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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.

This week’s Men’s Top 25

* 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.

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)

This week’s Women’s Top 25

* 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.

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 … 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.)