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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)

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* 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.

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* 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.