Men's Games
San Diego State 2 UCLA 2
Palos Verdes Estates' Kyle Nakazawa scored one and created the other for the Bruins (6-1-2) Sunday. It was Nakazawa's team-leading eighth of the season and his fifth consecutive game with a goal. UCLA goalkeeper Brian Perk was taken to hospital with an eye injury.

The Weekend's Men's Games
Washington 1 UCLA 1
UCLA's unbeaten streak and Kyle Nakazawa's scoring streak extended to six games Sunday in Seattle. Nakazawa scored his team-leading seventh goal in the eighth minute from a free kick and UCLA (6-1-1) then gave up an own goal and were forced to hold on to salvage a tie.

Sunday's Men's Games
Cal State Bakersfield 1 Loyola Marymount 0
The No. 20-ranked Lions (5-3) fall in their final game before beginning their defense of their West Coast Conference title. Next: against San Francisco 4 p.m. Friday at Sullivan Field.

Cal State Northridge 1 Coastal Carolina 2
A 62nd minute strike from Milan Radovic wasn't enough for the Matadors (5-2-1) to win their final non-conference tune-up.

Friday's Men's Games

Cal State Dominguez Hills 4 Cal State Stanislaus 1
The Toros scored four unanswered second half goals to get the win.

Cal State Northridge 0 University of Denver 0
CSUN extend unbeaten streak to six.

San Diego 1 UCLA 2
Palos Verdes Estates' Kyle Nakazawa scored a PK in the win for the Bruins.

The Galaxy are at home Saturday night against FC Dallas, Chivas USA have a noon Sunday game against the New England Revolution in Carson and yet there's plenty of soccer on TV for those unwilling to leave their home.

ESPN issued a press release Thursday trumpeting their 14 games this weekend across their platforms (Freddy Adu fans can check out ESPN360.

The college season has started:
UCLA 2 Bakerfiled 0 - Palos Verdes Estates' Kyle Nakazawa got the first goal Sunday in the 24th minute, and freshman forward Dakota Collins scored in the 61st minute.

Pepperdine 2 Marquette 1 - Los Alamitos High product Dakota Collins scored the winner Sunday in a come from behind victory.

Crowds have apparently been steadily growing this week at UCLA as word of Inter Milan's presence on campus gets around.

Nice story here from the Daily Bruin about a Thursday scrimmage against a travel team that included the likes of U.S. Under-20 international and Bruins goalkeeper Brian Perk (as well as Kyle Nakazawa of Palos Verdes Estates).

UCLA opens their season Sept. 4 against national champions Maryland.

The Bruins return eight starters from last season's Pac-10 Championship squad including 2008 Pac-10 Player of the Year and U.S. Under-20 National Team player Michael Stephens, U.S. Under-20 National Team starting goalkeeper Brian Perk and 2007 MVP Kyle Nakazawa of Palos Verdes Estates.

Yesterday on the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast, one of our guests Jamie TYrecker of FOX Sports articulated an opinion which I happen to believe is well founded regarding the lack of player development by the USSF despite having a well funded and staffed National Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

The UCLA men (1-1) are on the road this weekend playing No. 1-ranked Wake Forest Friday and North Carolina Sunday.

UCLA bounced back from a wrenching 2-1 overtime to Maryland at Home Depot Center last Friday to hand Coach Jorge Salcedo his 50th college victory Sunday in a 3-0 win over UC Riverside.

Men's games:
UCLA 3 UC Riverside 0 (Palos Verdes Estates' Kyle Nakazawa had two assists for the Bruins).
Loyola Marymount 2 St. Louis 2 (Manhattan Beach's Jack McCormick made his LMU debut in goal).
Cal State Northridge 2 Alabama A&M 0

Women's games:
USC 2 Portland State 0.

UCLA conceded an equalizing goal in the 90th minute and went on to lose 2-1 in overtime to Maryland at Home Depot Center Friday before 3,214 fans, the third biggest crowd ever to see a Bruins home game.

This was the first game of the season for both teams and it showed.

UCLA dominated the opening 45 minutes, scoring a 27th minute goal created by Palos Verdes Estates' Kyle Nakazawa, who used his inside knowledge of his former roommate at the U.

South Bay product and last year's team MVP Kyle Nakazawa leads the No. 14-ranked Bruins tonight in a rare 7 o'clock game against No. 8-ranked Maryland at Carson's Home Depot Center live on Fox Soccer Channel.

Tickets are $10 adults, $5 students and kids. Parking is free.

UCLA returns six All-Pac-10 players from last year including the team's top two scorers, Maxwell Griffin (nine goals) and Palos Verdes Estates' Nakazawa (three goals, seven assists).

Briefly:
*UCLA playmaker Kyle Nakazawa of Palos Verdes Estates was named a Soccer America magazine first team pre-season All-American

Recently named to the Hermann Trophy watch list, last year's team MVP has started every game of his collegiate career (45 starts) while notching seven goals and 15 assists.

Too much soccer? Find it difficult to keep track? Me too.

Here's a cheat sheet:
Tuesday - The preliminary rounds of the CONCACAF Champions League, including Chivas USA playing in Panama, get under way in earnest. I'll have more in the morning both in my column and here.

This is Kyle's fifth post.
Wow!

What a year for UCLA men's soccer.

I haven't blogged in a while, so for those who haven't been following our season closely, I'll try to catch you up.

We ended up finishing our season with a 8-8-3 record; not particularly what we were hoping for, but we all knew we needed to have at least a .

This is Kyle's fourth post:
I'm sure almost everyone is aware we suffered a very disappointing 3-0 loss last weekend against Cal State Northridge.

There were many negative aspects of the game we played, so it was very difficult for us to gather anything positive from the experience. However, like every team in the world, we experience triumphant wins as well as disappointing losses.

Kyle's third post:
It was an exciting weekend for UCLA men's soccer as we went into the weekend without a win under our belts for the beginning of the season but came away with two wins.

The first match played on Friday night against Ohio St. was a very eventful night game where we tallied three goals.

The first goal resulted from a through ball I played to Maxwell Griffin, who nicely placed it past the keeper.