MEN'S NEWS ... Teal Bunbury, the son of former Canada international
Alex
Bunbury, scored two goals to lead No. 1 Akron to a 3-0 win over Penn State for the Zips' 16th win in a row. Bunbury scored in the fifth minute when he redirected
Kofi Sarkodie's cross into the goal and the struck from 30 yards in the 24th minute. Bunbury has 14 goals, all in the last 11 games. Forward
Darlington Nagbe put the game out of reach in the 62nd minute with his eighth goal of the season.
"I thought we came out flying and jumped on them early but then coasted a
little," said Akron coach
Caleb Porter. "We have not played teams recently that have been able to punish us when we let our guard down, but Penn State's that
type of team. And from here on out, all the teams we play are going to be that type of team."
* TOP 25 ACTION. The seven other Top 25 teams in
action on Wednesday were perfect (two other games involving No. 6 Connecticut and No. 21 St. John's were postponed because of bad weather):
--
Alex
Dixon recorded No. 3 North Carolina's first hat trick since 2005 to highlight the Tar Heels' 7-0 win over Stetson. The sophomore scored three times in under seven minutes.
-- No.
6 South Florida extended its home unbeaten streak to 28 games -- the longest such streak in the nation -- with a 1-0 win over DePaul on
Zak Boggs' free kick
on the half hour.
-- No. 7 UC Santa Barbara earned its seventh shutout in its last eight games with a 2-0 win over Cal State Northridge. The Gauchos remained tied for first in the Big
West with Cal Poly, a 3-0 winner over UC Riverside.
-- No. 9 Louisville tied a school record for wins, improving to 12-2-2 with a 3-1 win over Cincinnati. All three goals came off set
pieces, beginning with
Simeon Steward's first goal of the season.
-- Freshman
Andrew Wenger scored twice
to lead No. 17 Duke to a 6-0 win over Presbyterian in a game originally scheduled for Tuesday.
--
Amani Walker scored three goals and added an
assist on
Irving Garcia's goal to lead No. 19 UC Irvine to a 4-1 win over Cal State Fullerton.
-- No. 25 UAB moves into first place in the
Conference USA with a 3-0 victory over South Carolina on goals by
Anthony King,
Two-Boys Gumede and
Babayele Sodade.
Wednesday Results * INDIANA ENDS SKID. Indiana
snapped a three-game losing streak in style with a 2-0 victory over Evansville on goals by
Lee Hagedorn and
Nick
Blevins. The victory put the Hoosiers, who have never finished with a losing record, back over .500 at 8-7-1. "We fought hard and stuck with a game plan," said IU coach
Mike Freitag. "Maybe in other games we over extended ourselves and made mistakes. Tonight I thought we played within ourselves and did everything we needed to be
successful.
* STREAKING SEAHAWKS. One of the hottest teams in the South is UNC Wilmington, which extended its unbeaten streak to eight games
with a 2-0 win at James Madison on second-half goals by juniors
Tyler Wheaton and
Daniel Roberts. The win, the
Seahawks' first ever in Harrisonburg, kept them tied for first place in the CAA with Northeastern, a 2-1 winner at Delaware. It was also Coach
Aidan Heaney's
100th career win.