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MEN’S NEWS … Highlighting a string of Top 25 upsets, Charlie Rugg scored two first-half goals and fellow freshman goalkeeper Justin Luthy made nine saves as visiting Boston College knocked off No. 3 North Carolina, 2-1, before 1,811 fans at Fetzer Field.

It has been a roller-coaster season for the Eagles, who have won three straight after losing three straight. Before that, they won four in a row after opening with two losses in three games.

In other ACC play on Saturday, No. 4 Wake Forest in got a goal and three assists from Austin da Luz in a 4-1 win at No. 12, and Will Bates scored twice in No. 17 Virginia’s 3-1 win over Virginia Tech. The win moved BC into fourth place in the ACC:

* ACC STANDINGS:
Maryland 4-1-1 13 pts
Wake Forest  3-1-1 10 pts
North Carolina 3-2-1 10 pts
Boston College 3-2-0 9 pts
NC State  2-3-1 7 pts
Duke 2-3-0 6 pts
Virginia Tech 2-3-0 6 pts
Virginia 2-3-0 6 pts
Clemson 1-4-0 3 pts

* TOP 25 UPSETS.  Eight other Top 25 teams fell to unranked teams over the weekend included No. 5 UC Santa Barbara, No. 7 Louisville, No. 9 Northwestern, No. 13 California, No 16 Georgetown, No. 22 Notre Dame, No. 23 Indiana and No. 25 UAB.

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

* TOP 25 RESULTS:
Sunday, Oct. 18
No. 2 UCLA 2 (Hoffman 33, Alvarado 75) No. 19 Stanford 0.
Cal State Northridge 1 (Pate 78) No. 5 UC Santa Barbara 0.
San Diego State 2 (Reza 78, Sacco 100) No. 13 California 1 (Soares pen. 89) (OT).
No. 15 Ohio State 2 (McAnena 14, Warzycha 49) No. 24 Penn State 1 (Costigiola 59)
No. 23 Indiana 0 Michigan State 1 (Ricondo 103) (OT)

Saturday, Oct. 17
Mid-American: No. 1 Akron 1 (Nanchoff 70) Northern Illinois 0.
ACC: No. 3 North Carolina 1 (Brown 52) Boston College 2 (Rugg 14, 25).
ACC: No. 12 N.C. State 1 (Byrd 61) No. 4 Wake Forest 4 (Schilawski 5, da Luz 39, Lubahn 69, Opara 71).
(Austin da Luz adds three assists to go along with his goal.)
Big East: St. John’s 3 (Punyed 75, Wegge Gundhus 77, Terra 99) No. 7 Louisville 2 (Lipka 45, Rolfe 85) (OT).
Ivy: No. 8 Harvard 1 (Akpan 48) No. 20 Brown 0.
Big Ten: No. 9 Northwestern 1 (Valenta 39) Wisconsin 2 (Waspi 35, Conklin pen. 95) (OT).
Big East: No. 10 Connecticut 2 (Pezza 52, Watson Siriboe 83) Pittsburgh 0.
(Huskies get seventh straight shutout.)
Big East: Syracuse 0 No. 14 South Florida 3 (Boggs 27, Thuriere 76, Sinclair 81).
Big East: Marquette 0 No. 16 Georgetown 1 (Mallace 29).
ACC: Virginia Tech 1 (Dunn 13) No. 17 Virginia 3 (Barlow 43, Bates 57, 82).
Southern: No. 21 Davidson 2 (Reiter 12, Zipin 83) Furman 1 (Vorbe 14).
Big East: No. 22 Notre Dame 0 West Virginia 1 (Silva 48).
Conference USA: Tulsa 5 (Poeschk 2, Gonsalez 12, Neil 15, 66, McInnes 20) No. 25 UAB 1 (Sodade 59).

WOMEN’S NEWS … No. 1 Stanford earned its first win over No. 4 UCLA since 2002 with a 2-0 victory Sunday before an overflow crowd of 2,400 at Cagan Stadium. The Bruins were riding a 22-game Pac-10 winning streak heading into the contest.

For only the second time in 14 games, high-scoring forwards Kelley O’Hara (18 goals) or Christen Press (14) didn’t score for the Cardinal, who won on an own goal and goal by sub Cam Levin 116 seconds apart in the second half.

The Stanford defense, anchored by freshman Alina Garciamendez and senior Alicia Jenkins in the middle, did an outstanding job against UCLA, which had won 12 straight games.

— In another Top 25 matchup of Pac-10 teams, No. 9 USC beat No. 17 California, 3-2, on Alyssa Davila‘s golden goal.

* TOP 25 UPSETS. Three Top 25 teams fell to unranked teams on Sunday:

— Freshman sensation Morgan Marlborough scored her 20th and 21st goals of the season to lead Nebraska to a 2-1 win over No. 16 Texas A&M.

— No. 18 Michigan State lost at Wisconsin, 1-0, on Alycia Herczeg’s early penalty kick.

—  A header by sophomore Tahnai Annis was all Florida needed to beat No. 24 Georgia, 1-0, in front of a season-high crowd of 2,023 in Athens.

(Click here for more weekend women’s results.)

* TOP 25 RESULTS:
Sunday, Oct. 18
Pac-10: No. 1 Stanford 2 (own goal 72, Levin 73) No. 4 UCLA 0.
(Game draws an overflow crowd of 2,400.)
WCC: Loyola Marymount 0 No. 2 Portland 4 (Enyeart 26, Chandhoke 39, Schmidt 46, Winters 65).
(Michelle Enyeart has three assists to go along with goal.)
SEC: Tennessee 1 (Imgram 70) No. 5 South Carolina 2 (Grimsley 33, Small 56).
(Game draws a season-high 1,332 fans at the Regal Stadium.)
Big East: No. 8 Notre Dame 2 (Knaack 17, Clark 27) Providence 0.
Pac-10: No. 17 California 2 (White 74, Morgan 78) No. 9 USC 3 (Freyer 19, Davila 31, 93) (OT).
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ACC: No. 10 Maryland 3 (Grove 81, Dreska 88, own goal 96) N.C. State 2 (Parrilla 26, Blosser 35).
ACC: No. 11 Virginia Tech 0 No. 7 Boston College 1 (G.DiMartino 9).
ACC: No. 13 Wake Forest 2 (Harrington 47, Logue 53) Miami (Fla.) 0.
Conference USA: Houston 1 (Vela 85) No. 14 UCF 2 (Thomas pen. 75, pen. 86).
Big 12: Nebraska 2 (Marlborough 20, 82) No. 16 Texas A&M 1 (Shipley pen. 68).
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Big Ten: Northwestern 1 (Herczeg pen. 21) No. 18 Michigan State 0.
SEC: No. 20 LSU 4 (Yepes 11, Boudreau 12, Banks 22, Alexander 44) Mississippi State 0.
SEC: Arkansas 0 No. 21 Mississippi 1 (Weatherly 91) (OT).
Big East: Louisville 0 No. 22 Marquette 2 (Bares 30, 31).
Big Ten: Minnesota 0 No. 23 Ohio State 1 (Martin 46).
WCC: San Francisco 2 (Mazur 43, Drake 51) No. 25 San Diego 3 (Vinti 36, Mock 61, Cartan 86).
SEC: No. 24 Georgia 0 Florida 1 (Annis 85).
(The game draws a season-high 2,023 fans in Athens.)
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Saturday, Oct. 17
ACC: No. 3 North Carolina 2 (Rich  51, Hawkins pen. 89) Virginia 1 (Farrelly 62).
Mountain West: No. 12 BYU 2 (Anderson 11, Payne 58) TCU 0.
(Cougars extend unbeaten streak to 11 games.)
Big East: No. 19 Rutgers 1 (Lang 6) No. 18 St. John’s 0.

WOMEN’S NEWS … No. 5 South Carolina lost for the first time in 15 games this season when it fell at No. 24 Georgia, 2-1, on a pair of Carrie Patterson goals.

The Gamecocks led on Kayla Grimsley‘s team-leading eighth goal of the season in the eighth minute, but they couldn’t hold the lead in chilly Athens. “It’s a learning experience for us,” South Carolina coach Shelley Smith said. “The good thing is we’ve played so well that we haven’t been put in this position all year.

South Carolina’s loss leaves only two unbeaten teams:

— No. 1 Stanford got two goals apiece from Kelley O’Hara and Christen Press in a quarter of an hour to beat No. 9 USC, 4-0, and improve to 14-0-0. (O’Hara and Press have combined for 31 of the Cardinal’s 52 goals.)

— Dayton (9-0-5) had its game at St. Bonaventure cancelled because of snow.

* LEROUX-MORGAN REUNION. In the only other game involving Top 25 teams. No. 4 UCLA edged No. 17 California, 1-0, on Sydney Leroux‘s late goal. Leroux had better luck than Alex Morgan, her frontline partner on the 2008 U.S. Under-20 World Cup championship team, did for Cal. In the first half, Morgan hit the left post, and in the second half she rounded UCLA keeper UCLA keeper Chante Sandiford on a breakaway but hit the right post.

* PANTHER RECORD BREAKERS. Sophomore Sarah Hagen and senior Kate Megna both landed in the Wisconsin-Milwaukee record book after Megna set up Hagen for both goals in the Panthers’ 2-0 win over Detroit. Hagen has scored in a school-record eight straight games — including multiple goals in four straight contest — while Megna has a season-record 13 assists.

(Click here for more Friday’s women’s results.)

* FRIDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
Pac-10: No. 1 Stanford 4 (Press 53, 68, O’Hara 55, 63) No. 9 USC 0.
WCC: Pepperdine 0 No. 2 Portland 6 (Enyeart 15, 41, Kreminski 68, 83, Burk 74, 78).
Pac-10: No. 17 California 0 No. 4 UCLA 1 (Leroux 77).
SEC: No. 24 Georgia 2 (Patterson pen. 52, 67) No. 5 South Carolina 1 (Grimsley 8).
Big East: No. 8 Notre Dame 6 (Knaack 11, 32, Augustin 24, 80, Iantorno 66, 81) Connecticut 1 (Ruutu 67).
Conference USA: Rice 1 (Taylor 52) No. 14 UCF 2 (Whidden 18, Thomas 70)
Big 12: Iowa State 0 No. 16 Texas A&M 1 (Shipley pen. 55).
SEC: No. 20 LSU 0 No. 21 Mississippi 0.
Big East: Cincinnati 0 No. 22 Marquette 1 (Bares 36).
Big Ten: Wisconsin 1 (Lam-Feist 90) No. 23 Ohio State 1 (Cameron 63).
WCC: St. Mary’s 2 (Menzhuber 16, Tognetti 75) No. 25 San Diego 1 (Magracia 46).

MEN’S NEWS … It’s been a rough couple of weeks for UCLA goalie Brian Perk. First, he got shelled at the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt, where the USA lost a pair of 3-0 decisions to Germany and South Korea and was knocked out in the first round for the first time in more than two decades. Then in his first game back with the Bruins, he was kicked in the face by a San Diego State player while diving for the ball and had to be taken to the hospital.

Fortunately, Perk was not seriously injured and was back in action Friday for No. 2 UCLA, earning the shutout for the Bruins in their 1-0 win over No. 13 California in front of 1,807 fans at Drake Stadium. David Estrada scored the only goal of the game in the 15th minute on an assist from fellow senior Kyle Nakazawa. The assist extended Nakazawa’s points scoring streak to eight games — matching UCLA’s unbeaten streak.

Perk didn’t have much to do in the first half — UCLA had a 12-1 edge in shots — but he made a diving save on Hector Jimenez‘s shot with 11 minutes remaining. Cal keeper David Bingham, who was also injured (hamstring) last week, made eight saves to keep the game close.

— No. 19 Stanford won a Pac-10 thriller, coming back from a goal down with three minutes to play and eventually beating San Diego State, 2-1, on the road thanks to a golden goal by Ryan Thomas on a free kick from 24 yards.

* STREAK CONTINUES. Monmouth got goals from sophomore Max Hamilton and Ryan Kinne within 90 seconds of each other late in the second half to come away with a 2-0 win at Bryant and improve its record to 12-0-1. Kinne, who helped the New York Red Bulls win the USL Super-20 championship this summer, leads the Northeast Conference with seven goals.

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

* FRIDAY’S TOP 25 RESULTS:
No. 2 UCLA 1 (Estrada 15) No. 13 California 0.
Clemson 0 No. 6 Maryland 1 (Herrick 55).
Bryant 0 No. 11 Monmouth 2 (Hamilton 82, Kinne 84).
San Diego State 1 (McManus 51) No. 19 Stanford 2 (Gunther 87, Thomas 92) (OT).