College Women: Texas, West Virginia upset in NCAA first-round play

Tenth-ranked Texas and No. 14 West Virginia were the biggest upset victims Friday night during the opening round of the NCAA Division I women’s soccer championships. SMU and Miami (Ohio) pulled off the stunners on a day that included PK magic by Duke’s Thora Helgadottir, Abby Wambach’s 27th and 28th goals for Florida, comebacks by Georgia and Cincinnati, and two WCC victories in three Pacific-10 showdowns. WAC champion Southern Methodist (16-3) got two goals from Sarah Harvey to stun the Longhorns, 2-1, at College Station, Texas. The senior forward headed home Lorrie Tipton’s cross in the fourth minute and finished a breakaway in the 78th for the Lady Mustangs, who will take on host Texas A&M in a second-round game Sunday. Texas (14-6), which won the Big 12 Conference regular-season title and fell to A&M in the conference tournament final, got its goal in the 79th on a Lauren Field free kick. Longhorn goalkeeper Shay Wilkerson, brought on when freshman starter Alex Gagarin was injured, made eight saves, one on a penalty kick. West Virginia (15-5-1) fell at home to Mid-American Tournament titlist Miami (Ohio). Danielle Berkemeier, taken down from behind, converted a penalty kick in the 26th minute for the game’s lone goal. It was her sixth goal in the past four matches. Goalkeeper Katie Karlander made eight saves for the RedHawks (15-6-1), who will take on Atlantic-10 titlist Dayton on Sunday. In other action: ò Goalkeeper Thora Helgadottir stopped two penalty kicks — and scored one of her own — as Duke outfired Tennessee in a shootout after playing to a 1-1 draw over 150 minutes. Kim Patrick gave the Lady Vols a ninth-minute lead, but Carly Fuller’s 69th-minute penalty kick — after a Keeley Dowling hand ball — pulled the Blue Demons (8-9-1) even. Helgadottir made 10 saves for Duke, which takes on ACC rival North Carolina in the second round. The top-seeded Tar Heels (20-0) got goals from Anne Remy, Maggie Tomecka and Mary McDowell in a 3-0 romp over UNC Greensboro. ò Freshman Katie Frattone connected on two long-range shots — the first a brilliant blast to the upper-right corner, the second an off-balance chip that found the net — and assisted on a third goal as St. Mary’s toppled California for the second time this season. The Gaels (15-2-2), who needed several superb stops from goalkeeper Ruth Montgomery in the first meeting, had the better of play this time, opening 2-0 and 3-1 advantages at Stanford. Brittany Kirk tallied twice for Cal, the second with three seconds to play. St. Mary’s gets another Bay Area rematch, with fifth-seeded Stanford, on Sunday. The Cardinal (14-3-2) got goals on a goalmouth scramble and a penalty kick to overcome Denver, 2-0. ò Janelle Hillseth’s 83rd-minute strike, from passes by Jenna Ainsworth and Ali Pavoni, lifted Pepperdine to a 1-0 victory over USC at UCLA’s Drake Field. The Waves (12-4-3) take on third-seeded UCLA (18-2) on Sunday. Tracey Winzin assisted on Staci Duncan’s goal, then scored twice with free kicks in the Bruins’ 3-0 victory over Cal State Fullerton. ò Emily Patterson struck twice and Christine Sinclair added a goal and two assists as fourth-seeded Portland routed visiting Idaho State, 5-0. The Pilots (17-3) take on Washington (13-4-2), which got goals from Jaime Carstensen and Tina Frimpong in a 2-0 triumph over San Diego. Portland won September’s Seattle showdown, 1-0. ò Abby Wambach scored two more goals — giving her 28 this season — as sixth-seeded Florida romped, 4-0, over visiting Central Florida. The Gators (18-3-1) take on SEC rival Georgia on Sunday. The Bulldogs (13-5-1) overcame an early two-goal deficit to whip Miami (Fla.), 5-2, with Lauren Zacharski scoring twice and Kristen Allen adding a goal and two assists. ò Amy Simonson scored two goals, including the winner in the 87th minute, as Conference USA champ Cincinnati rallied from a quick two-goal deficit for a 3-2 victory over Mid-Continent titlist Oakland in South Bend, Ind. The Bearcats (19-3) were down, 2-0, by the 13th minute, but Nickie Luse struck in the 17th and Simonson evened things by chipping the keeper from 15 yards 18 seconds into the second half. Cincinnati gets a date with seventh-seeded Notre Dame, which ripped Eastern Illinois, 2-0, as Amanda Guertin finished off two Randi Scheller feeds. Guertin has scored in nine successive matches for the Fighting Irish (17-2-1), who owned a 32-1 shot advantage. ò Nicky Thrasher set up two goals, including freshman Linsey Johnson’s 16th, as Texas A&M (15-3-1) beat Southwest Texas State, 3-0. ò Judi Aschenbrener’s 71st-minute goal carried Dayton past Maryland, 1-0. The Flyers were outshot, 23-5. ò Cindy Mullinix redirected a Leigh Clark free kick two minutes into overtime and Clemson edged visiting Kentucky, 1-0. The Tigers (14-4-1) earn a rematch with ACC rival Florida State, which topped Auburn, 1-0, on freshman Camie Bybee’s 59th-minute strike. The Seminoles (15-7-1) won the regular-season meeting, 3-2, in South Carolina. ò Meghan Cameron scored a goal and added two assists, and Samantha Swerdloff contributed a goal and an assist, to lead Rutgers past Boston University, 4-1. The Knights (13-7-1) advance to play host Princeton (14-2-2), which defeated Loyola (Md.), 3-1, on goals by Janine Willis, Esmeralda Negron and Krista Ariss. ò Laura Johnson and Candice MacDonald scored goals and Villanova overcame Penn, 2-0. The Wildcats (13-5-3) face host Penn State (19-3-1), which handled Bucknell, 3-1, as Joanna Lohman tallied a goal and an assist. ò Alison West’s 25-yard lob in the second overtime lifted CAA champion William & Mary past Wake Forest, 2-1. The Tribe (11-8-1) faces host Virginia (15-3-2), a 3-0 winner over Liberty on goals by Ashley Meeker, Alyssa Benitez and Sarah Lane. ò Kristi Candau scored two goals and Danielle Slaton picked up a pair of assists as second-seeded Santa Clara struggled in a 3-0 triumph over Evansville in Champaign, Ill. The Broncos (18-2), held scoreless until the 59th minute, next face Syracuse (12-6), which edged Illinois, 1-0, on Erica Mastrogiacomo’s fine 51st-minute run. ò Katherine Kannenberg’s 112th-minute strike lifted Dartmouth past UW Milwaukee, 1-0. The Big Green (10-4-1) will face Michigan (13-7-1), which used an Abby Crumpton goal to beat host Marquette, 1-0. On Thursday: ò Christine Latham’s 16th and 17th goals of the season helped Nebraska crush Boston College, 5-0, in Lincoln, Neb. The Cornhuskers (16-4-1) face Brigham Young (14-6-1), a 1-0 winner over Kansas, in Saturday’s second-round match. Nebraska beat the Cougars, 2-0, on Oct. 17. ò At Storrs, Conn., Beth Totman’s tally in the 138th minute — the fourth overtime — lifted Harvard past Hartford, 1-0. The Crimson (11-5) get a rematch with eighth-seeded Connecticut (17-5), which whipped Sacred Heart, 3-0, on Saturday. Harvard lost to the Huskies, 1-0, in overtime on Oct. 24. NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST ROUND at Chapel Hill, N.C. North Carolina 3 UNC Greensboro 0. Goals: Remy (Kluegel, Ramsey) 19, Tomecka (Walker) 21, McDowell 80. Tennessee 1 Duke 1 (4OT; Duke wins on penalty kicks, 4-2). Goals: Patrick (Lockaby) 9; Fuller pen. 69. at Princeton, N.J. Rutgers 4 Boston University 1. Goals: Lloyd (Swedloff) 42, Swedloff (Cameron, Lages) 42, Cameron (Schubert) 44, Wentzler (Schubert, Cameron) 78; Soules (O’Brien) 30. Princeton 3 Loyola (Md.) 1. Goals: Willis (Cundey) 6, Negron (Gober) 12, Ariss (Cundey) 24; McGettigan (Raab) 41. at State College, Pa. Penn State 3 Bucknell 1. Goals: Pezzullo (Lohman) 22, Welsh 66, Lohman (Smith) 68; Rennels 24. Villanova 2 Penn 0. Goals: Johnson (Battista) 64, Scialdone (MacDonald, Biehl) 76. at Stanford, Calif. Stanford 2 Denver 0. Goals: Sanderson 33, Myers pen. 73. St. Mary’s 3 California 2. Goals: Frattone (Crenshaw) 40, Frattone (Barbera) 47, Crenshaw (Frattone) 63; Kirk (Stocklmeir, Hornor) 51, Kirk (Stocklmeir) 90. at College Station, Texas SMU 2 Texas 1. Goals: Harvey (Tipton) 4, Harvey 78; Field 79. Texas A&M 3 Southwest Texas State 0. Goals: Smith (Burke) 32, Ragsdale (Thrasher) 73, Johnson (Thrasher) 78. at Portland, Ore. Washington 2 San Diego 0. Goals: Carstensen (Martinez), 36, Frimpong 52. Portland 5 Idaho State 0. Goals: Sinclair (Moore) 32, Barr (Patterson, Sinclair) 49, Moore (Sinclair) 53, Patterson 62, Patterson (Heller) 87. at Los Angeles UCLA 3 Cal State Fullerton 0. Goals: Duncan (Monroe, Winzen) 48, Winzen 71, Winzen 82. Pepperdine 1 USC 0. Goal: Hillseth (Pavoni) 83. at Morgantown, W.Va. Dayton 1 Maryland 0. Goal: Aschenbrener (Kuhl) 71. Miami (Ohio) 1 West Virginia 0. Goal: Berkemeier pen. 26. at Clemson, S.C. Clemson 1 Kentucky 0 (OT). Goal: Mullinix (Clark) 92. Florida State 1 Auburn 0. Goal: Bybee (Maren Vik Edvardsen, Ratliff) 59. at Gainesville, Fla. Georgia 5 Miami (Fla.) 2. Goals: McKee (Allen) 27, Zacharski (Allen) 33, Allen (Metherell) 56, Zacharski (Culver) 60, Rochow 67; Bass (McWhinney, West) 11, McWhinney (Bass) 14. Florida 4 Central Florida 0. Goals: Wambach (Hamel, Frimpong) 28, Floyd (Johnson) 45, Johnson (Wambach) 53, Wambach pen. 68. at South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame 2 Eastern Illinois 0. Goals: Guertin (Scheller) 13, Guertin (Scheller) 51. Cincinnati 3 Oakland 2. Goals: Luse (Wagner) 17, Simonson 46, Simonson (Herweh) 87; Rapp (Wilson) 9, Demers pen. 13. at Charlottesville, Va. William & Mary 2 Wake Forest 1 (OT). Goals: Krieger 44, West 113; Roeck pen. 70. Virginia 3 Liberty 0. Goals: Meeker (Bunch) 13, Benitez (Wood) 45, Lane (Engelhardt) 74. at Milwaukee, Wis. Dartmouth 1 UW Milwaukee 0 (2OT). Goal: Kannenberg (McVeigh) 112. Michigan 1 Marquette 0. Goals: Crumpton (Grech) 13. at Champaign, Ill. Syracuse 1 Illinois 0. Goals: Mastrogiacomo 51. Santa Clara 3 Evansville 0. Goals: Candau (Slaton) 59, Tahmassian (Osborne, Slaton) 67, Candau (Tahmassian) 89. Thursday’s results at Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska 5 Boston College 0. Goals: Williams 12, Latham 17, Latham (Anderson) 20, Haxton (Saunders) 41, Williams (Rheem) 70. BYU 1 Kansas 0. Goal: Ojuka (Cramer, Viernes) 75. at Storrs, Conn. Connecticut 3 Sacred Heart 0. Goals: Borisjuk (Shepherd) 9, Ranta (Graczyk) 51, Popper 53. Harvard 1 Hartford 0 (4OT). Goal: Totman (Yenne, Westfall) 137. SECOND ROUND Saturday’s games at Storrs, Conn. Harvard (11-5) at Connecticut (17-5) at Lincoln, Neb. BYU (14-6-1) at Nebraska (15-4-1)