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MEN’S NEWS … No. 3 UCLA improved to 5-1-0 with a 3-0 win over  visiting Air Force. The Bruins got two second-half goals from senior Kyle Nakazawa.

No. 4 California and No. 5 South Florida rebounded from losses on Friday night to pick up wins on Sunday over Air Force (3-0) and Pitt (2-1), respectively.

Four more Top 25 teams fell to unranked teams, bringing the weekend total to 13:

— Portland edged No. 14 Creighton, 2-1;
— No. 17 N.C. State fell at Virginia Tech, 2-0;
— Penn State snapped No. 18 Michigan’s winning streak at seven games with a 2-0 win;
— No. 25 Wisconsin-Green Bay lost for the first time this season when it fell at Butler, 2-1.

(Click here for more Sunday men’s results.)

* TOP 25 SCOREBOARD:
Sunday, Sept. 27
No. 4 California 3 (Wiedeman 9, 26, Omphroy 57) Air Force 0.
Big East: Pittsburgh 1 (Boehm 86) No. 5 South Florida 2 (Mittoo 16, Anor pen. 52).
Big East: Marquette 2 (Von Rueden 57, Herrera 88) No. 7 Louisville 2 (Braun 4, Knight 23).
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No. 14 Creighton 1 (Gjoesund 34) Portland 2 (Warner 48, Nielsen 84).
ACC:  Virginia Tech 2 (Akogyeram 80, Shupp 5) No. 17 N.C. State 0.
Big Ten: Penn State 2 (Hertzog 53, Yeisley 80) No. 18 Michigan 0.
(Wolverines’ winning streak is snapped at seven games.)
Big Ten: No. 19 Michigan State 0 No. 24 Ohio State 1 (Scales 18).
Cal State Bakersfield 0 No. 20 Loyola Marymount 3 (Gallaudet 1, Rementer 11, Lawson 26).
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Big East: Providence 0 No. 22 St. John’s 0.
Big Ten: No. 23 Northwestern 1 (Hillgard 93) SIU-Edwardsville 0 (OT).
Horizon: Butler 2 (Pollock 52, Cardona 87) No. 25 Wisconsin-Green Bay 1 (Walls 82).
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83th minute: No. 11 UC Santa Barbara 1 (Ibrahim pen.) UC Irvine 0. (Attendance: 4,511.)
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Saturday, Sept. 26
Mid-American: No. 1 Akron 6 (Barson 7, Bunbury 19, 35, Nagbe 25, Zemanski 36, Speas 44) Bowling Green 0.
ACC: No. 9 Wake Forest 1 (Arena 62) No. 6 Harvard 0.
Loyola (Md.) 0 No. 10 Monmouth 1 (Clark 78).
(Game draws 1,322 fans at Geppi-Aikens Stadium.)
ACC:  No. 13 Virginia 0 Clemson 1 (Mattson 41).
(Tigers get first win in seven games under interim coach  Phil Hindson.)
Hartwick 2 (Roydhouse 40, Summers 75) No. 15 Dartmouth 0.
Rhode Island 1 (Puranen 45) No. 21 Boston University 2 (O’Neal 6, 23).
(Aaron O’Neal leads BU with seven goals in nine games.)

WOMEN’S NEWS … Two Top 10 teams — No. 7 California and No. 8 Georgia — lost on Friday night to unranked teams.

Cal outshot Cal Poly, 25-8, but fell to the visiting Mustangs, 1-0, on Whitney Sisler’s golden goal. The star of the night was Carlie Banks, who scored a hat trick for LSU in its 6-0 win over Georgia. The loss was the first of the season for the Bulldogs.

The other Top 25 teams to fall to unranked teams were No. 18 Kansas, which lost to Oklahoma State, 3-0, in the Big 12 opener for both teams, and No. 19 Indiana, which lost at Big Ten rival Northwestern, 1-0.

(Click here for more Friday night women’s results as well as the weekend Top 25 schedule.)

* FRIDAY’S SCOREBOARD:
Friday, Sept. 25
No. 4 Portland 1 (Burk 55) No. 22 Oregon State 0.
(Top 25 showdown draws 4,238 fans.)
Cal State Northridge 0 No. 5 UCLA 2 (Larsen 18, Cheney 43).
No. 7 California 1 (Sisler 93) Cal Poly 0 (OT).
SEC: LSU 6 (Banks 16, 18, 63, Yepez 52 Boudreau 84, Johnson 85) No. 8 Georgia 0.
No. 10 Santa Clara 1 (Patton 17) Cal State Fullerton 0.
SEC: No. 11 South Carolina 2 (Rhoades 16, Jacobs 52) Vanderbilt 1 (Lukens 89).
(Gamecocks remain perfect at 9-0-0.)
Big East: Cincinnati 1 (Hebbeler 76) No. 12 Notre Dame 2 (Fowlkes 78, Schuveiller 81).
Big 12: Oklahoma State 3 (Miller 17, Langdon 53, Richardson 76) No. 18 Kansas 0.
Big Ten: Northwestern 1 (Herczeg 80) No. 19 Indiana 0.
Big East: Georgetown 0 No. 20 Rutgers 1 (Jones 13).
(Ashley Jones has eight goals in last six games.)
Big 12: Baylor 0 No. 21 Texas A&M 1 (Hooper 59).
No. 23 Oregon 2 (Sweeney 38, Mansfield 65) Portland State 0.
SEC: No. 24 Florida 2 (Thompson 13, pen. 99) Kentucky 1 (Lopez 56) (OT).
Conference USA: No. 25 UCF 3 (Whidden 3, 12, George 90) UAB 1 (Blair 59).
Big Ten: Wisconsin 1 (Leinert 78) No. 25 Purdue 1 (Flannery 52).

MEN’S NEWS … A record Ludwig Field crowd of 6,946 fans watched No. 8 Maryland beat No. 2 North Carolina, 1-0, in a rematch of last year’s NCAA Division I championship game.

Maryland has now beaten North Carolina four times over the last two seasons — all by shutouts. UNC had the edge in play, but the Terrapins won on Kevin Tangney‘s header in the 89th minute. Billy Schuler had a chance to put Carolina ahead, but he missed a penalty kick in the second half.

Tangney, a player who has missed two full seasons due to a pair of ACL tears, has emerged as one of the leaders on a very young Maryland team. “That was one of the best moments of my 17 years here and not because we won the game against a great opponent but in the player that found the way to get the game-winning goal,” Maryland coach Sasho Cirovski said. “With all that he has been through, I rarely talk about a single player after a game, but you have a gulp in your throat when he scored that goal and had that celebration because you know what he’s gone through. He’s made of the best stuff on earth.”

GAME OF THE DAY
Sept. 25 in College Park, Md.
Maryland 1 North Carolina 0. Goal: Tangney 89.
Maryland — MacMath, Kemp, White, Tangney, Lee, Kassel, Rodkey, Yates, Forbess, Townsend, Herrick. Subs: Saint Cyr, Cortes, Oduaran, Woodberry.
North Carolina — Haggerty, Graye, McKinney, Loyd, King, McCarty, Brown, Urso, Farfan, Dixon, Schuler. Subs: Lebo, Martinez, Walters.
Referee: Andrew Chapin.
Att.: 6,946.

* TOP 25 SETBACKS. In Big East play, West Virginia and Notre Dame handed No. 5 South Florida and No. 7 Louisville their first losses, respectively. No. 4 California fell to New Mexico, 2-1. No. 11 UC Santa Barbara lost at San Diego State, 4-2. No. 12 Duke, No. 22 St. John’s and No. 25 South Carolina also lost to unranked teams.

* G20 FEVER. Visiting DePaul was not deterred by all kinds of security details in place for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh to beat host Pitt, 1-0, on Steffen Vroom‘s goal in Big East action on Friday. “There were roadblocks everywhere, and we had to take a detour to the game,” said DePaul coach Craig Blazer. “There were all kinds of policemen and security forces in the streets. Some of the leaders from Germany and their delegation were staying in our hotel. There were SWAT teams in our hotel.”

(Click here for more Friday night men’s results as well as the weekend Top 25 schedule.)

* FRIDAY’S TOP 25 SCOREBOARD:
ACC: No. 8 Maryland 1 (Tagney 88) No. 2 North Carolina 0.
San Diego 1 (Feld pen. 62) No. 3 UCLA 2 (Hollingshead 10, Nakazawa pen. 48).
No. 4 California 1 (Carrasco 41) New Mexico 2 (Urbany 21, Farquharson 89).
Big East: West Virginia 1 (Sebele 92) No. 5 South Florida 0 (OT).
Big East: Notre Dame 4 (Thomas 49, Perry 60, Dike 75, Brovsky 77) No. 7 Louisville 0.
San Diego State 4 (Reza 21, 60, Wallace 31, Tott 75) No. 11 UC Santa Barbara 2 (Silva 27, Nonni 46).
ACC: Boston College 2 (Reddick 59, Mejia 89) No. 12 Duke 0.
Washington 0 No. 14 Creighton 1 (Finlay 25).
Big Ten: Wisconsin 0 No. 16 Indiana 1 (Bruin 57).
(Game drew a crowd of 1,703, largest Badger crowd since the 1997 season.)
Big East: Connecticut 1 (Watson-Siriboe 40) No. 22 St. John’s 0.
Big Ten: No. 23 Northwestern 2 (Eliason 45, O’Neill 84) Drake 2 (Kuhn 27, Webb 86).
Davidson 4 (Pilgrim 23, Caskey pen. 39, 62, Reiter 81) No. 25 South Carolina 1 (Lindsay 74).
Horizon: Wright State 1 (Kercher 89) No. 25 Wisconsin-Green Bay 4 (Walls 5, Grable 22, Banks 66, Patterson 78).