Four Soccer America Magazine Top 25 team lost to unranked teams on Friday.
Washington State upset No. 6 UCLA, 1-0. Cougar Alix Rustrum scored the game-winning goal to give WSU its first victory over the Bruins since 1993.
No. 8 Texas A&M fell, 2-1, to 10-player Missouri in front of 2,138 fans at the Aggie Soccer Complex. Tiger forward Amber Swineheart scored the deciding goal in the 68th minute with a shot from the top of the 18-yard box.. Jennifer Nobis put the Tigers ahead early. Emily DeWoody brought the Aggies even on her first goal of the season in the 36th minute. Missouri starting goalie Laura Buehrig was ejected in the sixth minute when she took down Madison Klovstad on a breakaway inside the Missouri box.
In another Pac-10 game, No. 14 California lost to Arizona State, 1-0, Friday afternoon at Edwards Stadium. Arizona State's Brittany Cooper scored the game's only goal off a 22-yard free kick in the 30th minute. ''I told the team at halftime that it was the most uninspired soccer that I've seen,'' said Cal head coach Kevin Boyd. ''Our effort was poor. We had no passion.''
No. 16 Duke lost to Clemson, 1-0, at Koskinen Stadium for its first loss at home. Britten Meyer scored the only goal of the evening at 8:39. Lauren Johnston and Ashley Phillips shared the shutout for Clemson.
In a battle of Top 25 teams, Christine Sinclair scored two goals, including the game-winner with less than a minute remaining in the second overtime, propelling No. 5 Portland to a 2-1 victory over No. 20 Pepperdine at Merlo Field. Lindsey Huie assisted on both of SinclairÆs goals. PepperdineÆs Megan Woods scored in the 44th minute.
In a another Top 25 clash, Nikki David scored on a rebound shot with two mnutes left in overtime to give No. 24 Arizona, the surprise of the Pac-10, a 1-0 win at No. 10 Stanford.
Elsewhere, No. 3 Penn State stayed undefeated in Big Ten action, defeating Iowa 8-0 . A win on Sunday at Minnesota will give the Nittany Lions their seventh-straight Big Ten title. Sophomores Ali Krieger and Jean Rittig both scored their first goals of the season.
Senior forward Tina Frimpong scored her school-record 35th career goal with 42 seconds left in the second overtime, lifting the No. 7 Washington past USC, 2-1. An overflow crowd of 2,873 watched the Huskies play their first game in Seattle since Sept. 3. USC got on the board just over nine minutes after intermission on Rosa Anna Tantillo's goal. UW senior Nikki Gamble netted the equalizer at 65:41 with her sixth goal of the season.
Senior Lyndsey Patterson scored 27 seconds into the second half and junior goalkeeper Vanessa Phillips-Bosshart pitched her school-record 17th career shutout to help No. 9 Tennessee blank in-state rival Vanderbilt, 1-0.
No. 12 Santa Clara picked up its first WCC win of the season with a 2-1 victory over Saint Mary's in Moraga. Bronco forward Bree Horvath scored the first goal; SCU would take a 2-0 lead as the Gael defense knocked a ball into its own goal. Katie Fagundes scored for the home team.
No. 13 Florida saved all its scoring for the second half, defeating Mississippi State, 4-1, in front of a Pressly crowd of 1,892. Freshman Jasmine Johnson put the Gators on the scoreboard early in the second half. Stephanie Freeman scored two long distance goals for her third multi-goal match of the season Melanie Booth converted a free kick from 20-yards out for the other Gator goal. April Berry scored for the Bulldogs.
No. 15 Nebraska beat Texas Tech, 3-0, to improve to 5-1-0 in the Big 12. Nikki Baker scored her 10th goal of the season in the win. Abby Penas and Sasha Andrews also scored.
Senior goalkeeper Meghan Miller picked up her Big 12-leading ninth shutout of the season as No. 18 Kansas beat Oklahoma State, 1-0. Senior Rachel Gilfillan scored her sixth goal of the season at 42:19.
No. 19 West Virginia battled rain and slippery conditions to defeat Rutgers, 2-0, on goals by Marisa Kanela and Ashley Banks.
No. 22 Auburn beat Arkansas, 1-0, in front of 742 fans, the fourth largest crowd in Arkansas soccer history. Auburn picked up the game winner at 88:49 when Courtney Crandell hit a 25-yard blast that deflected off a leg and sailed into the left side of the goal.
No. 25 SMU held on for a 3-2 victory over Rice in Houston, extending its unbeaten streak to seven games. It scored two goals in a three-minute span midway through the first half on goals by freshman defender Kimber Bailey and sophomore Olivia O'Rear. Bailey collected her second goal of the night at 71:58 on a penalty kick. But Rice posted two quick goals off a penalty kick at 77:49 and a goal by Clory Martin at 83:41.
