[PREVIEW] It’s No. 1 UCLA at No. 2 Stanford in this week’s marquee women’s matchup. Both teams are in fine form after being at less than full strength due to international commitments and injuries. UCLA has won six in a row after getting off to a 3-1-2 start. The Cardinal is coming off a 4-2 win over Cal, one of five victories against teams ranked in this week’s Soccer America Top 25.
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Coroner’s jury rules Dahlquist death an accident
A coroner’s jury in Peoria County, Ill., looking into the death of Bradley University player Danny Dahlquist ruled that his death was an accident. Dahlquist, 19, died of carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation on Aug. 12 after his roommates and a friend lit roman candles under his bedroom door as a prank after a night of drinking.
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Cavs roll before record crowd
[TOP 25 WOMEN’S ACTION] No. 3 Virginia extended its unbeaten streak to 12 games with a 2-0 win over Virginia Tech on Thursday night. The game drew a record women’s crowd of 2,011 and was televised nationally on Fox Soccer Channel.
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Sputtering Santa Clara held by UCSB
[WOMEN’S TOP 25] Slumping Santa Clara had to settle for a 0-0 tie at home with UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday night. After starting out 7-0-1, the injury-riddled Broncos are only 1-3-2 in their last six games. The UCSB game marked the fourth time in the six games Santa Clara failed to score.
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NCAA Division I Men’s Wednesday Results
There was plenty of men’s conference and non-conference action on Wednesday. Only one game separates the eight teams in the America East. No. 4 SMU has a two-point lead on unbeaten Tulsa and Memphis in the Conference USA. No. 19 Creighton opened up a three-point lead on idle Drake, Eastern Illinois and Bradley in the Missouri Valley. The only ranked team to fall to an unranked team was No. 23 Furman, which lost for only the second time this season when it fell at Clemson, 2-1. For all Wednesday’s scores …
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Indiana downs Notre Dame in another South Bend thriller
[MEN’S TOP 25 ACTION] Notre Dame fans certainly can’t say they haven’t gotten their money’s worth this season. Four days after the Irish drew, 3-3, with Connecticut in a battle of the nation’s No. 1 and No. 3 teams, Notre Dame fell to Indiana, 3-2, in a game that drew a crowd of 3,462 fans — the third largest in its history — in the driving rain.
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More than 7,000 watch Cal Poly stun UCSB
Cal Poly took over first place in the Big West with a 2-1 win over defending national champion UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday night before a record crowd of 7,143 fans at Spanos Stadium. A goal by Anthony Grillo in the 49th minute broke a 1-1 tie in favor of the Mustangs, who opened up a three-point lead on UCSB in the Big West.
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Four-goal Lenhart leads No. 2 Azusa Pacific past No. 1 Concordia
[NAIA] Senior forward Steven Lenhart scored four goals to lead No. 2 Azusa Pacific to a 4-0 victory over No. 1 Concordia in a battle of Southern California NAIA powers Wednesday afternoon at the Cougar Soccer Complex.
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CROWD COUNT: College Soccer’s Largest Crowds
[MAKING A LIST] The top 10 men’s crowds were at 10 different venues. Four of the 10 women’s crowds were at games played last weekend.
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NAIA Men’s Top 25
There was no change in the top seven spots in the NAIA Men’s Top 25 Poll. For the complete Top 25 …
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NAIA Women’s Top 25
Lee collected three road wins last week and held at No. 1 in the NAIA Women’s Top 25 Poll. No. 4 Concordia (Ore.) is the hottest women’s in the NAIA ranks, having run off 11 straight shutouts. For the complete Top 25 …
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Akpan follows in Ohiri’s footsteps
[MAKING A LIST] U.S. under-20 national team forward Andre Akpan scored in his ninth consective game for Harvard when he had the Crimson’s lone goal in a 1-1 tie with Holy Cross on Wednesday.
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NCAA Division I Women’s Wednesday Results
Winthrop improved to 3-0-0 in the Big South and gained a share of the conference lead with Coastal Carolina thanks to its 1-0 win at UNC Asheville on Wednesday. Davidson knocked off first-place College of Charleston with a 2-1 win in the Southern Conference. For all Wednesday’s scores …
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Men’s & Women’s Small College Rankings
Ten teams in the NSCAA/adidas rankings remain unbeaten and untied: No. 1 Northern Kentucky (DII men), No. 1 Trinity (Texas), No. 2 Amherst and No. 3 North Carolina Wesleyan (DIII men), No. 1 Grand Valley State and No. 2 Seattle Pacific (DII women) and No. 1 Wheaton (Ill.), No. 2 Messiah, No. 4 Puget Sound and No. 6 Williams (DIII women).
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NCAA Division I Women’s Tuesday Results
Pam Shipway‘s goal in the 71st minute gave Wisconsin-Milwaukee a 2-1 win over Loyola (Ill.) Tuesday evening that opened up a four-point lead over Loyola in the Horizon League. For all Tuesday’s scores …
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NCAA Division I Men’s Tuesday Results
Elon earned its third tie against an ACC powerhouse when the Phoenix tied North Carolina, 1-1, on Tuesday before a record crowd of 1,773 fans. A late goal from Garry Lewis salvaged a tie for the Tar Heels (4-3-5). Elon (6-3-4) has also recorded ties against No. 1 Wake Forest and Clemson. For all Tuesday’s scores …
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Surprises in first RPI men’s rankings
[RPI RANKINGS] Wake Forest, No. 1 in this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25, is first in the NCAA’s initial RPI rankings of the 2007 season. Teams with surprisingly high rankings: Quinnipiac, Fairfield, Loyola (Md.) and Binghamton. On the other hand, Duke didn’t crack the top 40.
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There is no stopping James Madison women
James Madison has lost not one but two goalies for the season with torn knee ligaments, but that hasn’t stopped the Dukes. With redshirt freshman goalkeeper Stephanie Poucher in goal and a pair of freshmen leading the attack, JMU (12-1-1) is riding a school record eight-game unbeaten streak. It’s tied with Georgia for the best winning percentage in the nation at .893.
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NCAA Men’s Division I Scoring Leaders
With a hat trick against Providence — his second straight three-goal game — and a goal against Notre Dame, O’Brian White (Connecticut) moved into the lead among NCAA Division I men’s goal scorers. For the Top 10 goal scorers …
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NCAA Women’s Division I Scoring Leaders
Japan international Mami Yamaguchi (Florida State) has scored 16 goals to lead all NCAA Division I women’s goal scorers. The only freshman in the top five is Brittney Steinbruch of Miami (Fla.). For the Top 10 goal scorers …
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Slumping Navy shocks West Virginia with late winner
[MEN’S TOP 25 ACTION] Navy traveled to West Virginia with a three-game winless streak and had not scored for more than 300 minutes, but the Middies shocked the No. 21 Mountaineers, 1-0, on junior Adam Pennington‘s goal in the 85th minute. No. 9 Boston College also lost at home, falling to Providence, 1-0. For reports on all the Top 25 action …
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Rowan’s Gilmore earns 500th career victory
[MILESTONE] Rowan’s Dan Gilmore recorded his 500th career win on Monday when the Profs defeated Neumann, 3-2.
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Penn State No. 1 in first women’s RPI ranking
[RPI] Penn State was No. 1 in the first RPI ranking of NCAA Division I women’s teams released by the NCAA last week.
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Stress fracture ends Forrest’s career at Washington
[INJURY] Washington got more bad news on the injury front when senior Kevin Forrest, the 2006 Pac-10 Player
of the Year, was lost for the rest of men’s season due to a stress fracture in his left foot.
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Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week
Michigan State freshman Spencer Thompson, who scored the first two goals of his collegiate career in wins over ranked Notre Dame and Michigan, is Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week for games played Oct. 8-14.