minute for BC, which won its opening nine games of the season before dropping back-to-back games to No. 5 Florida State, 3-2, and now Carolina.

Weekend Top 25 Schedule

MEN’S NEWS … There’s no stopping Akron. The top-ranked Zips (8-0-0) made easy work of No. 11 Ohio State, defeating the Buckeyes, 3-0, Wednesday before a record crowd of 2,473 fans at Lee Jackson Field.

Caleb Porter‘s Zips have won five straight games by shutouts and outscored their opponents, 23-1. Ohio State came into Wednesday’s game unbeaten, but the Buckeyes were no match for Akron, which had a 20-3 edge in shots.

All the Zips had to show for their domination in the first half was a penalty kick by Blair Gavin after Darlington Nagbe was taken down in the box. Michael Nanchoff, who tied a 43-year school record shared by his father, George, with four assists in Saturday’s 6-0 win over Bowling Green, added two more assists on goals by Nagbe and Ben Zemanski to put the game away.

* AKRON STARTING XI:
GK-*David Meves (0.13 GAA), Fr., Sockers FC Chicago
D-*Zarek Valentin (0-0-0), Fr., PA Classics
D-*Kofi Sarkodie (1-2-4), Soph., U.S. U-17 residency
D-*Chad Barson (1-0-2), Fr., Columbus Crew Academy
D-Chris Korb (0-3-3), Jr., Internationals SC
M-*Anthony Ampaipitakwong (1-1-3), Jr., Dallas Texans/IMG Acad.
M-Michael Nanchoff (2-7-11), Soph., Internationals SC
M-Blair Gavin (2-1-5), Jr., Sereno SC/IMG Academy
M-Ben Zemanski (2-1-5), Sr., Beadling SC
F-Darlington Nagbe (4-0-8), Soph.,  Internationals SC
F-Teal Bunbury (5-2-12), Soph., Shattuck-St Mary’s Acad.
*Former U.S. under-17 resident.

— No. 25 Brown came back from 2-0 and 3-2 down to tie No. 19 Boston University Wednesday night and remain unbeaten at 4-0-4. Samuel Appiah led BU with a goal and assist, while Sean Rosa had a goal and two assists for the Bears.

* ANOTHER WILDCAT COMEBACK. Davidson came back from 2-0 down in the 72nd minute to beat College of Charleston, 3-2, in overtime on a penalty kick by junior Alex Caskey. It was the third time in its last four matches the Wildcats (7-1-0) came from behind to win.  “The guys responded again down 2-0 and showed great character,” said Davidson coach Matt Spear. “They stuck with the game plan and didn’t panic.”

Wednesday Results

* BILLIKEN HALF-CENTURY TEAM: Saint Louis University will honor 22 players and two coaches named to the Billiken Half-Century Team at halftime of Saturday’s match against Clemson at Hermann Stadium. The Billikens, who are celebrating their 50th season, won or shared 10 of the first 15 NCAA championships.

Coaches — Bob Guelker (1959-66), Harry Keough (1967-82)
Goalkeepers — Kevin Johnston (1987-90), Chuck Zorumski (1972-73)
Defense — Don Ceresia (1962-64), Joe Clarke (1972-75), Mark Demling (1970-73), Bruce Hudson (1971-74), Kevin Kalish (1997-98), Bob Matteson (1970-73), Bill McKeon (1979-82), Denny Werner (1970-73)
Offense — Brad Davis (2000-01), Dan Counce (1970-73), Carl Gentile (1963-65), John Hayes (1978-81), Jack Jewsbury (1999-2002), Ty Keough (1975-78), Brian McBride (1990-93), Pat McBride (1963-65), Matt McKeon (1992-95), Mike Seerey (1969-72), Mike Sorber (1989-92), Al Trost (1968-70)