College Soccer

* The Cal State Fullerton men's soccer team is ranked sixth in this week's National Soccer Coaches Assn. poll, moving up one spot after winning the Loyola Marymount tournament last weekend. The Titans (6-0) face Portland (4-0-1), ranked 10th by the coaches, in a tournament at Washington Friday. Fullerton plays Washington Sunday.

It has been five months since a 22-year-old driver ran a red light, plowed through a crosswalk in the early-morning hours in Austin, Texas, and knocked the world of the Dave Doniak family off its axis. Most severely injured of the three young people struck that night of Feb. 3 was Kylie Doniak. Her pain was immediately felt in Chino Hills. Still is. The story of Kylie Doniak is better known in Texas than here. She went from Ayala High School in Chino Hills to become a star player on the Longhorns women's soccer team, a second-team All-Big 12 choice a couple of times and a first-team All-Academic Big 12 athlete three years.

It has been five months since a 22-year-old driver ran a red light, plowed through a crosswalk in the early-morning hours in Austin, Texas, and knocked the world of the Dave Doniak family off its axis. Most severely injured of the three young people struck that night of Feb. 3 was Kylie Doniak. Her pain was immediately felt in Chino Hills. Still is. The story of Kylie Doniak is better known in Texas than here. She went from Ayala High School in Chino Hills to become a star player on the Longhorns women's soccer team, a second-team All-Big 12 choice a couple of times and a first-team All-Academic Big 12 athlete three years.

Chivas USA has signed Mexican striker Cesar Romero and two other players as it prepares for next month's Major League Soccer season opener. Romero, 22, last played for Murcielagos FC de Guamuchil in Mexico's second division. Chivas also added midfielder Peter Vagehas and defender Rauswhan McKenzie. Vagenas, 33, of Pasadena, a 12-year MLS veteran, played 16 matches for the Vancouver Whitecaps last season after spending two years with the Seattle Sounders and nine with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Robyn Queen had 2 goals and 1 assist to lead Cal State Dominguez Hills to a 6-0 victory over Chapman College in a nonconference women's soccer game Thursday in Carson. Dominguez Hills outshot the Panthers, 21-3, in improving its record to 1-0-1. It was the season opener for Chapman. In men's soccer action: UC Davis 4, UC Irvine 0--Greg Mole, Pete Arellanes and Jesus Rico scored first-half goals to lead Mustangs to the victory at Davis. Chris Delpefino added a second-half goal.

Cal State Northridge soccer Coach Marwan Ass'ad insisted that 1988 was not a rebuilding year for the Matadors. As the season progresses, however, Ass'ad might have to question that analysis. Especially if the team continues to perform as it did in a 3-2 nonconference defeat at Claremont-Mudd on Wednesday. The Matadors held a 2-1 lead after Steve Lazarus' goal at the 63-minute mark, but Claremont (1-1-1) scored two goals in the last six minutes.

The Master's College men's soccer team has earned a berth in the NAIA Far West Regional, to be played Nov. 12. The Master's (15-2-1) will meet the champion of the Golden State Athletic Conference. Westmont, Azusa Pacific, Biola and Southern California College are still in contention for the GSAC title. * The Cal Lutheran women's soccer team (14-5, 11-1 in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) was not among the 20 teams selected for the NCAA Division III playoffs.

Lucas Principe, Erik Benitez, Jared Kira and Timo Scheunemann all scored to lead The Master's to a 4-0 victory over Southern California in a nonconference men's soccer match Wednesday at Master's. Goalkeeper Kris Bage made five saves for Master's (3-0). Bob Yorke made seven saves for Southern California (1-1). WOMEN The Master's 4, Whittier 0--Krissy Trower scored twice, and Tiffany Boardman and Sarah DeWolf also had goals for the Mustangs (1-1) at Whittier.

Rancho Santiago completed a dominating season with a 3-0 victory over American River in the men's state championship soccer game Sunday at East Los Angeles College. The Dons (19-1-1) started the season with a loss to Yavapai (Ariz.) and went unbeaten the rest of the way. "We had faith in these young men all season," Rancho Santiago Coach J.P. Frutos said. "They have come through all year." Rancho Santiago beat Fresno, 2-0, Saturday in the semifinals.

Chapman College defeated La Verne, 2-1, Wednesday afternoon in a nonconference men's soccer game at La Verne. Senior Moi Garcia broke a 1-1 tie with a goal five minutes into the second half. It was Garcia's third goal of the season. Rick Snyder also scored for the Panthers (3-1). Peter Gonzales scored for La Verne.

Lee Bregman was hoping to reconnect with his favorite childhood sport and feed a case of World Cup-induced soccer fever in 2006 when he posted an Internet ad seeking players for a Sunday afternoon kick-around. Little did the Irvine resident know that his game would turn into something of a United Nations of pickup soccer, a weekly collision of cultures, religions, personalities, generations and playing styles that has helped more than a few international students assimilate to the U.S. The game also provides a refuge for older immigrants and second-generation Americans who love playing the sport but are leery of playground piranhas who can disrupt the action.

David Estrada, who only a year ago was an almost unknown youngster playing high school soccer in Salinas, Calif., today has his name on every Major League Soccer coach's long-term watch list. Estrada produced two moments of brilliance in St. Louis on Saturday, scoring two goals 67 seconds apart to propel UCLA to an impressive 4-0 rout of Virginia and a place in today's final of the NCAA men's soccer tournament.

Clive Charles, an Englishman who coached U.S. national soccer teams and the University of Portland to unprecedented success after a 17-year career as a professional player, died Tuesday. He was 51. Charles, who ended his playing career with the Los Angeles Lazers of the Major Indoor Soccer League in 1982, had been battling prostate cancer for about three years, but last December still led the women's team at Portland to the NCAA championship, the school's first title in any sport.

A day after the Portland Pilots women's soccer team won the NCAA title in overtime, Coach Clive Charles joined in the joyous celebration in the small Catholic school's student union. And the next day he had another chemotherapy treatment. "Every week, they put in an IV and away you go," he said. "You lay there for a couple of hours and they pump poison into your body." There is one good thing -- and only one good thing, he emphasizes -- about the treatments. "So far," he said, "I'm still here."

The president of Brazil's soccer confederation should be prosecuted for overseeing a sport crippled by corruption, mismanagement and personal graft, a congressional report said Tuesday. The 1,600-page report calls for the prosecution of Ricardo Teixeira and 16 other top officials, including congressman Eurico Miranda, who runs the Vasco da Gama team.

Most teenagers are in no hurry to grow up. They wouldn't dare turn down free room and board, meals home-cooked by Mom and the inalienable right to hang out at the mall with high school friends. Stacy Lindstrom, 16, is different. She petitioned the NCAA in August to recognize her as a senior, clearing the way for her to skip a year of high school and start college next September.

When you sign a letter of intent with Cal State Fullerton, you don't just get a promise of financial aid. You get an inferiority complex, free of charge, for use whenever that Titans-against-the-world mentality is needed, such as this weekend. Fullerton (16-6) will play South Carolina (15-3-4) today in the NCAA men's soccer tournament semifinals at 1:30 p.m. PST at Davidson College. At stake is a berth in Sunday's final against the winner of today's 11 a.m.

Miguel Suazo scored the game's only goal 10:56 into the first overtime period as San Diego defeated UCLA, 1-0, in the first round of the NCAA men's soccer playoffs at San Diego. Before a standing-room-only crowd of 4,000, the Toreros (16-1-2) ended the Bruins' season when Suazo beat UCLA goalie DJ Countess to the right corner for his fifth goal of the season. UCLA finished 12-7-0 after winning its first eight matches of the season.

UC Irvine struck first and Cal State Fullerton got even in the last two minutes. But determining which team got the better of it depended on which camp you were in after the Big West Conference men's soccer match ended in a 1-1 overtime draw Sunday afternoon in front of an announced crowd of 523 at UC Irvine. By far the best all-around play from Irvine (7-4-1, 0-0-1) came in the first half, when the Anteaters used their speed to strike from the wings at the Titan net time and again.