Conference USA Men's Soccer Notebook-Oct. 15-21

At 9-0-0, No. 3 Saint Louis is off to its best start since 1979. No. 10 UAB has a six-match winning streak, and four of the six matches have been decided by one goal. Catch up on all of the C-USA soccer news in this week's notebook.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

OFFENSIVE:
Flavio Monteiro, UAB
Jr., F, Houston, Texas

UAB junior forward FLAVIO MONTEIRO is the Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week for the period ending Oct. 14. After missing three weeks due to a hamstring injury, Monteiro scored his first goal in a 2-1 win over Louisville just two minutes after he had entered the match. He had a goal and an assist against No. 13 Furman, the goal being the game-winner at the 74-minute mark.

DEFENSIVE:
John Politis, Saint Louis
Sr., GK, Roslyn, N.Y.

Saint Louis's JOHN POLITIS is the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week for the period ending Oct. 14. He posted nine saves in a 4-0 win at Cincinnati. He made two point blank saves when the match was still scoreless. He was strong in the SLU penalty area as UC had 10 corner kicks.




CONFERENCE USA MEN'S SOCCER NOTES


POLLING PLACE
Here is a look at this week's national polls.

NSCAA (Oct. 15)
1. SMU
2. Virginia
3. Saint Louis
4. St. John's
5. Stanford
6. Indiana
7. North Carolina
8. Rutgers
9. Washington
10. UAB
11. Loyola-Maryland
12. Fairfield
13. Connecticut
14. San Diego
15. Clemson
16. UW-Milwaukee
17. Princeton
18. South Carolina
19. Wake Forest
20. Ohio State
21. Boston College
22. Furman
22. Columbia
24. Illinois-Chicago
25. William & Mary
RV: South Florida

Soccer America (Oct. 8)
1. SMU
2. Virginia
3. Saint Louis
4. St. John's
5. Washington
6. Indiana
7. Stanford
8. San Diego
9. North Carolina
10. Penn State
11. Clemson
12. South Carolina
13. Furman
14. Connecticut
15. Rutgers
16. UAB
17. Loyola-Marymount
18. South Florida
19. Loyola-Md.
20. Seton Hall

REGIONAL RANKINGS
Four Conference USA schools were regionally ranked in the Oct. 15 NSCAA regional polls. Here's a look at the polls in C-USA's regions:

Great Lakes Region
10. Marquette

Midwest Region
2. Saint Louis

South Region
2. UAB
7. South Florida

ALL TIED UP
With three ties this season, Cincinnati is one tie away from matching the C-USA single-season record. Saint Louis had four ties during its 1997 NCAA Final Four season, and Marquette tied four of its opponents in 1995.

OVERTIME 49ERS
Six of Charlotte's first 11 matches this season have gone to double overtime. The 49ers' school record for double overtime matches is seven, set in 1991.

GETTING IT DONE
In UAB's current six match winning streak, four of the six matches have been decided by one goal.

GREAT STARTS
Saint Louis' 9-0-0 start is its best since 1979, when it also won its first nine matches of the season.

CHARLOTTE
Six different Wake Forest players scored in an 8-1 victory over Charlotte on Oct. 10. MIRA MUPIER scored in his fifth straight match, tallying a goal just four minutes into the second half that cut it to 2-1, before Wake would score three times in the following five minutes. Charlotte returns to action on October 17 when it hosts nationally-ranked North Carolina.

CINCINNATI
Cincinnati suffered a 4-0 loss to No. 4 Saint Louis on Oct. 13. The Billikens put the match away with three second half goals. Statistically, the Bearcats held the edge in both shots (13-10) and corner kicks (10-2). UC drops to 2-4-2 in matches in which they hold a shots advantage over their opponents. Cincinnati hosts Bowling Green on Wednesday.

DE PAUL
DePaul used two goals in the final 10 minutes of the match to turn back East Carolina, 2-1 on Oct. 13. JONATHAN FOLEY and ROBERT MARSHALL scored DePaul's goals, while JEFF KLITZKE recorded eight saves on 17 ECU shots. The Blue Demons face local rival Loyola-Chicago on Wednesday.

EAST CAROLINA
Visiting East Carolina was unable to hold off DePaul, dropping a 2-1 decision to the Blue Demons on Oct. 13. BRIAN DEUTSCH had his second goal in as many matches. ECU travels to Louisville on Thursday. The Pirates have five of their last six matches at home.

LOUISVILLE
Louisville lost its second straight one-goal match when No. 8 UAB beat the Cardinals, 2-1 on Oct. 13. Freshman RICHARD PELL had the first goal of his career. JEREMY MORALES recorded two saves. Louisville hosts Drury on Monday.

MARQUETTE
Marquette bounced back from its Oct. 11 1-0 loss to East Carolina with a 2-1 victory over visiting Memphis on Oct. 14. Junior forward JEFF GERLESITS scored the first goal of the match in the sixth minute of action. Memphis scored the tying goal at the 24 minute mark, and ERIC MARSHALL retaliated one minute later for the Golden Eagles. MU held Memphis to two shots on goal in the last 45 minutes.

MEMPHIS
Marquette defeated Memphis, 2-1 on Oct. 14 in Milwaukee. LARS THORSTENSEN posted the Tigers' goal, while CLARK TALLEY recorded five saves in goal. However, the MU defense held Memphis to just four shots on goal the entire match. Memphis visits No. 8 UAB on Wednesday.

SAINT LOUIS
No. 4 Saint Louis is off to its best start since 1979 (9-0-0) after a 4-0 victory over Cincinnati on Oct. 13. DIPSY SELOLWANE has scored in all nine Billiken games, the best goal-scoring streak since Steve Sullivan scored in 11 consecutive games during the 1979 season. Goalkeeper JOHN POLITIS had nine saves in the shutout en route to Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week laurels. Saint Louis hosts South Florida on Saturday.

SOUTH FLORIDA
No. 18 South Florida defeated UNC Greensboro, 2-1 in overtime but lost to No. 9 North Carolina, 5-0 at the UNC Greensboro Tournament last weekend. USF is now 4-1 against teams from North Carolina this season. Junior BRIAN MULLINS had the game-winning goal against UNC Greensboro and added an assist on the Bulls' other score.

TCU
MATT CHAMBERS' two goals helped TCU snap a five-match losing streak to defeat Centenary, 3-1 on Oct. 14. Chambers now leads the team with seven points on the season. He became the first TCU player with a multi-goal match this season. The match, which was originally scheduled for Shreveport, La., was played at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium due to heavy flooding in Louisiana. TCU visits East Carolina on Sunday.

UAB
No. 8 UAB posted a pair of 2-1 victories over Louisville and No. 13 Furman last weekend. The Blazers have now won six straight matches, four of which have been decided by one goal. UAB has now won all six of its home matches this season and has not lost at West Campus Field since the NCAA Tournament in 1999. This is the best 11-match record in school history. Furman was the last team to beat UAB in a regular season match at home, in Sept. of '99. The Blazers have not lost at home in their last 14 straight regular season home matches, going 12-0-2. FLAVIO MONTEIRO, the C-USA Offensive Player of the Week, had two goals and is now tied for 10th on UAB's career scoring list.
UAB hosts Memphis on Wednesday.