#5 STANFORD 0 #3 SANTA CLARA 2
Santa Clara notched the 400th win in program history with a 2-0 victory at fifth-ranked Stanford on the first night of the Stanford/Nike Invitational. Sophomore midfielder Medhi Ballouchy put Santa Clara ahead in the 2nd minute on his third goal of the season. After stealing a pass from a Stanford defender, Ballouchy shot the ball into the top left corner of the net. Only 24 seconds after Ballouchy's goal, Stanford defender Jason Griffiths was red carded, forcing the Cardinal to play one man down for the remainder of the match. In the 54th minute, Jason Cunliffe would make the most of the extra man, scoring his first goal of the season. SCU improved to 7-0-0 and handed the Cardinal its first loss as it fell to 5-1-1. Santa Clara will take on fourth-ranked California on Sunday night at Buck Shaw Stadium in the final match of the Stanford Invitational.
#4 CALIFORNIA 0 Brown 0
After opening with six straight wins, the Bears had to settle for a 0-0 tie with Brown at the Stanford/Nike Invitational.
#13 WAKE FOREST 0 South Carolina 1
J.D. Moon scored the game's only goal in the 73rd minute to lead the Gamecocks past the Demon Deacons, who dropped their third straight home game for first time since 1986. USC's Makan Hislop picked up his second yellow card and was ejected in the 79th minute. South Carolina improves to 5-1-1, while the Demon Deacons dropped their third straight match and fell to 3-3-1.
Tulsa 2 #14 PENN STATE 3
Penn State scored three goals in the first 21 minutes and held on for a nail-biting 3-2 victory at the Microtel Inn & Suites/Golden Hurricane Classic in Tulsa, Okla. The Nittany Lions (4-0-3) have now won three straight games and they extended the nation's longest unbeaten streak to 10 games. Senior Chad Severs led the Nittany Lions with two goals. Junior Mike Lindemann also scored. Ryan Pore had both Golden Hurricane goals.
#18 SMU 5 Yale 2
Mustang junior Duke Hashimoto tallied his first collegiate hat trick and added an assist. Jake Jackson and Michael Uremovich also scored for SMU in the opening game of Tulsa's Microtel Inn & Suites/Golden Hurricane Classic.
Rutgers 3 #19 MICHIGAN 0
Michigan suffered its first loss of the season. Two second-half goals by Chris Karcz led the Scarlet Knights. Rutgers scored its third goal of the game with a goal by Scott Gahagan at 87:42.
#20 PORTLAND 1 Akron 0
Patrick Mooney put away a header in the 84th minute to lift the Pilots to a 1-0 win over Akron in the opening game of the Husky Fever Classic. Sophomore keeper Luis Robles recorded 10 saves to preserve the shutout for Portland (5-1-0).
#21 WASHINGTON 2 UC Irvine 0
Sophomore Kevin Forrest scored the first goal and assisted the second, leading UW past UC Irvine in the first round of the Husky Fever Classic. Freshman Ely Allen's first collegiate goal in the second half sealed the win in what coach Dean Wurzberger described as ''probably our best performance at home''
#23 JAMES MADISON 3 Longwood 0
Denny Fulk had a goal and an assist to lead JMU past Longwood in the opening round of the JMU Tournament. Sophomore Mark Totten and red-shirt sophomore Andrew Walker also scored for the 7-0-0 Dukes. Longwood is 0-7-0.
#24 OLD DOMINION 1 American 1 (OT)
Jamaican Kevon Harris game the unbeaten Monarchs a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute from an Edson Elcock assist. American struck back in the 54th minute when Sean Albright, brother of U.S. international Chris Albright, scored an unassisted goal. The opening game of the Nike Tribe Classic ended in a tie when two overtimes failed to produce a goal.