Category: College Soccer Reporter

MEN’S NEWS … Highlighting a string of Top 25 upsets, Charlie Rugg scored two first-half goals and fellow freshman goalkeeper Justin Luthy made nine saves as visiting Boston College knocked off No. 3 North Carolina, 2-1, before 1,811 fans at Fetzer Field.

It has been a roller-coaster season for the Eagles, who have won three straight after losing three straight. Before that, they won four in a row after opening with two losses in three games.

In other ACC play on Saturday, No. 4 Wake Forest in got a goal and three assists from Austin da Luz in a 4-1 win at No. 12, and Will Bates scored twice in No. 17 Virginia’s 3-1 win over Virginia Tech. The win moved BC into fourth place in the ACC:

* ACC STANDINGS:
Maryland 4-1-1 13 pts
Wake Forest  3-1-1 10 pts
North Carolina 3-2-1 10 pts
Boston College 3-2-0 9 pts
NC State  2-3-1 7 pts
Duke 2-3-0 6 pts
Virginia Tech 2-3-0 6 pts
Virginia 2-3-0 6 pts
Clemson 1-4-0 3 pts

* TOP 25 UPSETS.  Eight other Top 25 teams fell to unranked teams over the weekend included No. 5 UC Santa Barbara, No. 7 Louisville, No. 9 Northwestern, No. 13 California, No 16 Georgetown, No. 22 Notre Dame, No. 23 Indiana and No. 25 UAB.

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

* TOP 25 RESULTS:
Sunday, Oct. 18
No. 2 UCLA 2 (Hoffman 33, Alvarado 75) No. 19 Stanford 0.
Cal State Northridge 1 (Pate 78) No. 5 UC Santa Barbara 0.
San Diego State 2 (Reza 78, Sacco 100) No. 13 California 1 (Soares pen. 89) (OT).
No. 15 Ohio State 2 (McAnena 14, Warzycha 49) No. 24 Penn State 1 (Costigiola 59)
No. 23 Indiana 0 Michigan State 1 (Ricondo 103) (OT)

Saturday, Oct. 17
Mid-American: No. 1 Akron 1 (Nanchoff 70) Northern Illinois 0.
ACC: No. 3 North Carolina 1 (Brown 52) Boston College 2 (Rugg 14, 25).
ACC: No. 12 N.C. State 1 (Byrd 61) No. 4 Wake Forest 4 (Schilawski 5, da Luz 39, Lubahn 69, Opara 71).
(Austin da Luz adds three assists to go along with his goal.)
Big East: St. John’s 3 (Punyed 75, Wegge Gundhus 77, Terra 99) No. 7 Louisville 2 (Lipka 45, Rolfe 85) (OT).
Ivy: No. 8 Harvard 1 (Akpan 48) No. 20 Brown 0.
Big Ten: No. 9 Northwestern 1 (Valenta 39) Wisconsin 2 (Waspi 35, Conklin pen. 95) (OT).
Big East: No. 10 Connecticut 2 (Pezza 52, Watson Siriboe 83) Pittsburgh 0.
(Huskies get seventh straight shutout.)
Big East: Syracuse 0 No. 14 South Florida 3 (Boggs 27, Thuriere 76, Sinclair 81).
Big East: Marquette 0 No. 16 Georgetown 1 (Mallace 29).
ACC: Virginia Tech 1 (Dunn 13) No. 17 Virginia 3 (Barlow 43, Bates 57, 82).
Southern: No. 21 Davidson 2 (Reiter 12, Zipin 83) Furman 1 (Vorbe 14).
Big East: No. 22 Notre Dame 0 West Virginia 1 (Silva 48).
Conference USA: Tulsa 5 (Poeschk 2, Gonsalez 12, Neil 15, 66, McInnes 20) No. 25 UAB 1 (Sodade 59).

MEN’S NEWS … It’s been a rough couple of weeks for UCLA goalie Brian Perk. First, he got shelled at the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt, where the USA lost a pair of 3-0 decisions to Germany and South Korea and was knocked out in the first round for the first time in more than two decades. Then in his first game back with the Bruins, he was kicked in the face by a San Diego State player while diving for the ball and had to be taken to the hospital.

Fortunately, Perk was not seriously injured and was back in action Friday for No. 2 UCLA, earning the shutout for the Bruins in their 1-0 win over No. 13 California in front of 1,807 fans at Drake Stadium. David Estrada scored the only goal of the game in the 15th minute on an assist from fellow senior Kyle Nakazawa. The assist extended Nakazawa’s points scoring streak to eight games — matching UCLA’s unbeaten streak.

Perk didn’t have much to do in the first half — UCLA had a 12-1 edge in shots — but he made a diving save on Hector Jimenez‘s shot with 11 minutes remaining. Cal keeper David Bingham, who was also injured (hamstring) last week, made eight saves to keep the game close.

— No. 19 Stanford won a Pac-10 thriller, coming back from a goal down with three minutes to play and eventually beating San Diego State, 2-1, on the road thanks to a golden goal by Ryan Thomas on a free kick from 24 yards.

* STREAK CONTINUES. Monmouth got goals from sophomore Max Hamilton and Ryan Kinne within 90 seconds of each other late in the second half to come away with a 2-0 win at Bryant and improve its record to 12-0-1. Kinne, who helped the New York Red Bulls win the USL Super-20 championship this summer, leads the Northeast Conference with seven goals.

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

* FRIDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
No. 2 UCLA 1 (Estrada 15) No. 13 California 0.
Clemson 0 No. 6 Maryland 1 (Herrick 55).
Bryant 0 No. 11 Monmouth 2 (Hamilton 82, Kinne 84).
San Diego State 1 (McManus 51) No. 19 Stanford 2 (Gunther 87, Thomas 92) (OT).

WOMEN’S NEWS … No. 5 South Carolina lost for the first time in 15 games this season when it fell at No. 24 Georgia, 2-1, on a pair of Carrie Patterson goals.

The Gamecocks led on Kayla Grimsley‘s team-leading eighth goal of the season in the eighth minute, but they couldn’t hold the lead in chilly Athens. “It’s a learning experience for us,” South Carolina coach Shelley Smith said. “The good thing is we’ve played so well that we haven’t been put in this position all year.

South Carolina’s loss leaves only two unbeaten teams:

— No. 1 Stanford got two goals apiece from Kelley O’Hara and Christen Press in a quarter of an hour to beat No. 9 USC, 4-0, and improve to 14-0-0. (O’Hara and Press have combined for 31 of the Cardinal’s 52 goals.)

— Dayton (9-0-5) had its game at St. Bonaventure cancelled because of snow.

* LEROUX-MORGAN REUNION. In the only other game involving Top 25 teams. No. 4 UCLA edged No. 17 California, 1-0, on Sydney Leroux‘s late goal. Leroux had better luck than Alex Morgan, her frontline partner on the 2008 U.S. Under-20 World Cup championship team, did for Cal. In the first half, Morgan hit the left post, and in the second half she rounded UCLA keeper UCLA keeper Chante Sandiford on a breakaway but hit the right post.

* PANTHER RECORD BREAKERS. Sophomore Sarah Hagen and senior Kate Megna both landed in the Wisconsin-Milwaukee record book after Megna set up Hagen for both goals in the Panthers’ 2-0 win over Detroit. Hagen has scored in a school-record eight straight games — including multiple goals in four straight contest — while Megna has a season-record 13 assists.

(Click here for more Friday’s women’s results.)

* FRIDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
Pac-10: No. 1 Stanford 4 (Press 53, 68, O’Hara 55, 63) No. 9 USC 0.
WCC: Pepperdine 0 No. 2 Portland 6 (Enyeart 15, 41, Kreminski 68, 83, Burk 74, 78).
Pac-10: No. 17 California 0 No. 4 UCLA 1 (Leroux 77).
SEC: No. 24 Georgia 2 (Patterson pen. 52, 67) No. 5 South Carolina 1 (Grimsley 8).
Big East: No. 8 Notre Dame 6 (Knaack 11, 32, Augustin 24, 80, Iantorno 66, 81) Connecticut 1 (Ruutu 67).
Conference USA: Rice 1 (Taylor 52) No. 14 UCF 2 (Whidden 18, Thomas 70)
Big 12: Iowa State 0 No. 16 Texas A&M 1 (Shipley pen. 55).
SEC: No. 20 LSU 0 No. 21 Mississippi 0.
Big East: Cincinnati 0 No. 22 Marquette 1 (Bares 36).
Big Ten: Wisconsin 1 (Lam-Feist 90) No. 23 Ohio State 1 (Cameron 63).
WCC: St. Mary’s 2 (Menzhuber 16, Tognetti 75) No. 25 San Diego 1 (Magracia 46).

MEN’S NEWS … No. 1 Akron hasn’t lacked for stars in its 12-0-0 run to start the season, but the Zips, who lost 2008 Hermann Trophy winner Steve Zakuani to MLS’s Seattle Sounders FC, have been getting major contributions from sophomore Teal Bunbury, the son of former Canada international Alex Bunbury.

Teal Bunbury scored his fifth goal in four games Tuesday to lead Akron to a 2-0 victory at Virginia Tech. He scored his 10th goal of the season, all in the last eight games, taking a pass from fellow sophomore Kofi Sarkodie and slipping through the Virginia Tech defense.

Junior Blair Gavin put the game away for good with third penalty kick of the season in 80th minute. Freshman goalkeeper David Meves earned his eighth shutout. The Zips extended their string of games in which they have not allowed a goal in the first half to 24.

Tuesday Results

* TOP 25 ACTION. Eight other teams in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 were in action on Tuesday night …

— Freshman Enzo Martinez set up sophomores Billy Schuler and Kirk Urso with his first collegiate multi-assist game in No. 3 North Carolina’s 2-0 win over Campbell that ended a three-game losing skid to the Camels. Martinez was starting in place of injured midfielder Cameron Brown.

— A pair of outstanding diving saves from senior Akira Fitzgerald preserved No. 4 Wake Forest’s 1-0 at College of Charleston. Freshman defender Anthony Arena had the game’s only goal off Austin da Luz‘s corner kick. The assist was da Luz’s ACC-leading eighth of the season.

— No. 6 Maryland got early goals from Drew Yates and Jason Herrick and held on to win, 2-1, at No. 16 Georgetown. Maryland players wore white wrist bands with “A.L. #18” written in black marker for teammate Alex Lee, who was struck by a vehicle in Washington Saturday night and was only released from the hospital hours prior to kickoff.

— A pair of goals by Federico Nachmann and Alan Sanchez in a 30-second span of the second half led 12th-ranked N.C. State to a 2-0 win over visiting Georgia Southern.

— Visiting Liberty held No. 17 Virginia to a 1-1 tie. The Cavs broke open a scoreless game in the 78th minute when freshman Will Bates put away the rebound of Brian Ownby‘s shot off the post, but Liberty responded less than two minutes later when its leading scorer, Darren Amoo headed in a corner kick.

— No. 20 Brown improved to 7-0-4 with a 3-1 victory at Stevenson Field. Nick Elenz-Martin, Thomas McNamara and David Walls scored for the Bears, who rallied from a 1-0 deficit after 19 minutes.

— Cole Grossman set up freshmen Andrew Wenger and Ryan Finley for goals off corner kicks and scored the third goal himself in No. 25 Duke’s 3-0 win over UNC Greensboro.

WOMEN’S NEWS … Falling to North Carolina, 7-2, was no way to start the season, but No. 4 UCLA has recovered to run off 11 straight victories after the loss in Chapel Hill and 0-0 tie with San Diego in its second game.

The Bruins got their biggest scare during their streak on Sunday when they trailed Arizona State, 1-0, at the half, but they eventually won, 3-2, on Lauren Barnes‘ golden goal. The win extended the nation’s longest home unbeaten streak to 60 matches.

UCLA lost Canadian star Kara Lang for the rest of the season with a knee injury last month, but it still has one of the nation’s top 1-2 scoring threats in Sydney Leroux, the 2008 Under-20 Women’s World Cup MVP, and Lauren Cheney, the 2008 Olympic gold-medalist. The Bruins have also been getting strong play from freshmen Zakiya Bywaters, Chelsea Cline, Ahsha Smith and Lucretia Lee, the daughter of former NFL player Mike Lee.

UCLA take its 21-game Pac-10 winning streak to the Bay Area this weekend for games against No. 17 California on Friday and top-ranked Stanford on Sunday.

Tuesday Result

SMALL COLLEGE NEWS … There is a new No. 1 in the NCAA Division III men’s rankings for the first time this season following Messiah’s 2-0 loss to York College on headers by Mike O’Connell and Andy Stromberg. Christopher Newport took over as the top-ranked team in the NSCAA/adidas rankings — the first time in school history it has been No. 1 in any sport.

For the fifth straight week, there is a new No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division II men’s rankings.  Less-McRae is No. 1 after Cal State Los Angeles lost twice on its swing through Northern California.

MEN’S RANKINGS:
NCAA Division II 1. Lees-McRae, 2. Tampa, 3. Millersville
NCAA Division III 1. Christopher Newport, 2. Ohio Wesleyan, 3. Messiah,

WOMEN’S RANKINGS:
NCAA Division II 1. Seattle Pacific, 2. West Florida, 3. Saint Rose
NCAA Division III 1. Messiah, 2. Puget Sound, 3. Williams

MEN’S NEWS … Northwestern, ninth in this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 with a 6-1-4 record, is first in the initial Men’s Division I RPI index the NCAA released Tuesday.

(Click here for the complete men’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.

Akron and UCLA, 1-2 in the Soccer America rankings, are 2-3 in the RPI index. Ten unranked teams are in the RPI Top 25 (see below). The highest ranked teams that did not make the RPI Top 25 are No. 5 UC Santa Barbara, No. 7 Louisville and No. 10 Connecticut. The four highest ranked Big East teams — Louisville, Connecticut, South Florida and Georgetown — with a combined eight losses did not make the cut, but 7-4-1 Notre Dame at No. 22 and 7-5-0 DePaul (unranked) did.

The ACC leads all conferences with six teams in the RPI top 10 — including North Carolina, Wake Forest and N.C. State at 4-5-6 — and the Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Ivy League, Pac-10 and WCC have two apiece. Reflecting the diversity in the men’s game, 14 of the 22 Division I conferences that receive automatic bids are represented.

* MEN’S SOCCER (RPI TOP 25)
1 Northwestern, Big Ten (9)
2 Akron, Mid-American (1)
3 UCLA Pac-10 (2)
4 North Carolina, ACC (3)
5 Wake Forest, ACC (4)
6 N.C. St., ACC (12)
7 South Carolina, Conference USA (NR)
8 Duke, ACC (T25)
9 San Diego, WCC (NR)
10 Portland, WCC (NR)
11 Butler, Horizon (18)
12 Maryland, ACC (6)
13 Monmouth, Northeast (11)
14 New Mexico, MPSF (NR)
15 California, Pac-10 (13)
16 Tulsa, Conference USA (NR)
17 Indiana, Big Ten (23)
18 DePaul, Big East (NR)
19 Dartmouth, Ivy (NR)
20 Drake, Missouri Valley (NR)
21 American, Patriot (NR)
22 Virginia, ACC (17)
23 Charlotte, Atlantic 10 (NR)
24 Notre Dame, Big East (22)
25 Harvard, Ivy (8)

* LEE IN STABLE CONDITION. According to the University of Maryland, sophomore defender Alex Lee “has shown incredible progress over the past two days” and was listed in stable condition at George Washington University Hospital after being struck by a vehicle while crossing a street in the District of Columbia Saturday night. Lee is a converted forward who started all 11 games for the defending national champion Terrapins on defense. He will be out of practice and competition indefinitely. Currently, no timetable has been set for his return to the field.

Men’s Player of the Week: Ronnie Bouemboue, N.C. State
Men’s Team of the Week

* LEADING GOAL SCORERS:
1. Andrew Bulls, UMBC 14
2. JC Banks, Green Bay 11
4. Andy Stadler, George Washington 9
4. Andrew Wiedeman, California 10
5. Matthew Skonicki, Winthrop 11
6. Teal Bunbury, Akron 9
6. Chris Cutshaw, Bradley 9
6. Giovanni Destasio, Iona 9
6. Matt Eliason, Northwestern 9
6. Levi Houapeu, UMBC 9
6. Conor O’Brien, Bucknell 9

WOMEN’S NEWS … No. 1 Stanford (13-0-0) is one of only three team unbeaten teams with four weeks remaining in the regular season. No. 5 South Carolina improved to 13-0-1 with a 2-0 win over Alabama on Sunday, while Dayton is 9-0-5 after beating Saint Louis, 2-1, in overtime.

— Senior Blakely Mattern scored the two goals 100 seconds apart against Alabama, and junior goalie Mollie Patton needed to make only one save to earn her 11th shutout of the season. After four one-goal wins and a 1-1 tie at Mississippi State — the Gamecocks’ only blemish — the 2-0 win was their most comfortable SEC victory. South Carolina has two victories over ranked teams — No. 14 UCF and No. 21 Mississippi. Its season now hits the toughest stretch with four of its next five games on the road, beginning with a match against No. 24 Georgia in Athens on Friday night.

— For the second time in two weeks, senior Mandi Back had a golden goal to for the Flyers, scoring in the 109th minute to give them the win over Saint Louis. A week earlier, she scored a golden goal with four seconds left in overtime to defeat La Salle, 2-1. Back, a three-time Atlantic-10 first-team selection, has 12 game-winning goals in her career, three this season. “The girls found a way to win,” said Dayton coach Mike Tucker. “I love this group because they persevere and battle; they find a way to get great results.”

* FEWEST LOSSES:
Stanford 13-0-0
South Carolina 13-0-1
Dayton 9-0-5
Portland 12-1-0
North Carolina 11-1-1
UCLA 11-1-1
Samford 8-1-3
Michigan State 7-1-4

Women’s Player of the Week: Danielle Foxhoven, Portland
Women’s Team of the Week

* LEADING GOAL SCORERS:
1. Morgan Marlborough, Nebraska  19
2. Sarah Hagen, Milwaukee 16
3. Danielle Foxhoven, Portland 15
3. Kelley O’Hara, Stanford 15
5. Whitney Palmer, Oklahoma 14
5. Britany Curry, Texas State 14
7. Jessica Fuccello, Penn 12
7. Rochelle VanBuskirk, UC Davis 12
7. Sylvia Kowalski, Canisius 12
7.  Christen Press, Stanford 1

SMALL COLLEGE NEWS … It doesn’t pay to be No. 1 in the NCAA Division II men’s rankings. Unbeaten Cal State Los Angeles, the fourth different No. 1 team in four weeks in the NSCAA/adidas poll, was shocked by Humboldt State, 3-0, and then beaten by Sonoma State, 1-0, two days later in front of 1,142 fans at Seawolf Field, the largest regular-season crowd in school history.

Humboldt State entered the game with a 2-8-2 record but upset the Golden Eagles, getting two first-half goals from striker Josh Suggs. Sonoma State, which got a first-half goal from Ryan Hall to beat Cal State Los Angeles, had only lost for the first time in 12 games two days earlier when it fell to defending national champion Cal State Dominguez Hills, 2-0.

WOMEN’S NEWS … Portland has had a few pretty good players in its day. Tiffeny Milbrett. Shannon MacMillan. Christine Sinclair. With her torrid scoring pace, Pilot sophomore Danielle Foxhoven is closing in the single-season records of the trio of international stars.

In her last three games, Foxhoven has scored three goals, two goals and four goals to give her 15 on the season. In the No. 2 Pilots’ WCC opener against Gonzaga on Saturday, Foxhoven had three goals by halftime, scored her fourth just before the hour mark and subbed out with 19 minutes remaining. Portland went on to win, 7-0. Last year, the former Colorado Rush star scored a team-high 16 goals.

* PORTLAND (GOALS)
39 Christine Sinclair (2005)
30 Tiffeny Milbrett (1994)
30 Tiffeny Milbrett (1992)
26 Christine Sinclair (2002)
25 Tiffeny Milbrett (1993)
23 Christine Sinclair (2001)
23 Shannon MacMillan (1993)
23 Shannon MacMillan (1995)
22 Shannon MacMillan (1994)
22 Christine Sinclair (2004)

This week’s Women’s Top 25

* FRESHMAN SENSATION. The nation’s top scorer is Morgan Marlborough, whose three goals in Nebraska’s 5-2 win over Oklahoma gave her 19 goals, setting a Husker freshman record. Marlborough’s winning goal may have been her most impressive goal of the season. She was taken down by a Sooner defender on the right side of the penalty box, recovered to keep possession and dribbled through the Sooner defense before beating goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire with a shot off the far post.

* STREAKING CHIPPEWAS. Central Michigan won its ninth straight game — all by shutouts — when it defeated Mid-American foe Miami (Ohio), 1-0, on Sunday. Senior Amanda Waugh came off the bench to help set up the game’s only goal scored by Chelsi Abbott in the 31st minute. The nine consecutive shutouts tie the MAC record that Ohio set in 2004. CMU leads the conference with a 6-0-0 record.

MEN’S NEWS … In four seasons, Ken Lolla has accomplished at Louisville what he did at Akron. He’s built Cardinals into a national power. They climbed up to No. 7 — the highest-ranked Big East team in this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 — with a 1-0 win over ranked South Florida and 4-0 victory over Syracuse.

Lolla’s arrival at Louisville coincided with the athletic department’s move to upgrade the men’s program. Lolla, who also worked in the U.S. U-18 national team program, used his national and international connections to bolster recruiting. He also convinced former U.S. World Cup player Brian Maisonneuve, who had worked at the under-17 residency program since 2005, to become an assistant at Louisville last year.

The ’09 Cardinals are one of the most experienced teams in the country. The lone true freshman to start is former U.S. U-18 Paolo DelPiccolo from the Colorado Rush. Englishman Mark Knight, a transfer from Santa Barbara City College, and two Michigan Wolves products, Freddie Braun and Colin Rolfe, lead the Big East’s highest-scoring team (2.55 goals a game) with five goals apiece.

The Cardinals’ success has boosted interest in the program. Louisville ranks third in the Big East with an average attendance of 1,345 fans a game.

This week’s Men’s Top 25

* YEAGLEY FIRST. Todd Yeagley got his first Big Ten win as Wisconsin head coach on Sunday when the Badgers beat Michigan State, 2-1, on Scott Lorenz‘s goal in the 105th minute. It’s been a rough first season for the son of former Indiana coach Jerry Yeagley, so the win, only the second in nine games, was much appreciated. “From front to back, this was our best performance of the year,” Todd Yeagley said. “It was our toughness, team defending and our ability to get the ball to our key players and put pressure on the other team.”

Lorenz delivered some much needed offense, also getting the first goal that snapped the Badgers’ scoreless streak that had swelled to 313 consecutive minutes. The goals were his first in nine games after tallying a team-high 10 goals in 2008.

MEN’S NEWS … No. 2 UCLA got another goal and assist from Kyle Nakazawa, giving him eight goals and four assists in the last seven games, but the Bruins were held to a 2-2 draw at San Diego State on Sunday.

Nick Cardenas put SDSU 2-1 ahead with a header in the 81st minute but he was red carded a minute later, forcing the Aztecs to play the rest of regulation and overtime with 10 players.

On the ensuing free kick after Cardenas’ red card, Nakazawa set a ball into the penalty area, where Sean Alvarado headed it to David Estrada, who headed in a wide-open shot for the game-tying goal.

* 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
Oct. 11, San Diego State (2-2), goal, assist

* TOP 25 UPSET. Top 25 teams have taken it on the chin from unranked teams in recent weeks, but the only Top 25 team to fall to an unranked team over the weekend was No. 17 Boston University, which lost to Hartford, 3-1.

Patrick Boucher led the Hawks with the game-winning goal in the 77th minute and an assist on the opening goal. The game drew 1,102 fans at Al-Marzook Field. “It was a fantastic win against a first-class team,” said Hartford coach Dan Gaspar. “Our fans are amazing and our players won it for them.”

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

* SUNDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
Pac-10: San Diego State 2 (Sandoval 27, Cardenas 81) No. 2 UCLA 2 (Nakazawa 15, Estrada 83).
Pac-10: No. 4 California 4 (Cosgroff 46, 50, 80, Wideman 83) Oregon State 1 (Sanchez 54).
Northeast: No. 14 Monmouth 2 (Kinne pen. 71, Barbieri 82) LIU 0.
WCC: No. 16 Portland 3 (Kawulok 12, Warner 18, vanSchaik 56) Loyola Marymount 1 (Baca 82).
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Pac-10: No. 21 Stanford 1 (Warshaw 4) Washington 1 (Moore 16).
Big Ten: No. 24 Penn State 1 (Hertzog pen. 90) No. 12 Northwestern 1 (O’Neill 85).
(Draw extends Wildcats’ unbeaten streak to nine straight.)
Atlantic-10: No. 25 Charlotte 0 Richmond 0.

* SATURDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
Mid-American: Western Michigan 0 No. 1 Akron 4 (Ampaipitakwong 22, 45, Nanchoff 50, Bunbury 56)
Big East: No. 5 South Florida 1 (Boggs 42) St. John’s 1 (Himeno 62)
Ivy: Cornell 1 (Kenyon 10) No. 8 Harvard 1 (Chi 77).
Big West: UC Riverside 0 No. 9 UC Santa Barbara 1 (Walker 1).
(Gauchos extend win streak to four games.)
Big East: No. 11 Louisville 4 (own goal 16, Braun 51, Walker 78, Rosendall 88) Syracuse 0.
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Big East: No. 25 West Virginia 0 No. 13 Connecticut 0.
Big Ten: Michigan 0 No. 15 Indiana 1 (Adlard 54).
America East: Hartford 3 (Delibasic 23, Boucher 77, Villa 89) No. 17 Boston Univ. 1 (O’Neal 72).
Big East: No. 19 Georgetown 1 (Verdi 107) Pittsburgh 0.
Ivy: No. 22 Brown 4 (Rosa 2, 51, Elenz-Martin 51, Hayward 64) Princeton 2 (Sanner 57, Busch pen. 70).
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CAA: James Madison 3 (Harvey 38, Sepong 69, Wyatt 78) No. 23 George Mason 3 (Freeman 30, Walters 40, Marquez 53).
Conference USA: No. 25 UAB 7 (Gumede 14, Macwele 29, Gyawu 32, 34, 79, Williams 34, Solade 51) FIU 1 (Frings 80).
(Kofi Gyawu records first UAB hat trick since 2003.)

WOMEN’S NEWS … Senior Kelley O’Hara got the first hat trick of her Stanford career to lead the No. 1 Cardinal to a 5-1 victory at No. 25 Oregon in Pac-10 play Sunday afternoon.

O’Hara has 15 goals for the season — tying her for fifth on Stanford’s single-season list — and 46 career goals — No. 5 on Stanford’s all-time list. Continuing her recovery from an early-season illness, sophomore Lindsay Taylor had a goal and two assists to give her two goals and five assists in her last three games.

The five goals marked the sixth time in 13 wins that Stanford scored five or more goals in a game. “I still think we have a ways to go,” Cardinal coach Paul Ratcliffe cautioned. “But we’re growing together, the team chemistry’s great and we’re getting sharper each game.”

* TOP 25 UPSETS: Four Top 25 teams fell to unranked teams on Sunday:
— No. 11 St. John’s (1-0 at West Virginia);
— No. 13 Connecticut (2-1 at South Florida);
— No. 20 Santa Clara (1-0 at San Diego); and
— No. 22 Purdue (1-0 to Minnesota).

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

* SUNDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
Pac-10: No. 25 Oregon 1 (Thompson 25) No. 1 Stanford 5 (O’Hara 17, 20, 58, Taylor 23, Press 61).
Pac-10: No. 4 UCLA 3 (Bywaters 55, Cheney 68, Barnes 104) Arizona State 2 (Elston 15, Williams 80) (OT).
ACC: Duke 0 No. 5 Florida State 0.
ACC: No. 17 Maryland 3 (Hubka 9, Grove 33, Kaplan 68) No. 6 Virginia Tech 1 (Harvey pen. 31).
ACC: No. 7 Boston College 1 (Knowlton 94) Virginia 0 (OT).
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SEC: No. 8 South Carolina 2 (Mattern 12, 13) Alabama 0.
Big East: Seton Hall 0 No. 9 Notre Dame 2 (Henderson 23, Knaack 86).
Big Ten: No. 10 Michigan State 0 Michigan 0.
Big East: West Virginia 1 (Lewis 8) No. 11 St. John’s 0.
Big East: No. 12 Rutgers 2 (Anzivino pen. 58, Lancos 95) DePaul 1 (Sandora 7) (OT).
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Big East: South Florida 2 (Pacheco 56, Klotz 81) No. 13 Connecticut 1 (Fugowski 28).
Pac-10: No. 14 USC 2 (Davila 30, Johnson 32) Arizona 0.
SEC: Vanderbilt 1 (Lukens 21) No. 15 LSU 2 (Rutledge 51, 100) (OT).
SEC: No. 16 Georgia 2 (Hooker 75, Eddy 82) Mississippi State 1 (Walsh 17).
Pac-10: Oregon State 0 No. 19 California 2 (Omarsdottir  61, Morgan 79).
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WCC: San Diego 1 (Zinke 87) No. 20 Santa Clara 0.
Big Ten: No. 22 Purdue 0 Minnesota 1 (Rouse 23).
No. 23 Texas A&M 2 (Skelton 55, Hooper 97) Loyola (Ill.) 1 (Trevillian pen. 19) (OT).
SEC: Tennessee 1 (Imgram pen. 82) No. 24 Mississippi 1 (Johnson 2).

* SATURDAY TOP 25 RESULTS:
WCC: No. 2 Portland 7 (Foxhoven 23, 27, 44, 59, Enyeart 36, Kreminski 76, 86) Gonzaga 0.
Mountain West: UNLV 0 No. 18 BYU 1 (Shumway 5)

WOMEN’S NEWS … Defending national champion North Carolina, which had not scored from the run of play in more than 200 minutes, broke out with three goals in the first nine-plus minutes and rolled on to a 5-0 win over visiting N.C. State Friday evening.

The No. 3 Tar Heels got goals from Courtney Jones, Meghan Klingenberg and Ali Hawkins, allowing Coach Anson Dorrance to empty his deep bench. How deep? He used 26 players. “These kids work hard for our starters,” he said of the UNC reserves, “and finally got the chance to play a bit.”

Last week UNC had beaten Boston College, 2-1, on a pair of controversial penalty kicks and fell at Virginia Tech, 1-0. UNC and Virginia Tech are now tied for first place in the ACC with 12 points, though the Hokies have a game in hand.

* LEVIN LIFTS CARDINAL. No. 1 Stanford is so deep that it can afford to use Camille Levin, a 2008 Soccer America All-Freshman team selection, off the bench. Levin came on in the second half Friday night and provided a spark for the visiting Cardinal, who scored three goals in the last 35 minutes to defeat Oregon State, 3-0, in their Pac-10 opener.

Levin scored her first goal of the season on a one-on-one opportunity. Christen Press (11th goal) and Lindsay Taylor (20-yard free kick) also scored for Stanford, which improved to 12-0-0, its best start in school history. “Every game in this conference is hard,” said Cardinal coach Paul Ratcliffe. “We’ve got to play our best and believe we’re going to score and break the ice.”

— Lauren Cheney moved into second place all-time on the UCLA scoring list (141 points) with the second goal in the No. 4 Bruins’ 2-0 victory over Arizona, their 10th win in a row.

— No. 14 USC, the surprise 2007 national champion, defeated Arizona State, 1-0, for its eighth straight win. Goalkeeper Kristin Olsen picked up her 25th shutout to tie the Trojans’ career record.

— No. 19 California won its first game since Coach Neil McGuire returned to the team, winning at No. 25 Oregon, 2-1.

* TOP 25 UPSETS. Friday night’s wildest game took place in Milwaukee, where Marquette came back from 2-0 down after less than 20 minutes to beat No. 13 Connecticut, 3-2, on sophomore Rachael Sloan‘s goal in the 108th minute. The only other Top 25 team to fall to an unranked team was No. 15 LSU, which lost its first SEC game of the season when it fell at Kentucky, 1-0.

* CROWD COUNT. Navy won its annual clash with Army, 2-0, before a Glenn Warner Soccer Facility record crowd of 2,627. “It was an incredible atmosphere out there tonight,” said Navy coach Carin Gabarra. “The entire brigade really showed its support tonight and it means the world to us.”

(Click here for all the Friday women’s results and the weekend Top 25 schedule.)

* FRIDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
Pac-10: Oregon State 0 No. 1 Stanford 3 (Press 55, Levin 83, Taylor 85).
ACC: No. 3 North Carolina 5 (Jones 5, Klingenberg 8, Hawkins 10, McDonald 60, Rich 64) N.C. State 0.
Pac-10: No. 4 UCLA 2 (Larsen 5, Cheney 63) Arizona 0.
(Lauren Cheney is now second all-time UCLA scorer with 141 points.)
SEC: No. 8 South Carolina 1 (Diaz-Matosas 98) Auburn 0 (OT).
Big East: No. 12 Rutgers 0 No. 9 Notre Dame 1 (Fowlkes 84)
Big East: Pittsburgh 0 No. 11 St. John’s 1 (McConnell 12).
Big East: Marquette 3 (Vasos, Sawicki 43, Sloan 108) No. 13 Connecticut 2 (Dakin 15, Busque 20) (OT).
Pac-10: No. 14 USC 1 (Ohai 57) Arizona State 0.
SEC: Kentucky 1 (Lopez 43) No. 15 LSU 0.
(Wildcats end four-game losing skid with first SEC win.)
SEC: No. 16 Georgia 0 No. 24 Mississippi 1 (Johnson 60).
Pac-10: No. 25 Oregon 1 (Bowns 48) No. 19 California 2 (Morgan 2, Kevorkian 49).
Big 12: Oklahoma State 0 No. 23 Texas A&M 1 (Skelton 12).

MEN’S NEWS … Visiting Washington pulled Friday’s biggest upset when the Huskies beat No. 4 California, 2-0, in Berkeley. UW got goals from Matt Van Houten (diving header) and Brad Keller (blast from 30 yards) for its first win over Cal since 2005. Cal’s starting goalie, David Bingham, was injured and had to be replaced by freshman Robby Gogatz in the 28th minute. The Bears were shut out for the first time this season.

“Needless to say, it’s our biggest win of the season and the guys deserved it,” said Washington coach Dean Wurzberger. “They played well and it was a mature performance, like a professional performance.”

— Friday’s only other Top 25 upset also took place on the West Coast. Despite playing the last 39 minutes with 10 players after Tim Grey was shown a red card, San Diego knocked off No. 16 Portland, 2-1. Momentum switched after Collen Warner tied the score after Grey was ejected for a hand ball in the penalty area. The Pilots had several chances to go ahead before Marcelo Carminatti won the game for the visiting Toreros with a shot from 25 yards.

* BOUEMBOUE WATCH. Ronnie Bouemboue is making a case for Player of the Year honors with his play for N.C. State. The senior from Congo by way of Brooklyn scored his ACC-leading sixth goal of the season with just 49 seconds left to give the No. 25 Wolfpack a 1-0 win at No. 6 Duke Friday night.

* UNBEATEN HAWKS. Monmouth improved to 10-0-1 with a 1-0 victory over St. Francis (N.Y.) on freshman Ryan Clark‘s goal in the 86th minute, his fourth game-winning goal. “As we move forward,” said Monmouth coach Rob McCourt, “we need to do a better job of finishing our scoring opportunities earlier in the game.”

* GAME OF THE NIGHT:
Oct. 9 in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Wake Forest 2 North Carolina 2. Goals: Redmond (da Luz) 7, Lubahn (Schilawski, Redmond) 82; Dixon (Farfan, Graye) 2, Farfan (pen.) 57.
Wake Forest — Fitzgerald, Arena, Opara, Lichtfuss, Adams, Norman, Lubahn, da Luz, Bone, Redmond, Schilawski. Subs: Courtney, Randolph, Newnam, Millington, Sokolow.
North Carolina — Haggerty, McKinney, Graye, King, Velez, McCarty, Brown, Urso, Farfan, Dixon, Schuler. Subs: Lebo, Martinez, Tannous, Walters, Garner, Goodwin.
Referee: Abiodun Okulaja.
Att.: 3,661.

(Click here for all the Friday men’s results and the weekend Top 25 schedule.)

* FRIDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
Pac-10: No. 4 California 0 Washington 2 (Van Houten 23, Keller 54).
ACC: No. 7 Wake Forest 2 (Dixon 2, Farfan 57) No. 3 North Carolina 2 (Redmond 7, Lubahn 82).
ACC: No. 6 Duke 0 No. 25 N.C. State 1 (Bouemboue 110) (OT).
ACC: No. 10 Maryland 2 (Tangney 87, Stretzer 90) Virginia Tech 1 (Bentley 9)
Big East: No. 25 West Virginia vs. No. 13 Connecticut-postponed.
Northeast: No. 14 Monmouth 1 (Clark 86) St. Francis (N.Y.) 0.
WCC: No. 16 Portland 1 (Warner pen. 51) San Diego 2 (Posa 26, Carminati 69).
Cleveland State 0 No. 18 Ohio State 2 (McAnena 2, Verhoff 19).
Pac-10: No. 21 Stanford 1 (Warshaw 4) Oregon State 0.
Atlantic-10: No. 25 Charlotte 6 (Gross pen. 7, 25, Exley pen. 12, Darby 41, Smith 47, Rex 68) George Washington 0

MEN’S NEWS … The Ivy League, college soccer’s oldest Division I conference and the only one that does not allow athletic scholarships, continues to thrive. Harvard and Dartmouth have been ranked in the top 10, while Brown is one of only three unbeaten teams in the country.

Started in 1955, Ivy League soccer has a rich tradition, having produced national team players and coaches, U.S. senators and Hollywood actors. Here’s a look at the Ivy League past and present.

HARVARD (8-1-0). Past star: Chris Ohiri. The Nigerian, considered the greatest college player of the early 1960s, was struck down by leukemia at the age of 28. Present star: Andre Akpan is an early candidate for national player of the year honors with seven goals and five assists in nine games.

DARTMOUTH (6-2-1). Past star: Andrew Shue became a Hollywood actor and played for the 1996 Los Angeles Galaxy. Present star: Craig Henderson represented New Zealand at the Olympics and gained All-American honors in 2008.

BROWN (5-0-4). Past star: 2000 Ivy Player of the Year Cory Gibbs played for teams in Germany, the Netherlands and England and is now with MLS’s Colorado Rapids. Present star: Goalie Paul Grandstrand was the 2007 Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

CORNELL (4-3-2). Past star: 1972 All-Ivy goalie Bruce Arena went on to coach the University of Virginia, D.C. United and the U.S. national team at two World Cups. He now coaches the Galaxy. Present star: Matt Bouaree (two goals and five assists) leads the Big Red, who have rebounded from 1-15-0 season.

PENN (4-3-3). Past star: All-time leading scorer Steve Baumann (30 goals and 39 assists in 1971-73) was until May the president of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Present star: Sophomore Christian Barreiro leads Quakers with six goals and two assists.

YALE (3-4-2). Past star: U.S. senator and 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry scored a hat trick against Harvard in 1965. Present star: Midfielder Jordan Raybould is a four-year starter.

PRINCETON (4-4-1). Past star: U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley was the Tigers’ leading scorer in 1979. Present star: Midfielder Josh Walburn leads Tigers with six goals and three game-winning goals.

COLUMBIA (2-5-1). Past star: Englishman Barry Nix was the first four-time all-Ivy pick (1978-81) Present star: Junior Bayo Adafin was the Lions’ leading scorer in 2008 (seven goals) and again leads them with four goals this season.

* MEN’S TOP 25 ACTION:
Friday, Oct. 9
ACC: No. 7 Wake Forest vs. No. 3 North Carolina
ACC: No. 6 Duke vs. No. 25 N.C. State
Big East: No. 25 West Virginia vs. No. 13 Connecticut (TV: Fox Socer Channel, live, 8 pm ET)
Sunday, Oct. 11
Big Ten: No. 24 Penn State vs. No. 12 Northwestern

Weekend Top 25 Schedule

WOMEN’S NEWS … No. 21 Wake Forest demonstrated that it is a legitimate national contender with Thursday’s 3-0 win over No. 5 Florida State. The Demon Deacons not only showed considerable attacking prowess from their 1-2 punch of Jill Hutchinson and Kaley Fountain but they shut down the ACC’s highest-scoring team.

Fountain, the former U.S. U-20, opened the scoring late in the first half with her eighth goal of the season, and Hutchinson finished off the Seminoles with her ninth and 10th goals of the campaign. “You have to give credit to Wake Forest,” said FSU coach Mark Krikorian.  “I thought they were the better team tonight.  They played harder than we did and they took advantage of their chances.”

The shutout was the third in a row for goalie Amanda Barasha. “With Laura [Morse] out, Amanda has had to step up in goal,” said Wake coach Tony da Luz, who earned his 199th career win. “She’s been really thorough about her preparation for all the games. She has studied and watched video of each opponent. I’m really happy with the way she’s played for us.”

— The only other Top 25 teams in action on Thursday both played to 2-2 ties: No. 17 Maryland at Virginia and No. 18 BYU at San Diego State.

* WOMEN’S TOP 25 ACTION:
Friday, Oct. 9
Big East: No. 12 Rutgers  vs. No. 9 Notre Dame (TV: Verizon FiOS, 7 pm ET)
SEC: No. 16 Georgia vs. No. 24 Mississippi (TV: FSS, 7 pm ET)
Sunday, Oct. 11
Pac-10: No. 25 Oregon vs. No. 1 Stanford
ACC: No. 17 Maryland vs. No. 6 Virginia Tech

Weekend Top 25 Schedule

JUNIOR COLLEGE NEWS … Yavapai, the two-time defending NJCAA Division I men’s champion, has faced some tough competition at home on the Arizona JC circuit. On Wednesday, the Roughriders lost to Scottsdale Community College, 1-0, on a penalty kick by Ryan Hall. It was Yavapai’s third loss of the season — matching the program’s 21-year high for losses — to go along with 11 wins.

The Roughriders will have a chance to get revenge for one of their earlier losses when they play Phoenix College on Saturday night at Ken Lindley Field. It will the 500th game for the Yavapai program and its coach, Mike Pantalione (454-32-13 record), who recalls his five favorite Yavapai games.

* PANTALIONE’S FAVORITES:
Game #39: Yavapai 2, Passaic 1 (1990 NJCAA final). Kurt Funkhouser scores in the second sudden-death overtime period as the Roughriders defeats the heavily favored New Jersey school 2-1 in Trenton.

Game #210: Yavapai 3, Mercer County 0 (1997 NJCAA final). The Roughriders finish an unbeaten season by scoring two goals in the first six minutes to defeat the home team and capture their third national title in the ’90s.

Game #485: Yavapai 1 San Jacinto 0 (2008 NJCAA final). Dirk Petersen‘s goal off a free kick early in the first half completes a perfect 26-0-0 season for the Roughriders. The 26 wins establish a national record at any level. It’s Yavapai’s fourth national title this decade and seventh overall.

Game #1: Yavapai 4 St. Louis-Forest Park 3 (September 1, 1989):  Edson Rico scores four goals against a nationally ranked team in the Roughriders’ first game.

Game #136: Yavapai 1 Mercer County 0 (2004 NJCAA semifinals): After 90 minutes of regulation play, it takes an additional four overtimes and 11 shootout rounds before Kevin Zimmermann, Yavapai’s goalkeeper, is inserted into the shootout by a little-known rule and scores the game-winner for a 6-5 shootout victory in Trenton.

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.

WOMEN’S NEWS … Three days after Coach Neil McGuire left the No. 19 Cal women’s program, concerns about who was in charge were put to rest, at least for now, when he returned to work and apologized for leaving the team and missing Sunday’s 1-1 tie with nationally ranked Santa Clara.

McGuire’s absence resulted in Kelly Lindsay, an assistant volunteer coach who had been with the Bears for only two weeks, running the show against Santa Clara. Yes, that’s the same Kelly Lindsey who took over as the interim coach of WPS champion Sky Blue FC following the departure of Ian Sawyers only to suddenly quit herself shortly before the playoffs.

According to the Daily Cal, McGuire told his Bears players Friday he was “done” after their 1-0 loss to Sacramento State — their second defeat to an unranked team in a week. Two days later, they tied ranked Santa Clara — a remarkable feat considering Cal was depleted by injuries.

“I am deeply saddened I placed my team, program and administration in this unfortunate position,” he said Monday. “I had some profoundly difficult personal issues to deal with throughout last week, and I put myself ahead of our team, which goes against our ideal of program, team, individual.”

McGuire arrived at Berkeley from Texas Tech in 2007, accepting a four-year contract worth more than $250,000 a year in salary and potential bonuses and camp income. The Scotsman attended Augusta State in Georgia and later spent time coaching at Iowa State, Arizona State, Mississippi State and Texas.

“Neil McGuire is the right coach for our program,” Cal Athletic Director Sandy Barbour said in a statement. “I felt that more than two years ago when I hired him and I feel that today.”

* WEDNESDAY’S ACTION:
Non-Conference
Long Beach State 0 San Diego 0
Illinois State 5 SIU-Edwardsville 1
(Jessica Carlson ties Illinois State record for most goals in a game with three.)

SMALL COLLEGE NEWS … John Leaney, who has won 529 games in more than 20 years of coaching at Macalester College, will retire at the end of the 2009 season so he can devote more time to raising his 4-year-old son Jack. Leaney’s wife Carrie passed away from cancer three years ago.

Leaney, who will be inducted into the Macalester M Club Athletic Hall of Fame later this month, came to the Division III Minnesota school as head men’s coach in 1986 and two years later took over the women’s program. The Scots won the NCAA Division III women’s national championship in 1998 and finished second the following year. He gave up his men’s coaching duties to concentrate on the women’s team in 2006.

“Raising a four-year-old requires a great deal of energy, as does coaching a college team full time,” said Leaney. “Right now, my son is the most important thing in my life and he deserves my undivided attention.”

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 … What’s the biggest transition from high school to college? For soccer players, who must jump right into the life of the student-athlete, the transition can be particularly challenging. CalBears.com asked seven freshmen on the No. 19 California women’s team for their thoughts on transitioning into college.

Lauren Battung: “Overall discipline with sleep, scheduling, organization and physical health. Also, having to go to many places throughout the day without a car.”
Rachel Clark: “Time management. Now we have practice every day along with a major increase in reading for our classes, and I still want to maintain a social life.”
Amanda Glass: “I would have to say time management. It is so easy to get caught up in the whole social aspect, but you have to remember that school is a major priority.”
Amanda Groves: “Managing my time here. There is so much to do socially, academically and athletically that it’s been challenging to decide when to do everything!”
Betsy Hassett: “It’s a whole different country and environment to experience.”
Lauren Hein: “Everyone here is so smart, confident and on a path towards something great!”
Samantha Walker: “It is just more time consuming, and you have to be more disciplined.”

(Click here for more of the interviews with the Cal freshmen.)

— In Tuesday’s only Division I action, Katherine Sheeleigh scored two goals to lead Harvard to a 4-1 win over visiting Fairfield.

* LEADING SCORERS:
PLAYER, SCHOOL GOALS
1. Morgan Marlborough, Nebraska 16
2. Kelley O’Hara, Stanford 12
– Whitney Palmer, Oklahoma 12
4. Kiersten Dallstream, Washington State 11
– Jessica Fuccello, Penn 11
– Sydney Leroux, UCLA 11
– Rochelle VanBuskirk, UC Davis 11
– Danielle Foxhoven, Portland 11
– Sylvia Kowalski, Canisius 11
– Victoria DiMartino, Boston College 11
– Katie Bethke, Minnesota 11
– Sarah Hagen, Milwaukee 11
– Rachel King, Louisiana Tech 11
(Statistics are through games played Oct. 4.)

SMALL COLLEGE NEWS … For the fourth straight week, there is a new No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division II men’s rankings.  Playing a man down for most of the game and without its top two players, No. 1 Lynn fell to Tampa, 2-1, in double overtime. Cal State Los Angeles took over as the new No. 1. The Golden Eagles improved to 11-0-1 with a 2-1 win over Cal Poly Pomona thanks to a goal from Jason Swope with less than 12 minutes remaining.

Cal State Dominguez was the Men’s Division II No. 1 in the preseason rankings. It was followed in the top spot by Tampa and Northern Kentucky before Lynn claimed the No. 1 berth. There has been no change at the top of the Women’s Division II (Seattle Pacific) and Men’s and Women’s Division III rankings (Messiah is first in both).

MEN’S RANKINGS:
NCAA Division II 1. Cal State Los Angeles, 2. Lees-McRae, 3. Tampa
NCAA Division III 1. Messiah, 2. Ohio Wesleyan, 3. Christopher Newport

WOMEN’S RANKINGS:
NCAA Division II 1. Seattle Pacific, 2. West Florida, 3. Saint Rose
NCAA Division III 1. Messiah, 2. Puget Sound, 3. Williams

NAIA PLAYERS OF THE WEEK:
MEN:
Offense: Mustafa Celik, Holy Names (tallied hat tricks in wins over Bethany, Calif., 7-1 and Cal State-Maritime, 4-0).
Defense: Hide Ozawa, Simon Fraser (notched shutout wins over Trinity Western, 2-0, and Seattle, 1-0).

WOMEN:
Offense: Mia Persson, Lindsey Wilson (scored five goals and added one assist in 12-0 victory over Campbellsville and scored one goal in 3-1 victory over No. 5 William Carey).
Defense: Bailey Lynn, Rogers State (posted back-to-back shutouts against Wayland Baptist, 4-0, and Oklahoma City, 1-0).

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.)