COLLEGE ROUNDUP: SOCCER TEAMS STREAKING TOWARD POSTSEASON.Byline: Scott French Staff Writer The area's best college soccer teams - UCLA's men and women, Cal State Northridge's men - are heading toward the postseason, and possible conference championships, with impressive streaks. UCLA's seventh-ranked men's team, its defense anchored by U.S. U-20 national-teamers Jordan Harvey Jordan Harvey (born January 28, 1984 in Mission Viejo, California) is an American soccer player, who currently plays for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. , Patrick Ianni Patrick Ianni (born April 15, 1985 in Lodi, California) is an American soccer defender / defensive midfielder, who currently plays for the Houston Dynamo of the Major League Soccer. and Marvell Wynne, has posted five successive shutouts while taking command of the Pacific-10 Conference race. The Bruins (10-3-2 overall, 5-1-1 Pac-10) hold a four-point lead on California (11-3-1, 4-3-0) and Oregon State (8-7-4, 4-5-0) with three Pac-10 games to play. They have 12 shutouts in all and completed their eight-game Drake Stadium regular-season schedule without surrendering a goal. Every UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX win or tie has been a shutout. It lost the three games in which it gave up goals, falling to Santa Clara (3-2), Ohio State (2-1) and Oregon State (1-0). The Bruins haven't permitted a goal in 570 minutes, since the loss at Oregon State on Oct. 9. Kamani Hill scored both goals in 1-0 wins last weekend over Oregon State and Washington. Cal State Northridge (11-2-3, 6-0-1 Big West) takes a nine-game unbeaten streak into its showdown Wednesday afternoon against UC Santa Barbara at Matador matador In bullfighting, the principal performer, who works the capes and attempts to dispatch the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades. Most of the techniques used by modern matadors were established in the 1910s by Juan Belmonte (b. 1894–d. Field. The 15th-ranked Matadors have five shutouts in their past six games and lead the Big West by two points over No. 17 UCSB UCSB University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB University of Casual Sex and Beer (10-3-3, 5-0-2). UC Irvine (9-4-3, 5-1-1) is just three points back. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge plays at UCI UCI University of California, Irvine UCI Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union) UCI Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos UCI United Cinemas International (UK) on Nov. 9; UCSB is home against UCI on Nov. 12. The Matadors have been winning without injured stars Willie Sims (Reseda High) and Alec de Mattos (Chaminade of West Hills). UCLA's women (15-1-2, 5-0-2 Pac-10), ranked fourth, have posted six successive shutouts and lead the Pac-10 by a point over California (12-3-2, 5-1-1), which they beat 2-1 Friday in Berkeley. The Bruins, led by defender Jill Oakes (Harvard-Westlake of Studio City) and midfielder Danesha Adams (14 goals), have surrendered only six goals and recorded 13 shutouts. They're riding a 659-minute shutout streak - they haven't permitted a goal since USC's Nini Loucks (Canyon of Canyon Country) tallied in the 28th minute of UCLA's 3-2 overtime win Oct. 7. The Bruins' only loss this season was in overtime to Penn State, which is ranked No. 1. Scott French, (818) 713-3627 scott.french(at)dailynews.com |
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