SOCCER ROUNDUP: DEPORTIVO GUADALAJARA LOSES.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Club Deportivo Guadalajara started the new Mexican Primera Division campaign much like it closed the last one: in disappointment.

With former Chivas USA coach Hans Westerhof back in charge, Guadalajara surrendered two quick goals and lost two players to red cards in the first 50 minutes Saturday, starting the Clausura season with a 3-1 loss at Jaguares in Chiapas.

Carlos Ochoa scored in the fourth minute and Walter Adrian Jimenez scored the first of two goals in the 11th minute as Jaguares scored a 3-1 triumph.

Club America rallied on Oscar Rojas' last-minute goal for a 1-1 tie with UANL Tigres in Monterrey, and fellow Mexico City power Cruz Azul won 1-0 at Morelia on Francisco Fonseca's 10th-minute strike.

Apertura champion Toluca also started with a victory, beating visiting Necaxa 3-1 on goals by Manuel de la Torre, Carlos Esquivel and Vicente Sanchez.

Guadalajara, Mexico's most popular club, went 4-6-7 and finished last in Group 3 during the fall Apertura season, then rebounded under Westerhof during this month's InterLiga to claim a berth in Copa Libertadores, South America's club championship.

Westerhof, long associated with Guadalajara (and Chivas USA) owner Jorge Vergara, is expected to turn around the club's fortunes during the Clausura, but Saturday's was an auspicious start.

Ramon Morales converted a 30th-minute penalty kick to pull Chivas, as Guadalajara is known, within a goal of Jaguares, but they were down to nine players and little chance after Gonzalo Pineda was ejected in the 33rd minute and Franciso Javier Rodriguez in the 50th. Jimenez's second goal, in the 61st, secured Jaguares' victory.

In other games, Atlas beat Veracruz 2-0 and Atlante and Dorados played a scoreless draw.

--Eto'o leads Cameroon: Barcelona star Samuel Eto'o scored three goals - two in the second half - to lead Cameroon to a 3-1 triumph over World Cup qualifier Angola in a Group B opener at the 16-team African Nations Cup in Egypt.

``It was important to win the first game,'' said Eto'o, who has 18 goals in 18 Spanish Primera Liga games this season. ``I don't know what we can do in the whole tournament, but on a good day, we can beat any team.''

Another World Cup-bound team, Togo, also fell, but Ivory Coast overcame Morocco 1-0 as Chelsea's Didier Drogba drew, then converted, a second-half penalty kick.

Togo fell 2-0 to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which nearly boycotted the game over unpaid bonuses. The walkout was averted by a last-minute phone call from Congo President Joseph Kabila, who promised to pay the bonuses.

--U.S. through to semis: USC freshman Amy Rodriguez scored in the fifth minute, her second goal of the tournament, and the U.S. under-20 women's national team dominated Suriname 4-0 in Cordoba, Mexico, to reach the semifinals of the CONCACAF qualifying tournament for next summer's FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship in Russia.

Alexandra Long, Amanda Poach and Kelley O'Hara also tallied for the Americans, who improved to 2-0-0 in Group B and joined Canada and Mexico in the final four.