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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)

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

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).