Soccer America's Women's Conference Tournament Scoreboard
Clemson was the only lower seeded team to advance to the semifinals with a 2-1 win over No. 4 Boston College. Meghan Smith's goal in the 87th minute was the difference for the fifth seed Tigers, who extended their unbeaten to six straight matches. Clemson meets No. 1 seed North Carolina, which won its 19th game in a row with a 3-0 win over N.C. State. In Friday's other semifinal, No. 2 seed Florida State faces No. 3 seed Wake Forest. The Seminoles beat Duke, 2-0, on goals by Australia international Selin Kuralay and freshman Onnie Trusty both set up by Mami Yamaguchi, while Wake edged Virginia, 2-1, on Amy Smerdzinski's goal in the 79th minute for its first victory in the ACC Tournament since 1999.
Texas, ranked No. 7 in this week's Soccer America Top 25, needed a goal from Kelsey Carpenter in the seventh minute of the first overtime to break a scoreless deadlock and beat Nebraska, 1-0, in the quarterfinals in San Antonio. Top seed Texas A&M, ranked No. 8 in the nation, disposed of Baylor, 3-0. All-Big 12 goalie Ashley Holder did her best to keep the eighth seeded Bears in the game, stopping 14 shots, but the Aggies won on goals by Ashlee Pistorius, Cydne Currie andKat Krambeer. Oklahoma State, ranked No. 11 nationally, edged Oklahoma, 2-1, on Jesyca Rosholt's goal in the 86th minute, while Colorado beat Kansas in a shootout after their game ended in a 1-1 tie.
CONFERENCE USA. UAB and Colorado College both pulled upsets in the quarterfinals. Jamie Maltman, a junior transfer who had not collected a point in 17 previous games, scored her second goal of the match in the second overtime to give CC a 2-1 win over UTEP. UAB also won, 2-1, in overtime over UCF on freshman Danya Barsalona's goal. Memphis also prevailed, 2-1, in overtime, beating East Carolina on Kylie Hayes' 12th goal of the season. Host SMU squeezed past Tulsa, 1-0.
UNLV had Katie Carney, MVP of the 2005 Mountain West Tournament, to thank for staying alive. The Rebels, last year's conference champions, beat Wyoming, 1-0, on Carney's goal with two seconds left in regulation. UNLV and New Mexico move into Thursday's semifinals against BYU and host Utah, respectively.
Tennessee, which had scored as many as three goals only twice this season, broke out for five goals and beat Auburn, 5-2, in quarterfinal action at the Orange Beach Sportsplex. Kristen Doukakis and SEC Offensive Player of the Year Kylee Rossi both scored two goals. After a wild first half left Kentucky and Mississippi deadlocked at 2-2, Nicola Holdsworth scored the lone goal in the second half to give the Wildcats a 3-2 victory over Ole Miss in the quarterfinals for the second straight year. Top seed Florida's 4-1 win over Georgia was closer than the score indicated. The Gators broke the game open with goals in the last 10 minutes fromStacy Bishop, KeLeigh Hudson and Ameera Abdullah. Florida meets South Carolina, which edged Vanderbilt in a shootout, in Friday's semifinals.
Kala Morgan, the nation's leading scorer, scored her 21st goal in Middle Tennessee's 2-0 win over South Alabama. The other SBC seeds — Denver, Florida Atlantic and North Texas — also advanced to the semifinals.
