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Olivia Bent-Cole scored three goals, two of them in the fourth quarter, and #2 Northwestern beat #1 Maryland 4-2 at Lakeside Field in Evanston on Thursday night. The Wildcats trailed 2-1 at halftime and scored three times in the final 15 minutes to hand the Terrapins their first loss of the season. Maryland had won its first 14 games. Northwestern is now the only unbeaten team in Big Ten play and has won 34 straight regular-season conference games.

For three quarters the game belonged to Maryland’s set pieces. In the 12th minute, on the Terrapins’ first penalty corner, Francisca Eschoyez’s drag flick deflected off freshman Ella Beach’s stick and past goalkeeper Juliana Boon. Bent-Cole answered three minutes later, taking a pass from Aerin Krys on the right side and beating Alyssa Klebasko for a 1-1 tie late in the first quarter. Jordyn Hollamon restored the lead off another corner in the 29th minute, her seventh goal of the season, and Maryland went into halftime ahead 2-1.

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#9 Tennessee came back from two sets down to beat #4 Kentucky 17-25, 18-25, 25-19, 25-21, 15-10 on Wednesday night at Food City Center in Knoxville. It was the Lady Vols’ first win over a top-five opponent since Oct. 30, 2005, when they beat #4 Florida in five sets, and their first win over Kentucky since 2023. Tennessee has won six straight and is 15-3, 6-2 in the SEC. Kentucky fell to 15-4, 7-2, and lost its hold on first place in the conference.

Kentucky controlled the first two sets, winning the first by eight and the second by seven. The match changed in the third set. Kentucky hit .135 in that set, and Tennessee held the Wildcats to .136 over the final three sets. The Lady Vols took the third 25-19 and the fourth 25-21, then won the fifth 15-10 in front of 5,735.

Chelsea Sutton led Tennessee with a season-high 14 kills and no errors on 26 swings, a .538 hitting percentage, and added two blocks. Jalyn Stout had 13 kills and 10 digs. Kennedi Rogers also had 13 kills and a career-high 13 digs for her sixth double-double of the season. Caroline Kerr ran the offense with 46 assists and 10 digs, her 30th career double-double, which ties her with Natalie Hayward for seventh in program history. Maggie Dostic added eight kills, 12 digs and three aces, and Camille Perry had a season-high six kills and two blocks off the bench.

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Wake Forest beat the top-ranked team in the country for only the second time in program history on Sunday, scoring three unanswered goals to take down #1 North Carolina 3-1 at Spry Stadium in Winston-Salem.

Bella Devey gave the Tar Heels an early lead with her 15th goal of the season, set up by Scottie Antonucci. The #4 Demon Deacons answered with two goals 81 seconds apart. Henley Tippins scored in the 21st minute, and Allie Flanagan put Wake ahead a minute later, with Riley Cross assisting both. Kylie Maxwell made it 3-1 less than a minute into the second half. North Carolina had most of the ball after that, outshooting Wake 23-5 and winning 13 corners to three, but Valentina Amaral made six saves, and she now leads the ACC with a 0.62 goals-against average. Wake's only other win over a top-ranked team came against Stanford in September 2024.

In Tuscaloosa, #2 Vanderbilt stayed unbeaten with a 2-1 win at #8 Alabama. Kiley Kukan put Alabama ahead in the 19th minute, ending Vanderbilt's run of 305 minutes without conceding. Courtney Jones leveled from the penalty spot just before halftime, and Megan Hinnenkamp won it in the 65th minute, cutting inside and firing Mary Beth McLaughlin's pass into the upper corner with her right foot. Vanderbilt is 14-0-1 and 7-0-1 in the SEC, and it was the Commodores' highest-ranked road win since they won at #8 South Carolina in 2015.

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Florida went into a sold-out Gregory Gymnasium on Sunday night and handed Texas its first home loss of the season, winning 21-25, 25-16, 24-26, 25-23, 15-11.

The match could have gone either way in each of the last three sets. In the third, Florida erased a 23-20 deficit with four straight points to lead 24-23, only for Texas to close the set 26-24. In the fourth, the Gators ran five straight to lead 18-14, the Longhorns answered with six in a row to lead 20-18, and Florida tied it at 23 before winning on two straight Texas errors. In the fifth, a 3-1 run put Florida ahead 11-9, and Kamryn Chaney finished it with a kill.

Four Gators reached double-digit kills for the first time this season. Middle blocker Alec Rothe had career highs of 17 kills and a match-high eight blocks, Chaney added 17 kills and Logan King had 16 kills, 12 digs and five blocks. Setter Taylor Parks ran it all with a career-high 59 assists, the most by a Gator since 2019, and Lily Hayes dug a season-high 22 balls. Florida outblocked Texas 13-8 and hit .287 to the Longhorns' .256. Torrey Stafford led Texas with 14 kills and 14 digs. #7 Florida is 15-2 and 6-1 in the SEC with its sixth ranked win of the season, its most since 2017. #12 Texas fell to 9-7 and 5-3.

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