It’s heartbreak all over again

The Stanford women’s soccer team is just one step away from earning Stanford’s 100th NCAA team championship

Stanford will stand alone as the only No. 1 seed in the Final Four next weekend after punching its ticket to Cary, N.C., with a 5-0 victory over Florida State on Friday.

Stanford took a big step toward another appearance in the College Cup last night, defeating visiting UCLA in the third round of the NCAA Tournament, 3-0.

If there’s one thing to be said about the Cardinal’s early success in the 2010 playoffs, it’s that all the big moments have involved the team’s talented youth. In their first two do-or-die contests last weekend, the Pac-10 champions enjoyed game-winning goals from freshman forward Sydney Payne and…

Stanford women’s soccer is headed to the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament after taking down Sacramento State and Santa Clara in two very different games over the weekend.

Freshman Sidney Payne knocked in the winning score for the top-seeded Cardinal, while goalkeeper Emily Oliver secured the 3-0 shutout as Stanford advanced past the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Stanford kicks off the tournament on Friday at 7 p.m., taking on the 16th-seeded Sacramento State Hornets (9-9-1). The winner of that match will survive to play on Sunday afternoon against either Santa Clara (12-6-2) or Long Beach State (14-5-2)…

If you blink, you just might lose sight of the ball somewhere between Christen Press’s foot and the back of the net. The senior forward is Stanford’s leading scorer, and is known to be able to fire a shot from nearly anywhere on her opponent’s half and test the keeper…

After a stellar season, Stanford senior forward Christen Press won the Pac-10’s player of the year award yesterday, the second consecutive year a Stanford player has won the award. Cardinal head coach Paul Ratcliffe was also named Pac-10 coach of the year for the third consecutive season.