USD Strikes Early to Beat Cal State Dominguez Hills

All-America candidate Chugger Adair ran onto a crossing pass from Guillermo Jara 44 seconds into Sunday’s soccer match at Cal State Dominguez Hills and headed it home to spark USD to a 3-0 victory.

Doug Berry scored nearly 13 minutes later on only USD’s second shot. The fifth shot taken by a USD player, off the foot of Jara 22 minutes into the game, gave USD (11-4) its final three-goal margin.

Dominguez Hills (5-9-3) forced USD goalies to make only five saves.

San Diego State suffered a 3-2 loss to New Mexico. Bill Demke kicked in one goal for SDSU (8-6-1, 2-3 in the Mountain-Pacific Sports Federation) and assisted on another by Bill Demke. New Mexico improved to 13-2-1, 6-0.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

UC San Diego and Cal Poly Pomona played to a 2-2 tie. All four goals were unassisted. Katy Dulock tied the game at one for UCSD (9-2-2) by scoring on a corner kick 28 minutes into the game, and Carin Pugh scored on a shot from outside the penalty area to give UCSD a one-goal lead with 25 seconds remaining in the first half. Cal Poly Pomona moved to 7-6-3.

Elise Tsugawa scored with only 42 seconds remaining to lift the San Francisco to a 2-1 victory over San Diego State. SDSU (5-6-3) tied the game less than 15 minutes earlier on an “own goal.”

USF (9-7-2) has won four of its past five.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

San Diego State had four players with more than 10 kills--including Gracie Schutt with 33--but could not keep up with New Mexico, which won the match, 13-15, 15-11, 15-5, 7-15, 15-7. SDSU fell to 17-6, 3-4 in the Western Athletic Conference, and New Mexico improved to 11-8, 2-4.