USD's Eddie Ahman scored on a penalty kick just over five minutes into yesterday's game for the lone score as the Toreros beat host Saint Mary's yesterday 1-0 in the teams' West Coast Conference men's soccer season opener.

“We played well and we had a lot of chances to score,” USD coach Seamus McFadden said. “I thought Saint Mary's was tenacious, and in conference this season every game is going to be a battle and that was a battle.”

The Toreros, who outshot the Gaels 19-14 in the match, are 1-5-3. The Gaels fall to 1-6-1.

More soccer

The San Diego State women's soccer team fell to UNLV 2-1 in its Mountain West Conference opener at the SDSU Sports Deck.

The Aztecs' (4-6-1, 0-1) lone score came just over three minutes into the game as freshman Megan McQueeny had her first collegiate goal.

UNLV (9-3-1, 1-0) broke through at 16:07 on Ashleigh Shoughro's goal and then went out in front in the 59th minute as Haley Partridge scored the game-winner.

Men's water polo

Adnan Jerkovic scored four goals and Daniel Garcia had two but No. 10-ranked UC San Diego fell to No. 8 UC Irvine 10-8 at Canyonview Pool. The loss drops the Tritons to 11-4, while the Anteaters improve to 2-5.

Women's volleyball

Chico State needed five games to beat visiting UCSD 25-23, 20-25, 25-19, 16-25, 15-11 in the teams' California Collegiate Athletic Association opener. Elaine Chen had 43 assists with Rebecca Bailey's 20 kills leading all players for USD. Roxanne Brunsting added 22 digs for the Tritons (11-3, 5-2). Sylvia Schmidt added 16 kills against Chico (12-6, 5-3) . . . Host UNLV beat SDSU 25-20, 18-25, 25-23, 25-19 in the teams' MWC opener. Lauren Salisbury had 13 kills and Stephanie Darnall added 12 with Leah Lathrop contributing 26 assists and 15 digs for the Aztecs (4-10, 1-3). The Rebles are 10-7, 3-1.

Women's tennis

SDSU opened the 2008-09 tournament season with a pair of doubles victories and five individuals advancing in the main draw of their respective singles brackets on the first day of the annual SDSU Fall Classic at Aztec Tennis Center.

In singles play, SDSU got wins from Holly Bagshaw, a 7-5, 6-0 winner over USD's Maja Sujica; Olivia Coleman, a 7-5, 4-6, 6-0 winner over USD's Justine Perl; Roxanne Ellison, a 6-2, 6-4 winner over USD's Milou Teeling; Esther Cadua, a 6-2, 6-1 winner over Marite Raygada and Sierra Ellison a 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-0 winner over Kari Wig of the University of Michigan. Cadua and Milana Yusupov teamed up to beat Perl and Raygada in doubles, 8-4 while Bagshaw and Julia Trunk beat the University of Arizona's Ariane Masschelein and Deborah Castany 8-5. Samantha Mouly and Juliette Coupez of USD beat Roxanne Ellison and Sierra Ellison 8-2 in another doubles match.