South Carolina moved into first place in the SEC when it rallied to beat defending champion Texas A&M, 2-1, and then downed Alabama, 3-0. The wins were the Gamecocks’ seventh and eighth in a rowand gave them a 4-0-0 record in conference play and 10-1-0 overall. On Sunday, the Aggies were upset at Georgia, 2-1, […]
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Conference Watch: Pac-12 women's race is wide open
The Pac-12, one of three conferences that decides its conference champion based on the regular-season standings and does not hold a postseason tournament, kicks off its conference slate on Friday.Never has the race been more wide open as UCLA and No. 13 Stanford, both former national champions, are slumping, Five teams begin conference play with […]
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Thursday night: No. 1 UVa among unbeaten teams to fall
Senior forward Anna Maria Gilbertson provided all the offense Notre Dame needed, tallying goals in the 13th and 104th minutes to lift the No. 6 Irish over No. 1Virginia, 2-1, in overtime. Next up for the Irish: No. 3 Florida State, which defeated No. 7 Clemson on Thursday, 3-1. Losses by Virginia, Clemson and No. […]
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William Smith's Wilber makes history with 500th win
A 1-0 victory over Rochester on Shay Callahan‘s goal gave William Smith the Upstate Collegiate Cup but more important it was head coach Aliceann Wilber‘s 500th career win. She is the first female coach to achieve 500 wins and just the third coach in women’s soccer after Anson Dorrance (North Carolina) and Len Tsantiris (UConn) […]
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POTW: Wild and Woller take top honors
USC Upstate’s Gordon Wild, the NCAA Division I men’s leading scorer with 12 goals, and Utah State keeper Jeannie Wollerwere named the NSCAA College Players of the Week. For all the honorees from the week of Sept. 14-20. Wild scored his second hat trick of the year in a comeback win over Winthrop,and addedtwo goals, […]
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Clemson is first in opening Women's Soccer RPI
Clemson, which beat Notre Dame in a battle of ACC unbeaten teams, is No. 1 in the NCAA’s first Rating Percentage Index (RPI) of the 2015 season. Unbeaten and untied Rutgers is No. 2. Four ACC teamsand two each from the Big Ten, Pac-12 and WCC make up the top 10. The No. 1 ranking […]
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Soccer America Women's Top 25
Virginia and North Carolina hold on to the top two spots in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 rankings. They are followed by Florida State, West Virginia and Clemson in the top five. New this week tothe Top 25 are Santa Clara, which beat Stanford, Minnesota, Arizona, LSU and UConn. For the complete Top 25. […]
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Sunday night: Santa Clara edges Stanford in late dramatics
In front of 3,000 fans on hand for the dedication of Stevens Stadium, Santa Clara knocked off No. 8 Stanford, 1-0, Sunday night for its first win over the Cardinal in nine years. Megan Crosson had the game’s only goal directly from a corner kick in the 85th minute, but the match’s big play came […]
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Women's Week 5: Just five teams still unbeaten
The ranks of the unbeaten and untied went from three to one and the ranks of the unbeaten went from 13 to five. At 8-0-0 with all its wins by shutouts, Rutgers is the only unbeaten and untied teamafter Tulsa and Washington State lost. Two ACC battles of unbeatens saw North Carolina beat Virginia Tech, […]
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Video Pick: Gomez-Junco shows off free-kick skills
Mexican international Natalia Gomez-Junco has been setting the table this season at LSU, which has gotten 17 goals between Jorian Baucom and Summer Clarke in the Tigers’ first 10 games. But Gomez-Junco, who started her college career at Memphis, scored her first twogoals of the season against Georgia to go along with seven seven assists […]