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[Frank Cunha]

Friday, Nov. 18, 2005

Paul Kennedy
Managing Editor
Soccer America
With Mike Woitalla & Bryan Alvarez

Soccer America's COLLEGE SOCCER REPORTER is a benefit for Soccer America members. COLLEGE SOCCER REPORTER, your briefing on the national college scene, is published Monday-Friday during the college season and weekly during the offseason.

TODAY'S EDITION
1. Men's First Round Matchups
2. By the Numbers: Sweet 16 women's coaches
3. Sapsford out as St. Mary's coach
4. Live NCAA Tournament Scoreboards
5. NAIA & NJCAA Scoreboards

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TOURNAMENT WATCH
1. Men's First Round Matchups

Nov. 18
St. John’s (9-5-5) vs. Marist (10-8-1)
Jonnies have won only two of their last eight games (2-4-2).
Yale (10-3-4) vs. Stony Brook (12-4-4)
Yale is 5-5 in six tournament appearances.
SMU (10-5-3) vs. San Francisco (11-5-4)
Dons went 4-0-1 in last five games to win WCC.
UNC Greensboro (15-5-0) vs. James Madison (12-6-2)
JMU coach Tom Martin goes for 400th career win.
South Florida (12-6-1) vs. Stetson (9-10-1)
Jordan Seabrook’s golden goal gave USF a 2-1 win over Stetson a month ago.
Hofstra (14-4-3) vs. Providence (6-3-9)
The only other year Friars went to the NCAA Tournament was 1983.
Notre Dame (10-7-3) vs. Western Illinois (6-9-4)
Leathernecks have worst record of any team in the NCAA Tournament.
Clemson (11-5-3) vs. Coastal Carolina (11-8-1)
Coastal is in NCAA Tournament for the fifth straight year.
Creighton (12-4-3) vs. Lafayette (13-4-2)
Leopards are 6-0-2 in their last eight games.
Santa Clara (12-6-2) vs. Ohio State (11-7-2)
Broncos earned at-large bid after blowing big lead in WCC.
Wake Forest (11-7-2) vs. South Carolina (12-6-2)
Gamecocks star Josh Alcala is out with knee injury.
Bradley (15-5-1) vs. UW-Milwaukee (13-4-4)
UWM has reached second round of NCAA Tournament the past three years.
Nov. 19
Brown (10-4-2) vs. Rhode Island (13-7-2)
Bears lead series (32-13-1) and beat URI twice in NCAA Tournament.
West Virginia (12-7-2) vs. Robert Morris (11-7-1)
WVU last went to the NCAA Tournament 13 years ago.
Seton Hall (12-3-3) vs. Hartwick (13-5-1)
Hartwick is playing in the NCAA Tournament for the 23rd time.
UC Santa Barbara (12-4-3) vs. San Diego State (9-3-6)
Aztecs' last bid was in 1989 when they had Eric Wynalda and Marcelo Balboa.



BY THE NUMBERS
2. Sweet 16 coaches (career wins-women's soccer)

Two coaches -- Penn State's Paula Wilkins and Pepperdine's Tim Ward -- will earn their 100th career victory as a women's college coach if their teams win this weekend in the round of 16 of the NCAA Division I Women's Tournament.

WINS COACH, SCHOOL
601 Anson Dorrance, North Carolina
310 Jerry Smith, Santa Clara
236 G. Guerrieri, Texas A&M
202 Randy Waldrum, Notre Dame
189 Steve Swanson, Virginia
187 Mark Krikorian, Florida State
152 Markus Roeders, Marquette
148 Jillian Ellis, UCLA
123 Alison Foley, Boston College
119 Rudy Meredith, Yale
112 Kevin Boyd, California
99 Paula Wilkins, Penn State
99 Tim Ward, Pepperdine
76 Dan Tobias, Arizona
64 Ali Khosroshahin, Cal State Fullerton
58 Garrett Smith, Portland

WOMEN'S COACHING MOVE
3. Sapsford out as St. Mary's coach

Paul Sapsford will not return as the women's coach at Saint Mary's. In his three seasons as the head coach of the Gaels, Sapsford led them to a 24-28-6 overall record. In 2005, the Gaels had a 8-8-3 record and finished fifth in the WCC.

[Frank Cunha]

Attendance Round 1

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3453 San Diego St. at UC Santa Barbara
2380 Lafayette at Creighton
2062 RI at Brown
2005 Marist at St. John's
1578 Stetson at U So. Fl.
1500 Hartwick at Seton Hall
1251 Providence at Hofstra
1160 Coastal Carolina at Clemson
1143 Ohio State at Santa Clara
1006 UW-M at Bradley
917 South Carolina at Wake Forest
607 Stony Brook at Yale
420 Western Ill at Notre Dame
408 Robert Morris at W Virginia
400 USF at SMU
Inc. JMU at UNC-G

[Frank Cunha]

HIT PARADE
1. NCAA Division I Men's Tournament scores & goalscorers

FIRST ROUND
Nov. 18
Bradley 0 UW-Milwaukee 2 (Sperl 11, Francois 51).
Att.: 1,006.
Clemson 2 (Richards 22, Quintanar 28) Coastal Carolina 0.
Att.: 1,160
Creighton 3 (Wieland 32, Kraus 37, Biggerstaff 90) Lafayette 0.
Att.; 2,380.
Hofstra 0 Providence 1 (Lynch 96) (OT).
Att.: 1,251.
Notre Dame 2 (Lapira 20, Martin 53) Western Illinois 0.
Att.: 420.
St. John’s 3 (Hole 58, Old pen. 66, Groenwald 75) Marist 1 (Graci 63).
Att.: 1,012.
Santa Clara 1 (Lowry 47) Ohio State 0.
Att.: 1,143.
SMU 2 (Da Silva 18, 33) San Francisco 1 (Languis 90).
Att.: 400.
South Florida 3 (Neavers 24, Raad 74, Seabrook 83) Stetson 0.
Att.: 1,578.
Wake Forest 2 (Solle 69, Thompson 89) South Carolina 0.
Red card: South Carolina – Hislop 53.
Att.: 917.
Yale 1 (Hills 4) Stony Brook 2 (Mohamed 48, Ciklic 94) (OT).
Att.: 607.
Nov. 19
Brown 2 (Caldwell 68, Beckett, 94) Rhode Island 1 (Gonsalves 23) (OT).
Red card: Rhode Island – Mellen 68.
Att.: 2,062.
Seton Hall 2 (McGrath 10, Zotti 41) Hartwick 1 (Boyle 76).
Att.: 1,500.
UNC Greensboro 3 (Richardson 51, Patterson 67, 68) James Madison 2 (Kurt Morsink 89, 90).
Att.: n/a.
UC Santa Barbara 2 (Becerra 58, J.Davis 79) San Diego State 0.
Att.: 3,453.
West Virginia 1 (Cooper 73) Robert Morris 0.
Att.: 408.



2. NCAA Division I Women's Tournament scores & goalscorers

THIRD ROUND
Nov. 18
Portland 4 (Rapinoe 18, 84, Huie 28, Hume 90) Arizona 0.
Att.: 4,892.
Notre Dame 5 (Cinalli 16, Bock 22, Pinnick 40, Hanks 64, 85) Yale 2 (Karnes 32, Whitfield 51).
Att.: 768.
Nov. 19
North Carolina 6 (Guess 6, Chalupny 16, Tarpley 18, 63, 84, O’Reilly 35) Pepperdine 0.
Att.: 4,411.
Penn State 4 (Bouchelle 55, Weimer 73, 75, 88) Texas A&M 1 (Garey 19).
Att.: n/a.
Santa Clara 2 (Estrada 59, Angeli 69) Boston College 1 (Reyes 36).
Att.: 1,384.
UCLA 4 (Lang 3, 79, Lindstrom 76, Zerboni 86) Marquette 0.
Att.: 766.
Nov. 20
Virginia 2 (Rostedt 24, Foley pen. 76) Cal State Fullerton 1 (Wilson 79).
Att.: 943.
Florida State 2 (Rowland 50, Trotter 86) California 1 (Ratican 90).
Att.: 802.

[Frank Cunha]

In the NAIA quarterfinals, #9 seed Hastings College (Neb.) pulled off a 2-1 upset over #1 seed Rio Grande, a team with 17 European players, mostly from England.

This is nice to see, since Hastings only has one player who didn't attend high school in the US. Most of the kids come from states where there are very few DI teams, but hopefully at least a couple of them can use this as a springboard. Their top two scorers are both freshman: Brian Steinert (Aurora, CO) and Nedim Hasanbegovic (Omaha, NE).

[Frank Cunha]

1. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

"You cannot simulate that kind of speed. [Santa Clara coach] Jerry Smith told me you're going to be in for a tornado. Not only does North Carolina have great athletes but they also have great soccer players.
-- Pepperdine coach Tim Ward on North Carolina, which pounded the Waves, 6-0, in the third round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament.

“If she ever scores another one of those, I’ll be shocked. I like to call those shosses. It
was halfway a cross and halfway a shot. She just drilled the ball across, and it happened to hit the far post upper-corner. It was a great goal."
-- Cal coach Kevin Boyd on Florida State defender Kelly Rowland's opening goal in the 'Noles' 2-1 win over the Bears in the third round of the NCAA Division I Women's Tournament.



MEN'S TOURNAMENT WATCH
2. Big East teams sweep six

Eoin Lynch scored a golden goal in the 96th minute to give Providence a 1-0 win at Hofstra in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament.
The Friars, making their first tournament appearance since 1983, were one of only three teams to win on the road in the first round. Wisconsin-Milwaukee beat Bradley, 2-0, in Peoria, Ill., and Stony Brook edged Yale, 2-1, in New Haven, Conn., on Adam Ciklic’s goal in the 94th minute.
Providence was one of six Big East teams to win in the first round, along with Notre Dame, St. John’s, Seton Hall, South Florida and West Virginia.
All-American Sacha Kljestan set up two first-half goals to lead Seton Hall past Hartwick, 2-1. Sophomore Simon Schoendorf did one better, setting up all three goals for South Florida in the Bulls’ 3-0 win over Stetson.
West Virginia’s 1-0 win over Robert Morris marked the first time since 1981 the Mountaineers had reached the second round.
Connecticut earned a bye into the second round, giving the Big East seven teams in the NCAA Tournament.
Clemson and Wake Forest won first-round games to leave all eight ACC teams alive in the tournament, which resumes with second-round play Tuesday.

NCAA Division I Men's Tournament Scores & Goalscorers



WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT HEROES
3. UNC's White breaks record with five assists

Kacey White set an NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament record with five assists in North Carolina’s 6-0 win over Pepperdine.
White's five assists broke the record that had been held by four Tar Heel players
For the second straight game, North Carolina’s Lindsay Tarpley had a hat trick, giving her 16 career goals in the NCAA Tournament, one more than Mia Hamm’s previous UNC record. Tarpley had one assist, extending her own NCAA career record for assists in tournament games to 18. She trails only Christine Sinclair of Portland in goals and points in NCAA games. Sinclair has 23 goals and six assists and 52 points in NCAA matches.
Tiffany Weimer tied a Penn State record for points in a game with 10 in the Nittany Lions’ 4-1 victory over Texas A&M. Her hat trick, the fourth of her career, gives her 31 goals for the season and 90 in her career.
Freshman Kerri Hanks scored two goals and senior Katie Thorlakson had three assists in Notre Dame’s 5-2 win over Yale to give them 71 and 70 points, respectively, for the season. The only other set of teammates to score 70 or more points in a season is SMU’s Danielle Garrett (83 points) and Courtney Linex (77) in 1995.
Kara Lang, the Canadian national team star, scored two goals in UCLA’s 4-0 win over Marquette, She has six goals in three tournament games after scoring only nine goals in the regular season.
Two other freshman strikers had big games. Jess Rostedt scored her team-high 12th goal of the season to help Virginia beat Cal State Fullerton, 2-1. Megan Rapinoe also has 12 goals after scoring twice in Portland's 4-0 win over Arizona.

NCAA Division I Women's Tournament Scores & Goalscorers



SMALL COLLEGE UPDATE
4. Lynn's Scroggins ties record

NCAA D2 MEN. Lee Paul Scroggins scored two goals in Lynn’s 8-0 victory over Lander to tie an NCAA Division II record for goals in a tournament with six. Lynn joins top-ranked Ft. Lewis, No. 4 SIU-Edwardsville and No. 15 Franklin Pierce in the final four, which will be played Dec. 2-4 in Wichita Falls, Texas.
NCAA D3 MEN. Messiah improved to 22-0-0 with a 5-0 win over Maryville (Tenn.) and a 3-0 victory over the College of New Jersey. Gustavus Adolphus, Plattsburgh State and Whitworth complete this weekend's final four field in Greensboro, N.C.
NAIA MEN. Hastings upset top seed Rio Grande, 2-0, in the quarterfinals of the National Championships. Chris Ladwig thwarted the Redmen with an outstanding effort in goal for the Nebraska school, which faces Azusa Pacific in Monday’s semifinals. Southern Nazarene and Lindsey Wilson also square off in Daytona Beach, Fla.
NCAA D2 WOMEN. Defending champion Metro State’s perfect season ended when Seattle Pacific ousted the Roadrunners, 5-4, in a shootout after their game ended in a 0-0 tie. The Falcons advance to the final four in Wichita Falls, Texas, along with Nebraska-Omaha, Carson-Newman and Franklin Pierce.
NCAA D3 WOMEN. Messiah needed a shootout to beat Trinity (Texas) and join its men’s team at the Division III final fours in Greensboro. The result, which is recorded as a tie, leaves the College of New Jersey (21-0-0) as the only unbeaten and untied team left in the tournament. TCNJ and Messiah meet Tufts and Chicago, respectively, in the semifinals.
NAIA WOMEN. Janaina Novaes scored her 29th goal of the season and Danielle McCullough added the winning goal as Lee knocked No. 2 seed Graceland, 2-1, in the quarterfinals of the National Championships. No. 1 Martin Methodist, No. 6 Simon Fraser and No. 12 Westmont remain alive, along with No. 7 Lee.

Small College Tournament Scores & Schedules

NJCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
5. Georgia Perimeter and Monroe win D1 titles

Georgia Perimeter won the NJCAA Division I men’s championship with a 3-1 win over Yavapai in Sunday’s final in Tyler, Texas.
Ricardo Cardoso, the Jaguars’ 6-foot-2 striker from Tamarac, Fla., scored two goals in the first half to earn tournament MVP honors.
Cardoso’s golden goal had lifted Georgia Perimeter to a 3-2 win over Mercer County, in the semifinal as the Jaguars gained revenge for their loss to Mercer in last year’s final.
Another Georgia school lost in the NJCAA Division I women’s final in Phoenix.
Darton lost its first game of the season, falling to Monroe, 2-1. Annemarie Farone and tournament MVP Melissa Hornfeck scored for the Tribunes, who repeated as champions.

NJCAA Tournament Scores & Schedules

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[Frank Cunha]

MEN’S TOURNAMENT WATCH
1. Indiana ousted by Notre Dame

Two-time defending champion Indiana’s reign is over.
The Hoosiers fell to Notre Dame, 2-0, Tuesday night in the second round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament.
Chris Cahill was outstanding in goal for the Irish, who had fallen to IU, 3-0, earlier in the season at home. After absorbing first-half pressure, Notre Dame got goals from Justin McGeeney and Joe Lapira.
"We were ready to come out and play, especially after the way they came to our place and gave us a beating,” said Notre Dame coach Bobby Clark. “A few weeks ago they gave us a comprehensive beating. It was nice to come back to their place to try to even the score.”
It was the third time Indiana came up short in its bid to win three straight titles. Only Virginia (1991-94) has won three or more consecutive NCAA Division I men’s titles.
Indiana, the No. 3 seed, wasn’t the only power to fall.
UC Santa Barbara, which fell to the Hoosiers in last year’s Men’s College Cup final, lost at Big West rival Cal State Northridge, 2-1.
Perhaps the biggest surprise took place in Los Angeles, where No. 5 seed UCLA fell to SMU, 3-0. The Bruins had not allowed a goal at home all season.
No. 6 Duke, which also reached last year’s Men’s College Cup semifinals, lost to Creighton, 2-1. The Bluejays came back from 1-0 down after a quarter of an hour to win on a pair of second-half goals.
Seven of the 14 seeds in action on Tuesday lost. Other seeds to fall were No. 10 Old Dominion, No. 12 Virginia Tech, No. 14 N.C. State and No. 16 Dartmouth.
No. 2 New Mexico needed penalty kicks to beat Wisconsin-Milwaukee before a record UNM Soccer Complex crowd of 4,552 in Albuquqerque. The Lobos trailed 2-0 after six minutes before rallying to tie the score, 2-2.
The wildest game was at Virginia, where the Cavaliers also trailed by two goals early in the game before beating South Florida in a shootout. The game ended 4-4 with all eight goals coming in the first 54 minutes.
California and UNC Greensboro also advanced in shootouts after both their games ended in scoreless draws.
If ever there was a day that made the case for moving college soccer to the spring, Tuesday was the day.
The weather was so bad at Connecticut and Akron that their second-round games had to be postponed until Wednesday.
Wind gusts reached as high as 45 miles per hour at St. John’s, where the Red Storm edged Dartmouth, 1-0. There were snow flurries at Virginia Tech, where only 461 fans braved the conditions to watch the Hokies fall to UNC Greensboro in a shootout.



PROFILE
2. SMU freshman da Silva on fire

The hottest player in men’s college soccer is Brazilian-born Paulo da Silva.
The Dallas Texans product scored both goals in SMU’s 2-1 win over San Francisco in the first round of the NCAA Division I Tournament, and he scored one goal and had assists on the other two Mustang goals in their 3-0 victory at UCLA Tuesday.
Not bad for a freshman who had started only once in the regular season.
"He's finally getting in shape," SMU coach Schellas Hyndman told the Dallas Morning-News after the USF game. "For younger players, it's an adjustment to make getting ready for college soccer."
Da Silva played in the Santos youth program before moving to Arlington, Texas, where he starred for Oakridge High School.

HIT PARADE
3. NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament scores & goalscorers

SECOND ROUND
Nov. 22
Maryland 1 (Burch 26) Brown 0.
Att.: 1,571.
New Mexico 2 (Boyens 19, Rowland 80) UW-Milwaukee 2 (Spielmann 5, Sperl 6) (OT).
(New Mexico wins 5-4 on penalties.)
Att.: 4,552.
Indiana 0 Notre Dame 2 (McGeeney 56, Lapira 62).
Att.: 1,676.
North Carolina 2 (Hunter 56, 61) Providence 0.
Att.: 565.
UCLA 0 SMU 3 (Zindel 14, Hashimoto 53, da Silva 69).
Att.: 1,709.
Duke 1 (Wadsworth 15) Creighton 2 (Wieland 65, Tarver 67).
Att.: 1,234.
California 0 Santa Clara 0 (OT).
(California wins 5-4 on penalties.)
Att.: 1,784.
Old Dominion 1 (Elcock 84) Wake Forest 2 (Thompson 48, Moose 83).
Att.: 944.
Penn State 1 (Walters 78) Seton Hall 0.
Att.: n/a.
Virginia Tech 0 UNC Greensboro 0 (OT).
(UNC Greensboro wins 4-3 on penalties.)
Att.: 461.
Virginia 4 (Murphy 25, 38, Vide 43, Reyering 47) South Florida 4 (Hidalgo 9, Seabrook 23, 44, Schoendorf 54) (OT).
(Virginia wins 7-6 on penalties.)
Att.: 864.
N.C. State 0 Clemson 3 (Richards 51, Quintanar 69, Poe 76).
Att.: 1,000.
Cal State Northridge 3 (Paladini 10, Beard 24, Siu 39) UC Santa Barbara 2 (Byrne 6, Becerra 12).
Att.: 1,381.
St. John’s 1 (Groenwald 56) Dartmouth 0.
Att.: 476.
Nov. 23
8-Connecticut (15-3-1) vs. Stony Brook (13-4-4)
9-Akron (17-1-2) vs. West Virginia (13-7-2)

THIRD ROUND
Nov. 26
2-New Mexico (15-1-3) vs. 15-Cal State Northridge (15-3-3)
7-California (13-3-3) vs. Wake Forest (13-7-2)
Nov. 27
1-Maryland (16-4-1) vs. St. John’s (11-5-5)
4-North Carolina (16-3-3) vs. 13-Virginia (12-4-3)
11-Penn State (13-6-2) vs. Creighton (14-4-3)
UNC Greensboro (16-5-1) vs. SMU (12-5-3)
Clemson (13-5-3) vs. Notre Dame (12-7-3)
TBD
Connecticut/Stony Brook winner vs. Akron/West Virginia winner

NCAA Men’s Tournament Updates

[Ricochet]

I can't believe my beloved Indiana Hoosiers got upset so early in the tourny.

[goalmirivan]

I'm kind of surprise Indiana been the best team in the last 5 years, they missed the old coach.

[Frank Cunha]

NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament (Quarterfinals)

Nov. 25 in Portland, Ore.
Portland 3 Notre Dame 1
1. Portland, M.Rapinoe (Budge) 14
2. Portland, Huie (M.Rapinoe) 19
3. Notre Dame, Bock (Shaner, Thorlakson) 25
4. Portland, M.Rapinoe (Lopez) 55
Att.: 4,892.

Nov. 25 in Los Angeles
UCLA 5 Virginia 0
1. UCLA. Adams (Mora) 4
2. UCLA. Adams 55
3. UCLA. Adams (DiMartino) 62
4. UCLA. Lang (DiMartino, Mora) 73
5. UCLA. Adams (M. Zerboni) 82
Att.: 1,782.

Nov. 25 in University Park, Pa.
Penn State 2 Santa Clara 1
1. Santa Clara, Esquivel 57
2. Penn State, own goal 64
3. Penn State, Weimer (Gray) 81
Att.: 914.

Nov. 25 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
North Carolina 1 Florida State 1
(Florida State wins 5-4 on penalties.)
1. Florida State, Trotter 9
2. North Carolina, Fletcher (Tarpley, O’Reilly) 57
Att.: 2,518.

[Frank Cunha]

NCAA Division III Finals

MEN’S FINAL
Nov. 26 in Greensboro, N.C.
Messiah 1 Gustavus Adolphus 0. Goal: Edwards (Mohney) 69.
Messiah -- Shambach, Wagner, Lenehan, Mohney, Burckhart, Claassen, Rosamilia, Brubaker, Kasiguran, McClellan, Luckenbaugh. Subs: Bollinger, Crompton, Edwards, Binger, Kipe, Visser.
Gustavus Adolphus -- Garry, Pinahs, Johnson, Iblings, Kroog, Heupel, Barthell, Astry, Bousu, Morlock, Groth. Subs: Aasness, Butterworth, Suchy.
Referee: Griff Sims.
Att.: 1,374.

MEN’S ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
Kai Kasiguran, Messiah (MVP), Jonathan Astray, Gustavus Adolphus; Jonathan Carlson, Whitworth; Chris Claassen, Messiah; Alex Deckert, Plattsburgh State; Jordan Iblings, Gustavus Adolphus; Bobby Kroog, Gustavus Adolphus; Patrick Lenehan, Messiah; Bryan Mohney, Messiah; Ali Seyedali, Whitworth; Jason Sousa, Plattsburgh State.

WOMEN’S FINAL
Nov. 26 in Greensboro, N.C.
Messiah 1 TCNJ 0. Goal: Atkins (Horning) 70.
Messiah -- Grose, Strausbaugh, Hibshman, Stevens, Klynstra, Levesque, Stolzenburg, Fitzgerald, Atkins, Thomas, Jones. Subs: Michener, Horning, Fisher, Rowe, Pitchel, Futato, Kemp, Steadman.
TCNJ -- Kacar, Napolitano, Adriance, Krol, Delaney, Cubicciotti, Weber, Kunkel, Grochala, Boyd, Di Bruno. Subs: Schilling, Casey, Brennan, Mullin.
Referee: Rachel Woo.
Att.: 1,073.

WOMEN’S ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
Kacie Klynstra, Messiah (MVP); Lydia Claudio, Tufts; Diana Connett, Chicago; Jacqui DeLeon, Chicago; Dana Di Bruno, TCNJ; Martha Furtek, Tufts; Sarah Hibshman, Messiah; Courtney Krol, TCNJ; Jamie Kunkel, TCNJ; Savannah Stolzenburg, Messiah.

DATEBOOK
4. This week's matchups

NCAA DIVISION I MEN
Quarterfinals
Dec. 2 in Albuquerque, N.M.
2-New Mexico (16-1-3) vs. 7-California (14-3-3)
Dec. 2 in Clemson, S.C.
Clemson (14-5-3) vs. Creighton (15-4-3)
Dec. 3 in College Park, Md.
1-Maryland (17-4-1) vs. 8-Akron (18-1-3)
Dec. 3 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
4-North Carolina (17-3-3) vs. SMU (13-5-3)

NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN
Semifinals
Dec. 2 in College Station, Texas
1-Portland (22-0-1) vs. 1-Penn State (23-0-1)
1-UCLA (21-1-2) vs. 2-Florida State (20-3-1)

NCAA DIVISION II MEN
Semifinals
Dec. 2 in Wichita Falls, Texas
Franklin Pierce (15-5-5) vs. SIU Edwardsville (16-2-3)
Lynn (16-2-0) vs. Ft. Lewis (20-0-1)

NCAA DIVISION II WOMEN
Semifinals
Dec. 1 in Wichita Falls, Texas
Carson-Newman (17-4-0) vs. Seattle Pacific (19-0-4)
Franklin Pierce (19-1-2) vs. Neb.-Omaha (18-2-0)

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Friday, Dec. 2

ESPN2
NCAA Division I Women PORTLAND-PENN STATE (live), 4:30 pm
ESPNU
NCAA Division I Women PORTLAND-PENN STATE (live), 4:30 pm
NCAA Division I Women UCLA-FLORIDA STATE (live), 7;30 pm.

Saturday, Dec. 3

ESPN2
NCAA Division I Women UCLA-FLORIDA STATE (delay), 2 pm.
CSTV
NCAA Division II Women FINAL (live), 2 pm.

Sunday, Dec. 4

ESPN2
NCAA Division I Women FINAL (delay), 1 pm.
CSTV
NCAA Division II Men FINAL (live), 1 pm.

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[Frank Cunha]

. NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament (Third Round)

Nov. 26 in Albuquerque, N.M.
New Mexico 1 Cal State Northridge 0 (OT)
1. New Mexico, Rowland (Loeseth) 91
Att.: 4,849.

Nov. 26 in Berkeley, Calif.
California 3 Wake Forest 2 (OT)
1. Wake Forest, Lahoud (Adams) 13
2. California, Carr (Jacobsen) 48
3. Wake Forest, Moose 73
4. California, Carr (Sassano) 90
5. California, Serafini 109
Att.: 4,207.

Nov. 27 in College Park, Md.
Maryland 3 St. John’s 1
1. Maryland, King (Burch) 12
2. Maryland, King (Burch) 63
3. St John’s, Alvarado-Ralph (Beltran) 20
4. Maryland, Rogers (Garey, Seitz) 90
Att.: 2,400.

Nov. 27 in Storrs, Conn.
Connecticut 3 Akron 3
(Akron wins 4-3 on penalties)
1. Akron, Ubiparipovic (Mauger) 13
2. Akron, Ubiparipovic (McKenzie) 31
3. Connecticut, Arad (Burns) 43
4. Connecticut, Chijindu (White) 51
5. Akron, Augustin (Nyhiem) 77
6. Connecticut, Cordeiro (Chijindu) 81
Att.: 2,015.

Nov. 27 in University Park, Pa.
Penn State 1 Creighton 3
1. Penn State, Chambers (Reihner) 36
2. Creighton, Eid (Wieland, Bohnenkamp) 43
3. Creighton, Dacy pen. 60
4. Creighton, Kraus (Dacy, Biggerstaff) 76
Att.: 598.

Nov. 27 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
North Carolina 2 Virginia 1
1. North Carolina, Hunter 61
2. North Carolina, Hunter (Ashe) 63
3. Virginia, Reyering 89.
Att.: 544.

Nov. 27 in Clemson, S.C.
Clemson 1 Notre Dame 0
1. Clemson, Richards (Moore) 20
Att.: 1,968.

Nov. 27 in Greensboro, N.C.
UNC Greensboro 1 SMU 3
1. SMU, da Silva (Zindel) 11
2. SMU, Hashimoto (Lopez) 34
3. UNC Greensboro, Campbell (Patterson) 37
4. SMU, own goal 74.
Red card: UNC Greesnboro – Patterson 84.
Att.: 530.

[Frank Cunha]

. Three ACC teams move into men’s final eight

Three ACC teams, including top seed Maryland, will host NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament quarterfinals after winning games over the weekend.
Maryland hosts Akron, ranked No. 1 in the final Soccer America Top 25 of the regular season but seeded ninth.
No. 4 seed North Carolina faces SMU, and Clemson hosts Creighton.
The three ACC schools are the only teams left who have won national championships.
Akron won in a shootout over Connecticut, No. 2 in the final Soccer America rankings, after they played to a 3-3 tie. Creighton and SMU both won on the road for the second straight game.
No. 2 seed New Mexico hosts No. 7 California in the other quarterfinal. It’s the first appearance in the final eight for the Lobos and Golden Bears, who both set school attendance records with crowds of 4,849 and 4,207, respectively.

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2. Carolina again denied spot at Women’s College Cup

Three of the four No. 1 seeds reached the Women’s College Cup, which will be played Dec. 2-4 in College Station.
Portland, Penn State and UCLA won on Friday to advance the semifinals.
The big surprise is No. 2 seed Florida State, which knocked off North Carolina in a shootout. It marked the second straight year the Tar Heels failed to reach the semifinals after 22 straight appearances in the final four.